Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

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 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 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 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_Tirzah

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

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. :)

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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 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 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 ijohno

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

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 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 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 tevoro

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

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 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 Supersting

But it's coming in LS4, yeah?

Originally posted by Revgos

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

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?