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I wonder who else has come back for this teaser
Honestly, a recycled fractal could be fun in a nostalgic sort of way. But teasing it first was a bad idea, they really should have seen the backlash coming a mile away…
Keep ’em coming, ANet — if they look good some of us might return.
We knew that a fair amount of people would take a quick look and equate it to smashing a few LEGO bricks together and calling it a day. But an equal or greater number of people understand it’s not LEGO bricks at all, that something looking familiar doesn’t mean it’s the same thing, and that it’s part of the crazy things happening with magic in Tyria since we took out Mordremoth. So we went with the teaser video.
This week’s Guild Chat is focused on Fractals, so some of the fractal team will be on hand to talk about the work they did.
Thanks for the reply, Rubi. Glad to hear it. I almost always miss the live streams, but I generally do watch them after-the-fact. I’m sure a lot of other players are in the same boat as me, with weird work schedules and such.
Good stuff though!
Thanks for mentioning that, really. It’s always good to hear that someone whose schedule conflicts with the GC broadcast schedule finds the YouTube videos helpful.
Glad I could shed some light on the schedule too for you.
It’s not been cut. I was out last week at Emerald City Comicon, and this week we’re taking a break while I prepare the 4/22 post-spring-update show.
According to urban dictionary, that was wise of him
He probably has much to worry about anyway considering he has a door at home that sounds like a large monster breathing!
To be fair, if you go to Urban Dictionary your likelihood of finding a terrible definition for something is pretty high.
I love how absolutely pointed Rubi’s response is. Let’s keep in mind that she has nothing to do with most of the things we actually care about. She’s just in charge of marketing stuff so she’ll be doing this kind of fluff to try to distract us from our disappointments with the game.
The power (I’m in charge of marketing! A promotion!) and ulterior motives ascribed here give me too much credit. The real reason behind the question is much less exciting: It’s the topic of Friday’s show.
That’s pretty much it. We have a planning meeting for each episode of Guild Chat with the developer guests. During this one, Ben and Brian asked me if we could have this forum post because they wanted to hear from GW2 players and answer some of their questions on the show. I said yes. They went through the thread today, picked questions, and gave them to me at rehearsal.
The reason for topic of this week’s Guild Chat isn’t too sinister either: When we did the last show with the creature team, it was on very short notice due to a last minute scheduling change. The developer guests really enjoyed themselves, and at the end of the show said they’d love to come back when there was more time to plan and they could give people a better look. I said I’d bring them back as soon as there was a spot in the schedule. February 5th is that spot.
So there’s a peek behind the scenes of Guild Chat show planning. It’s… not very thrilling.
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So I guess its fair to expect this event to be another rehash right? I mean, since they are clearly ignoring people asking about it. I hope they put the expensive expansion money to good use and next halloween we can have new content because last year’s was sad.
That’s not really true. On the first page of this very thread Gaile said “There will be a blog and an event page soon. You’ll have a whole bunch of details then.”
To add a note to what she said, when these details go out the way she explained, they will go out in all four languages we support. Then all of our players get the details at the same time, not just the ones who happen to speak English.
No matter what the events contain, you can decide ahead of time that the Halloween events are going to be bad and that you won’t enjoy them, but it seems like it would be more fun to join the party that only rolls around once a year and have a good time along with the rest of us.
All I can say on this topic is, I really am dissapointed that this is one of the 7 masteries we are getting, let me preface by saying if you want to use this track or are excited about it then that is absolutely fine good for you! Now with that said, the only thing really interesting was the final thing in which you can get non-existent recipes now, everything else just seems… very situational at best, I guess it’s just not for me then?
Now please do excuse me while I go laugh hysterically at the comment about being able to help “newer players progress through difficult pve content” you mean the content that is non-existent in the game right now? Post-level 80 maybe I’m being a little unfair, but pre-level 80 the game is a cake-walk right now and if you truly believe that the mentor system’s reviving will actually be necessary to do anything pre-level 80 your way out of touch with your game, unless your a level 20 character throwing your head against a level 50 champion I just don’t get what you guys are talking about
You are excused. When you return, I can help you with a few things you missed.
There will be 39 mastery tracks when HoT launches, not seven. It does sound like this isn’t for you, but with 38 others to choose from and more to come after launch, you will very likely find a lot that are for you.
I’m confused. I was under the impression that there are 7 mastery tracks, but 39 masteries within those tracks
You are right, that was a bad typo on my part. I was typing while talking to someone here in the room with me and put words where they weren’t supposed to be. 39 masteries and seven tracks!
I actually came back here to fix this because I was off doing something else and stopped in the middle of my task, thinking “Hold on… did you you say… Oh nooo go check now.” Sorry about that!
All I can say on this topic is, I really am dissapointed that this is one of the 7 masteries we are getting, let me preface by saying if you want to use this track or are excited about it then that is absolutely fine good for you! Now with that said, the only thing really interesting was the final thing in which you can get non-existent recipes now, everything else just seems… very situational at best, I guess it’s just not for me then?
Now please do excuse me while I go laugh hysterically at the comment about being able to help “newer players progress through difficult pve content” you mean the content that is non-existent in the game right now? Post-level 80 maybe I’m being a little unfair, but pre-level 80 the game is a cake-walk right now and if you truly believe that the mentor system’s reviving will actually be necessary to do anything pre-level 80 your way out of touch with your game, unless your a level 20 character throwing your head against a level 50 champion I just don’t get what you guys are talking about
You are excused. When you return, I can help you with a few things you missed. There will be 39 masteries when HoT launches, not seven. It does sound like this isn’t for you, but with 38 others to choose from and more to come after launch, you will very likely find a lot that are for you.
While it’s all well and good to let people know that you have a high level of expertise and the game is easy for you, people just coming into the game don’t feel that way. There are a lot of skilled veteran players who realize this and spend their time and expertise to help newcomers. We really appreciate that, and the Pact Commander Mastery track is something we can give that portion of our player base to help them continue making our community better. It’s one mastery out of 39. I personally feel that it’s the least we could do.
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Rubi, why didn’t you tell us if auto loot works in WvW or not? chat was blowing up and you ignored us
No, not ignoring, I promise! I don’t watch chat while the show is live. It’s way too distracting. Mark tries to keep an eye on it from the production desk, and copypastes questions onto the monitor that I can see when he’s able.
So even when chat’s blowing up I will only see it once–if/when Mark has time to feed it to my monitor while producing the show.
As far as the question itself, I had to check on that and it takes extra time with so many people away at gamescom. Something that I mentioned during the show is that there are some questions that we simply can’t answer with certainty yet because developers are still doing work on the Mastery System. We haven’t decided how we’d like instant loot to appear in WvW yet, but we’re looking at lots of ways to make sure this is accessible to players there.
Just saw the live stream notes now. So absolutely no tie between pact commander masteries and being pact commander. And 98% of players won’t troll so there is no problem -.-
People won’t troll? Yikes. It sounds like you read some inaccurate notes. The episode is on YouTube, so you can see it firsthand. Josh and I talked about the fact that people do troll, they do abuse stuff like this, and they do take advantage of it. We cover the mentor section at the beginning of the episode.
Can you make sure to include a way to disable the city speed boost, or at least turn off the visuals for it?
Josh and I talked about this after we read your post and he’s going to look into the mechanics of it from the dev side. (As always, this is not me saying "Yes, that’s a great idea, it’s DONE! ) Thank you for giving your feedback on this, seriously. Stuff like this is helpful.
If you caught today’s episode of PoI, here’s a place to talk to Josh and I about the Pact Commander Masteries. And thanks for watching!
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I didn’t even have to click on that to know what it was. Thanks for the laugh, AGAIN. No way is he going to be on the show, though.
- He’d just hang there coughing and trying to rifle through my pockets.
- Peter would keep busting into the room to point and laugh and it would disrupt everything.
- It would make me sad.
See, it just wouldn’t work.
(ps Peter is a very nice man IRL. He bakes pies and has cute pets.)
I’ve been super busy today or I would have come across this sooner, sorry.
There will be a PoI this week; it is not about legendaries. My comment about the legendaries show was in response to someone requesting that we cover that subject on PoI at some point in the future. I knew I wanted to do the legendary journey show earlier this year when Linsey published the blog post about it, and she was on board. So I was just letting them know that the show they requested is already in the works.
Don’t worry–this week’s show is going to be pretty good in its own right!