Questions for Gaile and Froggy

[shadowflare]

Here is one, has anyone ever asked about adding minions and temporarily controlled "things" into the party window or their own seperate window? This would make micro-management a lot easier, especially if there is a minion master necro in the group.

Of course, I understand that difficulty in micro-management may be intentional. Still its been a feature I know I've wanted for awhile.

[Corwin of the Rose]

i have a few questions.

Why did they choose 6 slots instead of 8? ( i just want a reason (storage or bandwidth or something else), this isnt a gripe)

Would Anet consider selling people slots for a small sum of money? ( the max slots one could have woudl of course be 1 for each primary (what i dream of) and an extra for pvp (which i odnt care for))

Will merging F and P give us more storage? ( not how much more, but will it give us more)

Would it be possible to customize henchmen, for example choose their atributes and skills? will there be 2 class henchmen?

will merchants be capped at a reasonable price? (no rune can go above 7k, no die can go above 500 for example)

is it posible to make purple armors only drop purple runs, gold armors only drop gold runes and so on?


Sorry if any of these have already been answered, i have read mnay gaile lgs and have not found an answer (but i may have missed it)

[DBZVelena]

I made this topic where you can ask your questions.
Because I and i'm sure plenty of other people have questions we'd like to ask Gaile and The Frog.
But can't get in to the International 1 district when they are on.
Or are usually sleeping when they are online.

So when Gaile and Frog come online, i'm hoping somebody who's in Int 1 will open a browser window with this topic and asks the questions that we collected here.

Also questiones that have been anwsered will move to the Gaile and Frog FAQ topic so that they won't get asked twise or milion times over.

Ok, before you go wild on posting your varius questions to Gaile and Froggy here.
First visit the Gaile and The Frog FAQ (http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?t=387580).
Aswell as a few of the recently posted Gaile and Frog logs before posting your question.

Any discussion on the anwseres to questions posted here should be done elsewhere or on pm. But if you know the anwser to a question posted here, please do post the anwser.
However when anwsering questions posted here, be 100% sure its the right anwser you post.

I'll start with a question of my own, and i'll add other questions posted here below it once they've been posted.

Q: If a fan would write a novel lenght story situated in the Guildwars realm. Could they get permission from Anet to get it published?

[Cyberman]

Well, sooner or later someone will write this, so why not me?

Q: What are the technical(!) reasons for the number of slots upon mergin/linking Prophecies and Factions.
Ignore content and such(no ones arguing about content), just technical reasons.
Perhaps prophecies players being imported to Factions-database, selling additional accounts(I doubt it), etc...
I don´t think ANY answer could be worse than the continued speculation and (flame)wars going on.
(Well, except perhaps the answer that they have to sacrifice one player to Mephisto for each slot ;-)

Gaile said in the recent log that this fuzzy mathematics was the best way she could explain it. So, try the worst way, then, because (we) people don´t understand it.

[Corwin of the Rose]

i have a few questions.

Q:Why did they choose 6 slots instead of 8? ( i just want a reason (storage or bandwidth or something else), this isnt a gripe)

Q:Would Anet consider selling people slots for a small sum of money? ( the max slots one could have woudl of course be 1 for each primary (what i dream of) and an extra for pvp (which i odnt care for))

Q:Will merging F and P give us more storage? ( not how much more, but will it give us more)

Q:Would it be possible to customize henchmen, for example choose their atributes and skills? will there be 2 class henchmen?

Q:will merchants be capped at a reasonable price? (no rune can go above 7k, no die can go above 500 for example)

Q:is it posible for Aner to make purple armors only drop purple runs, gold armors only drop gold runes and so on?


Sorry if any of these have already been answered, i have read mnay gaile lgs and have not found an answer (but i may have missed it)

[Vallen Frostweaver]

Q: Will pets be given an 'attack' command similar to the henchies SHFT+CTRL+Space and will pets be given an option to 'recall' them from attacking or immediately switch targets?

Q: Is there a plan in the works to link blackout time from pet death/resurrection to the Beastmaster attribute line?

[Duncan Goldeneyes]

I have one question for Gaile/the Frog:
Would it be possible to have the pets appear in the party formation screen? Then parties would know if that player that said they would bring a pet in mission, is actually bringing one. I know that having pets themselves appear in town would almost certainly create lag issues, so please note that I am asking about a health bar (etc) *only* as already exists outside of towns, to be existent inside towns as well.
Thank you for your time,

-Duncan Goldeneyes

[Firefoxie]

I'm Australian. :grin: I've heard that Australia/New Zealand will get their pre-orders from the European stock, so I'll check that out. Thanks for the direct reply. :smiley:

[Silly fanboy mode]
I got a direct reply from Gaile! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
[/Silly fanboy mode]

UPDATE: D'oh... No special pre-order item if I get the preorder boxed set? But I get a Factions music CD if I do? Grrraaah... Decisions, decisions...

Seems you missed a line...


THE EUROPEAN BOXED PRE-ORDER PACK
The European boxed Pre-Order Pack will be available in stores on March 31st and will include:

Access to Guild Wars Factions twenty-four hours before the official release date
Exclusive in-game items—one unique item for each of the two new professions
A tactical guide and quick-reference card PDF in five different languages
A CD that includes concept art, wallpapers, in-game movies, and Factions music
A Guild Wars Factions poster

[Alpis]

Would it be feasable to give us Skill sets, using F5 - F8. simular to weapon sets. Changable in town only. and this would be best, i belive, to refund all attribute points too. thus making it easier, faster, to change.

Increasing Stacks to 1000, instead of the now 250.

Able to minimize windows, ie vault, party formation, etc.

Zoning questions: keeping Map Area open if it's open, keeping enchantments.

[neurobilbao]

¿Will give us another slot the CE Version of Factions?
I will buy it if this happen.... as much more ppl i think.

¿Will the map teleport work when u are into a stanced-zone?
...A question for the players will popup for a confirmation in the case they dont wanna go...

[Gem]

Q:Why did they choose 6 slots instead of 8? ( i just want a reason (storage or bandwidth or something else), this isnt a gripe)

Wasn't it mentioned in the Gaile/Frog talk that they don't want people to share accounts with friends after getting too many slots which they won't use themselves? Atleast I got this idea.

Would it be feasable to give us Skill sets, using F5 - F8. simular to weapon sets. Changable in town only.

This has been answered. They are considering to implement this.


Q. Will there be any other way to access all of the PvE content than joining an alliance which is bigger and better than the others? Having to take part in PvP-stuff and relying on a big alliance to access PvE-content does sound weird.

Q. Will I be unable to access some content when I choose a faction? Can I change my faction later? Is the faction character/account/guild/alliance specific?

[Tozen]

Gaile, I'm with them... I want to know why there aren't more slots.

If it has to do with security reasons, there could be some sort of penalty for getting more slots. (1k deduction from storage per week for example.) OR, you could SELL US more slots!!!!

Besides, we're not asking for 1000s of slots, we're just asking for one for EACH primary profession + 1 for a PvP character. THAT'S IT. Is it so unreasonable that we want to play all the content you've made?

This wasn't a rant, but if we could get a concrete answer from the dev team, I and the community WOULD GREATLY appreciate it. The frusteration is not from the situation, but from the silence!

[Sai of Winterland]

Going off topic, my apologize it's just something I just like to share. Pretty funny what happened. I posted on another forum and here's the link...

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131411
Just something to share with the people here :)

[Cyberman]

Wasn't it mentioned in the Gaile/Frog talk that they don't want people to share accounts with friends after getting too many slots which they won't use themselves? Atleast I got this idea.
This has been mentioned, yes.
But it´s been a while after the slot issue, and with no direct reference.
Also, it doesn´t make much sense - two accounts are easier to share than one account.

[Bozos Of Bones]

I've seen many people asking if the level cap is going to be raised, and I've seen both The Frog and Gaile say it won't. But I've never seen anyone asking if there will be more attribute point quests? I sure could use another 16 or 20 :p

[False Visage]

What's the point of not having more levels if you can get more Attribute Points? Considering Attribute Points affect how strong a character is, I doubt they'd add more as well. Although, it could happen if a Prophecies character has access to the Factions content, and Factions has it's own Attribute Points quests. If that were the case, I'm sure they'd be a lock on it or something, to prevent characters with a linked account having such a tangebile advantage.

[DBZVelena]

I asked not to discus the questions.
Only to post Questions for Gaile and the Frog.
Or post answers to posted questions.
If you want to discus the mater of slots, please go elsewhere!
If you continue to discus this, I'll ask a moderator to remove your posts and either put them elsewhere, or delete them!

Thank you everybody who only posted viable questions.

[Symbolic Self]

WRT Skill changes:

Are we going to see continual tweaks or are you going to freeze the skill updates as soon as the ladder season starts?

Reason I'm asking is because while I think most of the skill changes were excellent, there are still too many underused (for various reason) skills that need improvement and there's a whole class that still needs serious looking at (elementalist).

[Xandlyn]

Question:
Why did ANet take out the head armor peices in pre-searing for all characters except warriors, and then gave the warrior helms a buff in armor?

Sorry, I still want to know why this was done even if the head armor was of insignificant armor value (my monk looks too bald without her head tattoo).

Adding in: 1000 post! Woot!

[purple llama]

the reason the ladder season is split into three mini seasons is so they can do skill tweaks in between them.

