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Guild Wars Reporter Episode 69 – Dragons EVERYWHERE

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gwrpinChris and Celeste dissect all the biggest news articles and videos about the release plans for this year’s content. Thar be dragons, expansions, sPvP, WvW, and more in this jam-packed episode of GWReporter.

Listen now:


What We Did This Week

Celeste:

  • puttered about on my guardian, Poly A Pocket Guard, Yes I’m very clever.

  • logged in for cheevo chests

  • maybe played some other games… defiance and borderlands 2 co-op

 

Chris:

  • A little bit of time spent doing some zone completion

  • Video Editing

  • Audio Editing

  • uggggg

 

Report from Lion’s Arch

Cutthroat Politics

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/july-23-2013/

  • Support your candidate for the Ship’s Council seat using Support Tokens- Ellen Kiel or Evon Gnashblade or you can be Team Rurik/Dusty Skull or Team Skritt King, whatever.

  • Southsun Survival – Sounds like Hunger Royale from the Beta Weekends http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hunger_Royale but with Bows, one vs all playstyle, karma, coins, back item

  • Aspect Arena – pick one and gain unique skills, coins, karma, back item

  • Candidate Trials – solo or group against aetherblade pirates, earn Support Tokens, (likely an instanced “dungeon” for players to complete as part of the meta)

  • Evon Gnashblade – BLK reduction cost, fall of abaddon fractal (OMG), crab toss and southsun survival

  • Ellen Kiel – reduced WP cost (OMG), Thaumanova Reactor fractal, crab toss and southsun survival

  • Zephyr Rucksack and Desert Rose back items

  • mini gnashblade, mini kiel

  • catapult mastery (Ok, I’m not going to spend any points on anything anymore until this slows down)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KaSRVst4oag

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4YDk0AxATOw

Livestream with Colin Johanson and Martin Kerstein

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/431423423

  • 1:00 – cutthroat politics july 23

  • 1:40 – living world – more permanent impact, players’ choice influences the content that is released into the game world

  • 2:00 – revamping dungeons and fractals to make them fun and more exciting to play

  • 2:30 – outcome of the vote, for example, will bring a lot of the mini games that people love, they’ll be on a rotation where each day of the week there’s a different minigame going on and it’s tied to the daily achievements

  • holiday mini-games will not be making a comeback

  • 3:00 – aetherblade and MWF will be coming back as fractals independent of who players vote for, will be live when the selected fractal is (“by the end of the year”)

  • 3:40 – “the story of how something changes might go away but the changes last, last forever, as a result of what happened”

  • they’ve built into the game with new assets, new peoples, new plot points that they can expand, expound, and bring back if they want to at any time until they feel they want to with the living world releases so far. this makes living world go even faster and they’ll be able to play out different stories

  • 5:42 – more than just living world teams

  • 6:00 – thursday blog posts – what the non-living world teams will be working on for the rest of the year, there’s still lots of other things that aren’t being discussed in the blog post

  • 8:00 – no elder dragon this year

  • 10:06 – voting will not affect on a server by server basis but that idea is still a possibility much further down the road – “world divergence is one of the things that might be on the table , there’s a lot of pros and cons to that but it’s something that we may end up doing”

  • 11:00 – returning to crystal desert or elona? “there is certainly a possibility that will we be returning to locations that people loved in guild wars 1, I think that traditionally something like a new region is something that we would be added through an expansion..”

  • 11:40 – If you look at the world map there are dragons in every direction!

