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The sand would still kill you if you went down inside of it. Doesn't matter what you're on top of, that Aquabreather can't breathe sand.

What exactly Norn are isn't really clear. It's part of what we are finding out in the Icebrood Saga, but the predominant theory right now is that they are actually human-shaped bears.

I do appreciate the sentiment for Arenanet, but the thing is people logging in during the period in which the server was having problems didn't actually cause any problems on Arenanets end, only for the player themselves when the servers got rolled back. You could've very well logged in during those 5 hours and as long is you didn't issue a support ticket for lost progress, Arenanet wouldn't have been any more bothered.

The thing is, from a technical standpoint, Arenanet doesn't actually care if you logged in to Guild Wars 2 while the servers were having problems. If they need the servers empty to fix the problem, they shut down the servers, which is what they eventually did. People being logged in during that 5 hour period didn't have any impact on how quickly they could fix the issue. The initial reason why people on Reddit and Twitter were telling players not to log in was because if you did, and you made progress it would be overwritten when the servers were rolled back, which only affected the people in that 5 hour period. Arenanet themselves never told players to stop logging in to the Guild Wars 2 until after the servers were shut down, at which point no one on was able to anyways. The process of rolling back server data is the same regardless of how many people logged in during the time they are rolling back. The only difference for them is how many support tickets they have to deal with after the fact, which is why they are giving away the Mount Skin as a blanket attempt to placate everyone who could have possibly filed a support ticket. Admittedly this is pretty ham-fisted and maybe giving them a stack of baubles and the end of the month log in chest would be more suitable. As for everyone who missed out on playtime, I assume Arenanet wanted to compensate for that with the bonfire. They did sort of overestimate the value of a bonfire, but it's pretty much in line with the freebies they give when servers are shut down on other days and to them it's still technically worth 300 gems. Therefore, if they are implicitly incentivizing people to log on when they are having server troubles like these, it doesn't really matter to them. If you manage to log in during server issues and all you do is sit in Lions Arch, you won't be filing a support ticket for you losing any progress or corrupted data.

Have you tried the heavy Corsair armor? The leggings on that set looks like a pair of sweats.

There are heavy armor sets that, on male characters, basically make you shirtless, like the Scallywag and Pit Fighter armor. There's also the Predatory cultural armor for Norns.