Guild Wars: Eye of the North Developer Diary

Well that explains where that funny little mini pet came from!!!

Lord of the Rings...

Why? Do they have a really big woman and a really small man? I hope their women are not to hairy. And Sophitia, I don't think the Gods got nothing to do with this one.

It's normal in fantasy world to have everyone sleeping together at least once, I mean look at the half-elf, half-orge, halfling, Frodo etc. I have nothing against inter-species loving in tyria, well as long as I'll never see half-asura.

The asuras...look....awesome.
I want Snow Leopard for a pet! They are so much cooler than white tigers...

It looks like Anet is back on track to making a game as good as prophecies. Well done!

I hope they make a complete World Map because in my opinion, Ship Travel is destroying the PvE concept of the game. You may say, "What does ship travel have to do with anything?". I'll tell you. It makes the continents seem seperated. If there was one mega map if you had all the campaigns, the PvE aspect of the game would be that much better, making the world seem bigger and vaster.

makes me think the norn will have a bigger aggro circle i mean how you can not spot them!

makes me think the norn will have a bigger aggro circle i mean how you can not spot them!

the norns will have a hard time pvping being that big you will have a hard time looking for things to hide behind, everybody will be hiding behind the norn.

It's not a typo, that statement if perfectly accurate and still does nothing to prove your point of something being behind the Mursaat. What you quoted merely states that the Mursaat were controlling the White Mantle, which, hopefully, we all know by now. The Mursaat wanted the White Mantle to kill the chosen and prevent the flameseeker prophecy from taking place. The Flameseeker who the prophecy speaks of is the Lich, who seeks to unleash the titans(thus Flameseeker). Nothing is behind the Mursaat, they controlled the white Mantle to prevent the destruction of their species. And, contrary to what the White Mantle believed, we(being the heros we are) proved that the Mursaat were not Gods but a race of powerful spellcasters.

Ehm when the Rohan people are traveling to Helm's Deep. That quote is something what Gimli said to Eowyn during that journey

Not a quote. Gimli mentioned that the fact that women are very similar to the men has led to the myth that there are no Dwarven women and Dwarves pop right out of the ground fully formed or the like. Aragorn added in "It's the beards" in reference to the women.

No one said "little hairy women" at any point in that movie.

We are screwed guys dont you get it ?? !!!

look at this The Asura is a verry clever race and actualy on their way to world domination !!

you know why ?

The minipets they are all scattered over the world, They act like cute minipets but when they get the sign they wil hunt you all down.

ok ok now u think hah we can handle those. wel think again
if u look at the screenshot given to you you can see a portal so they can travel vast to other places than mean travel to all places in Tyria aswell !

you think hah there arent no portals for them asura's here. Well think again m8 when we all are sleeping from a hard day fichting chars and other monsters the asure pop out of ur backpacks and gather arround to make them portals. the portals are probaly made as we speak and they probaly got a lot of hiding places under ground. than means when the asura is done making those portals and the leaders are gathered with their armies they wil strike !.

they wil catch us by suprice becouse we are greedy humans. It wil go like this the asura wil run to you, you think yay minipet free gold!!!!. than the asura wil yield his sword and kills you.

so people what i am trieing to say kill all the asura minipets while u still can !!
so Tyria wil be once saved by a evil treath (btw dont kill the asura in the char area's becouse they hate the charr aswell)

sorry for my bad english i am not good at it :'(

You should really read the entire thread before making replies to something already resolved.

Actually its Gimli during the drinking contest with legolas, when he's extremely inebriated

but anyway, back on topic (sorry for the major derail, oops) I'm actually wondering what the norn hero and the norns themselves will actually be like when it comes to bodyblocking. etc

I have read the whole thread, including posts targeted towards your statement. My post was not unfounded.

According to the history of this thread, it was irrelevant.

Hey (@_@) is it just me or is that ASSASIN FACE currently NOT available inside the game.

what does that mean? are we going to be able to change character Appearance after all in GW:EN (which would rock), or are a new load of skins/faces going to be added to that starting islands of each campaign (which would kinda suck..still rock a little tho)

nah, thats probably a few new ones for heroes... As they did so many new things for the new races, a few human faces wouldn't have taken very long

that makes more sense : P

Lets just get the chars to kill them for us after alot of chars die killing all the asura also gwen, then we kill the chars and steal their valuables if they got any that is, and say humans saved the world.

Lets just get the chars to kill them for us after alot of chars die killing all the asura also gwen, then we kill the chars and steal their valuables if they got any that is, and say humans saved the world.

Yea I readed through it already and now I can't wait for GW:EN and GW2 I'll might play as an norn, an asura, or an char.

The Norn will most probably be huge and all that.. but much slower.

I am confused about one line of logic. Anet will no longer do chapters for GW1 (understandable, considering I didnt presume that model would work out in the long run considering how it was implemented) - wasn't one of the reasons they were stoping "new professions" a balance issue? Won't new races with inherent abilities further complicate balance? Now, it's fine by me, I dont PvP, but it might trouble those concerned about "balance" (I still think Air magic should have real AoE, which is apparently crazy).

First why would air magic have AoE? think it through. Does a lightning stike a large area at once? no. anyway, the norns would pretty much destroy those asuras lol. and i don't think thay are cute :S

You're debating real world logic in a game that allows you to create Meteor Showers, summon undead, and battle a god? Right...

If you want AoE use fire magic. Or did you want AoE with 25% armor penetration?

Anyway, I'm interested in the fact that EotN seems to take place in some of the same areas as Prophecies, but things have changed. Will they make it so you travel between areas that overlap?

For example, travelling to EotN area means you get the northern half of Tyria + a new area to the north, plus you're 6 years (since Proph) into the future.

-sniff- I'm the only one that misses the charr.

ArenaNet went totally in the wrong direction by doing those campaigns in other continents. It should have stayed medieval and about the Charr and stuff! But if it would have been difficult if you wanted that sort of model (where every 'expansion' is also a stand-alone game). Anyways. GW:EN is going to be awesome simply because it's going back to the original Guild Wars story and style.

The new races are for Guild Wars 2, not Eye of the North. The new races in GWEN are only for NPCs and heroes, not players.

First off, I would like to say that while it was refreshing to have Anet target different art styles and themes in Factions and Nightfall, I'm glad to see that they're returning to their (Prophecies-based) roots PLUS adding additional styles to this expansion. I do have a few comments to make though. I'm seeing lots of chatter about Asuras, and from what I've seen, they consider themselves to be smarter (most likely are considering talk of "super weapon"?) than the humans, but due to their small size, they're having a bit of trouble dealing with the Great Destroyer and his minions, so they're taking an "enemy of my enemy" stance, making you their "oh-so-convenient heaving lifting type" allies. I don't see much point in either charr or mursaat being allies, though I will admit, there is a slight possibility of a charr ally for you hopefuls because of the whole deal with the shamans losing their power etc. (Also, I still am in favor of charr allies: why else would you be spending time in their homeland, unless you're aiding one side or the other in their civil war?) However, you can't forget that the white mantle (mursaat included) DID in fact sacrifice innocent people for their cause, even if in the end it was barely noble (ya know, trying to stop armageddon an' all?) so why would you trust any of them, let alone aid them in their fight against the obvious "good guys"(you did kind of team up with the shining blade didn't you? Why would you turn around and stab them in the back at this point without a good reason? You were still alligned with them after you beat the final mission of Prophecies with the quest Glint assigns you to defend Denravi.) And to finish, let's say you do get a norn as a hero...will an available skill allow him to morph into a giant bear? Will it even be a "skill" that allows him to do so? Only time will tell!