Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker




01 Oct

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Originally posted by Edentrail

No bugfix of the Icebrood Saga reward track resetting to zero every day?

it should actually be fixed now, but I missed the patch-note window.

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Originally posted by Vesrys

Sorry for tagging you /u/Anet-PaulS but could you clarify this please:

Build Storage can hold templates of any profession and can be accessed by any character on your account. You can copy, rename, clear, or inspect them the same way you would a Build Template tab, and copy and paste a template to and from tabs and storage (provided your character is the appropriate profession to apply the template to a tab).

Does this mean Storage is there just to hold templates and that is it? How I'm reading it, it sounds that if I want to use specific build from Storage I have to copy it firs to character template or can I immediately equip it from Storage?

Yes, the main purpose of build storage is so that, if a player sees a necromancer build in chat that they want to try out, while they are playing their guardian, they can store it for later, and to allow them to share their own builds for other classes while on their guardian.


30 Sep

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Originally posted by JusticiaDIGT

Will ANet templates include ranger pets? Arc doesn't and it's one of the missing features. Let's see if ANet does any better.

Yes, ranger pets and revenant legends are included

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Originally posted by Periproct

Can multiple characters use the same equipment template? (I’m guessing not but a man can dream)

Unfortunately, we weren't able to get a good solution for sharing equipment templates between characters, because we didn't want players to accidentally break equipment templates on one character by removing a piece of equipment on another.

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Originally posted by GabrieI

Items you add to Equipment Templates will no longer take up space in your character’s inventor

And the build templates* are shareable via chat links as well? This is definitely exceeding my expectations! Nice.

While build templates can be linked, equipment templates cannot, since they rely on actual items.


28 Sep

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Originally posted by Anet_ConnorF

Holy butts, it’s a comic about meeting ME. You did a good job with my Charr!

I am amused by how disaffected I seem in this comic :P I see you didn’t draw the part where I repeatedly failed the jumping puzzle. Or the part where we all RIGHTEOUSLY SLAYED THE BOSS.

Was nice meeting you! It’s always nice meeting people. Makes me really happy people are enjoying the content.

ALSO I DIDN’T REALIZE YOU WERE DOWNED I’M SORRY I ABANDONED YOU

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Holy butts, it’s a comic about meeting ME. You did a good job with my Charr!

I am amused by how disaffected I seem in this comic :P I see you didn’t draw the part where I repeatedly failed the jumping puzzle. Or the part where we all RIGHTEOUSLY SLAYED THE BOSS.

Was nice meeting you! It’s always nice meeting people. Makes me really happy people are enjoying the content.


25 Sep

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Originally posted by AugmentedPenguin

I lost it at Poncho Playa.

LOL so did I! 😆


23 Sep

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Originally posted by Xermarak

Why are metal legion 50% bigger than normal Charr

I'll answer that here - we often scale up key OW or Boss NPCs to make sure people can still see them when you have a bunch of players running around. :)

When we took Kossan from the Desolation OW for Episode 4, we had to make a new version of him that was normal scale.


22 Sep

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Originally posted by AugmentedPenguin

Next up --> Zojja Tamagotchi! Feed her, care for her, and watch her wake up from her Mordrem Pod coma! Uh oh, her mind reverted back to a child asura. Be sure to play build-a-golem with her to increase her Happy meter!

I was thinking Choya but Zojja works.

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Originally posted by MonstrousVomit

Is their marketing guy from the 90's?? What's with all these behind the times stunts? What's next, action figures? Plastic weapons? Official stickers?

Ohhhhhhhh. Official stickers. Me like 😜

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Originally posted by Blackops606

Don't forget the Funko Pops in the back window!

They call shotgun

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Originally posted by Sondo1001

I can't wait to see the guy wearing these kicks with the Guild Wars 2 watch, driving down the street in their Guild Wars 2 VW Beetle.

Ditto. This would be amazing!!! 😎


19 Sep


18 Sep

Originally posted by SpicySalsaDance

Thanks for the response. Would love to hear the details of what exactly was happening if you have time/you’re allowed to disclose it.

Also, will there be compensation for the people that lost rank points and PvP matches due to this bug?

For those who got stung by the bug, I really can't speak to what happens next, as I'm way out of my depth in that field -- less "I can't tell you" and more "I don't know." I'd work with customer service, as needed. (Rote answer, I know.) My role in all this was just working on the fix: I was part of the roving band of programmers last night, moving from desk to desk, trying all sorts of things to get a repro, a fix, and a verification last night. (Testing required multiple clients, sometimes from desks on different ends of the building, so I was literally dashing around the halls last night. Got my cardio in, at least.)

As for what actually happened, it's...complicated. A collection of disparate things, really. Involving a very sick dev (who was out of commission that day), risks stemming from setting up our tech infrastructure to support development of a steady flow of new shinies on a live game, and, frankly, a really, really big code base. I don't mean t...

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Originally posted by neok182

This is probably my biggest annoyance with all games. I completely understand why it happens as you are syncing up animations and different audio but it is so massively immersion breaking and still happens in almost every game released. Glad to hear they made some nice improvements with that here.

I think a lot of devs don’t realize how important timing is to dialogue playing effectively. Our tools folks have made some optimizations to our implementation tool to give us more control over that, and hopefully over the last few episodes those improvements are being felt.

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Originally posted by [deleted]

I think it's because of Aurene's death everyone has gotten more adult, and Jory and Kas reflect that - they have grown up from teenagers to young adults.That's how I interpreted it.

Definitely true, although there’s more to it as well. (See my initial comment above for a taste of that.)

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Originally posted by Nebbii

I was ready to cringe at mention of them being a couple, yet again, but there was not even a hint in this episode, i'm really happy if we are going to see them as characters again, specially marjory as canthan Noir detective

Yeah, one thing we came to realize as we were contemplating how to move forward with them was that we had spent too much time thinking of them as a couple and didn’t understand them well enough as individuals yet, which needed to come first. So we’ve nailed down some character arc stuff for each of them that you’ll see play out over the course of the saga.

Should be all clear now. (And yes, the problem was more pronounced in PvP and EvE environments.) If you're still running into problems, drop a line here and, if you would be so kind, leave a note in the crash report when you send it in. Those actually can be quite helpful. When they're not "wwwwwwww," that is. ; )

Originally posted by CCSkyfish

If you're actually from ANet, you should get yourself a flair!

I know, right? I tried the last time I did some posting, for Ep4 last season. I think that request got lost in the shuffle. I'll see if I can get somebody to help me out tomorrow.