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I absolutely, 100% agree that break bars should be better taught, or even taught at all. I will never argue to the contrary. However I also think we should be very careful about how many things like that we should be throwing at new players and I do not think this is required for level 1-10 content.

It is possible.

Probability is not always kind. It is more rare but not super rare. Keep at it.

Ok that is weird and I will look into it. The way I set it up is that any time you accept the disciple through the trainer, it sets the bit for the achievement so you should have gotten it.

It would not work on any unlock only recipes (anything not auto learned or discovered through discovery) and it is only for low level foods.

We wanted to get a first set of changes out as soon as possible so we could start seeing what would help improve the new players experience as soon as possible and start iterating on that.

I would still argue that break bars and CC are generally not relevant in the level 1-10 content of the core game. I am not arguing that it's not important or that we don't need a tutorial for it, I agree that we absolutely do. It just doesn't meet the bar for required in level 1-10 content.

Only partially!

Not yet! We were targeting level 1-10 players, so break bars aren't yet relevant for them.

I put in protections for that, but you will get them more rarely if you have gotten them before but not equipped them.

If you have already learned the discipline, "unlearning" it to switch to a different profession and then switching back should work to give you the achievement. It's given when you accept the profession, so if it is already active, you aren't triggering it.

It should work on any food CONSUMABLE. Which means none of the ingredients would count.

The reason why I didn't (other than being short on the time to do it) is because we were specifically targeting level 1-10 players and break bars aren't relevant for them.

I agree that we need a break bar tutorial. The reason I didn't push for it to happen with these tutorial achievements (other than being short on the time to do it) was because we were specifically targeting level 1-10 players and break bars aren't relevant at that level.

Oh... Oh no... As soon as we reveal their secret they decide it's time to rebel and break the rules.

More seriously, I have an idea as to what happened here (one of those one in a million things), and I'll look into it.

I am not begging for a new game to work on. I am committed to Guild Wars 2 and see incredible potential for it to grow and thrive.

This game is special and has an incredible community, aesthetic, story, and combat system . Being given the opportunity to work on it is not an inconvenience, it is an honor.

As a big ol' lore nerd for this universe, I think there are two good main avenues to start with:

1) I would suggest playing at least some of Guild Wars 1 if you are able to, in particular the Prophecies campaign and the Eye of the North expansion, as those are probably the most relevant to current events (priority after that would be Nightfall campaign since it takes place in Elona, which is where the GW2 expansion Path of Fire takes place). GW1 takes place 250 years before GW2 and adds context and establishes a lot of what exists in GW2: the human gods, dragons, charr-human conflict, etc. The Eye of the North expansion introduces the norn and asura races.

2) I would highly recommend reading the three novels that exist as well: Sea of Sorrows is about Zhaitan (an elder dragon) and the city of Lion's Arch and takes place about 100 years before GW2. Edge of Destiny is about the guild Destiny's Edge, which is made ...

Give it time. All the spooks will find you eventually.

If one triggers and you don’t interact with it, the game knows you didn’t actually see it, so don’t worry about missing out :)

I’m pretty proud of these - the team had a fun time figuring out how to execute each on in a player specific way. :)

Achievements and changes are not live just yet, but coming Very Soon.

The first mini season is a 2v2 queue!

As for the 15v15, I mentioned on the forums a while back that getting the UI changes we need is currently unscheduled. So we don't know when or if we'll get to it, sadly.

4, actually. :)

Awww, thank you <3