[2020] “Path of Fire” devs here – ask us anything!

Originally posted by LordDankus

Who is your favorite hero and why is it Palawa Joko?

Originally posted by LordDankus

Who is your favorite hero and why is it Palawa Joko?

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I just wanted to say I love whoever put that mastery point in the tomb of primeval kings, it took me a while to figure out how to get it, and I ended up doing a really cool gryphon dive from outside near the Jackal portal hero point, entering the building and then rising up to the mastery point. It felt really satisfying. I hope you include more stuff like that in the future even though I'm pretty sure there's a way to get it with just the bunny.

Originally posted by [deleted]

~hello, this message is for MO

1. There were some leaks around the reddit lately regarding easy and hard mode raids: 1 . Crystal Reid said on forums that you won't be adding a different difficulty tier at this time. Has this changed meantime?

2. How are things progressing with the next raid? We've been waiting for a while now and surely would like to hear some info. What rewards / system will the new raid use? Will it be only skins or there will be new infusions, gizmos like xera portal?

Originally posted by SGDaly

Hello, Anet team! Amazing expansion, I feel like I'm back at the original launch... exploring, awe-struck by the views and scenery... really beautiful. Haven't felt like this with this game in years. I'm overall really happy about it. :)

My questions are mainly regarding the story, which I'm just not quite "feeling it" - though it does have some great moments! This will be broken apart for easier dev digestion.

Questions related to the devs

1. Is Ree Soesbee still writing for GW2? Are we going to get another novel by her, or some other author, sometime? I really liked them and I reckon a story of the time Elona was isolated would be great. The fight of the Sunspears against Joko, their resistance, Joko's side of the story or so on... so many stories that could fit a novel so well.

2. Is the open world narrative team different than the main story team? Are they the same? Writing so many stories, ambient dialogue (I'm one of those weirdos that stand around solely to hear them) and events seems like a gargantuan task for the same team.

Originally posted by Lascax

Hello there!

I am one of those who really appreciated your work on Path of Fire and I am excited to see what the next Living World will bring in!

My questions are related to Legendaries, since PoF didn't have new ones on release.

1) Can we expect PoF exclusive Legendaries in the future updates? If yes, which types ( I remember you mentioned trinkets in an earlier AMA )?

2) Will there be Legendary Mounts in the future, considering there are "Legendary Gliders" tied to backpacks?

3) I am one of those weird guys that must ask this: Legendary Aquabreathers - will we ever see them?

Thank you all ArenaNet for your amazing production and I surely am one of those that will keep spreading the word! Keep it up!

Originally posted by Lishtenbird

Being able to get to different places with different mounts feels absolutely wonderful, but switching from one mount to another via dismounting and then remounting is dissatisfyingly fiddly and frustrating, as has been shared and discussed here on reddit; this may make a player want to take a longer, more boring route just not to spam keys, wait, and spam keys again.

We know that it is technically possible to instantly remount to the "wild" mounts in the world, so have you considered changing mounts to be instantly cross-remountable (with the usual restrictions: not in combat, not in air, enough space) when pressing their respective keys while mounted? If not, is there some specific reason for the current behaviour?

Originally posted by Auriam

Do you know anything about a lost city located somewhere in the Riverlands?

Originally posted by toffikeks

Is there a specific reason for the inconsistent health of wvw walls/gates (e.g Veloka&Ogrewatch wooden walls have more health than any other tower on EB)?

Originally posted by weissnicht01

How often do you praise joko?

Originally posted by Dinionis

I love the Amnoon Casino. I hope we see this type of content more times :D.

Thank you for this amazing expansion. Great story, great graphics, great events and meta events... You really did a great job <3.

Originally posted by AnetLaith

I mean seriously, how do you lose a city?

Originally posted by Seasniffer

Is there any plans to open servers so friends can play together? Many people have returned to the game and have found themselves unable to play WvW together because they are on different servers. A lot of the servers have been closed since the WvW patch 4 months ago.

Originally posted by LordDankus

Who is your favorite hero and why is it Palawa Joko?