[Zaxares]

Seems you missed a line...
<snip>

Ah! They updated it. Previously that line about the special pre-order items was missing from the boxed set.

[brokenkey]

Will we be able to change the secondary of our existing Prophecies characters to ***/Rit once we've purchased Factions? Will we be able to do this in the Desert, or only in the new lands?

[Longhorn Protection]

This idea is probably too late now, but would it be at all possible to add a GW clock to the game. This way we could experience night time. Maybe some quests/missions could only be done during night/day and so on....

The clock could be x2 for example to avoide compications with clashes in varying countries time zones...

Whatever, just an Idea :D

[Xitoahc]

This has been mentioned, yes.
But it´s been a while after the slot issue, and with no direct reference.
Also, it doesn´t make much sense - two accounts are easier to share than one account.

I remember something said about people who share accounts, stealing/deleting from each other. For example two brothers who share an account, one decides to delete his brother's character or accidently deletes it. This is one of the reasons they wanted to avoid that. Which is where the no sharing rule comes in.

WRT Skill changes:

Are we going to see continual tweaks or are you going to freeze the skill updates as soon as the ladder season starts?

Reason I'm asking is because while I think most of the skill changes were excellent, there are still too many underused (for various reason) skills that need improvement and there's a whole class that still needs serious looking at (elementalist).

I was wondering the exact same thing. I thought there were going to be other balance updates besides that first one, and the bug one.

This idea is probably too late now, but would it be at all possible to add a GW clock to the game. This way we could experience night time. Maybe some quests/missions could only be done during night/day and so on....

The clock could be x2 for example to avoide compications with clashes in varying countries time zones...

Whatever, just an Idea :D

I second that idea, the world of Guild Wars is beautiful as it is, imagine being able to see these places at night. And the suggestion about day/night quests sounds interesting, though some who don't have the time, might have a hard time getting those quests.

[Chip]

This is starting to look like suggestions in a form of a quistion.

IE.
Suggestion : Could we have a recall button for our pets
Quistion : WILL we have a recall button for our pets

Heres Mine though:

Q : While we have a wardrobe to keep all of our armour and maybe weapons this could also be used as a gold sink since people will be multiple sets of armour.

Q : A "Collectors" storage for all of our Halloween, Wintersday, and soo to come goodies

[Firefoxie]

Ah! They updated it. Previously that line about the special pre-order items was missing from the boxed set.

ah ok, didn't knew that :)

[zmw]

Q: If I join one of the Factions, will I miss out on something only avalible to the other faction? (armors, skills...)

Q: If I join one of the Factions, will I be able to join the other side later on in the game?

Q: If I join one of the Factions, will all of my char join that Faction too?

[Archangel Raguil]

Q: Are we going to be able to use the new core profession skills during the preview event in March? I heard some info would come out regarding the skills, but are we actually going to be able to use them?

I think she said info will come out in "a few weeks"... man I want to know now! :tongue: I shudder to think that "a few weeks" could very well mean after the event...

[zeeZer]

Q: Divine Aura was the "special ingame thingy" for chapter 1, but both new professions will get it. Now I read about Ritualist and Assassin dances as "special ingame thingies" for chapter 2. Will there be something similar for the 6 core professions? In other words: omg rit&assi only sucks, me love monk, me want special stuff for all!

[Archangel Raguil]

With talk of Chapter 3 in the last Gaile talk, I just realized - Will the Assassins and Ritualist get new skills in Chapter 3?! Or is it just core professions?!

[Aaiiry Astald]

All professions would get new skills, including 'sin and rit. It would be like this

Core Skills
Prophicies skills
Factions skills
Chap3 skills

Everyone gets core, and the rest depend on if you have those games or not

[Archangel Raguil]

All professions would get new skills, including 'sin and rit. It would be like this

Core Skills
Prophicies skills
Factions skills
Chap3 skills

Everyone gets core, and the rest depend on if you have those games or not

cool, thanks for the quick reply

[Tenoh]

Can Anet give us their word that they wont make us pay monthly fees in the future? id like a hard solid promise.they already lied about expansion for GW.

[ShadowSword]

Considering the factions can gain territory, will it be possible for one Faction to actually 'win' by taking over all of Canthia?

Will there be actual event battles between the factions, such as a determined gamewide event people can fight in that will decide the fate of a large city rather than a small outpost? (Just a cool idea)

Will the storyline be a continuation or a new storyline completely? (probably already been answered but not in the recent logs)

Will there be changes to pathfinding?

If one profession turns out to be unfairly balanced, or there turns out to be glitches and people get an unfair advantage for a while will there be a rollback or a different action taken?

Will there be a large amount of new lore added?

[Tamer Of Spiders]

I would like to know how runes and other items whose price is determined by consumer demand will be effected by having two seperate but accessible "chapters". For instance, if everyone continues to buy/or sell their runes in Prophecies, what happens to the cost of runes in Factions. How will this be balanced.

[Nymon Bodom]

Q: I'd like information about new exotic armors like fow.

How much they cost and what material is main (I hope it's still ectos/shards) 'cos now those are simbolic materials for FoW armor.

And will you finally add, for example, +1 masteries helm t FoW set for warr.

By that I mean +1 axe helm, or +1 sword...

I mean who the hell uses +1 str or +1 tactic helms?? :P Same goes for 15k armor for warr... As much eyecandy suits I buy I always end up with that stupid warrior cap. :P

[Archangel Raguil]

Can Anet give us their word that they wont make us pay monthly fees in the future? id like a hard solid promise.they already lied about expansion for GW.

They already said that Guild Wars would never require a monthly fee, and they have promised it. My guess is with Sony making a MMORPG that uses the same business model, they won't be able to change to subscription even if they wanted to :wink:

How did they lie about expansion for GW?

[Cyberman]

I mean who the hell uses +1 str or +1 tactic helms?? :P
Erm, me? ;-)
I´m using a +1 strenght helm. For swordmanship I have the superior rune.

[Tenoh]

They already said that Guild Wars would never require a monthly fee, and they have promised it. My guess is with Sony making a MMORPG that uses the same business model, they won't be able to change to subscription even if they wanted to :wink:

How did they lie about expansion for GW?

I dont mean disrespect to words Anet,they gave me a good game and i am mostly happy.But the promised expansions not stand alone games,expansions not at the price as a full game and yet they changed that.
Basicly they can charge us,look at EULA,the claws are there.And there is a rumer that Anet plans to charge us.Thats why i want their word of honor that they wont charge monthly.Cause then i would stop playing this game.Internet here costs alot as it is... i cant pay more.

[Archangel Raguil]

I dont mean disrespect to words Anet,they gave me a good game and i am mostly happy.But the promised expansions not stand alone games,expansions not at the price as a full game and yet they changed that.
Basicly they can charge us,look at EULA,the claws are there.And there is a rumer that Anet plans to charge us.Thats why i want their word of honor that they wont charge monthly.Cause then i would stop playing this game.Internet here costs alot as it is... i cant pay more.

Technically you can add that stand-alone game to your existing account and it acts just like an expansion. I'm also pretty sure that they announced that they would release expansions - but never promised a reduced price for them. After all, these "expansions" aren't really just that. They are a whole new world, another game worth of content. You buy expansion packs and you usually get about half a game in content, or less.

Also, although the said they would be priced competitively with other MMORPGs, they have not released a price (as far as I know) so I think your concern isn't warrented, at least yet. And if it suits you, you could always wait a while before buying the GW: Factions, until the same amount of time as two expansion releases would have come out for any other game. Because to me, the main difference between GW expansions and other games is that GW sells you 2 or more expansions worth of material at once.

As a side note: Rumors are bad, and ArenaNet rumors are usually worse. Look at the cloth map from the original GW: Prophecies collector's edition - it never came to be. Neither did the additional character slot for GW: Faction's collector's edition. Ever since release there have been rumors about them charging a monthly fee, but their answer is still the same - "never".

[Tenoh]

Oh well, i just hope your right.

[KageMonkey]

Although Gaile posted that the Collector's Edition will be released in Canada, it sounded like a guess. It would be great to get a confirmation that the Factions Collector's Edition is truly being shipped to Canada.

The Manager from the Electronics Boutique that I usually buy from told me that they have looked into the issue and found that the Collector's Edition will not be offered in Canada. This is confirmed by other stores having no availability on the Collector's Edition.

[Medion]

Q:
As far as I know, some people will get entrance to elite missions, depending if their alliance, so guild, is controlling that city/outpost. Is it possible for a guest of a controlling-guild to enter those elite missions as well?

[Caelus The Fallen]

I dont mean disrespect to words Anet,they gave me a good game and i am mostly happy.But the promised expansions not stand alone games,expansions not at the price as a full game and yet they changed that.
Basicly they can charge us,look at EULA,the claws are there.And there is a rumer that Anet plans to charge us.Thats why i want their word of honor that they wont charge monthly.Cause then i would stop playing this game.Internet here costs alot as it is... i cant pay more.

They said right from the start that subsequent chapters would be priced at a level comparable to top-tier games, which is precisely what they've done.
They didnt lie, it seems to just be your own prejudice to the word "expansion" that makes you assume it would be cheaper.

[Azri Shatterthought]

One question for Gaile:
Q: When (and if?) can we expect to see a cinematic trailer for factions?

and one question for the community:
Q: When would be the best time to try going to Int. district 1 to see Gaile/Frog?

Thanks

[DrD]

Someone ask Galie:

Whats the Bonus Music Key in the CE package?

