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Tsunami Rain

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15 Jan 2006 at 08:58 - 1

Did anyone write up a complete report of what Gaile Grey said today (for me) or yesterday (for most of you)? A lot of info came out about GW: Factions. At least 300 New Skills 80 Elites, new pets, more than 100 new monsters...Contraversial items and skills will be nerfed AFTER GWWC (idk if any of this news has been reported yet here in the forums, sry i didnt take screen shots).

On a side note...Gaile Gray is a broncos, seahawks, and raiders fan

I guess others can add on (or am i so ignerant as to not know that all this info that i have typed out is already known)

-Tsunami

koneko

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15 Jan 2006 at 09:13 - 2

No idea if GWG has the same draconian rules about posting links to other GW sites like the other GW fansite has, but:
Gaile Chat [log: 15/01/2006] (gwonline.net)

Are you certain that she mentioned that items would be nerfed?

Manic Smile

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15 Jan 2006 at 09:18 - 3

bye bye HoD sword...muwhahahahahah...

bye bye 55 monk *cough* *hack* *chocke*

bring in THE bat

DID NOT LIKE the part about having to use existing slots for this weekends event.

Ultimate_Gaara

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BC, Canada.. how aboot that eh?

15 Jan 2006 at 09:23 - 4

We should just have one big sticky topic dedicated to special appearances by Gaile Grey.

Dahnel

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Rt/Me

15 Jan 2006 at 09:27 - 5

i was there ...uh by accident when she poped in...and the place quickly filled up . however she did'nt say anything really exclusive ... mostly just talked about sports . apparantly "changes" are going to be made to skills after the world championships , the only other interesting thing she said is that we will get a new interface "that you will see next week"

Sol_Vie

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15 Jan 2006 at 09:37 - 6

I am so damned excited... I can't wait for next weekend!

Tsunami Rain

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15 Jan 2006 at 09:37 - 7

I believe at one point everyone kept talking about nerfing skills..i think Gaile said (after the 3rd time) "after GWWC skills and items will be nerfed." Im not sure if Gaile ment to say "items" or not but the first two times she only said skills...I did however take this nice screenshot (see below) of everyone running around LA. BY THE WAY.. i think she did also say at one point that she THINKS that not all current skills in GW will be available to buy/cap in factions. A lot of new ideas...and Gaile went afk to use the phone LOL.

sry almost forgot the pic

Savio

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15 Jan 2006 at 09:43 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by koneko

No idea if GWG has the same draconian rules about posting links to other GW sites like the other GW fansite has

Nope, so long as it isn't advertisement or spam.

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Originally Posted by Ultimate_Gaara

We should just have one big sticky topic dedicated to special appearances by Gaile Grey.

Then I'd have to find all the old threads, and that would suck on my part. I'm thinking about it though.

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

15 Jan 2006 at 09:48 - 9

why dont we just start a sticky topic starting from current Gaile Gray news rather than old news (since most of the old news is well..old news)

Gaile Gray

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15 Jan 2006 at 09:50 - 10

Oh, goodness, I did not mean to say "changes to items" or use the word "nerf" in relation to items at all. (I didn't think I had, but the questions come quickly -- maybe I goofed!)

Skills will be updated after the GWWC. I don't know that we'll do anything to items, then or at any time. But of course, if something is out of whack in one way or another, we will deal with it. But again, no nerfage predicted.

Shusky

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Flying Purple Hippos

15 Jan 2006 at 09:51 - 11

She has a special radar and comes online always when I'm not, doesn't she?

Manic Smile

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15 Jan 2006 at 10:07 - 12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

Oh, goodness, I did not mean to say "changes to items" or use the word "nerf" in relation to items at all.

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

oh well...guess HoD will still be there

...think I just made HC

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

15 Jan 2006 at 10:09 - 13

*faints* i just made a 55 monk relief to know that the 55 build will still be useful. Thanks for pointing that out Gaile.

koneko

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15 Jan 2006 at 10:09 - 14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

Oh, goodness, I did not mean to say "changes to items" or use the word "nerf" in relation to items at all. (I didn't think I had, but the questions come quickly -- maybe I goofed!)

Yay

*hugs The Rockmolder that never gets used as often as it should for the time being*

Thanks for clearing that up

I didn't see the word "items" in the screenshots, but it doesn't hurt to make sure :|

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15 Jan 2006 at 10:14 - 15

yeah it was later when a lot of the spammers left the channel or stoped spamming..i think? unless im seeing things o.O;

Deathqueen

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15 Jan 2006 at 10:36 - 16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

Oh, goodness, I did not mean to say "changes to items" or use the word "nerf" in relation to items at all. (I didn't think I had, but the questions come quickly -- maybe I goofed!)

