QandA 67 - Blinking, Stealthing Warriors?

[@BeyondRepair]

canned WP laugh - gemstore item confirmed

[@Ojyh]

In the Silverwastes we have that big cave with Skritts building a ship. At the surface there are places where the ground seems dried out, like there was water there not too long ago but now it's gone. Maybe at some point the cave will be flooded, the Skritts will get on the ship and the whole map will change. Now that we saw the artwork with hydras attacking Lion's Arch, I think the deep sea dragon may be the next one to come. And we know that it can control the inland waters.

[@davelanders8688]

+Odan I like the way you think.

[@Poki3]

They definitely didn't "forget" about the Crown Pavilion. Since the rebuild in Lion's Arch, between the south fort and the lighthouse there's one of the Gauntlet enemies running back and forth, and the description under her name is "Training for the next tournament" or something like that.

[@wonder246]

+Poki#3 Yeah Suriel, love that they did that xD

[@jasonbrown4526]

+Poki#3 He'd better train. I busted him on his ass in the first celebration.

[@RolyVento]

You are one of those guys that have the ability to speak very fast but very clearly and everything you say could be understood, by talking at the speed you do you get a lot of information in. Keep making these videos! They are very entertaining.

[@HummingbirdSound]

Hey WP! I just thought of something: I remember people being confused by the way we got to Glint's lair in GW2, and by the supposedly random and arranging deus-ex Priory Ascending mission, but I recall Glint's lair being located in a grain of sand, so everything would be relevant. We actually do not get teleported into the desert by manipulating the hourglass; that grain of sand si in fact in the hourglass (as hourglasses are filled with sand), so not lost in the desert anymore (this would be why the Ascension is done around the priory). I guess the Dwarwes that protected the Dragon (probably Ogden himself) brought the hourglass to safety to the Priory before it fell into the wrong hands and thus he still guards part of Glints heritage - the whole secrets and rituals of the Ascension, as a matter of fact... maybe waiting for one of the baby Dragons to come back home...! PS: I actually play a 90% berserker/10% healing warrior by using mango pies as food+healing sign and it is quite OP.

[@Lymew]

+HummingbirdSound OMG so well thought out!!! Now it finally makes sense!! Thank you so much!

[@SynAngel]

The pull from guardians chains of light is also undodgeable, though it does have quite less knockback while dodging. Ive always loved this little added detail.

[@JordanSedai]

To follow up on Crafting Masteries, what do you think about these ideas: -adding a mastery that will display the total remaining number of undiscovered recipes that any given ingredient-item can be used for, so that it's easier to know what you need to get all the recipes -adding Masteries for crafting recipe unlocks. for example, there is a Mastery for Skritt crafting recipes, where it unlocks some new recipes inspired by Skritt, or any other race, or even as specific as Nuhoch or Itzel Crafting (some recipes for each crafting discipline; could add a new armor insignia for example)

[@LegendaryMythril]

on scholar runes visual effects: monster hunter has some skills with effects like that. for example, one called "Peak Performance" gives you a large damage boost while at 100% health, and other than checking your health, you can tell you have it because your forearm has this DBZ-like aura on it. and i love all of the skills that have those effects because they're so cool. you're fighting the monster, then you hear a *shing!* and your arm is pumping blue fire.

[@duncanrobertson6472]

9:30 Taunt goes through evade :P If you're part of the pvp community you will know how frustrated people already get with ranger's pet taunt. In my opinion, this is more an issue of counterplay as opposed to dodging. Dodging already doesn't work through fear wall, guardian wall/ring etc. You also can't dodge while immobilized. The problem with adding more counters is that it incentivizes invulnerabilities, which are incredibly powerful as it is. Any build that isn't a full bunker will tend to run as many invulns/stealth as possible. I prefer combat that allows triple kit engis, and other builds that lack all these defenses but rely on dodges, to stay alive.

[@littleboatvids]

Heya, couple questions I've had but never bothered to ask: 1. Why are aquabreathers a thing? Why not just use the stats and mod from headgear and have an aquabreather skin slot? At that rate, just have underwater outfits the way town clothes used to work, or outfits do currently. 2. Could Endurance be tied to a stat? Perhaps call it Agility, which could be the defensive equivalent of Ferocity-not available as a major stat or on lower-level gear. Make the baseline 100 Endurance (1 dodge) and let players gear up to 200 or more Endurance. Vigor could grant extra Agility. (The numbers here are just examples, plus it's already kinda broken anyway.)

