Oh, look at what I have here. ArenaNet was kind enough to send some BWE keys to give out to the Guild Wars 2 community! We've got 20 keys to give out for the upcoming event for June 8 - 10th. What better way to hand these out than to have a silly contest?
The contest is rather simple but you'll have a few days to enter. The contest will end this 12:01 AM EST, Friday, June 1st and winners will be announced on the 2nd. If you win, your key will be sent to you via private message by either myself or Neo Nugget.
Details, you want details? Well, okay then! What I ask of you is to design an environmental weapon for Guild Wars 2. If you're unsure about what an environmental weapon is, you can find information about that on the official wiki. (And sorry everyone, but Cow Pie is already taken!)
Your entry should include the name of the weapon, what it does (up to 3 different skills) and where you would find it in the world of Tyria.
How do you enter? Well that's easy - you just reply to this thread! Good luck!
WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
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Big_H
Weapon Name: Peg Leg
Found: Whenever you kill a pirate this has a chance to drop.
Skills:
Arrr Me Eye!: Use the Peg Leg to poke your foe in the eye. Causes Blindness + Damage
What's that Smell?: Wave the stump end of the Peg Leg at your foe. Causes Weakness
Polly Want a Cracker?: Wave the Peg Leg in the air and call down a flock of seagulls to attack your foe. Causes Fear + Damage
Frizz
Name: (Large) Blade of Grass
Skills:
Grass Cut: Slash at your foe with your blade of grass causing bleeding and doing minor damage. (50% chance to break)
Relax: Put the blade of grass in your mouth to remove one condition (20% change to break)
Whistle: Blow on the blade of grass to confuse nearby foes briefly (10% chance to break
Innocent Civilians
Name: Monk Tome
Found: Scattered throughout Tyria, especially around old ruins .
Description: An ancient tomes from times forgotten.
Skill 1: Bash- Bash things. It's a book, what else could it be good for?
Skill 2: Prayer of Health- Heal target ally
Skill 3: Decipher- Grant regeneration and protection to yourself and nearby allies (consumes the tome)
simooshy
Weapon Name: Sword of Johanson
Found: Whenever you kill a troll.
Skills:
Swing Sword. Does little damage
Swing it again. Does little damage
Swing a third time. Does little damage and the words "...and that's great" appear above your head
v3ck
Weapon name: Ceramic Jar
Location: They would be found all over a cave in Asuran territory.
Description: It's a jar whose contents are unknown. In practice, it will contain venomous spiders, cremated remains, or delicious honey.
Toss - Throw the jar at a foe. One of the following randomly happens:
- The foe is attacked by spiders and weakened by a significant dose of venom
- The foe is blinded by a cloud of ashes
- The foe is covered in honey and immobilized by the stickiness
Drop - Drop the jar on the ground. One of the following randomly happens:
- Spiders swarm the surrounding area, poisoning foes with mild doses of venom
- Disturbing the remains awakens a spirit that haunts foes in the surrounding area, confusing them
- The surrounding area is coated in honey, crippling foes
Open - Open the jar and reach in. One of the following randomly happens:
- You are bitten by a spider, enraging you and granting fury
- You awaken a spirit that empowers you and grants might
- You draw out and eat some sweet honey, which grants vigor
Tarral
Weapon name: Kelp
Description and location: A plant-like growth found in some water environments
Skill 1: Here Fishy, Fishy - Tear the kelp into tiny, bite size pieces to bring a swarm of small fish into the area. Causes a small amount of AOE damage to foes in the area and blinds each foe for 3 sec
Skill 2: Kelp Wrap - Wrap your foe in the kelp, immobilizing them for 3 sec and dragging them down in the water. Applies 1 stack of vulnerability.
Skill 3: Almost Sushi - Eat the kelp for its restorative properties, giving yourself a small heal over time for the next 5 sec.
The Shadowdove
Environmental Weapon Name: Glass Cannon
Location: Random drop after killing a supply caravan in pvp.
Item Description: You find what appears to be a small glass cannon. It looks functional, however whether you choose to use it as such is up to you. (can only target keep doors)
Skills:
Give it a shot - You use the cannon to target a keeps gate, dealing x amounts of considerable damage. Unfortunately, the cannon shattered upon use. (player is conditioned with bleeding for x-seconds).
