Colin Johanson Talks Guild Wars 2 WvW- GuildCast Ep 60 (Video)

Raids!!!! Please Anet!!!

A week’s worth of sleep isn’t a week long because  it’s talking about the amount of SLEEP you get in a week. 

An expansion’s worth of content is…the amount of content you get in an expansion. 

Good episode, but I really dislike that you keep on bringing up “critical consumption of media.” Colin’s the one that brought up the term “expansion” when describing the January/February updates. He could have just said “gigantic amount of content” and we’d be fine, but no one put the word “expansion” in his mouth when talking about the updates, HE SPECIFICALLY said expansion. It was a mistake on his part, NOT THE READERS’ mistake, to associate the two patches and the term “expansion.”

So it shouldn’t be “critical consumption of media” you keep bringing up, it should be “more carefully state what you’re releasing to the public.” 

Props to Scott Hawks for knowing how to say thank you in Korean.

Excellent episode everyone!  The best part was Elizabeth’s alt-monolgue at the end and every else’s reaction to it

I do feel the need to respond to Scott’s comments about the dodge daily.    It is very possible to successfully dodge *without* getting the Evade proc.  I have
tested this against melee, ranged and AoE attacks and I have to deliberately alter my timing in an unnatural (for me) way to get the Evade proc.
 
After playing for 4 hours last night without dying once I still had not completed the dodge daily.     So not all players complaining about this mechanic need to learn to dodge.  

The reason I dislike the current dailies is because they feel like they encouraging artificial, not natural gameplay.     For example, players are deliberately letting NPCs die to get the healer daily. 

I only completed my daily last night by performing an act I would not normally do.  I was sick of trying alter my timing against single mobs so I charged that harpy attack on the camp near the Ascalon Catacombs entrance.     They all aggro-ed me and I got most of what I needed in one shot.  I also died in the process.    Judging by the rush of players to rez me I’m guessing they were trying to get their daily too.

And this is reason why I dislike the current dailies.   If ArenaNet intends for players to go out of their way and do things they would not normally do while playing to finish the dailies, then fine.   But I always hear dailies being touted by ArenaNet (and the press) as things you can naturally finish during the normal course of play.

This is justnot the case for everyone.  The only times I have ever finished dailies was by altering how I play and deliberately going after them.    I
don’t have an issue with this since this is no different than going after other
specific rewards but I do not want it implied that just because some players
are not naturally getting dailies during their course of play, that they are
somehow playing the game wrong.     

Frankly, I think daily requirements that encourage unnatural behavior (healer and dodge) should simply be dropped.   There are more than enough other options to provide variety with choices that really -do- encourage normal gameplay (gathering, mob kills etc)