Originally posted by Kami_of_Water

Hey, I love you all and all of your work, thanks for everything! I still remember the wonder I felt 3-4 years ago when my mum (a secretary at the time for you guys, IIRC) showed me the game, and I feel like in the long run, GW2 has lived up to everything I dreamed and more. The new Scourge spec makes me really feel like I'm a Commander, or perhaps a tactician, sitting in the backline and pushing out barrier and conditions to help my allies in battle, and Deadeye really feels like the heavy-hitting sniper I always knew it could be.

So, I guess since this is an AMA I should ask you guys questions - and here are mine:

During development, did you ever get an idea while playing the game that found it's way into the game? For instance, "Oh, but what if X did Y," or "Hey, wouldn't this be a really cool thing to see in GW2?"

And then secondly, what was the absolutely flat out coolest thing that was either planned, or in development but ultimately had to be cut?

Originally posted by miniatureian

Mounts team -

Thanks for making the mounts drive like dump trucks, the entire feel is great, like we're actually mounted. How do you feel having mounts affects Central Tyria aka map completion?

The Zephyrite movement system is quite fun, seems like it took some effort to develop, but is limited to three places. I thought it was limited to these to minimize taking shortcuts in other maps, but mounts open up similar ways to travel. Did you play with using the Aspect movement system in more of the game (additional maps, as a Zepherite mount, or in the next xpac)?

Originally posted by LordDankus

Who is your favorite hero and why is it Palawa Joko?

Originally posted by indigo121

Crystal desert team/story team: As a GW1 vet, I want to say thank you for the whole expansion. Its been amazing to revisit some of my favorite places in tyria, and to finally deal with plot threads established about a decade ago now. What were your favorite places to revisit and why?

Originally posted by crimsonsun88

Who made the weather effects? They are really amazing! From the heat/haze effect to the rain showers in the Elon Riverlands; can we see these effects added to core Tyria maps? Running around old maps during a rain shower would be great.

Originally posted by coolster50

T.T

Edit: (Thought spoiler season was over >.>)

Originally posted by DeadByDaylight_Zoe

Do you have any plans on implementing additional weapons for core classes without the requirement of an elite spec?

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Originally posted by DiviShrubbery

The storytelling has greatly improved with PoF. What (narrative) techniques did you look at to make those improvements? My assumption is that the lower amount of (main) allies helped a lot to develop better characters.

Originally posted by UniqueError

What made you decide to somewhat "sneak in" the gryphon mount into the expansion instead of straight up announcing it? Is it the potential flak from the playerbase that made you do it like this?

Originally posted by ImNotBeyonce

What was the weirdest bug that happened during development?

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Originally posted by nickname6

Currently you can't use mounts while beeing transformed (Embiggening, Minature, Watchknight, Kodan). Is a change for this on the table or will this stay for sure?

Originally posted by LordDankus

Who is your favorite hero and why is it Palawa Joko?

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Loved the expansion so far, the only downside I found was that I feel like I completed most of what was new quite quickly compared to HoT but since LW4 is coming quickly that doesn't feel like a real problem to me. In other words, amazing work guys !

Now onto the question.

What's the thing you had the most fun working on for this expansion ?

And what's the biggest technical challenge you faced that you can talk about ?

Originally posted by Chiorydax

Got a few here...

• The PoF promotional artwork for Balthazar really reminds me of the Transfomers G1 Movie designs for Unicron and Wreck-Gar. Is there any chance someone pulled inspiration from those?

• When Spoilers. Is that simply a design choice or should we be reading into that?

• You guys did a great job making the maps fun and nostalgic, but is there any area you would have liked to develop even deeper if it had been possible?

• I remember seeing the interview where you guys mentioned having a grand plan for GW2 in terms of the huge story steps. So I'm curious, how far back have you been specifically planning to make Balthazar the rogue god?

Edit: Oh, one more! Kralk has such a distinct roar! What did you guys use for that?

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Loved the expansion so far, the only downside I found was that I feel like I completed most of what was new quite quickly compared to HoT but since LW4 is coming quickly that doesn't feel like a real problem to me. In other words, amazing work guys !

Now onto the question.

What's the thing you had the most fun working on for this expansion ?

And what's the biggest technical challenge you faced that you can talk about ?

Originally posted by miniatureian

Mounts team -

Thanks for making the mounts drive like dump trucks, the entire feel is great, like we're actually mounted. How do you feel having mounts affects Central Tyria aka map completion?