Isaracht
Weapon Name: Heart of the Forest
Location/Description: Hearts of the forest are ancient trees that have developed partial sentience in order to protect the forests that they reside in. However, they have not developed any sort of sensory perception beyond that of touch. In order to effectively track down and fight the more intelligent enemies of the forest, they must call upon the aid of helpful souls, who can direct them by manipulating special branches that are close to the core of the tree (meaning that players must ride within the branches of the tree in order to direct it). Located generally in dense, old forests, particularly sylvari lands.
Skills:
Root Smash: The heart brings its mighty roots to bear against its enemies, raising them and smashing them down, crushing anything in its path. (Simple frontal attack.)
Dance of Fallen Leaves: The leaves that grow on the outer branches of the heart are grown to be as sharp as a blade, enabling it to create a whirlwind of razor sharp leaves by violently shaking these outer branches. (Aoe around the heart that persists for a few seconds.)
Wooden Rain: The heart bends and sheds its outermost layer of bark, sending large shards screaming in every direction. However, such a sacrifice temporarily weakens the heart, leaving it vulnerable. (Large area aoe around the heart that damages and impales targets, leaving them rooted to the ground until they break free. Such an attack has its costs however, as the heart is temporarily stunned for a few seconds after this maneuver.)
tblade2001
In bygone days, resurrection shrines dotted the land of Tyria. With the power of the Six gone, the light of the shrines died, and they fell into ruin, reduced by time and wilderness. But occasionally a shard of these shrines finds its way to the surface, a small glimmer of the divine power it once held still inside. These shards grant hope to those in the thick of battle that perhaps the gods aren't as removed as they seem.
Using any skill from a shard:
- uses up the shard
- heals allies in the area for a minor amount
- damages enemies in the area for a minor amount
Shard of Lyssa
- Visage of Nothing: Grants distortion to self and allies in the area
- Visage of Chaos: Inflicts Confusion on foes in the area
- Visage of Terror: Inflicts Fear on foes in the area
Shard of Dwayna
- Nimbus of Wind: Inflicts Blindness on foes in the area
- Nimbus of Life: Grant Regeneration to self and allies in the area
- Nimbus of Peace: Inflicts Weakness on foes in the area
Shard of Balthazar:
- Fervor of Flames: Inflicts Burning on foes in the area
- Fervor of Battle: Grants Might to self and allies in the area
- Fervor of Retribution: Grants Fury to self and allies in the area
Shard of Melandru:
- Spirit of the Prey: Grants Vigor to self and allies in the area
- Spirit of the Hunter: Inflicts Crippled on foes in the area
- Spirit of the Predator: Inflicts Bleeding on foes in the area
Shard of Grenth:
- Aura of Cold: Inflicts Chilled on foes in the area
- Aura of Death: Inflicts Poisoned on foes in the area
- Aura of Judgement: Grants Retaliation to self and allies in the area
Shard of Kormir:
- Word of Truth: Inflicts Vulnerability on foes in the area
- Word of Defence: Grants Protection
- Word of Shielding: Grants Aegis
Insanius_Maximus
Red Iris Flower:
Reminiscence of the Past: Smelling the Red Iris Flower will make the wielder see visions of a little girl who insists on following you.
Cheers of the Youth: Activating this skill gives the wielder added movement speed, as the girl fills you with want to help others.
Memories of the Searing: The little girl makes the enemies taste a piece of the Searing that ravaged her land. The enemy is Confused for 6 seconds by the Shard AoE. Item breaks upon using this skill.
Can be found mostly around the old city of Rin, but it can also be found around the world. There's many in abundance in a place called "Gwen's Plain" (for more dev work xD), the plain where it is said the Old Hero Gwen is buried. Oddly enough, Red Iris Flowers cover the supposed place where the girl rests in peace.
