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> @"zealex.9410" said:

> > @"Mike Zadorojny.7058" said:

> > Is it?

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> > Regarding moving from Season 4 to Season 5, we announced this in the 6th Anniversary Celebration Video. We talked about wanting to release expansion level stories and features over the next couple years. Our goal is to create powerful moments like the final instance of this episode that are a culmination of multiple departments and raise the bar for what it means to be a Guild Wars 2 experience.

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> How will that impact any possible production of an expansion or other expansion sized projects? Lw is cool and all but it really doesn get the word out as expansions do or other projects of that magnitude.

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> Is there even an expansion in the works? During the post hot period we had the knowledge of more teams working on diff porjects. Now we are left in the dark that that brews uncertainty in the game and its direction.

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I agree, I don’t understand why the future of the game is shrouded in mystery, I think it would instill a lot of confidence in the community if we had some idea as to where the game was headed, and if we will only be getting LS from here on out, what is the rest of the studio working on? And why abandon expansions if they have been very successful so far?

> @"Mike Zadorojny.7058" said:

> Is it?

>

> Regarding moving from Season 4 to Season 5, we announced this in the 6th Anniversary Celebration Video. We talked about wanting to release expansion level stories and features over the next couple years. Our goal is to create powerful moments like the final instance of this episode that are a culmination of multiple departments and raise the bar for what it means to be a Guild Wars 2 experience.

Are elite specializations in the table as part of a living story season?

Would love the idea of a companion. The world feels too empty because the maps are so large. I think we should have 1-2 companions and they should mirror other characters on our account - so we actually have to unlock skills that we want to use with them.

Hi, unless I am missing something, I can't figure out how to get a reflect or magnetic aura on my weaver running Sw/D. I understand that focus has one on earth 4, but that seems kind of pointless as that is gated by an extra 4 seconds. Anything else that I should be doing in obvious reflect situations?

Overall I love the expansion, it's amazing.

I think both expansions have had a lot of disparity in elite specialization usefulness, uniqueness, and mechanics. I understand different developers have different strengths and weaknesses, and because of that I think the devs should rotate and touch all of the elite specs during development, they would be more consistent and balanced that way.

It's sad that holosmith gets traits that totally change how you play theclass, and Ele traits are about number tweaks.

Karl, is sword designed to be a damage dealing weapon or not? Why are the AAs so slow and why does it get out DPS'd by every other weapon, including ranged ones?

Power staff is your best bet IMO. Pretty easy and high damage.

Barrier scales so poorly with healing power that you may as well just take vitality and not bother training for what amounts to a totally useless mechanic.