Yesterday evening (european time) Regina Buenaobra, Martin Kerstein & Peter Verhelst dropped by to answer some questions about the update and other stuff.
Meeting
Although the site is in german...you just have to click on the images to see the talk.
Community manager meeting
RbX
Dronte
So lets sum this up: reduced numbers on reputation titles, wisdom/treasure hunter account based and unlucky change, a few new option to get rep pts.
Wow, thats not much.
Wow, thats not much.
upier
I LOVED the info on Martin's TV!
take_me
Thanks for posting. Not really new info in it.
To sum it up:
- Cap on Kuzick/luxon titles will be increased
- Wisdom/Treasure Hunter will be made account wide
- There will be new ways of getting SS and LB points
- No skill changes
- no new titles
- no HoM-changes
- update will probably come out on Friday
- no new weapon skin in the next time
- no new emotes are planned
- no double party point weekend is planned
To sum it up:
- Cap on Kuzick/luxon titles will be increased
- Wisdom/Treasure Hunter will be made account wide
- There will be new ways of getting SS and LB points
- No skill changes
- no new titles
- no HoM-changes
- update will probably come out on Friday
- no new weapon skin in the next time
- no new emotes are planned
- no double party point weekend is planned
DarkNecrid
Which is everything we already knew. w00t
cataphract
Real shame about the Unlicky title. 
Shasgaliel
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Thanks for posting. Not really new info in it.
To sum it up: - Cap on Kuzick/luxon titles will be increased - Wisdom/Treasure Hunter will be made account wide - There will be new ways of getting SS and LB points - No skill changes - no new titles - no HoM-changes - update will probably come out on Friday - no new weapon skin in the next time - no new emotes are planned - no double party point weekend is planned |
take_me
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You forgot about 4 GWEN titles and hiring a community manager for a French community.
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dilan155
hmm, they are getting lazy by the minute.
papryk
no skills balance -_-
lame update
lame update
Martin Kerstein
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Originally Posted by upier
I LOVED the info on Martin's TV!
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netniwk
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Originally Posted by Shasgaliel
You forgot about 4 GWEN titles and hiring a community manager for a French community.
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upier
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Glad you liked it
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Too cute for words!
(Seriously - super sweet since the whole thing went: boring, boring, boring, boring, I giggled at the TV since it was so random, boring, boring, boring.)
Shasgaliel
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Originally Posted by netniwk
what about 4 GWEN tittles?
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Shadowspawn X
Treasure Hunter / Wisdom old news.
Faction Alliance titles are a mute point since you get the HoM trophy at r4 which is simple enough to get. There was never any benefit of maxing them anyway, r12 doesn't even get you a increase in skill potency.
Gwen reputation grind if not made account wide. Does nothing except stab the people in the back who already maxed them. Even if they dropped the cap those who already grinded 160k per title are too burn't out to repeat it on several toons. A shame people can't get those pve skills up to max level more than one toon. Without killing themselves.
SS/LB was never a issue took about 20 hrs after finishing the campaign to max both. Many maxed them out on several toons so don't know why this one was on the chopping block. Just another back stab to veteran players.
Unlucky will be interesting, but since you get the HoM trophy at r2 it doesn't matter much either.
All in all it seems quite underwhelming, nothing at all for veteran pve'rs but new players seem to be getting a free pass lets hope something unforeseen and great comes from this watering down of titles.
Faction Alliance titles are a mute point since you get the HoM trophy at r4 which is simple enough to get. There was never any benefit of maxing them anyway, r12 doesn't even get you a increase in skill potency.
Gwen reputation grind if not made account wide. Does nothing except stab the people in the back who already maxed them. Even if they dropped the cap those who already grinded 160k per title are too burn't out to repeat it on several toons. A shame people can't get those pve skills up to max level more than one toon. Without killing themselves.
SS/LB was never a issue took about 20 hrs after finishing the campaign to max both. Many maxed them out on several toons so don't know why this one was on the chopping block. Just another back stab to veteran players.
Unlucky will be interesting, but since you get the HoM trophy at r2 it doesn't matter much either.
All in all it seems quite underwhelming, nothing at all for veteran pve'rs but new players seem to be getting a free pass lets hope something unforeseen and great comes from this watering down of titles.
citizensmith1001
No SF nerf ??? 
BrettM
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Originally Posted by Dronte
So lets sum this up: reduced numbers on reputation titles, wisdom/treasure hunter account based and unlucky change, a few new option to get rep pts.
Wow, thats not much. |
From everything we've heard and already seen, from the small nerf to Essence of Celerity to the doubling of Kurzick/Luxon blessings, it appears that quite a bit of thought went into this to make it a true balance, rather than a couple of quick fixes. Some things will get easier. Some things (such as HFFF) will get harder. I'm looking forward to seeing the complete package. But I think you do the devs an injustice to say it's "not much" without having even seen it.
nvmu
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All in all it seems quite underwhelming, nothing at all for veteran pve'rs but new players seem to be getting a free pass lets hope something unforeseen and great comes from this watering down of titles.
