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In-game currencies other than gold and karma, soul-bound items

6:18 am, November 23, 2014 http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/11/21/the-daily-grind-do-special-currencies-in-mmos-annoy-you/#comments A nice thread on in-game currencies. Personally, they irritate me.  The gam [..] View

Living Story.......One step closer.....to Exit

6:18 pm, November 19, 2014 Ok, i`m one of those uber persistant  guys who goes beyound 100% when he puts his mind into something.As long time GW player and fan i was in 7th heaven when i heard about GW2 being [..] 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

September 2014 Feature Pack: Improvements Galore

7:18 pm, August 26, 2014 Hello, everybody, Im Isaiah Cartwright, the lead game designer on Guild Wars 2. Im going to be introducing you to three of the changes to Guild Wars 2 coming up in [..] View

Thief max range issue

7:18 am, July 12, 2014 Hi all. I'm finding that playing thief (my main moreorless), the lack of 1200 range is really handicapping for a lot of pve. I do not mean dungeons, or speedclears, as range is somewhat useless there [..] View

Will we see more Zerk conent in the future?

7:18 am, June 22, 2014 Basically, title (which I misspelt, fml). The next update will obviously bring a new dungeon and/or a raid boss or two but how zerk-friendly do you think it would be? Looking at Pav, it seems that a [..] 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

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

Unlocking traits.

3:16 pm, April 19, 2014 Apatiksremark made a fantastic post on reddit, showcasing the "achievements" that need to be completed to unlock traits under the new system. http://www.reddit.co...eds_to_be_done/ New chara [..] 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

Say Goodbye to Armor Repair Costs and Hello to Free TraitResets

8:16 pm, March 27, 2014 Were implementing some changes in the upcoming feature patch to the economy and want to tell you about them now. Were excited about what these alterations will mean for the game. The End of Repair Co [..] 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

What is the Replay Value of the Guild Wars Series?

2:16 am, March 16, 2014 The scale is one to five, one being the least, five being the greatest. The question pertains to the likelihood of you being willing to take a character from 1 to 80 through whichever of these means o [..] View

The difference between grinding and farming?

2:16 pm, March 11, 2014 Grinding comes from gear grind.(I know very smart.)The real or original meaning of grinding is that you go to "dungeons" or zones and  grind directly for the materials or g [..] View

Living Story season 2: Mordremoth Rising

8:16 pm, March 7, 2014 We extinguished the molten alliance, blew up the aetherblades, poisoned the toxic alliance, and finally ****** scarlet in what to me felt like five seconds. . . But that doesn't stop what's coming fro [..] View

In the end I just wish Arena Net would finish Guild Wars 2

2:16 am, March 2, 2014 And so we come to the close; the end of Living World Season 1. And as I contemplate how Arena Net is likely to ruin the one thing that quite a number of us are hoping for from this event (an end to th [..] 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

Gold Farming - Do your Ascalonian Catacombs paths daily

8:16 pm, February 22, 2014 Hello Gurus! Today i wrote a little guide/reminder about doing your AC paths daily. Doing your all 3 of your AC paths daily can earn you 4 gold and 50 silver totaling up to 31 gold and 50 silver every [..] View

How does Arena Net gague the popularity of Living Story?

2:16 pm, February 20, 2014 This is a tie-in thread to my existing karma thread. There is a link and you'll understand where I'm going with this after we all ask the vital question (cangemsfixlivingstory?): How does ANet gague [..] 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

World vs. World Queue Improvements

2:16 am, January 31, 2014 On Tuesday, February 4, were releasing the new Edge of the Mists WvW map and major improvement to the queuing system for WvW. Weve been doing some behind-the-scenes work on our systems to provide more [..] 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

What is one bug / broken mechanic you wish they would fix?

2:16 am, January 21, 2014 Stacking. Yep, I said it, I know it's saved me in dungeons and I know it's great for certain bosses but I think it is the cheapest shittiest thing in a game I have ever played. Ever. It's takes the fu [..] 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

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

Did Anet Mishandle the Final Boss?

8:16 am, December 20, 2013 I mean Zhaitan never directly showed before the final campaign, all we fought was his minions, that was ok because we knew his threat through his minions. But in the end game dungeon we still spent mo [..] View

Anyone else miss the trinity?

8:16 pm, December 19, 2013 Hi guys, It's been over 3-4 months since I took a break from GW2. Currently I'm debating on coming back, but I just don't think I have it in me. I have come to realize the main reason that I don't wa [..] 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

ANet can get alot of respect back by doing..

