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Chris and Celeste lament that they can’t be in Colin Johanson’s luminous presence, talk about legendaries, sPvP improvments and how we want a smartphone app.

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 What We Did This Week

Celeste:

  • Jumping Puzzles
  • WvW with my ele

Chris:

  • Livestreamed some WuvWuv on Sunday night on my Engineer. Had a lot of fun! Actually a close fight this week. Only 20K points separate 1st and 3rd.
  • Levelled my Elle to 7. Wanted to play more but damn RL got in the way.


Lion’s Arch Report

Colin Johanson (“Game Director” now) on the GW2 Forum about Scavenger Hunts
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Where-s-the-Scavenger-Hunt-post/first#post1190541

  • This was something that we all thought would be added sooner rather than later
  • Sapience’s “soon” (http://my.lotro.com/user-34/2010/09/13/a-brief-history-of-time-according-to-sapience/)
  • “We are however working on expanding reward systems to make them more re-rewarding across all parts of the game, making the open world more rewarding, and adding new ways you can earn precursors as rewards via new reward systems taking advantage of our open persistent world.”
  • Precursors will be dropping more steadily in all areas of the world? What does this mean for the value of them on the TP?


Will Offers a New Method to Attain a Precursor
http://dwpgaming.blogspot.com/2013/01/gw2-obtaining-your-token-of-legend.html

  • seems *incredibly* intense as far as the last “dungeon”
  • probably less work than earning the gold to buy a precursor
  • eliminates the RNG loss factor from combining exotics to get a precursor


Colin Johanson weighs in on the smartphone apps
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Everyone-remember-the-smartphone-app/first#post1201592

  • currently abandoned to work on the core game experience
  • touts improvements to the core game and drop rates/rewards as the primary delay


Johnathan Sharp attempts to assuage spvp fears
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/pvp/pvp/Spvp-destiny-An-important-message/page/4#post1169799

  • unfortunately this seemed to only upset some fans as everything indicated more delays and refocusing on custom arenas as opposed to tournament matchmaking


Colin Johanson lets us know that we record too early in the week to be relevant
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/One-blog-or-two/first#post1176001

  • blog posts to focus on the six month plan for gw2 core


Tales of Tyria

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/fangen/Project-The-Great-Tryrian-Pub-Crawl

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