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World Map Completion. Should you do it? What are the best ways?

6:18 am, December 1, 2014 Hey everyone! I was doing come World Map Completion and I figured I would share with you guys some of the things it is good for and some of the best ways to do it. I made a youtube video while I was [..] View

Introducing the World Tournament Series finalists

6:18 pm, November 21, 2014 On December 5, the top four PvP teams in GuildWars2 will go head-to-head at the World Tournament Series Championship event in Beijing, China, all vying for the lion’s share of the $50,000 pr [..] View

Finding the perfect match

6:18 pm, November 20, 2014 Hello, world! My name is Justin O’Dell, and I’m one of the server programmers on the Structured Player vs. Player (sPvP) team. I’m here to talk to you about the upcomin [..] View

Announcing Improvements to PvP and the Ladder Test Season

6:18 pm, November 19, 2014 Hello, Tyrians! We’re very pleased to announce that on December 2 we will be releasing some major updates to PvP that will enhance and improve a number of areas of the PvP experience. Matc [..] View

Meet WTS Finalists The Abjured and The Civilized Gentlemen on this weeks Ready Up

6:18 pm, November 13, 2014 On this week’s Ready Up, Host Joshua “Grouch” Davis will be joined by members of World Tournament Series Finals teams “The Abjured” and “The [..] View

Come celebrate the 50th ESL Weekly Cup this Thursday!

7:18 pm, October 8, 2014 We’d like to cordially invite you to join us tomorrow in celebrating the 50th tournament of the ESL Weekly Cup a PvP tournament hosted by our community organizers and shoutcasters each week, [..] View

Tempest Weapons and World vs. World Support Pack in the GemStore!

7:18 pm, September 30, 2014 Whether youre looking for a little extra support in your World vs. World endeavors or trying to show off your fashion sensibilities with a new set of weapons, the Black Lion Trading Company is her [..] View

The game's content is poorly distributed, while its progression is simply lacking

7:18 am, September 18, 2014 With the New Player Experience (the NPE), A.Net set out to redistribute the game's progression, in hopes of making the game more appealing. My core issue with this idea is that they focused on a syste [..] View

The game's content is poorly distributed, while its progression is simply lacking.

7:18 pm, September 17, 2014 With the New Player Experience (the NPE), A.Net set out to redistribute the game's progression, in hopes of making the game more appealing. My core issue with this idea is that they focused on a syste [..] View

1-80lvl in 2 minutes after 2nd feature pack

7:18 am, September 15, 2014 Many veterans in recent days complaining that leveling is hard, annoying, long drawn etc, etc... So I decided to show that you can do it otherwise. Simply in 2 minutes Here's my guide: https://www.y [..] View

The New Leveling

7:18 pm, September 14, 2014 So, I ****** off one of my characters(just got tired of the look and didn't want to sink gold/$ into TP), and made a new character the other day...after the patch.  Holy cow nuggets! [..] View

Introducing the New TradingPost

7:18 pm, September 4, 2014 As part of the upcoming feature pack for Guild Wars 2, well be shipping a change thats been a long time in the making: a brand-new Trading Post! Weve put a lot of work into it to str [..] View

Thoughts on the September Feature Pack?

7:18 am, August 29, 2014 I don't feel like they're at all addressing any of the actual needs of the game. New backpacks, a cleaner crafting UI, and new commander colors are all very nice things. But where is precursor craftin [..] View

A Fresh Start: The New Player Experience in GuildWars2

7:18 pm, August 28, 2014 Hey, folks, As we continue to grow Guild Wars 2 and plan our next steps for the future of the game, its important we have a solid foundation for all the new players we plan to welcom [..] View

Blizzard improving on ANET's Concepts

7:18 pm, August 27, 2014 Over Last one year, I am noticing Blizzard is taking ANET's concepts (at least I heard about these from ANET first) and implementing a much better solution. ANET's multiguild approach vs., Blizzard's [..] View

2nd Birthday gifts

7:18 am, August 25, 2014 .. are as follows: 1x Experience Scroll - Boosts character to level 20 1x Birthday Booster - 24-hour 100% boost to karma, magic find, WvW rank, experience and gold from kills 1x Skill point scroll - [..] View

(How) Would you recommend GW2?

