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Not necessarily, I had different answers, which leads me to believe that the questions are randomized.

Same for me

I got Chicken; Centaur, they’re really primitive riddles, really

I think the answer varies between races. With humans, the answer is always Chicken and Centaur.

My Human got the Corn and Charr questions so I’d say it’s just randomised.

I recently noticed I was missing my Celebration Hat and asked support if they could help out, they provided me with a new one that I then added to my wardrobe.

I do still have my original character from way back then, not sure if he was wearing the hat in his town clothes or not though (I had completely forgotten we could go to the black lion trader to get stuff converted so I didn’t check that). Just wanted to reply to let you know it is possible for them to do this, so it’s worth asking them for clarification.

Yea it was in LA. Map completion in LA still counts for mastery exp so I’m thinking this is an intentional thing to prevent players from power levelling their masteries via crafting.

Sadly it does not. I needed to get one of my crafting professions up anyway and it didn’t do anything for my current mastery (fortunately that wasn’t my goal).

It’ll be 7am UTC but, due to daylight savings, we in the UK are currently UTC+1 which maintains the 8 hour time difference between our time and PST. At some point in the near future I assume PST will go back to being UTC-8 just as the UK goes back to being regular old UTC.

BrotherBelial.3094:

nacario.9417:

On October 23 at 12:01 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7), Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns will go live!

What is that in EU time? 6 in friday morning or 21 in friday night?

Depending where you are in the EU, it will be early morning. In the UK it will be 07:01am.

Won’t it be 08:01am because we’ll still be in BST until the 25th?

Either way it’s going to be around that time in most of Europe, give or take an hour or two depending on which part you live in.

DragonflyDusk.6582:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ta daaaa! I love it. Did y’all see it?

YES!

…. Was it just me or did Kasmeer look like she was wearing different armor? It went fast, so it was hard to tell.

I just paused it on youtube and Kasmeer’s armour looks the same as her usual one. Did notice Marjory is using her greatsword though, don’t recall if she had already started doing that yet?

Was much better than that weird launch trailer you guys did for the launch of GW2.

I liked it.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Stream is live here:

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchconlive

GW2 channel is down!

Nope, GW2 channel is showing it too right now

I think they’re going to show the main twitch stream on the GW2 channel from what they’re saying in chat but it’s hard to read when messages fly past

I suspect whatever the technical issue was they’ve probably fixed it but don’t have time for what they had scheduled so they’re just waiting for the trailer event.

It’ll be shown in 15 minutes.

Edit: lordkrall ninja’d me

I believe it’ll be a new section added to the wardrobe alongside your outfits, dyes, minipets, etc where we’ll be able to pick between glider skins (and I don’t doubt that we’ll see more appear either as ingame rewards or more likely gem store items).

Totally swapping to Rev as my main. I love the theme and enjoy the way it plays.

Plus I’ve always wanted to play a heavy armour magic class, but didn’t really enjoy guardian.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/cdi/CDI-Guilds-Raiding

What other MMOs are doing doesn’t really matter, GW2 players (not all, but enough for it to be worth it) wanted raiding or something similar. It also helps them market to players from other MMOs who like raiding.

I don’t really see what needs justifying here…

My Sweet Lily.1952:

I guess they will both evade each others strikes. Last beta when me and another rev hit UA the same time the animation was really odd, both of us blinking around and we were actually moving each other somehow, even when we were both locked to the animation.

You could do this to the Smokescale enemies in Verdant Brink and I believe they had evade (or maybe I was in their blind field) and it still continued with the attacks regardless. So I’m guessing even if the opponent evades it will still continue the entire animation/attack until it’d normally end. It also did the same “shifting” movement as you teleported to where it is then it teleported to where you are and slowly this dragged you away from where you both started.

Gray.9041:

dsslive.8473:

The order of the reveals doesn’t really matter, they’ll all still be there come release.

but will they all be there come the next BWE? if not, then they’ll have less testing, and consequently fewer bug fixes or general improvements. on top of this, it means those Medium armour fans get less value out of the betas.

I suspect they’re going to do the next BWE once all of the elite specs are revealed.

On the plus side now we’re guaranteed that the next reveal will be one of the medium classes.

Ah right ok so you have to attach it to the reply

They look like different animals to me. Wolf on the left, bear on front and lion on the right? Or something like that, they definitely look like different animals though.

