[2020] We are the GW2 dev team, here to chat with you about the Spring Quarterly Update

Originally posted by [deleted]

In Colin's absence we seem to be lacking dank memes. Is there any way the dev team can help us make up for our lost ground?

Originally posted by CLC-

This is what the game really needed, it seems like you are listening to the community and making it fun to play again!

Thanks for all your time fixing what was broken <3

Originally posted by P3RrYCH

obligatory rip bot comment

Originally posted by jmdbcool

Thank you for this amazing patch! The free shared inventory slot is a wonderful surprise!

Can we get some options for how shared slots appear in inventory? I always have bags hidden, and shared slots break the nice 10-column / 20-slot layout. For example: http://i.imgur.com/xxmbi84.jpg

We can arrange the rest of our bags in any order, but when it comes to shared slots, we're stuck. =( This issue was discussed when shared slots first came out; hopefully it gets more traction now that it affects all HoT players.

Originally posted by Azzarii

Did you really base the ledgendary shortbow off the tiger massacre in Chuka and Champawat Tiger Masacaares

Originally posted by Educatedcollins

First off, Good Job on the patch notes. Look promising.

What I do want to address though is the lack of changes for PvP. There still is a lot of issues that arise in PvP with the reliance of elite specs for a lot of players and the lack of build diversity seen in higher rankings.

Many of the trait paths have been overshadowed in the current meta as they do not contribute enough to be worth a slot. It would be nice to see some of the other build see some love like burn guardian, condi thief , power necro, etc.

While some of the predominate build have been address with the current patch notes, the overall status of PvP has not been affected.

Many Runes and Sigils just do not get used as there are better options for a lot of them.

I was just wondering if there will be other significant changes that will be address in PvP in the coming months before ranked starts up again or are you currently satisfied with the state of PvP at this point of time?

Thank you for taking the time to answer questions from the community.

Originally posted by lundjames

Do you guys have a CI team and are unit tests part of your definition of Done?

(Curious, not being sarcastic.)

Originally posted by melin-skyland

After this update, what should reddit be salty about now?

Originally posted by matzimazing

If I don't want to use the lv80 booster now, can I put it in my bank and have access to the free shared slot? I have a set of 80s already, but I'd love to be able to reroll in the future if a new race is added.

Originally posted by indigo121

Can each dev here just say what their personal favorite bit of this update is, and why?

Originally posted by lucker123

Hey! Thanks for the patch. My question is how open are you to changing rhe class meta during pre-season due to player response? And another one: have you figured something out for PvPers to ease their pain of not having Ranked between seasons?

Originally posted by felucci

Can you tell us even the smallest bit about the chaos gloves? <3!

Originally posted by Presac

Is it intentional we can't by more than one decoration for tokens in the guild hall? For example, if I have 100 Fancy Furniture Coins in my inventory, I can still only choose to by one at a time. It just won't let me raise the number. Says 1 is max.

Originally posted by tsochicken

Oftentimes my household sponges accumulate an awful amount of buildup. What can I do to prevent this?

Originally posted by Silverbleed

My Mac version does not load at all. Not sure if it's already known but obviously I hope there's a fix for that soon c: Haven't been able to get on my pc.

Originally posted by onthethornhill

Im being blamed constantly for my lack of "skill" can you assist me with this?

Originally posted by tsochicken

Oftentimes my household sponges accumulate an awful amount of buildup. What can I do to prevent this?

Originally posted by Novuake

Hi MO. Decent patch today.
I have one concern however as a PvP main players.

There hasn't been much clarity as to how the balance patches will be handled during and before ranked seasons. From what I gather there wil be no balance changes in season unless they need drastic adjusment, all changes will be before season.
Correct?

If so does this mean that today's balance patch is what we can expect till season end?

TLDR. What exactly is the planned and expected balance change frequency?

Originally posted by evenstarauror

As AWESOME as it is that we get a free shared slot (I don't want to complain about free stuff) the fact that we can't move this out of it is REALLY frustrating. Why not? Definitely discourages me from holding onto it to test out multiple classes.

Originally posted by Anet-TylerB

Boon Stripping: Maybe. I'll bring it up with the balance team again. Last time I spoke with them about this, they raised concerns that boon strips become too weak relative to boon application, if you can easily cover your important boons with less important boons.

Superior Siege on Portable Provisioner: Yeah, we should probably add this.

-100% Damage Reduction Meta: PM me details and we'll address it, if it's not already something that's been fixed internally.