Thanks alot

[Archangel Raguil]

Someone ask Galie:

Whats the Bonus Music Key in the CE package?

Thanks alot

If I'm not mistaken, it's a key that you get to unlock additional music in game. Direct Song (I believe that's the name of the company...) also sells music that you can add on to Guild Wars, and listen to in game...

[Thalanor Thornhale]

How will the transfer of guilds from Prophecies to Faction work?

[Damaron]

Why oh why won't the game pause during cut scenes? :cry: I hate it when minions die off, or monks end up with no energy, or we die during cut scenes, but the only other option is to skip and miss story line content.

[Isaiah]

Why haven't any devs posted in this thread? :P

Are they ever planning to add Fissure Bloodstained Boots?

[Cyberman]

It´s a bit of a weird question, but I´m curious.

To Gaile: Did you play Space Quest III, or IV, or where else did you play Astro Chicken?
WHY did you like it? (Maybe it´s been different in SQ4, I´ve only played it in SQ3, and hated it.)

[Sol Rael]

Does the presence of the Tengu henchman mean we'll be getting the oppourtunity to actually play that race soon?
Perhaps my memory is shot, but I'm pretty sure this is the first non-human henchie.

[Corwin of the Rose]

Will the new looks (char customization) be added to the old looks when we merge, will both be available or will some looks be available only when you are born in cantha and some only when you are born in Tyria?

[Erasculio]

The "Ashes draw all the aggro like SF gears" effect was made on purpose, or is this something that Arena Net plans to fix one day?

That's really the only question I would have to Gaile.

Erasculio

[Spoil of War]

Me too, I tried asking her during the FPE but she was being asked so many other questions she didn't answer it.

I'm hoping they dial it down.

[Juff Spufalufagus]

Question for Gaile:

Will guilds who chose a faction during the Factions preview for testing be allowed to change at the release of factions?

[False Visage]

Not really a Question, but can someone let Gaile know that you can pre-order not only the standard Factions game, but also the Collector's Edition in Aus? Just so she can let people know if they complain at her some time.

(I pre-ordered the CE from EB here so I'm qualified to say. :P )

[Zero RoGuE]

Does the presence of the Tengu henchman mean we'll be getting the oppourtunity to actually play that race soon?
Perhaps my memory is shot, but I'm pretty sure this is the first non-human henchie.The Tengu will be the first (of two) Permen non-human henchies. the First Non-human henchies are the candy corn golems(unless there was something else back in beta)

[Tenoh]

Why cant we kill kurzick setlers? if they are at war then i should be allowed to kille them!

[Archangel Raguil]

The Tengu will be the first (of two) Permen non-human henchies. the First Non-human henchies are the candy corn golems(unless there was something else back in beta)

Actually the Tengu would be the third, as there were Frosty-type henchies during Wintersday. In any case, those Halloween and Wintersday henchies aren't really permanent, as they went away during the event, and we don't know if they'll be back.

[ccrazool]

Will the Ritualist Ashes be fixed so that they do not draw aggro like other "held" items prior to the relase of GW:F?

Please ask her this. Please, everyone who see her, please ask her this. It's important, it really is.

[Jaen]

Will some of the Tyrian armor be upgraded to be more on terms with their Canthan equivlents? I primarily play a ranger and I can say that the new +10AL while using prep or stance armor makes the 3 elemental armor sets kinda worthless.

Also I don't play a warrior too often but I notice they are also concerned that the Tyrian warrior armor is not quite up to par with the new stuff that comes with Factions.

[Alexia of Durham]

Also I don't play a warrior too often but I notice they are also concerned that the Tyrian warrior armor is not quite up to par with the new stuff that comes iwith Factions.

That's indeed a very good one. Imagine what you would get if one team was wearing Tyrian armor in PvP and the other team Canthan ?? I'm assuming the armor levels will be made equal but would like to see this confirmed.

[Deus Invictus]

Why would u have a shelf date of the 28th? if ppl preordered its effing useless b/c they can't use their 24 head start....THEY DON'T HAVE THE GAME!!!!

[Erasculio]

Why would u have a shelf date of the 28th? if ppl preordered its effing useless b/c they can't use their 24 head start....THEY DON'T HAVE THE GAME!!!!
...

You don't need the game (as in, the retail box) to play the game. If you have a Pre Order key, you will have access to the 24 hours head start just like you had in the Weekened Event - log in, and you'll be there.

Factions content is already in your computer - you already downloaded big chunks of it these last weeks. We don't need any kind of game content from the game box (the CD that comes there is more a matter of helping those new to the game, plus the Cinematic trailer and some other stuff). All we really need from the box is the Key to begin playing, but those with the Pre Order don't need even that for the head start.

Erasculio

[Deus Invictus]

...

You don't need the game (as in, the retail box) to play the game. If you have a Pre Order key, you will have access to the 24 hours head start just like you had in the Weekened Event - log in, and you'll be there.

Factions content is already in your computer - you already downloaded big chunks of it these last weeks. We don't need any kind of game content from the game box (the CD that comes there is more a matter of helping those new to the game, plus the Cinematic trailer and some other stuff). All we really need from the box is the Key to begin playing, but those with the Pre Order don't need even that for the head start.

Erasculio


yea i just thought of that lol... but yea thanks for the post anyways... i got another question anyone know if FoW armor will be out for the assassins and ritualist on the 27th?

[mr godspeed]

My question is will the economy in GWP be influnced by the economy in GWF or vice cersa. Cause i could see it now people need a certian material just for factions and it sky-rockets in price yet the price is low in Tyria people go back and forth.

[Alexia of Durham]

My question is will the economy in GWP be influnced by the economy in GWF or vice cersa. Cause i could see it now people need a certian material just for factions and it sky-rockets in price yet the price is low in Tyria people go back and forth.

I think certain materials - which are required to craft stuff in Cantha - will only drop there and will not drop in Tyria at all ( jade ,amber being prime examples) , so there won't be any adverse effect from travelling between the two.

[Erasculio]

My question is will the economy in GWP be influnced by the economy in GWF or vice cersa. Cause i could see it now people need a certian material just for factions and it sky-rockets in price yet the price is low in Tyria people go back and forth.
To add to what Alexia said, keep in mind that Factions and Prophecies are in the same "server" - this has been detailed in one of Jeff Strain's interviews (to a site named Anarchy, or something like that). That's how a Prophecies character may meet a Factions character - they have access to all the info about each other. That's also how any new feature added in one Chapter, like upgrades to the NPC control, will go to all chapters.

In the same way, the price of the Traders will be the same accross the world. Doesn't matter if you're buying wood in Lion's Arch or in the Marketplace - the price will be the same in both places.

Erasculio

[Zaxares]

I think this question may have possibly been already covered in a previous Gaile chat, so if somebody knows the answer, please let me know. :smiley:

Suppose that your guild consists of people who have Factions + Prophecies, and some who only have Prophecies. When Factions is released, your guild decides to change to a Factions guildhall. Will the members of your guild who have only Prophecies be able to access the guild hall? Or will they be restricted from entry?

This next question is not for Gaile, but only the guild leader can choose a guild hall, right? I presume that means the guild leader must have Factions in order to pick a Factions guild hall.

[Deus Invictus]

yea i just thought of that lol... but yea thanks for the post anyways... i got another question anyone know if FoW armor will be out for the assassins and ritualist on the 27th?

ok anyone know yet?

[Archangel Raguil]

I think this question may have possibly been already covered in a previous Gaile chat, so if somebody knows the answer, please let me know. :smiley:

Suppose that your guild consists of people who have Factions + Prophecies, and some who only have Prophecies. When Factions is released, your guild decides to change to a Factions guildhall. Will the members of your guild who have only Prophecies be able to access the guild hall? Or will they be restricted from entry?

This next question is not for Gaile, but only the guild leader can choose a guild hall, right? I presume that means the guild leader must have Factions in order to pick a Factions guild hall.

I'm fairly certain that it was said that all characters can access their guild hall, regardless of which campaign it's specific too. I mean, they're both going to be in the same place. Only the Guild leader can buy the guild hall.

ok anyone know yet?

So far as I know, the only word was that FoW armor would be coming for the Assassin and Ritualist, but Gaile didn't say when...

[Vallen Frostweaver]

Why cant we kill kurzick setlers? if they are at war then i should be allowed to kille them!You can. Go out to the Luxon Settlement and talk to the leader there. You then get a quest to go and kill the Kurzicks.

[ubrikkean]

I've got a nice quick one: What happened to the "Bring Out Your Builds!" contest of last November/December?

[mr godspeed]

How soon after the release of GWF will the strategy guide be released?

[feralfox]

Q: Are there any pets left that we haven't seen in Factions? If so, what are they?

(I'm lead to believe this because she announced Crabs and Cranes in an earlier Gaile chat, and said there were 2 more pets yet to be seen. This was before the Black Moa was known. So that should leave one pet yet to be known.)

[Goldfish God]

Q: Are there any pets left that we haven't seen in Factions? If so, what are they?

(I'm lead to believe this because she announced Crabs and Cranes in an earlier Gaile chat, and said there were 2 more pets yet to be seen. This was before the Black Moa was known. So that should leave one pet yet to be known.)
er, u forgot white tigers and normal tigers?

[Drec Sutal]

Well, it's been a while since I've gotten into Lion's Arch International District One when Gaile was on, so I'll try to post a few questions I've come up with.

