It’s about that time! The World Tournament Series Invitational Qualifier, powered by Alienware, kicks off tomorrow, with the top teams in NA and EU all fighting for the opportunity to play for $50,000 at PAX East in Boston.
Don’t forget, we’ll also be previewing our new PvP game mode during both the EU and NA events – both previews are unique! You’ll have to tune into both to get the full picture.
Where do you see all these devs? I’m on a EU french server and I’ve never seen one with the Anet tag.
I see a at least 2 different devs in PvP a week. My friends see even more in WvW (mainly EoTM). Devs seem to like EoTM and most devs, like most players that don’t have tomes go there to lvl fastest to 80. Rangers have been spotted the most but I can’t say for sure that is what most of them main, because no one knows these numbers. Just 2 days ago my firend went into EoTM and said there were 5 devs running with the zerg, 1 war, 1 guard, 3 rangers. 1 ranger & guard not 80 yet.
As Grouch stated, he wants to help the team out and will play whatever he needs to. I have seen him on Engi mostly but I am sure that is mainly because, what team doesn’t need an engi? I have also seen him play other classes. If engi was to ever become basically useless in PvP (shouldn’t due to balance) I am sure Grouch would play another class more often.
Players should want to help the team. Not willing to switch when there is 3 thieves and it’s not the daily, to me blows my mind. Never the less, it happens.
I am sure there are some devs in EU, whether they live there or just play there; but Anet is in the USA, NA see’s them a lot more.
so….all that to say “They’re in NA, that’s where you’ll see them”
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I’d really like to know what devs if any play on EU servers ^^. would be nice to see them around…
If we get a chance we’ll play there during work hours (EU primetime) but for the most part we play on NA during our free time. Most of us have guilds and friends that we play with, just like you guys! There’s a lot more of us playing than you’d think…we just blend in. (One of us, one of us!)
We do have a handful of EU community managers – like David, Ramon, and Stephanie. I’ve seen Stephanie playing on a FR EU server before in WvW (and then I hunted her down mercilessly).
The thought of us balancing something so our own characters are stronger is simply ludicrous. A lot of devs that are directly involved with balance, myself included, tend to hop between professions quite often. Research, if you will. Theory and knowledge of mechanics can only go so far – the real key is getting your hands dirty.
Now, if things get serious in ranked queue (as they should), I’ll probably hop onto whatever I’m the most comfortable with just so I don’t bog my team down, but for the most part I like to keep things fresh by playing different professions.
We agree. The spectator camera changes Branden just put in was just one small item on the list of things we’d like to do for spectator mode at some point. There has been some great discussion on the forums in the past regarding spectator mode improvements/readability, and we agree with much of what is said.
We haven’t talked about our new mode in-depth yet (no spoilers, sorry), but making it a friendlier viewer experience is something we think about constantly when making design decisions – right up there with making it fun, approachable, and intuitive.
Glad you noticed! We’re always looking for ways to better promote these events while also not breaking the immersion that you’d expect from a RPG.
We have plans for promoting things better in-game, but for now we have bigger fish to fry (you know, that whole expansion thing), so my in-character roleplaying event descriptions will have to do for now.
The Guild Wars 2 forums are not the appropriate place to discuss this issue. As mentioned above by Oliver, please submit a ticket to ESL with your case and they can investigate your situation. Distributing funds in NA is more difficult than EU due to tax laws, and some of you have requested physical checks rather than wire transfers which draws out the process even further.
This thread has kind of gone off topic, but I’ll answer the OP anyways! I’m still sorting out some last minute logistic stuff with a few of the teams which is why I’ve held off on posting the brackets. On Friday I’ll be posting a full preview, including brackets.
North America has had all eight teams confirm and lock in, so I don’t mind revealing the them:
The Abjured
The Hail Mary (Formerly Dodge or Die)
Radioactive
Academy Gaming
The Dankening
Literally Whatever
Boreal Esports
Hero Battle Tactics
It’s not intended behavior, and we will be fixing it.
Edit: (Specifically the ability to increase the healing potential of Signet of Restoration by cancel-casting Lightning Whip after the first half of the animation.)
Sign-ups are open to all, and there’s no fee for signing up. You can find more information on the cups by navigating to the ESL Go4GuildWars2 home page and selecting your region’s portal.
If you’re not feeling up to competing, you can always catch the live broadcast of the event. This week Digital Pro Sports will be handling both the North American and European livestreams over at http://www.twitch.tv/digitalprosports
The European Cup kicks off at 7AM PST (16:00 CET), and the North American Cup begins at 1pm PST (22:00 CET).