Levi4than
Weapon name: Wine bottle "Community manager 2012"
Found: during beta weekends everywhere, but a small chance of drop
Skills:
1) When it's ready - hit an opponent, destroying his hopes about the release date (+250 dmg)
2) Hype - drink from the bottle and give 3 random boons to all nearby players
3) Prepurchase MOFO! - destroy the bottle and create an impenetrable wall that only the opponents with the "prepurchase boon" may pass (lasts 5 seconds)
Radeth
Weapon: Boomcage (Charr only)
Background: It all started when a group of asurian miners found a group of strange crystals inside an abandoned mine. Whenever someone approached them, they started glowing and emitting sounds. These sounds were different depending on the position of the crystals inside the cave: from nightmarish screams to soft wispers, from musical sounds that were able to make anyone around them fall asleep (researchers started using earplugs to work with these ones), to what seemed like angry outburst of raged unintellegible words. Further studies by the asurians made clear that those crystals were actually home of different kinds of elder etheral cave spirits, who lived in a plane of existence partly crossing with our own. They were probably able to sense and react to the presence of the Asura due to the little folks' deep attunement with the magic flowing inside the caves.
While the Asura were starting a project to build some device that would help communication with the spirits, to better understand their nature and their capabilities to influence our plane, a group of rogue Charr spies had already made plans to use those crystals as a weapon.
The Charr spies raided the mining site and mined away as many crystals as possible, mainly the ones that made people fall asleep (they had to use earplugs too) and the ones from which the screams came out.
When out of the cave though, they noticed the crystals stopped working. They couldn't realize why this happend, until a group of Asuran guards came to fight the intruders. As the guards approached the Charr, the crystals started glowing and emitting sounds once again. The result was terrible, all the guards that didn't run away for the fearsome screams coming out from the crystals fell asleep for the soothing sounds coming from the other ones. Now the spies realised they needed some of the little folks to make the crystals work. They kidnapped a few of the guards and started creating a limited number of cages with one crystal of each type..and an asuran guard inside to activate them when needed. Due to the weight of these cages Charr aren't able to run while they have one equipped.
Where to find it: These cages (and so the crystals inside them) are now a very rare item, and a few are now on the black market and can be bought only from the best supplied smugglers. They are also prohibited by all War Conventions. (Special merchants or special factions quest reward)
Skills:
1) Screaming Crystal Boom: The (Charr)acter drops the Boomcage on the ground and the asuran guard activates the screaming crystal, everyone in the area of effect runs away in the direction opposed to the cage (AoE fear, friendly fire possible)
2) Sleeping Crystal Boom: You drop the Boomcage on the ground and the asuran guard activates the sleeping crystal, everyone in the area of effect falls asleep (AoE sleep, friendly fire possible)
3) Open the cage: You open the lock on the Boomcage door and drop the Asuran guard right in the middle of the enemies. He'll have to fight for his life, helping you keeping many enemies occupied (Summons Asuran guard + aggro on him, one use only, to be used in extreme conditions, you'll have to catch the guard again before he runs away if you want to be able to use your boomcage again!)
Archduke
Item: Granny's Umbrella
Obtained by: Associating with Granny Hunsaker, by choosing to help her up the stairs, joining her for tea and assisting cute little Granny Hunsaker with her knitting and quilting.
Description: A quaint umbrella used by dear Granny Hunsaker to block the sun, rain and other unmentionables that befall the average citizen of Divinity's Reach.
Skill 1: Merciless Lunge - Lunge at your foe, causing damage and a stun to Humanoids. (Most people don't expect the Umbrella..)
Skill 2: Flight of Mary Poppins - Float away from your enemies, landing a few feet away.
Skill 3: Umbrella Deflection - Open the Umbrella in a quick swoosh motion blocking incoming attacks.
FoxiLumine
Item: Chocolatier's top hat
May be crafted though with using 200 chocolate bars and Carnical Ringmaster's Hat as ingredients.
Skills
[YOU GET NOTHING!] - Chance to prevent party member's from gaining experience and keeping 50% of all denied XP for yourself.
[Cacao rain] - Tosses Cacao beans at target enemy to summon Oompa-Loompas to annoy them with there practical jokes and force them to flee; may instantly kill canine targets
[Volatile Jawbreaker] - Tosses candy that explodes on impact and damaging target enemy
ngineered
Weapon Name: Credit Card
Found: At an overly aggressive vendor in your starter city promising you a free t-shirt with sign up.
Skills:
1. Delay Payment- Using this item will apply Delay Payment buff where mana is not consumed for five minutes. However, after this period, Credit Card will apply Payment- a debuff which requires minimal mana payments at a 17.9% interest rate compounded every five minutes. The Payment debuff lasts forever.
2. Sooth Aggressor - Use this item to charm a female character (PVP). Charmed female companions continuously drain your mana. Charm will end when mana reaches zero.
3. Bonus Points - Each time you use Delay Payment or Sooth Aggressor you will receive one bonus point counter. Bonus point counters can be used to summon items and weapons. Bonus points counters will despawn one month after they are received. The following are applicable for bonus point counters.
1,000 bonus points counters: Rusty Sword
2,500 bonus point counters: small backpack
5,000 bonus point counters: 100 gold gift certificate to your favorite vendor
100,000 bonus point counters: 1 round trip teleportation. Must be used on a weekday and cannot be used on various holiday blackout dates. Must give two weeks advanced notice. Does not cover any world v world fees. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer and must be used in one month of bonus points redemption.
Amnesiac
Crystal Cake of Clarity
Location - Hidden away in one of the bakeries of Lion's Arch. When asked, they (the bakers) might insist that it is indeed a lie, but search carefully and you will find it.
Look - A magnificent, sparkling cake that is actually edible, despite it's appearance. On the top is a circle of green, red, and blue gems arranged to be aesthetically pleasing.
S K I L L S
1) Taste this! Throws the cake at an enemy, causing massive damage to their weak point (i.e. their face, assuming they have one). Explodes into a crystalline orgy of shards on contact.
2) Indulge Eat the cake to recover a significant number of health points, scaling with level. Also increases movement speed by 30% for thirty seconds. A strange feeling of elation usually follows and could last for hours.
3) Circle of Gems This skill makes use of the magical edible gems on top of the cake, causing them to surround the player or ally and boosting their defense for one hour. May also cause an insatiable appetite for cake.
Graphic Violence
Asura Toy Box - Hidden Throught all of Tyria, probably dropped by an Asura family while fleeing for there lives!
Contains several differant Toys, recieve 1 at random though;
Hoverboard - Hop on and speed off! Hit the Nitro for even more speed and leave a trail of fire. Abilitys that can be enhanced by fire will be and you can even circle enemies encasing them in the fire.
Grappling Hook - Aim, Throw and Climb any surface like a Ninja!
Boomerang - Throw at an enemie and stuns them. Works on more then one enemy at a time if they are grouped up and has a chance to loot a few "gems" from them as well!
Toy Plane - Take control of this plane with a remote and get a birds eye few. Comes stocked with a few "toy" bombs.
Jabberwockist
Item: The Little Inventor's Lab Kit
Location: Anywhere you can find Asuran children.
Looks Like: A wand in the main hand, a case of alchemical components in the off hand, and a satchel on the back with tubes running to the wand. Everything has the sharp geometric shapes and glowing bits associated with the Asura, but in bright primary colors with a slightly plastic-looking sheen.
Skills:
Transthermal Spectronizer: Shoots a transthermal spectronic pulse from the wand, which deals damage and blinds enemies on crit. Acts as a projectile for cross-profession combos.
Plastized Adhesive: Sprays adhesive from the wand in a cone in front of you, immobilizing foes.
Automated Technobabble Lesson: The kit plays a short lecture complete with holographically projected diagrams. Creates a field at your location that confuses enemies each second. Acts as a Light Field for cross-profession combos.
The Little Inventor's Alchemy Set: Throw a vial of unidentified alchemical compound, causing a random condition to all enemies and a random boon to all allies in an AoE explosion.
Baby's First Golem: Summons a golem the size and shape of a teddy bear to attack your enemies.
j_spanky
Toy Golem
Location: Rata Sum playgrounds
Turret: deploy a remote-controlled miniature version of an Asuran golem battlesuit with real lights, sounds and special effects! Intended for Asurans ages 5 and up.
1) Action Button: press the big red button to emit flashing lights and sounds of battle, causing confusion (3s)
2) Smoke Screen: release a tiny cloud of smoke to blind nearby enemies (5s)
3) Shoot Sparks: raise the toy golem's arms and blast a shower of sparks for burning (3s) and weakness (2s) in a cone
cam13619
Environmental Weapon: Charr Leftovers
Description: Essentially has the appearance of the lower half of a deer corpse.
Skills:
Punt: Punt your target repeatedly, flailing about. Inflects confusion.
Scavenge: Ignore your turning stomach and consume the leftover flesh. Guaranteed poison, but randomly heals you, applies Fury, or applies Vigor.