1.) In the FPE, we saw that the Luxon's and the Kurziks had separate armor requiring jade and amber. Unfortunately very few people were able to come up with the funds to buy it, and even if they did there is no certainty that it was final. In factions, will there be separate skins for each type of armor for each profession for each faction, or will it be more like FoW armor in that you can mix and match statistics without changing the look?

2.) In the FPE, we saw a system of 12 on 12 battles called "alliance battles." Despite this name, anyone could participate in any given battle, taking a pvp or pve character from their guild hall and either going in on their own or as part of a group of up to four. Is this going to change with alliances implemented to be actual battles of alliances? Why not allow groups of more then four if you can enter with 1, 2, or 3 anyway? (with a max group size of 12, you would still be able to enter alone or with only 4, so "hard to find groups" isn't a reason)

3.) Obviously at this point you can't explain the "improved" storage system, as either you don't know or it isn't final yet, or even it is secret. Could you, however, give us an idea of how much additional free space we might expect?
(i.e. average)

4.) It seems to me that under the current system GvG rank is based off of quantity rather then quality: does this seem to be an issue, with guilds who don't gvg 100 times (hyperbole) a day not having a chance, and do you plan any changes to the rating system?

5.) Could you expand on how controlling towns works? We know that you redeem luxon/kurzik faction for alliance standing, then somehow control towns based on this. Do you spend this alliance standing with an NPC to gain control of elite areas of a town? If two alliances "buy" a town in this way within seconds of each other, has one wasted their standing? Do you see a situation where one town is so highly contested that nobody holds it for more then a few minutes, or if there is a minimum time to hold, do you forsee crowds of guild leaders crowding around the "buy this town" npc when one alliance's time runs out?

6.) There was a video posted about FPE on the Guild Wars website, but I'm having trouble watching it. I click on the link to download.... and nothing happens, I just see a "loading" indicator that doesn't move. Leaving the smallest video on in this way for several hours gave no change. I'm using firefox 1.5 on windows XP service pack 2 over a broadband connection. Any help would be appreciated.

That's enough for now... but I expect more will come later.

[feralfox]

er, u forgot white tigers and normal tigers?

I did forget to mention tigers, but they were included when she said that two pets are unknown. Also, the pets are only counted by their types (i.e. Tigers, Crabs, Cranes, etc.), not by their variations (i.e. Tigers, White Tigers). Here's what Gaile said before:

http://home.maine.rr.com/vegeta/gailepets.jpg

[Zaxares]

Can somebody ask Gaile the following questions for me if they see her? It's about the new Factions Special Edition Soundtrack available from DirectSong:

1. Will the Factions Special Edition Soundtrack from DirectSong add new music tracks into Factions, like the Battle Pak and the Sorrow's Furnace Mini-pak added new music to Prophecies?

2. Is the Factions Special Edition Soundtrack the same soundtrack as the one available in the Factions Collector's Edition?

[Laibeus Lord]

i have a few questions.

Q:Why did they choose 6 slots instead of 8? ( i just want a reason (storage or bandwidth or something else), this isnt a gripe)


This is unofficial and they may not be allowed to say this so they aren't saying it, again this is my speculation as an NCsoft fan and ... Id rather keep that other info a secret.

The 4+4=6 & 4-4=8 formula isn't ANet's decision but NCsoft's. The formula first appeared on CoH and CoV. The market model was first tested there and if GW:P and GW:F adopting the same thing, it simply means that the model is a success - ie marketing-business perspective it works, it generates ROI.

With that said, it is also an open possibility that ANet did decide to use the formula on their own seeing how successful the model was with CoH and CoV. Remember this, GW is a global game. Marketed everywhere. Instead of creating separate "parallel worlds" they're promoting interaction. Their major market model must at least appeal to the global market instead of creating 10 different models for 10 different regions and/or market.

So I think that's why, I doubt there is any technical reason behind it. It's all marketing and business decision.

----
Now for my question:

Q: Any plans or possibilities for an Asian Region/District like Europe? (Of course without China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan-Macau-Hong Kong.) [Though Hong Kong should be joined with the rest of Asia culturally speaking.]

(was against that idea before, but there really is a need now)

[Zaxares]

I got my question about the Factions soundtrack answered. It is NOT the same version as the music CD offered with the Collector's Edition; the DirectSong version has several bonus tracks. Didn't get an answer as to whether it adds new music to the game, but presumably it would add to the game, just like the others.

[Hella Good]

Q: What is ANet going to do to address the PvP grind?

I checked Gaile's post on the PvE actions they are taking but I didn't read anything about making it easier on PvP players to get their UAX. UAX is pretty much a must for PvP players who want to remain competitive. For example, I prefer playing Mesmer, Necro, and Monk, and plan on adding Ritualist to this set of classes. That's about 135K faction for my core classes and about 110K faction for the new class. A total of about 240K faction to get my UAX... That's a lot, and I clearly do hope that ANet plans to somehow make acquiring skills easier for PvP players... I'm not even going into my UAS... that's like 500K+ of faction needed right there, but I do understand that UAS should take more time to get and I don't mind that. What I am concerned about is being able to stay on top of things when it comes to my prefered classes in a relatively short time... 240K faction does not sounds like a relatively short time to me... :rolleyes:

[masterspooof]

anyone know if Anet will put in random and/or battles with friend 1v1 battles?would be really fun to 1v1 ur friend or a random person

[Serena Corvidae]

In this thread (http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?p=4033917#post4033917) a member of the forum has been advised by EB Games that there is a worldwide delay with the Collector's Edition of Factions. If anyone is able to, please could you ask Gaile whether this is true, as many people making use of the "headstart" could be locked out of the game after 48 hours until their copy of the CE arrives.

[Bozos Of Bones]

Another question:
How many Prophecies Collector's Edition sets have been sold, how many have been made available, and how many Factions Collector's Edition sets will be made available?

[Bless The Dead]

I may be asking an old question.
Pets show up in the party list, King Jalis shows up, Prince Rurik shows up.

The question is if they are in the party list why does Heal Party never seem to affect them? Can it ever be made to happen?

[Druidika]

Will the Day of the Tengu event be available to new Canthan characters (ie weak level 1 characters) or will we have to use our existing characters to have a chance at killing the Tengu?

[Malakai]

Would it be possible to see if the character loading screen can be modified to allow users to place characters in the slots that they wanted them in?

Thank you in advance!

[Nazzarus]

In this thread (http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?p=4033917#post4033917) a member of the forum has been advised by EB Games that there is a worldwide delay with the Collector's Edition of Factions. If anyone is able to, please could you ask Gaile whether this is true, as many people making use of the "headstart" could be locked out of the game after 48 hours until their copy of the CE arrives.


Gaile already spoke on this in one of her chats. In "Customer Service" Terminology, she stated that you'll not have access past the 48 hours unless you have the Factions Key..

No key (SE or CE), no play.

They are however, not going to delete your characters for 9 days, giving you a grace period to get the SE or CE. You WILL NOT be able to play with those characters.

You are getting your full 6 slots that won't delete until after 9 days with the head start/pre-order event.

So, if you are holding out for the CE, and you're in an area that won't be getting it on the 28th/29th.. prepare to be unable to play Factions until it shows up.

[xXBinaryXx]

I dont know if this has been asked / answered before:

In an outpost when pressing strl you can see who is there in your guild quite easy. Is there a way of making it so you can see easily people in your team or friends list?

[mbourgon]

Here's a question I don't think I've seen:
Gaile has said that certain things are on the bugfix list, as well as a big list of things on the improvement list.

So, what are the top 5 things that are on these lists? Bonus: how many resources (aka people) are on each of those teams?

[flexiboy]

I want to know why anet favour PvP over PvE. I know the gaile has said they dont but i think this update proves that they do. MM were overpowered in 12V12 NERF, yet 55's will be allowed into cantha

[Hellz™]

Question for Froggy

When will we have mass storage available in the guild halls? We need a mass storage unit in our guild halls to share with guildmates or at least be able to share our storage with someone else to give them access to items they need. I.E. I'm short on damask... Jimmy has damask in his storage. *Click*

Jimmy: go grab some from storage.
me: TY Jimmy!

or, I'm short on damask.
guildmate: ooh i have some
me: mind if i get some from the guild storage?
guildmate: not at all
me: ty! click drag
weeeeeeeeeeee

Have a nice day :)

[yoshirainz]

G'day Gaile and Froggy, i suggest that we could have another chat tab for allies in 12 vs 12 alliance battle since parties are now broken into 4-4-4 vs 4-4-4. That way, allied teams can communicate better with each other thus creating better teamwork :). You could probably call it "Battle" chat or something. :wink:

[Vallen Frostweaver]

That they check out this new thread topic that is wonderfully presented for future improvements and let us know the possibility and/or progress of these!

http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?t=398056

Please!

[Divinity chaos]

I may be asking an old question.
Pets show up in the party list, King Jalis shows up, Prince Rurik shows up.

The question is if they are in the party list why does Heal Party never seem to affect them? Can it ever be made to happen?

They don't appear in the party list, they appear in the Allies list, therefore they are not party members and will not be healed by things such as heal party. hope that helps :smiley:

Will merging F and P give us more storage? ( not how much more, but will it give us more)

Would it be possible to customize henchmen, for example choose their atributes and skills? will there be 2 class henchmen?

is it posible to make purple armors only drop purple runs, gold armors only drop gold runes and so on?

