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Where did Blizzard go wrong with D3 and what A.Net could learn from it.

6:18 pm, November 12, 2014 This week's Blizzcon brought us a panel on D3. A quick summary: http://www.diablofan...ouls-panel-live A few things that stand out and seem very similar to what we are experiencing in GW2 (stole [..] View

The candy wrapper raffle...

7:18 am, October 22, 2014 Theres a skrit in the demolished, old Black Lion building just west of Trader's Forum that is taking the shiny candy wrappers that come from the candy that is sold in the gem store and they also drop [..] 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

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

New region incoming!

7:18 pm, August 26, 2014 Well, look what Arenanet has been teasing... For extra information, this was posted by WoodenPotatoes today.  The screenshot looks like a beta screenshot, but isn't, &n [..] 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

GW2 Main Forum is so unfun

7:18 pm, May 15, 2014 An Error Prevented Saving:Flood Control: Please wait 600 seconds between posts! What exactly is the point of 600 seconds? Isn't 60 seconds enough? Or are they expecting people to type out wall of pos [..] View

Proposal to pause Living Story for more content patches

7:18 am, May 13, 2014 Hi, I'm a fairly casual player and just wanted to make a suggestion. Overall, I really enjoy how GW2 is free to play and has regular updated content. I really like the previous April patch in that it [..] View

GW2 has a content, not a feature problem.

9:16 am, April 17, 2014 I like the Feature patch. The PvP changes are atrocious, but since A.Net seems hell-bent on making GW2 into a PvE game, even that **** makes sense. It's not good, but it makes sense. Looking past that [..] View

Why don't people like Activities?

8:16 am, March 19, 2014 Over the past month or so, I've spent a lot of time playing Sanctum Sprint, making an effort on my own part to see how fast I can finish the race.  In that time, I've witnessed a lot [..] View

Funding the PvP Groups

2:16 am, March 7, 2014 I want to open this question to everyone. PvP in many games with a PvE element have imbalances between modes of play and generally it is PvP isn't where the money is. I'm curious how you would fix thi [..] View

Has anyone else been affected by the map exploration bug?

8:16 pm, March 6, 2014 This started 16 days ago. The day of the LA invasion patch. They added two new POI's into LA that apparently completely ed the world exploration reward system and does not reward the gifts of explorat [..] View

Living Story Season 2 - What would you like to see?

2:16 pm, February 23, 2014 Self-explanatory title. For me: 1. NEW Enemies. Surely, we got several new factions in Season 1 (Molten and Toxic alliance, Aetherblades) but these somehow felt more recycled than new. The only real [..] View

Retaliation skills don't seem to be working?

8:16 pm, January 9, 2014 Well at least that I can see with numbers on the screen. I use a couple of shouts as a Guardian and I was doing some testing yesterday to see how much damage was being reverted back to my attacker whe [..] 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

Bring Back Inactive Players With Gems?

8:16 am, November 11, 2013 Is this a good idea or ripe for abuse? I just saw this pop up in reddit. I know some players aren't coming back at all to the game for one thing or another but will this bring back the ones that wande [..] View

For Interested Roleplayers!

2:46 am, October 23, 2013 Hello! I'm a local lurker here, usually posting for my podcast/lorecast that can be found here - http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/34901-lorecast/ However, shameless advertising isn't why I'm here [..] View

The ball was dropped on this game..

7:43 pm, October 19, 2013 Should have kept the Holy trinity or if you were going to remove it make a DEEP combat system not some spam fest where it doesn't matter what skills you use in a row and not really any combos to do ma [..] 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

Game GUI needs an input buffer

3:36 pm, October 18, 2013 right now it's a keymashing nightmare when facing an array of opponents, the GW2 combat experience isn't a tenth as crisp as GW1 was, which was itself firmly in FPS territory at times, but it's made s [..] View

gw2 interview with Isaiah Cartwright

6:01 pm, October 15, 2013 a german fansite posted an interview with isaiah cartwright, discussing some upcoming things. i shortened the article as much as possible. do give the full article a read on: http://gw2.onlinewel...ca [..] View

On-demand content?

3:22 am, October 14, 2013 1. GW2 is a solo game. While the game has group content or groping makes the content more enjoyable, in it's core, GW2 is a solo game. When you buy GW2, you are buying a game that you will solo with t [..] 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

so guildwars 2 has forums....were here why? oh...right.....

