The Q&A will be happening during a time that I will be available tomorrow , so I’ll be reprising my usual role of Q&A stream notetaker and posting to this thread.
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It was about asking questions only in the stream, not here…
@Lyrian thank you!
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I really hope that someone will ask what happens to the Lore… 
My apologies. I read this and thought you worried you’d be unable to watch it all.
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I imagine it’d be quite a tale to tell.
As I wont be here for the dev stream most likely.
In my absence, can someone ask them what they plan to do about the weapons that were released and never bought back.
As newer players are left at a massive disadvantage now that they cant obtain these weapons.
And we arent talking cash shop here, as people should not be forced to spend real money on a game, because they started playing it after every one else.
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The dev Q and A is today! Are you excited? I AM EXCITED!
Can’t wait to see you there.
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@Smash Salty spoke on the Weapons subject a couple of streams ago, if that helps - if you’d like, I can try to pinpoint it?
Yes, but this is the devs.
And Salty gets asked basically every stream, generally by me or someone else in BDC lol.
So far, nothing hard has been given, just we will think about it. Im sure Salty and every other Staff member I have asked about it, has bought it up with the team.
And until something is done, it will most likely kept being asked about, as it is a massive handicap to newer players. Ignoring the fact that longer players like myself would love to complete all the weapons and collect them all, a newer player in the alliance asks about best weapon for X event. Generally it will be between Earths Fury or Tricksters Shot that is recommended. They cant get either because they are newer to the game.
Older cards come back around (imps) or are in the general pool of what you can get.
Weapons are there for a week, then poof disappear to never reappear outside of cash shop again.
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That’s been the communicated standard operating procedure since new weapons started appearing in monthly events. Despite this stance, though, newer weapons appearing in the cash shop have only appeared a handful of times at best.
The devs seem to be wavering on that stance a bit. Let’s see if there is any announcement of a policy change on the stream.
This is not going to be an effective argument.
The devs are not forcing anyone to spend real money on the game.
The devs are not forcing anyone to spend real money on weekly weapons.
Weekly weapons are priced at a point where any guild that can clear just the Blue statue can afford the weekly weapons for free. That said, there is a significant opportunity cost in that for newer players, the cost of weapons in gems is going to be very significant. My personal opinion, but I believe that this scarcity of gems for younger accounts is intentional. There needs to be weight behind resource investment decisions.
Now, regarding “missed” weapons, I do believe that this is a long-term issue. Not because someone missed a meta weapon, but rather that simply owning these weapons are a hard requirement for leveling kingdom stars. At some point, a course of action will need to be taken on this.
Again, let’s see if any new light is shed on the situation tonight or not.
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so you answer about the control of the chat and the destruction of sracha and swearing? or make a separate chat or channel specifically for ads
Heads up, when this question is asked on stream you will receive the same answer that I’ve been posting.
So, you will have an answer along the lines of… “We’re still discussing it, as we want a system that doesn’t just work with existing old weapons but for other weapons that will come in the future.”
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Not that you’d know since you’re still new here, but that’s the exact same answer since 2016. And when Sirrian addressed it then it was only after many months of nagging.
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“We’re looking into making old weapons more available.” - Established in 2016. 
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I know its the standard answer, and I understand why the answer is given, as commiting to something and then changing it later because it was ill-thought out when answered is a bad look. 100% understand it.
But it IS an issue, and it is something that will keep being put on the back burner unless it is bought up constantly.
Sooo 
Dev Q&A for Update 4.3
– Theme of the Update: Social Interactions
Complete chat revamp to correct problems with aging chat system.
To foster and encourage community unity and lessen chat toxicity.
– Chat System Revamp
Complete rework of chat system, although it will behave at its core like chat now.
Easier to correct bugs with chat system in the future.
Chat required the full rebuild after many ports of the old chat system.
Full screen chat now possible.
Chat no longer shrinks when typing long messages.
Titles and Portraits available for chat messages (a defined set in game to be unlocked)
Emoji integration into chat. New emojis unlockable weekly.
Alternating colors between messages to assist in differentiating messages in chat.
There is a “Chat Lite” (Classic?) mode, that is similar to chat mode pre-4.3.
Emojis, titles, and portraits are unlocked by meeting various criteria in-game.
These can be earned via weekly events, as well (expect new ones every week). If missed, these can be purchased after in-game for a small gem fee after a 2-month exclusive window.
Title awards given weekly, requires full guild clear. Otherwise, will be available after a 2-month exclusive window for a small fee.
