Gaiscioch Magazine: Ask the Developers! Deadline 2/28

Hey Everyone,

This next issue I will be interviewing Guild Wars 2 about their upcoming expansion and Elder Scrolls Online about 1.7 and the move to Buy-2-Play. I would like to give all of you a chance to get your questions on the list for these developers. Please ask them in this post and I will add them to the list of questions they can choose to answer. Please note, not all questions will make the cut and the developers will be able to add or remove any question.

Elder Scrolls Online 1.7/Buy-2-Play Transition Questions

Guild Wars 2 Expansion Questions

Nobody has anything they would like to know?

Gw2

Guild Halls

1. Will all current buffs and unlocks transfer over into the new hall system?

2. Do you have to have the expansion in order to access the guild hall?

3. What is the number cap in the guild hall? Same as a regular map? 120? 150?

4. If guild halls are similar to those found in GW1 does this mean we will get an arena and other events that can be triggered in the guild hall?

5. With guild halls in the mix does this mean some sort or alliance system is in the works so other guilds can guest/visit our hall?

New Zone

1. Can we expect new and harder enemies to fight?

2. Is Anet continuing with the living world aspect of the game? Will there be events and such that effect what is happening in the new zones?

3. Adventures so far look rather underwhelming. Are they simply a rehash of hearts or are they the same old collect this many things, burn this many vines, help this many people? Is the intent to have them act more like adventure zones in GW1 like fissure of woe?

5. So lorewise (and rolewise) we will find out what the sylvari did only with the expansion pack? Not before? Now our characters (and the characters sylvari first) don’t know what happened with the pact, correct? What happens to LS? Is the expansion required to continue the story?

6. The new region, apparently ‘vertical’ was used to describe it and its got 3 tiers a canopy level, a ground and a tree level. Now hand gliding around the canopy level sounds great and awesome to me. However, I am concerned the new region will largely be a massive jumping puzzle or series of jumping puzzles. Is this the case/true?

7.  As we are all aware the most recent world boss to be added has been Triple Trouble in Bloodtide Coast, this boss is by far the most interesting world boss we have to fight. For HoT can we expect additional world boss or are we only getting ‘raid’ type bosses? Also can we expect an update to existing World Bosses?

Class, Rev, Races

1. Will new Rev's be required to start at level 1 and level the normal way or does Anet have plans to give players a level 80 scroll? Are they expansion locked?

2. Can we expect a new race?

3. We’ve seen some classes in the new trailer getting access to new weapons, is this limited to an extra weapon per class, or can we expect more? 

Masteries

1. Since they are replacing skill points and becoming the new endgame will there be masteries for the core game?

WvW

1. How will the WvW changes impact those without the expansion? (new borderlands in rotation sounds like it will have be available to all, unless you’ll prevent certain people of playing wvw in some weeks)

2. Will we see new WvW/EOTM rewards to purchase with our badges of honor?

3. Will WvW achievements be fixed with the expansion so that they are brought inline with existing achievements?

Other:

1. With the LS leading into the expansion is there plans to include season 2 as a bundle for those that missed it or plans to include all the season 2 episodes in the expansion itself?

2. What happens to world completion with the expansion in play? Will it be restricted to core maps or will the expansion areas be incorporated some how?

3. Will additional character slots be included with the purchase HoT?

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What I personally would like to know is wither or not they had plans to add the Revenant all along and just didn't know how to introduce him or is it something that they came up with after GW2 was already released? Like now we know they always planned on Sylvari being Mordremoth' minions in some way, so did they plan on the Revenant coming in from the start?

How will the new Specializations change our current Professions? They have stated that a Ranger can become a Druid, so what are the other specializations titles for each class? Is there only one per class or will there be several to choose from?

Will this be similar to the dual professions in Guild Wars 1?

Will there be additional personal story lines added?

How will the new Mastery Skills be added to our skill bars?

Will we have new trait lines? Or additional traits added to the current trait lines?

Will the new skills learned in the Heart of Thorns be usable in the other parts of the world? I.E. Hang Gliding.

At the end of Point of No Return the Sylvari are seen as "belonging to the dragon" and therefore enemies, how will that effect players that are Sylvari as they encounter the new NPC's in the HoT expansion area?

Will we have new skills for WvW? And will the rank points be refunded to us again?

Since adding Edges of the Mist the SoR population in WvW has declined. There are times that we can barely cover the maps we have now, so I am concerned that while a new map in WvW looks really exciting, it could also be very problematic.

They added Mega servers to help balance the PvE zones, so what are they going to do to help balance out the population in WvW? 

How are they planning to consolidate the currency system?

Are they going to add more dungeons and or jump puzzles to the new zone?

Will we still have the seasonal celebrations and festivals? Will we have any new ones?

Will Kessex Hills and Lion's Arch ever be repaired?

With the addition of Guild Halls will we see more options for the guild missions or are we stuck with the old grind for Influence and Merits?

Will we have an alliance system so we can communicate and coordinate with other guilds?

Let's do try to avoid words like "Finally" and "Will we ever". Don't be negative when asking questions to developers :). You tend to get better answers that way. Before these questions get formulated into an interview I will run through them and clean them all up but you never want to be passive aggressive with anyone you interview. It's a good way to have your communication channels cut. 

ESO

Any plans on making the pve more group friendly? :3 Maybe some new mechanics so we can help our friends with previous quests or in different paths? What about Bosses and we be able to tackle them in a 5 men group with scaling difficulties?

GW2

Is it possible to bring Living Story Season 1 back to life? Maybe using the mechanics in LSS2 when revisiting Caithe's memories and going back in time to relive saving the world? What about the shatterer and his neck problem?

GW2 

1. Are you all planning on doing a dungeon setting for hard mode or max level mode? ( For new and old dungeons )

2. Anything being added to the home instance that we can expect at the launch of new EXP of GW2:HoT? ( Yes or No ) 

3. Will Older Zones have a refresh of new events across the map due to the new dragon awaking or only in higher level maps? ( Yes or No )

4. Will Jewelcrafting and Cooking make it to craft level 500 that we can expect to see at launch of new EXP of GW2:HoT? ( Yes or No )

5. ( For new players reading ) Will there be a combo pack for GW2  GW2:HoT type of deal?

6. Will there be a GW2:HoT collectors edition box set?

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Will the recipes for current Legendary weapons change?  Specifically, if I've collected all the non-precursor components of the current recipe (Gift of Mastery, Gift of Fortune, etc) will I be able to craft my legendary using the precursor I get in HoT via masteries + these components?