Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

Originally posted by regendo

Hey everyone! Great job with the reverse Nightfall, I'm only about halfway through the story but I really like it so far, especially some of those callbacks with names and locations that have been changed by Palawa's reign.

I've got a pretty unrelated question about the Gen 2 legendaries that I don't think anyone has answered in the previous Q&As. Specifically, what happened to the designs that were planned for Heart of Thorns but never released.

Originally I thought that when MO decided to bring legendaries back in LS3E02, they would be the designs that were originally planned to release for the jungle but couldn't be finished in time for release, but as more and more LS3 legendaries came out it became pretty clear that these were completely new designs that were in some way related to the episode they came with: An obsidian mace for volcano island with obsidian structures on it, a quaggan bowl for an icy quaggan outpost, a pirate ship for the city docks, a flame g...

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Originally posted by Captain_Ozone

Hi Mike and the team,

Congratulations on another successful launch! Can we get anyone to check on the WvW team? I know PvP & WvW teams "release on their own cadence", but lately that feels like "dont ask us about WvW & PvP".

I'm not asking for specific details on upcoming releases, but are there any general (even vague) communications the team can give us about our favorite game mode?

Scourges & Revs still face an "obstructed" bug when placing AoEs even on the tiniest of slopes. Is anyone looking at generating a fix or is this intended?

In the last balance patch, Spellbreaker domes were given a different color if they were dropped by the enemy team, can we see this applied to other skills as well? Also, why was black chosen (a color that is covered by friendly AoE skills) instead of bright red, like in PvE?

Server populations for WvW are becoming a contention point for a lot of players in deciding to play WvW. It seems population calculation...

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Originally posted by Kreiri

What is the reason for designing LS maps without general goods vendors in them?

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Just finished playing the story for this patch, you guys have done a great job as usual.

What was the best part of your job this patch (favourite thing you worked on for example or really anything you enjoyed) ?

Also, how many different voice recording for any character (ennemy, friendly npc, player character, really any character) do you have saying "Praise joko" ?

Originally posted by [deleted]

What's your reasoning for doing these AMA's relatively quickly after release instead of waiting a few days to let the community experience a good chunk of the new content?

Originally posted by TyroneTyreseJamal

Domain of Istan is the best living story map so far, gj everyone who worked on it

Originally posted by Mike-OBrien-ArenaNet

Hi all,

A few months ago I announced my intention to gradually hand the reins of GW2 game direction to Mike Zadorojny, "Z". You probably already know Z well: he's a 10+ year veteran of ArenaNet, who worked on GW2 from the beginning, and most recently served as the lead designer of Path of Fire.

I'm not going anywhere – Z and I sit next to each other and continue to work together – but I won't be able to continue spending virtually all my time on GW2 in the coming year as I did through most of the past two years. A game director should be 100% dedicated to the game. Z is absolutely dedicated to GW2. He has a deep passion and enthusiasm for the game, the same today as when he started working on it a decade ago. As game director I know he'll continue to champion the needs of players, and continue to set the highest quality standards for everything we do.

So today I'm making it official: Mike Zadorojny is the new game director of GW2. Congratulations Z....

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Originally posted by TyroneTyreseJamal

Domain of Istan is the best living story map so far, gj everyone who worked on it

Originally posted by Narcissus1415

Hey guys! you did an amazing job with the boss mechanics in the story! i really did loved it :) my question is: Are you pleased with the way your new Palawadan map meta event turned out? are you happy with the difficulty of it and the balance of reward it gives?

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Just finished playing the story for this patch, you guys have done a great job as usual.

What was the best part of your job this patch (favourite thing you worked on for example or really anything you enjoyed) ?

Also, how many different voice recording for any character (ennemy, friendly npc, player character, really any character) do you have saying "Praise joko" ?

Originally posted by EyeofJanthir032

I am so excited to start playing! I did not expect for us to go to Istan on the first episode, it seemed too good to be true! You guys are gods. A couple questions:

• What made you decide to go to Istan?

• Was the name Daybreak indeed an intentional reference to the old campaign Nightfall?

• What were some of favorite parts about this release?

• I know we aren’t supposed to ask about future items but is there a possibility we will get an Aurene griffon skin in the future? ;-)

You guys are amazing and I can’t wait to see what other parts of Elona we get to visit in the future (me here waiting for Gandara). I spent many a time in Istan in the first game, I can’t wait to see the GW2 version!

Originally posted by Vinnicombe

Warden Amala's outfit changes

Originally posted by chaosau

I'm a GW2 roleplayer (I know, cringe...), and I wanted to give a shoutout to everyone who has worked on all the content so far. This is the best RP experience I've ever had in my life. Just yesterday I was nearly crying tears of joy because I actually had A PLAYER HEALER for the first time in five years. People have been so kind, and I've managed to find such kind people.

Thank you, THANK YOU for making all of this possible.

As for questions, any possibility of more mechanical-looking mount skins? Bought the Reforged Hellhound and made it look like a Golem, and it's been an integral part of my Asura for a bit (there was even a plot where we had to get it back from the Cavaliers 'cause made with Forged metal), but wouldn't mind having some other golemesque mounts....

Edit: Race/Class/Gender breakdown of dev team's characters?

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Just finished playing the story for this patch, you guys have done a great job as usual.

What was the best part of your job this patch (favourite thing you worked on for example or really anything you enjoyed) ?

Also, how many different voice recording for any character (ennemy, friendly npc, player character, really any character) do you have saying "Praise joko" ?

Originally posted by Sodenia

I don't have a qustion, I just want to thank you for this awesome release! This is clearly my favourite content update of GW2 so far!

Everything, the living world, new fractal, new raid and even the new legendary weapon feel so connected by the living world which is absolutely one of my most loved aspects of this release. I hope that future releases will do the same thing! :)

Originally posted by MakubeC

When are you going to announce the Design-a-Weapon winners?

Originally posted by queicherius

With the (entirely deserved) promotion of Lawton a few weeks ago, the API has effectively not been supported. This manifests itself in some parts flickering between working and broken, some parts having outdated or missing information and no new features getting developed.

The community has poured thousands of hours (1) into developing applications and sites that make use of the API (including the official wiki). This is a labour of love towards the game.

These applications support a massive amount of players (2) in their in-game pursuits (such as looking up items or helping with crafting), keep the players engaged with the game when they can't play it (such as checking on your TP orders during travel or school/work breaks) and even give additional goals to complete (such as competing on arbitrary leaderboards or finishing all parts of specific content, for example gilder skins).

TLDR: Are you planning to continue supporting the API?

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