[@houoinkyoma3977]

Since everybody starts their questions like this: hey WP, I recently started watching your EotN Let's Play and it is really cool to hear your (sometimes spot-on) speculations about GW2 in retrospective. You also mentioned many storylines that EotN is trying to set up for GW2, so my question: do you think GW2 did a good job at answering or even mentioning those "mysteries" (for example: who built the Eye of the North or why the stones in Riven Earth are floating)? Are you satisfied with the way GW2 handles those things? I think it could have done a much better job.

[@KotCR]

Blinking, Stealth Warriors with Boon Removal don't even have to be that complicated :P. Get the Superior Sigil of Nullification for your boon removal, and Superior Rune of Infiltration for stealth. Then all you're missing is the blinking. There's probably a PvE consumable that can do something like that (does portal gun count?), but regardless, to get the ability combination the only other thing you need is an Elite Specialization that offers teleport, which is within the realm of possibility. Bonus points if it has traps (glances at Dragonhunter's unhappy faces), enabling the use of Superior Rune of the Trapper for Stealth instead.

Really impressive what you did there for the blinkin warrior, Sir Potatoes. :O

[@notasandwich526]

There are already some player skills that have undodgeable components. Guardian Skill 5 on hammer, and skill 5 on staff will knock people back who try to dodge through them. Also, if you have applied the debuff to an enemy player with Guardian greatsword skill 5, the flip over ability will pull people out of their dodge roll. I can't think of any other undodgeable player skills, but I think there are some more!

[@Roxanne13579]

They haven't forgotten about the crown pavillion. If you look around Lion's Arch, you can find Suriel, the blazing light running around. When you target her, you can see the text 'training for the next queen's gauntlet'. So yeah... they didn't forget >.>

[@marenjones6665]

Talking about cosmetics, I think trinkets would be a great place to add low-level cosmetic effects, things like the footprints we see accompanying legendaries now.

[@TheGreatSkirazi]

Hey WP, what do you think about an Elementalist specialization that mixes the elements together? Like a crazy Alchemist (or just Chemist, but that's lamer) who can mix fire and earth into lava? I think it'd be interesting to see damage-oriented attunements like Fire or Air suddenly be able to give regen or protection because you mixed them with Water or Earth, because it allows the Ele to have that "All-Rounder" feel that you'd expect from the 4 attunements, except more viable. Also, do you have any cool ideas of your own for new specializations of the 9 professions?

[@gtafan110010]

engi is already alchemist so that's not happening. just call it avatar or whatever. everyone will get the reference

[@Lapouchy]

If anything about "mixing Elements"......Elite spec based on Magicka, plox

[@DystopianCreativity]

+Nashtya Newb With an even bigger chance of lightning striking your allies.

[@NoxxiTheNoxxian]

Hai WP, this will be a little bit of "packed" question(s). What do you think, is it possible, that between the Elder Dragons (as we will probably defeat them one by one as time goes by) we might face equal threats like them? Or do you think there is a chance for things to pop up, that are either equal or more dangerous and threatening as the Elder Dragons to Tyria, either events or such? Guild Wars aren't exactly and exclusively about dragons, even though we do fight the elder dragons right now, and seem to be only about them mainly, but they will eventually end. I mean this isn't Dragon Wars 2 and so far (right now at least) I can't remember anything that would be as threatening as the elder dragons in GW2. It would be pretty nice (in my opinion) if after Mordremoth or the third elder dragon we fight, something new threat would pop up, that is either equally or more threatening than them for the whole of Tyria (so probably not like Scarlet Briar or the like). Or how about IF we couldn't defeat an elder dragon and would bring drastic changes to the world either temporarily or permanently, like if we would fight Steve we "lose" somehow and most part of the maps we know now, that are near the sea/ocean would be flooded by water or similar?

[@neokoga]

Don't forget cooking can give us new dyes as well. There is a perfect space there for a new tier of dyes. Yea, gem store and all but they could give us its own unique set only obtainable through cooking.

[@NoxxiTheNoxxian]

Hai, WP! Just another question, people noticed not so long ago, that Arenanet changed the EULA and removed NCSoft from it or basically changed NCSoft to Arenanet. Which as I heard might mean, that Arenanet is splitting from NCSoft and probably will take over publishing. Now Arenanet told us loooong ago, that the "great collapse" in DR was originally intended to be a Canthan district, but was scrapped, due to NCSoft complains about mixed cultures and such. Could it mean, (since they split from NCSoft and I guess they are basically free to do what they plan, without such complains) that they can freely put Cantha in GW2 too? Since it was mainly NCSoft who was against or complained about the GW2 "Cantha idea" and such.

[@psychofea]

Hey WP . . . We sometimes run the Mango Pies (HP Regen) for guild rushes so it's not that out of the ordinary. Just not used for for the majority of content.

[@Jonaelize]

I'm still waiting, but when I buy the expansion, I will use your link!

