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Q: In a small guild, excited about new bounties, but will not have 50k influence in a reasonable timeframe. Small guilds feel like they can't do guild events. Feels like really high barrier to entry.
R: Looked at influence gains, costs used to be higher before. "We are listening, we have seen this feedback" but he didn't give anything approaching a concrete answer.

    Q: Will you be able to tame griffins?
R: Basically said maybe, it's on a list.

    Q: Art of War tree in a mostly PvE guild. Will there be useful PvE options in the Art of War tree?
R: "Short answer is yes." He said right now there's a reward at the end of it--armor repair reduction--which is pretty lackluster in my opinion. They tried to differentiate trees but plan to remedy it somewhat.

    Q: sPvP. At 2am it's hard to join as a group. Can all of the servers get linked into a big lobby?
R: They've considered it, it's on a list. There are other features that will help with it. They're working on a better cross-server LFG tool that will help rectify it.

    Q: Prestige. Titles are lacking. Hard to notice, etc.
R: Pretty high on their list. They know it's a problem and they want them to be visible. Hopefully something soon.

    Q: WvW abilities. Prefer smaller groups vs. large zergs, not very fond of siege weaponry. The abilities sound boring, will there be any for PvP instead of Siege v Siege.
R: Don't want abilities to singehandedly change a 1v1 which is why they focused on siege, etc. Still working on it, potentially PvP focused but not in the cards.

    Q: GChat uses character name, which makes people forgettable vs. account names.
R: It is a problem, working on a system to customize stuff/take care of the issue. Working on a fix.

    Q: Engineers are the least played, and seem to be forgotten. Low number of builds. Turrets are bad.
R: They had a meeting named "Engineer Turret Meeting." They know turrets are sucky and lame. They try to take the weakest thing on each profession each patch and buff it. AI problems are a multifaceted problem. Lists lists lists.