6:18 pm, November 25, 2014
Do you remember the teaser we put out on the episode 25 of Ready Up? It’s time to find out what it was all about! Join Competitive Events Manager Joshua “Grouch” Davis an [..]
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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 [..]
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6:18 pm, November 21, 2014
Match flow in PvP is affected by everything from team formation and arena queuing to the way players actually enter matches. I’m happy to announce that the process players use to enter PvP a [..]
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6:18 pm, October 30, 2014
This week on Ready Up, Competitive Events Manager Joshua “Grouch” Davis and PvP Game Designer Hugh “Nightmare” Norfolk discuss the upcoming Go4GuildWars2 Cups [..]
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6:18 pm, October 29, 2014
The Guild Wars 2 team, in partnership with ESL, is proud to announce the Go4GuildWars2 Cup,a new series of weekly PvP cups that are open to all participants. PvP teams will fight eac [..]
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7:18 pm, September 19, 2014
After battling through a harrowing bracket last weekend, the first four of eight North American teams have qualified for the Tournament of Glory Finals! If qualifying teams meet eligibility requiremen [..]
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7:18 am, September 4, 2014
This week on Ready Up, join our Competitive Events Manager and host Josh Davis and Competitive QA Embed, Jessica Boettiger as they talk about the upcoming World vs World Fall Tournament and cover up [..]
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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 [..]
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7:18 pm, August 28, 2014
This week on Ready Up, join our Competitive Events Manager and host Josh Davis and Competitive QA Embed, Jessica Boettiger as they talk about the upcoming World vs World Fall Tournament and cover upd [..]
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7:18 pm, August 27, 2014
Wed like you to join us in congratulating the European All-Stars team for their flawless showing at the Guild Wars 2 International All-Stars Tournament at gamescom in Cologne, German [..]
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7:18 pm, August 21, 2014
This week on Ready Up, join our Competitive Events Manager and host Josh Davis as he talks about the upcoming Tournament of Legends 2 Finals taking place this weekend and the Guild Wars& [..]
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7:18 pm, August 7, 2014
This week on Ready Up, join our Competitive Events Manager and host Josh Davis as he is joined by ChroNick, one of our authorized shoutcasters from Germany. Together they will talk about the Tournam [..]
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7:18 pm, July 10, 2014
Hello Tyria,
Joshua “Grouch” Davis here, Competitive Events Manager at ArenaNet. Its my privilege to announce that at this years gamescom, well be partnering with our friends at [..]
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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 [..]
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9:16 pm, April 12, 2014
In a recent, now locked, thread I tried to discuss the objective definition of pay-to-win, and quickly found that for various reasons doing so is.difficult, to say the least. So rather than rehash tha [..]
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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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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 [..]
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2:16 pm, March 16, 2014
QuoteIn LA you are surrounded, even if you're the only one on the map, by Vets and Elites. Dynamic LS spawns would either increase or decrease this number based on actual people in the map. This is a [..]
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2:16 pm, February 25, 2014
We here at the Black Lion Trading Company are honored to keep doing our part in keeping Tyria running despite Scarlet Briars devastating attacks on Lions Arch. Read on to find new offerings and sa [..]
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2:16 am, February 17, 2014
Considering the playstyles and management of damage it is easy to get this impression for players but I want to know whether it is reasoned or not. Do you believe it is a DPS Race? Why or why not? Are [..]
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2:16 am, February 8, 2014
Hello. I found this screenshot and the character is awesome!
First of all, the Hair is from the Total Makeover Kit? The face is one of the presets? or I have to use the sliders (I am scrub at slide [..]
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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 [..]
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8:16 am, December 11, 2013
The Black Lion Trading Company has a variety of items that can be gifted everything from armor skins to dye packs to kites can be bundled up and sent to your friends or guildmates at no extra cost fo [..]
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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 [..]
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12:32 pm, October 19, 2013
I don't think there's enough bots here, obviously. They need at least 20 more to manage the copious amounts of spawns that appear.
(I must admit though, having all of them there makes the event int [..]
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5:47 am, October 19, 2013
I entered a guild which said there are no actual rules. I was told by the guy inviting me to the guild that I wouldn't be reported for swearing or being a douche.
So that's exactly what I did. Only 2 [..]
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9:16 pm, October 17, 2013
A post has been put out by Martin Kerstein, Global Community Manager of ArenaNet.
