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upier

Grotto Attendant

[JUNK]

Joined Mar 2006

Oct 7, 2009 at 9:02 PM • #41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divine Ashes

There are quite a few bugs besides NPCs not responding to AoE quick enough (if that IS even a bug). Turtles and juggies sometimes freeze up, not making the trips to the mines when they should. This requires the quarry to be given away and regained to make the juggie/turtle functional again. There is also a glitch making the yellow quarry "easier" to uphold for the kuricks. The luxon longbow shrine above the path where the yellow juggernaut walks do not target the juggie as he passes, instead only attacking the juggie if aggroed by a different player. This is not true of the kurzick longbows above the turtle's path to the yellow quarry, who will attack the turtle unprovoked by anything else. (this is probably due to the size of the turtle, but a very slight change to the path of the juggie could allow for aggro of the longbows). I guess you could chalk up the latter bug to bad design, but it is something easily fixable.

Don't get me wrong.
I am all for fixing real bugs.
It's just that some things in Aspy are trashing the arena much more than the bugs that they seem to be going after. Or WILL be going after.
And those things aren't bugs.

Akaraxle

Wilds Pathfinder

E/

Joined Jan 2006

Oct 7, 2009 at 9:08 PM • #42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zahr Dalsk

THIS.

Does ArenaNet not understand how many people want it? Roughly 80% of PvE players, if I remember the numbers correctly.

Offline Wars, every player's dream.

Fril Estelin

So Serious...

Nerfs Are [WHAK]

E/

Joined Jan 2007

Oct 7, 2009 at 9:20 PM • #43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karate Jesus

I'm assuming that unless the GWLT took the summer off, some of this would have been worked on since April....considering that was the last time we got any "real" update. So, although I understand you guys having to put a few things on the back burner, I don't get how we haven't seen any "real" progress up until this point.

Linsey published a huge devnote on August 28th where she laid the plan for the coming updates. Between April and August (4 months) they devised these plans (she explained in the devnotes that they considered different options and have a prioritised list of items), while I guess still looking carefully at the April update.

Karate Jesus

Forge Runner

Reign of Judgment [RoJ]

Me/

Joined Apr 2008

Oct 7, 2009 at 9:31 PM • #44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fril Estelin

Linsey published a huge devnote on August 28th where she laid the plan for the coming updates. Between April and August (4 months) they devised these plans (she explained in the devnotes that they considered different options and have a prioritised list of items), while I guess still looking carefully at the April update.

Are you seriously suggesting that it took them 4 months to come up with the list and just now they're starting to work on it? I highly doubt that.

The XTH, syncing in RA, bugs in JQ/FA, GvG tiebreaker, etc. have all been issues LONG before August....so to think that they're just now starting to work on it would mean you have very, very little confidence in the Live Team's competence (not that I have a whole lot).

Chocobo1

Desert Nomad

CoA

N/

Joined Sep 2007

Oct 7, 2009 at 9:40 PM • #45

Cool to know whats going on at least, but you need to prioritize PvP love. There is a dire need for skill balance, I don't want another R/A month but seeing the same 2-3 builds over and over is so boring. Different options would be nice.

Foe

Banned

Joined Mar 2006

Oct 7, 2009 at 9:57 PM • #46

Im 99% sure Robert Gee is Harold J Chow in disguise.

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Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Joined Aug 2007

Oct 7, 2009 at 10:02 PM • #47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darth The Xx

I'm sure 80% of players would want a free stack of ectos as well

More like 90-95%. The ones who already have many ectos would not want other people to get ectos, as it would make their epeen comparatively shorter.

The 20% who don't want 7-hero parties are bitter PUG players who can't accept that we don't want to play with them, and thus want to stop us from having more fun.

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dusanyu

Lion's Arch Merchant

Illusion of skillz [Iz]

W/E

Joined Nov 2007

Oct 7, 2009 at 10:09 PM • #48

I would Love to see a return to Balance in PvP and even if a-net needs to destroy a few professions or mechanics to do

On the idea of using old HB maps for HA i am aginst it guild wars needs less focus on shrine-cap style games

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Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Joined Aug 2007

Oct 7, 2009 at 10:23 PM • #49

Having HB maps in RA for a while was extremely fun.

It'd be nice to have that back.