I would also like to know the answer to these questions if anybody has the time.

[Ju Smurph]

My Question for Gaile:

I really want to buy some poster size Art prints of some of the Artwork. Is it possible to buy, or can we get some high res images to print ourself etc...

[SteveLord]

What is Anet's stance on guilds using game exploits through GVGs? Ladder frozen or not.

Specifically...that 12man party glitch that Char used and abused. Just want to know for future cases.

[Deus Invictus]

well... im pretty sure gaile said many times in the Pre-Factions chats that Rubies and Saphires would be used for something in Factions... well what are they used for?

[mbourgon]

Don't think I've asked this before - we hear that certain things are sought after, but haven't been done because of priorities, that the devs are working on something else.

So, what _are_ they working on? What are the "due soonest" items from the devs? What is due from them this week?

[scrumpmonkey]

never seen any

i dont know what im lookin for

[Vallen Frostweaver]

I would also like to know the answer to these questions if anybody has the time.I can answer some of that.

1. Merging will technically give you more store as you will have 2 more character slots with which you can store items on. As for other storage increases, there are none at this time from combining P anf F.

2. Possible, yes, almost anything is. Will they implement this? Not likely. I've read many things about how that would only slow the game down and take too much time/effort to implement from Anet.

3. Yes. They do this now as of a recent update. Or at least they should be. :wink:

[Deus Invictus]

so yea has she ever said what Rubies and Saphires are for??? she said they would have a use, but so far as i can see the yare worthless

[Vallen Frostweaver]

so yea has she ever said what Rubies and Saphires are for??? she said they would have a use, but so far as i can see the yare worthlessCheck out the quick summary for the latest timeline and comments about jewels - pretty vague but they haven't forgotten about them. My bet is that they haven't decided what to do whith them yet but that's purely speculation.

While I'm on this thread, myself and others are experiencing large amounts of lag and disconnects - specifically in the Factions areas. Are they still working on reducing lag issues (as I know they are still working on reconnects but that's far off)?

Also, can they add something to the person's name to tell us that they have dropped and aren't just loading? We waited for 5 minutes for a player because his name was flashing light/dark grey thinking he was loading when in fact itturned out he had dropped our group to help some guildies. This would make it easier to find out if someone were still loading or just dropped when entering a zone.

[augustgrace]

I've some questions on the warrior primary strength. I've looked at a couple of sites, and from what i can tell, this attribute seems to be practically useless, especially in pvp. Any chance of an improvement? Also what does it affect? All attacks? All skill attacks? Or just adrenaline attacks?

[Combine]

Any chance of more Santa and Pumpkin hats? I sure miss those

(Or any special events, for that matter)

[Alexia of Durham]

Can Gaile ( or frog) enlighten as as to what the status will be of assasins and ritualists upon release of chapter 3 ?? Will they get new skills ( items and armor/weapons are of a secondary concern) or ar they 'chapter-linked " ?? As a consequence : will the new professions in chapter three also be "for that chapter only" ??

Full debate on this issue is ongoing here :
http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?t=405674&page=5

[LordShadowblight]

I would like to know if it is a bug that the factions Ranger pets do not grow in size and if its a bug wil it be fixed?

[DrD]

Someone ask about these three things:

A Completed Quest Log
A Quest Title (X Amount of Quest done)
A XP Title

[Tiny Killer]

I would like to know if anything is beeing done to allow Rangers to have multiple pets. Something along the lines of a kennel to keep them in that allows you to take out the one that you wish to use that particular time.

[Vallen Frostweaver]

I would like to know if anything is beeing done to allow Rangers to have multiple pets. Something along the lines of a kennel to keep them in that allows you to take out the one that you wish to use that particular time.This one Gaile has mentioned before. Gaile would love it but apparently it's a lot of code rearranging to accomplish this task, thus it's not a high priority and considered a very low item. Don't expect to see it soon if ever.

[TrippyIMP]

Are they gonna update the GW Website? some parts of it are terribly outdated.

[Primeval]

Is rank 15 maximum rank you can get? How much does it need, they say it is 100000, can you confirm this?

[Gmr Leon]

Will we ever really get to enter buildings? Like those building's in Majesty's Rest and etc.

[Sol Rael]

My local EB has informed me they'll be receiving the Collector's Edition of Factions by month end, if they receive it all. I'm wondering if this is just an unfortunate result for the Canadian stores, or if there might be some other reason Gaile could be able to shed some light on.

[Kara]

My local EB has informed me they'll be receiving the Collector's Edition of Factions by month end, if they receive it all. I'm wondering if this is just an unfortunate result for the Canadian stores, or if there might be some other reason Gaile could be able to shed some light on.

It's not Canadian stores. I work in the USA, and I've seen ONE Collector's Edition of Factions pass through my store since it came out.

And that was because someone had preordered that one (not to mention it came in very late, and the guy who had preordered bought the regular version so he could actually play right away)

[neongrey]

One of my local (yes, in Canada, for what it's worth) EBs has at least one copy of the collector's edition.

On the other hand, the other EB within walking distance of that one does not.

[RailXP]

Q:

I was wondering if Anet would implement a cross character storage organization thing in the log in screen.

That way when you want to compile all materials you dont have to log on to every single character, clear out storage, dump in storage, change characters, dump in storage, realize that you missed something, log out, log in, dump in storage, log out, log in..ectect.


Edit: (Addon)

Also, is it possible to make minipets/masks stored elsewhere, so they do not take up space in our inventories. Perhaps designate a "extras" bag/tab to keep them there.



That would really make life easier. (Sorry in advance if this has come up already in previous posts, i just browsed through this thread and decided to pop in a question, havent really read through all 11 pages of this.)

[dndhatcher]

I am very excited (relieved?) about the soon to arrive Materials Tab in the Vault.

I would like to suggest that the next storage thing to do is add a Customized Items tab for each character on the account. That way we could store all those extra armors, weapons and FESTIVAL MASKS that we accumulate as we develop our characters and want to keep so we can switch back and forth betweeen builds or use in different areas of the game.

[Azure Eyes]

Will ritualists and assasins be supported in future chapters (armor, akills, ect)? Or are they dead now and should be deleted from pve'er accounts?

[Romulans]

Will ritualists and assasins be supported in future chapters (armor, akills, ect)? Or are they dead now and should be deleted from pve'er accounts?

huh? neither. you can bring them into future chapters, but there won't be new skills...

[english storm]

The new storage tab is a great improvement but i still think its slightly unfair having the 250 stack limit. This is because in order to craft 15k warrior luxon armour for example, you need 400 scales etc. This is forcing someone that wants the armour to use 2 slots for the 400 scales while they are collect the required amount of materials.

I think if the stack size limit of the materials tab was raised to 400 to allow people to collect the required amount of materials needed, using only one slot would be much better. After all, this is why the new material tab was introduced so you could store materials for crafting in there not having to use a slot of the limited normal space. So any chance of passing this one on, as an idea to improve this already fantastic game?

Storm :)

[Vallen Frostweaver]

The new storage tab is a great improvement but i still think its slightly unfair having the 250 stack limit. This is because in order to craft 15k warrior luxon armour for example, you need 400 scales etc. This is forcing someone that wants the armour to use 2 slots for the 400 scales while they are collect the required amount of materials.

I think if the stack size limit of the materials tab was raised to 400 to allow people to collect the required amount of materials needed, using only one slot would be much better. After all, this is why the new material tab was introduced so you could store materials for crafting in there not having to use a slot of the limited normal space. So any chance of passing this one on, as an idea to improve this already fantastic game?

Storm :)Or if that isn't an option, you guys could always reduce the total cost of armor to 250 instead of 400. :wink:

That aside, I was wondering if there are plans (or if there is a timeline) of a control feature for Ranger pets or the display of pet shouts being active on your pet. For details/suggestions here's a link to the Pet-tition.

Click Pet-tition!! (http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?t=410129)

[Azure Eyes]

I still think the most important question for gaile is....

Will sins and rits have content (armor skills weapons) in nightfall or are they closed forever?

If not I think i will delete both my rit and sin since im a pver it sucks that they are as complete as they ever will be right now.

[Alexia of Durham]

I agree ,the most important questions now ( in my opinion ) are these :

- Will any pet control ( and henches control) mechanism be introduced soon? Especialy in light of pets now acquiring death penalty as well,this question is very important .
- Will assasin and ritualist class be supported in upcoming chapter ? Or ,to be more precise , what are the exact intentions regarding classes introduced with the release of each chapter? Will they be a "one-time deal" or will they be supported throughout with skills and armor/weapons ?

[Fossa]

Is it within the EULA to leech faction AFK at Aspenwood? Should I continue to report them or am I just wasting everyones time?

(Today I actually have had 3 games with no-one on our side AFK. The 20 odd other games had 1-3 persons AFK)

[Gordon Michael]

Will ritualists and assasins be supported in future chapters (armor, akills, ect)? Or are they dead now and should be deleted from pve'er accounts?

huh? neither. you can bring them into future chapters, but there won't be new skills...
What about secondary profession skills? Ritualist / Paragon looks like it might have some serious potential as a support character. I've also heard of critical barragers, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's other viable builds relying on Critical Strikes and the secondary profession's weapon attribute. The number of viable non-core primary builds is only goin gto go up as more campaigns get released. In other words, it would be in <s>my</s> 'your' best interests to delete your ritualists, <s>reducing my competition</s> 'freeing up your character slots', I'll buy your 'worthless' ritualist and assassin greens, I'll give them for the <s>ripoff</s> 'generous' price of 1k each.

