Reina Takayama, on 11 September 2013 - 11:22 PM, said:
Honestly im pretty convinced it does have lore unles of course they're just really blind and oblivious and careless. The title tequatl rising and the catchphrases suggests it has been sectetly gaining power from somewhere and is now returning and rising to his greater height suggesting this is what's happening after zhaitans death. Bc originally we had the cleansing of orr and stuff how zhaitans power once removed things will start clearing up tho there risen ttheyll slowly disappear. This should have include his lieutenants they should be weaker from what we know and guess. However this patch and the catchphrases is directly and clearly suggesting thats not the case. Unless they wanna mislead people or theyre just careless they wouldnt use such specific words. The thing with lore is we can never mix it with actual game play. For example Zhaitan has been killed a million times and you can replay the story mode if you want. For example gameplay in killing Zhaitan was tremendously disappointing an easy while some players say its ok like that bc if u look at how many months the pact has fought Zhaitan and starved it and weakened it in diff ways it makes sense it is easier however it is just so much easier than say trying to do a temple in Orr with one party.. That doesn't mean Zhaitan is weaker than the risen priests lol so gameplay isn't a way to determine lore, if it's lore it doesn't mean u can't kill it as a world boss even over and over. That is just gameplay, the lore is just the deeper higher level of things beyond gameplay and face value something being represented happening
I'm still skeptical on it. It's like Tolkien bringing The Witch King of Angmar back after he and his master, Sauron, are destroyed. I'd like to think that they are just updating Tequatl and all the other bosses to the fights they should have been the first time we encountered them, even if the Living Story suggests otherwise.
That aside, because I'm probably wrong, let's assume the fact that we seemingly defeated him once, but he fell back into the Sea of Sorrows, weak and dying, even more so when we killed Zhaitan. Since Anet liked to emphasize the "
deep" so much in this new update, I can settle on the theory that a weakened and dying Tequatl went down into the Unending Ocean and found a new master, namely, "
Bubbles," the deep sea dragon.
And of course, in due time, Anet will give us some ridiculous explanation that makes little sense, with absolutely no correspondence to any of the many excellent possible theories proposed by fans.
In addition to this, the timeline is already difficult to interpret because of the Living Story. We who have finished the Main Storyline
know that all this is happening after the defeat of Zhaitan, while a new player will come to the new Tequatl fight for the first time, still doing his main story quest, and be blown away by the might of Zhaitan's champion, a grim reminder of the evil he/she will have to face.
It's really confusing, and the fact that we have alternate dimension time travelling (Aetherblades/Steam Creatures), makes it worse, because time travel that involves what I call "jumping time-travel" (in which you travel from one point in time to another instantaneously a la Back to the Future, as opposed to what I call "recording time-travel," where instead of jumping from one point to the another, one rewinds or forwards time like a DVD/VHS/etc, and is the one I use sparingly in my writing as it is much easier to avoid paradoxes with it) automatically creates time paradoxes, though in GW2 is it mitigated slightly by the fact that these time travelers are from an alternate dimension/universe and therefore do not cause a serious lore-destroying paradox within the dimension/universe in which GW2 takes place.
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they nerfed all me viable farm spots! *ahem* any who...have to admit the trailer was decent , the music and some extra things we'll see Teq do (hopefully) didn't get me too excited but eh , it's something right? GO ANET - GO ANET UHUH! LOL
