Kuldebar

Exactly, I just got another fresh ban today.  Something about a build up of infractions...

Thing is I make a point not swear and stay constructive, but because most of my posts lately are negative towards the game and decisions at ANet, a lot of them get deleted and I get more infractions.  The modding on the official forum are up there with worst I've ever seen.  Least they could do is point out exactly I broke their strict set of rules!

They really know how to piss off their customers, I'll give em that.

I lay out the blueprints to a building, I pitched the idea. Later, I saw that there was a problem with it, make an attempt to fix it, then turn around to see the tenants complaining that I didn't stick to my original plan?! This is what this noise sounds like to me.

The argument might be: Well, this ascended gear is not a fix. Sure. It might not be. But a company has attempted to identify an area to improve a game, and went for it. I want a game company to continue to find ways to improve their product. Stubbornly sticking to a video they made when pitching the original idea is garbage. That's no way to run a company, and by extension, no way to run a game.

That video was them pitching their game concepts, not signing a contract swearing to live or die by it. I would have been really impressed if they fulfilled it to the word. Good, polished products rarely look anything like their originals.

I'm generally disappointed in ArenaNet, and I loathe defending them here.

For example, the constant bugs are a nuisance, and I can't understand why they don't have GMs that can reset bugged events. That seems like a huge oversight in a game where it seems every zone has a bugged event (or three). The inability to even make a static NPC behave like a static NPC reeks of incompentence, and I roll my eyes every time something like this happens (like the scavenger hunt for the Lost Shores event).

This is the kind of complaint I can get behind.

As far as I'm concerned, the Lost Shores event put in one of the most beautiful and entertaining dungeons I've ever played into the game. More than that, I love the blueprint of it. I can only hope they continue to add to it, I can only imagine a dungeon with tens (hundreds?) of instances, randomly chosen.


Those who continue to complain about the gear ceiling or "changing" of the original philosophy of the game, though ... I guess I feel bad for you.The kind of attitude I generally see will not permit a great many of you to enjoy much of anything except games that promote instant gratification. For the record, I didn't approve of the addition of ascended gear, either, but I do tend to be focused on what I enjoy, rather than the reverse. The additional tier just doesn't seem like that big of a deal compared to how much I enjoyed Fractals.

Where in confirmed lore does it say that the Six arrived at the same time as the humans? The Six supposedly brought humans to Tyria, and I believe that the Six had visited prior to that. Humans first showed up on Tyria (continent) in 205 BE... I think the gods were there before.

The gods predate the humans, but not by much.

The Six Human Gods are a group of deities worshiped by the humans of Tyria, Cantha and Elona. The extent of their powers is not known, but it is known they are not omniscient, and by their own very nature as a pantheon each is not omnipotent. At an unknown time after the writing of the Tome of Rubicon, they arrived on Tyria and brought the humans with them (although humans believe that they created Tyria, and the charr also have legends of Melandru creating the world), but from where is not known. Their age is also unknown, but it is known that the current pantheon is not the first, and that it is not as old as the Elder Dragons.

Actually, nothing indicates (currently) that Dwayna, Balthazar, and Melandru had predecessors - or Dhuum, Lyssa, or Abaddon's unknown predecessor for that matter, though the former three hold a stronger case of not having predecessors.

And we don't know when the Six Gods made themselves known to humans. While the oldest outright date given is indeed the Scriptures of Dwayna, dated 115 BE, there are three facts about this which disproves it being a fact of being the oldest mention:
1) We don't know if that's when the scriptures were written, or when the event took place. (likely the latter)
2) Nothing says that's the first interaction; given the fact Doric knew who Dwayna was and was beseeching her, it's highly likely humanity knew of Dwayna before hand.
3) In an interview with Ree Soesbee, we were told that the Six Gods brought humanity to Orr. In An Empire Divided, though this is in lore disputed, Kaineng Tah was said to have been given a revelation from the gods - respectively, these events happened in 205 BE and approximately 510 BE; that is to say, 110 years and 405 years before the Scriptures of Dwayna respectively.

Legends of the charr say that Melandru was the one who created Tyria though this is false, and human legends say that she was the third of the Six Gods to arrive on the world. She is the oldest and wisest of the Six Gods