Guild Wars 2

Always happy to see more people in the WvW group! Really hope you stay here as well tho Habib as you’ve been a great communicator with the WvW-community!

Welcome Devon!

Interesting. Welcome aboard Devon

Habib will you still be apart of the WvW team or are you shifting to a different department?

Also, the latest WvW update was pretty good overall. I just wish it would reward defensive play a little bit more (as in for people that do the smaller but equally important jobs like Sentry work, Dolyak escorting etc. etc.)

Hi Devon. First order of Business please allow us to hide players titles. I do not need to see “Dungeon Master” in WvW. It’s obstructing views in larger group fights and is completely unnecessary, especially since no one will ever kill 1,000,000 yaks.

Now that culling is fixed, Habib is no longer a part of WvW!

We will miss you! Hopefully Devon will be as communicative as you were!

Are you leaving A-Net Habib?! Hope Devon’s prepared to tackle all of the want’s and needs of the Guild Wars community!

DevonCarver.5370:

Is he stepping down or was he poisoned by the cookies sent by tier 8? Who can know for sure? I’ll try and be as visible a presence as Habib, although his shoes are impossible to fill. I can guarantee an increase in the number of charr related puns, so get your punning dictionary out and let the fur fly!

I like him already :P

Hope you brought some serious booze to deal with this forum, new sir. You’ll need it.

DevonCarver.5370:

Is he stepping down or was he poisoned by the cookies sent by tier 8?

I like you already!

Thank you Habib for the awesome job you did on removing Culling!

Welcome Devon, we look forward to hearing more from you!
(although you should be warned these forums can be a bit of a hairball)

Glad to have you here, Devon! And best of luck to Habib in his next steps.

Since we already started with the questions/requests (we don’t want to give Mr. Carver any impression of this forum being nice or anything ^^)…

Why was WXP implemented as a character bound grind that fails to reward very important meta-game tasks within WvW, only reinforces the allmighty zerg and further punishes (like the FotM progression) people that play several alts?

Baelnorn.5710:

Since we already started with the questions/requests (we don’t want to give Mr. Carver any impression of this forum being nice or anything ^^)…

Why was WXP implemented as a character bound grind that fails to reward very important meta-game tasks within WvW, only reinforces the allmighty zerg and further punishes (like the FotM progression) people that play several alts?

Well Devon, you did want the “fur to fly” and now it looks like some people have their “claws out”

Welcome, new WvW GM.
Enjoy your stay here.

Welcome to the snakepit of entitlement Devon

First order of business: tell management to give us bigger maps!

DevonCarver.5370:

Is he stepping down or was he poisoned by the cookies sent by tier 8? Who can know for sure? I’ll try and be as visible a presence as Habib, although his shoes are impossible to fill. I can guarantee an increase in the number of charr related puns, so get your punning dictionary out and let the fur fly!

Quick. What is your personal vision for WvW? And what appeals most to you about gameplay like WvW?

A new person at the helm? Let’s scowl in unison at him! ):<

Makes perfect sense, Habib took care of the technical difficulties the game was having. Now we just need content. Welcome!

Welcome!! It’s always nice to have more WvW resources. As I’m sure you are busy, I will keep my request list short:

1. Please allow us to disable the really annoying titles below people’s names.
2. Please give me permanent invulnerability in all WvW maps. But just me, nobody else.

Thanks!

Hey Devon, welcome, can we have a little forum AMA?

Lets start with something simple:
What color is the shirt you are currently wearing?
Are quaggans adorable or are they adorable?
What is you /deaths on your primary or most played character?
Have you taken part in a quaggan drinking game?
If you had a choice between a strawberry or mint shake, which would you pick?

Sorry to see you go Habib. And welcome Devon!

Devon: I sincerely wish you the best of luck! I’d also like to cordially invite you to cruise in to EU Tier 9 (come to Fissure of Woe; because I’m biased!) and take a tour around / gather some data & first hand info when you get a few spare moments Our cookies are tasty as well…

DevonCarver.5370:

Is he stepping down or was he poisoned by the cookies sent by tier 8? Who can know for sure? I’ll try and be as visible a presence as Habib, although his shoes are impossible to fill. I can guarantee an increase in the number of charr related puns, so get your punning dictionary out and let the fur fly!

It was only a little bit of rat poison…

DevonCarver.5370:

Is he stepping down or was he poisoned by the cookies sent by tier 8? Who can know for sure? I’ll try and be as visible a presence as Habib, although his shoes are impossible to fill. I can guarantee an increase in the number of charr related puns, so get your punning dictionary out and let the fur fly!

Can you also guarantee that you will be giving us an actual ‘Guild Wars’ only patch and not ‘NPC Wars’?
New maps, wvw only achievable weapons and armor to bring us inline with Dungeon armor and weapons from pve.

All we ask for is equality.

DevonCarver.5370:

Is he stepping down or was he poisoned by the cookies sent by tier 8? Who can know for sure? I’ll try and be as visible a presence as Habib, although his shoes are impossible to fill. I can guarantee an increase in the number of charr related puns, so get your punning dictionary out and let the fur fly!