[masterdreadlord]

will there come another way to buy character slots (besides creditcard)? :s

[Raiala]

Is the Nightfall prerelease like Factions pre-order(meaning that you qould get early acces tothe game whit it) or is it just the one more character slot and the two items and the art?

I hope it gives you early acces.

[Quintus Antonius]

Is there any way to find out about lore, perhaps someone to post in the Lore Forum to help confirm or deny theories and hypotheses?

[CMEPTb]

will there come another way to buy character slots (besides creditcard)? :s

On top of this. Is there a way possible to buy the charactor slots offline like how people buy WoW time cards?

Or maybe have an offer on Amazon that is for character slots. You buy off of their site and are emailed a code to punch into your account.

[Continumanomaly]

What are the chance that we will be allowed to change Character names in the future?

[Pappy Possum]

Well here is a question, I have been wondering. In the origional GW CE we had the Devine Auora, Factions CE we had the ghost dancers, in Nightfall is there going to be anything that sets you apart if you buy the CE?

[Xavier Lightstone]

Hopefully there is a storage difference, like the materials thing in Factions. Having an extra two char slots will be nice, and better that paying for the slots at the slightly suspect store.

Also, as Pappy says, the only reason for CE is to look good in game.

[Xenia The Powerful]

Will the quests in Nightfall go back to giving skills or will they stay like how they currently are in Factions, just giving Gold, Exp, and a Token thing?

[Symbolic Self]

Next skill balance-when? It's been two weeks since the GWFC ended, can we expect it soon? Will you release the list of changes before the update?

[Vallen Frostweaver]

Will Rangers be given a weapon linked to Beast Mastery?

All bows are currently linked to Marksmanship. If the above is not expected anytime soon (1 year?) please explain to us why this is not going to happen (other projects aside please as this isn't a huge change to make and adds more to the economy). I do not see any balancing problems with this and am curious why this was never done before. Thank you.

[readertheoneandonly]

On top of this. Is there a way possible to buy the charactor slots offline like how people buy WoW time cards?

Or maybe have an offer on Amazon that is for character slots. You buy off of their site and are emailed a code to punch into your account.

yeah i would like to be able to buy extra slot for my account but i will not do it the online way. had bad experience and i never feel secure about buying things online for many many reasons.

[readertheoneandonly]

will there be armour/weapon crafter for my pet?
Fiery iron paw of foritude maybe?

[Denzil]

LOL.. I have the most original question here:
does ANYONE answer all these questions :) ?

[Art Yi Mor]

Is Gwen Abaddon?

Will we ever need that Tapestry Shred?

Who stole Strongbads Lappy?

Will I wake up and see Patrick Duffy taking a shower?

-----------=========FIND OUT NEXT WEEK=========--------------

-Art

[Denzil]

Is Gwen Abaddon?

Will we ever need that Tapestry Shred?

Who stole Strongbads Lappy?

Will I wake up and see Patrick Duffy taking a shower?

-----------=========FIND OUT NEXT WEEK=========--------------

-Art

OR:
Donald Duck never wears pants.. so why does he have a towel wrapped around his waist after he takes a shower?? :undecided:

[eowen]

OR:
Donald Duck never wears pants.. so why does he have a towel wrapped around his waist after he takes a shower?? :undecided:

maybe he does something in the shower, that may have an effect on what the towel is hidding.

[augustgrace]

Any chance of getting Strength rethought? It seems pretty weak in comparison to the primary skills of some classes, like Dervishes.

Is Nightfall going to include the ability to strip a particular mod off of an item? Will we be able to apply mods to wands?

Halloween...?

For people who don't have Factions (not a problem for me), will Nightfall give access to materials storage, or will they need to buy Factions?

[MiatheHierophant]

Will there be a way for Factions and Prophecies characters to sail to Elonia and interract with Nightfall quests?

[Blood Bot]

Will there ever be a "make-over-mage"? In other words, an NPC that you can pay a certain amount of gold to, and in exchange he/she would change something on your body like your face design, your hair color, hair design, height, or even gender.

[augustgrace]

Gaile are you awake?
What does a CR do?

[Glacius Cool]

Are they ever gonna fix the problem with the friends list logging out and never trying to reconnect...
It logs you out, you can still whisper people, but they can't whisper back, it shows you as not online in the guild roster, and towns only have 1 district.
It really sucks, an hour into the game and you realize none of your regular friends have talked to you yet. Press N and it says click here to log in. WTF?! It should at least try once to reconnect without you having to do it, or give you notice that it has disconnected you.

It's not the same as setting yourself to Do Not Disturb. In that mode you can still see your friends, you're still on the guild roster, and you can still change districts.

[Vallen Frostweaver]

For those that may have missed it, this thread was created to suggest questions for G&F when next they are spotted. It would be nice if they answered the questions on this thread directly but for reasons unknown neither has yet.

[eowen]

Gaile are you awake?
What does a CR do?

a darn sight more than you anyway :tongue:

[Sjeng]

A plea to Anet: please please please make the arenas available for exploration in Tyria. I'm working hard to become 100% Tyrian grandmaster cartographer, but I haven't gotten the chance to visit all the arena's before factions came out and everything got closed and placed on the Isles of the Unnamed.
I need to be able to explore the arena's and the island where the guild halls used to be. Make it a boat trip from Lion's arch just like before, call it the Tyrian sightseeing boat trip, I don't care. please Anet, let us explore 100%!

OR: make it so that these areas don't count towards the 100% anymore. Just thought of that, and it might be far easier to implement.

[GhostBoy]

A plea to Anet: please please please make the arenas available for exploration in Tyria. I'm working hard to become 100% Tyrian grandmaster cartographer, but I haven't gotten the chance to visit all the arena's before factions came out and everything got closed and placed on the Isles of the Unnamed.
I need to be able to explore the arena's and the island where the guild halls used to be. Make it a boat trip from Lion's arch just like before, call it the Tyrian sightseeing boat trip, I don't care. please Anet, let us explore 100%!

OR: make it so that these areas don't count towards the 100% anymore. Just thought of that, and it might be far easier to implement.
I believe there is actually a bit more than 100% map to be explored in Tyria, which means that you should be able to get to 100% despite some areas being permanently unreachable.

[miotchthebiotch]

The arenas aren't needed for 100% as many have already gotten 100% without them, one being a friend of mine.

[Orodreth Telemnar]

I have a very important question.

Anet removed Panda's from Guild Wars Factions due to them being Hunted almost to extinction and so on.. However White Tigers are also in the same positions... This is a game not real life... If all the Guild Wars animals are to be removed in such a manner at some point there will be no more pets left within the game.

Why does Anet feel the need to remove one type of animal over another in a similar position.

[miotchthebiotch]

There were pandas in Factions, i never knew!
I want a panda!!!

[bstag]

I have a very important question.

Anet removed Panda's from Guild Wars Factions due to them being Hunted almost to extinction and so on.. However White Tigers are also in the same positions... This is a game not real life... If all the Guild Wars animals are to be removed in such a manner at some point there will be no more pets left within the game.

Why does Anet feel the need to remove one type of animal over another in a similar position.

The giant panda is the national treasure of China. They were not allowed to depict them dieing if they want to sell this game in china.

[Continumanomaly]

Is it possible to get the Japan exclusive minipets by alternative means?

[readertheoneandonly]

Is it possible to get the Japan exclusive minipets by alternative means?

I did saw someone selling in KC American district 1 some Japan exclusive pet before.
But as expected, he is asking for like hundreds of etcos and no window shoppers, oh well....

[Phlegm]

How about an "I'm ready!"-Button in cities and outposts?

Then the whole tedious asking if everybody is ready to go could be skipped, and it won't happen again that someone starts the mission or walks out into an explorable while you are still skilling/trading/at the storage/etc...
It could i.e. make your health bar green or add a little icon on the bar, so that everybody in the group can see the other's states. And maybe even present an alert window if you want to start a mission with unready party members.

I asked Gaile about an "I'm ready" button at the FPE, and even got an answer ("splendid idea" :wink:) but I haven't seen any further information on this.

So, any updates on this?

[Orodreth Telemnar]

How about an "I'm ready!"-Button in cities and outposts?

Then the whole tedious asking if everybody is ready to go could be skipped, and it won't happen again that someone starts the mission or walks out into an explorable while you are still skilling/trading/at the storage/etc...
It could i.e. make your health bar green or add a little icon on the bar, so that everybody in the group can see the other's states. And maybe even present an alert window if you want to start a mission with unready party members.

I asked Gaile about an "I'm ready" button at the FPE, and even got an answer ("splendid idea" :wink:) but I haven't seen any further information on this.

So, any updates on this?


This in an amazing idea !

[bRydeR]

How about an "I'm ready!"-Button in cities and outposts?


Great idea .. and one I would have expected to see in Guild Wars already as many of the team herald from Blizzard and many of their Battle.Net titles have this kind of functionality.

[Rob Van Der Sloot]

I like that aswell. Maybe they could just add a green light in front of your name in the party window.

[windcaller]

make a petition for this and place a link somewhere around

[uccat]

sorry if this is has been posted in the past, tho i dont know if there will be a response officially... but...