I want to take a moment to give you an update on how we will enforce part of our forum Code of Conduct in the future. [..]
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3:16 am, October 17, 2013
A post has been put out by Martin Kerstein, Global Community Manager of ArenaNet.
I want to take a moment to give you an update on how we will enforce part of our forum Code of Conduct in the future. [..]
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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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7:49 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 [..]
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6:13 am, October 14, 2013
So the guild wars 2 launcher was downloading a 700 files update or something. It was at 99 so I click log in and it said the following "you've enabled email authentication for [..]
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2:31 am, October 9, 2013
And Amarok. Managed to buy a dye on the main page but the trade post went down again. Should only be a matter of time before it's up!
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii34/triste457/gw001.jpg
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9:16 pm, October 8, 2013
This week, the Black Lion Trading company is pleased to present the Jack-in-the-Box Scythe, the latest and greatest innovation in the realm of portable harvesting technology. In addition, weve got [..]
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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8:00 pm, October 7, 2013
(sorry for posting here but the ideas section always seem to be dead)
These are my ideas that I believe could be adapted to the game, and I've tried to simplify them and made them manageable for anet [..]
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6:41 am, October 7, 2013
So I was online last night & happened to be in the Blazeridge Steppes area when The Shatterer popped in to say "Hi". I noticed that I was the only person in the area, [..]
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2:57 am, October 7, 2013
Since Anet started putting some achievements for people who look for chests in hidden places, i went ahead and did the one in the sunken ship in straits of desvatation... i managed to solo it but not [..]
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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' [..]
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10:25 pm, October 5, 2013
So tried to log in thie morning and my password was invalid apparently. So I go to check my email to see if my password had been changed. It doesnt say it was. So I go to reset my password...and guess [..]
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9:58 pm, October 4, 2013
http://www.allprouda...-R-T-U-R-E.html
"A golem named BUY-4373, an NPC named Subdirector Blingg, and a jumping puzzle named Under New Management."
South Sun Cove waypoints are "Lion& [..]
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3:19 pm, October 4, 2013
A couple friends and I decided to so our first dungeon today and it was a total train wreck. We sat outside the Ascalonian Catacombs to get 2 more people to join us and found them pretty quickly, but [..]
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2:24 pm, October 4, 2013
* Past few days I've been running a lot of dungeons and in one AC run, one team member asked me why do I use a staff (on my elementalist ofc). I told him with some notes of sarcasm "Yeah, cause u [..]
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2:23 pm, October 4, 2013
To start with, this is not a suggestion thread - hence it is not in the Primordus visions section. It's just meant as a sort of place to share our ideas about the games combat system. I am not conside [..]
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6:44 am, October 4, 2013
Alright ladies and gents, like the title suggest, you guys managed to get to any cool places by jumping or by using skills like the engineer's jump shot? And I don't just mean in jumping puzzles.
Her [..]
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5:33 am, October 4, 2013
Hi.
First please sorry for my English...
I'm just talking about this threadabout ArenaNet saying thoose things are Lies, because for me it's ArenaNet that Lied in first place, or they said too much [..]
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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.& [..]
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1:59 am, October 4, 2013
Background story:
A few friends from across the country decided to start up their own guild at the beginning of early release weekend. We all agreed to let the one player with the most GW1 experience [..]
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10:02 pm, October 3, 2013
The Bazaar of the Four Winds is finished, the Zephyrites have signed their deal and flown away and the Queens Jubilee is in full sway! The Black Lion Trading Company is getting into the celebrato [..]
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8:09 pm, October 3, 2013
I've noticed that sometimes when my game would get stuck on a loading screen or something happened that made the game freeze (trying to connect for a long time without giving up), i try to bring up th [..]
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1:29 pm, October 3, 2013
Am just wondering, among the people who plays, what is their financial situation in the game. How much gold did you end up when you got your level 80?
I'm currently level 41 and I have 4,5 gold. I hav [..]
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9:35 am, October 3, 2013
Why is it that after every maintenance they seem to break something new. Ive been running all the explorable paths of TA for the last week and they have worked fine, we encountered a dc bug on vevina [..]
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7:27 am, October 3, 2013
So I will say that I have never seen such a tightly controlled message as I have this week.
An interview embargo that just released Wednesday/Tuesday in the first week of July, with the ArenaNet Comm [..]