The Zephyrite movement system is quite fun, seems like it took some effort to develop, but is limited to three places. I thought it was limited to these to minimize taking shortcuts in other maps, but mounts open up similar ways to travel. Did you play with using the Aspect movement system in more of the game (additional maps, as a Zepherite mount, or in the next xpac)?

Originally posted by sa1330

@Trevor Bennett Any possebilities that bounties will come in ls4 maps or old core tyria maps? I enjoy the system a lot in my casual gw2 free time.

Sorry about asking on future releases.

Originally posted by Doom_Box

The Guild Wars 1 servers have been extremely laggy lately, almost to the point where it’s unplayable.

The issue usually comes when you alt-tab out of the game while in an explorable area. When you tab back in your character and NPCs start rubber banding across the whole map and it doesn’t go away.

Other people I have been playing with have also reported the issue. It happens when leaving from both American and European districts.

Is there anything that can be done about this?

Originally posted by ian421

Can you talk about the programming side of things a bit?

• What source control do you use? What is it like collaborating on a game?

• What languages/frameworks are used? Why were they chosen?

• What are some things that you didn't expect to be a really hard but ended up being really challenging to program?

Edit : Formatting

Originally posted by silvermember

Hello balance team.

Are there any near term changes for the weaver specialization, especially for the sword and barrier skills? To me, while the class feels nice, the weapon damage and barrier are too low for a squish spec.

The weaver is a nice spec.

Originally posted by Fritanga

Will there be a continuation of the Rift Stabilizer side story?

Will we see halloween come to Amnoon?

Can we find new and exciting ways to further praise Joko?

Originally posted by MylianMoonstar

When is Lyssa coming into play? She is such a hidden, powerful figure that surely she and the other Gods will have more in Season 4?

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Loved the expansion so far, the only downside I found was that I feel like I completed most of what was new quite quickly compared to HoT but since LW4 is coming quickly that doesn't feel like a real problem to me. In other words, amazing work guys !

Now onto the question.

What's the thing you had the most fun working on for this expansion ?

And what's the biggest technical challenge you faced that you can talk about ?

Originally posted by UniqueError

That explains a lot. I really like all the mounts myself.

Originally posted by indigo121

QA team: "If you do your job right, people wont realize you've done anything at all" Working in software development, I understand the complexity of your job, and the massive responsibility to not get it wrong. We all know that some bugs and issues made it into launch, but I still want you to know that I think you did your part to help deliver one of the smoothest MMO expac launches out there. What was the funniest bug you dealt with during testing, and what was the most infuriating bug you had to help squash?

Originally posted by Ixillius

1) The raptor mini collection was pretty cool which made me wonder if there is any chance of seeing the fire and ice skins as usable legendary mount skins?

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3) Much like ember bay's skulls, Desolation's mouth of torment has strange faces crawling their way out of the centre. Image What drives the land to take these forms and will it ever be tied to the story in any meaningful way?

4) Since PoF is a bit more demanding, what would be the best option for people upgrading? Going the route of i7700k or the newer CPU's with more cores?

5) Earlier there was a comment on devs looking to older content like story and fractals for raid senarios. Any chance we will see fights like Shadow of the Dragon or Balthazar revisited?

6) Story and pacing wise how happy are the devs with season 3?

7) Did the material tab changes for PoF material's work out?

8) Mouth of mordremoth is still a topic, can we get dev confirmation if it is physically attached to the dragon like the vines are? Or if its a completely separate entity under its influence.

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Originally posted by biffpower3

When designing the new PoF maps, was there any conflict between the map design you wanted, and staying true to the GW1 maps?

I think you did a fantastic job with map design, and loved the nods to GW1.

Also - favourite weapon / armor skin in PoF?

Originally posted by Something_Memorable

Swordmaster Joko.

Originally posted by weissnicht01

How often do you praise joko?

Originally posted by rmd291

Thank you for everything in this expansion, it's beautiful. Just waiting to see Kamadan now.

1- Well, it was gonna be a question about the Griffon. Why did you include something this potentially broken? (I love it)

2- I heard that Scourge being unable to maintain all of its shades at the same time was a conscious design decision. Is this true? What made you make this decision, compared to other, possible, alternatives?

