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 [..]
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7:18 pm, August 18, 2014
Hello, all! Im Karl McLain, one of the game designers here at ArenaNet. Im here to tell you about the direction were going with balance changes in the September 2014 Feature Pack.
For a more specifi [..]
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7:18 pm, July 2, 2014
Title.
For the plantlife: Nomad stats were introduced in this update, they give ++Toughness, +Vit, +Healing.
Now, I want to hear your opinions about this.
From the perspective of someone who plays [..]
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3:16 am, April 18, 2014
mm, so..
I've started working towered the bifrost and I have a question.
The diffrence between the Bifrost's stats and my exotic molten staff is not so big.
except for the acheivement and the glory, [..]
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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 [..]
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2:16 pm, March 25, 2014
One of the many exciting features coming in the April 2014 Feature Pack is the new Wardrobe, an account-wide system that allows you to collect every skin in the game!
Account Wardrobe: The Basics
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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2:16 am, March 15, 2014
So lets say they remove all stats like power,and make Attribute like fire in to stat.But not like in guild wars where if you don't put point the skill will not work or make fire the [..]
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2:16 pm, March 5, 2014
Hello. I have 81 Laurel and 900 Badge of Honor but I have 4 classes I actively play and i cannot consider any of them as "main". I have Warrior, Thief, Guardian and Elementalist. (Although E [..]
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2:16 am, February 27, 2014
First things first,you don't need nor its beneficial to have endurance in real life to play video games.
You needed for sports,driving,fishing,working and maybe even knitting,but no [..]
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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 [..]
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8:16 pm, February 2, 2014
I am constantly in awe of you guys and gals who work out ALL the stats on armour/weapons to the nth degree...seriously I look at the stuff you write and I get a headache ! one guy w [..]
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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 [..]
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2:16 pm, January 27, 2014
I am asking in reference to personal gameplay. I am not asking if you like or dislike losing but instead how hard you personally work to develop your skills, rotations, or capabilities in game and whe [..]
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8:16 am, January 18, 2014
A simple question up for discussion; we've talked extensively about gear but most of the impact a person has in game actually comes from traits and getting the skills "just right" so to spea [..]
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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8:16 am, November 29, 2013
In celebration of the spirit and season of giving, the Black Lion Trading Company is holding four straight days of sales! This Friday through Monday, you can pick up all manner of stylish and conv [..]
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6:38 pm, November 28, 2013
This is my outline on how to do this right. Sort off.
1) Month 1: Discontinue MF item creation:
"Rogue Second in Command after Shatterer has started consuming certain kind magic, he is rebelling [..]
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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 [..]
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8:16 pm, November 21, 2013
Using a Sword/Warhorn Warrior Build with traits set at 30/30/0/0/10 on each, there is a 12.6% change in having all Ascended Gear to having all Exotic Gear.
Please feel free to use this post as a refe [..]
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10:09 am, October 24, 2013
Hey everyone,
I've been reading up on all the dungeons that have been added. Am I to surmise that you "grind" to gain tokens to purchase weapons? Furthermore, all of these weapons seem to ha [..]
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8:53 am, October 15, 2013
What's the best approach on this?
I have seen people recommend on builds to focus on a balance. If your trait selection is focusing on these stats, you should focus on the others i [..]
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7:52 pm, October 10, 2013
First of all, Magic Find. Sounds like a significant stat in the game, yet, not much is known about it (to me anyway). So I'm curious to know more about it and hope someone could enlighten me with how [..]
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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 [..]
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6:54 pm, October 7, 2013
This is not ment to be a whining or complaining threat. I am as the title says a casual player enjoying games such as LoL since you can jump in and play whenever you want mostly because it is abaut sk [..]
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10:46 pm, October 6, 2013
This thread is for everyone who agrees that GW1 was a better game than GW2. If you don't agree, stop reading now please.
The idea here is to build ideas on how to improve GW2 based on gameplay streng [..]
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1:11 pm, October 6, 2013
- If consumable buffs work in WvW
- if you lose stats from your helmet when going underwater(cause aqua bretaher replaces helm apparently)
anything else? GOGOGO
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7:13 am, October 6, 2013
In an effort to keep the noise down over discussing the various points hit upon by Colin's most recent post, I've taken the time to create different threads in the General Discussion forums to cover t [..]
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6:49 am, October 6, 2013
In an effort to keep the noise down over discussing the various points hit upon by Colin's most recent post, I've taken the time to create different threads in the General Discussion forums to cover t [..]
