Last week, ArenaNet announced that there would not be just one Guild Wars 2 Live Team to keep the world fresh and functioning. We were told that there would be SIX (or more as needed)! We caught up with Colin Johanson to talk about the Live Teams and how they will function and what they will bring to Guild Wars 2. Read on!

MMORPG.com:  Congrats on such a successful launch, Colin.  Before we get to the "future plans" for Guild Wars 2, can you share with us what the team sees as the biggest current pressing issue in the live game, and what are you all doing to remedy it?

Colin Johanson: Thank you very much! It has been incredible and humbling to see so many people pour into the game, and how positive the reviews and feedback on the game have been so far. Of course with an MMO, once the game ships is when your work has really only begun, which leads me to the answer to your question….

Read more of Bill Murphy's Guild Wars 2: Colin Johanson on the Live Teams & the Future.

Originally posted by InFlamestwo
Guardians OP? Sure in PvE. In PvP Thieves and Warriors are the OP classes....Warrior crit 8-10k with a few skills and Thieves do 20k damage in 3-5 seconds.

 

Looking forward to Halloween.

I loved it in GW1.

 

 

If you're talking about Greatsword warriors...move a few paces back when they do their hundred blades, they're planted in that spot while doing it, then destroy them. If you stand there while they use the ability, it's your own fault. Greatsword warriors are easy to avoid their damage, I kite em around using my gun. Thieves, well, yah, there's no doubt about it, and I have a thief, they're way overpowered at the moment, hehe.

Originally posted by drbaltazar
phi brain puzzle is a blast!the high and low view is awsome!like the small guy race,the inital training phi brain puzzle is awsome ,once your reach portal the pat6 play with the hight and the low so often the path is obvious but you dont see it because arenanet putted a fiew path to send you in the wrong direction ,this sound silly but the hight and low path in this manner is awsome,same for the second one same map ,the matrix key?where the frozen elemental are?add a pvp element to this map like one start at the top the other at bottom and both need to reach each other  start zone and come back with something.why its uber?because of the pve aspect if arenanet was to tweak difficulty on this little puppy this could be insanelly uber!simple yet very effective!for any not having tried it go try it wwhe n the map is full of allie,resspawn is insane so if you drop and everything is acrtive?outch outch outch ,add a team that wont to kill you on its way down or up?and you got the winning reciepe!sorry if i dont speak about end game ,been working a lot these days and havent had to time to continue leveling !

what?

¨For PvP players, we have a lot of great casual PvP for them to play, rewards to earn, and new ranks to continue to build towards. However, we lack a number of the features to support truly competitive and ranked play for the more skilled PvP players¨  

And then i was a hater when i said that the PvP in gw2 atm is casual. 

i like how guardians are the only one mentioned as "imba" wtf is up with that? its always amazing how the whiners start with "i love X but nerf it to hell and back"

next time you do an interview leave your agendas at home.

F'n Pvpers always crying and ruining fun classes in other areas of the game because they got owned. This is why you guys are hated by other playstyles, you try to get everything nerfed to oblivion until every class is a shell of itself and dumbed down.

Originally posted by Tayah

Originally posted by InFlamestwo
Guardians OP? Sure in PvE. In PvP Thieves and Warriors are the OP classes....Warrior crit 8-10k with a few skills and Thieves do 20k damage in 3-5 seconds.

 

Looking forward to Halloween.

I loved it in GW1.

 

 

If you're talking about Greatsword warriors...move a few paces back when they do their hundred blades, they're planted in that spot while doing it, then destroy them. If you stand there while they use the ability, it's your own fault. Greatsword warriors are easy to avoid their damage, I kite em around using my gun. Thieves, well, yah, there's no doubt about it, and I have a thief, they're way overpowered at the moment, hehe.

Dual Axes Warrior do 8-10k crit. Greatsword warrior do 16-18k crit with Hundred blades.

Thief needs a nerf :)

Looking forward to Halloween.I loved it in GW1.

Originally posted by Ecoces

i like how guardians are the only one mentioned as "imba" wtf is up with that? its always amazing how the whiners start with "i love X but nerf it to hell and back"

 

next time you do an interview leave your agendas at home.

 

F'n PVPers always ruining fun classes, thats why many people hate PVPers they claim to be the best players but they will whine and cry to high heaven faster than any other type of player.

 

The interviewer mentioned gaurdians not the ANet guy he made no commitments to what will be nerfed/buffed

"Last week more than 4800 bots and hackers were banned from the game permanently."

Thank you Arenanet! luving the game :-)

Originally posted by ubermut

Originally posted by drbaltazar
phi brain puzzle is a blast!the high and low view is awsome!like the small guy race,the inital training phi brain puzzle is awsome ,once your reach portal the pat6 play with the hight and the low so often the path is obvious but you dont see it because arenanet putted a fiew path to send you in the wrong direction ,this sound silly but the hight and low path in this manner is awsome,same for the second one same map ,the matrix key?where the frozen elemental are?add a pvp element to this map like one start at the top the other at bottom and both need to reach each other  start zone and come back with something.why its uber?because of the pve aspect if arenanet was to tweak difficulty on this little puppy this could be insanelly uber!simple yet very effective!for any not having tried it go try it wwhe n the map is full of allie,resspawn is insane so if you drop and everything is acrtive?outch outch outch ,add a team that wont to kill you on its way down or up?and you got the winning reciepe!sorry if i dont speak about end game ,been working a lot these days and havent had to time to continue leveling !

what?

ahhhh hahahahahaha.  

Looking forward to what they have planned :)

Originally posted by Tayah
Not being able to get into WvsW is a big issue for me. Before someone says it, no I'm not going to switch servers, that shouldn't be the answer to fix the problem of being in a que for hours. Arenanet knew and have stated they knew that WvsW would be a big hit with people and still don't have a good way to get more people in to enjoy it.

I understand if your guild is on the server but if your solo and you insist on playing that server then it is your fault to stick with the queue.  Something tells me you play on Henge of Denravi or Jade Quarry.

>"For WvW players, we simply have more people trying to play WvW than the game can currently support."

Oh, look, 3-factions is too successful! :D

There has to be a melting point in WvW, to big player totals ruins smaller clusters, to little player totals makes queue unbeareble for bigger servers.

But one thing they have totaly done wrong is letting Free Transfer going on what totaly ruined sub ranked world 6 servers.

Damage is done and people flock winning to winning servers in the weekend making the rest of the week 1 side owning wvw...

Invisible zergs are also becoming a bane for WvW players, but that one has a big priority and it seems they fixed it to the previous level, but still not 100%.

But damn iam exciting to see whats Anet has in store for the 1st major patch / expansion <3

mmorpg: "i can run faster than a Centuar!"

Anet:... "Enticing!'

over all-  right questions asked. and pleaseant responses.

this mmo is for me!

Bunker guardians are a complete waste of time to fight, but the imba ones are those damn backstab thieves that abuse the stealth-render issue that's currently happening. I went into a few sPVP matches and 7 of the 10 players were thieves (I was on my necro) after taking a few paces from my spawn to the nearest capture point and getting ganked by 3 of them, I left the match.