7:18 pm, August 14, 2014 I noticed GW2 is on 50% sale and I was like "maybe it's a good time to convince some friends to get it". That was moslty a hypothetical thought, since my friends who're into MMOs are already [..] View

2nd Anniversary Predictions

7:18 pm, July 31, 2014 Within less than a month it will have been two years since GW2 released. What do you expect or would like ANet to do? Considering the patch tuesdays fall onto 12th and 26th, I assume we'll get the Dr [..] View

Quality in GW2?

7:18 pm, July 28, 2014 I was reading posts on the usual Trahearn-hate threads, and one person said "Quality is relative."  So I thought, what is good quality in an MMO; and where does GW2 lie in [..] View

Super Newbie: 3.0

7:18 am, July 16, 2014 Hey guys, so I've played a few free to play mmo's and even paid for a Runescape gold membership like 5 years ago (Oh lord, go ahead, criticize me for my poor choices xD), and anyways, I don't know whe [..] View

What can I do that's fun?

7:18 am, July 4, 2014 Okay so I have been playing Gw2 since it's start and I have a level 80 warrior, necro, guardian and engineer. Thing is, as of late the characters I have are a bit.. bleh.. I can't find any real fun [..] View

Would you pay?

7:18 pm, June 16, 2014 With the addition of the third crafting profession slot added to the Trading Post, combined with the Jimmy Carter-era inflation of gold-to-gemstones, it got me to thinking(always a dangerous prospect) [..] View

Worth coming back to Guild wars 2?

3:16 pm, April 25, 2014 I was pretty hyped when the game was released and got some friends to join me as well. However, they powerleveled to 80, got bored after 1-2 weeks since there was "nothing to do" and left th [..] View

Introducing the MegaserverSystem

3:16 pm, April 2, 2014 Were down to the last major feature to announce in our upcoming April 15 Feature Pack, and its a pretty huge one: were making it easier to play with your friends on every PvE map, regardless of home w [..] View

PvP Reward Tracks and GearUnification

8:16 pm, March 28, 2014 Hello again Tyria! There are a lot of great new changes happening in the Mists with rewards, gear, build-making, and more! Its incredibly exciting to finally be able to share with you all of the updat [..] View

Account-Bound WXP, Legendaries, and AscendedGear

8:16 pm, March 27, 2014 We’re using the April 2014 Feature Pack as an opportunity to introduce some improvements that we’re really excited for: account-bound World XP and ascended and legendary gear! We w [..] View

Runes, Sigils, and BalanceUpdates

8:16 pm, March 21, 2014 Yesterday we introduced you to some of the upcoming changes to the traits system. Those changes, while exciting, are just one part of the balance updates bundled into the April 2014 Feature Pack! Toda [..] View

Learn About Critical DamageChanges

8:16 pm, March 21, 2014 One of the balance changes coming in the April 2014 Feature Pack is the introduction of ferocity, a brand new stat that will affect your critical damage. Ferocity is being introduced to make bonus cri [..] View

Traits Unleashed: Forty New Traits and More!

2:16 pm, March 20, 2014 Hello there! I’m Roy Cronacher, and as a game designer for ArenaNet, I’m excited to tell you about upcoming changes to the trait system. These changes focus on improving the ease o [..] View

Will Arena Net just let Guild Wars 2 die?

8:16 am, March 19, 2014 I know how absurd that sounds, and there was a time not long ago I would have been among the first to dismiss it. This morning in fact. But things that have happened and been said as of this newest pa [..] View

"[ArenaNet] trying to make the game easier to learn."

2:16 am, March 7, 2014 https://forum-en.gui...rst#post3087123 Initial topic of the thread was largely about the particle effects and how they render the game unplayable in many instances, so the response itself is kinda OT [..] View

CDI: Fractals

8:16 pm, February 25, 2014 https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/CDI-Fractal-Evolution/first This I take a bit of an issue with.  Its one thing to solicit information on classes.  I [..] View

Lion's Arch Event Dilemma, The AFK Winner?

