#two tags

i don’t think some of these will be true but it will be funny if they are, and also i want to be outrageous on main and have something to laugh about in a year’s time or such! so the thing is, everyone wants new elites with new weapons for new aesthetics but what if the new elites are armour types instead? infuriating! anyway i am ready to receive my game design award. but with three professions per armour class, they would repeat! that’s not fun and snazzy. i guess i’ll have to give some of the elites a weapon instead:)

revenant: it’s time they finally get a greatsword. we are all thinking it, and it has to happen. it probably won’t be the Trahearne legend people want though... oh well :(

warrior: something with medium amor OR a dumb magic weapon like a scepter or a focus, but not a staff because that would basically just be a daredevil. don’t @me

guardian: light armour for an almost mesmer aesthetic but more blue. i don’t have good ideas about weapons - a warhorn would be bland but fitting therefore unlikely

thief: an axe (maybe two) and the ones you get from the spec itself will look like kama. with the expansion being Canthan i would be shocked by anything else tbh!

engineer: light armour or some sorta magical weapon - perhaps a staff. ultimately engineers are nerds and i hope for something scholarly for them this time around?

ranger: heavy armour. there aren’t really nice weapons left that vibe with rangers. i don’t know which one i hope for less, hammer or rifle... anything but those, please!

mesmer: with absolute certainty dual daggers. the mesmer is going to graduate to be the ultimate magical assassin with tiny magical assassin knives. i will cry if not.

necromancer: fashionable leathers. i know we all want swords, and at this point necro is the only class that can’t use them -- and, i’m sorry to say, it'll stay that way

hii! the spoilers are coming from amc premiere, which is a paid subscription that grants access to exclusive content for amc shows like KE. part of that content includes releasing the first two minutes of the upcoming episode, as well as releasing the full episode 48 hours before it airs on tv. 

i wanted to make some sort of post about the narrative function of Vahenz in Ninefox Gambit and Mikodez in Raven Stratagem and the parallels between them (not limited to their endearing obsession with sweets) but it turns out that while it’s easy to make notes on the iphone, organizing them is a challenge :? so instead i’m gonna say that i have this feeling that both of them start out with some speculations that are kinda off-mark, but later on they make speculations that we know are spot-on, and from there on it’s like they can be trusted to supply reliable information (as in... to the reader, i mean)

like okay one specific note i can find is about halfway through Ninefox Gambit where Vahenz says “Setting a deathtrap for not one but two armies - that’s not a psychotic break. That’s a plan with a twenty-year setup.” which on my first read i marked as “nice foreshadowing!!” and on the second read “she is so right and so willing to give hints but by this point she has discredited herself to the reader” so i guess that before that point she was mostly wrong and afterwards she was mostly right and what i wonder is, how would we know when to start trusting her segments? there must have been something because the only things i highlighted before that are things marked “aww cute” but idk?

i skimmed the notes on Raven Stratagem and a third into the book Mikodez still sounds unreliable to me, because he’s wrong about Jedao. i mean, if he thinks Jedao simply enjoys killing people which going by the carrion glass segment is not true, then his conclusions about Jedao’s further plans are wrong not just because “this is a chapter where Mikodez is wrong” but because he doesn’t have reliable basis for speculation. in the last third, in the counterfactual scenarios game, "He’s at war because it’s the world he knows, but he tells himself he’s putting something right in the process because he needs a reason for the butchery” which isn’t true unless i have tragically misunderstood everything but after that he gets on the right track and... he gets on the right track so i guess not quite the same thing Vahenz does, after all. this post is a mess, i won’t tag it!