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1:34 am, October 6, 2013
Some people may argue that it is largely pointless to speculate about a future tier of gear when it has barely been released, and I would agree. However, it gets exceedingly tiresome to read thread af [..]
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8:24 pm, October 4, 2013
Not caring about stats, it took me ages to figure out that the game contains two system of gearing - the PvE and the PvP one. Since I just focused on stats in PvP, I actually thought that this was GW2 [..]
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3:07 pm, October 4, 2013
QuoteIn November well unveil the first Ascended items. This new rarity type falls between Exotic and Legendary on the spectrum of rarity and has slightly higher stats than Exotics.
Source: https://ww [..]
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7:19 am, October 4, 2013
I want exotic armor on my level 80 guardian.. I think I'm mostly gonna be running builds similar to strife!a anchor build so with mostly berserker stats... I have about 45 gold and maybe another 25 go [..]
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7:02 am, October 4, 2013
Okay, so we've already talked a lot about the moving goalposts of introducing vertical progression to itemisation, adding profoundly obvious grind, and creating a divide between types of players. We'v [..]
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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 [..]
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1:12 am, October 4, 2013
I realized whenever I go to any part of MAP, game adjust my lvl accordingly in most cases SCALE DOWN. So my question is If i am wearing level 50 ARMOR/WEAPONs and As I scaledown accoridng to the map, [..]
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9:43 pm, October 3, 2013
So I know of the gw2armor.com site, which is great and very helpful.
I know there's a lot of gw2 skills sites where u can set up ur traits, runes, sigils and jewelry...however these r all for pvp.
Wh [..]
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7:10 pm, October 3, 2013
Divinitys Reach is hosting a magnificent celebration! Her Majesty Queen Jennah of Kryta is commemorating the tenth year of her rule and using the occasion to celebrate the triumph of humanity over the [..]
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3:21 pm, October 3, 2013
Hi, my name is Chuydog, and I am a MF gear junky.
I am addicted to wearing my MF set whenever I do anything except WvW or Dungeons. My addiction has become so bad that I have negle [..]
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1:46 pm, October 3, 2013
I run a very specific build on my elementalist, that requires a bit of every stat. I was wondering if anyone knew of any jack of all trades stats similar to celestial amulet/jewels in PvP? I've seen t [..]
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8:44 am, October 3, 2013
Not caring about stats, it took me ages to figure out that the game contains two system of gearing - the PvE and the PvP one. Since I just focused on stats in PvP, I actually thought that this was GW2 [..]
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7:00 am, October 3, 2013
While I'm stuck in the unfinishable lvl76 Main Quest mission I have been giving some tought to the story and the plot this far. I have been playing Human/Whispers storyline and it doesn't just feel ri [..]
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8:37 pm, October 2, 2013
I did a search and found much of nothing, so if this is out there, it's buried deep in the forums or I looked in the wrong places.
After doing some heavy WvW the other day with a new support spec on [..]
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11:23 am, October 2, 2013
One potential concern about Ascended as a gear level is that it becomes mandatory : groups where all members have Ascended stats outcompete players operating at the Exotic level, either steamrolling ( [..]
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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 [..]
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9:00 am, October 2, 2013
I'm about to hit 60 with all 8 of characters, one for each class, and thus a purchasing my final reset of my trait points.
Is there a consensus to which stats are best for the end game (PvE)?&nbs [..]
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6:15 am, October 2, 2013
To preface this, let me say that I'm not trying to say "QQ I'm quitting". GW2 is still fun.
Now, on to the conspiracy theory. If you don't feel like reading a wall of text, there's a tl;dr [..]
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6:05 am, October 2, 2013
I decided to write up some items I find really unnessecary and annoying in Gw2. Apparently someone at the gw2 forums though of it, not as critique but as whining. It was deleted. Hence I post it here. [..]
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12:45 am, October 2, 2013
First of all, this is not a flame or troll post and if you have nothing insightful to add, I ask you to simply not reply.
I have put a little over 250 hours in the game now, playing with my old Guild [..]
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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 [..]
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6:14 pm, October 1, 2013
Hi, I just created a thread asking if after I spend my gold on tier 1 cultural as soon as I hit lvl 30. I was wondering if the skin would stay as I buy armor with better stats I wou [..]
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2:08 pm, October 1, 2013
3 weeks ago, it was the universal trend to disregard any negative feedback towards ANet and their amazing game, whether it was valid criticism or just pointless ranting. Those posts would commonly be [..]
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1:34 pm, October 1, 2013
In light of "popular demand" for better stats on ascended gear, I am actually curious how much of Guru approves of A.Net raising stats.