8:16 pm, February 25, 2014 The event has an interesting and unforseen flaw that I am not sure should be considered a flaw or not and want your opinions. In relation to the event you are granted credit for all the behaviors of t [..] View

Damage Downtime as a Component in DPS Calculation?

2:16 am, February 24, 2014 What is Damage Downtime?: DDT is the time spent not attacking that is unrelated to an attack's central action window. What increases DDT?: Dodges, Movement, Knockdowns, Interrupts, Fear, etc. Why ca [..] View

Living Story Vs Personal Story

8:16 am, February 22, 2014 One of the most laziest thing I have EVER. I mean EVER saw. The patch itself to the city. Its awesome. It leaves you wanting more. But when you are doing the personal story for the first time or for t [..] View

Whaaaat? No karma? Heeeere

8:16 pm, February 17, 2014 Since the dissolution of karma in dungeons, there are now only three places in which to seriously gain karma: 1. Tequatl 2. lower-level fractals (I think 10 levels below your personal reward yields m [..] View

Is this gear set obtainable(image)?

8:16 pm, February 14, 2014 Hello all. I just made the level 26 personal story quest and I have chosen the Order of the Whispers plan. In the quest he gave me a disguise and turned me into a pirate. Is this gear obtainable in [..] View

Friendly fire

2:16 pm, February 13, 2014 I know I have brought this up before but I have a new take on it and was wondering what people think of it. So friendly fire is when an attack you make damages characters on your own side. Nothing to [..] View

Outsourced Development?

8:16 pm, February 3, 2014 So a comment I read struck me as interesting earlier today.  The concept that ArenaNet outsources parts of its development.  Now, these concepts are nothing new in [..] View

Presuming you made it to level 80 once ...

8:16 am, January 31, 2014 So I asked a bit about leveling and read a bit about leveling in various places and the word "grind" comes up. I can understand grind in relation to repetition; once you play a game you've p [..] View

What would the ideal level cap be in your opinion?

2:16 pm, January 30, 2014 The criteria for a natural level after 10 is expressed; you gain one stat point, some statistical points, and one trait point each level with no special rules. You can answer the question in three way [..] View

Upcoming Guild Wars 2 PvP Community Tournament Events

8:16 pm, January 23, 2014 Looking to satiate your competitive urges? Weve got you covered. Whether you want to watch some high-level gameplay or jump into the action yourself, weve got Guild Wars 2 tournament [..] View

Grouping for Storyline Finale, how long does it take?

8:16 am, January 23, 2014 Hello, I'm working on my first character in GW2 and I've reached the part in the storyline where I'm required to group.  I've found many threads complaining about it so I'm not here [..] View

ArenaNet to "address [...] the dominance of Berserker/DPS"

8:16 am, January 12, 2014 Forum: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/professions/balance/PvE-Revising-the-DPS-Meta/first#post3480529 Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1uyt5e/some_steps_will_be_taken [..] View

Random Derpy Observations Upon Returning

2:16 am, January 8, 2014 Because I am an insane person and a huge derp, I have decided to end my sabbatical and resume playing GW2 at least for a time.   I hope my derpness amuses someone slightly in a parra [..] View

If GW2 married Skyrim

2:16 pm, January 1, 2014 I think that game would rock the world. They really should learn from each other. I just bought Skyrim LE on Steam and I can't get enough of it. Flaws of both can be seem in the other game. Here are s [..] View

Exotic Items MUST be modified to include Infusion Slots or..

2:16 am, December 22, 2013 The whole concept of Ascended Gear is working counter-productive to the concept of using various stats combinations to counter different situations to the advantage of playerbase. With the advent of a [..] View

Good job on the new healing skills /sarcasm

2:16 am, December 12, 2013 So I fully support adding more skills to the game, and even support Arena Nets reasons for starting with healing skills. However I have a problem with their current implementation. Two problems, actua [..] View

Release Notes for A Very Merry Wintersday

2:16 am, December 11, 2013 Although the nights are long and dark, folks all over Tyria are in good cheer Wintersday has begun! Snowball fights, festive activities, and (best of all!) toys all help to keep joy alive through the [..] View

Living World 2013: TheYearinReview

2:16 pm, December 10, 2013 As 2013 is drawing to a close, with it comes the arrival of our final release for the year: Wintersday! What goodies might you find under the tree with the final release of the year, you might ask? Wh [..] View

Fractals: My gripes.

