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Guild Wars Reporter 166 – Twitchstravaganza!

October 02, 2015

Celeste and Allona (like everyone else in the community) can NOT believe how much news came out of TwitchCon! So much that they eschewed talking about any Guild news, saving that for next week (promise!). Clouded very kindly stepped up to join them for Surviving the Mists this week.
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What We Did This Week
 

Allona

17k chest!
Some PvP
Tequatl
Some EoTM

Celeste

Every single time I sat down at my computer within 5 minutes there was an “emergency” to deal with this week.
Did a keyfarm
Made a new Ranger
Tried to finish Mount Maelstrom but, gugh… those hearts take a REALLY long time, man.
Played with Kiddo for a little bit, he let me know that the Caledon Wurm was up so we took care of that and gallivanted about :3

 

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Report from Lion’s Arch
 
All Snacker, All The Time (Points of Interest episode 34)
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-scrapper-on-points-of-interest-a-summary/

Rubi explained that PoI is being retired in advance of twitchcon (this friday is the beginning) where they’ll be showing off the druid.
Irenio Calmon-Huang! Game Designer!
Scrapper name origin - it was a low class warband in charr society, Rubi called them “the outcasts, the misfits”

Irenio - (paraphrased a little) “They were downtrodden, they took their punishment and turned it into a badge of honor.” “When you’re working with a bunch of junk you can make some pretty cool stuff so the scrapper is a master of improvisation. Not just the mechanical but also on the battlefield.”

“kind of a melee bruiser, he’s also got a lot of good lockdown ability and in preparations for raids, he’s also pretty capable of breaking breakbars”
Then Jebro was on PvP 101 with a few options for the scrapper as far as builds, combos and other ideas

 
Twitchstravaganza! All the streams!
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/twitchcon-2015-recap/

Final Beta will be during the weekend of Oct 2 (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-final-beta-weekend-event-begins-october-2/)

Emphasis will be on impressions on the feel of event zones, transitioning from Jungle to Canopy areas as well as one of the raid bosses
PSA: Remember to put your armor and bags into the bank so it will refresh since the original beta characters you had are no longer available

New streaming show called Guild Chat

C: I love the shattered sword logo!
A: I adored that Rubi defaulted to “GuildCast” It made me gleeful.

Adventures!

The Floor is Lava?

Inspired by speed runs
you kick fruit which make platforms on the floor that are safe for you to land on
if you hit the floor you lose 10% of your health
everyone is normalized before entering (aside from your masteries) and all previous buffs are removed before you begin the adventure

Fallen Masks

Telling masks to chill a lot is apparently the focus of this one according to Byron
There’s mushrooms and decoy-style mushrooms and situations where you’ll need your glider if you really want to be high up on the leaderboards

You drive around a charr motorcyle ramping over explosions.
You transform into a robot to see how many bugs you can punch in a time limit.
Jumping puzzles with transform that give you new skills.

Several fun subsections like Quaggan Deep Thoughts, Live At The Crow’s Nest, Community Showcase Live and A Chat with Kit The Traveler

C: I didn’t think Taste of Tyria was too bad. It wasn’t great either though LOL The jokes were o’ plenty. The line about enjoying sweetness as a reasoning as to why she doesn’t date charr was just really weird.
A: I am so behind! I saw the Deep Thoughts (which I loved) and I purposefully sought out Kit’s interview … and that’s it so far.