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, 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 14, 2014
If I had to sum up November’s ESL Go4GuildWars2 Cups in a few words, I’d describe it as entirely unexpected. The November Cup isn’t even half over, and yet we’v [..]
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6:18 pm, November 13, 2014
On this week’s Ready Up, Host Joshua “Grouch” Davis will be joined by members of World Tournament Series Finals teams “The Abjured” and “The [..]
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6:18 am, November 1, 2014
We have a lot of talented people in the Guild Wars 2 community. One of our community members has created a series of fantastic infographics that show you, at-a-glance, how your World performed in th [..]
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7:18 pm, September 18, 2014
Guild Wars 2 is headed to Eurogamer Expo! Since our livestreaming crew will be at Eurogamer, were not going to have our regular 12:00 p.m. PT livestreams on September 19 and Octobe [..]
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7:18 pm, September 5, 2014
Thank you all for making this years gamescom such a success!
This year we were excited to partner with Twitch, and work with them to bring Guild Wars 2 to the show floor and to the [..]
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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 [..]
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3:16 pm, April 2, 2014
Were down to the last major feature to announce in our upcoming April 15 Feature Pack, and its a pretty huge one: were making it easier to play with your friends on every PvE map, regardless of home w [..]
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2:16 am, March 13, 2014
Recently a person on CDI-Fractal Evolution named Esya.3427 posted the idea of Account wide agony resistance(like Magic Find i think).
The response from Chris Whiteside :I will dis [..]
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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 [..]
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8:16 am, January 10, 2014
Heeeeeeeeeere we go.
http://www.reddit.co...vip_membership/
So, a data miner from Reddit has found some sexily controversial stuff about VIP Membership. The data doesn't tell if this is a subscripti [..]
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3:26 pm, November 13, 2013
Hello folks. It’s Maclaine Diemer, back again with another post about music. For this month’s Dragon Bash content, we wanted to have a recognizable theme, and the idea was brought [..]
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8:16 pm, November 12, 2013
The fight against the Toxic Alliance is a joint effort. The bravest heroes, the Lionguard, members of the interracial Orders we’re all in this together. But perhaps nobody is fighting t [..]
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9:18 am, October 30, 2013
Just a general question. I am not trying to troll or flame, but I have been wondering about this for near 6 months now. After reading these forums since November pretty actively I see so much negativi [..]
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2:13 pm, October 25, 2013
I wonder what people's opinions on the balancing of guild events:
- Guild Bounty
- Guild Rush
- Guild Trek
- Guild Challenge
and
- Guild Puzzle
I'm particularly interested in what small guild's takes [..]
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6:15 am, October 25, 2013
So I'm a first time guild leader. (Had a very exclusive 1 man Guild in Guild wars 1 )
And I wondered what others are doing to try and be a good Guild leader.
All kinds of suggestions and tips are wel [..]
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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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4:45 am, October 17, 2013
Just wondering why so many guilds are trying to cram into Jade Quarry? I've been following http://www.gw2guilds.org/ and if you look under US servers Jade Quarry is up to around 73 guilds!, I'm sure t [..]
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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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3:01 am, October 17, 2013
A couple weeks ago the game was still pretty active and my guilds ratio of members who were on everyday was high. Now there's only about 5 people who get on a day compared to 20 from before. What happ [..]
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9:16 pm, October 15, 2013
Edrick was a monster, he brought his family shame
So the locked him in a box, mouth stuffed with candy corn
But now the son has risen to take his fathers name
Beware the Bloody Prince, the son of [..]
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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 [..]
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7:37 am, October 10, 2013
Concept Artist Theo Prins has worked all over the world, but has now settled at ArenaNet here in Bellevue, WA. I sat down with one of the newest members of the concept art team to discuss his unique a [..]
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6:11 am, October 10, 2013
What would you guys think of player housing and guild halls in gw2? Would it be useful and actually worthwhile, especially if its instanced?
Personally, I think they should potentially combine player [..]
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9:16 am, October 9, 2013
From the official forums.
QuoteHi All,
I would like to thank everyone for their support toward the pioneering work we are doing, as we drive the world of Tyria forward.
The passion, and intelligence [..]
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1:30 am, October 8, 2013
Hiya all,
Guilds still buggy:
1) My ability to adjust our Guild build queue keeps coming and going.
2) Adding members is a hit/miss
3) Members "representing" status is not displaying correc [..]
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8:17 pm, October 7, 2013
I just read the patch notes for the last patch. I was wondering what exploit they were patching with the Guild Bank. Then it hit me....DUH! Cou [..]
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3:50 pm, October 7, 2013
With the introduction of custom arenas we have the chance to have our own guild hall equivalent. A place we can go to chat, chill, hang out and have some fun.
All you do is:
Buy a custom arena
Set [..]
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5:37 pm, October 6, 2013
How is your guild going to handle members who represent and members who don't represent?