Skills will be updated after the GWWC. I don't know that we'll do anything to items, then or at any time. But of course, if something is out of whack in one way or another, we will deal with it. But again, no nerfage predicted.

Something you said did leave me with some concern to where your actual loyalties do lie. On one had you said you like to talk about PVE as much as PVP then you made this statement:

[/quote] We have a certain guild that has about 700 GW Players. Yes, some of "our best support comes from those in large guilds"; making "THEIR" play experience better is a "PRIMARY" goal. [/unquote]

Can't say I was too happy about that statement. Us individual PVE players put a lot of support into this game as well. I can't say for certain which has the bigger population, but, I certainly don't see as many people in the PVP areas as I do in the PVE game areas. So, my suggestion is you make EVERYONE's both PVE & PVP experience your PRIMARY goal and not just your "large guilds".

JR

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15 Jan 2006 at 10:50 - 17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

I don't know that we'll do anything to items, then or at any time.

I think a lot of people would be very happy if you removed certain items. The HoD sword and axe, the 20% rockmoulder, +15% no penalty weapons.... All items which are going to get more and more stupidly priced as time goes on, with them now being so rare.

And that's not even getting started on the whole PvE items in PvP argument

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Originally Posted by Deathqueen

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We have a certain guild that has about 700 GW Players. Yes, some of "our best support comes from those in large guilds"; making "THEIR" play experience better is a "PRIMARY" goal.

Can't say I was too happy about that statement. Us PVE players put a lot of support into this game as well. I can't say for certain which has the bigger population, but, I certainly don't see as many people in the PVP areas as I do in the PVE game areas. So, my suggestion is you make EVERYONE's both PVE & PVP experience your PRIMARY goal and not just your "large guilds".

Where did Gaile say that it was a PvP guild? If she was talking about Amazon Basin (which is the only guild that comes to mind, having 7 divisions and therefore maybe 700 players) it only has one purely PvP division. And as for less people in PvP districts, I'd love to know how you can see into peoples Guild Halls

Digital Bath

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15 Jan 2006 at 10:57 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deathqueen

Something you said did leave me with some concern to where your actual loyalties do lie. On one had you said you like to talk about PVE as much as PVP then you made this statement:

We have a certain guild that has about 700 GW Players. Yes, some of "our best support comes from those in large guilds"; making "THEIR" play experience better is a "PRIMARY" goal. [/unquote]

Can't say I was too happy about that statement. Us PVE players put a lot of support into this game as well. I can't say for certain which has the bigger population, but, I certainly don't see as many people in the PVP areas as I do in the PVE game areas. So, my suggestion is you make EVERYONE's both PVE & PVP experience your PRIMARY goal and not just your "large guilds".

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This is never going to happen and everyone damned well knows it by now. Anet = Anerf. They fix skills not by improving in other areas, but by nerfing the hell out of skills so that they are useless. The primary objective of GW is for pvp play, and yes I am a pve player saying this. They think of the pvp people first and foremost, if this whole little spchiel of a world competition didn't point that arrogantly out. If you don't want to pvp, then that's fine, but they are basically saying "don't come and whine to us that you skills are broken in pve cause we don't give a damn so long as they work correct in pvp or a pvp type environment." Hey, let's make it so all monsters run from an AoE spell but they don't instantly bolt from being whaled on. It's blatantly obvious where there objectives lie and as much as they can attempt to cover them up, it isn't happening. People have wised up to what ANet does to it's player/fan base if they don't play according to how they believe they should play. Yes, other MMO's do this, but they actually *gasp* state the reasons why it was needed and *gasp* a majority of the fan/player base actually accepts and commends them on doing so. Most MMOs have a pve end game of experience, except for this game which directs you to play pvp for countless hours or move on to something else.

JR

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15 Jan 2006 at 11:21 - 19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digital Bath

This is never going to happen and everyone damned well knows it by now. Anet = Anerf. They fix skills not by improving in other areas, but by nerfing the hell out of skills so that they are useless. The primary objective of GW is for pvp play, and yes I am a pve player saying this. They think of the pvp people first and foremost, if this whole little spchiel of a world competition didn't point that arrogantly out. If you don't want to pvp, then that's fine, but they are basically saying "don't come and whine to us that you skills are broken in pve cause we don't give a damn so long as they work correct in pvp or a pvp type environment." Hey, let's make it so all monsters run from an AoE spell but they don't instantly bolt from being whaled on. It's blatantly obvious where there objectives lie and as much as they can attempt to cover them up, it isn't happening. People have wised up to what ANet does to it's player/fan base if they don't play according to how they believe they should play. Yes, other MMO's do this, but they actually *gasp* state the reasons why it was needed and *gasp* a majority of the fan/player base actually accepts and commends them on doing so. Most MMOs have a pve end game of experience, except for this game which directs you to play pvp for countless hours or move on to something else.