The first 2 minutes of the game are probably the most important for setting your team up for victory. As silly as it sounds, taking 30 seconds to figure out where everyone is going to go right out of the gate is going to give your team the edge in those first engagements. The 0-0-5 splits, or the 0-0-0 5-man chieftain/svanir rush openings happen a bit too often, and are completely avoidable with a bit of education/discussion before the match begins.
I just wanted to let you guys know that your comments and discussions haven’t gone unnoticed or unread. The team keeps pretty good tabs on the forums, even if we’re not making a lot of regular posts over the holiday break. We had a number of conversations regarding the feedback found in this thread and others.
I don’t think we’re ready to talk about specifics right now (and I certainly can’t make that call on my own with everyone out of the office), but I figured you guys would like a little reassurance that we’re aware of your thoughts on the matter.
North America – Team Arena
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North America – Solo Arena
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I informed the esl admins that I would be out of the office for nearly two weeks and that gems would be delayed. I also put a post up in the pvp events forum that was up until the forum restructure that detailed this information. I’ve been traveling or out of the office since 11/26.
I’m flying out of LA today and will finally be back in the office next Monday. I expect to send them out early next week.
The cut off is when the new build goes live on Tuesday. This is generally after 9am PST, and can be at any time after that. We can’t provide specific release times. Once the build goes out, the leaderboard will automatically stop collecting new data.
The prizes won’t be distributed immediately. We’ll need some programmer magic to generate the list (and their #1 priority is making sure the release goes out smoothly), and then we’ll need our support team to distribute the items.
I’m still not sure what you’re asking. Are you talking about “season” map rotations? Pretty sure we addressed this in the show.
All maps will be available during “off-seasons”, such as the time between Dec 2 and Dec 16. Once the ladder test season kicks off on December 16th, we’ll be limiting the available map pool to “tournament maps”.
We’re not enabling dishonor immediately because we want to make sure that all of our systems work properly on live after release. We’ve done thorough testing internally, but there’s always a chance that the thousands of players who log in on December 2 might find a new interesting way to break things. We want to make sure that players aren’t awarded dishonor for anything outside of their power.
Rest assured, as soon as we’re confident that the systems are working properly, we will turn dishonor on.
Evan Lesh and I will be talking about the upcoming December 2 PvP changes during Ready Up today at 12PM PST (2 1/2 hours from this post). Yes, I know it’s Wednesday and not Friday, but it’s Thanksgiving week here in the US.
Also, since queues can be a bit of issue right now, how goes the other quality of life changes. Did you guys implemented stuff like the gw2 icon flashing when there is a match found, for the people that alt tab? Ala league of legends.
Oh, this is a very important one.
While I’ve been hoping that players would have to play as the character they queued with (allowing us to get profession-based MMR) for a while – you say that we have to stay in the PvP lobby while queueing? There’s pretty much nothing to do in HotM right now, and I doubt that this is going to change anytime soon.
Since a fair number of players alt-tab while queueing already, and this is only likely to increase if we can’t faff about in PvE doing world bosses or whatever… we need some way to find out if our queue has popped without player-side workaround (like running gw2 in windowed mode and resizing other application windows to keep an eye on the game).
As mentioned in John’s overview post today, we’ll be ranking players on the leaderboards based off of ladder points, rather than MMR like we do right now.
As some of you may remember, we’ve done leaderboard wipes before, but that also wiped your MMR, causing chaos in queues until everything normalized. In the new system, we’ll be able to save your MMR while wiping ladder points, allowing us to do resets a lot more frequently and easily – hence the test season.
Justin’s blog will explain it in more detail tomorrow.
Josh mentioned a special RU episode during the last one, but I didn’t catch when that was going to be. I thought he said it wasn’t going to be it’s normal time. Anyone know that info?
Next Ready Up is Wednesday, November 26th, at 12PM PST. The upcoming Thursday (11/27) is Thanksgiving in the US, and the studio will be closed on the following Friday.
On the last Ready Up, you mentioned to stay-tuned this week for some updates regarding PvP ( or at least how I interpreted it ). Will that information be distributed through PoI?
Nope, it will not be distributed through PoI, but you should watch it anyways!
Josh mentioned a special RU episode during the last one, but I didn’t catch when that was going to be. I thought he said it wasn’t going to be it’s normal time. Anyone know that info?
Next Ready Up is Wednesday, November 26th, at 12PM PST. The upcoming Thursday (11/27) is Thanksgiving in the US, and the studio will be closed on the following Friday.
The event is on December 5th, at 1am PST. We’re in China, and that unfortunately means that at least one of the involved regions is going to have the event happen at a bad time for them. The event is during Chinese prime-time on Friday evening (16 hour time difference, after all).
We’ll be releasing more information on the tournament over the next few weeks.