Are you going to use separate ranks or more beneficial ranks? Give em a pat on the back? Not give a rat's hind [..]
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4:12 pm, October 6, 2013
Hello there
As I could see there wasn't any topic related to what I'm about to tell so I created one myself.
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11:12 pm, October 5, 2013
Hey folks, it’s Chap again! There are a lot of changes coming in this release, and I wanted to explain the thought processes behind some of them. Today I’ll be joined by Karl and R [..]
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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 [..]
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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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7:07 pm, October 4, 2013
I'm a fairly experienced dungeon runner. I probably have enough experience to lord it over others and be an "Elitist," but I generally prefer to not be a total **** to oth [..]
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3:09 pm, October 4, 2013
Today we banned a number of players for exploiting Guild Wars 2. We take our community and the integrity of the game very seriously, and want to be clear that intentionally exploiting the game is unac [..]
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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 [..]
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9:24 am, October 4, 2013
I think for me at least from my experience on my server I will say that 60/40 of players do revive me or other players but there are the 40% that don't. However there are certain gu [..]
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2:49 am, October 3, 2013
In this thread we will be discussing the most recent addition of vertical progression to GW2 with the Lost Shores update & what it really means for GW2. This topic has a tendenc [..]
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11:43 pm, October 2, 2013
I played GW1 from start to finish in one guild. When I heard about the guild system in GW2 I was a little confused to why they changed it so dramatically. I liked [..]
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11:25 am, October 2, 2013
I started running FotM last week and am having some issues. I seem to be really, really bad at them and could use some tips. I'm running them in PUGs.
Worst one [..]
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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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10:40 am, October 2, 2013
"You are temporarily suspended from the forum because:
This punishment was given due to your accumulation of points. Please check your private messages for more details."
I have been suspe [..]
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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 [..]
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6:50 am, October 2, 2013
After playing quite a few rounds of keg brawl and learning the secrets of the game I decided to share what I have learned.
First are the buttons you can use when you don't have the keg.
1. A light pu [..]
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4:21 am, October 2, 2013
Further to the november release i noticed a comment on the patch notes that said they had fixed the issue of people being kicked from the final boss in dungeons to allow for guild members to join.
I [..]
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2:08 am, October 2, 2013
So I just did the story mode of Twilight Arbor and when I ****** the members of Destiny's Edge they dropped Badges of Honor. I thought that these were rewards for stuff in WvW not dungeon tokens. Has [..]
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1:01 am, October 2, 2013
I am hoping that someone may be able to help me in regard to the FotM dungeon.
As i'm sure all of you have realised from playing it if one of your party members or yourself are unfortunate enough to [..]
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11:21 pm, October 1, 2013
Today I wanted to play with a reallife friend that started a few days ago and he needed to do a few dungeons in storymode. As I already have done them I know the tactics to have a pretty solid run wit [..]
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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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10:46 pm, October 1, 2013
Hello all,
I'm looking to see if anyone else is noticing problems in Guild Influencing accounting. As an officer of a small guild I can easily keep track of our guild influence. 5 members, 10 charact [..]
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10:41 pm, October 1, 2013
Hello everyone I recently got back into GW after a long hiatus. Unfortunately, in my absence my account was hacked and banned. I explained the situation to Anet and they gave me my account back. But w [..]
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9:57 pm, October 1, 2013
Why dont we just start State of the Game with WvW or PvE?
If you are an active Guild Wars 2 sPvP player there is a big chance you have heard about Guru State of the Game and if you arent into sPvP [..]
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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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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 [..]
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6:45 pm, October 1, 2013
Hey all. I'd like to ask the members of gw2guru forums not to gank their other servers in EB JP unless attacked first, while the first week or so of this kite achievement is going on.
You may (or may [..]
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5:10 pm, October 1, 2013
Hello, fellow Dragon Bashers! Want to know where to go and how to get started with the celebration? Read on!
Spoiler-Free Mini Guide
Spoiler-Free New Items and Rewards
Spoiler-Free New Achievemen [..]
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3:31 pm, October 1, 2013
Car Crash Europe Regional Champions
Ixl Super Ixl Captain – Engineer
Posi – Necromancer
Lady Nag Nag Pvp Guardian
Lord Nag Nag Nag – Thief
The Mogwow Elementa [..]
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12:18 pm, October 1, 2013
Well, I noticed something rather odd on the TP today. Earlier this morning unidentified dyes were 10s each, and last time I checked(a few minutes ago) they were 19s each, which is... uh, a bit crazy. [..]
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11:00 am, October 1, 2013
So I was a GM in gw1 and an officer in wow. I've had many years experience in being a guild leader. My gw1 guild was a top 100 gvg guild for a while (not bad for pvp casuals), we owned hzh, had some s [..]