3- Why are the Firebrand's Tomes not (using) the old Guardian's Tomes effect (actual Tome, book thingy)? Did you lose them like with the Mistward weapons of the Revenant (:P)?

Also I loved the detail that when you Story Spoiler

Finally, be honest with me, we're never gonna have land-spears are we? Between the Spellbreaker's lore, the existance of a number of staff skins that look kinda like halberds, or other types of polearms, and the existance of the martial usage in Daredevil and Revenant, most, if not all, of my hope in that is gone. Which makes me sad since it's my favorite weapon type (though I still prefer Dervish gameplay :P) (I know you probably can't actually answer this to avoid possible issues with misquoting/misunderstanding people)

PS: Question: Is the Commander ever gonna get psichiatric help?

Originally posted by tamasan

Mounting back up after interacting with something is a pain. There are many areas that are dense with mobs, mobs that have new AI that fire at range, retreat into the agro range of other mobs, and won't come closer even if you line of sight them. Chasing and killing a dozen trash mobs just so I can get back on my mount is a chore and really detracts from the fun of mounts. Can you look into letting us interact with things, harvest nodes, open chests, etc., or at least make remounting after doing so much less painful?

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Loved the expansion so far, the only downside I found was that I feel like I completed most of what was new quite quickly compared to HoT but since LW4 is coming quickly that doesn't feel like a real problem to me. In other words, amazing work guys !

Now onto the question.

What's the thing you had the most fun working on for this expansion ?

And what's the biggest technical challenge you faced that you can talk about ?

Originally posted by indigo121

Crystal desert team/story team: As a GW1 vet, I want to say thank you for the whole expansion. Its been amazing to revisit some of my favorite places in tyria, and to finally deal with plot threads established about a decade ago now. What were your favorite places to revisit and why?

Originally posted by [deleted]

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Originally posted by indigo121

Crystal desert team/story team: As a GW1 vet, I want to say thank you for the whole expansion. Its been amazing to revisit some of my favorite places in tyria, and to finally deal with plot threads established about a decade ago now. What were your favorite places to revisit and why?

Originally posted by xNegatory

Are you hiring?

Originally posted by indigo121

Crystal desert team/story team: As a GW1 vet, I want to say thank you for the whole expansion. Its been amazing to revisit some of my favorite places in tyria, and to finally deal with plot threads established about a decade ago now. What were your favorite places to revisit and why?

Originally posted by Dreamscyther

When are we going to get distinguishable Winds of Disenchantment, ie different colors for friendly and enemy bubbles.

It's really ruining WvW.

Originally posted by BobbyStein

It's Lord Faren, and thanks for playing.

Originally posted by ImNotBeyonce

What was the single happiest moment in the development process?

What was the single biggest heartbreak moment?

Originally posted by LordDankus

Who is your favorite hero and why is it Palawa Joko?

Originally posted by Kami_of_Water

Hey, I love you all and all of your work, thanks for everything! I still remember the wonder I felt 3-4 years ago when my mum (a secretary at the time for you guys, IIRC) showed me the game, and I feel like in the long run, GW2 has lived up to everything I dreamed and more. The new Scourge spec makes me really feel like I'm a Commander, or perhaps a tactician, sitting in the backline and pushing out barrier and conditions to help my allies in battle, and Deadeye really feels like the heavy-hitting sniper I always knew it could be.

So, I guess since this is an AMA I should ask you guys questions - and here are mine:

During development, did you ever get an idea while playing the game that found it's way into the game? For instance, "Oh, but what if X did Y," or "Hey, wouldn't this be a really cool thing to see in GW2?"

And then secondly, what was the absolutely flat out coolest thing that was either planned, or in development but ultimately had to be cut?

Originally posted by Varorson

Warning: Some main plot spoilers.