Location: Found in Diessa Plateau or the Plains of Ashford, near Charr outposts or in remote corners and caves.
NPC's also react when you go near them while equipped with Charr Leftovers. NPC Norn will congratulate you on your kill, while NPC humans will be disgusted. NPC Asura will call you a 'booka' regardless as to if you have this equipped or not.
Weapon Name: Peg Leg
Found: Whenever you kill a pirate this has a chance to drop.
Skills:
Arrr Me Eye!: Use the Peg Leg to poke your foe in the eye. Causes Blindness + Damage
What's that Smell?: Wave the stump end of the Peg Leg at your foe. Causes Weakness
Polly Want a Cracker?: Wave the Peg Leg in the air and call down a flock of seagulls to attack your foe. Causes Fear + Damage
Frizz
Name: (Large) Blade of Grass
Skills:
Grass Cut: Slash at your foe with your blade of grass causing bleeding and doing minor damage. (50% chance to break)
Relax: Put the blade of grass in your mouth to remove one condition (20% change to break)
Whistle: Blow on the blade of grass to confuse nearby foes briefly (10% chance to break
Innocent Civilians
Name: Monk Tome
Found: Scattered throughout Tyria, especially around old ruins .
Description: An ancient tomes from times forgotten.
Skill 1: Bash- Bash things. It's a book, what else could it be good for?
Skill 2: Prayer of Health- Heal target ally
Skill 3: Decipher- Grant regeneration and protection to yourself and nearby allies (consumes the tome)
simooshy
Weapon Name: Sword of Johanson
Found: Whenever you kill a troll.
Skills:
Swing Sword. Does little damage
Swing it again. Does little damage
Swing a third time. Does little damage and the words "...and that's great" appear above your head
v3ck
Weapon name: Ceramic Jar
Location: They would be found all over a cave in Asuran territory.
Description: It's a jar whose contents are unknown. In practice, it will contain venomous spiders, cremated remains, or delicious honey.
Toss - Throw the jar at a foe. One of the following randomly happens:
- The foe is attacked by spiders and weakened by a significant dose of venom
- The foe is blinded by a cloud of ashes
- The foe is covered in honey and immobilized by the stickiness
Drop - Drop the jar on the ground. One of the following randomly happens:
- Spiders swarm the surrounding area, poisoning foes with mild doses of venom
- Disturbing the remains awakens a spirit that haunts foes in the surrounding area, confusing them
- The surrounding area is coated in honey, crippling foes
Open - Open the jar and reach in. One of the following randomly happens:
- You are bitten by a spider, enraging you and granting fury
- You awaken a spirit that empowers you and grants might
- You draw out and eat some sweet honey, which grants vigor
Tarral
Weapon name: Kelp
Description and location: A plant-like growth found in some water environments
Skill 1: Here Fishy, Fishy - Tear the kelp into tiny, bite size pieces to bring a swarm of small fish into the area. Causes a small amount of AOE damage to foes in the area and blinds each foe for 3 sec
Skill 2: Kelp Wrap - Wrap your foe in the kelp, immobilizing them for 3 sec and dragging them down in the water. Applies 1 stack of vulnerability.
Skill 3: Almost Sushi - Eat the kelp for its restorative properties, giving yourself a small heal over time for the next 5 sec.
The Shadowdove
Environmental Weapon Name: Glass Cannon
Location: Random drop after killing a supply caravan in pvp.
Item Description: You find what appears to be a small glass cannon. It looks functional, however whether you choose to use it as such is up to you. (can only target keep doors)
Skills:
Give it a shot - You use the cannon to target a keeps gate, dealing x amounts of considerable damage. Unfortunately, the cannon shattered upon use. (player is conditioned with bleeding for x-seconds).
Isaracht
Weapon Name: Heart of the Forest
Location/Description: Hearts of the forest are ancient trees that have developed partial sentience in order to protect the forests that they reside in. However, they have not developed any sort of sensory perception beyond that of touch. In order to effectively track down and fight the more intelligent enemies of the forest, they must call upon the aid of helpful souls, who can direct them by manipulating special branches that are close to the core of the tree (meaning that players must ride within the branches of the tree in order to direct it). Located generally in dense, old forests, particularly sylvari lands.