7:10 pm, October 13, 2013 why are they closed again? isn't the game officially launched? of not wouldn't you open them early? why have them at all? we have this place..... 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

Why are games getting worse and worse? GW2

4:36 am, October 12, 2013 Hi, I'll keep this short. I NEVER PLAYED WOW. wow was made in 2004 and GW2 was made 8 years later in technology. Just have a look at the trailers. And explain in the comments please why game DEVELOPE [..] View

First-person view

4:32 pm, October 10, 2013 A big part of this game for me is running around looking at the world which is really quite beautiful. I get a bit bored doing heart events and stuff like that but I like looking around at my surround [..] View

Party members disappearing?

12:21 pm, October 10, 2013 Greetings, I find myself writing here the fourth time already, haha, sorry about it, but I've no idea what the hell's going on anymore. Once again, I hope it's okay to post in this part of the forum.. [..] View

Magic Find - Why it is bad!

4:17 pm, October 9, 2013 *[Flame wall: Initiated!]* Magic find is a bad stat. This is not news to many, and many others refuse to accept it. I'm here to draw the line and briefly explain some of the reasons why it is bad. - [..] 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

Where are the world transfers that ANet said we could buy?

8:35 am, October 9, 2013 ANet specifically said that we would be able to buy world transfers through the Gem shop. They have been saying this before launch, and now over 1 month into the game, we still don't have this option [..] View

Incredibly ordinary?

7:55 am, October 9, 2013 I really like GW2.  Kudos to the game designers and how they took a bold step to do something different.  I think the story line mechanic, art style, dynamic events [..] 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

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

Why this game will never meet my expectations

4:58 am, October 7, 2013 or be as good a game as I thought it would be, or I would like it to be. The developers/producers behind this game are NOT from the original Guild Wars crew.  That is it in a nutshe [..] View

Is the personal story too optional?

10:10 pm, October 6, 2013 The personal story ended up being one of those GW2 features that managed to massively reduce my enjoyment of the game. And it's not the story's writing, rewards or something similar - it's the way it' [..] View

Anyone else have their ping skyrocket in the last 2 days?

11:33 am, October 6, 2013 Hey all, My ping was fine from game launch to 2 days ago (50-100ms), but in the last 2 days it started going up significantly to 250-300. It gets even worse in large battles (NOT an FPS issue at all, [..] View

Simply creating the next SotG for WvW - Not So Simple

10:51 pm, October 5, 2013 Why dont we just start State of the Game with WvW? If you are an active Guild Wars 2 sPvP player there is a big chance you have heard about our State of the Game stream and if you arent into sPvP t [..] View

Taproot! (aka "lol, Arena.net")

9:21 pm, October 5, 2013 Warning: this is a potential spoiler. This concerns a location at the Breach waypoint in Diessa Plateau  There is a skill point and vista in that area, and while this thread doesn't [..] View

Do you think think elder dragons will be expansions or patches?

10:27 am, October 5, 2013 This isn't a question, I'm asking what do you think they will be? Do you think elder dragons should be expansions or patches? Arenanet hasn't really hinted at what they will do (unless I completely mi [..] View

I'm forced to use weird quest toolkits too often

7:37 am, October 5, 2013 You know the kind. Some quest requires you to use a certain gun or enter a golem suit or something, and it gives you a new bar of skills. And it almost always sucks. This is just not good gameplay. I [..] View

So, I couldn't play GW2 for almost 2 weeks..

9:14 pm, October 4, 2013 So, a bit before headstart I purchased the game, played it from the 25th of August, and all was cool ever since... til the 5th or so of September. At that date, I suddenly started getting this every t [..] View

The Dynamic Events Issue.

8:02 pm, October 4, 2013 Disclaimer: I fully understand that no two players' games can be completely the same, so I also understand that this doesn't plague everyone. The problem is that just because this is not happening to [..] View

Are Races Balanced?

