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EPO Bot · Jul 02, 2010, 07:35 PM // 19:35

Most baddies in GW are just in it for teh evuls...and that's all.

I never found the story all that great really, tough Nightfall did fairly well.

belshazaarswrath · Jul 02, 2010, 09:40 PM // 21:40

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Originally Posted by EPO Bot

I never found the story all that great really, tough Nightfall did fairly well.

I always thought that was the norm for MMO's. Fat lewtz and team play has always been the strong suit of MMO's while regular RPG's rely on story and item collection/leveling to over 9000 so you can raep everything.

To Chicken To Die · Jul 02, 2010, 09:48 PM // 21:48

Who says the need a motive maybe they just like to play the game

Lishy · Jul 02, 2010, 09:50 PM // 21:50

I think their motive has yet to be revealed, but may have something to do with GW2. And revenge?

Snow Bunny · Jul 02, 2010, 10:01 PM // 22:01

hahaha people actually care?

You sound like you'd fit in here ->

http://forums.consumerreports.org/n/...ag=cr-vaccuums

NerfHerder · Jul 02, 2010, 10:12 PM // 22:12

Revenge against the Ascalonians(us), world domination, prevention of thier own extinction, and destruction of the rest of the Seers come to mind.

Steps_Descending · Jul 02, 2010, 10:17 PM // 22:17

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Originally Posted by EPO Bot

Most baddies in GW are just in it for teh evuls...and that's all.

I never found the story all that great really, tough Nightfall did fairly well.

Depends, I think the lore's great. But that's not the story.

For the big bads:
For the Evulz : Great Destroyer (and he may have a reason with Primordius), kinda Varesh (kinda, but there's faith so that can explain it). The dragons (it seems).

Have reasons : Lich, Shiro, Abaddon, Shamans... The mursaats (if you consider them as baddies)

Not a bad ratio. I've seen a lot worse.

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Originally Posted by NerfHerder

Revenge against the Ascalonians(us), world domination,

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prevention of thier own extinction, and destruction of the rest of the Seers

come to mind.

Those 2 are very likely. Revenge? maybe.
In MMOs, you can expect big bads to have a reasons. Why we have to fight everything in the universe? That's the question of every game.

Trader of Secrets · Jul 03, 2010, 06:12 AM // 06:12

I thought the mursaat only got control of kryta so that they can stop the prophecy, but now that its done, what are they still doing?

Arduin · Jul 03, 2010, 09:31 AM // 09:31

The same thing they do every night, Pinky.

Mouse at Large · Jul 03, 2010, 09:52 AM // 09:52

Easy explanation - toe temperature.

After hanging out in places where they risk frostbite or blisters, they have finally worked out that a more temperate climate will be conducive to their extremities.

Simples

Mustache Mayhem · Jul 03, 2010, 02:40 PM // 14:40

I like how murro describes the wammo he seen in lions arch.. he said he was pounding beers and the mursatt pounded his rear

Skyy High · Jul 03, 2010, 07:35 PM // 19:35

The motivation has already been said in this thread. If Lazarus had to hide his "essence" in WM followers, rather than flee to whatever netherworld the Mursaat come from, it stands to reason that all of the Mursaat had to similarly hide (physically or just figuratively) amongst their WM followers. They're too weak to make it on their own at this point, their fates are linked to the WM, so they're giving the war all they have to try to get back in control.

Also, just because they're not human doesn't mean revenge and spite can't be motivators. Lazarus certainly showed both.

There, happy? Can we stop with the "lol story wut?" comments now?

dancing gnome · Jul 03, 2010, 08:08 PM // 20:08

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Originally Posted by Skyy High

The motivation has already been said in this thread. If Lazarus had to hide his "essence" in WM followers, rather than flee to whatever netherworld the Mursaat come from, it stands to reason that all of the Mursaat had to similarly hide (physically or just figuratively) amongst their WM followers. They're too weak to make it on their own at this point, their fates are linked to the WM, so they're giving the war all they have to try to get back in control.

Also, just because they're not human doesn't mean revenge and spite can't be motivators. Lazarus certainly showed both.

There, happy? Can we stop with the "lol story wut?" comments now?

That's fancruft.

The only story that matters in the WiK is that Salma retakes the throne to ensure that 250 years from now her descendant is Queen. Because Guild Wars stories pretty much end with the final mission (minor exception) people just assumed that the mursaat were all dead. It's annoying that they aren't.