1) what happened to the keyrings alluded to be coming with factions, i have no less than 10 slots tied up in keys. or at least make then sellable at original cost back to the merchant.

2) let me preface buy saying i understand GW is about making money for the game developers, so sales of games is important, but since the additional character slot purchase came so late, i have 2 prophecy accounts, and 2 factions accounts. Now you can buy slots, but i have lvl 20 characters i am extremely fond of on both accounts, most with expensive armors that i quite like. But the time has come to decide if i really want to spend over $100 every few months on a new chapter. Pay-to-play is actually cheaper.

The root question is, will GW, anytime soon come up with a way to merge 2 accounts into one, or tansfer characters. I would gladly pay a one time fee to buy the additional slots on one account to be able to do this. Otherwise, the eventual loss will be in revenue to the developers, because i will likely not be spending the money to buy 2 accounts, and quite frankly may not buy another.

3) please give us the option to add a note to the name in your friends list. I have untold how many names that i dont remember wth they are. 15, 20 characters is all i need. just to type 'great pug monk' or 'traded daggers with', something

and oh yeah, relly like the ability to send messages to offline ppl

[Emosh]

For Gaile/Froggie:

Sorry if this is a repeat, search didn't bring anything up.

I bought Nightfall and the pre-order. The retailer (Fry's) said they didn't get all the stock they should have received and thus has not shipped all the orders they accepted. Here's the problem: My nightfall has shipped but the pre-order kit has not. I read that entering the nightfall key before entering the bonus key will forfeit any bonus you might get from it(I read that it was PRINTED on the bonus pack here in gwonline!!). With no set date on when Fry's is going to ship a preorder bonus for me, does this mean that I actually have to wait if I want to get that priceless (well just about 10$) extra slot and bonus weapons?

[Grolubao]

I just wished I have a button for automatically identifying all the items I had in the inventory.

[ThunderGodd]

Here's a good one for ya...

How do you trade a Hero's pet into the Tamers? or how do you get rid of a Hero's pet so that you can tame another one?

I've been trying everything I can think of...nothing has worked so far...

I had Acolyte Jin tame a Flamingo and now I would like to get rid of it and go for a crocodile (or possibly something else).

[UWannaDie]

I have a some questions for Gaile.

1. For Wintersday will they be including all holidays or just Christmas again? (I know its a little early)

2. Will we be able to see updates adding more content or will we have to wait until Guild Wars:Day Break?

3. Will we be able to do more with our heros in games to come or just waht it is now?

4. If I'm not mistaken didn't the frog take residence in pre-searing Ascalon on the hill across from the entrance of Wizard's Folley?

If these get answered thanks for your time. I've been studying the frog which gives me interest in this subject.

[XksUsnsal]

So many pages to sort threw to see if this has been answered, so forgive me if it has.

My Question to Gaile / Froggie is this;

What happenes to all the people of Guildwars who Paid for a Pre-Order pack but didn't recive one due to an Undershipment?
When i pre-orded at EB games they said they were allowed to release the Pre-Order box untill release, and on release day they only had ~10 to give away to the ~100 people who orded from that store. and they said they weren't expecting any more pre-order boxes.

[UWannaDie]

So many pages to sort threw to see if this has been answered, so forgive me if it has.

My Question to Gaile / Froggie is this;

What happenes to all the people of Guildwars who Paid for a Pre-Order pack but didn't recive one due to an Undershipment?
When i pre-orded at EB games they said they were allowed to release the Pre-Order box untill release, and on release day they only had ~10 to give away to the ~100 people who orded from that store. and they said they weren't expecting any more pre-order boxes.

I think that was already asked, but not answered. So...yea.

[oneofthedragon]

Is the hero razah available yet?

[bloodsong]

Skill Cost Question:

there's been a long discussion in the suggestions forum about lower the cap for buying skills from 1k. i was just wondering if the dev team had even looked at it/considered it at all -- whether they eventually decide to or not.

so my question is:
"has the dev team seen the skill purchase price discussion, and are they looking at the pros and cons for implementing it at all?"

thanks :)

[miotchthebiotch]

OMG there is nothing worse than buying a new campaign and having to buy all the new skills for 1k.
Hate it hate it hate it

[uccat]

OMG there is nothing worse than buying a new campaign and having to buy all the new skills for 1k.
Hate it hate it hate it

just another gold sink. same as runes, insignias, developing and equipping 8 or so heros for 10 characters, ... and yeah, you dont have to do that... but the point is, its now part of the game. The rich can play, the poor cant. pretty simple. I for one can afford it, but i dont see how any new players can play what they bought for 50 bucks off the shelf. I suggest getting an economist in your game dev department, because every new thing added to the game worsens that aspect from what i have seen.

[Kikos]

Does she even reply to these? >_<

Anyways, are the collector editions going to be added to the online store? I'm wanting a copy of the prophecies CE, but the only one I found was on amazon for about $300.. ^_~ People are crazy.

Anyway ty.

[spywolf]

she already said it about collector editions for online store.. try search before posting.. anyway she did say that there will be NO collector editions for online store..

besides.. why would u want to buy CE or SE from online store and miss out all the goodies (like skill pins, mini-figure, special music CD, poster, artbook) just for the glowing hands/special dance/mini-pet.. you're not getting your dollars worth it.. if u want in-game items, maybe/perhaps Anet can come up with some kind of special packages that will allow ppl to purchase (which i don't think they will have it :rolleyes: )


Does she even reply to these? >_<

Anyways, are the collector editions going to be added to the online store? I'm wanting a copy of the prophecies CE, but the only one I found was on amazon for about $300.. ^_~ People are crazy.

Anyway ty.

[Seth Crimsonflare]

My question is:

Will Armor/Weapon/Focus Inscriptions become usable on armors and items in Tyria and Cantha?

[Sjeng]

just another gold sink. same as runes, insignias, developing and equipping 8 or so heros for 10 characters, ... and yeah, you dont have to do that... but the point is, its now part of the game. The rich can play, the poor cant. pretty simple. I for one can afford it, but i dont see how any new players can play what they bought for 50 bucks off the shelf. I suggest getting an economist in your game dev department, because every new thing added to the game worsens that aspect from what i have seen.

/agree

What ever happened to gaining skills form quests, like in Tyria???
I've been saving my butt off for some new armour, only to find myself spending it on upgrades and weapons for my heroes, and runes which have gone up insanely in price since the heroes' appearance.

[Hatemonger]

just another gold sink. same as runes, insignias, developing and equipping 8 or so heros for 10 characters, ... and yeah, you dont have to do that... but the point is, its now part of the game. The rich can play, the poor cant. pretty simple. I for one can afford it, but i dont see how any new players can play what they bought for 50 bucks off the shelf. I suggest getting an economist in your game dev department, because every new thing added to the game worsens that aspect from what i have seen.
There are two points here. One I agree with, the other I don't.

Regarding skill cost, I agree. I have dozens of skill points on each of my characters, and nowhere near enough gold to ever buy that many skills. I thought the point of changeable skills and attributes was so you could try a new build without needing to make a new character from scratch. Right now, the gold cost makes this prohibitive for me.

As for heroes, don't get hung up on needing the best kit for all of them. Think of them as better henchmen, rather than lesser players. Take your average Prophecies character fighting with Alesia, Stefan, and Orion. If you give your heroes any random max-damage white weapon you find anywhere endgame, they're already just as good as the henchies, and anything else is just gravy. Give the healer some condition and hex removal. Give the others a Monk secondary and Ressurect instead of a signet. Then if you have extra runes or weapon mods, you have somewhere to use them, but they're certainly not necessary.

- H8

[majikthise]

One thing I would like to see in Guild Wars is a Keyring of some sort to carry all the different chest keys on, because with the introduction of Nightfall there is now around about 25 different keys if you carry one of each key thats like you entire rucksack or both bags (with runes of holding) and your belt pouch.

Having one item that carrys all the keys would make space management a hell of alot easier

Just my two cents

[Ex Calibress]

Q: With the advent of new chapters the focus of course turns to the new and exciting content. And that is fine, BUT (isn't there always a but?) with this attention shift, previous chapters will have a lot of ghost towns, some permanetly some periodically. With that in mind, pugs will be even scarcer than they are now with regards to harder missions (Hell's precipice etc..) thus removing some if not all hope for casual players to complete them. My question is, would GW ever consider lessening the degree of difficulty on the tougher missions on the older chapters ?

[elsydeon]

id like to know what motivation there was for making the insignias priced via the rune trader for a variable price, instead of being available from the armor dealer for a fixed price

this severely screws nightfall players because prophecies and factions players can get cheaper armor for only 1.5k, but nightfall players first must buy the armor then have to buy the insignias, 4.6k per piece for the equivalent of 1.5k enchanter's armor is unbalanced and is in violation of the promise of "skill over time spent" that was made to us last year (i know anet quietly stopped saying that a couple months before factions was release , maybe going to a grind model to keep players busy between releases?)

[Hyro]

Q: Why don't you give comments on the mess in HA? Is there even something going on to fix it?

[Pheronike]

I already didn't have enough storage before I had to have weapons for all the heroes of all my chars. Solution: Heroes should have an inventory for themselves.

We need extra storage for insigna's, inscriptions and for collectable drops.