Skills:
Root Smash: The heart brings its mighty roots to bear against its enemies, raising them and smashing them down, crushing anything in its path. (Simple frontal attack.)
Dance of Fallen Leaves: The leaves that grow on the outer branches of the heart are grown to be as sharp as a blade, enabling it to create a whirlwind of razor sharp leaves by violently shaking these outer branches. (Aoe around the heart that persists for a few seconds.)
Wooden Rain: The heart bends and sheds its outermost layer of bark, sending large shards screaming in every direction. However, such a sacrifice temporarily weakens the heart, leaving it vulnerable. (Large area aoe around the heart that damages and impales targets, leaving them rooted to the ground until they break free. Such an attack has its costs however, as the heart is temporarily stunned for a few seconds after this maneuver.)
tblade2001
In bygone days, resurrection shrines dotted the land of Tyria. With the power of the Six gone, the light of the shrines died, and they fell into ruin, reduced by time and wilderness. But occasionally a shard of these shrines finds its way to the surface, a small glimmer of the divine power it once held still inside. These shards grant hope to those in the thick of battle that perhaps the gods aren't as removed as they seem.
Using any skill from a shard:
- uses up the shard
- heals allies in the area for a minor amount
- damages enemies in the area for a minor amount
Shard of Lyssa
- Visage of Nothing: Grants distortion to self and allies in the area
- Visage of Chaos: Inflicts Confusion on foes in the area
- Visage of Terror: Inflicts Fear on foes in the area
Shard of Dwayna
- Nimbus of Wind: Inflicts Blindness on foes in the area
- Nimbus of Life: Grant Regeneration to self and allies in the area
- Nimbus of Peace: Inflicts Weakness on foes in the area
Shard of Balthazar:
- Fervor of Flames: Inflicts Burning on foes in the area
- Fervor of Battle: Grants Might to self and allies in the area
- Fervor of Retribution: Grants Fury to self and allies in the area
Shard of Melandru:
- Spirit of the Prey: Grants Vigor to self and allies in the area
- Spirit of the Hunter: Inflicts Crippled on foes in the area
- Spirit of the Predator: Inflicts Bleeding on foes in the area
Shard of Grenth:
- Aura of Cold: Inflicts Chilled on foes in the area
- Aura of Death: Inflicts Poisoned on foes in the area
- Aura of Judgement: Grants Retaliation to self and allies in the area
Shard of Kormir:
- Word of Truth: Inflicts Vulnerability on foes in the area
- Word of Defence: Grants Protection
- Word of Shielding: Grants Aegis
Insanius_Maximus
Red Iris Flower:
Reminiscence of the Past: Smelling the Red Iris Flower will make the wielder see visions of a little girl who insists on following you.
Cheers of the Youth: Activating this skill gives the wielder added movement speed, as the girl fills you with want to help others.
Memories of the Searing: The little girl makes the enemies taste a piece of the Searing that ravaged her land. The enemy is Confused for 6 seconds by the Shard AoE. Item breaks upon using this skill.
Can be found mostly around the old city of Rin, but it can also be found around the world. There's many in abundance in a place called "Gwen's Plain" (for more dev work xD), the plain where it is said the Old Hero Gwen is buried. Oddly enough, Red Iris Flowers cover the supposed place where the girl rests in peace.
Levi4than
Weapon name: Wine bottle "Community manager 2012"
Found: during beta weekends everywhere, but a small chance of drop
Skills:
1) When it's ready - hit an opponent, destroying his hopes about the release date (+250 dmg)
2) Hype - drink from the bottle and give 3 random boons to all nearby players
3) Prepurchase MOFO! - destroy the bottle and create an impenetrable wall that only the opponents with the "prepurchase boon" may pass (lasts 5 seconds)
Radeth
Weapon: Boomcage (Charr only)
Background: It all started when a group of asurian miners found a group of strange crystals inside an abandoned mine. Whenever someone approached them, they started glowing and emitting sounds. These sounds were different depending on the position of the crystals inside the cave: from nightmarish screams to soft wispers, from musical sounds that were able to make anyone around them fall asleep (researchers started using earplugs to work with these ones), to what seemed like angry outburst of raged unintellegible words. Further studies by the asurians made clear that those crystals were actually home of different kinds of elder etheral cave spirits, who lived in a plane of existence partly crossing with our own. They were probably able to sense and react to the presence of the Asura due to the little folks' deep attunement with the magic flowing inside the caves.