[@djguydan]

Yah you picked my question AND said my name correctly. Also to add onto your tangent on runes and sigils. Why add weapon specific sigils (ie sigil of the longbow, crippling an enemy X bonus effect) and adding A LOT more precision main rune sets.

[@norby007]

@WP - In one of your recent recent videos, you spoke of how one dragon was not able to take control of another's lands. (Mordremoth not able to grow vines on ice created by Jormag.) Does this mean that the water dragon, Bubbles, might have had issues trying to get through Zhaitan's control over Strait of Malchor? Previously there was also a thought that Mordremorth might be able to take over Orr due to the influence of Caladbolg. If Mordremoth can take over previously corrupted land, Bubbles might be able to take over the strait and gain access to Lion's Arch now.

[@BrinklehoofGW2]

Hey WP! Sorry that this is a bit of a long one, but I just can't help it. I've got a problem and I'm hoping you can help me out. You see, I've recently run into a problem. I'm a 19 year old guy who is in a really happy relationship. However, when I'm not spending time with my lovely girlfriend, I'm working a part-time job at a local grocery store. The pay is alright, but it's a job and I could definitely use the money. Anyways, everything was all hunky-dory until the aisle of canned foods crashed on top of one of my co-workers. Their injuries were minor, but they decided to quit due to the risk that they felt every time they walked down the aisles. Their injuries had left them scarred, and left us down a valuable employee. So, my boss set out to find a new shelf stocker. It was a tricky process, as the incident with the cans had left our store with a bad reputation, but my boss eventually found a girl. This girl was brave, very brave in fact, as she took a job that even I wouldn't dare take. We will refer to this girl as Lara. Lara started her job the following Monday, and boy oh boy could she stack those cans. I also couldn't help but notice that she was stunning. She was about medium height, probably around 5'5, and always wore her blonde hair in a tight pony tail on the back of her head. I would constantly find myself staring at her sometimes, and to my surprise, she would be staring back. She would always look at me and twirl her hair with a big smile on her face. We would talk sometimes - she was really funny, and we got along well. When there wasn't any people in the store, we would run around and play hide and seek just like two 19 year olds do. Hanging out with Lara was a lot of fun, and it actually made me want to come into work. But part of me felt bad. Like I said, I'm in a very happy relationship and even though Lara and I were just friends, I couldn't help but think about her all the time. It made me feel extremely guilty, but I just couldn't help it. Lara made me feel alive, in ways that I had never felt before. However, all of this fun came to an end one day. My girlfriend decided to make a surprise visit to the grocery store as she needed some bread to make toast. At this time I'm sitting here chatting with Lara. You see, Lara and my girlfriend knew about each other, and my girlfriend was okay with Lara because she trusted me not to make bad choices. Anyways, when my girlfriend walked into the store, Lara pulled me into her and kissed me. But she had done it in such a way that it looked like I had leaned in and kissed her. All of this happened right in front of my girlfriend, unfortunately. Lara then, surprisingly, proceeded to slap me in the face and call me a "dirty pig". My girlfriend turned and ran out of the store, tears streaming from her eyes. I ran after her, but she was gone. In the mean time, Lara had gone to our boss and told him that I kissed her without consent, and he ended up firing me after I tried to clear my name. Now, I'm without a job, and my girlfriend won't talk to me. I've tried contacting Lara to ask her why she did that, but everytime I call it goes straight to voicemail. I know that this has been long, but I was hoping you can help me because I'm just lost. I guess what I'm trying to ask is: What are you most excited for about HoT?

[@mohamedredakhlifitallaki2105]

Hey WP ,I like the way you praised procs on runes that are give visible effects. The effects that are tied to elite skill/healing skill activation are pretty cool. However, please talk against RNG procs, or below 25%/50% health treashold procs on runes (and or traits). I am sure you would agree with me if I said that, the game is better off with exclusive effects/procs that are tied to the players' control.

[@W4lhalla]

Skills that can'T be dodged. Don't know but I think the Molten Berserker's Air-Shockwave was one Skill that couldn't be dodged through jumping or Dodgerolling because every time I jumped or tried to dodge through this I was kicked back which was the Opposite from the normal Shockwaves, you could jump over or dodge through. Hope there will be more Mechanics that play with the Dodge Mechanic and can't be just evaded through it.

[@robbiehoen]

I just realised that fall damage related traits can actually become a thing when you use gliders and the jumping mushrooms things to drop yourself on enemies.

[@foverine5183]

Honestly, I think the ability to customize your underwear would be an amazing solution for the whole bathingsuit thing. The people that want to get things like their bathingsuits and stuff can get them, but at the same time you won't see people running around in PvE/PvP half naked all the time cause it will be under their armor.

[@Feaniel]

Ok that fake horrible laugh completely crack me up XD.

