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Fake I'd say. If they were planning on doing something like this then it'd be marketed as a major feature of the expansion and not some secret feature they're planning on springing on us.

I can vaguely remember once when they updated the notes or provided an update to the notes with explanations on what they weren't doing something anymore but I can't find it so I may be misremembering. In general though they have no interest in interacting with the player base beyond marketing.

I didn't know that! I missed it completely. I've been trying to actively use that and I take it all back it can be a lot of fun! Boosting into an ambient just before leaping off a cliff! Makes it better I think.

Think of the all the time savings from not having to ctrl-c ctrl-v!

I'd love to see them add those skins but I can't see it happening. They didn't have to create the darkspear staff skin it already existed for staff. Now I don't know what work was required to add it as a spear skin but I can't imagine it was that much work. In contrast they'd have to create black lion spear skins from scratch.

Yeah, I think that the stability a predictable schedule brings is definitely huge for the team. Swapping from the we're doing an expansion followed by a LW Season model that Mike O'Brien put into place to we're doing LW only (IBS) to we're scrapping that and doing an expansion (EoD) must have been so disruptive, frustrating and exhausting for the team. As I've said a few times I'm ok with the current model, I'm happy to pay for the current expansions but I do miss the "golden days" of HoT, LS3, PoF and LS4 (even taking into account the drought between HoT and LS3 and the delays and cut content from LS4 it was by far the best time in GW2, IMO).

Yeah, I think you're giving the players too much credit and their opinions fat too much weight here. More likely ArenaNet were unwilling to continue to put all their development resources into GW2 and decided that they could continue with just the Living World then NCSoft told them they had to do another expansion, my guess is they weren't happy with the Living World only model and wanted those expansion sales. Personally, I'd have much preferred if they kept the pattern they, briefly, had of an expansion followed by a LS season to round out the expansion area. That model was the best we had but that requires more resources than they're willing to commit.

BRAAAAAAAAAINS!

Forget it, I'm out.

This is true, the mastery isn't needed for the maggots, I'd be happy if they removed the damage from dash entirely, I don't think it's needed or desirable. They won't do that but a toggle would be great.

I doubt they use AI at all. I also really doubt that developing and training an AI model to rework the armour meshes for some new race would actually save time, effort and cost over doing it by hand. It's far from a trivial undertaking.

Between the Legendary armour Collection and the items that Lhyr offered we knew pretty much everything that was needed. Really the only thing we didn't know was the name of the currency from Inner Nayos because those items were just listed as question marks at the start but it was pretty apparent what they were from what Lhyr was selling (as in he sold an item that required 250 stardust, 250 static charge and 250 ? So we knew it was 250 of the map currency for the third map). I think that's the only time they revealed what would be needed for a Legendary before it hit the game.

I suspect they'll keep it quiet until the November update, there's no new map so they will probably add collections for the spear then. They probably don't want us to have everything gathered in advance this time, otherwise people will blitz through the process and have "nothing to do" a day after the release.

Yes. They gave away the full requirements for the legendary obsidian armour at the launch of SotO so that people could start gathering the materials they needed.

Yep, if you want to wait then that's true, assuming you have the coins you can effectively buy up everything that remains the moment the next expansion comes out. But you'll have to get the coins for that new expansion's stuff.