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMn2D1RUkAApy2Q.jpg[/img]

No idea if this is how you post images… If this turns out wrong could someone tell me how it’s done :P

Looks like Warrior.

https://twitter.com/guildwars2

I’ve seen this mentioned a few times and… Well legendary human stance just sounds dumb. Legendary assassin stance sounds cool.

Fortunately the Charr face I prefer worked fine, but +1 to this. My fellow Charr deserve equal representation.

I will say I appreciate that they did give it a unique design on Charr to accommodate their for neck, but I’d hope these visual issues get resolved before launch. Too many armour skins don’t look good already.

I never felt energy on weapons was an issue. There’s maybe a couple of instances where it needs to be tuned, but the fast cool down on skills kinda makes the energy our equivalent of skill cooldowns. Only we have more freedom to choose which skill to use because of the fast cooldowns.

As others have said. If you’ve managed to hit 0 energy and legend swap is still on cool down then you probably panicked and tried to spam skills rather than using the right ones at the right time.

As with everything we’ll have to see how it works out in game, but my initial reaction was somewhat similar. My main concern is the long build up and huge visual tell with what looked like little for the enemy to worry about.

The concept does seem really good. Knockback and damage, with super speed to allies, but the numbers are probably going to need changes

It’s possible. I’m probably being pessimistic but I’m kinda expecting to see Shiro, Malyx and Jalis as the final underwater legends.

virtualtourist.6438:

All it says is that by the next BWE, we’ll be able to test out the spear and some of the legends underwater (the ones that they have time to convert to work underwater). So far, there hasn’t been any indication that, in the final release of HoT, there will be any legends that do not function underwater, just that not all of them will be ready for the next BWE.

It’s worth pointing out that if all our legends work underwater we’d be the first profession to have all skills work under water and out of sell the legends Ventari looks like it’d take the most work to get working under water. That’s why I don’t think we’ll get him, especially since the game has progressively been moving away from underwater content.

I’m waiting to see how it all works with the bug fixed. For me part of the issue was it required a lot of attention/micro management for basically no reward, so now that it should be putting out significantly more healing I’m interested to see if it feels worth using.

I suspect they won’t include him for under water content.

If they did though, I think I’d like to see it work sort of like how ranger sprites used to when they were able to move (basically just follow right behind you). And then just change the 6 skill so that instead of moving it just does an area heal or something.

Demented Yak.6105:

They’ll add in Ventari and Jalis legends to take care of the tanky healers. There’s not really any need for trident.

It’s worth pointing out that Roy has constantly said “some” of the Legends will get converted to underwater, not all. I think out of them all the one we’re least likely to see is Ventari as its current design simply doesn’t work under water

Energy is at a constant +5 regen both in and out of combat. Because of that using upkeep skills out of combat will work as you’d expect.

Yes I seem to recall a comment saying it was acting as intended (aside from some instances where terrain collision was buggy with it).

The Vengful hammers change was good. It felt more like a DPS skill before, which wasn’t in line with what Jalis is supposed to be about.

I do think the nerf to Inspiring Reinforcement will need some looking at, but we’ll get to play with that in the next BWE.

Pretty surprised nothing was done with the taunt skill. Perhaps Roy feels that with the other changes it is now viable, but that 50 energy cost is a killer.

Adamantium.3682:

Rym.1469:

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Facets deactivate by running out of energy, using the active skill or invoking a new legend. Switching legends does not cancel facet of nature though, since it is not tied to legendary dragon stance.

Then please add F3 which would cancel all facets.

Without this option, there won’t be much decision-making, timing or energy management – if you press wrong button, you’re pretty much screwed and forced out of Legend/forced to misplay.

This really has to be dealt with ASAP.

The “wrong button” argument is a non starter for me. That’s sort of weak and is true for everything.

What you’ve described is exactly why there is decision making. You decide if it’s worth the passive effect for a few seconds to put the whole skill on cooldown when you burst. Or change Legends. Or let the energy drain instead.

This is the opposite of no decision making. Every time you use a facet you make more decisions about how you’re using it than a normal “fire and forget” skill.