Questions for the Writing Team

Questions on Balthazar and the Forged:

1. Is the Herald of Balthazar actually as folks suspect?
2. Balthazar seems to have changed quite a lot. He went from honorable combatant to proclaiming "I AM CONFLICT!" But we're never given a proper explanation for this change. Why did Balthazar turn from honorable god of war to evil god of war? He basically became Menzies, by all show of GW1 lore to now.
3. What is the fate of Menzies? Now that Balthazar is killed, it seems rather pointless for us to ever deal with him now. Kind of like Malyck, his ship has sailed and we never got to see it.
4. Why did you settle on using Balthazar as the antagonist for Path of Fire, rather than Dhuum, Menzies, or another god?
5. What's the story behind the Forged accessing the Realm of Torment? As far as I could find, we're only told that they're calling reinforcements through the Mouth of Torment, but no explanation for why they're coming through there. Did Balthazar invade the Realm of Torment like he did the, or is he using the portal to move troops from the Fissure of Woe, or something else?

Questions on Kralkatorrik, Glint, etc.

1. Which Elder Dragon is Glint the scion of? Kralkatorrik?
2. Why does Kralkatorrik look so drastically different from both his appearance in GW1 (blue/silver skin, fleshy) and description in Edge of Destiny (he is now hollow, but EoD describes him as fleshy with ribs and a heart)?
3. Mid-Story Spoiler
4. There's a bit of a continuity error, by all appearances, in regards to the Forgotten. In Heart of Thorn's achievement, A Study in Gold, we're shown a speech by "the last Forgotten" as inscribed by an Exalted, thus this takes place before the Exalted went into hibernation over a century ago. However, after Glint's death and Kralkatorrik's awakening the Forgotten in large got branded. What's the story here? Was this a poor retcon, or is there something more?
5. Mid-Story Spoiler

Other questions:

1. Mid-Story Spoiler
2. Late-Story Spoiler

Originally posted by Ixillius

1) The raptor mini collection was pretty cool which made me wonder if there is any chance of seeing the fire and ice skins as usable legendary mount skins?

2

3) Much like ember bay's skulls, Desolation's mouth of torment has strange faces crawling their way out of the centre. Image What drives the land to take these forms and will it ever be tied to the story in any meaningful way?

4) Since PoF is a bit more demanding, what would be the best option for people upgrading? Going the route of i7700k or the newer CPU's with more cores?

5) Earlier there was a comment on devs looking to older content like story and fractals for raid senarios. Any chance we will see fights like Shadow of the Dragon or Balthazar revisited?

6) Story and pacing wise how happy are the devs with season 3?

7) Did the material tab changes for PoF material's work out?

8) Mouth of mordremoth is still a topic, can we get dev confirmation if it is physically attached to the dragon like the vines are? Or if its a completely separate entity under its influence.

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Originally posted by SilveryBeing

Of course it is, cause once you find it you stop looking.

Originally posted by Anet-Clayton

Headless and naked NPCs running around everywhere...

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

I tend to build huge spoiler in minecraft whenever I go back onto this game I do believe this will make for a great inspiration.

Final instance spoiler below Is this what you mean by flowing color ? The sky was glorious in this instance.

Spoiler image

Originally posted by deathbotly

1. The new maps look great, and I love them all dearly (I can't wait to try and 100% all of them once I get the jackal! ... I'm slow). Were there any especially important artistic inspirations that led to the designs we see?
2. I've always been curious. I've never actually been in an MMO where you can just bump into them in-game, on reddit, etc. but I've frequently seen them in this game -- and well, obviously, here. Do you have any big limits on what you're allowed to do or say to the players?

Originally posted by SpoonsAreEvil

Are there any plans to introduce barrier to core classes?

Originally posted by Anet_Tirzah

For our environments we took a lot of inspiration from real life! From Turkey, Egypt, Africa to even closer locations like Bryce Canyon and high desert type landscapes. Before we started building our environments I built a collage of a bunch of images to get a "look and feel" for the location: https://twitter.com/tirzahbauer/status/911974552128720896

Originally posted by Anet_ConnorF

I'll jump in for 2 about Balth, and point out that he entered the canon he was carrying his father's severed head. Humans viewed him as the god of honor, and in some ways his refusal to back away from confronting the dragons IS honorable... but he was always ruthless.

Originally posted by Stormdancer

It's interesting that none of the human NPCs seem to react at all to Charr, Sylvari and Asura suddenly showing up in their midst. Are there plans to add more racial-awareness to the NPCs? It seems odd that they don't seem to care about this hulking beast-creature stomping up and talking with them, especially given that they were so isolated from all the events of the north.