8:16 pm, November 30, 2013 Hey all. I'm a supporter of fractals, I enjoyed them immensly prior to the patch, as it seemed the only truly challenging pve content (L40 and above only). However, the recent changes has left me di [..] View

Release Notes for Fractured

2:16 am, November 27, 2013 Ellen Kiel has done it! After being supported by players in her bid for a seat on the Captains Council of Lions Arch, Kiel has made good on her campaign promises specifically, the promise to head up [..] View

Observations on leveling

1:39 pm, November 23, 2013 Having leveled two characters to 80, I have the following observations and opinions: - The time it takes to get from 1 to 80 is suitable, but the first 40 levels can feel really slow while the last 1 [..] View

I miss the GW1 armors

2:16 am, November 22, 2013 I recently logged into guildwarsguru.com for the first time in a really long time and looked through my post history there. The only part I was really active was posting pictures of my armors, and wow [..] View

Upcoming Changes for the Fractals of the Mists

8:16 pm, November 19, 2013 With the release of Fractals, were making several exciting additions and changes to the Fractals of the Mists infinite dungeon. Heres a brief overview of the changes you can expect! Changes to Fracta [..] View

Fractals: The source of the problem

8:16 pm, November 19, 2013 Well after looking over these new previews for the next update I found myself immensely underwhelmed, and even bordering on offended. This is primarily because I dont play Fractals, and dislike gettin [..] View

New, presumably removed (again), leaked update notes

8:16 am, November 18, 2013 So, my previous thread got deleted, and I haven't (yet) been informed why. (Shoutout to you, admins!) Here are the contents of the disputable and controversial upcoming update. I am NOT supporting o [..] View

Now, how do you feel about the Living Story? (11/13/13)

8:16 pm, November 13, 2013 I think I will begin this thread every LS patch to get feedback from everyone. My opinion... Hopefully the LS is coming to an end.  The releases are becoming more lackluster with e [..] View

Falsely Accused And Banned

8:16 am, November 10, 2013 Hey everyone. Yesterday, as usually I was playing GW2, nothing special, FOTM level 38, WvW and AC P1/P2. Later on that day, when I tried logging back in GW2 I received a message upon the log in scree [..] View

Tower of Nightmares Guide

2:16 am, November 5, 2013 A massive, deadly Tower has been revealed in Kessex Hills, built by the new Toxic Alliance of krait and Nightmare Courtiers! This guide will help you get started in the fight against this new threat. [..] View

Champion Bags and Boxes were apparently nerfed last patch

2:16 am, November 2, 2013 According to Anet John Smith they forgot to put it in the patch notes, QuoteHello all, I looked into this because we intended to have a release note for the changes to the champion loot. We did modif [..] View

How to discuss topics (like a guru)

2:16 pm, October 31, 2013 GW2G is a discussion forum. This means that we expect a certain level of quality in our posts, but it also dictates how we expect our users to act. We try to allow you to discuss all subjects in a non [..] View

How to not get bored?

9:03 am, October 31, 2013 Lately I've been bored with GW2. I play a level 80 Ranger and I want to play the game but I can never find something to do to keep me playing for a long time. What do you guys do to keep from getting [..] View

Incentive to repeat champion events

2:53 am, October 30, 2013 Just something i thought was important. Events with champions like the cyclops need to give item drops or chests. I enjoy killing the cyclops and it takes a decent sized group and some time to do. I d [..] View

Release Notes for TowerofNightmares

8:16 pm, October 29, 2013 Marjory Delaqua and Kasmeer Meade have found a way to pierce the veil protecting the krait in Kessex Hills! When the illusion falls, brave heroes need to be nearby to deal with the kraitand whatever i [..] View

The lag

2:16 am, October 28, 2013 So it's been a year and the lag has gotten worse (understatement) not better.  With the introduction of WvW leagues the lag has hit extrodinary levels. We all know it's there, we've [..] View

Toxin; the anti-zerg?

