The Burst Effect

GW2 trash forever, we draw nothing but guild wars until the world burns up. Shavostars: shavostars.1983 Blog co-run by Kiss Kicker & Shavostars Background from Mike Mitchel

[shavostars]

I wanted a new icon for discord.

[shavostars]

[the-arcing-slice]

(ArenaNet)

[antariies]

what do u mean this isn’t how path of fire ended

[antariies]

what do u mean this isn’t how path of fire ended

[hunter-the-capricorn]

Best of sassy cactus Canach

[kyliediorio]

Illustration of my character from GW2

[privatetrashqueen]

[BOY] Having a chill time at @paragonbroadcasting‘s event in The Coin today!

@apple-jooce @shavostars

[elianaofshiverpeaks]

o no

[the-asuracake-connoisseur]

Working on map completion in Queensdale

Working on map completion in Orr

[rycbar945]

Working on map completion in Verdant Brink

[king-nerdlord]

Mapping in Auric Basin

[lynxrose]

Mapping in Dragons Stand.

[theartof-severn]

this keeps getting better

[knightpiro]

Happy Dreamcember everyone.

[the-arcing-slice]

me forever.

[ratanovus-archive-deactivated20]

the five racial cities of tyria

[gw2-oldroots]

:^((((((

[dailytyria]

Bloodstone Fen, Heart of Maguuma

moral of this story: don’t go poking holes in mysterious rocks

[darthasterisks]

Kirei Wa the Sylvari Necromancer

Custom 12″ ThreeA figure of a client’s Guild Wars 2 sylvari necromancer. She has a mix of Tier 2 and 3 sylvari cultural armor. All customization made with polymer/epoxy clay (along with a bunch of other materials like wire..glue.. So much glue.)

Fourth photo down, she’s holding the accessory the original ThreeA Lady Sham figure came with. I know necros don’t use pistols :) 

More photos here :)

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Fiona Ng  is a toy designer and entrepreneur. Co-founder of PianoVerse,a place for play, learn, and love music in  New York, and creator of little armored toy characters.

[nightrend]

GW2 Charr Lore - Diet

One could assume Charr are obligate carnivores. While the majority of their diet appears to clearly support this, other aspects do not. A good point brought up to me is a facet of Charr behavior that is often overlooked. They drink alcohol. If Charr were indeed obligate carnivores, they would lack the ability to process ingredients like hops and grain as they do not possess the necessary enzymes to break down vegetable matter. The fact that Charr Barkeeps exist and are serving alcohol to Charr patrons within the Black Citadel is a pretty powerful argument that Charr are not obligate carnivores. Considering the possible use of alcohol for in-field pain management in the inevitable event of injury, it’s not exactly conducive to the military lifestyle if your soldiers are required to carry around or are forced to take emetics after treatment. Many Charr still distrust magic due to their subjugation to theocratic rule by the Shaman Caste of the Flame Legion. In other cases, an individual with magical healing aptitude may not always be readily available or present. With this evidence in mind I personally would have to say that Charr are most likely in the range of what is considered a hypercarnivore in which more than 70% of their diet consists of meat.

Another question posed by the community revolves around the topic of taste. Domestic dogs, like humans, share our five taste receptors; salty, sweet, bitter, umami (savory/meaty) and sour. Domestic cats and other “pure” carnivores on the other hand have lost their ability to taste sweet food throughout their evolutionary process. Bitter and sour taste receptors take priority over sweet due to their ability to help carnivores detect rancid meat. It’s interesting to consider the possibility that Charr have lost their ability to detect sweetness but may still enjoy foods that would be considered sweet by human standards such as high fat content foods like ice cream. Hypercarnivore, mesocarnivore, omnivore, obligate carnivore. Ultimately and as always, beyond the scope of confirmed lore it’s up to the player to decide how to play or develop their own characters. As long as you’re having fun that’s what matters!

Thanks for reading! Have a subject you would like me to cover or just want to discuss Charr lore? Feel free to send me a direct message or an ask with your request, I will be posting Charr Lore articles every week on Monday and Friday respectively!

[guiltwars2]

Oh wow, I’ve thought about this too, I love this!

To add a tidbit, there are charr who talk about eating ‘greens’, aka plant-based food, presumably a prepared salad along with a meal. An NPC expresses a distaste for them, but this also implies that charr are capable of eating and digesting plants.

It should also be noted that, unlike domestic cats (I don’t know about wildcats on this topic), charr can, by default, eat foods containing lactose. A cub and mother at Meatoberfest talk about “cheesy meat”. Although the conversation as a whole is a nod to the I Can Has Cheeseburger? meme, it can also be inferred that most charr can tolerate lactose, seeing as “cheesy meat” is being prepared for charr by charr.

As for my own thoughts on charr and sweets, my personal headcanon is that charr can taste sweeter flavors. Maybe not as intensely, for some, but most of my charr can easily taste sweetness. It would be rough to be a charr chef like my main, Veska, trying to make things like ice cream and cake if you couldn’t personally taste the sugar. Then again, if someone else’s charr cannot taste sweeter flavors, I can also see that working out. Maybe they just don’t eat or cook sweets, or maybe they do, but with texture in mind far more than flavor. Lots of possibilities both ways!

[sepiidae]

On the new Ley Line events (Image heavy and mild spoilers)

While not explicit in the patch notes, there’s some new events and achievements related investigating some anomalous activity around the ley lines- to start them up for rewards and in the achievement panel though, first you’ll have to find an unidentified lodestone!

I didn’t have much luck getting it from raptors and flame legion but got it really quick fighting branded, so you may want to fight dragon minions to get it. Afterwards you turn it in to Ela Makkay at the Priory camp on the beach in Lion’s Arch.

She’ll give you a 7500 karma consumable and then direct you to some waypoints in Blazeridge Steppes, Snowden Drift, and Mount Maelstrom. A new achievement section called “current events” will also be unlocked.

The events themselves seem to be fighting off dragon minions with the occasional spawn of a “Champion Coalescence,” there also seems to be more achievements to be unlocked. 

(Also there appears to be some changes in the ley line hub in dry top)