[@GaGrulz]

Hey WP! Do you think in future expansions we will get a choice to leave the Pact? For example you, as the player character, are faced with a choice to help Trahearne or to help a group of adventures(Ex Destiny's Edge) or maybe to have your own plan and Trahearne gets so mad at you for not chosing him that he actually makes you leave The Pact. It would be interesting for the story for the player to be on his own for once without relying on the helps of others. I would tottaly love this since in gw2( not like in gw1) you are actually one of the main characters and you're more than just the guy that gets the job done for important characters.

[@KotMatroskin]

lol that first laugh example => get ready to be sued by Simon Lane :D Priceless

[@erix5184]

I use the sigil that gives swiftness on kill on my level 10 key farming weapons, they're pretty nice.

[@TheIceMageX50]

+Eric M (erix84) Yea I like that. Pretty nice :D Bloodlust +Speed for my GS.

[@SilverSinai]

+Eric M (erix84) They're also nice for running around and killing stuff while leveling and completing hearts.

[@TheFangedwolf]

+Eric M (erix84) I do as well. The more you kill with that sigil on, the longer the swiftness lasts.

[@jasonbrown4526]

+Eric M (erix84) Those are extremely good on low level characters, who usually can't otherwise keep Swiftness up permanently.

[@undeadlives112]

Hey WP, what do you think about each new expansion having a new starting area for the race it focuses on? So for HoT (obviously not happening) the Sylvarri would have a new 1-15 zone in the Maguuma jungle, and then maybe travel around the core game world until 80 when they come back to do the end of the story. I think it would be cool for a number of reasons. 1, we'd get a new personal story AND it is tailored completely to the individual race. 2. It would mean we'd be getting a lot more expansions... 3. It would be a way to reuse the core maps for more story, maybe these characters have to travel to gain experience or whatever and then come back.

[@flamedarkflare]

What kinda of extended universe content do you war for GW as a franchise? Like, more books? Diffrent games? ect.

[@graywynters2251]

also, for an actual Q&A question - which elder dragon do you think is the most powerful/dangerous, and do you think the pact is handling the dragons in the right order/with the right methods.

[@cytos1694]

4 changes cooking needs to start making sense again, from the perspective of someone who cooks in gw2 to earn pretty much ALL his gold: 1) different stat combinations / effects for new recipes (duration should be 30 minutes or and hour if we are speaking of a level 80 cooking item) 2) only 1 (or 2 in the case of items that there are to much of like portobello mushrooms) AMOUNT of ingredients per dish (and not 20 beets like some recipes they added) 3) in case of cascading food items (eg tropical fruit salad-> tropical mouse) there needs to be a increment in resulting foods. eg if you use 1 tropical fruit salad + other ingredients to make a tropical mouse, you need 2 tropical mouses in return (like with the vegy pizzas) 4) they also need to balance excising level 80 food items so they are more or less equally desirable. why? 1) cause if not players wont give a damn. add utility specific effects. burn on shouts, clones move away from you (remember pve only), off hand weapons have a 5% chance to give quickness for 1s, your next attack on weapon swap will boonsteal, etc etc. add different stat combinations! this could work great with raiding to add an extra cost to failure to make it more.. intense? 2) if you need 20 beets or 5 spores or 30 walnuts etc.. per resulting item, the recipe is not cost effective (would you rather buy 5 of dish 1 that is only 85% effective for your build, or pay 5 times as much for a dish that is 100% effective?) and because no one is using it, the designed intention of taking the surplus of beets out of the market does not happen. no one is going to pay 1 gold for an item that has stat boost x and last 1 hour, then for an item that costs 10 silver with the exact same stat boost x that only lasts for half an hour.. basic math people. if it was only 1 or 2 walnuts the surplus would have gone eventually (looking at saffron for example, the addition of saffron mango ice cream, over time, brought that item from being sold for vendor price to half a silver (boy did i make a lot of money of that one)) 3) cost effectiveness comes into account here as well. every step that adds ingredients makes the dish more expensive, and if you do not keep the prices down like with doubling the resulting dish, some level 80 recipes that are cascades of others will always be more expensive. this is then in turn unfair to people who play the builds that require these foods to work optimally and also in turn reduces build diversity. if i was in charge of the wvw meta, i would not look for the build that has the most op result, i would go for the one that works good with the cheapest level 80 food. that way i can strongly encourage all the people in the zerg to run that food, making wvw less expensive, and over time that food buff will start adding up me thinks 4) there are some food items people can not get enough of, and some that will not sell at all. i do not mind some sell better then others, but the difference is astronomical. anyway, i'm going to see if i can make my 4 stacks of saffron mango ice cream already

[@brspies]

WP, since you talked about reversing Mordremoth's influence today, it brought me back to a thought I'd had before with the F2P announcement. Do you think that this, F2P and the launch of HoT, is a good chance for them to start reversing Zhaitan's influence in Orr (if they planned to do that, ever)? When HoT releases, those maps can now probably be the focus as the main PvE "endgame" type maps, which is an opportunity for them to make changes in Orr (reversal of corruption etc). When a future expansion releases, it would give them a similar chance to make changes in the Jungle after Mordy's defeat. This would continue pushing new places as "endgame" type content, and with the core game F2P would probably give free players an extra little push to buy expansions etc. The only thing is that making the reversal into something interesting is probably more work than they want to spend on the core game at this point.