Bugging a mod to include a poll. Please consider that [..]
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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 [..]
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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:
- [..]
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12:12 pm, October 1, 2013
I won't be posting anymore quoting AMA that is currently on-going, despite the fact that the Guru News link hasn't been updated in over an hour, instead let's talk about what was discussed.
Vertical [..]
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12:06 pm, October 1, 2013
Good Afternoon Fellow Tyrians!
I sat down this morning was looking over the forums again and started writing. This post may be a little disjointed and hop around a lot but I think [..]
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11:26 am, October 1, 2013
Greetings!
We are excited to introduce you all to the new and improved Borderlands maps and the Borderlands Bloodlust buff. As part of our continuing efforts to introduce new and interesting mechanic [..]
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11:14 am, October 1, 2013
I was thinking about these halloween books we get for doing the scavenger hunt for the priory and I found it wierd that they would give us a blue one with cool skin, but for act 2 give us a green one [..]
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10:56 am, October 1, 2013
I don't know how to describe it other than what the title says. I am getting tired of the same boring stats on everything. I fell in love with the randomization o [..]
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10:30 am, October 1, 2013
A ****** at the Dragon Bash has thrown lions Arch into Chaos! The culprits responsible for the mayhem have holed up in their hideout. Inspector Ellen Kiel spearheaded the investigation into the ****** [..]
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9:24 am, October 1, 2013
Doing a little mathhammer, it comes up that you will have to do 120 DE in Straits of Devastation to get only 1 piece of karma Exotic. Yes I know these don't have the highest rewards, but they zerg cha [..]
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9:16 am, October 1, 2013
Please explain something to me... Essentially I want a max stat Ascalonian armor. Does it mean I need to get all the tokens needed to buy it from the merchant PLUS craft the set myself (to be able to [..]
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9:13 am, October 1, 2013
I guess you can call this "Someone just got owned by a thief" - But i honestly have not had ANY trouble at all against other classes.
Sure, I've met skilled players that outplayed me, my ha [..]
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8:22 am, October 1, 2013
This question should be pretty straightforward, the mad king's slippers are the Mad King's clocktower jumping puzzle reward, but there's other pieces of the sets listed (albiet with incorrect stats, a [..]
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7:34 am, October 1, 2013
While everyone else salivates about new content, or complains about gear progression I see a lack of actual change or even dev commentary to have anything to do with the real core of the game- profess [..]
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6:48 am, October 1, 2013
I'll admit, the Fractals have been pretty fun and I'm sure there is some way to make the Ascended gear work in some way down the line. Right now though both the Fractals and Ascended gear are carrying [..]
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6:17 am, October 1, 2013
Here's a review written by forbes.
I like to think of forbes as a reputable source. Much of what's written there is reasonable and it resonates with me as what I see to be problems with GW2. Whilst G [..]
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6:01 am, October 1, 2013
Now i know you can make gold in game easy enough (sort of) but if someone wanted to exchange gems bought with real money to buy a tier 3 cultural armor set it would cost $600 US dollars, Its not even [..]
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5:43 am, October 1, 2013
Hi all,
Don't know if this has been posted before but I was wanting to figure out how to maximize my raw power stats (before weapon damage, traits, skills and boons/conditions are added which can be [..]
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4:53 am, October 1, 2013
So with the fractals came some changes I was not totally expecting. The introduction of items that could not be gotten any other way. They have special stats and also a resist that is unique. This lea [..]
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4:49 am, October 1, 2013
Just wondering if anyone here is aware of a stigma against the Vigil armour set, and maybe the other Orders too?
2 or 3 times I've had people just outright laugh at me being in the set... no idea why [..]
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4:28 am, October 1, 2013
If not, then having 2 1h is a bit unfair isn't it? if they equal the same stats as a 1 hander AND lets you use 2 different sigils, that's an advantage over a 1h weapon right?
For example, my shield a [..]
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3:51 am, October 1, 2013
Hi Guildwars2guru users out there, I got a problem of mine that I'm worried about, back within a week after the release of GW2, I managed to hit Lvl 80 with my Mesmer and I suddenly became interested [..]
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2:55 am, October 1, 2013
Good evening. I have two questions about level scaling in dungeons:
1. Early on, months ago, I heard/read that for dungeons, you can be 'up leveled' to the appro [..]
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2:13 am, October 1, 2013
im level 20, where can i get a good looking greatsword with decent stats?
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1:43 am, October 1, 2013
Welcome to the first release of August, the Queens Jubilee!
