Guild Wars 2

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Is Grouch going to use MS Powerpoint or will he do cosplay fights whilst Karl and Roy narrate? I think the latter would boost communication with the community.

Any chance we’ll have a preview of the full patch notes ahead of the actual patch like you made available for the 12/15 patch?

So is the new PvP map coming with the feature patch? I know a few people I’ve been talking to are confused if any PvP changes (aside from balance/skills) will be included in the feature patch.

Allie Murdock.8152:

I think we should pressure him to larp the new traits.

Yes………………just…………..yes………………

Allie Murdock.8152:

I think we should pressure him to larp the new traits.

Hopefully some better ranger traits than this lazy one which should have been a QoL change, not a trait.

smitske.4912:

Allie Murdock.8152:

I think we should pressure him to larp the new traits.

Hopefully some better ranger traits than this lazy one which should have been a QoL change, not a trait.

Pff, that trait is interesting and actually good. Nothing like the one guardians are getting.

Fashion Mage.3712:

smitske.4912:

Allie Murdock.8152:

I think we should pressure him to larp the new traits.

Hopefully some better ranger traits than this lazy one which should have been a QoL change, not a trait.

Pff, that trait is interesting and actually good. Nothing like the one guardians are getting.

LOL! The Ranger trait is garbage. Adept minor tier at best. The Guardian one is only bad because it’s in Honor. Move to another tree and it could be amazing.

May we ask questions for this RU episode?

Would like to know if this and any future new maps not using the Conquest mechanic will be in their own separate que for solo/team ques, so that those who don’t wish to continue fighting in tiny little circles (as most of the game’s maps will still be Conquest) can play only the new map mode?

Thank you.

Thanks, #Champ.

Allie Murdock.8152:

I think we should pressure him to larp the new traits.

I’m sure you’d get more views if you can make this happen Allie

Regarding the comments about the new grandmaster traits; they did only show case 1 / 5 of the coming traits per class... just food for thought before the continued QQ of ’that trait sucks’. Fast longbow attack is something that is probably going to be amazing for WvW, but might not be so awesome for sPvP for example.

Rangers “Read the wind” is only really good for one weapon also. Fortunately I use that weapon, but still would be hard pressed to take the trait and actually lose dps, as it competes with a lot of dps traits.

its going to be pretty much useless in wvw, never a problem getting your arrow to hit (someone) in a zerg.

I just hop A-Net forum mods actually start writing up a concise post to calm the legion of angry OMG this trait is OP + why you killed my “insert beloved class” in this patch etc etc players.

Shiny new traits are all flashy and attractive… BUT

Are you going to have a sit-down and talk about the current META and what you have done to correct it?

The last time we had a discussion about fixing the meta, you guys introduced all new heals to ‘shake up the meta’. It had no impact on the meta.

I’d rather see a discussion about what changes you have put in place the fix the meta. Specifically:

HS Warriors
Apex Thieves
decap Engies

My question is (and I’m sure we will find out in the RU livestream) if this map will be an independent game mode or if it will affect the current ladder and Q.

Meaning… if I enter tQ, will there be a 4/5 chance of a conquest map and 1/5 chance of a different format of pvp?

or will this strictly be a hotjoin map. Oh the questions…. and all of the answers are less than 24 hours away, probably.

ALLIE

Please please please please please please please please please ask the devs on the show to explain HOW the new map will be implemented.
Will it be part of the rotation in current team and solo Q?
Will it have it’s own solo and team Q?
How many players on each side?
Is it for hotjoin/custom arena only?
If it is for hotjoin/custom arena only then is there a timeline to get it into a competitive setting with a tournament queue?

Ignore people QQing about the new traits. New traits, runes and sigils is required. Balance is secondary to just having a stale meta. Although hopefully the balance patch addresses the outliers like thieves, warriors and decap engis (in particular).

Are we going to get option to save Trait tooltips?

Allie Murdock.8152:

Update to dev guests: Unfortunately, Darrin has been sick lately and is losing his voice, so Jonathan Sharp will come on the show instead!

Good because Jon Sharp is the best communicator we have seen and he seems to know what he is on about. imo at least. Edit: Things got worse when state of the game ended and we didn’t have him communicating with us as much

Allie Murdock.8152:

Update to dev guests: Unfortunately, Darrin has been sick lately and is losing his voice, so Jonathan Sharp will come on the show instead!

That’s too bad. Well I hope he gets well soon! Someone should send him some krait oil. I hear it does wonders.

Allie Murdock.8152:

I think we should pressure him to larp the new traits.

I lay you 5 to 1 odds he’s papercrafting armor out of GuildWars2 logo printouts as we speak.

