Guild Wars 2 - Flame and Frost

[lujate 574]

Interview with Colin Johanson:

http://www.mmorpg.com/mobile/features.cfm?read=7133&game=473&ismb=1

[lujate 574]

Update on Loot/Drops Investigation

 

After reading reports in the loot issues thread, we spent more time investigating our rewards system. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we verified that all loot tables are indeed working correctly in the game. Since then, we continued receiving reports that there seemed to be an issue, so we extended our search to all systems that created opportunities for you to get items from loot tables. Here we found an issue that we were able to verify was consistent across everyone who reported problems:

 

The rules by which you qualify for credit for an event or for experience when killing a mob are different rules than those used to help determine if you qualify for loot. Some of these were set up to be unintentionally restrictive, and as such you could kill a creature with a lot of health (this was most noticeable on champions) and not qualify for loot, despite qualifying for all other credit.

 

For the February Flame & Frost: The Gathering Storm release we will be repairing this issue to ensure more players are capable of earning loot credit for kills. This should fix the issue such that you got credit for killing a champion, but received no loot from it. Once fixed, all champion mobs will correctly always drop 1 blue or better loot item, and all veterans will have a chance of dropping loot better than regular mobs as outlined in the November release. Please note, it is still possible to kill a creature and not do enough damage to qualify for loot (which is the only way you wont get loot for a champion), it is also still possible for veterans to not drop loot at all, since they simply have better odds of dropping loot than normal creatures but no guaranteed drops.

 

On top of this, were also updating some of the loot in various areas of the game for the February release that should make specific areas more rewarding. Well cover this is in detail with the February release notes.

 

Thanks very much for all your feedback and reports, that information has proved incredibly useful!

from: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Update-on-Loot-Drops-Investigation

[Flooxim 49]

I thought this had been fixed during the past update.

I really hope the Giver items will be completely fixed with this update.

[Flooxim 49]

Here's another interview with Colin Johanson :

http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/210/Lunch-with-Colin-Johanson.aspx

[lujate 574]

Here's another interview with Colin Johanson :

http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/210/Lunch-with-Colin-Johanson.aspx

As I read it, it looks like FDM might well be left out of the guild missions. Even the small guild, 10-15 player, missions will likely be more than we can do.

[Flooxim 49]

New article about guild missions : https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/leah-rivera-on-new-guild-missions

We should be fine, we'll get to meet more new people than other guilds.

[lujate 574]

A tidbit regarding mission pre req's.

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Will-Guild-Missions-need-a-levelled-Guild/

[Flooxim 49]

Today's the day! :blob_red: I can't wait to see the new features. Is any of you expecting some balance with this update?

[lujate 574]

 

Today's the day! :blob_red: I can't wait to see the new features. Is any of you expecting some balance with this update?

I think we can expect a certain amount of monkeying around on their part. We can only hope it is for the better.

[lujate 574]

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/living-story-evolution/

[lujate 574]

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/march-2013/