  • 11:57 – The storyline actually leads to a clear point, to paraphrase, all will be revealed *spooky arms*

  • 12:16 – There will be additional areas added to the game and some of those “will be some peoples favorites from guild wars 1”

  • 12:30 – future dungeons or fractals with lore instances that took place in guild wars 1 – absolutely! “the fall of abaddon was pre-guild wars 1” HUGE lore thing because it involves the fall of abaddon by the other human gods, not the time that players “destroyed” him in gw1. will we be playing at the gods themselves? Played as balthazar for one personal story instance “The Ghost Rite” Durmand Priory path after Claw Island

  • 13:30 – sometimes dungeons will be added to fractals, sometimes they will be left permanently in the world

  • 14:05 – LFG Tool – had a positive playtest, coming along well and will be out before the end of the year

  • 16:30 – personal story – living world storyline is kind of carrying the world forward in time until we can get to the next personal story line for your character to have

  • 17:20 – unwelcome pressure for players with a 2 week release cadence – It’s a really careful balance – we were doing releases once a month adn we noticed a huge player drop off after 2 weeks where players were out of content, permanent and temporary updates emphasis again

  • 19:00 – the experience of colonizing southsun is something that they’d like to replicate and bring into the game again, just hopefully with a lot less lag, “if you miss it, you miss it”

  • 19:38 – future professions or races – new races is easier than professions because a lot of the “core archetypes are already covered by the professions we already have” So. We’re back the holy trinity? Semantics.

  • 20:00 – more likely that we’ll be getting new weapons and additional skills

  • 20:40 – PS4 – no. I think if you’re a fan of Defiance this is just a home-run seeing how that patching and how cross-platform mmo’ing works now. it’s just a nightmare.

  • 22:32 – how the election tokens will work – tokens drop everywhere and you can vote as often and as much as you like, “pirate election”

  • 23:50 – the election of has impact in that whoever is elected to the ship’s council will have a vote and influence that vote in the coming months (when that subject is broached)

 

Looking Ahead Blogpost

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

  • greater focus on permanently expanding content

  • focuses will include improving our existing world bosses, continuing to update and refine our dungeons and fractals, creating world events with a larger and more permanent impact, and expanding the number of dynamic events across the world.

  • return of some of your favorite holiday festivals and super adventures  mixed in among our Living World updates

  • Progression Advancement -

    • skills and traits, note how they don’t mention new weapon types or allowances so they’re likely to be utility-based rather than 1-5

    • rewards – achievements have been the main focus and release of this year and especially in the last living world update; there’s also been a big push towards getting a reward from nearly every event which leads to…

    • champion rewards – guaranteed reward boxes (skill points, crafting materials, unique skins (based on the boss?), lodestones, etc) hoping to lure players to Orr and Southsun with these boxes

    • dungeon complete bonus – 1 gold item per path per day, champ reward box rather than coins, normal reward for repeats during that day

    • crafting material rewards – account bound materials as a guaranteed rewards once per day per unique category/location

      • capturing camps, world bosses, mini dungeons, jumping puzzles, and lots more

    • account magic find – removal of magic find as a stat. consumables to stay and the rest to be earned through the achievement system

    • blues and greens – can attain magic find consumables when salvaging these

  • Crafting to 500 – craft ascended weapons and armor

    • new materials will be made by combining existing materials, similar to transmute for jewelers presumably

    • 24 hour cooldown recipes to preserve rarity and value

    • these will remain account bound (If the new craftable ascended gear is acct-bound why bother with the 24 hour cooldown on the recipes?) https://twitter.com/CeleOOKIE/status/357912204101681152 items will be account bound but components will be tradeable

    • Legendary & Precursor -

      • way to build/craft precursors

      • new legendaries and TYPES of legendary GEAR to craft

      • will require 500 in crafting and combining items (MF still without the RNG?)

      • set stats of legendaries when OoC, no need for transmutation

  • WvW

  • sPvP

    • “We know we have a lot of work to do, to continue that momentum and ensure our PvP experience is everything we ever wanted it to be”

    • “improving the sense of reward in PvP”

    • queue and leaderboards for solo rated play

    • new map types

    • legendary weapon skins to be added to pvp

    • year one pvp championship at pax (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-invitational-and-regional-qualifying-tournaments/)

      • 10,000$ prize pool for the best 3/5 match

      • contestants qualify through the MMORPG/Mist tournaments

      • Canada, US, Mexico, European Union, Iceland, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, and Turkey

  • Eastern release

  • level zero optional tutorial

  • new story steps at 5 and 10 to teach more core mechanics

  • improved hints system (I found the current one to be vague at best and lacking for later/new content)

  • level-up messaging system (an annoying ‘spend your skill points’ at every ding?)