Indeed. The whole point of the design seems to be about deciding how to manage the facets, which ones to use at what time and if you can risk not having it while its on cool down or if the active effect is essential right now. Adding the ability to just cancel them would trivialize it.

Also since it was mentioned. You can accidentally click a skill on any profession, none of the other professions offer an undo button

I think the changes to Inspiring Reinforcement where perhaps too severe. From your explanation you make it sound like a slight adjustment, but you’ve removed a lot of the stability and increased the cost + recharge time. I guess we’ll see how it plays out in the next BWE, but my initial reaction is that you went too much in the other direction

Everything else looks good though.

Gotta say, I was still debating whether I should stick Engineer as main in HoT or swap to Revenant.

Herald + the changes you’ve posted. Definitely going to main Revenant now.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Kidel.2057:

No AOE resistance or condi cleanse. Even on dps guardian I can have multiple aoe condi cleanses, but to achieve similar results on herald we need mallyx.

We really need some condi traits or baseline.

And I don’t really like the ui for f2.

Aside from that great job. Loved sword and jalis stuff.

UI isn’t final.

Just make sure to keep that flamey skill bar. That was quite sweet!

+1 to that!

Aguasatori.7236:

Kaiden Valor.7163:

What was the sword being used by the character in the background? (Behind yourself and Rubi on the green screen).

Was it a new one or an existing sword?

I believe it was this image- https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/d1b42Elite-Skill-Chaotic-Release.jpg

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Corrupted_Blade

Thanks!

What was the sword being used by the character in the background? (Behind yourself and Rubi on the green screen).

Was it a new one or an existing sword?

I believe it was this image- https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/d1b42Elite-Skill-Chaotic-Release.jpg

Yea, the skills had some great effects. I know a lot of people are going to be concerned with the huge effect on the elite though, but I love skills to have flashy effects like that

I’m pretty sure Roy said something about you can be selfish and ground target it at yourself for healing.

The audio on that skill sounded like it’d get annoying though.

Yea it looked amazing.

Also, kudos to the art team as well. The fire effect on the skill bar was just beautiful!

I like that voice. Gives the right vibe of old and wise, unlike the original one which someone on the forums previously said sounds like an “old hag”.

There’s been a few posts on this already, so far no news. It hasn’t been available during the BWEs though.

I’m not too bothered about the racial skills but I would appreciate being able to use my Mistfire Wolf skill

Invictus.1503:

Sylvari for a few reasons:
- Love the variety of color and glows
- Want to experience the Sylvari specific story aspects that have been mentioned
- I have every race (multiples in some cases) and just enjoy the Sylvari variety as mentioned
- Funny that Rytlock seems to distrust the Sylvari as a whole based on the trailers, but then apparently decided to teach my Sylvari his special Revenant secrets

Yea I’m definitely going to roll a Sylvari at some point, but since I’m planning to main Revenant I don’t want to choose my race based on one segment of the story having a bonus and I don’t like who thin the Sylvari look (especially with some of the armours not scaling properly to their body).

Also I think for a player Sylvari, Rytlock has that trust/friendship built up already from the personal story and I guess he’s more inclined to believe you when you say you’re not corrupted.

BobbyT.7192:

Player goes down, activates “help me”
Shiro: I have in-slaved countless soul, killed emperors, and cripple two nations…….. And now I’m bound to you -_-.

Good one! That would be a good time for him to demand you release him too!

Charr. When the game first launched I was always human characters, but a year in I saw the light and now all my characters are Charr.

Inflames.8026:

Thank you both for your answers! :L) around 8:45 PM CET time or so Also is it on twitch?

No it’s 8PM CET. I live in the UK, which is currently in BST (same time as CET) and it’s 8PM… Basically it’s on at 7pm UTC, so convert that to whatever timezone you need.

Also it’s always on the Guild Wars 2 twitch channel. If you tune in early they will have various streamers on, but they cut them off once PoI starts

skowcia.8257:

Invictus.1503:

Glint was mentioned not to be about condi cleansing.

Source? I didnt noticed any post of Roy suggesting that.

Ask and you shall receive:

https://twitter.com/RoyCronacher/status/631937041144504320

Yea I would assume as they have said it’s when you equip the Herald specialization as opposed to needing Glint slotted.

I imagine we’ll find out on Points of Interest later though.

Yea, 7 hours 15 minutes as of posting this.