#path of fire

[morgueknight]

🔥The Banishment of Balthazar🔥

I did not count the hours that this took but Id guess in the 20s

[therealpactcommander]

POLL TIME (PLEASE yap in the tags i want to see your blorbo lore)

[vampiredaytrader]

NIGHT SKIES | DESERT HIGHLANDS Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire (2017)

[lady-quen]

TO KILL A GOD.

[brightwingedbat]

POINTING

Rytlock, Canach and Kasmeer keep their eye colours when glamoured into Awakened.

[rosy-opal-commander]

Replaying POF. Something really deeply funny about how alone the Commander feels going into path of fire. Like if the Commander has a character flaw it's hyper independence.

So the commander is going into the desert to fight the god of war and you only ask for a ride. That's it. And if you would have asked some Shining blade more than likely could have been spared, you could have gone to the pact for aid.

And Then half your friends who aren't busy or bedridden or mad af at you, show up any fucking way. Rylock just like "what up hear you where tussling with the god of war, I want in" he has zero clue that it's the same dude he met in the mist he's not even there for atonement his just there for vibes.

Speaking of just vibes. Coming in with "I was bored heard you where here so like what's up? Where are we going?" Canach is like "I don't have an evil woman to boss me around.... Sup commander" once again no atonement, he already did that. He's just bored.

Then we have our bravest little toaster Kasmeer. This bitch is a believer. A

Believer. Believer.

But one thing about Kasmeer Meade is that she's your friend and guild mate first and foremost, and a believer in the six second. Kasmeer believes in you more than she believes in the gods she was raised to believe in. I just wish they explored that more in story.

Kasmeer believes in you more than gods. She believes in her friends more than gods.

Canach would bet on you everytime.

Rylock believes in your leadership more than the most important thing which is his legion. Which he was tribune for.

Which is why it's night and day from what's going on with SOTO. All the sudden no one gives a fuck about where you are. And that's why it's jarring and over all doesn't feel right.

[clemmykins]

The Desolation

It's a pretty place when you can actually catch a breath between the sulfur and the mobs! :')

[muzarry]

Big bastard boy I kinda miss you

[jollycryptid]

I beat Path of Fire earlier this month with my partner @lofilesbo & the gals were going through it, so doodled what happens in The Departing.

[yourevioletcrazy]

I just think he's neat :)

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

GW2: Why Elona matters

Since I am on a Guild Wars kick, let me tell you why I love Elona so much. (Note, Northern European white person here.) When I started playing Guild Wars, I started with Nightfall. What stood out for me was the location and how it was depicted. This was the first time I saw Africa depicted not as a place of poverty and misery or a place where lions and such lived. Elona was depicted as a beautiful place of both culture and history. Libraries, their own warrior caste and politics. All without forgetting where it was set. This continued in GW2, where Path of Fire lets us see Elona in higher definition. Africa has always been a continent of colour and GW2 truly leaned into it. Going around Amnoon you will see painted buildings and bright clothes, nevermind the wealth seen in Vabbi. Elona is also, like real Africa is, a place of different ecosystems. Sure, there is the savanna, but there are swamps, snowy mountains and jungles as well. What makes Elona even better in GW2, is how it is framed. Elona is a place of history, of ancient knowledge and people. While Cantha is a place of progress and technology, Elona is a place of wisdom and tradition. Elona matters, because it is a depiction of Africa without the burden of colonialism. While it is important to unpack the colonialism Africa faces, it is also important to show the immense value Africa has in itself. It's culture, history and art are rarely shown in works set in the real world, in fantasy it is often ignored entirely. It is a look into a place rarely given attention to, without defining it by its worst qualities.

[ilona-art]

Simple animation I've made of one of my favorite spots in GW2 Been spending alot of time here lately to just take in the ambience. It's especially nice actually without the music in the background. It was a very interesting mood.  Sponsored by ArenaNet

[guildtree]

Playing through Path of Fire on an alt character and I am constantly reminded of how ridiculous the team you have for that expansion is. Canach, Rytlock, and Kasmeer. These people are not friends. At best they hang out in the same general circle. They're the ones in the friend group who sit in awkward silence at the table when the person who ties them all together leaves to get water.

But they're all here, and they do wind up with this weird sort of frenemies bond going on. Canach and Rytlock begin a rivalry over who can kill Forged the best. Rytlock won't stop grumbling about the gods, but he also won't kill the ghosts in Kormir's sanctuary because "then Kas will get mad at me." Nobody likes the Awakened illusions, and you know - you just know - that Kasmeer is making them worse on purpose just because people are making fun of her magic. And yet despite all that, they still bind together when things get tough... to pick on you for getting a little too into character as Archon Iberu, because apparently even literally dying doesn't make your Commander immune from teasing.

I don't think they become die-hard friends or anything, but I do think they have this weird shared experience that nobody else is privy to. They don't seek each other out, but leave them alone in a room together and they'll suddenly start complaining about sand sharks and calling Rytlock "Cuddles" and a million other in-jokes that nobody else understands. At some point Logan or Marjory or somebody walks in with a smoothie and stands in confused silence, wondering what in the actual hell they missed out on.

[vampiredaytrader]

LEVI CASSIDY + PASCAL Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire (2017)

[gw2-correct-quotes]

"I've died before; It's overrated. Where do I find this cave?"

~ The Commander (Before doing something stupid)

[brightwingedbat]

"If I had a nickel for every time a scorned human god escaped imprisonment in the Mists to then lead a warpath through Elona whilst also using its people as fuel for their armies and then be told the other human gods can't do anything to help, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice."