Guild Wars 2

Hey there! Thought I’d pop in and answer these mysterious mysteries

In early development, we used those portals in the corner of the map to change teams for testing. We’d teleport everyone in the map to that spot when they zoned in, then they would choose the R,G,B portal to then go to their team. They were normally swapped to “off” but from long distances they could bug and you could see them! I think the portals have been completely removed now.

That jumping puzzle I put in was originally going to be a vista. We removed vistas from portal keeps before ship, and I lazy artist’d it by just removing a rock or two. xD

What’s your name?

• Tirzah!

What do you do at ArenaNet?

• I’m an environment artist, I make the worlds that your characters run around in. So I was involved in creating the look and feel of this first wing of raids.

What feature of Raids are you most excited about?

• Watching people troubleshoot and figure out different ways of getting past epic content. Really looking forward to some livestreams.

What’s a funny story about something that’s happened to you or your party while play-testing Raids?

• Trying to figure out who was crippling a certain type of enemy after repeated wipes and Byron yelling at us all (in a good way).

Anything else you feel like sharing

• I had a lot of fun on this project. Working closely with designers as an artist to make something epic and fun is a real treat.

• Oh, and my aura-sharing Tempest healer is crazy fun >.>

Thank you! I have patched these up

Kraljevo.2801:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

• Nights are less dark.

Noo!

Why? I liked the way it was.

Did people complain? xD

Don’t worry, it’s just bumped up a tad for people with darker monitors. Still looks very nighttime

Thank you for taking the time to give feedback. I know you guys hear this a lot but, I will reiterate that we do read your feedback and are thankful for it!
It’s hard to respond to everyone however and the lack of posts doesn’t mean we’re not listening.

~( o_o )~

So sneaky! Thank you for the post.

As a defender, (someone who owns say, the lava keep) you get a buff for interacting with the shrine as well as objective bonuses: fire turrets, inferno hound, lava/fire immunity.

As offense, you can also get the shrine buff but you do not benefit from the objective bonuses.

Siegerazer got the wrong memo on what team to be on :P (thanks for logging this!)

DiscoJacen.1590:

I did get lost in fire keep several times^^

The interior map for the fire keep was not working on two of the borderlands Hopefully when that is fixed, and with some updates we’re going to do to make objective layouts clearly visible, it should be easier to see!

The map will also point out locations to elevators and teleporters.

Begon.8365:

supply was hard to find with no icon on the map(in keeps), we will get used to it like all the other things like finding the exit. But when under siege and stresslevels are a bit higher, its nice to have a location on the map to aim towards when time is of the essence.
have been looking around for spots to use that was not intended but have not been good enough :p

I think we’re going to attach supply map markers to all the depots so they’re easier to find. We’ll also be updating the map/minimap to better show objective layout/walls/breakable walls. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks guys! This was fixed but didn’t make it into the test. Keep ’em coming though it really helps us out.

Thanks a ton for the exploit video One of the reasons we do these large-scale stress tests is to catch them and it’s super helpful that you went through the trouble to make a video!

Hello

Wanted to give a quick shout-out to Gaiscioch for adopting me on Sanctum of Rall. It’s been fun running with you guys so far and I’m looking forward to our other play sessions!
-Tiny Tee