LinseyMurdock

In the past we actually removed teaching of that kind for the downed system because we found that throwing mechanic tutorials like that at new players so early is not actually effective and it can be a turn off because there is so much to learn about the game.

heh. That was done by folks who are looooooong gone. It does make me sad though. I made a lot of those recipes.

HA! I think we have figured it out. Try doing it in one of the starter zones instead of the main cities. Ascended cooking forked out the trainer logic for the main cities and it did not live in the same place as the original trainer conversations so I missed it. We are working on the fix and ensuring it doesn't happen again next time we do something with chef trainers.

We have been fairly open that this is the beginning of us doing some experimentation on how to improve the new player experience.

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 my god the crossover I never realized I needed O_O

Naw, it was just a turn of conversation. Not me trying to control anything, just help out in describing what happened.

That's not what this was. We were being interviewed about the Skyscale and were asked a lot of questions about this as well, which I guess wasn't totally unexpected but definitely not what I personally thought I was going to be answering. I was doing my best to answer genuinely and honestly about my experience working at ArenaNet and my experience with the layoffs we had. These were not prepared statements at all. I'm not in a PR position, I'm a game designer that happened to be asked a lot of tough questions about what happened and tried to do my best to express my truth about it. Of course, I am biased, as noted, since I have worked here a long time and continue to, but I'm a deeply honest person too. It saddens me a little bit that didn't read through in my answers and came off as some kind of press release (which, again, this was not), but I get where you are coming from.

Worst day of my professional career, but I am still with ArenaNet and dedicated to the rebuilding efforts. Living World is still going, but we are all grieving our loss. Thank you for thinking of me.

Oh snap. Anyone wanna drag me through some raids? Whisper me in game some time. I will happily serve as dead weight lol