I know this is about PoF, but an expansion like this, where you build so many new parts of the engine, and made sweeping changes to other ones, shows that it is possible, and to great effect.

So... can we please get the town clothes returned to the same basic functionality as armor? Mix-and-match. Heck, just let us use clothing pieces as skins on armor. Anything that lets us mix and match, rather than using the one-size-fits-all approach of tonics and outfits.

Also... any chance you're exploring backporting the (awesome) new movement system for the rest of the game? Seems like a big investment of time, but it sure would reduce the future code-load.

Originally posted by -GrayMan-

What is one thing you guys wanted to add with Path of Fire but couldn't find the place or room to?

Originally posted by THC4k

Hey, great work on the expansion. The level of quality is just amazing. I loved the story and mounts feel great, can't wait to get my griffon.

My favorite part about those huge maps is how many little treasure caves and other secrets are hidden on the maps. I've played a lot and completed the first map 3 times already and today I still found a new place, the spider cave under the griffon rooster.

You guys really delivered a lot of fun and interesting content and I appreciate that very much. Thank you all :D

Originally posted by windwarrior

As a fellow programmer, what is the strangest/funniest/weirdest bug you have ever created?

Originally posted by ijohno

Question is for Devon - Do you guys have any plans on further developments of the Guild Hall? If so, what are some types of changes you're looking to add into the game?

Originally posted by ResistanceFox

Hoping there's an animator in there somewhere, or someone close to it. :) First of all, as someone learning 3D animation, i have to say i'm in love with the mount animations, they are so interesting to look at and have so much weight and life to them! It's a real inspiration.

Now for a few questions:

-What's your favourite animation from GW2? (Mine still the rolling Asura laugh)

-In terms of animation, what's the biggest chunk of work in GW2 when it comes to making a new expansion? What was the biggest challenge. (for example, mounts, creatures, new elite spec skill animations?)

-What areas do you wish you could improve in terms of animations, but simply don't have the time to?

-Any handy tips and tricks for a starting animator trying to get into the game industry?

Originally posted by Revgos

As a player from Turkey , seeing Turkic names and seeing this response made me happy !

Originally posted by Supersting

But it's coming in LS4, yeah?

Originally posted by Roogath

Hey guys! First of all, literally loving PoF so far, it feels like a love letter to GW2 and even GW1 veterans <3 Thank you guys so much!

For I suppose anyone really on the Story Team; I'm a prospective writer, looking to break into the world of writing as part of a team for group projects including video games, tabletop books (D&D / Warhammer etc). My question is, what do such teams look for when seeking to hire, and what aspects of my personal work / portfolio should be worked on in order to impress such teams? Its my dream job, but I've found information regarding this career path to be shockingly sparce; so I thought, why not ask the writers of one of my favorite ever-evolving stories? :)

Also, Praise Joko brothers and sisters! /salute

Originally posted by indigo121

QA team: "If you do your job right, people wont realize you've done anything at all" Working in software development, I understand the complexity of your job, and the massive responsibility to not get it wrong. We all know that some bugs and issues made it into launch, but I still want you to know that I think you did your part to help deliver one of the smoothest MMO expac launches out there. What was the funniest bug you dealt with during testing, and what was the most infuriating bug you had to help squash?

Originally posted by tevoro

Can you confirm the presence of a statue of Joko in Anet HQ?

Originally posted by eloniansandeel

Hi there, Arenanet Devs! I made an account just to ask this little lore question, seeing as it has caused over five pages of debate on the GW2RP forums. I don't really expect an answer, and honestly someone might have beaten me to this, but I figured what the hell.

How common would the usage of these griffons as a mount be to the average Elonian lower/middle class citizen? Nobles? Outlanders? If the Elonian griffons are uniquely rare, is it possible that large specimens of other griffon species could be used as a mount (in theory) more commonly?

Originally posted by void2258

• Will we ever see new guild missions and content outside of guild halls? Even if it's just "run X bounties in the desert"?
• Will we see fixes to the randomization of guild missions so we don't get the same missions, bounties, etc. on subsequent weeks?
• Will we see new guild rewards?
• Will we see new guild world events (ala the ability to trigger teq or triple trouble on demand)? Guild only world events?
• Will guild rewards ever be adjusted to remove the dependence on individual players running Dragon Stand repeatedly (the Crystalline ore costs)? These never really made sense since running DS as a guild is almost impossible due to how the reset works and also running DS as much as is needed for the current reward set is pretty ludicrous.