Originally posted by Eirh

It's inevitable.

It sure is.

Originally posted by toffikeks

Is it possible to move the shared inventory slots at the END of the inventory, so they does not mess up with our maybe perfect system :)

Originally posted by ridicul0us123

Hello, So about the shared inventory. I bought 4 permanent Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic. Is it possible to return 3 of them into gems or gold :)?

Originally posted by xarallei

Overall good update, very happy about ranger sword.

But....it looks like all the wonderful new minis coming out are being put in black lion chests. Why? Normally Anet puts cool minis in the shop to buy directly. RNG chests are not fun for many of us. I've been playing Blade & Soul the past few months and I despise the way they handle their cash shop and their plague of RNG bullshit. I really don't want to see Anet go in that direction. It's awful. I'm just waiting on new content, because I really want to go back to GW2. I miss it terribly.

Originally posted by [deleted]

There is a thread on the main support forum about the bug that keeps the Mac client from launching. A customer found a temp fix but it seems that this fix will cause a problem down the road as per a dev post on reddit. Since this seems to be causing a problem for many Mac customers, if not all, a red post in that thread would be welcome and would help draw more attention to the issue. Right now there are a few duplicate threads about it.

Other than that I am impressed with the patch from what I have seen so far. Thanks for reading.

Originally posted by indigo121

Can each dev here just say what their personal favorite bit of this update is, and why?

Originally posted by siekron

Robert Gee (or anyone else on the Necro team)! Can we get Deathly Chill changed to either of the following: 2 Bleeds 6 seconds (Fixes the over-nerf of burst potential and overall weakness of the trait.) 2 Torment 8 seconds (More fun, still fixes all the issues and gives Reaper some well deserved Torment) Or Some form of confusion instead?

This new Deathly Chill is very close to my suggested "Brainfreeze" replacement trait from a long time ago, but the new iteration falls VERY short.

Thanks for hearing me out! - High Warlord Sikari (Ron Pierce)

Originally posted by Presac

It isn't just because of the confirmation message?

Originally posted by tsochicken

Oftentimes my household sponges accumulate an awful amount of buildup. What can I do to prevent this?

Originally posted by Mexay

This really needs an answer. Revenant is such a fantastic class that clearly had a lot of love and effort put into it, but it's let down by being neglected after HoT-BWE2.

/u/Anet_RoyCronacher, I know you don't work on the class anymore, but is there anything you can discuss about this? Or can any of the other devs for that matter?

Originally posted by Gandlos

Will the everlasting bug with the resizing inventory get fixed. I know something was in the patch notes about it but it still happens to me :(

Originally posted by Novuake

Thanks for confirming Erik! Cheers! May I ask what position you hold at ANET? :D Just curious.

Originally posted by EagleDelta1

Do you think the MMO/Gaming world will ever start to apply Continuous Deployment tools and methods to their workflows or is gaming just simply not well suited for CD/Automation?

Originally posted by Danteblade

Hats off to Anet, it seems like this patch has done a great job of improving moral and getting people interested in the game again.

Since I have not had a chance to login yet and cannot comment on the live game I would like to ask the Anet employees here: Would you rather fight 1 charr-sized asura or 100 asura-sized charr?

Originally posted by Clint_Charwood

Dam I thought i could wear them on my feet

Originally posted by Mexay

Thanks for the response, Roy!

Regarding sword scaling, do you know if this is currently being worked on or if it's still in the backlog? I know you aren't really the right person to be asking, but it's worth a shot :P

I definitely understand UW Legends, it is annoying to not have much choice, but if I'm totally honest I'd rather work going into the land-based components of Revenant. (Also just throwing out there that the underwater varient of Unyielding Anguish currently has no range limit on the torment. Can be cast from like 10,000 units away).

Originally posted by Corbzor

So why not burning then? A short duration burn would still be only damage but it could be closer in damage to what it was before, while spreading the conditions so that all the damage cant just be cleansed off as easy.

Originally posted by [deleted]

http://imgur.com/a1EA3AL

Best I could do on mobile. Perfectly dank picture, but my meme-ing skills are low.

Original

Originally posted by rym1469

Make sure to visit our gw2 meme circlejerk reddit tho -

https://www.reddit.com/r/dankwars2/

Originally posted by KodiakmH

Roy's our boy!

Us Revs miss you man :(

Originally posted by Anononon

Chaos socks confirmed!

Originally posted by Stormdancer

That's because they're so good looking that they make you handsome.

by saying yes I mean