Skills can't really be "broken" in PvE. There is no "balance", you are killing AI monsters. I don't think they are going to complain to Anet that the skills being used on them are broken. However, if you don't bother balancing skills in PvP, the whole thing becomes a complete joke. You complain about skills being nerfed untill they are useless, and yet you are PvE player... So unless you ran 4 monk backline e-drain builds in fissure, or ether renewal smite in the underworld, I really don't see how it matters to you. Skills wise, the game is now as well balanced as it has ever been. There are a fair few skills that might need a slight buff, but thats it really. I also really don't see how the AoE patch comes into your argument at all either, considering that had NO effect on PvP.

They don't care about PvE? How about all of the work that went into sorrows furnace? Have the PvP players even had something as simple as one new arena map? No. PvE players get stuff like the new Icy Dragon Swords, can PvP players get them? No. The 55 new missions and countless new areas that will be in Chapter 2? Nope anet does not give a DAMN about PvE clearly....

I am not trying to say that Anet cares more about PvE, either. Neither am I about to cry about being mistreated by a company that gives me an online RPG with great PvP and no monthly fees. Please, jump off the bandwagon and try to be a little less ignorant.

M1h4iL

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15 Jan 2006 at 11:30 - 20

Great read of what Gaile said, am exited about this weekend

Divinus Stella

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15 Jan 2006 at 13:25 - 21

Ive only ever seen gaile once, conversations about bakery products and pets are ok, but i got no real questions answered, i try to get there whenever i hear shes about, but im always AFK or busy, then by the time i get round to it LA is full.

Only real problems i have with the game is the shortage of character slots, and skill balances, i dont see why it takes so long to nerf FOTM's, i know GWWC is going on but nerfing IWAY isnt gonna hurt anyone but noobs, i somehow doubt WM will be upset if they cant run IWAY or VIM in the finals.

lyra_song

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R/Mo

15 Jan 2006 at 13:32 - 22

Dear Gaile Grey,

Theres one thing bothering me...

I have GW. I have 4 slots.

I buy GWF. It has 4+ slots.

Since i can keep them seperate (its what im getting from you) i will have 8+ slots

But if i merge it, how many slots would i get?? Do i only get all the slots from both accounts. Or only my 4 slots plus the additional slots as if i only had 1 account?

Sincerely Confused

Deathqueen

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15 Jan 2006 at 17:21 - 23

It hasn't been determined yet Lyra or Iyra. But, the way it works as of now, if you only purchase FACTIONS you will get 4 character slots just like the orgional, but, if you merge them then you will only get the for sure 1 more slot and the rest is to be determined (the ole if we tell them now they won't preorder it scam).

Tsunami Rain

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15 Jan 2006 at 19:00 - 24

Even if it's only one additional slot, it would be more beneficial to just add on GW:F to your previous account because you already unlocked skills and items. If you were to have two seperate accounts, your GW:F account will have to unlock all of your skills all over again (not to mention if Factions doesn't have ALL of the skills from the current GW you might be at a loss).

chris_nin00

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R/

15 Jan 2006 at 19:23 - 25

Did she say anything about Henchie AI? They now run away from AOEs

Deathqueen

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15 Jan 2006 at 19:26 - 26

She did say there will be more and different henchies, well of course there will, a dumb assassin and a dumb ritualist.

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Mo/

15 Jan 2006 at 19:29 - 27

I'm just happy about more character slots :P

Malchior Devenholm

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15 Jan 2006 at 21:49 - 28

Yeah...i need to know the answer to that question posted by the guy earlier *sry cant remember name*

IF WE MERGE CH 2 WITH OUR CH 1 ACCOUNT WILL WE GET THE 4+ SLOTS WE'RE PROMISED OF CH 2, OR JUST THE 1+ EXTRA SLOT THAT WILL BE ADDED?

thanks,
Malchior Devenholm

Naxohs Seralna

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E/R

15 Jan 2006 at 21:54 - 29

Gaile seems like such a nice person!

I love it how ArenaNet sends someone from CR to talk to players like that. This was never done in the 6 months I played SWG! Oh well...it's been proved on several occasions that SOE sucks at CR. :P

Can't wait to get chapter 2!

