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Apologies for missing the post yesterday guys, so we will do a combo post today to wrap it up!

If you have a question to ask any ArenaNet developer that will be at Gamescom (I dont know who will be there unfortunately) or any of the Chinese all-stars, go ahead and post it! If your question is liked enough or if we get around to ask it, it will be asked in a live interview!

Please keep in mind that these interviews and as such the questions being answered are pending on if I am able to interview the person in question.

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I want to hear what they have to say about Skyhammer and why they are basically ignoring the issue. We have a thread with over a thousand posts and not a single dev response.

Avitori.6093:

I want to hear what they have to say about Skyhammer and why they are basically ignoring the issue. We have a thread with over a thousand posts and not a single dev response.

This. Why is it still in soloQ? If it’s so skillful, it should be in teamQ.

My question:

Why do balance updates takes so long? There are some obvious changes you can push through in a week/month that will help sPvP without a doubt, but are pushed back into a bi-yearly balance patch with everything else.

Can you ask the Lesh Prince what it’s like being so fresh?

See you there Blu

Please. Ask them. Why is Skyhammer still in soloQ?

When will we have new gamemodes?

ye blu you rly should try to ask the devs bout skyhammer in soloQ and how they think bout that everyone hate it and why they total ignore the player feedback

i think this are the questions most gw2 (pvp) players wanna know and never get an answer – you maby has a chance to make us happy^^

second question

game tooo fast – to watch it and to play it (only some teens with super reactions can play it – others get most time frustrated) – people need invuls, stuns and stuff like this to spam and kill fast or get killed but no rly strategic counterplays in this game cause it is just to fast for humans^^

They are aware bout this proplem?
We will maby see castbars someday?
Whats about a nice combatlog(they said something short time after release they will rework combatlog but never heared anything again)?
They think it is important for the player to can analyze how they did infight and how they died After they died and they work on this?

Evan Lesh.3295:

Can you ask the Lesh Prince what it’s like being so fresh?

See you there Blu :)

Evan I appreciate your dedication by de-redding your post :>

I don’t understand why this thread gets so few attention as we never have the chance to ask the devs.

I’ve got some legit questions:

- How many teams are currently working on PvP? What is each team exactly doing?
- What PvP content can we expect before 2015 hits
- What’s the current list of priorities to implement?
- A long time ago we were talked about a league/season system, what happened?
- The PvP still feels really unrewarding. Why isn’t skill rewarded at all? What happened to the living story reward tracks?

Marcos.3690:

I don’t understand why this thread gets so few attention as we never have the chance to ask the devs.

I’ve got some legit questions:

- How many teams are currently working on PvP? What is each team exactly doing?
- What PvP content can we expect before 2015 hits
- What’s the current list of priorities to implement?
- A long time ago we were talked about a league/season system, what happened?
- The PvP still feels really unrewarding. Why isn’t skill rewarded at all? What happened to the living story reward tracks?

Good questions right here. Especially important the league/season system question, I think this is what gw2 need the most atm to make people want to be competitive so there will be more teams and more people wanting to compete.

-Why is Skyhammer still in Soloq?
-Will there ever be a league/season system?
(In terms there will be: When can we expect it to happen (soon™) )
- Why does it take so long to make balance changes?

Why have they not fixed the ladder system?

Marcos.3690:

Please. Ask them. Why is Skyhammer still in soloQ?

It makes the other maps feel less bad and stale. Overall they get fewer complaints cause they can just put a filter on for anything that says “skyhammer”

Ask the chinese team how NA and EU have been influencing the meta.

Question for all-stars: Do you think the recent changes to thieves made p/p viable in a conquest game-mode now their only defensive skill on the weapon set is getting nerfed?

I’m just going to ask for their autographs :P not even kidding ;o

@Devs: In terms of total stat points provided, the breakdown is as follows:

Celestial amulet gives:3038
Berserker amulet gives:2340
Any other amulet:2208

Celestial stats in PvP give 27% more stats than any other type of amulet, and have become incredibly popular in Warrior + Ele + Engi + Ranger builds. Combined with might-stacking runes, this amulet allows hybrid specs to have significant amounts of Condi + Direct damage with large amounts of sustain. Does the balance team feel Celestial amulets are becoming a problem and do they have any plans to balance the Celestial amulet so that it does not provide more total stats than any other amulet?

Devs: Can we have GW1 inspired PvP now that this new thing you tried has failed?

To the players:
What was patch that mesmer suddenly became less and represented among the professions. After multiple nerfs, and pathing bug issues they were still seeing some light of day. Now their representation is less than 4%. What was the moment they ceased to be regularly played and can this be reversed with changes similar to what rangers/engineers have received.( Some channeled skills increased in speed/dmg- AI making use of homing capacity.) Or is the notion of AI controlled damage removing too much from the player and that is basically why they almost faded to black currently?