[@TOAOpikensquare]

If it comes to crafting, what I have always missed in GW2 was a fun-craft, so a craft that lets you make fun items like mini's, skins, toys and so on. Because of that I never really got into crafting in GW2 because it basically was a boring grind to 400 / 500 to then be able to make what you need. Scribing however finally is a fun craft and one I will put time in!

[@jasonbrown4526]

+TOAO PikenSquare You can craft transformation tonics.

[@TOAOpikensquare]

+Jason Brown Yeah and the new backpack skins are nice. Still those crafts are mainly stat based, not "fun items" based. Compair it to what they said about scribing, or when looking at another game, engineering in WoW. That soft of crafts are what I enjoy.

[@stereoflava2788]

I watched Johnny Knodoff too a long time ago haha :D he was a cool dude.

[@druidofsorrow]

Hi WP. what would your thoughts be on an expansion that carries us into Tyria's history? The dragons are seemingly dead but their power still lingers and they will wake up again soon. The only way to finally send them to sleep was lost ages ago when the mursaat dissapeared. The heroes of Tyria have to travel back to the time of the last waking of the elder dragons. Dessa (helped by the entire player base) wrestles into existence an enormous fractal that comprises several full maps from Tyria. We come to a time when the Forgotten have a name and the Jotun can wield magic on par with all the other races. We would witness Kralkatorrik falling at the place where he would become a mountain range and Primordus solidifying into a statue. In this fractal we take part in the effort to bring the dragons down and learn the secret to doing it in our own time. I myself would immensely enjoy such a game. :)

[@oo0_DannyPhantom_0oo]

Q: With so much more content coming in to Guild Wars soon, how would you improve the lfg feature? Right now it seems like everything just falls under the living world tab only.

[@sorrow201]

Now that necro signets convert boons WITH other effects AND no penalty like Corrupt Boon, what would you guys think about changing Corrupt Boon? The Idea I have in mind is: put a debuff on the enemy for duration of time. During this duration ANY boons the enemy applies to himself/herself become a condition.

[@regendo]

Praise the let's players that went missing. They totally scared WP into making daily videos. Also, not only are there already undodgeable things in the game, there's actually even a player skill you can't dodge - Static Field.

[@adsf92x]

Hey WP just wondering would you think of making a video were you show us some of your out takes? would love to see it some time :D

[@TheOneTrueLeo]

All those people that think you smoke can't have been here for long. There have been several occasions for us TRUE fans to find out that you don't, for example the audio adventure where you went out to buy a pack of cigarettes for your mum.

[@NaxiaLascif]

Hey WP, Do you think ArenaNet will ever go back to selling clothing/armor in individual pieces? I used to love the fact that you could mix and match, and then they went and switched to the "outfit" system. It feels rather frustrating, because there are items I would have spent $$ on, but didn't because I couldn't mix-n-match. E.g., the Monk outfit, I would have purchased just for the shoes :-( The other issue is that you can't swap stuff onto outfit, e.g. wear the Reading Classes on the Wedding Dress. Do you think they did this because of clipping issues? Faster artist turn around? Other? I can't see this taking much more art effort, and being that FashionWars is such a metagame for many, and also a big money maker, why would they limit this system??

[@Nefats]

best answer of the video at 16:50

[@Fin0fLenster]

Now that you've experienced the new section of Verdant Brink, I was curious if you still plan to stick to the plan to not unlock gliding or if your perspective has changed on the matter.

[@nemunemuneko2508]

Hey WP, I thought of something while watching this Q&A when you talked about the transformation of the SW, DT, and HoT maps. If/When we defeat Mordremoth, what do you think is going to happen to the meta-event chains within those maps? Do you think they'll just leave them as they are? Will they just become normal maps? What are your thoughts on this?

[@2k11Nemesis]

Hey mister Potato, I don't know if you've had this question before, but I was wondering how you feel about 'reveal'. During the last beta I played as Revenant and I got to know the legendary dragon skill 'Gaze of Darkness' that can pull foes out of sealth. I really enjoyed this ability because it's so strong against foes who stealth alot like thieves or mesmers. But sadly it is the only skill I know which can do this apart from Stealth Disruptor Traps? I would love to have more of such skills, what do you think?