Portraits unlocked by leveling up, or via other completing various criteria in-game.
No custom portraits because of potential copyright or obscenity issues.
Portraits and titles are cosmetic themed only.
Devs are open to feedback for new titles and portraits.
“Small gem fee” not set in stone yet. Considering ~25 gems-ish range.
– Chat Moderation
The community can now report players with offensive chat directly from the chat window (player’s profile window) and report them for potential moderation to the support team.
Abuse of the report button will result in players’ reports being treated as less reliable in the future.
Blocking player chat is still in the game.
– Honor System
Players gain 2 Honor per day, (max capacity is 5)
Players can honor players in chat (global or guild), or after PvP matches.
Being honored can be increase a player’s Honor rank.
A player’s Honor badge can seen in the profile.
A special version of the Dragonkitty is available if Honor is maxed out.
Other minor bonuses may be available as Honor increases, such as special chat frames.
– Tribute Screen Rework
Tribute is now broken down by kingdoms that awarded each type of tribute.
Obtained Honor since last tribute collection is shown on the tribute screen.
– Potions
All scheduled events (not random pet events) will offer potions in shops.
Added to weekly events shops. One potion per Tier of purchase.
Adds unique bonuses, lasts to the end of the weekly event.
Thought process: assist new players who get stuck early in events get farther.
Some potions: explode at start of battle, skull resistance, regeneration, and so on.
Tier 7 potion purchase: adds 7 to all stats, can be purchased repeatedly and stacks cumulatively.
** Potions are NOT applicable to Guild Wars.
– Delve Difficulty Issues
Potions are not the fix to delve difficulty.
Will require a future quarterly update (aka. 4.4 or later) to release. New system in development.
– Transform Issues
Bless will render immunity to Transform.
Other solutions may come in future updates.
– Filters
Banner filter being added. Can suggest banner choices. Text search possible.
NOT ‘color’ filters being added.
– MVP Screen
Appears after PvP matches. Replaces old “PvP Score” screen.
Does NOT take any longer than previous PvP screen to cycle through.
Shows stats of match and best performing unit on player’s team (even in losses).
Can issue Honor to a player from the MVP Screen.
– Screenshot Mode
Appears as a camera button on various screens.
Places the game into a screenshot mode to take high quality screenshots.
Appears on the MVP screen and various troop screens.
– Event Chest Changes
Commons and Rares will begin to appear in Event chests. (These appear as multiples).
There is NO CHANGE to draw rates for Epics/Legendaries/Mythics from Event keys.
– Guild Wars Changes
Enemy guilds will NOT be known until the beginning of each day’s guild war.
There may be scoring changes in the near future???
– Shop Changes
Multi-purchase for items in the shop have been implemented.
Spoils of War pack will be limited to 10 per week per player starting with 4.3.
– Free for All
Pan’s Vale rework will happen either next week or the week after 4.3.
No major changes/additions to the Soulforge for 4.3.
Soul sink? Perhaps later this year…
GW Bracket movement at low brackets… can now move up to 10 brackets per month. Will be potentially re-examined.
No Skeleton Key nerf planned.
Old weapons… new system being designed, requiring a Soulforge update. Solution needs to handle the problem of past AND future event weapons. Probably at least a quarterly update away.
Old Hero Class trait updates? Likely in the future.
Hero talent tree updates? Probably for the future.
Return of weekly lore? Likely for key units (not for common troops).
Higher level delves yielding higher rewards? Slight tweak maybe in the future, but otherwise no.
A new Dawnbringer-like weapon? Requires a Soulforge update before happening. Likely requires a quarterly update.
– END OF STREAM
Edits are complete. Please feel free to call out errors still present in the notes for correction.
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Join our Developer Q&A Twitch Stream ft. @Sirrian and @Nimhain, and our fabulous host behind the scenes @Saltypatra. Talking all things 4.3, with some viewer questions at the end!
@Cyrup I hope this means that the schedule will be randomized for bracket 1 and not based off ranks from the previous GW. It’s easy to figure out who will face who on what day under the current system.
So 4.3 will be pushed out before or within 24 hours after weekly reset.
Reading between the lines of what was said about timing of the Pan’s Vale revamp by Nim, the probability of the update landing shortly after the Preview Stream next week is likely very high (especially after she said that she didn’t want the revamp to release on the same week as 4.3). But, that is to be expected, as the Preview Streams have been recently very shortly before the actual update goes live. The 4.3 Preview Stream is next week so… conjecture away. Delays can always happen, so there’s that too.
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