Hey ANET,

As part of the mob of anxious Rangers fascinated with the Read the Wings change, any chance we could see some light to calm our herd?

- Your friendly neighborhood Ranger

intredasting
12 char

Allie Murdock.8152:

Darrin is a map-making genius,

Thats the guy that created Skyhammer right? Well i guess everyone deserves a second chance :P

Anyway looking forward to the stream!

So, we’ll get a look at all the fourty new traits? That plus map.. I am very excited.

Does the balance patch address the conditions cap in pve?

Thedenofsin.7340:

Shiny new traits are all flashy and attractive… BUT

Are you going to have a sit-down and talk about the current META and what you have done to correct it?

The last time we had a discussion about fixing the meta, you guys introduced all new heals to ‘shake up the meta’. It had no impact on the meta.

I’d rather see a discussion about what changes you have put in place the fix the meta. Specifically:

HS Warriors
Apex Thieves
decap Engies

Sanctioned for overuse of the word ‘meta’

I’m not sure but this will be live at 4am for an Australian? I’d really like to watch this one.

Will you guys show an overview of the new map, or are you doing a skirmish on it? :o

Dear Anet, pls buff my poor DnD ele. Give me a good reason to shift from 0/10/0/30/30 while still being able to survive, deal damage and be group friendly.

Fuzz – Classic DnD since Beta. and ELE in GW1

ukuni.8745:

I’m not sure but this will be live at 4am for an Australian? I’d really like to watch this one.

4am west coast, 5:30am central, 6am east coast. I think. I’m thinking of getting up early to watch it too.

Curious, are the balance changes besides the new traits going to be in the feature build? As well as are they going to be brought up in any of the blogs/ready ups?

Sarrs.4831:

ukuni.8745:

I’m not sure but this will be live at 4am for an Australian? I’d really like to watch this one.

4am west coast, 5:30am central, 6am east coast. I think. I’m thinking of getting up early to watch it too.

How in the hell did you get 4 AM west coast? It’s 9 AM west coast.

what time is this in EU?

12pm PDT = 8PM GMT+1 or 20:00 CET

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/pdt-to-cet-converter

RaZaC.1963:

12pm PDT = 8PM GMT+1 or 20:00 CET

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/pdt-to-cet-converter

Thanks, it’s always confusing to understand… but to be sure, this means that it will be 2h after reset time ?

sminkiottone.6972:

RaZaC.1963:

12pm PDT = 8PM GMT+1 or 20:00 CET

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/pdt-to-cet-converter

Thanks, it’s always confusing to understand… but to be sure, this means that it will be 2h after reset time ?

Not sure if trolling.

idk what 12:00 PM PDT means. #airhead What time is this for US eastern?

Maybe I should be giving time-reading lessons to gw2 players…

Thats 5 hours before reset. You can work out the time from that im sure.

RaZaC.1963:

Not sure if trolling.

Then it’s 1h after reset(eu reset its at 6pm GMT+0) ?

I’m asking because it’s not that clear, PDT means nothing to me… not even sure why Anet doesn’t convert the time in GMT, not everyone lives in USA

I think they should post both PDT and GMT.
There is no reason not to do that. Adding a count down and promote this stream on the first page would also be nice.

I think they should post both PDT and GMT.
There is no reason not to do that. Adding a count down and promote this stream on the first page would also be nice.

Cool u got pretty funny girls in your team (in a good way).

Bad – u think alot of people watching those pvp?)

Tell to your chiefs please, that even this personal channel
http://www.twitch.tv/chemsorly with gvg and wvw got more views then u)

Althought about skills…show them or not…that’s doesn’t matter much if it won’t change the result)

About balance team and so on, play some 20vs20 or 15v15 in OS and u will get the difference how fun it can be and what’s the meta problem (ofc not from first try)

U can forget about balancing warrior, guardian, elementalist
little fixes needed for theifs and necros, overall classes are good to play anywhere – they are usefull, but got small bugges.
mesmers need little more attention but still they got tones of good stuff for smallscale they just not that good for gvg already.
In the worst line are Egnineers and rangers. Some of their abilities are very strong (rare ones) some are just useless.

Engis – forget about the turrets, let them be broken, focus on fixing other stuff that engis got, cause comparing to war that is let’s say – totally OK, engi suck alot with all that useless traits. And stop conentrating on spvp, BALANCING it’s not only about it, it’s not about spvp at all.

Rangers same, but can’t say more detalized, pretty unbalanced in some bleeding stacking on one hand and don’t have enough gtfo skills on another hand. Just listen to ranger thread.