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Ask them why they keep trying to log into my email! Every week Google emails me something about a suspicious IP from China trying to log into my email! Crazy! You’ll never get my account!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

celestial amulet is what brings ele and engi into meta,remove them and u lose 2 professions

-For Developers.

Is giving professions access to weapons they previously didn’t have access too a feature that Is being considered? I know/see a lot of players requesting this, myself included.

If so, Has there been much progress towards this endeavor?

for china

your a newcomer to the game, do you think that you will have a chance against the european scene.

For Developers

Why is Skyhammer still up?

Question:

Does the balance team secretly never want this to be an esport? Minor, frequent changes are smart. Massive balance changes every 6 months is not.

Question:

Cmc said this on his stream last night, what does Karl do all day? What is a day in the life of the balance team? Day in the life of the pvp team.. grouch/evan/hugh/karl sitting in a circle?

Question (for Devs):

Since launch, the most jarring and significant balance issue that has persisted is the excessive strength of AI and passives—“No skill (or low skill, at best), high reward” mechanics. Power, a former employee, had mentioned in a Twitch chat, after leaving ANet, that he tried to relay the problem of AI and passives to the balance team.

Can you discuss if you think the damage output of AI and passives should be significant as they are or should be dramatically nerfed for PVP?

Why does the balance team do the opposite of what is good for balance? Examples:

Players:
Warrior has too much sustain on point
ANET:
Ok, let’s nerf 100 blades damage

Players:
Turret Engi is a no skill spec that does too well
ANET:
Ok, lets buff the rocket turrets.

Players:
S/D thief has too many evades
ANET:
Cool, let’s make it harder to do damage

Players:
We are in too much of a bunker meta
ANET:
Cool, let’s nerf thieves

Players:
Eviscerate hits too hard
ANET:
Let’s pretend we didn’t hear that

A preview of future bad ideas (take note ANET. You can use these!)
1. Let’s buff spirit weapons for guardians. Players hate AI and this will really make them mad.
2. Let’s buff Lich form
3. Let’s buff PU on mesmers
4. Let’s buff meteor shower and make it unblockable and undodgeable.
5. Let’s remove all maps from PvP except for Skyhammer.

- Skyhammer in solo que, does the thread about it need to reach 10000 posts before its noticed?

- Why are AI/passive based builds still so powerful, and more importantly is that the direction a game based on “active” combat is trying to go, or is it just that there hasnt been enough time to rebalance around it (a notice that its being addressed, even if its going to take another 2 years to fix would mean a lot)

- Any updates on new game modes/maps before the end of the year? (if this was stated earlier and I missed it then forget this one)

Sizer.5632:

- Skyhammer in solo que, does the thread about it need to reach 10000 posts before its noticed?

- Why are AI/passive based builds still so powerful, and more importantly is that the direction a game based on “active” combat is trying to go, or is it just that there hasnt been enough time to rebalance around it (a notice that its being addressed, even if its going to take another 2 years to fix would mean a lot)

- Any updates on new game modes/maps before the end of the year? (if this was stated earlier and I missed it then forget this one)

Oh you are another sizer lol

I was thinking you could ask that yourself lmao

Is it accessible to aporach Grouuch and ask him kindly , to reduce the 25 min introduction of classes and their specs ? :P

‘’Ohhh the thief is using an avoiding spec , while trying to kill squichy targets’’
‘’Ohh the warriors is using a cc orianted spec , easily to avoid by seeing their telegraphs and combing with his big health and the healing signet he is extremly durable’’

style.6173:

Why does the balance team do the opposite of what is good for balance? Examples:

Players:
Warrior has too much sustain on point
ANET:
Ok, let’s nerf 100 blades damage

Players:
Turret Engi is a no skill spec that does too well
ANET:
Ok, lets buff the rocket turrets.

Players:
S/D thief has too many evades
ANET:
Cool, let’s make it harder to do damage

Players:
We are in too much of a bunker meta
ANET:
Cool, let’s nerf thieves

Players:
Eviscerate hits too hard
ANET:
Let’s pretend we didn’t hear that

A preview of future bad ideas (take note ANET. You can use these!)
1. Let’s buff spirit weapons for guardians. Players hate AI and this will really make them mad.
2. Let’s buff Lich form
3. Let’s buff PU on mesmers
4. Let’s buff meteor shower and make it unblockable and undodgeable.
5. Let’s remove all maps from PvP except for Skyhammer.

Yes! Looks like I was right about spirit weapons. ANET used my bad ideas list!

Will we ever see a colossal increase in new useful utility/heal/elite skills, and a more in depth trait system?
Also I heard talk about eventually giving the classes access to new weapons, is this confirmed or an infinite eventual?

First interview seems to be up on his youtube.
Dat Zombify

They didn’t send 1 person from NA who is relevant

Dustin.2793:

They didn’t send 1 person from NA who is relevant

Are you talking about devs or player?