8:16 pm, December 5, 2013 As we all know, ANet seemed to have left what made the original Guild Wars so great, out of GW2. ANet could easily gain back the players they lost and the respect of all the original GW1 players, and [..] View

Three step solution to removing Magic Find

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 [..] 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

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

Anyone else being kicked from the login server!?

2:16 am, November 14, 2013 Having massive trouble doing two specific things: dungeons or fractals. I can't seem to be able to join them anymore, as every time I do I get kicked from the game, saying it can't connect to the logi [..] View

Gw2 forums too strict?

2:16 am, November 9, 2013 So i was looking through the forums on gw2 today and came to a thread asking why karma was nerfed so hard. Feeling the same way, i checked out the thread. Here is it copy/pasted. "ANET, For newb [..] View

60 marks per first run? Yeah, right...

3:33 am, November 1, 2013 So according to the news, ANet (apparently) changed the way dungeon rewards work. For every run you'd get 20, whlist for every first run of the day, you'd get an additional 40. Which is 60 in total. [..] View

Anyone else get annoyed when you see full damage specs in dungeons?

9:17 am, October 30, 2013 Anyone else get kind of annoyed when a warrior or guardian (only classes that i'm knowledgeable enough to have an opinion on) comes into a dungeon and they've got ALL signet traits with a 2hander. I g [..] View

Does anyone else want them to bring back missions.

10:01 pm, October 26, 2013 I loved guild wars 1 missions. they were fun long and challenging. they told a very cool story You go to group up often. I know We have dungeons but missions were different and there were a ton of th [..] View

Dungeons

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 [..] View

Purpose of Personal Storyline

2:16 am, October 24, 2013 I've progressed through the game on a Ranger and completed the main story line, which I found quite boring. I will be creating a new character soon, and I am dreading having to re-live the whole story [..] View

State of the Dungeon Crowd - Good or Bad?

11:36 am, October 22, 2013 Hello community.  I am an avid dungon runner.  For me, running dungeons is the best thing about the MMORPG genre.  As we all know, there is a fair [..] View

World completion questions

11:33 am, October 21, 2013 Do you need to complete 5 man dungeons for world completion? Also besides the 2 gifts of exploration what are the prizes for 100% completion? View

Dungeon/Elite Missions loot system was perfect in GW1.

4:04 am, October 20, 2013 1. There were two difficulties for the dungeons/elite missions, Normal Mode and Hard Mode. 2. Chests at the end were GUARANTEED to give you rare item when you opened them. Hard Mode gave you two rares [..] 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

Idea for 5+ Player Dungeon(s)

8:48 pm, October 17, 2013 I've been thinking of how it might be possible to incorporate more than 5 players into the current style of Guild Wars 2 dungeons and came up with the following: - 3 groups of 5 players each (number [..] View

Fractals, Again?

9:18 am, October 15, 2013 Anyone else kinda annoyed they put fractals in the monthly requirement again? The WvW stuff i'm ok with, it's 50 kills. You can get that in about 4 hours if you tried hard enough but with the fractals [..] View

Give Me a Goddamn Break, Anet

7:49 am, October 15, 2013 Not only is the system for getting a party into a dungeon terribly designed, just all around awful, but it doesn't even work most of the time. I've tried dozens of times to get AC and CM working, and [..] 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

Current state of CoF exp.

9:00 pm, October 12, 2013 Lately, CoF's Magg path is being exploited with a technique that involves the use of a specific class in order to succeed at some point of the dungeon. I wonder, do these people know what they're get [..] 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

PUGs are Bad, Guildies are Great

3:41 pm, October 12, 2013 This concept somewhat bothers me. I have done every single dungeon path and fractals (37 and stopped there) in GW2 with PUGs. And I have done them without any difficulty. I generally form my own grou [..] View

Story Dungeon Cinematics

10:03 am, October 12, 2013 So when you start the story mode of Ascalon Catacombs you're greeted with that awesome introductory cinematic of Rytlock telling you about the place and you get a cool video of the place's history. No [..] View

Making Friends in Tyria...

5:10 am, October 12, 2013 Just a few days ago, after having run countless dungeons, multiple 80's, and hundreds of hours in WvW, I began looking over my friends list and regardless of how many (or few, not sure how many you gu [..] 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

Best Place to find Dungeon Groups

4:25 pm, October 11, 2013 Is there any good place to find groups for dungeons? I am generally trying LA (also overflow LA) and the zones that the dungeons are in, but it seem hard for me to find a group. Any suggestions? View

Reputation?