2:16 am, October 27, 2013 So I was watching Guildcast and early in they started discussing the new cross-profession healing skill coming with the next patch. And naturally this lead to speculation of what exactly this strange [..] View

My issue with the personal story

3:27 am, October 19, 2013 I've been thinking it through and I think I've realised part of the reason the personal story feels so stale to me. First off I definitely want to iterate that I don't DISLIKE the personal story, I j [..] View

HELP: How to level beyond level 30?

6:51 pm, October 18, 2013 I'm struggling trying to level beyond 30, I've done 3 x 1-15(17) zones, 2 x 15-25 and 1 x 25-35 which is the gerradan field, I'm now level 32 and personal story is on lvl 33. I've done most of the thi [..] View

Wish this had the story line similar to GW1

4:07 pm, October 18, 2013 GW1 was such a cool game to jump in with some friends, do a few missions, go into the arena, spend time in the hubs trading. With GW2 it's just go to a random point on the map and spam with 100 other [..] View

Some changes I would love to see in GW2

1:02 pm, October 18, 2013 First off, the PvP system is broke. We really need a real rating system (WoW-like, you can't deny that this was a really positive thing for WoW) and not the point gathering system that we have today. [..] View

kind of getting bored already.

3:28 am, October 18, 2013 It lacks that wow factor that MMOs like WoW and ever quest gave me sure events are cool the first few times but it gets old. Jump puzzles dont give me a sense of acomplishment. It feels like it is lac [..] View

Really disappointing weapon skins.

11:53 am, October 17, 2013 Okay, the game is a lot of fun! I'm not blind, I know the game has it's bugs so i'm not fuming over that, but what really bothers me are the weapon skins, and even some armor skins. I've seen the same [..] View

Why you Can't Ignore Ascended Gear

3:16 am, October 16, 2013 This is pretty straight-forward. I know a lot of people think that you can ignore ascended gear because it is optional. So, let's run with that. Why did ascended gear get introduced? Most people agre [..] View

Release Notes for Blood and Madness

9:16 pm, October 15, 2013 Edrick was a monster, he brought his family shame So the locked him in a box, mouth stuffed with candy corn But now the son has risen to take his fathers name Beware the Bloody Prince, the son of [..] View

Allowing anyone into any level of fractals: WRONG

7:08 am, October 15, 2013 Ok now. After three failed pugs at fractals level 14(!) in a row, i'm done pugging in fractals. Why? Because there are level 1's jumping in there without agony resist, with greens, with no clue wtf th [..] View

Looking for server suggestions

3:40 am, October 15, 2013 Our guild is looking for a North American server that focus's on higher level PVE activities.  We would prefer to not be at the mercy of WvW rankings to determine how active the serv [..] View

Alt leveling (which levels for events, which for crafting)

11:53 am, October 14, 2013 Does anyone have some alt char leveling tips that might be good to apply. 1) Any recently popular areas that I can put in my go to places for dynamic events that are easily repeatable and well populat [..] View

Hacked Accounts

10:03 pm, October 13, 2013 Hey guys first post here, I am just letting you know if you were unlucky like me and got your account hacked that Anet isn't going to help... Yeah you heard correctly, If your account was hacked and t [..] View

What's New cat?

7:45 am, October 13, 2013 Hey there, I played GW2 a bit back at release, stopped, sporadically played it here and there, stopped and now I'm back to sporadically play it some more. Yet I am left wondering how this game has ch [..] View

Fastest way to level

11:57 pm, October 12, 2013 Hey everyone, since I am going to be leveling alts soon what is the most efficient way/ fastest way to level? I am not sure how I am going to approach this. I do not care if I will be missing any cont [..] View

Is it worth it?

11:22 pm, October 12, 2013 So, now that I'm level 80, I decided to start on my map completion because I heard that the reward is supposed to scale with level. The first city I started in was Lion's Arch. After 20+ minutes of ro [..] View

How many characters have you deleted?

10:56 pm, October 12, 2013 I don't know if it my OCD nature or the fact that I am a perfectionist, but I have delete more characters than I could count.   I have deleted the following characters: 1. Level 25 [..] View

Anyone else feeling a little burnt out from this game?