[@tonyvega7827]

A couple questions, you don't have to answer all: Glasses or contacts? How well do you think you'd do in a GW2 trivia game? Do you think your one of the most knowledgeable players in the game, and would you accept challenges? Do you plan on doing anything special for Q and A 69? Like in visual wood ep 69? Do you think you will ever reach a point where you will have talked about every single piece of lore in the game? What would you do is GW2 is suddenly shut down due to for example anet going bankrupt? Like what game would you play as an alternative?

[@cheddacheese8900]

Ep 69 gets the jazzy porno music in the background

[@NJHixion]

Do you think that POI in Verdant Brink the one called The Corpse Grove was once a Pale Tree that's now withered and corrupted by Mordremoths influence?

[@Alphanitas]

Aren't there already some abilitys which are undogeable like mai trins shot at the furthest taget. In my experience you can't dodge it with an evade popping up. You can dodge the damge range if you time it right but mechanicly it isn't dogeable only blockable.

[@Alfcamify]

ANet recently announced that the Mordrem will invade Brisban Wildlands, Kessex Hills and Diessa Plateau, but when does this happen? Because if the XPac starts the day after the Pact Fleet is destroyed, there would be no time between those things for the Mordrem to attack us for 4 days, which is how long the event lasts.

[@tsbulmer]

Hey WP, where do you see Elite Specializations going in the long term? Although "new shiny" surely comes into play here, Elite Specs seem both very strong and very cool, and I imagine we're expected to use them. Could it be that, in a few years, there will be a variety of Elite Specs for each class and everyone will be expected to use one, with very few players using three "normal" specs? My concern is that the Elite Specs seem to all be about a specific flavor and playstyle, and people who don't want to be a Dragonhunter, a Paragon, or whatever else, who just want to be a Guardian, running three vanilla specs will be left out in the cold.

[@blooi27]

WP, I think it's great that you are live streaming and from what I've seen it is great content. The only issue I have is that this time slot is only available to me on weekends due to work. I was wondering if you have these streams archived in a place where I could watch them after or if you don't, will you in the future? Keep up the awesome videos -KingEmryd

[@tsbulmer]

Another question for your consideration, WP - what's your take on terrestrial spears not appearing in HotS but being in the S2 cinematic? I didn't buy the story about miscommunication with the art team since that seemed like a pretty amateurish mistake, and I thought spears would be introduced later, but no dice. What are your thoughts?

[@mikeskyers5666]

They do have NPC's with Swim suits in SouthSun and I thought they would have came back then but but unfortunately they missed that boat.

[@Chessrook44]

Hey WP, here's a question for you... You play a lot of Guild Wars 2, but I've also seen you play other games like Grimlock, Final Fantasy, and others. So if I may ask, what is your favorite video game genre? RPGs? Dungeon Crawlers? Puzzle Platformers? Dating Sims? What?

[@evodium1741]

low early but still watching even though the quality isn't great right now

[@Wox7777]

Hey WP - How likely do you think it is that the Forge new skill type is going to be minions? Given the little floaty-following droids we've seen in shots, and given that the name 'Forge' is a very I-am-making-something kind of name, I'm starting to think it's a real probability. Also, any speculation on the Druid skill type?

[@Rendesh]

Hey WP, what's your least favourite GW2 map...

[@SoulSlesh]

Before the release of Gw2 Home instances were presented as a feature and.. let's face it being able to buy a bunch of ores and chests isn't what you'd think of when it comes to player housing. With the new expansion and guild halls it looks like they have the technology to allow players to decorate and customize things so.. do you think in the future they will finally bring that to home instances too? (maybe allow some friends to be neighbors too/ have different houses etc).

[@SoulSlesh]

As for crafting (especially cooking I'd like to see more potent foods but also some fun ones: maybe have some visual effects on the players or for instance I remember there was a drink in wow that would buff tanks but it would also make them drunk so you'd have these big tanks not being able to walk straight and have the occasional hiccups when they would speak etc) and that sort of fun effects would give flavor to things xD

[@alexistoran2181]

ArenaNet definitely didn't forget the Queen's Gauntlet, they've got Suriel jogging around Lion's Arch training for the next one after all! Here's a question for you, WP - if you could give one piece of advice to new players, what would it be?

