The show is late due to the Independence Day weekend, but it’s not lacking.
Kal, Astara and I talk about pie a lot, bash Twilight, and banter about a lot of stuff that was completely unrelated to Guild Wars yet still entertaining (right?). Anyway, we respond to an email from The Grim Cow which pulls up the topic of Guild Wars: Utopia.
Chronomancer concept art for "Guild Wars: Utopia"
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-Thanks to an email from The Grim Cow, we touch on a topic ill addressed. Utopia, the unseen fourth campaign that was replaced by EotN. It was going to bring about Chronomancers and Summoners. Will these two professions possibly be what we’ll see in Guild Wars 2? Or will they be related to that?
I am listening to you guys talk about what might become of the necro. A while ago I came across something called Guild Wars: Utopia. Guild Wars Utopia is the name of the canceled campaign four, which was later adapted into Eye of the North. In Utopia were two supposed classes called chronomancers and summoners. I think these are the two mysterious classes everyone is wondering about.
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- Mounts. Will these happen? Will they be necessary? Were some of the vehicles in GWEN an experimentation in Guild Wars’ own flavor of mounts?
-4th variety on GW2guru forums says: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/nec … t5171.html
A Sylvari Necromancer cropped up in Ghosts of Ascalon. Since this novel is supposed to take place as an interim story between GW and GW2, is this an indication of necromancers returning on the whole?
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With the Sylvari, I’m pretty sure they are 25 years old as a race, it says it on the races page on the main Guild Wars 2 site. http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/races/sylvari/ Which I’m hoping means there will be the Necro in GW2.
And you are right about there being no Chronomancer. It’s in this interview
http://www.onlinewelten.com/games/guild-wars-2/interviews/arenanet-im-interview-teil-2-4666/seite-6/
uhhh what he said. still don’t think it rules out necromancers being more of a summoner though
Hmm, this throws a wrench into my awesome argument for why there will be no necromancer. Darn you, Ghosts of Ascalon, why can’t I read you yet?!
A typical Guild Wars 2 night…
Leader: “Is everyone ready for the raid?”
Bob’s Friend: “Everyone but Bob, he’s still driving home, he’ll be several minutes.”
Everyone else: “…” “…”
Drunk Guy: “BARFIGHT!”
Several minutes later…
Bob the Healer: “Alright guys, I’m home! …Guys?”
Drunk Guy: “Hi Bob! Have a beer!” *Smashes bottle over Leader’s head.*
I feel I must correct you about shepherds pie, it is ground lamb with mash on top (essentially), ground beef with mash on top is called a cottage pie. Its called shepherds pie because shepherds look after the lambs and it has lamb in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_pie
As an Englishman I can assure you that the common usage of Shepherd’s pie in the UK refers to any kind of mince + mash pie be it lamb or beef. 90% of shepherds pie you buy in the UK from a restaurant will be beef, not lamb.
Allow me to shed some light on the sylvari situation(All this is from the article “The Movement of the World”, http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Movement_of_the_World#Sylvari):
The events of GW:EN take place in the year 1078 AE. At some point around this time, a human soldier called Ronan is separated from his patrol and finds a strange seed. When he eventually makes it home, he finds his family (and the entire village) dead, slaughtered by mursaat. In his grief, he planted the seed in the graves, and swore to give up fighting. He is joined by the centaur Ventari, and together they created a refuge for any creature seeking peace. A pale oak grows from the seed he planted, and under Ventari’s care, the tree grows stronger. As time passes, the centaurs and humans who had made it to their little sanctuary leave, to rejoin their fellows in the human-centaur wars, and eventually only Ronan and Ventari remain. Ventari dies last of the two, in 1165, leaving behind a marble tablet with carvings of his life’s lessons. “Over a hundred years later,” the article says, the first sylvari were born, and seeing the tablet by the tree, find themselves guided by his words. The timeline in the Guild Wars 2 wiki (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Timeline) places this at around 1300 AE, but that’s probably speculative. The same timeline sets the present day of GW2 at 1328 AE, but again this is probably pure speculation. So, anywho, The first sylvari was born life 20 something years before GW2, but the whole process started a lot earlier than that.
Sorry for the long post, but I <3 lore and PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW DAMMIT!