Guild Wars Reporter

Guild Wars Reporter


Guild Wars Reporter 165 – Gyro Snacker

September 18, 2015

Celeste and Allona fulfill a long-time wish to include interviews in Guild Wars Reporter! Our inaugural interviewee is the fantabulous Kit the Traveller! They are discuss the Mordrem weekend event, the Mordrem Guard, PoI, this past week's patch, and – of course – Scrapper news! Also, gyros are totally delicious and everyone (who chooses to eat meat) should partake this week in honour of The Snacker... umm... Scrapper!
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What We Did This Week
 

Allona

Mordrem events … I only started them Saturday morning so I missed all the really headachey parts
Fractals and Fungeons. Started a bit early and ran Arah so Celeste could be there for Fraggles
Streamed a bit … mostly PvP
Hunter guided me through the Guild Rush course for my nemesis, Spider Scurry, on Sunday night!
Guild missions were super fun and we got Spider Scurry!
More … I know there’s more

Celeste

Fractal’d! Sans Pear :( ((I was there … how was this sans me?)) I DON’T KNOW. ((this is staying in the show notes!))
Mordrem Events
Worked on Treasure Hunter a bit. Someday I’ll get that freaking chalice from Rhendak but today is not that day…

 

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Report from Lion’s Arch
 
patch notes
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-September-15-2015

Added Vertical Position Near slider to camera options. The existing Vertical Position slider has been renamed Vertical Position Far.
Added greater precision to camera position sliders.
Adjusted some default camera positions when using the Adjust Camera to Character Height camera option.

C: It’s funny because I remember us talking about how it wasn’t really clear what sliders were doing what recently.
A: Are you pondering what I’m pondering, Pinky?

Achievements for the previous beta weekend have been disabled from the Achievements tab.

Personal Story

Black Lion Chest Keys from the early personal story rewards have been limited to one per week account-wide.

C: RIP Keyfarming Cookies

Items

Increased the drop rate of Black Lion Chests and Black Lion Chest Keys throughout the world.

C: I dont think the drop rate on chests was really an issue but okay… time and the drop rate wiki tables will tell…

Laurel vendors now sell 1 hour of the new Item Booster, replacing the Laureate Magic Find Booster.
Laurel vendors now sell 1 hour of the new Experience Booster, replacing the Laureate Experience Booster.

C: Here’s to hoping they let me consolidate my (useless)boosters even more.

Profession Skills - Engineer

Fixed a bug in which the Grenadier trait made grenade throws less accurate.

World vs. World

Altered arrow cart line-of-sight checks to be more restrictive.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store

For the next six days, the complete Living World Season 2 pack is 40% off in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store. Complete your playthrough of all eight episodes leading up to Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™.

Inks Response to black lion chest options https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw4xGkKMe1s

C: I think a lot of the suggestions are good but GW2 is out to make money, if you don’t believe that you’re naive, and the majority of his ideas encourage them to reduce prizes, consolidate or negate items that they (presumably) sell. I say presumably because I’ve never bought a booster from the gem store without it being in a black lion chest.
A: Yeah, I would be okay with removing or making boosters drop way less frequently. Also reducing the cost in the gem store. Conversely, yeah, keep them in the chests and remove them from the store. Also I loved the brief Tome of Knowledge rant! LOVE the BL weapon chest idea!

 
Scrapper and Hammer