[@arnitheking]

on dodge food will be crazy on the daredevil

[@Freezeluc]

I have the feeling this question has been ask many times before or people talked about it many times but i missed it and i was wondering you are semi lore expert on it. What do you think about the Dragons and the Human Gods can be relative to each other both are kinda with 6 I came to think of this since Melandru looks kinda like a silvari and silvari are part of Mordremoth. Balthazar and Primordus always gave me kinda of the same vibe. Maybe also Grenth and Zaithan. Maybe this is kinda of a dumb and all but tbh im not all knowing about lore and don't know much about the gods.

[@andrealee8796]

Wp, If (when?) Trahearne dies in HoT and if the pact is destroyed do you think they will rebuild it? Or do you think that it will just be the 3 orders again. Do you think we will become Marshal? And if we do you do you think the commander will be? The only people I can think of would be Laranthir or Canach, or do you think we will meet someone new in HoT that could be the commander.

[@danielburbridge2050]

+woodenpotatoes Jumping on the question wagon late - If Gw2 was the first Guild Wars game you were introduced to within the franchise, do you think you would still be playing?

[@Flimzakin]

WP, I too have been somewhat disappointed about how vague they are being about how they are going to meet their goals with raids. Just out of curiosity, could you go into a hypothetical example of a raid encounter that would meet your personal goals for "Challenging Group Content?™" I've been having a bit of fun thinking of some myself.

[@Larrryyyhit]

Hi, WP How do you think Elite specializations should be unlocked. I think its not very exiting to unlock them just by purchasing HoT, reaching lvl 80 and spending some hero points. When they announced Elite Specializations, for some reason I thought they would be unlocked through some story instance where you would go to some place of power in the jungle, with destinys edge 2.0 and we would all get new powers. I'd like to know what you think of this idea.

[@-Neo_Genesis-]

I'd really like to see the home instance get overhauled to like I don't know... Maybe actually have a HOME in it.

[@testogel85]

Hey WP, a "Did you know" idea for you to jot down in case you didn't already: the Mistwolf summon trick from Call of the Wild.

[@dzemperator]

Hey WP, how far do you see the game expanding in the future? Will we get new continents at all?

[@sarahmathes3678]

Hey WP, do you think we'll ever be able to change rune sets in legendary armor? If we have to buy a new set of runes every time we want to switch, it's not only expensive, but it undermines the entire point of being able to switch stats on the fly.

[@DomikaClarke]

Dear Mr. Potatoes: I'm wondering about your opinion on the possibility of seeing some free server swapping coming into the game--what with so many new people dropping in--like they did when GW2 released. Either limiting it to new players or perhaps giving people one or two free swaps when HoT drops. I know that this matters only for WuvWuh but with the new borderlands coming in, maybe people will be more concerned with joining up with their friends or playing on more adequate servers.

[@Cloudz2021]

Hey WP, what do you think Arenanet is going to do about the 5-man targeting limit for skills when raids come out? Do you think they'll increase it to 10 or just split us up into 2 groups of 5? Otherwise it seems kind of weird to have a bunch of people in your party that aren't affected by your skills.

[@gwenserena1517]

Hey a story question, I am a massive sylvari fan girl and personally I in H.O.T. Want a story arc were sylvari player characters have trouble controlling themselves and obviously then go to the altar of glorst and I was wondering what is your idealistic idea of what they do for sylvari

[@SvRazor33]

Yo WP, I have a question. I've always wondered how much XP has my character obtained since the creation. Like in GW1, you could just press H and you'd see the exact amount of XP you have, ever since you created the character. Wouldn't that be a cool thing to see in GW2, especially because there are far more ways to earn XP in the second game? Cheers!

[@TheFangedwolf]

Question for Q&A: I came across this picture in the hall of Minister Wi's house in Divinity's Reach and couldn't place him. There is an icon/symbol on his sword, chest, shoulder and glove, though the one on his chest seems to be in the opposite direction of the rest. As the background is of rather ominous trees, I figured he might be, lore wise, significant right now. His face looks a bit like Keiran Thackaray, but then most of the human faces look rather similar. i58.tinypic.com/mwd1rq.jpg

[@arnieburton9597]

Hey WP have you tried out the newest guardian support build since the patch it promotes such good game play dodging heals you and allies, blocking attacks gives your allies aegis, and aegis heals when it blocks? I love the build and was wondering if you think maybe this could be the stuff they where thinking of for raid support

[@dustroier7310]

I think that they should make all racial skills viable and make them hero point things that you start with your racial one.

[@themadrad3013]

Im still curious about Heart of Thorns base price. 50 USD Doesent sound to bad but converted into AUD thats 70 ish dollars for an expansion pack. 70$ for alot of new mechanics but 4 new maps? I cant see its worth.

[@Lana-wj2yx]

Wp, I main Necro and I just watched a video just posted by Nemesis (channel name is i am one and i am legion) about the current view of meta and the hate surrounding Necro in pve. I know they don't bring as much in utility but the from the footage in his video they aren't so bad in actual dps. What do you think about his conclusions in the video and the current state of necro's in pve meta?