7:08 pm, October 4, 2013 So I didn't get to play any of the BWEs or stress tests so I'm wondering how well the races are balanced. ANet of course said that they're pushing to make them as balanced as possible, but of course e [..] View

Why better gear is a must

4:09 pm, October 4, 2013 Let me start this by saying that I LOVE Guild Wars 2 but noticed how lacking its content is after just one week of playing! Everyone I've encountered so far has always told me how bored they are of do [..] View

Seeing gw2's eSports globally

3:16 pm, October 4, 2013 Hey guys ! So I'd like to talk with you on the PvP of Guild Wars 2. But also on the gameplay in general, the design on general of Guild Wars 2, sPvP and Esports. (It will get more specific to GvGs an [..] View

Guilds across worlds

2:19 pm, October 4, 2013 I think its generally well accepted that the way guilds have been implemented in GW2 isn't perfect.  The lack of halls, initial membership cap of 50, etc. all seem to have been at le [..] View

Frost and Flame Finale - Why 13 Days?

1:40 pm, October 4, 2013 So far we've had a month for each stage of FaF, and previous content rolled over into the next stage so it could be completed at a very leisurely pace. One of the things GW2 fans were excited about b [..] View

What would've made the Personal Story better...

10:01 am, October 4, 2013 * Minor Spoiler Alers* Now I know everyone's disappointed about the personal story. Half the fault lies with Anet, for bad writing, cringe-worthy cinematics, clunky sequences and for rushing it all. [..] View

World hopping makes some servers dead?

9:59 am, October 4, 2013 I am in the us server HoD which is used to be the one of the most popular servers. In LA there is even no one talking, can't find any dungeon/fotm group for hours nowadays. I am wondering if it's just [..] View

GW1 'Vet', yet to play GW2

8:49 am, October 4, 2013 Hey people, I've came here to get some advise from people that are actively playing GW2 who have reached max level/done the main quests. I've yet to play GW2, however I did pre-purchase it, but decide [..] View

Terrible GW2 Customer Service Experience

7:18 am, October 4, 2013 Well, its been almost 3 days now. After playing game since release, i been always an example to follow. Always reporting for botting, or gold sell spamming in every case did apply. I been a fellow gu [..] View

What is the point of gear tiers?

6:30 am, October 4, 2013 No, contrary to every other gear-thread, this isn't about ascended gear. It's actually the opposite - this is about tiers below exotic. I am currently still levelling my warrior. He's around 60. He h [..] View

Why Samwell Loves GW2

2:16 am, October 4, 2013 I'm tired of seeing all of these threads about people crying over how 200 hours of content at launch isn't good enough. Here is my response to (for lack of a better term) cry babies. I'm not sure if i [..] View

Armors feels out of place

2:11 am, October 4, 2013 Warning, the following statements below is a rant. Viewer discretion is advised If there is one thing that I could criticize Anet is how horrible and how out of place the armors in this game feel.& [..] View

Is GW2's combat system a step backwards from GW1?

12:35 am, October 4, 2013 Continued from this post, which was off topic in its current thread: http://www.guildwars...90#entry2166336 typographie, on 19 February 2013 - 02:24 AM, said: I missed GW1's beta, but I played since [..] View

Christmas Presents

9:43 pm, October 3, 2013 I wish to get some cheap-ish, in game, Christmas presents for a few people in game but am completely stuck for ideas lol. Wondering if anyone here would have any? I guess mini's might be useful/appro [..] View

So it seems a lot of naughty boys and girls got one last gift from Santa this Christmas

9:35 pm, October 3, 2013 Early on during Wintersday one of the jewellers recipes could be exploited to gain a lot of ectos through salvaging (craft, regain snowflake and potentially several ecto & repeat). It was pretty w [..] View

Things you miss about Guild Wars...

8:25 pm, October 3, 2013 Again, I never know where to put my threads... so please move this if it's in the wrong spot! Anyways, this isn't meant to be a negative thread, so please don't treat it as so. More so one to reminis [..] View

Anet on why there is vertical progression

8:05 pm, October 3, 2013 some of you may have the same question as a user lately: Quote How is slowly introducing more and more elements of CEVP respecting the player? I made an informed decision about this game based on the [..] View

"Amazing" design.