Karate Jesus

Forge Runner

Reign of Judgment [RoJ]

Me/

Joined Apr 2008

Oct 7, 2009 at 10:24 PM • #50

Regina just posted this about the XTH on her feedback page on GWW

Quote:

Originally Posted by Regina

Unfortunately, I don't have new status information about this. I discussed this with the Live Team producer yesterday, and he told me he would speak to a few people about it and give me more info after he's able to discuss with them.

So we're still getting the run-around on the XTH, basically.

Scarlett Romanov

Guest

Me/

Joined Jul 2005

Oct 7, 2009 at 10:34 PM • #51

sigh..I hope Linsey does have the time for some new Halloween content. If I hear the paragon pants joke one more time, I swear I'm going to give Mad Thorn a beat down..

Anyway..yay for the update..ty

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lilDeath

Krytan Explorer

W/

Joined Sep 2006

Oct 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM • #52

A status update reflecting no real progress in the status update, is still a status update.
Thanks, Regina!

Jensy

Site Contributor

Blinkie Ponie Armie [bpa]

N/Mo

Joined Apr 2007

Oct 7, 2009 at 11:17 PM • #53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scarlett Romanov

sigh..I hope Linsey does have the time for some new Halloween content. If I hear the paragon pants joke one more time, I swear I'm going to give Mad Thorn a beat down..

Anyway..yay for the update..ty

One way or another, my jokes always slay the audience.

...

I mean, agreed

BladeWind

Krytan Explorer

The Renegades Of Ascalon

E/

Joined Nov 2007

Oct 7, 2009 at 11:32 PM • #54

Quote:

Originally Posted by pansy malfoy

One way or another, my jokes always slay the audience.

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I mean, agreed

It is good to be king, no?

(no one tells you what to do)

Sifow Chan

Frost Gate Guardian

P/

Joined Jun 2007

Oct 7, 2009 at 11:40 PM • #55

I hope for the skill updates you all will really look into the Ritualist, Paragon and maybe even Dervish skills and give them more PvP love. They're needing it badly.

snaek

Forge Runner

N/

Joined Mar 2006

Oct 7, 2009 at 11:50 PM • #56

Quote:

Originally Posted by targren

Nerfs suck whether rolled out little by little or tearing the band-aid off.

your right, lets just buff everything up to the power of sf. i want to be able to clear uw in 7 minutes using flarespam.

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I Ithorian I

Academy Page

Whats Goin On [sup]

Joined Sep 2008

Oct 8, 2009 at 12:34 AM • #57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Regina Buenaobra

* PvP Skins: The work on this is done. Joe miraculously resolved the two "show-stopping" graphics bugs with the EotN skins, implemented the price reductions and added support for ZCoins.

Great News

- Will this feature go live soon, since its finished?

Smart move on awaiting the test krewe before changing the tiebreaker, I 'hate' the tiebreaker at present but would much rather wait a little bit longer so you can collectively work on a better system.

edit: Also wondering if the amount of pvp skins (weapon/armor) you can hold in your inventory will also be increased with this update (the current limit isnt even enough to kit out a pvp character with all the relevent shields / weapon sets)

Axel Zinfandel

Desert Nomad

LaZy

P/W

Joined Sep 2007

Oct 8, 2009 at 12:56 AM • #58

Hey, I hope someone up there reads this, but could you guys throw around the idea of releasing the PvE henchmen builds and stats BEFORE letting it go live?

As for the skill update, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say I'd like to see some buffs to a lot of skills this time along with some much needed nerfs (SF!)

T

The Cake Archer

Academy Page

Mo/A

Joined Jun 2009

Oct 8, 2009 at 12:59 AM • #59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenex Xclame

So we didnt get any skill updates this (passed) month,the one we got was from the month before,it was late because they were sick,we got no 1 month ahead of time preview.You guys didnt start on the skill updates, and our next update will be 4 months after the last one?Seeing as you will need 2 months to make it.

If this is the way its gonna be I rather have the old way of getting updates,broken and stupid,but still update.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Game_updates/20090917

Sure it was just toning down things buffed the previous month, but not every skill update has to be 10 pages long and completely redesign a class.

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Giga_Gaia

Lion's Arch Merchant

P/W

Joined Sep 2006

Oct 8, 2009 at 1:03 AM • #60

Good to see that they're finally starting to keep their promise of being more open. WTB more update notes on this kind of stuff. Also I'm guessing the new henchmen (PvE and PvP) will both come out at the same time? That might be a while yet.