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Avarre
Game-affecting titles should never have been introduced, so making SS/LB easier isn't unwelcome. Not as welcome as just completely axing them, but credit for effort, I guess...
mazza558
So hardly the most update notes ever...
EDIT: I do appreciate the effort the devs are making though.
EDIT: I do appreciate the effort the devs are making though.
Morgoth the dark
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SS/LB was never a issue took about 20 hrs after finishing the campaign to max both. Many maxed them out on several toons so don't know why this one was on the chopping block. Just another back stab to veteran players.
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And maxing SS after you finish the game = complete ridiculance, since you just grind grind grind on enemyes...
Back stab? I dont think so. It's just the correct thing to do. Go Anet.
Jongo River
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Originally Posted by Shadowspawn X
Faction Alliance titles are a mute point since you get the HoM trophy at r4 which is simple enough to get.
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nvmu
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Originally Posted by Morgoth the dark
Well tbh, we all know how most of these "veteran players" did max LB. AFK farm ftw.
And maxing SS after you finish the game = complete ridiculance, since you just grind grind grind on enemyes... Back stab? I dont think so. It's just the correct thing to do. Go Anet. |
And for ss, alot of people who did the ss/lb runs were also farming for ele swords, well when they were worth something.
smilingscar
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Originally Posted by Shadowspawn X
Just another back stab to veteran players.
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Well look who's reaping all the benefits now you industrious people...finally my laziness is paying off.
Vilaptca
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All in all it seems quite underwhelming, nothing at all for veteran pve'rs but new players seem to be getting a free pass lets hope something unforeseen and great comes from this watering down of titles.
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I've been playing since day one, I don't have a ton of stupid titles maxed, and I don't want a ton of stupid titles maxed. PvE doesn't have to mean titles. I was fine playing PvE before the introduction of titles.
I'm a veteran player and I approve of this watering down of titles.
netniwk
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Originally Posted by Vilaptca
Veteran does not mean the same thing as a title grinder.
I've been playing since day one, I don't have a ton of stupid titles maxed, and I don't want a ton of stupid titles maxed. PvE doesn't have to mean titles. I was fine playing PvE before the introduction of titles. I'm a veteran player and I approve of this watering down of titles. |
Hell, make Koabd account wide.
garethporlest18
They should do something that adds life to the game that's all I know, but it doesn't look like this update will be doing that. It also sucks that it's not coming today, sucks bad bad bad.
Shadowmoon
<title grinder, and i approve of these title changes, no reduction in difficulty in any of them, just reduction of grind for the extreme titles and annoying behaviors of others.
Shadowspawn X
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Veteran does not mean the same thing as a title grinder.
I've been playing since day one, I don't have a ton of stupid titles maxed, and I don't want a ton of stupid titles maxed. PvE doesn't have to mean titles. I was fine playing PvE before the introduction of titles. I'm a veteran player and I approve of this watering down of titles. |
You don't care about titles yet you jump and applaud news of something that doesn't even effect you. If something is broken it should be fixed no doubt but all that is happening here watering down for the sake of watering down.SS/LB has been around two years with 10's of thousand of players maxing the title 9.3% of players have maxed SS and 6.5% have maxed LB (this is taken from a sample of 20,000 players on gwcharacters) but that is a lot of people who haven't had issue with those titles.
cosyfiep
as a multi-character player, I am more than happy that they are making some of the titles account wide...it wont affect my 'unlicky' title as 99/100 even with more than 50% chance I STILL break my lockpicks----(this update may give me 90/100 wooot!).
My armor hogs would really appreciate a lower level on eye armor rep---but doubt that will happen (eye gets old real really realllllly fast after the first 10 characters).
kurzick/luxon faction as has been said r4 is all thats necessary so thats what I got (yes multi-characters certainly help on that one)....not worried about the 'max' of that one as I will never look at it again.
ss/lb....have yet to max lb but after my first character maxed ss I gave up on it and went to the next character (she is almost there, guess I should finish it up before tomorrow?)...doing wurm runs gets older than farming raptors (and with my reputation for grape drops and grapes from locked chests...it gets sad, really sad).
ah, well, I am impressed they are still working on gw and that they are trying to keep some of the players happy....as they say you cant please all the people all of the time, but sometime you please someone.
My armor hogs would really appreciate a lower level on eye armor rep---but doubt that will happen (eye gets old real really realllllly fast after the first 10 characters).
kurzick/luxon faction as has been said r4 is all thats necessary so thats what I got (yes multi-characters certainly help on that one)....not worried about the 'max' of that one as I will never look at it again.
ss/lb....have yet to max lb but after my first character maxed ss I gave up on it and went to the next character (she is almost there, guess I should finish it up before tomorrow?)...doing wurm runs gets older than farming raptors (and with my reputation for grape drops and grapes from locked chests...it gets sad, really sad).
ah, well, I am impressed they are still working on gw and that they are trying to keep some of the players happy....as they say you cant please all the people all of the time, but sometime you please someone.