5:05 pm, October 3, 2013 Why would this be considered good design? An area where you can barely see anything, with narrow ledges that you need to traverse using the game's poor control system, while fighting foes that fear [..] View

Dancing Through Tyria

1:37 pm, October 3, 2013 I'm not sure if this is the right forum, if it isn't I'm sorry. Here is my first GW2 video, where is shows my Asura dancing through Tyria. View

Non-religious holiday discussion

8:25 am, October 3, 2013 Holidays - why does the game have some and not others? The fact is that holidays in the real world have national, religious, or cultural implications that aren't universal. Obviously, even the WORD & [..] View

So Human Males Still Lack Good Beard Options.

8:17 am, October 3, 2013 I'd been hearing rumors about more customization options on release, but when I went to check out human males yesterday, they still only had one true beard option (and I don't really care for it). Is [..] View

Living story putting farmers and event doers at odds

12:30 am, October 3, 2013 I've been doing quite a few of these events in the past few days, some in the overflow and some on my own server, and in either case much of the time I notice a debate in the chat log about how the ev [..] View

What has happened to guru

12:19 am, October 3, 2013 I was a frequent reader on this forum for about a month before GW2 came out and the community here was a nice supportive one. However over the time that has passed up to now the community has gone ser [..] View

Fractals makes me sad :(

11:55 pm, October 2, 2013 First off this isn't a rant of some sort, merely expressing my disappointment at the game's state as of late. I am a casual gamer and before this dungeon was introduced I had fun in most of the high [..] View

Arathi Basin, Alliance Battles and GW2

11:22 pm, October 2, 2013 Little bit of context: for the past 8 years I've considered GW1's pre-Nightfall PvP to be the best PvP among MMOs, no contest. In particular I think GW1's Alliance Battles were the best casual hot-joi [..] View

Random voice actor change?

8:38 pm, October 2, 2013 I'm playing an asura female warrior, and I am working through the grawl quests. My asura's voice changed during one of the cutscenes... it was horrible. >.< I really hope this was a [..] View

Anyone losing that new game smell?

6:05 pm, October 2, 2013 This isn't a complain thread or anything like that, every game goes through this stage, I'm just wondering who has lost that sort of new game hype/feel/smell? When the game was first released, I was [..] View

About the upcoming guesting...

5:28 pm, October 2, 2013 Isn't anyone foreseeing a problem with the 2 worlds a day limit?  This doesn't seem to fix the issue of overflows and dungeons unless you only run two a day.  You'r [..] View

Prepurchase Problem

2:50 pm, October 2, 2013 I prepurchased my copy of the regular edition GW2 at my local Gamestop last weekend, but never received a code on my receipt.  The clerk said that they probably exhausted their GW2 e [..] View

needs more guild interaction (pve)

10:10 am, October 2, 2013 is it just me or are guilds rather pointless at the moment? the framework of guilds is excellent; with the influence, upgrades, banners and fantastic guild inferface...  but there's [..] View

What are your favorite zones/regions of the world?

10:06 am, October 2, 2013 When I first started playing, I was afraid that there wouldn't be much difference between zones since they were all set in the same 6 regions (Ascalon, Kryta, Orr, Shiverpeaks, Maguuma, & Steamspu [..] View

Guild Wars 2 and Progression

9:58 am, October 2, 2013 The recent fiasco on Ascended items has prompted me to pop out of lurking, so I typed up a lengthy blurb on the state of progression in Guild Wars 2. Hopefully this can spiral into some meaningful and [..] View

Dungeons and fotw - disconnects and bugs getting worse?

9:41 am, October 2, 2013 I've been running dungeons and fotm for a while now and I noticed that there seems to be no decrease in bugginess and people disconnecting for no apparent reason. I was running AC yesterday and both [..] View

I can't keep up

9:16 am, October 2, 2013 First of all, I love Guild Wars 2. I've been with the series since the beta of Guild Wars 1, which I also played way too much. It has some flaws, but overall I love it. What I don't like is somethi [..] View

This is where Guild Wars 2 fails:

7:30 am, October 2, 2013 Yes there are things that are great about this game. In fact, there are areas of this game that are revolutionary and awesome. Yet, there are too many areas that make this game seem like it was slapp [..] View

How are you "supposed" to play the game?

6:45 am, October 2, 2013 Since I've heard a lot of comments in this forum and others of how people were "doing it wrong". Oh you're after progression/loot/etc, you're doing it wrong. Well, how are you supposed to pl [..] View

Annoying Orr mobs - What's the point?

