New Designer, Updates, PvP, XTH, and more! courtesy of Linsey Murdock

[Lawliet Kira]

holy crap xD that sounds like fun....a lot more fun than the current RA/TA...

[slowerpoke]

Originally Posted by Yoom Omer

Oh. Now when not saying us a thing for a couple of months sucked, this just rocks. GJ arena net, It finally appears your CR becomes better!

except those words didn't come from the CR

[Giga_Gaia]

With such good info from Linsey, who is actually involved in the game and knows what's going on, sometimes I wonder what the need is for the CM's. I don't recall them actually saying anything this useful.

This next update will be interesting to say the least...

[AmoebaInfectionTechnique]

Sealed Deck Ladder ftw

[moongod]

I'd love for some year round costume brawls.

[Scarlett Romanov]

I'm another pve person, so the update doesn't concern me very much. Never cared for HB. Sealed Deck sounds interesting. I'll probably try it once its implemented. XTH might not be back. Bummer. I like free stuff. Dont really play much anymore. So I guess it doesnt matter if it returns or not. Not much to say.

The idea of new pve quests is the only thing I'm interested in. Come on new Halloween jokes! Come on follow up quest to Gwen's quest from last year. Also..Mox's quest was supposed to be followed up at some point...I guess we'll have to wait until next year for that..

This year's Halloween art contest should be changed to a joke contest. Need..New jokes...Please...Please..Please...Can not stand to hear paragon joke one more time.


Sometimes I think Linsey is just wasting her time and effort. I think her enthusiasm/desire to work would be better used on Guild Wars 2 related matters. GW is a horse on life support. There's not much you can do for the game anymore. Its time to kill it and move on.

[Kamatsu]

Please keep to the topic, and please desist on trying to argue/discuss PvE vs PvP or which is better, more important, the game focus, etc.

[Iotan]

I'm hoping sealed deck will be similar to the Zquests. Every day a new batch and everyone has to use them in the new arena. Or something like costume battles, which is second to dragon arena in awesomeness.

[Ravi]

Im really sorry to come out like this but, people need to stop assuming this is gonna be something along the lines of costume brawl, this is sealed deck, if they meant something like costume brawl, they would've described it, "costume brawl".

again, http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Sealed_Deck

[instanceskiller]

i don't understand why everyone seems to think this update will be amazing though it could be because i'm not a pvp type of person:/ However, as such, most of what i took from what lindsey has said has been bad news
Basically there gonna slow down and reduce the size of future updates but to make it sound better, they said what everyone wanted to hear which was that they will be more 'open' with what little (in my opinion) we can expect from future updates I hope this update has more than what is stated though or it will be severe letdown to have waited so long in game time because when they first announced these content updates i actually had a surge of new hope that their new content schedule will mean bigger updates like the anniversary one.

I may be wrong on this one, but didn't skill updates used to be weekly?, or at least bi-weekly? then monthly, and now bi monthly i hope this at least means bigger and better skill balances:/

maybe like two others have said, they need to take the dying horse off the life support machine and maybe lindsey would be better off as a gw2 dev with her enthusiasm and the ambitiousness of gw2
oh well i hope that a new dev will at least give a good enough reason to keep the horse alive for a little while longer till gw2.

[HawkofStorms]

http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Game_updates/2005_June

Not really instanceskiller. Skill balances were NOT that frequent. Rose colored glasses and all. In fact, when they started doing them monthly, skill balances was actually more consistently done. For the longest time, the only changes to skills was to fix bugs. Very few values were actually changed for a while when the game was new. And the first time a skill actually got its functionality changed completely only happened like 1 year ago.

And really, yes it is a PvP centered update, but PvE already got a huge update earlier this year with the 4th anniversary stuff.

[Raccoon]

...so for the people that liked HB, we just need to gtfo?

GG

[Shayne Hawke]

I might try and grind out my r3 Commander before the thing gets shut down, but I'm so glad to be giving up TA and HB for some kind of Sealed Deck play.

Almost forgot. Thanks for coming on board, Rob. Also, it's nice to see that ANet really does want to be a lot more open about their ideas, and I'm looking forward to what they'll be doing next. It sounds like whatever PvP update that's coming will be here sometime in September or October, so I'll be trying to keep ahead of my college coursework until then.

[IrishX]

Originally Posted by Raccoon

...so for the people that liked HB, we just need to gtfo?

GG

I'm sure those three people can find something else to do.

[Shadowspawn X]

Well looks like the XTH is gonna go away finally so thats good news. Zcoins are going to be the wave of the future, too bad I don't have many.

[Auron of Neon]

Originally Posted by IrishX

I'm sure those three people can find something else to do.

This. Nobody cares about Hero Baddles except baddies, and TA has been gimmick vs gimmick for so long I can barely remember when it was fun.

[Talania Vulcanclaw]

Hello I'm your neighbourhood local HB baddie

Originally Posted by IrishX

I'm sure those three people can find something else to do.

Bit more than three actually smart arse.

None of the players from Hero Battles are too happy about this change that has been decided.

So we have started a petition even though it will probably not even get glanced at we're still going to try because we love the format and do not want it deleted.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10398610

How can the number of players playing HB be compared to that of RA. Hero Battles is not mandatory to unlocking other areas of PvP whereas RA is required to play to progress to TA/HA. Plus RA is used as a testing ground for new builds not proper play. Whats next aT's for RA? So far the only players that feel this is a good idea is the ones that tried Hero Battles and failed at it "Oh yeah remove HB thats a great idea, this sealed deck idea is awesome!" Those people are going to get a shock when they find out they're bad at sealed deck too. Why don't we throw in a little kiddy play area with big spongey skill bars thats limited to 2 skills and that makes pleasent beep noises to keep these players entertained.

The problem isn't that the format has a small player base. The problem is that it requires half a brain to play so the retards give up after 10 matches and say its a bad format then skip back into RA and keep there fingers crossed for a monk so they can get themselves a glad point running their meteor storm Warrior.

So HB has a smaller player base than the other PvP formats. So what? You'll probably find that these players are far more devoted and passionate to HB than every 20 RA players put together or many of the other PvP formats. If the idea is quantity over quality then screw it, I'll play WoW.

[r0bert8841]

I am here for the keeping HB alive petition. Even if our Fan Base is Small the ones that HB are very very dedicated and many of us have 100s if not 1000s of hours under our belts. How can you just take that away from us?

[Wild Rituals]

Also here for keeping Hb alive, its just so much easier so quick to make a team and you dont have to worry bout getting paired up with Idiots

[Narcissia]

yea ok fun, can we have commander title removed if r1+ isnt acheived? pleeeeeease lol