Originally posted by wheadna

One of the things I loved most about the original game was the details of the dynamic events - how almost every NPC persisted in between events and how the state of the map changed around them as they succeeded or failed.

With Path of Fire it seems that there are very few long chain events, the state of the world is often identical whether they succeed or fail, and rather than move and reset organically, NPCs tend to run a short distance and despawn when events finish.

What were the reasons for moving away from the deeper style of event? It makes me so sad to see that one of the things I've always loved most about this game seems to not be as much of a part of it any more.

Originally posted by ijohno

Um, my only question is... how do did you guys lose a city? :(

Originally posted by indigo121

Story team: gotta say, I loved the story overall. There were a few minor hiccups here and there but overall one of my best things. Probably the favorite thing for my girlfriend and I was the relationship between rytlock and canach. What would you say was the inspiration for writing it that way?

Originally posted by Anet_Tirzah

It was something we've always wanted to do but didn't have time before. We wanted to add them into this expansion to give areas more moods from just day/night. You'll notice the rainstorm from the south of Riverlands will be on at the same time as the one in the north of Desolation too!

Originally posted by DiviShrubbery

Can we please get a Palawa Joko statue for our guild halls where we can press F to pay respect?

Originally posted by [deleted]

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Originally posted by GaileGray

Is it possible to drop the crystals into the scribe's storage? I honestly don't know, but I was thinking that might be a way to work around the gate. You know, I'll see if there's someone else who could answer this more informatively. :)

Originally posted by Anet_Tirzah

And we can't forget our amazing concept artists who supplied us with great fantastical ideas and color palettes too. :)

Originally posted by jojo_iso

GW1-GW2 lore vet coming in.

As much as I hate Kormir... You guys nailed the f**k out of that instance. Thank you for your amazing work.

Originally posted by Anet_RoyCronacher

This will likely stay. We currently don't really really have different classifications of transforms(they are used in all sorts of ways across the game) and a lot of them that would be cause issues or balance concerns if we let you mount and remove the transform.

Originally posted by Amiron

I can't believe no one mentioned the music. What a beautiful range of middle-eastern scores Path of Fire brought! Composers; what was your favorite track to create, and which one was your favorite listening to a live orchestra play it for the first time?

Originally posted by Mireles

Consider this situation:

You are working on what seems like a normal day at the office.

Suddenly, iron shutters that you never seen before cover the windows. You hear the saw guy's voice come through everyone speaker phones and PC. He informs everyone that only one person gets to leave work alive today at the end of the day. If there is more than one alive, nobody survives.

Spoilers there has also rabid wayward cats released into the office. One may or may not have red glowing eyes.

The power goes goes out, its pitch black, and within seconds you hear a blood curdling scream of someone getting murdered.

What do you have at your desk that you use to defend yourself while cowering in the corner?

Originally posted by Anet-Clayton

Headless and naked NPCs running around everywhere...

Originally posted by riddlemore

To Peter Fries: on a scale of 1-10 how much do you love choya butts?

To Dodge Lafnitzegger: your name is hella cool.

To Gaile: hi. You're awesome.

Originally posted by [deleted]

Is Glint Kralkatorrik's daughter?

Originally posted by biffpower3

When designing the new PoF maps, was there any conflict between the map design you wanted, and staying true to the GW1 maps?

I think you did a fantastic job with map design, and loved the nods to GW1.

Also - favourite weapon / armor skin in PoF?

Originally posted by ImNotBeyonce

What was the single happiest moment in the development process?

What was the single biggest heartbreak moment?

Originally posted by XiahouMao

In the Domain of Vabbi, doing a /salute by a statue of Joko will cause your character to shout "Praise Joko!" and give you credit towards an achievement. However, if you try to /salute again at the same statue, you'll be informed that you've already saluted at this statue and no exclamation will occur.

Can this be fixed to allow for Joko praise to be repeated? I'm currently living in worry of my fate once I've used /salute at each statue. My character will no longer be able to verbally praise Joko. That leaves me with no reason to live!