While the Asura were starting a project to build some device that would help communication with the spirits, to better understand their nature and their capabilities to influence our plane, a group of rogue Charr spies had already made plans to use those crystals as a weapon.
The Charr spies raided the mining site and mined away as many crystals as possible, mainly the ones that made people fall asleep (they had to use earplugs too) and the ones from which the screams came out.
When out of the cave though, they noticed the crystals stopped working. They couldn't realize why this happend, until a group of Asuran guards came to fight the intruders. As the guards approached the Charr, the crystals started glowing and emitting sounds once again. The result was terrible, all the guards that didn't run away for the fearsome screams coming out from the crystals fell asleep for the soothing sounds coming from the other ones. Now the spies realised they needed some of the little folks to make the crystals work. They kidnapped a few of the guards and started creating a limited number of cages with one crystal of each type..and an asuran guard inside to activate them when needed. Due to the weight of these cages Charr aren't able to run while they have one equipped.
Where to find it: These cages (and so the crystals inside them) are now a very rare item, and a few are now on the black market and can be bought only from the best supplied smugglers. They are also prohibited by all War Conventions. (Special merchants or special factions quest reward)
Skills:
1) Screaming Crystal Boom: The (Charr)acter drops the Boomcage on the ground and the asuran guard activates the screaming crystal, everyone in the area of effect runs away in the direction opposed to the cage (AoE fear, friendly fire possible)
2) Sleeping Crystal Boom: You drop the Boomcage on the ground and the asuran guard activates the sleeping crystal, everyone in the area of effect falls asleep (AoE sleep, friendly fire possible)
3) Open the cage: You open the lock on the Boomcage door and drop the Asuran guard right in the middle of the enemies. He'll have to fight for his life, helping you keeping many enemies occupied (Summons Asuran guard + aggro on him, one use only, to be used in extreme conditions, you'll have to catch the guard again before he runs away if you want to be able to use your boomcage again!)
Archduke
Item: Granny's Umbrella
Obtained by: Associating with Granny Hunsaker, by choosing to help her up the stairs, joining her for tea and assisting cute little Granny Hunsaker with her knitting and quilting.
Description: A quaint umbrella used by dear Granny Hunsaker to block the sun, rain and other unmentionables that befall the average citizen of Divinity's Reach.
Skill 1: Merciless Lunge - Lunge at your foe, causing damage and a stun to Humanoids. (Most people don't expect the Umbrella..)
Skill 2: Flight of Mary Poppins - Float away from your enemies, landing a few feet away.
Skill 3: Umbrella Deflection - Open the Umbrella in a quick swoosh motion blocking incoming attacks.
FoxiLumine
Item: Chocolatier's top hat
May be crafted though with using 200 chocolate bars and Carnical Ringmaster's Hat as ingredients.
Skills
[YOU GET NOTHING!] - Chance to prevent party member's from gaining experience and keeping 50% of all denied XP for yourself.
[Cacao rain] - Tosses Cacao beans at target enemy to summon Oompa-Loompas to annoy them with there practical jokes and force them to flee; may instantly kill canine targets
[Volatile Jawbreaker] - Tosses candy that explodes on impact and damaging target enemy
ngineered
Weapon Name: Credit Card
Found: At an overly aggressive vendor in your starter city promising you a free t-shirt with sign up.
Skills:
1. Delay Payment- Using this item will apply Delay Payment buff where mana is not consumed for five minutes. However, after this period, Credit Card will apply Payment- a debuff which requires minimal mana payments at a 17.9% interest rate compounded every five minutes. The Payment debuff lasts forever.
2. Sooth Aggressor - Use this item to charm a female character (PVP). Charmed female companions continuously drain your mana. Charm will end when mana reaches zero.
3. Bonus Points - Each time you use Delay Payment or Sooth Aggressor you will receive one bonus point counter. Bonus point counters can be used to summon items and weapons. Bonus points counters will despawn one month after they are received. The following are applicable for bonus point counters.
