Three Guild Wars 2 developers talk about the major discussions from the forums before taking questions directly from the community.

Now for the tl;dr bullet list:

• New Achievement System
• Daily and Monthly completion gives new currency: Crowns
• Crowns spent on 100+ completely new rewards
• Another rewards system coming later for non-Daily/Monthly achievements
• Guilds
• Can kick off special 4-5 content style events that other players can then join
• More influence tiers and rewards in those tiers for guilds to “show off”
• No GvG anytime in the foreseeable future
• Dungeons
• Removal of Rez Zerging
• Cannot Rez at waypoint if a party member is still fighting the boss
• Make Bosses that force this tactic easier
• Bump of the difficulty of Explorable Modes
• Give better rewards to match higher difficulty
• Improve bosses
• Make them as good as the FotM bosses
• Not so stagnant in their environment and against players
• LFG
• Still far off but in development
• Will include not only dungeons but sPvP and open world grouping as well
• sPvP
• Leaderboards
• New player experience
• 1v1 Tournaments
• Runs Temple of the Silent Storm map
• Needs Tournament Tokens but not as many as regular tournament
• Lower rewards since only need to win once and few entry tokens required
• PvP Exclusive Armor and Weapon Skins
• Custom Arenas
• Will Cost to rent rooms
• Renter becomes the room’s Host
• Host can adjust many options for the room
• While no new game types, option may allow players to mimic types
• ANet wants Conquest to be the base game type to build sPvP off of
• They have tried Deathmatch, CTF, MOBA, and Dodgeball game types in GW2
• While a gametype might not work in GW2, parts of the game type might still work
• New game mode coming out sometime this year
• Something the community has asked for, but not in a way they imagined
• Balancing still continues
• Current focus on AoEs, Roles, Meta game, and more viable builds for classes
• WvW
• Add progression and rewards for that progression
• Armor and Weapon Skins (may be same as the sPvP skins)
• Adding Abilities that only work in WvW
• Could include increasing guards’ damage, how much supply you can carry, something about siege weapons
• Still too early to know what is and isn’t on the table
• Culling getting closer to being history
• Will be implemented across the board, so large scale PvE events won’t have culling problems either.
• Fractals of the Mists
• Already announced fixes to disconnect and fractal level problems
• Rewards will be based on personal fractal level
• Won’t be able to get ring rewards by jumping into a high level Fractal your first time.
• Orr
• New effects, environment zones, and rewards
• Coming in January build
• Development
• • Focus on fixing before adding
  • Improving current areas before adding more zones
  • They don’t want to talk about updates before they are set in stone
  • They don’t want to promise something is coming out before it has been tested when bugs could push back its release
  • Once something is set to come out they will release all the information about it

 Matt "Mattsta" Adams