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1:53 am, October 3, 2013
Hello guys
I ve just bought the game yesterday and today i played the stress test. I liked the game coz it has some simple quest to level up nice skill animations and generally it must be good althoug [..]
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11:57 am, October 2, 2013
A note before starting; this is intended as a conversation about the story (non-lore) behind why we are fighting Zhaitan and where the story may progress from here. It is not meant to be bashing Anet' [..]
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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 [..]
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2:26 am, October 2, 2013
Alright, This is my first post, so hello everyone.
A while ago i had to crazy idea to run a low level to arah. Started at lvl 2 and managed to get there at lvl 6. Yet not many people believed that o [..]
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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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12:26 am, October 2, 2013
How do we craft an online world that feels like it is a truly living world?
For years, MMO developers have been chasing the answer to this question; it’s one of the holy grails of MMO dev [..]
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12:03 am, October 2, 2013
Hello everyone, I am uZu, and I am overly pissed @ Anet's costumer service.
As a start, I must say that I enjoy GW2 a lot and I think it is an amazing game, however, it's costumer care/support (even i [..]
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11:37 pm, October 1, 2013
I did a quick search, and I couldn't find a recent thread on this issue, only the mentioning of it in various different threads.
So, days into the game, I'm sure many of you have either reached level [..]
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11:31 pm, October 1, 2013
This personal storyline quest seems to be bugged making it impossible to complete and so I'm now stuck (Lvl 51 priory storyline).
The first time I tried doing it with a friend the mobs just kept comi [..]
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11:20 pm, October 1, 2013
GW2 2012 Best (Worst) of Awards
Its that time of the year again! Where we look back into the previous year and project into the new year. To make the best of 2013, we have to look [..]
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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 [..]
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9:54 pm, October 1, 2013
[WHAT IF] is going to be my series of sporadically added threads into General discussion forum, focusing on, well, discussions about various game changes, what would happen if they occurred and how to [..]
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8:55 pm, October 1, 2013
In beta weekends I found this charge to severly handicap my ability to solo areas beyond starting areas. They have reduced the cost for both of these at earlier levels so, at launch, I was willing to [..]
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8:24 pm, October 1, 2013
Here are mine:
Spoiler
Christmas has come and gone. For the most part, so has Wintersday. The events will run through Jan. 3, but no new content is scheduled between now and then. So I think its t [..]
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7:15 pm, October 1, 2013
So, I found this new mini dungeon but it seems the dungeon is bugged or I am doing something wrong, when I enter, the first dark hall, it says to help an NPC and find a treasure, and there is a Vetera [..]
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6:42 pm, October 1, 2013
Abstract
Would someone get Anette-chan out of here?! We don't need her tomfoolery now. Shoo you damn charr, go back to Ascalon!
Gems are bad 'kay? That's what I always say. And thanks to Cube's [..]
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3:46 pm, October 1, 2013
I know good things come in time and this has possibly been posted about but i havnt seen anything about it yet. Anyway when it comes to legendary weapons its not an easy road to travel obtaining one a [..]
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11:28 am, October 1, 2013
Is anyone actually enjoying underwater events?
I really, really want to enjoy exploring all the underwater content. I don't even really mind the specialty weapons too much, and most of what I've seen [..]
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8:50 am, October 1, 2013
Emissaries and citizens are gathered in Divinitys Reach, but someone else has plans for the Queens speech!
NOTE: At the beginning of this release, the Crown Pavilion will become temporarily unavailab [..]
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8:00 am, October 1, 2013
Because being a good racer in Rollerbeetle Racing is no longer in style.
I have no love left for ANet, but I could not pass up an opportunity at another racing minigame. There ma [..]
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7:06 am, October 1, 2013
Hi all,
I managed to fight Mad King solo. Just try to hide in small house, and do AoE damage. The fight last long, but even if you die, the Mad King doesn't rest.
I wrote a small guide with screensh [..]
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6:14 am, October 1, 2013
Purpose: In effect, what I intend to do is expose ArenaNet of lies, deceit, and otherwise facilitating or spreading false information for the sole purpose of garn [..]
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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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3:39 am, October 1, 2013
It's funny, I have a friend who is every exploration-oriented, and I'm always teasing her about it. However, today I found myself on an adventure of exploration that will always be a wonderful memory, [..]
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2:55 am, October 1, 2013
Community Manager Martin Kerstein explains the required password change that starts on February 7. If you are still using a password that was chosen before the introduction of password blacklisting on [..]
