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On Malyck (Yet more GW2 blatherings)
I really don't understand why the writers at Anet decided to completely drop Malyck's plot. It's bad enough that he shows up in the personal story, establishes that there are other Sylvari that are not sprouted from the Pale Tree, is called the freaking Harbinger, and then just disappears from the plot altogether.
Now, with the reintroduction of the Plant Dragon Mordremoth (why does that name sound so Tolkien-esque?) and the reveal that Sylvari were plant dragon minions this whole time, you'd think that this would be the perfect time to pick up Malyck's lost plot thread. Y'know, show us the other Sylvari groves where they don't have Ventari's influence or something. You would think this is the perfect time to introduce some complexity!
Honestly, the entirety of HoT (at least in terms of writing), just feels like someone got defensive when they realized the player base was not happy with how the Sylvari were developed and now is stumbling all over themselves to be like "no, look at how complex they are, look!!", instead of actually addressing the problem of creating a fairly young race that for some reason has the wisdom of the ages.
Housemate put it in pretty concise terms: why didn't they just make the Sylvari a race of tree librarians, with the Dream as a giant archive that they can help people access, but not necessarily be the "wise" race? Ugh.
But seriously, just the entire HoT feels likes an attempt to fix Sylvari when it coudl've been fixed much easier if they didn't keep trying to shove Sylvari into our faces all the time.
Now, with the reintroduction of the Plant Dragon Mordremoth (why does that name sound so Tolkien-esque?) and the reveal that Sylvari were plant dragon minions this whole time, you'd think that this would be the perfect time to pick up Malyck's lost plot thread. Y'know, show us the other Sylvari groves where they don't have Ventari's influence or something. You would think this is the perfect time to introduce some complexity!
Honestly, the entirety of HoT (at least in terms of writing), just feels like someone got defensive when they realized the player base was not happy with how the Sylvari were developed and now is stumbling all over themselves to be like "no, look at how complex they are, look!!", instead of actually addressing the problem of creating a fairly young race that for some reason has the wisdom of the ages.
Housemate put it in pretty concise terms: why didn't they just make the Sylvari a race of tree librarians, with the Dream as a giant archive that they can help people access, but not necessarily be the "wise" race? Ugh.
But seriously, just the entire HoT feels likes an attempt to fix Sylvari when it coudl've been fixed much easier if they didn't keep trying to shove Sylvari into our faces all the time.