ArenaNet:In-game talk/Archive April 2007
Gaile Gray & Frog Talk Saturday April 28, 2007
Annotation: There was a bug with the festival from before where the game wasn't saving the information on players who were AFK. So after they would get disconnected, all of their progress would get lost because it hadn't been 'saved'. There wasn't a way to dupe items because trading and using the merchant force a save. They fixed the bug, but it popped up over this most recent event because someone found a way to crash the instance.
Summary
- Nothing new to Mesmer and Ranger buffs nor hair stylists
- Tickets and gold were fully reset, no loss
- Skills and characters won't move to GW2, but some "inheritance" will
Gaile Gray & Frog Talk Friday April 27, 2007
Summary
- Gaile Gray doesn't use her GM character to play the game. She enjoys nine other accounts.
- Gaile received a Skree Harpy for her character's 2 year birthday.
Gaile Gray Talk Wednesday April 25, 2007
Summary
- Nothing new to Soul Reaping and Mesmers
- Soul Reaping will be changed in future but never reset to its former power
- ArenaNet is working on PvE-only skills, release unknown
- Auction House and Marriage will not be implemented for Guild Wars, but are possible for Guild Wars 2
- Upcoming Birthday Event will not include new hats
- She thinks a Collectors Edition for Eye of the North is possible
- Art contest for new Guild Capes will take place in the future
- Eye of the North will have the Nightfall (insigniable) armor system
- Updating Prophecies and Factions to Nightfall armor system not decided yet
- Guild Wars 2 will not support transfer of armor, characters and gold
- She does not know if there will be a Fissure of Woe in Guild Wars 2
- New God realms in Eye of the North are possible, but she is not sure
- No new Character slots and professions in Eye of the North
- In distant future it may be possible to change character names
Gaile Gray Talk Tuesday April 24, 2007
Summary
- Gaile logged in to get some screenshots of various towns with fireworks and people dancing in Kamadan, Shing Jea Monastery and Lion's Arch
Gaile Gray Talk Friday April 20, 2007
Summary
- PvE only skills coming soon.
- Gaile still refuses to reveal what the 2nd year birthday gifts will be, but does confirm they will be tradeable.
- She is trying to talk the dev team into having an Oktoberfest event.
- The Mursaat Rally was a player run event where the Mursaat turned up to kill everyone.
- The loot scaling introduced with hard mode is intended to reduce gold farming related inflation.
- Gaile will write Jeremy Soule to ask about another music pack.
- She has intentions of attending the Royal Ascalon Masquerade Ball.
Gaile Gray Talk Thursday April 19, 2007
Summary
- Party leader will have Hard mode toggle.
- Gamer weekend may be coming soon.
- No Day of the Tengu this year or any event planned for the near future as far as she knows.
- No Hard mode in Pre-Searing.
- Skill Hunter will be split as soon as Hard mode goes live.
- The Elite skill from Tomes will count for the Skill Hunter titles.
- No character slots for GW:EN, they would be unnecessary.
- Gaile will probably be back later today or after the update goes live.
Gaile Gray Talk Saturday April 14, 2007
Note: In the forum of GW Online some players organized a rally for mursaats in Maguuma Stade International District 1, to fight for an appearance of this enemy in Guild Wars Eye of the North [1]. Arena Net employees read this post and sent Mursaats to kill everyone in this district on Saturday, April 14th, 2007 5PM GMT. The following log was an answer of Gaile Gray to this "mini-event".
Summary
- Mursaat spellcasters appeared in international districts of the Maguuma Stade outpost, killing players. The deaths will not effect those going for Survivor.
Gaile Gray Talk Tuesday April 10, 2007
Summary
- The second birthday present will not include weapons
- She thinks that Hard mode will not include revamped Pre-Searing missions
- Likely a new balance update next week
- No new weapons until the release of Eye of the North beside the ones from the weaponsmith contest
- She thinks that GWEN will be released before christmas
- Hard mode this month
- Owners of Protector titles will not lose them, they will be the maximum level. New titles will be implemented.
- She thinks Hard mode requires Ascension
- She does not know the next big event nor a Dragon Festival
Gaile Gray Talk ATS Test Saturday April 07, 2007
Summary
- Gaile with a smaller group of players at the ATS Test.
- General chit-chat about game experiences.
Gaile Gray Talk Saturday April 07, 2007
Summary
- Hard mode definitely in April
- Further changes on Heroes' Ascent possible
- Second birthday presents are coming on April 28th
Gaile Gray Talk Thursday April 05, 2007
Summary
- Easter items will be more useful than bunny ears.
- Hope to have an armor viewer one day.
- Character names can be carried over to GW2
- probably more ways to attain the Lucky title to come.
- Is anyone silly enough to pay to join a guild just for a cape trim?
- no death title.
- No plans for additional language districts at this time.
- The team is almost entirely focused on GW:EN
- There is a rank 15 emote planned.
- They will continue to support GW after GW2 is released.
Gaile Gray Talk Wednesday April 04, 2007
Summary
- As said in the Scribe, players will receive a significant Storage upgrade soon.
- The new storage will double the original 20 slot vault, plus grant a player an extra vault tab of 20 slots for each campaign he has, up to a maximum of three, totalling 80 slots if one owns all chapters.
- The tabs are not linked to any kind of item - we may place whatever we want in them.
- The update with the above change and many more will happen most likely this easter weekend.
- The Easter items will be the two ones mentioned in the Scribe.
- Skill Hunter title split will come with Hard mode
- 2-3 weeks until the prizes for the celestial tournament are awarded.
Frog Talk Wednesday April 04, 2007
Summary
- The frog talks about sweet consumables and about how the Rabbit is suddenly exultant. Likely reference to an Easter mini event?
- No word on the use of some gems (Diamond, Onyx Gemstone).
- Gwen will maybe be seen in the future (GW:EN?), and the Frog hints that the preserved Iris Flower found at a beach-side area in Elona may be a clue.
- He hints at "construction works", presumably made by the Xunlai Agents, as he mentioned on April 1st as well. Possibly more storage space?
- A new Scribe issue will be released 2007-04-05, and it might contain more news about a possible Easter mini event.
Gaile Gray & Frog Talk Sunday April 01, 2007
Summary
- The helm for the Warrior ascended Gladiator's armor is going to be added to the game soon.
- Gaile will request more information on the Hall of Monuments later this week.
- There will be 2nd year birthday gifts.
- Froggie heard activity is coming with the Xunlai.
- Splitting of the Skill Hunter title is not on the latest coming update notes but it is coming.
- Non-English wikis still some months away.
- April fools day will end at midnight PST.
- Trans-species guilds in GW2, Gaile thinks so.
- Vanquisher title is coming with Hard Mode.
- The word count for the coming update exceeds 2,000 words, it includes mission improvements, AI improvements, skill changes and more... It is expected to come by the end of this week.
- Arenanet will not sell armor in the online store.
- No monthly fee for GW2
- New wallpapers are coming soon.
- GW2 will not require the most modern computers, nor Windows Vista
- No word on Mac or Linux support.