3:55 pm, October 10, 2013 this idea just hit me, and I presume some of you've already thought about this. I started thinking about why the hell you should pay for a rank (Commander) and instead earn it  with [..] View

Dungeon Story Achievement

12:36 pm, October 10, 2013 Has anybody else had this happen?  I've completed all 8 story modes for the respective dungeons, and all 8 individually show 1/4 paths completed, but the separate Dungeons Discovered [..] View

Waited for hours...and...crash

10:27 am, October 10, 2013 Soon as we clicked on dungeon, kicked from server and login servers crash out. Unable to log into game. GG Anet. 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

Dungeon gold making stealth nerf?

5:17 pm, October 9, 2013 Not sure if it's a bug or intended but a few of us noticed on hotw, coe, se and other dungeons that the mobs that usually give 10-20 silver are not giving any silver at all anymore...even some of the [..] 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

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

voice chat dilemma

10:27 pm, October 8, 2013 Hi guys I was involved with a interesting dilemma and I'd like to know what you think about this. A runs a dungeon with B, C, D & E. He knows the dungeon quite well. A uses teamspeak but the oth [..] 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

As a GW1 Veteran I'm starting to feel like home ^.^

7:25 pm, October 8, 2013 You guys know what I'm talking about The new dungeon is awesome! View

Anyone else having dreams about GW2? Record them here.

6:52 pm, October 8, 2013 I just woke up from a long and epic GW2 dream which involved fleets of sylvari on planty bicycles with giant seedshell wheels, and an enemy moonbase where slaves were forced to mine bricks out. (Becau [..] 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

Where did the casual game go?

6:51 am, October 8, 2013 I don't know what to do with this game.  My guild is all but disbanded. I can't get into fotm at lvl 6.  My guild has abandoned WvWvW because its boring (holding su [..] View

Maybe make downleveling less harsh?

7:59 pm, October 7, 2013 I'm going to try and make this short. I am one of those people who enjoys games where, if I run into a rough spot at a certain point in an RPG game, I can level up a bit and go back and attempt the di [..] View

another new zone

5:03 pm, October 7, 2013 So they are adding another zone. kinda cool but probly will face same demise as lost shores. Also other fluff ;( Maybe its just me but instead of new zones How bout making current ones worthy. Heck th [..] View

Levels don't make sense

4:54 pm, October 7, 2013 I'm having a hard time understanding why Guild Wars 2 uses a leveling system. You can PvP in WvW or sPvP from level 1. However the game restricts much of the content of the world PvE unless you level [..] View

What should i do?

1:32 pm, October 7, 2013 Well I have two level 80's (1 being a Mesmer and another a Warrior), a lv 68 Elemental, 40 Necromancer, 35 Engineer. On my Mesmer i have reached 100% map completion and 75% on my warrior. &am [..] View

Why don't I like GW2 Dungeons?

9:16 am, October 7, 2013 Am I the only one who's never found the GW2 dungeons interesting or fun? My only reasoning would be my immense time spent raiding in Hard Modes in WoW. I think GW2 is a far superior game in the long r [..] View

What have you not attempted yet?

4:44 am, October 7, 2013 Basically, what I've yet to do: Dungeons: - CoE explorable (no one wanting to do that) - CoF explorable (can't be arsed to do it) - Arah explorable (from what I've read, it's too hard, long and has a [..] View

Revive vs. Run Back

1:43 am, October 7, 2013 All emotion aside, which is the better option to revive a dead( not downed) player mid event/ dungeon or make them run back from the nearest waypoint? Looking at in a logical manor I would say its be [..] View

Flame and Frost: Why should I play it?

1:42 am, October 7, 2013 Been playing since 3-day early release.  Got to 80, did a bunch of dungeons, half like half of a T3 cultural armor set, but I have no drive to keep going.  I did th [..] View

How to turn GW2 into GW1 without breaking the game

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 [..] View

Chris Whiteside answers some big question(Cantha, Raiding, and more!)

3:51 pm, October 6, 2013 http://www.reddit.co...producer_in_la/ (Q:) Will we ever be able to go to Cantha? (A:) (Paraphrasing) Cantha is definitely not cut from the game, you will just have to wait and see. (Q:) Will we be [..] View

Content and Expansion packs

3:19 pm, October 6, 2013 This is the best mmo I ever played, in terms of design and end game, and I can't wait for new content to be released. Haven't seen any info yet, but here are my suggestions for future content: 1) In [..] View

Still having trouble making gold...