[chrystianek]

i have 3 questions(requests :D )


1:
what happend to the possibility of changing your pve character looks
(my first characters were created in tyria but i like the new skins for new classes in diffrent chapters-i dont want to loose my titles becouse they were hard to earn-but i would like to change my characters apearance)

2:
what happend to the upgrade merchant-he was suposed to be implemented into the game a while ago
and also will we ever see an auction hause? (auction hause would clean up all the local channels in all the cities and maybe ppl would be able to actualy talk there :) )

3:
whats going on with the possibility of reconecting back to games when u were droped
(i heard that it was in the game for a while but some ppl were abusing it)
i was wondering if it would be fixed somehow so ppl cant abuse it)

thx

[Sabrina]

Restore mesmer to be again a decent char to play whit, and plz no nerf more mesmer skills. Thank you

[shwnicus]

ditto and 1 and 2, especially the upgrade merchant or trader (I'm sure this would be a trader given the drop rate). now that you must get upgrades for armor and those are available at the rune trader, just seems like an obvious next progression. personally, I think it would really help the economy too, as the cost of a green versus the cost of building your own equivalent would be readily comparable, which would help keep both in check. then green become what they are supposed to be: aesthetic bonuses.

i have 3 questions(requests :D )


1:
what happend to the possibility of changing your pve character looks
(my first characters were created in tyria but i like the new skins for new classes in diffrent chapters-i dont want to loose my titles becouse they were hard to earn-but i would like to change my characters apearance)

2:
what happend to the upgrade merchant-he was suposed to be implemented into the game a while ago
and also will we ever see an auction hause? (auction hause would clean up all the local channels in all the cities and maybe ppl would be able to actualy talk there :) )

3:
whats going on with the possibility of reconecting back to games when u were droped
(i heard that it was in the game for a while but some ppl were abusing it)
i was wondering if it would be fixed somehow so ppl cant abuse it)

thx

[Harq of the Phoenix]

Any possibility that holiday items will be account customized from now on?

[FlyingHippo]

Where is ebon dust aura?

When will heroes be able to get rid of their pets?

Change HA back to 8-man.

Where is Razah?

Have divine path and NF equivilent (forget the name) able to map to once you've beaten game. Only allows party of 1 (prevents ferrying to simply skip the last mission but still get the green).

Will dervish and paragon be getting more PvP armours? And why isn't there sunspear/istani armour for all the other classes (like factions did with canthan and shing jea)?

[FlyingHippo]

Where is ebon dust aura?

When will heroes be able to get rid of their pets?

Change HA back to 8-man and no heroes.

Where is Razah?

Have divine path and NF equivilent (forget the name) able to map to once you've beaten game. Only allows party of 1 (prevents ferrying to simply skip the last mission but still get the green).

Will dervish and paragon be getting more PvP armours? And why isn't there sunspear/istani armour for all the other classes (like factions did with canthan and shing jea)?

[FlyingHippo]

Where is ebon dust aura?

When will heroes be able to get rid of their pets?

Change HA back to 8-man and no heroes or atleast a limit on them.

Where is Razah?

Have divine path and NF equivilent (forget the name) able to map to once you've beaten game. Only allows party of 1 (prevents ferrying to simply skip the last mission but still get the green).

Will dervish and paragon be getting more PvP armours? And why isn't there sunspear/istani armour for all the other classes (like factions did with canthan and shing jea)?

[stargazr]

I'd like to know why they took the hippo pets out of the game

[Mathos Ragnar]

Lol, I'd like to know how people manage to get logs from them and if they only talk to certain people, since apparently they are always on DND. MY friend once whisped them *one day gaile wasnt on dnd* and she said hello blah blah and asked if she could inyerview her for this forum and no response and she said Gaile then went to DND.

[HevnSaan]

Apologies if this has been asked b4?

Has ANet considered the implication of adding 2 new professions every chaper? With 2 new chars every 6 months, those of us with linked accounts will have to drag our new chars through countless chapters to cap skills and such.

(Suggestion)
Open the skill menu up for PvE chars like it has been for PvP and heroes. Once a char has captured a skill/elite, it should be available for all chars.

:listen:

[aptaleonII]

i got some big questions.
1) can we have a NEAR equal amount of greens + skills for attributes please?? i am thinking mostly about water magic. in factions, while earth magic has BILLIONS of greens, water got... what was it, 3? and here in nightfall, the ALREADY POPULAR fire got given loads and loads of new skills while the in-need-of-a-boost water line got four
2) i have put this on another thread already... but can they introduce incentives to explore and quest in the underworld & fissure of woe please? as it is, people ONLY go to the temple of war/ ice wastes. it's repetitive, and many, who claim to have delved into the UW & FoW countless times, didn't even know the bone pits or the chaos planes or the burning forest existed.

[miotchthebiotch]

I agree fully with the UW and FoW problem, there are never any parties willing to do a lot of the quests or explore the vast areas.
In my opinion this is because the rewards don't seem worth it.
If you were to add green weapons, or rare skinned weapons or at least somethin worth going all the way for.
If you added some other reward other than experience for the quests i'm sure it'd make people want to do more than get to the forgemaster and leave.

I myself have never been anywhere in FoW apart from the spider cave, wailing king forest, beach and spider cave. I'm dying to explore the other areas but no parties ever want to go there. If I could even bring a party of hench it'd be enough for me, but the hench there are like lvl 15 or something.

I Feel these realms of the gods need to be worked on a bit and maybe a new addition for one of the other gods.

[majikthise]

Have noticed something recently if Zenmai or Olias leave my party they disappear from my heroes list.
I manage to get Zenmai back for a while but now she's gone again to join Olias wherever they go when not on my list :P

Please fix this as it gets a little furstrating when I need to put either char into my party and they've gone!

Thanks in Advance

[Frommede]

Question;

With regards to FA, would it be possible to mark toons somehow to show their association?

It is discouraging playing with toons that are opening doors and/or running interference for the opposite side. Having the toons marked would at least explain why some toons were doing the things they do.

I know there are toons playing both sides and most, like Santa, are playing for the side they are on fairly.

[Ferdoc]

as noted above. when are we gonna see a new relm pop up? i mean we only have UW and FoW and that gets kinda boring after a while.

[djbartek]

Will there be any skill changes on winter major update?

[goodcharlottejake]

To Gaile and er... "Froggy",
I'm wondering, my grand person and grand reptile, if well, Wintergreen Weapons or other Winter items will be availible for PvE peoples.

(Although I'm a good GW Player, and love PvP, I don't have a good enough computer, and I just started 3 months ago).

[maleki]

I woud like a public statement that discussed the planned improvements in the current hero system.

[maerick orth]

i have a question for you gaile


i know this cannot be changed in NF chapter, but this could be an awesome way to finally see useful warriors in C4. can you ask devs about this ?:

can they add "aggro skills" to the warrior ? by "aggro skills" i mean skills that can keep the aggro. actually, mobs simply attack whatever they want and the tank cannot keep the aggro. here is an exemple of such a skill:


Grenth's fury
4 adrenaline strike to activate

for 10-25 secs all non-spirits creatures in shout range will attack you only.


this is just an idea (maybe a bad one but still one), but i know things are not easy for devs on this matter as they try to avoid solo farmers to use these kind of skills, but, if done correctly, will allow players to use again aoe skills like balt aura. you will convince nobody use balt aura anymore...lol...since the nerf a long time ago. anyway, a lot of mmo like wow and eq2 already do that, why not Gw ??

another things, and its about titles. it would be nice to see a title about zone cleared f mobs. to get ranks, you have to kill all mobs in a zone, lets say 25 to get rank 1.

rank 1: 25 high end area cleared
rank 2 50 high end area cleared

[Pheronike]

I help out alot of people (and not only from my guild). I redo the same missions/quests over and over again.

I think this kind of beheviour should be rewarded especially now that the hero system is killing the social aspect of the game. Killing each other is rewarded so why not helping each other?

[Noa Brightington]

Dear Gaile,

You've seen the hippos, but have you see the Hippopotimus with noodles on his back?

[Mookle X]

Dear Gaile,
Some people have pets on their heroes. Will we be able to get rid of those pets or name them sometime soon?

[wolfstench]

Gaile,
will there be an official Nightfall cinematic with high end computer graphics just like prophecies and factions did? I'd really like to see one. Thanks.

[thelegendozelda]

Dear Gaile,

Will you sale me a titan gemstone? yes or no?

[Colonel Norns]

Dear Gaile,
Do you think we could have gift-wrapping NPCs for Wintersday?
(I'm not sure if there was one last year)
I think it would be a great idea for gift exchanging, I don't wanna just trade a Forgotten Sword, I want to trade them one wrapped up, so they don't know about it.

[miotchthebiotch]

Just a quick question.
Will more advanced lighting effects ever come to GW for spells and stuff.
For Example : Image an ele using Fireball and as the ball flies out shadows from surrounding trees move accordingly, and reflective surfaces, like water, could reflect them accuratly. Or burning arrows could light up its path as it flies. I'm in love with eye candy and decent real-time lighting effects would be great. I was impressed at the lighting effects from entering and exiting caves and the sort, especially for the low req's GW had.

I'd love to see the GW engine updated with these effects, it'd add so much more atmosphere to the game.
Even as an added option for peole with higher end pc's.
At least ask the dev team for me :)

[ninja yes]

I haven't checked this thread for this question, but will Prophecies and Factions items be inscribable?

[Emosh]

Question1: Do you ever read these questions?
If you do, how come no answers or replies are ever posted in this thread?