Guild Wars 2

What’s your name?
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What do you do at ArenaNet?
I make internet dragons. Previously worked on some Fractals, Tequatl, TT, Boss Blitz in QP. More recently I helped out Xpac with some new creatures and design for one of the new world bosses. And now I just get to come up with clever ways to kill players.

What has been your involvement with Raids?
Currently team lead and working with Jason to define what Raids in GW2 are.

What feature of Raids are you most excited about?
Recreating those epic memories and moments I’ve experienced while raiding in the past.

What’s a funny story about something that’s happened to you or your party while play-testing Raids?
Getting ready to pull Gorseval during nightly raid, Byron being salty about us repeatedly wiping , and saying on TS before the pull “Byron you’re going to need a glass of water to lower those sodium levels”, which caused everyone to laugh so hard we failed to kill one of the walls and wiped.

What was your favorite encounter from the existing dungeon/fotm content? Why?
Probably the Volcano since that was the first combat based content I helped design (LeahR did most of the hook up/final touches on that one).

This was a crazy marathon to watch with so many servers/guilds competing for this. You guys have built some truly amazing communities through these difficult encounters.

Congratulations Desolation! Well deserved!

Jumping in here for a moment to clarify a few things because there are some misconceptions about that attempt in particular.

1) TTS did not kill the Wurm. A GM was able to examine the boss and get some info and they were off by 0.01%. Even if they had killed it, that is not the end of the encounter, there is still another phase.
2) We’re investigating why the Wurm did not burrow when the event failed.

TTS did manage to sever the heads of all 3 Wurms later in the middle of the night and were the first to see the final phase.