5:55 pm, October 12, 2013 I'll try and make this short... I'm not gonna lie; I rushed to level 80 with my first toon (female human mesmer), blasted through the story and a good chunk of PvE content, excluding all but three du [..] View

Water Field Whirl Finisher

10:47 am, October 12, 2013 My group and I are trying to perfect our current composition so we can reach the furthest levels of FoTM as possible. Clearly we're gonna need to utilize combo fields as well as possible in order to b [..] View

The 'die and run back mechanic' in dungeons

5:41 pm, October 11, 2013 So, I have done quite a few dungeons so far, ranging from level 30 to 80. Overall, I am very happy with them, I think they are great fun and the rewards are usually pretty good. As far as some of th [..] View

Does this game favor ranged professions?

4:04 am, October 11, 2013 Since this relates to both PvE and PvP I couldnt really post it twice in those forums so sticking it here.  While I love my Warrior and it it my main it feels like this game just fav [..] View

Should the cap have been level 20?

2:26 pm, October 10, 2013 as the title asks, do you think the maximum level cap should have been level 20 in guildwars 2? you'd get to level 20 at the same rate you get to level 20 now. only all maps past level 20 are scaled t [..] View

Something to add to level scaling..

10:33 am, October 10, 2013 It would be nice if rewards in lower level areas are scaled to at least 2/3 of the player's actual level (for higher lvl players entering lower lvl areas). You're lvl 80 helping a friend in a lvl 10 z [..] View

Haven't gotten a rare drop in days

7:36 am, October 10, 2013 I have spent on average 2 hours a day for the last week in Orr, Frostgorge, the new explorable zone, and a 60-65 area of a Charr zone. I have not gotten a single rare drop and I use 26% food, 5 travel [..] View

Who else won't be Rushing Through to 80!

6:39 am, October 10, 2013 With all the talk on Guru about speed leveling and rushing to level 80, I would ask who is going to play the game and stop to enjoy the "Roses"? I plan on taking my time and just playing th [..] View

Human Starting Area

6:02 am, October 10, 2013 It seems that its a bit too spread out, especially the events, i dont know, i find myself always underleveled in Queeensdale compared to all other starting zones. View

Additional Gear Tiers: Economic Inevitability

12:38 pm, October 9, 2013 Looking at market prices from launch until now of staple items we see a clear trend of decreasing price,  namely exotic armors and weapons.  This is partly because [..] View

Excess Karma on Alts

6:33 am, October 9, 2013 Hello all, In order to find a profession I wanted to level to 80 (still not 100% sure!) I have a few alts that all have about 5k karma each. Before I delete them I would like to use up their Karma an [..] View

Anyone else kinda /prefer/ low-level armor?

2:16 am, October 9, 2013 Maybe it's just me but I'm going on 4 characters now and I'm finding it hard to find a high-level set of armor I actually like more than lower-level stuff.  Even though I feel like I [..] View

The Aesthetics Dilemma

1:28 am, October 9, 2013 Ok so a lot of people have bee vaguely talking about this subject but I though I would narrow it down and offer an actual debate for it rather than mindless whining and criticism. Ok so in an averag [..] View

Anyone else getting bored already? First impressions, LONG

8:18 pm, October 8, 2013 I understand I'm going to receive a lot of flac for posting this but I just feel it has to be said. I'm only lvl 12 and already the game is aging quite badly for me. I'm going to try promptly outline [..] View

The Running Man

3:11 pm, October 8, 2013 Inbetween my little pacifism run and my little everything else I've been running into higher level zones with lower level characters a lot. It all started with my Necromancer, where I took Rot deep i [..] View

Dungeons need to be better.

3:10 pm, October 8, 2013 After I completed many dungeons, many routes and many times. I feel there are many things that should be fix and improve in dungeons. Sorry, my english is not good. 1. Model - Anet gives me very fa [..] View

Does anyone actually do dungeons at the level req ?

8:30 am, October 8, 2013 Like one you're able to do the dungeon, you attempt doing it ?  All I see are downlevelled 80s outside dungeons even the lowest level one. View

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