Capitan Del Queso

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15 Jan 2006 at 22:09 - 30

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris_nin00

Did she say anything about Henchie AI? They now run away from AOEs

Well, just yesterday I was capping in Mineral Springs and at the one group of ice imps in the middleof the area, I found both Alesia AND Lina standing in a maelstrom, neither of them had an ice hex on them, and they were both sitting in the maelstrom attempting to cast spells for the entire duration of the maelstrom. Now THAT'S a couple of smart henchies. I remember someone saying they had a similar experience, but they suspected the game might have had some kind of henchie protocol in which the henches won't move out of aoe if they really need to cast spells, but that makes it pretty obvious that getting out of a freaking maelstrom would be the first priority. Also, when this happened my party was in good condition as we had just engaged the enemies. There certainly was no good reason to stay in an aoe, especially not a friggin maelstrom. They weren't body blocked either.

viper008

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15 Jan 2006 at 22:14 - 31

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris_nin00

Did she say anything about Henchie AI? They now run away from AOEs

If you read the change logs when Anet puts out an update you would have seen that this is intended and not a bug. Also the same goes for the monsters AI they will do the same thus making nukers useless now to some extent

Sagius Truthbarron

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15 Jan 2006 at 23:07 - 32

Tsunami! Get down! The Farms are out to kill anyone who says that the AoE related AI improvements were for the better! WATCH OUT! AAAH! THEY'RE COMMING FROM THE RAFTERS! 55 HP MONK AT 10 O'CLOCK!! I HAVE SPITEFUL SPIRIT ON ME! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! AAAAH!

Anyway, yeah, that was a really neat chat. When I heard that part about 'Animal Sacrifices' I actually went to Tombs to see if the Commander was sacrificing Wolves. Then I slapped myself on the head and went 'Doh!'

Can't wait untill we can take over the world!

Loviatar

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15 Jan 2006 at 23:19 - 33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sagius Truthbarron

Tsunami! Get down! The Farms are out to kill anyone who says that the AoE related AI improvements were for the better!

Can't wait untill we can take over the world!

wait for the primal screams of agony when the enemy casters/archers follow them around a corner instead of uselessly shooting at the wall .

8 skeleton rangers charge around the corner after you with apply poison and 6 seconds later you die......

bu...bu...buttt it was supposed to be they all group at the wall and stand there while i apply 2 firestorms to them and grab the loot...it is not fairrrrr

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

16 Jan 2006 at 01:35 - 34

*casts strip enchant on 55 monk* *55 monk dies* *follows sagius*

neoteo

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16 Jan 2006 at 01:47 - 35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Manic Smile

DID NOT LIKE the part about having to use existing slots for this weekends event.

i think you have missed something , you dont have to ... they say : if you have a free slot , you can use your existing acount , its a good thing , not bad , becose the things you do with it will stay , like exp you gain , unlock skills etc ... but no one is telling you that you cant make a new acount with the acount keys they give in guildwars.com ... if you dont want to " waste " your own slot and gain everything with it , just make a new acount as people that dont have gw will do. im sure you have a pvp slot , so why cry about it ...

Lets Get to Healing

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16 Jan 2006 at 03:54 - 36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsunami Rain

Did anyone write up a complete report of what Gaile Grey said today (for me) or yesterday (for most of you)? A lot of info came out about GW: Factions. At least 300 New Skills 80 Elites, new pets, more than 100 new monsters...Contraversial items and skills will be nerfed AFTER GWWC (idk if any of this news has been reported yet here in the forums, sry i didnt take screen shots)
-Tsunami

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Shut Your Mouth

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16 Jan 2006 at 06:23 - 37

[QUOTE=JR-] I also really don't see how the AoE patch comes into your argument at all either, considering that had NO effect on PvP.

Well there are the few that still use henchmen in PvP. Don't forget about your friendly Ghostly Hero, Guild Lord, Bodyguards, and so on. Although I have not used AoE in PvP for quite a while.... The Healer Hench=useless still casts herself to death with one Backfire.

As for Account character slots:

GW: 6 primary professions = 4 slots
GW Factions: 2 new primary professions = 1 more slot
Seems fair to me

So many choices. Make the most out of your slot's.
They did allow you the ability to change secondary profession at will.

Executioner

Lion's Arch Merchant

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16 Jan 2006 at 07:20 - 38

Bring on the skill nurf i say !!! i have come to like skill nurfs, its like the meta game changes again, gotta have some game variation.

I dont see why the HoD sword should get a nurf, since i would prefer a +5 energy +20% cast/recharge/skills recharge wand any day, i know most people may think the sword may be better for the simple fact that u can customize it, but you can do better with the wand and switching between other items.

Whats to say that in chapter 2 items a bit like the HoD sword or items with +15% no penalty or items totaly out of wack (+10 energy & - 75 health), it would certainly make things more intresting, items just need to follow the stats balance rules then tweeked after if needed.

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tafy69

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16 Jan 2006 at 08:15 - 39

Shame they are waiting untill end of WC for skill updates, that means another month to wait till tombs is something other than an IWAY festival.

Deathqueen

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

16 Jan 2006 at 12:33 - 40

What makes you think they are going to nerf IWAY?