  • LFG tool teased again

  • “investigating ways to limit culling in PvE” (does this mean it’s not currently being fixed?)

  • standard disclaimer at the end: content is subject to change

 

Colin Johanson Interview with Massively

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/07/18/guild-wars-2s-colin-johanson-outlines-big-plans-and-course-cor/

  • unlikely that the unselected fractal will ever be made.. “However, he did make the lighthearted suggestion that mass player protests and political demonstrations could change that.” Thank the Gods.

  • “Johanson said that the development team will make certain that possible demand for these items [account-based magic find consumables] doesn’t price leveling characters out of buying gear upgrades on the trading post.”

  • “Although Johanson couldn’t commit to a timeframe, new weapon types and expansion of current types to more classes is absolutely in the works. In the meantime, there will be new Legendary weapons based on current weapon types, as ArenaNet wants to provide players with more variety in looks and themes for the powerful weapons. One new type of Legendary gear will definitely be putting in an appearance this year and will likely be a trinket such as a ring or amulet. Several of the current Legendaries will also receive appearance-enhancing makeovers.”

  • “ways to handle GW2′s tons of collectable armor looks is high on ArenaNet’s priority list.”

 

6 New songs shared on the ANet SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/arenanet

  • aetherblade retreat dungeon ones are nifty

 

New Gem Store Items for BotFW & Cutthroat Politics

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/whimsical-new-items-in-the-gem-store/

  • flutes! with 2 full octaves!

  • kites!

 

Ask An Asuran

 

Grouped activities maybe?

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/livingworld/cutthroat/Southsun-Survival-Friend-Friendly/first#post2426713

  • Thanks to Tilion of Dragon Season for finding this awesome Red Post

  • Grouped activities some time in the future if they can get it to work right

 

No plans to shutter GW1

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-16-arenanet-guild-wars-1-could-last-forever

  • Mike Z sat down with Eurogamer and let the fans know that running GW1 takes minimal resources and that the game could likely run forever (or at least as long as ArenaNet is around, knock on wood)

 

Lissah Explains What Raids Could be like in GW2

http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/241/Speculatory-Raiding.aspx

  • Find the pattern for raids in other games – kill trash, smack the boss, get/fight over loot

  • with gw2 it’s likely we’ll not be fighting since the dungeon mechanic will likely be kept with everyone getting their own chest and it being up to the RNG and not a lootroll drama fiasco

  • Lack of a real gear treadmill thanks to the new legendary stats updates

  • Obviously GW2 will not cater to everyone all at once

  • ((I thought that fractals were the answer to raiding, doing fractals with more than 5 seems like an interesting idea but would that turn into the hard mode version with enemies far outsizing the individual player’s power? Level 90 enemies?))

 

Want to keep a tab on all the changes coming to GW2?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features

  • handy checklist of what’s coming, when, or if it’s been put on hold

 
Tales of Tyria

Orrator Campaign Endorsement – Skritt King!

http://orrator.com/post/55697501282/for-lions-arch-council-the-orrator-endorses

 

Jumping Puzzle Cover (NSFW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VJDOtxRqWs

  • Thanks to Jado Cast for sending this our way, it embodies how I feel about Jumping Puzzles most days.

 

Engineers are Sneaky and Awesome

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/professions/engineer/Zerg-I-ll-do-it-solo

 

Let’s Go Fly A Kite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KBXdTdaeSr0

 

Thank you to Wullo who corrected in the comments section last week that, “You don’t really take the baskets from other people, so don’t be afraid to loot them. :)

If other ppl are around or they arrive shortly after you interact with the basket, they can also loot the 2 bags and the baskets respawn after 5 minutes or so anyway. (and you can only loot a certain basket once per day)” We know this content is coming to an end but we did want to clarify that point in case people were still unaware

 

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If you’ve got a burning question for our Ask an Asuran segment, please let us know!

 

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