I promise they weren’t poisoned! ..hehe.

Quote: Thank you Habib for the awesome job you did on removing Culling!

Yep, great job, only 7 months to fix this!

I hope Habib is moving across to jump puzzle design and fractals.

Good luck new guy, I hope you listen to the community and sort out all the various issues that exist in wvw- I’m sure there was a list here somewhere, it ran to a few hundred pages.

First order of business: disable being able to stomp from stealth- bad enough being hit for 6k by cluster bomb (checks all ranger single skills, nothing comes close in one hit for the ‘masters of range’) then 6k /8k/6k/6k macro attack then stealth while he decides which side to stomp you from whilst you can’t see him.

crystalpink.2487:

Welcome, new WvW GM.
Enjoy your stay here.

Not a GM :]

Welcome to the party, devon.

DevonCarver.5370:

Is he stepping down or was he poisoned by the cookies sent by tier 8?

I was about to ask if this was cookies related. I suspect the cookies were such a huge hit he had to step down as he was no longer fair and unbiased. Admit it!

Habib come baaaaack we’ll send you more!

Oh hey, Dev the dev.

pssst

Mistah Carvah, i got a requeeest

it’d be a real kicker if WvW players (and PvP, but that’s up to someone else) could earn ascended items from their chosen gameplay mode instead of the current monopoly PvE has on them

gotta have everyone on the same level so players can all “play their way”, right?

Good luck Habib, keep in touch!

So how soon will it take to implement vendors to buy ascended gear in WvW?

We don’t need any more pie charts… ;-p

I know there where some lay offs at ncsoft west. Some restructuring is bound to happen. So are you staying with the Anet team?

And welcome to are new guy. Hope you have thick skin this can be a rough forum.

welcome Devon and hope to see you around Habib. You have been great! Now back to bussiness. There are few things that most of us wvers want to see changes to wvw:
1) new, better and unique skins for wvw via badges of honour only
2) getting ascended gear using badges
3) having the option to turn on/off titles. no problme in pve but this can get really annoying in zerg vs zerg fights.
4) reducing or removing skill lags
5 ) adding new contents to wvw maps to bring back more light.

GL and HF

New guy test:

There’s a leaflet in the mailbox.
There’s a thief in the cellar.
What kind of egg is in the tree?

As others have noted, there is a lack of a sense of decorum around this forum. Alas, in WvW, everyone is out for blood/WXP.

I’ve played alongside some amazing characters in WvW. Please know that chivalry is not dead, and the greedy greetings should be read as excitement for what you have in store for us, Devon.

warm welcome to the new WvW GM.

now can we have WvW server rating reset pls…….

did Habib get fired, got promoted, moved to another department, told Anet to xxx, or found a job somewhere else ? (did i forget any options?)

Welcome Devon.
Please be advised we are all passionate about this game form. And we all want our favorite things rewarded with developer attention.

Mine in the game wide category: Yellow text NPC’s in tab-target rotation. Why on Tyria should we need or want that?

In the WvWvW category: The owner of all created siege equipment. Since you already track the creator, show it to the world. (Related note: show the guild name on claimed strongpoints.)

Thanks

Thank you Habib for your months of hard work, and congratulations on achieving your long term goals within WvW. I hope you find as much success on your next project.

It’s good to see that ArenaNet has changed WvW lead from a programmer to a content designer, as it shows they’re finally comfortable with performance and are now ready to expand and refine the game mode. I look forward to seeing what Devon came come up with

Thanks Habib for getting culling fixed, sad to see you go. Welcome Devon. Hope you can fix skill lag and other problems for us.

You just used the term “Wuvers”….

…I need a moment.

DevonCarver.5370:

I’m already feeling the Wuv. I’ll try and reply to some individual questions, but I’m not going to respond to all of them.

Lovely.

If WEXP and World Ranks are supposed to be a representation of how much you have done to contribute to your server’s war effort, why is it awarded for killing the Veteran Ice Wurm, Harpy, Warg, Champion Spider, and I presume the Eternal Battlegrounds bosses, none of which actually aid your server in any way?

Similarly, why do vital logistical tasks such as upgrading, repairing, and escorting dolyaks go unrewarded?

DevonCarver.5370:

2. I just checked in a change to give this to you. But it won’t activate until you run into the next group of 5+ enemies you see and /dance. If it doesn’t work the first time you do that, it’s probably because the group wasn’t large enough, so try with another group until you are invulnerable.

Works in SWTOR, should work here? /cheapshot

Likely to see any more siege weapons/building upgrades at all, or any time soon?

WVW is GW2 for me. So, I will be expecting a lot from you.

Good luck and congratulations.

Can you give a little insight behind the veil at Anet regarding the whole siege turtling on keeps/towers vs open field fights. Which do you try to promote, which do you think is more fun to the community and do you think there will be a realisation soon that allowing these “blobs” to sit inside towers/keeps holding bottlenecks really does add quite a large sum of frustration to the game and as such a decrease in HP on reinforced/fortified doors/walls might help in this regard as it will promote offensive defence as opposed to the current turtle strat.