3:10 pm, October 6, 2013 Atm I'm just doing dungeons and the Cursed Shore Penitent farm. I'm getting decent goal but I'm wondering if theres any shortcuts for gold or to the legendary I want to start working for ( Incinerator [..] View

What Anet didnt tell us about the dungeon changes, and how do we work around the changes?

3:07 pm, October 6, 2013 Hi guyes! As we all know, Anet has been very silent about the changes they have done to the dungeons, maybe they were scared to see the players reactions...we do not know why, but we have certainly n [..] View

xpac worth of content, so far

1:17 pm, October 6, 2013 So with the first small patch out which more or less just fixed bugs, what are we expecting from the 2nd big patch in feb ? they already said no new places, classes, are race so what does anet call an [..] View

What's with all the pickyness of classes?

10:14 am, October 6, 2013 Back before i stoped playing the game that didn't semm to be much of a problem, hardly saw groups asking for a specific combination of classes, now that i came back most of the time is see people aski [..] View

[Looking Ahead Discussion] PvE Reward Restructuring

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 [..] View

Cinematics

5:25 am, October 6, 2013 I loved the intro cinematic from Ascalonian Catacombs. Is there any other cinematic of this type anywhere else in the game? I'm started to get disillusioned because I haven't stumbled upon another wo [..] View

Elemental LFG Isle of Janthir

3:42 am, October 6, 2013 I am looking for a late night crew to hand out with to basically do anything, map exploration, wvw, storymode help, dungeons, etc, I just enjoy playing with groups. Typically between 10CST - 3CST, I a [..] View

No PuGs doing Explorable Dungeons?

2:28 am, October 6, 2013 I am trying to farm tokens from dungeons in explorable mode but it seems like the PuGs never ever do explorable? All I see in LFG chat is for story modes, I've spent ages looking for a group to do exp [..] View

Uuuuh, dungeons and parties broken now? (or are they?)

9:14 pm, October 5, 2013 So I was just playing a CoE game... And midway through people just started "dropping". From my perspective everyone was still in the party. All players were in the instance, but one player [..] View

Solution: How to resurrect dead zones

8:57 pm, October 5, 2013 There's a thread on GW2 forum and i want to discuss the same thing on GW2Guru and try to find solutions to make the game world more active. The Solution: How to resurrect dead zones Every race has a [..] View

Cursed Shore: Overflow - does it happen?

8:19 pm, October 5, 2013 Did you ever get into cursed shore overflow? I don't recall ever getting it. I get Lion's Arch overflow quite regularly, and i'm not sure what to make of it regarding state of the game (fractal entran [..] View

Best dungeon experience ever!

6:55 pm, October 5, 2013 For some reason everytime I open this forums, there's about 90% whine and moan and doom threads. I'm gonna be the ugly ducking here. Don't care what enyone else things. Fractals is imo the best dunge [..] View

Is there a reward for the Investigation "quests"?

6:55 pm, October 5, 2013 The ones that are bugged to hell that you get from Levvi and Ellen, and Miyani/Zommoros? Deciding on whether it's worth it to wait out the bugs or just dive into the dungeon. View

Possible Dungeon Finder app/ chrome extension

4:50 pm, October 5, 2013 Hi guys, Im testing the waters to start developing a dungeon finder app, possibly for android/ios platforms if people use their phones while gaming nearby. I also thought a Chrome/ firefox Extension [..] View

Trait Templates and Removal of Retraining Feature

4:32 pm, October 5, 2013 I think GW2 is missing a very important feature from GW1. That is a Trait Template similar to GW1's Skill Template. Also, I still don't see the purpose of retraining traits and the associated fees. I [..] View

Legendary Weapon - I can't decide if I really want one. Do you?

2:24 pm, October 5, 2013 FYI.  This is not a post about the cost of precursors.  It is a general discussion about the reality of obtaining a Legendary weapon. I have been debating if I rea [..] View

Twilight Arbor - Overdone waypoints? Maybe Arah need more?

1:10 pm, October 5, 2013 I'd like to say Areanet did a great job when adding waypoints, but adding way points say you defeated the Great Nightmare Vine. A waypoint pops up, that's great. Then you choose to do path forward aft [..] View

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