1,000 bonus points counters: Rusty Sword
2,500 bonus point counters: small backpack
5,000 bonus point counters: 100 gold gift certificate to your favorite vendor
100,000 bonus point counters: 1 round trip teleportation. Must be used on a weekday and cannot be used on various holiday blackout dates. Must give two weeks advanced notice. Does not cover any world v world fees. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer and must be used in one month of bonus points redemption.
Amnesiac
Crystal Cake of Clarity
Location - Hidden away in one of the bakeries of Lion's Arch. When asked, they (the bakers) might insist that it is indeed a lie, but search carefully and you will find it.
Look - A magnificent, sparkling cake that is actually edible, despite it's appearance. On the top is a circle of green, red, and blue gems arranged to be aesthetically pleasing.
S K I L L S
1) Taste this! Throws the cake at an enemy, causing massive damage to their weak point (i.e. their face, assuming they have one). Explodes into a crystalline orgy of shards on contact.
2) Indulge Eat the cake to recover a significant number of health points, scaling with level. Also increases movement speed by 30% for thirty seconds. A strange feeling of elation usually follows and could last for hours.
3) Circle of Gems This skill makes use of the magical edible gems on top of the cake, causing them to surround the player or ally and boosting their defense for one hour. May also cause an insatiable appetite for cake.
Graphic Violence
Asura Toy Box - Hidden Throught all of Tyria, probably dropped by an Asura family while fleeing for there lives!
Contains several differant Toys, recieve 1 at random though;
Hoverboard - Hop on and speed off! Hit the Nitro for even more speed and leave a trail of fire. Abilitys that can be enhanced by fire will be and you can even circle enemies encasing them in the fire.
Grappling Hook - Aim, Throw and Climb any surface like a Ninja!
Boomerang - Throw at an enemie and stuns them. Works on more then one enemy at a time if they are grouped up and has a chance to loot a few "gems" from them as well!
Toy Plane - Take control of this plane with a remote and get a birds eye few. Comes stocked with a few "toy" bombs.
Jabberwockist
Item: The Little Inventor's Lab Kit
Location: Anywhere you can find Asuran children.
Looks Like: A wand in the main hand, a case of alchemical components in the off hand, and a satchel on the back with tubes running to the wand. Everything has the sharp geometric shapes and glowing bits associated with the Asura, but in bright primary colors with a slightly plastic-looking sheen.
Skills:
Transthermal Spectronizer: Shoots a transthermal spectronic pulse from the wand, which deals damage and blinds enemies on crit. Acts as a projectile for cross-profession combos.
Plastized Adhesive: Sprays adhesive from the wand in a cone in front of you, immobilizing foes.
Automated Technobabble Lesson: The kit plays a short lecture complete with holographically projected diagrams. Creates a field at your location that confuses enemies each second. Acts as a Light Field for cross-profession combos.
The Little Inventor's Alchemy Set: Throw a vial of unidentified alchemical compound, causing a random condition to all enemies and a random boon to all allies in an AoE explosion.
Baby's First Golem: Summons a golem the size and shape of a teddy bear to attack your enemies.
j_spanky
Toy Golem
Location: Rata Sum playgrounds
Turret: deploy a remote-controlled miniature version of an Asuran golem battlesuit with real lights, sounds and special effects! Intended for Asurans ages 5 and up.
1) Action Button: press the big red button to emit flashing lights and sounds of battle, causing confusion (3s)
2) Smoke Screen: release a tiny cloud of smoke to blind nearby enemies (5s)
3) Shoot Sparks: raise the toy golem's arms and blast a shower of sparks for burning (3s) and weakness (2s) in a cone
cam13619
Environmental Weapon: Charr Leftovers
Description: Essentially has the appearance of the lower half of a deer corpse.
Skills:
Punt: Punt your target repeatedly, flailing about. Inflects confusion.
Scavenge: Ignore your turning stomach and consume the leftover flesh. Guaranteed poison, but randomly heals you, applies Fury, or applies Vigor.
Location: Found in Diessa Plateau or the Plains of Ashford, near Charr outposts or in remote corners and caves.
NPC's also react when you go near them while equipped with Charr Leftovers. NPC Norn will congratulate you on your kill, while NPC humans will be disgusted. NPC Asura will call you a 'booka' regardless as to if you have this equipped or not.
; Skill 3:Throw it at opponent's face and knock him unconscious.(note: You lose the spatula).