Eragon Zarroc
they delayed the update a week so they would have time to finish it and now they may delay it another day? someone needs to pick up the slack -_-
Cobalt
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So lets sum this up: reduced numbers on reputation titles
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If so, then they are not going to really do anything to actually make it easier like they said they were it will be more like as one evens out the other. We will be essentially back to square one and people will again be seeking new ways to bot rep quick again because it will still take as just as long as before.
imnotyourmother
Look here is how I see thing...
Remember that these titles go into the HoM. So with that in mind...there must be a tie in for the players playing now to get things in the new guild wars.
So those of you that bought the game 3 years ago will be rewarded with - the titles that you have now and the resulting things that this unlocks in GW2 giving an instant advantage.
If the veteran players did not think that this was the case then they would have empty halls and too many ectos to count.
My example is that I just got the Norn armor this weekend for my war. I reached lvl 5 of the title and then proceeded to get my armor. That stuff almost bankrupted me. It cost me 65K for the mats and another 50K to craft it. I can not even use it yet as I haven't got enough gold to add the runes to it so I am farming them.
The reason that I do not have a lot of gold is that I have been doing the slow steady march to the Lucky and UnLucky titles for my war. It pays for itself but if you consider that I have a 56% chance to retain my lockpick in gwen area it takes a lot of lockpicks to open 10,000 chests! I have spend over 1,000,000 gold already just in lockpicks. Ask Octavia - rest of name omitted - I am only lvl 2 in both Titles in this toon so any changes are great as I need as much help as I can get cause I do not have FACTIONS. So the Board walk 9 rings game is out for me.
So Woot for the changes!!
Remember that these titles go into the HoM. So with that in mind...there must be a tie in for the players playing now to get things in the new guild wars.
So those of you that bought the game 3 years ago will be rewarded with - the titles that you have now and the resulting things that this unlocks in GW2 giving an instant advantage.
If the veteran players did not think that this was the case then they would have empty halls and too many ectos to count.
My example is that I just got the Norn armor this weekend for my war. I reached lvl 5 of the title and then proceeded to get my armor. That stuff almost bankrupted me. It cost me 65K for the mats and another 50K to craft it. I can not even use it yet as I haven't got enough gold to add the runes to it so I am farming them.
The reason that I do not have a lot of gold is that I have been doing the slow steady march to the Lucky and UnLucky titles for my war. It pays for itself but if you consider that I have a 56% chance to retain my lockpick in gwen area it takes a lot of lockpicks to open 10,000 chests! I have spend over 1,000,000 gold already just in lockpicks. Ask Octavia - rest of name omitted - I am only lvl 2 in both Titles in this toon so any changes are great as I need as much help as I can get cause I do not have FACTIONS. So the Board walk 9 rings game is out for me.
So Woot for the changes!!
Jecht Scye
I'm a title grinder, and I don't think they're backstabbing me. Make the titles less annoying to get, since I wish they were when I got them.
Dr.Jones
the images wont load for me.... from everything i have read though the update will be tonight
Scythe O F Glory
Its just a gut feeling that they're hiding something from us... something big. This doesnt seem like enough to be the longest update notes ever.
Kook~NBK~
As a veteran player who happens to be a title grinder, I don't think the confirmed changes (account-wide treasure/Wisdom, etc.) are a slap in the face to anyone. But I do see them as a boon for those who haven't maxed out the various titles being tweaked.
Not being able to get survivor on my main, I've been trying to sort out what title number 30 will be. My best options are: Kurzick [15% complete], Lucky[35%], Treasure[30%], Wisdom[25%], Unlicky[15%]. If nothing else, this update will help sort out which one to shoot for.
Not being able to get survivor on my main, I've been trying to sort out what title number 30 will be. My best options are: Kurzick [15% complete], Lucky[35%], Treasure[30%], Wisdom[25%], Unlicky[15%]. If nothing else, this update will help sort out which one to shoot for.
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Its just a gut feeling that they're hiding something from us... something big. This doesnt seem like enough to be the longest update notes ever.
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Yea, i have exacly the same feeling. There MUST BE something big. Also, the essence nerf... i expect moar than just title update, from this title update.
BulletStopper
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As a veteran player who happens to be a title grinder, I don't think the confirmed changes (account-wide treasure/Wisdom, etc.) are a slap in the face to anyone. But I do see them as a boon for those who haven't maxed out the various titles being tweaked.
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I also have been playing since the beta and am a title grinder. I choose to get GWAMM on my main. I did it for myself, not to impress others. If toning down the requirements for some of these titles keeps someone else from "enjoying" the hours of HFFF I did for that 30th title - good for them. Guess I should have waited - it's not like GW2 comes out next week, nor has there been anything stated about any benefit to titles anyway.
therangereminem
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Originally Posted by take_me
Thanks for posting. Not really new info in it.
To sum it up: - Cap on Kuzick/luxon titles will be increased - Wisdom/Treasure Hunter will be made account wide - There will be new ways of getting SS and LB points - No skill changes - no new titles - no HoM-changes - update will probably come out on Friday - no new weapon skin in the next time - no new emotes are planned - no double party point weekend is planned |
your statment on kur/lux title cap being hgigher wrong fyi
it will stay the same hff getting chamged and there will be easier way to get faction