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On Amount of NPC Chatter Being Sometimes Overwhelming : [link]
arenanet logo developer forum red postBobby Stein: The chatter system that handles things like greets and combat VO needs some frequency tweaking. It’s relatively simple to do, and it’s on our radar for polish stuff.

On Selecting Friends for Battle Grounds: [link]
arenanet logo developer forum red postJon Peters: You can play with your friends via tournaments. We will continue as well to improve the ability to play with friends in pickup games, but it will always be somewhat limited because we do not want large groups of guilds pub stomping the pick up games.

Guild Missing or Unavailable: [link]
arenanet logo developer forum red postCameron Dunn: We found (and fixed) a bug with a number of different guilds which were causing them to no longer be available. This probably isn’t going to fix every broken guild, but it should fix a lot of them.