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2:24 am, October 1, 2013
A new week means new items available through the Black Lion Trading Company! This week Im pleased to offer up a very special new item: Candidate Support Bundles that let you show your support and [..]
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2:15 am, October 1, 2013
The Bazaar of the Four Winds is finished, the Zephyrites have signed their deal and flown away and the Queens Jubilee is in full sway! The Black Lion Trading Company is getting into the celebrato [..]
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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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1:22 am, October 1, 2013
Finally! after some time farming while playing in a casual manner I have managed to acquire the best looking armor set for my lvl 80 Guardian main.
I still have lots of content and stuff to do in pve [..]
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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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11:12 pm, September 30, 2013
and reduce it to the challenge of getting into the world to do the event.
Spamming "Join in Sparkfly Fen" to merge with other guild members and getting a pop up "World is Full" is [..]
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11:09 pm, September 30, 2013
Im having trouble on deciding which "set" to get. Has anyone managed to think up a nice armor combo with using these new pieces for all of the classes?
*additional note - male human ele (i k [..]
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9:34 pm, September 30, 2013
Hey, let's have a thread about this new music machine in GW2.
Has anyone scored a perfect game yet?
Have you learned how to play any other music on the organ? I've managed to put [..]
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9:32 pm, September 30, 2013
Looking for people to do COF Path 3 with. I will be pugging my way to dungeon master. This path is challenging but, can be managed with a well coordinated PUG. If you are interested, please PM me here [..]
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9:02 pm, September 30, 2013
Hey.
So I've just reached my first character to level 30. Took about 26 hours (how fast / slow is that?). Was eager to try Ascalon Catacombs, bought myself some nice armor and nice weapons (well &quo [..]
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7:17 pm, September 30, 2013
Now now, I know what you're thinking already but just hear me out.
I came across an application on the Play Market today called Kainy, it's used for streaming games from your PC to your phone via Wif [..]
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6:25 pm, September 30, 2013
https://forum-en.gui...ion-of-the-Game
C&P'd for those blocked, but spoiler-tagged to de-spam. It is hefty, but a good read, IMO.
Spoiler
There have been many different so [..]
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5:57 pm, September 30, 2013
Hey. After about 100 attempts at the clock tower and failing to make it I decided that it is simply too difficult. Perhaps if you were on your own, so you could see where you are going, this would not [..]
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5:01 pm, September 30, 2013
Hi!
Basically since I looked at the game for the very first time to me it was obvious that I would be farming dungeons for equipment. Doing WvW all day seemed very slow to me (SO many badges ...) and [..]
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4:28 pm, September 30, 2013
So now that a few legendaries have been completed, I decided to look into what kind of fiendish requirements these things require.
Let me add that I expected some severe requirements...
After a curso [..]
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4:12 pm, September 30, 2013
With my serial code, i managed to log in to the forum and all, but just cannot log in to the game.(Error code:9:4:5:1268)
Have wrote tons of emails to the Support team and they even created a new acc [..]
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3:41 pm, September 30, 2013
Yesterday I was lv.33 when I grouped with two of my friends (68, 71) and we played in Fireheart Rise (60-70). Some things I noticed:
-) I got tons of blue and green drops and some yellow ones with o [..]
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2:40 pm, September 30, 2013
Hi, everyone. Last week we announced our Guild Wars 2 First Anniversary Bash, which takes place at the Renaissance Hotel on Saturday, August 31 during PAX Prime weekend.
That [..]
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2:10 pm, September 30, 2013
I'll cut to the chase. Many people have been complaining about endgame gear grind. I've managed to get endgame gear (currently have 4 exotics, 2 rares, put superior runes in all of them, and also a ma [..]
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12:57 pm, September 30, 2013
So I was wondering what are people experiences so far with the explorable mode dungeons?
Our group did the first two dungeons Ascolonian Catacombs and Caudecus's Manor on story mode relatively easily [..]
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11:34 am, September 30, 2013
I'm a casual player that loved GW1 and started out loving GW2. I've run into enough things that have slowly turned playing this game from enjoyable to frustrating and uninteresting, to the point that [..]
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11:17 am, September 30, 2013
For people whose game time varies, such as myself, this is one of the "doable" things they can do for Monthly PVE. So, how about we compile a list of "12 easiest jumping puzzles"?
[..]
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