Upon logging in to GuildWars2, you will receive a mail from Queen Jennah of Kryta inviting you to a celebration being held in Divinitys Rea [..]
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1:03 am, October 1, 2013
Did anyone else started to notice that Anet hasn't added any ascended gear to the game with toughness/power/precision stats?
For some this might not be a problem, but I would like to see knight stats [..]
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12:44 am, October 1, 2013
So today I was looking forward to buying my warrior a few pieces of exotic armor which is nice because I just hit level 80 and he was still wearing trash. Statswise I quite liked the look of the Melan [..]
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12:03 am, October 1, 2013
https://www.guildwar...m_source=client
Improvements including rejoining party after disconnect and a more social friendly fractal lvl system.
All good and dandy but we have to wait "they hope&q [..]
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11:47 pm, September 30, 2013
Repost of a repost - OP was lost in the shuffle. I apologize.
This thread has been deleted from the official forums without any reason. Banns have been issued to the people posting. Please spread th [..]
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11:13 pm, September 30, 2013
(i had this posted on guild wars official forums but the admins destroyed it changing my posts changing the topic names and deleting multiple posts, So hopefully i can get my concerns heard properly h [..]
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10:56 pm, September 30, 2013
Ok, letter drops through the post. By some whim of fate you now find yourself in charge of Anet. You know people have an issue with stuff to do after 80. Given that you cant spend millions on an expan [..]
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10:47 pm, September 30, 2013
Please let me preface this with:
If you are still enjoying GW2 and/or happy with ArenaNet, that's fine and I'm happy for you.
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Some of you may recognize me (mainly for my math posts) if you freq [..]
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9:34 pm, September 30, 2013
I'm really happy about the new acquisition method and the newly added prefixes and suffixes, but is there any word I may have missed about including Carrion or Rampager's to the list of trinkets? (Or [..]
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7:21 pm, September 30, 2013
I could of sworn there was a magic find set that could be purchased with karma...believe it was Explorer's stats but I simply can't find it anymore...any ideas?
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6:36 pm, September 30, 2013
Love the game, but as most say, people go to forums only to complain. I have a few MINOR complaints, and thought it wasn't much to complain about, but... then I keep running into t [..]
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5:53 pm, September 30, 2013
Since I couldn't find a neat table or compilation or explanation etc about what pieces of equipment are best to use/replace when min maxing critical damage I did the maths myself, hope someone else fi [..]
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5:37 pm, September 30, 2013
This may be a stupid question to ask. But what is a good use of karma at end game? I have like a over a few 100K in one of my toon alone but really can't find a good use for it. At the same time I har [..]
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5:27 pm, September 30, 2013
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/arenanet-tracker/topic/245481-ill-be-honest-about-the-gear-and-gearchecks/
The results aren't pretty...
QuoteThis is something that existed prior to ascended gear, and [..]
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5:14 pm, September 30, 2013
The system has 5 different types of tiers which dont have common things.They are based on different farming methods.The models are made like this because people should do different things.They shouldn [..]
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5:13 pm, September 30, 2013
I have over 3,000 hours in Guild Wars 1 which was my first real MMO (for as much of one as it was with instances and all) and enjoyed every minute of it. Even after 7 years I still found myself pushin [..]
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5:13 pm, September 30, 2013
It sure as hell didn't for me!
1. The lack of PvP modes.
2. The grind, they promised us wouldn't exist.
3. Boring at level 80.
4. Gear = skin - not stats.
5. The personal home sucks.
6. Only 1 activi [..]
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5:12 pm, September 30, 2013
Guild Wars 2 is live now for 1 and a half months, and for many people (me included) is dream come true after all that long wait. Game proved to be real eye candy, also i`m quite pleased how it fairs o [..]
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5:11 pm, September 30, 2013
Hey everyone! Since the Shadow of the Mad King starts today, I thought it'd be a great idea to put together one big compilation of all the cool stuff that's happening this week.
So if you've made s [..]
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5:09 pm, September 30, 2013
Originally I just wanted to do the math, but then it became more than that and i feel the need to share my thoughts. Disclaimer: Lots of text, also might belong in suggestion/ideas but that's what mod [..]
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4:59 pm, September 30, 2013
Hey everyone, it has being more than a month since GW2 was released and alot of you are probably reached or about to reach L80. I thought this would be a time to release my endgame gearing guide that [..]
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4:39 pm, September 30, 2013
I've thought about writing this a lot before I decided to actually do it, because I wanted to get some feedback from other players to make sure it wasn't just me. I held off a day when I saw the patch [..]
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