[@mahuyo]

hey WP, with the release of hot, not exclusive to it, but with Verden Brink and other hot maps, do you think that they will add in more commander tags?

[@huddi94]

Hey WP, what would you think about runes/sigils that proc on dodge or on dodge in combat? There are sigils for proc on weapon swap, on hit, on critical hit - why not on dodge? :)

[@neokoga]

No crown pavilion but Colin did say we're getting Halloween

[@CronicDemise]

Hey WP! How much would you enjoy guesting on the Co-Optional Podcast? Would you have time to do something like that? Do you know Total Biscuit personally since you're both British?

[@hazelmorris8829]

+CronicDemise 'since you're both Britsh' :D

[@angrymarine7974]

I just hope elite racials will be buffed.ESPECIALLY the charr warband support and artiellry barrage. (I want warband support to be buffed, because I learned from a pretty awesom guy that ,in WvW, a 20 charr zerg that only runs warband support is funny AS FUCK!)

[@AllSeeingTaco]

I thought the point of the racials was that they're supposed to be mediocre, so some races wont get advantages over others

[@zealous944]

+SU Reaper this logic is flawed. the only danger that exists is they make one races racials too powerful. This danger already exists from class to class so what is the big deal. Just give us more viable options.

[@Binidj]

+SU Reaper Well yes but seriously, who doesn't want to see a 60 strong warband own everything before them? (Before 40 of them decide to go for a nap)

[@Lapouchy]

+SU Reaper That's not true already. Couple Asura ones work just too good with some traits, for example with Ranger and 100% Daze duration increase trait. In the past you had people rerolling Norn for Bear Form. Reaper's Form (human elite) totally outshines other elites for Reaper in synergy, applying both Poison and Chill for incredible duration.

[@angrymarine7974]

Paweł Polakiewicz Also Norn necromancers who run "become the snow leopard" (necromancers because, apparently, we have the biggest power pool of all classes [passivly, that is]) in WvW are fcking broken strong. For example, I run soldier gear on WvW and I'm built only for tanking and sustained damage, but even tho I'm over 3.2k armor those Necro-Leopard-Norns hit me for 3.7k with EACH BASIC ATTACK.

[@elimancy]

16:03 had me all Tidus laugh

[@foverine5183]

I wouldn't mind getting ascended/legendary runes, sigils and or food. Yes, if it comes into the game its going to be BEYOND power creep, but at the same time its a tier ugprade that makes sense and fits into the game's system. and honestly, who doesn't want to reach the point where their character has legendary armor, with legendary runes. Legendary weapon with legendary sigils. Legendary back piece with legendary trinkets. While using Legendary food, utility consumeble and all their gear has legendary infusions. It sounds ridiculous, but I wouldn't mind it lol.

[@jasonbrown4526]

+Foverine Your 25-slot bag is Legendary.

[@sorrow201]

+Foverine I have all professions and play them equally, have mercy on me please.

[@ok-mb4pj]

I wish the meta would change so everyone used Svanir runes; turning in to a block of ice OP

[@noobbrew]

Do you think heaps of people will flock to the reaper for the dps? I've been playing necro since launch and part of what appeals to me is it's sense of unpopularity.

[@TheIceMageX50]

+WoodenPotatoes Re: The undodgeable debate...you guys mention Daredevil but you overlook that (AFAIK) the devs confirmed Pulmonary Impact is undodgeable etc etc. Just letting ya know if you didn't realise. :)

[@Tocavian]

Hey WP, what time do you start your streams in the morning? (GMT)

[@hibana6681]

heey WP! lately i've been thinking about what could be new runes they are gonna bring out, and i was looking to all of them. so my idea is: why not make runes sets based on Weapons? is this something that they would consider making or planning to. what is your opinion about this? im really curious! have a good one

[@flump9578]

I'm 19, and am currently looking to get into KZbin because i fucking love games, and the whole idea of having a platform to give our opinions on appeals to me. What are some tips you'd give to starting KZbin?

[@Mikey136D]

Speed on kill gets used for people that rush map completion or fast leveling.

[@jasonbrown4526]

+Keesh It's really good for low level characters before they have access to Swiftness or speed signets.

[@roxanneranft7506]

I have a question, While your twitch comes on too early for me and ends before I get up, would it be helpful to you to subscribe to it anyway? Also, what are good ways of helping to support WP while being very cash strapped?

[@rjthebarbarian]

I'm not sure how I should feel that my first comment to make it onto a video was a joke question meant to be rhetoric... Anyway, do you plan to go for stat cap again when legendary armors come, or do you think they will address this so you wont have to?