5:23 am, October 2, 2013 I'm working on a 2nd Incinerator. I decided that doing all the skill challenges in the world would be a pretty fast way to get the Bloodstone shard. Done the whole map tonight except for Malchor's lea [..] View

Guild Wars 2: From Excitement to Frustration

3:58 am, October 2, 2013 This will be a long post. There is a TL;DR at the bottom if you're not invested in reading a lot. ------- I am a hardcore MMO player, as I'm sure some of you are as well. I hold this title because I [..] View

"Our customer support team is prioritizing hacked accounts"

1:53 am, October 2, 2013 This really isn't impressing me much considering well over 90% of "hacked" accounts are the account owners fault. So while Anet is cleaning up after these peoples carelessness the rest of u [..] View

Why we need GvG and how to pull it off.

11:03 pm, October 1, 2013 Wall-o-text INC. Greetings to nerds and noobs alike! When looking at the conversations going around about Guild Wars 2 and it's longevity, many people state PvP is (or should be) the true endgame. I [..] View

Trying to understand a few things

9:46 pm, October 1, 2013 First, I am sorry for creating a new thread for this, but there are so many floating around that cause me to have these questions I simply couldn't make a response on page "x" of all of them [..] View

Random loot problems?

9:34 pm, October 1, 2013 I just chalked it up to luck at first, but it has become so consistent, I am starting to wodner if there is some sort of loot bug related to your class.  I have had serious problems [..] View

What keeps you going?

7:49 pm, October 1, 2013 First, this isn't a "I hate GW2, it sucks" thread. I want to know what others do to keep interest in playing.. I've come to the point of whether or not I want to log in. I've played every p [..] View

Anet, Ncsoft and Gemstore

7:39 pm, October 1, 2013 I found this video made by dontain and his view in this video is a strong view and i too believe this is why GW2 isn't as great as it could be! WARNING: Contains strong language! View

A Friendly Notice To GW2 Streamers:

7:20 pm, October 1, 2013 A friendly notice to those who will be streaming the game upon release and afterwards: It's recommended you turn off post-processing (aka Bloom) when streaming. You may have noticed when playing GW2 [..] View

Will Anet improve Guild Wars 2?

7:00 pm, October 1, 2013 I started this game since head-start which was 28 days ago and I have only spent 125 hours in the game which comes out to 4.6 hours per day.   I'm not a rusher yet the game is losing [..] View

Superior Sigil of Strength bugged ?

5:14 pm, October 1, 2013 I've been using dual-pistol as an Engineer and I'm 100% certain my Superior Sigil of Strength, on the main hand pistol, isn't triggering anywhere as often as it should. With a baseline 45% critical s [..] View

Key bindings

4:29 pm, October 1, 2013 Hi, I am still using the standard key bindings and want to change that now. Can you suggest a good layout? For my 1-5 Skills I use the keyboard, but 6-0 are too fr away, so I tend to klick them. Some [..] View

Can I get an unoptimized version?

2:57 pm, October 1, 2013 Well ever since they did all of their "optimizing" magic my enjoyment has gone downhill. The reason for that is now for "optimization" purposes my game doesn't always show everyone [..] View

A discussion on opinions about the game

2:51 pm, October 1, 2013 I am a fan of the game.  Yes, there are some things which can be improved.  Any game has these.  However, I believe that, technically, the game ca [..] View

Miniature Wintersday Trio

1:40 pm, October 1, 2013 According to the database it's in the game.... So why isn't it "in the game" and why do we have this gambling for mini pets in gem store **** if a trio pack is in the database? http://www. [..] View

Gear grind = lazy developers

1:00 pm, October 1, 2013 As the title says, gear grind is just a lazy way to get people to log on and grind some content for a while. That's what bothers me about this whole thing the most. Making content people want to play [..] View

A seven-step guide to fix GW2's PvE

12:32 pm, October 1, 2013 Before fixing anything, let's quickly identify the core problems with GW2's PvE today. And by "PvE", I mean only the open-world PvE here, not personal story or dungeons. So, the problems: - [..] View

Overflow and playing with friends

12:27 pm, October 1, 2013 O maybe I jsut can't figure this out but I can't seem to be able to join a friend int he game to play along with. We are both in the same area, we both tried right clicking eachothers portrait in part [..] View

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