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10:42 am, October 1, 2013
Warning, the following thread is long as it is not just a "this is what I hate" list but is an explanation of where I feel those lists come from and a look at possible ways to fix the issues [..]
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10:42 am, October 1, 2013
There's been a lot of talk about how activity in GW2 is down across the board. In my own guild, probably half our players from the first month have already gone MIA and have been gi [..]
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9:59 am, October 1, 2013
I (and many others) thought this particular boss battle was lacking something, like for example: a battle. Hop on ship, **** some trash and wait for mahlazor to fire, then pelt dragon with fireballs u [..]
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6:07 am, October 1, 2013
I'm not quite sure what to do right now. Guild Wars 2 has been the only truly fun and addicting game that LASTS and keep my attention in the past few years, and I've been perma banned simply because I [..]
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5:37 am, October 1, 2013
I have recently played my last class to level 80 and am now in the process of map completion. Having been to Orr with 5 chars before this one gave me sufficient insight to say this event has never bee [..]
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3:37 am, October 1, 2013
Hi! Im Rubi Bayer, ArenaNets Social Media Coordinator. The Guild Wars 2 social media outlets are a big part of our interaction with all of you, so Id like to talk a bit about what yo [..]
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2:08 am, October 1, 2013
Hey, with the release of Guild Wars: Platinum Edition, Guild Wars Prophecies (Previously $19.99) and the Eye of the North Expansion pack (also 19.99) can both be grabbed for a one time cost of $19.99. [..]
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1:05 am, October 1, 2013
John Smith
"Weve received a large amount of feedback about Legendaries becoming unreachable. This is actually a topic weve been tracking for quite some time. To ease your minds I am here to say [..]
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12:35 am, October 1, 2013
***** is easy. In Guild Wars 2 ***** means waypointing/waiting for a rez, and at worst a silver or two in repair costs. If you want to charge into the unknown with reckless disregard for safety, it wo [..]
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11:36 pm, September 30, 2013
Currently I am an officer in a guild in charge of finding a new home for our core members. We are on a server with a rapidly decreasing population, and so there is absolutely no competition for us in [..]
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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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9:19 pm, September 30, 2013
Hello fellow GW2Guru members,
I am having a hard time seeing any cool gear for Sylvari heavy armors. The CoF looks alright, but personally I don't know anything else that would look cool. If you don' [..]
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7:59 pm, September 30, 2013
How many of you have experienced regular drops while playing grawl fractal in FOTM? In last 2 days I had seen 6 members of my party get disconnected while doing the last boss in that fractal (legendar [..]
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5:24 pm, September 30, 2013
I recently read a thread called "do mmo players demand too much"
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/76458-do-mmo-players-demand-too-much/
I also recently read a thread called "do you [..]
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5:13 pm, September 30, 2013
While we're all pretty excited about the upcoming launch of GW2, as a guild leader I have to say that I'm worried about what I see as the coming fragmentation of our guilds, something I've seen in the [..]
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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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4:54 pm, September 30, 2013
(Warning Spoilers!)
Mini Guide
New Rewards
New Achievements
Mini Guide
Available Tuesday, June 18th
Dragon effigies have been placed in all of the explorable maps for levels one to 35. Pe [..]
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4:09 pm, September 30, 2013
While searching for catacombs members it seems that warriors/guardians are favored.I didn't list all the instances i observed but there were around 4 different parties over 30mins. Am I missing someth [..]
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4:07 pm, September 30, 2013
We have all seen it. If you have stood in LA for more than a few minutes your map chat is filled with LFG FoTM (x). Now before I begin, I like the new dungeon.&am [..]
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3:42 pm, September 30, 2013
Hey all, firstly I'd just like to say I've really enjoyed the game so far, so I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a moan, the PvP and story have been great, but I am curious to see what peo [..]
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2:53 pm, September 30, 2013
Welcome to our newest release, the Bazaar of the Four Winds! You may be wondering what there is to do and how to get around, so what follows is a short guide to point you in the right direction.
Spoi [..]
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2:06 pm, September 30, 2013
Its been a month? All of us are level 80 with Full Exotic Gears and LVL 400 Crafter in ALL PROFESSION. We also Chip in for 100g Commander Icon. What else to do?
Anyway, We need an [..]
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1:00 pm, September 30, 2013
The scourge of Splintered Coast has risen, more deadly and powerful than ever before. Band together with other heroes, old friends, and new allies to fight the rising evil. Bewareagainst a foe of this [..]
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12:01 pm, September 30, 2013
I actually have the opposite problem of the OP in this thread. I've been the leader of the same guild since I started it back in July 2005 when GW1 first came out. Now we're in GW2 since GW1 is mostly [..]
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11:47 am, September 30, 2013
After the BLC drama Anet as finally revealed the new recipes that will be added to the mystic forge so the players can use all the trash they got from the chests
ReginaBuenaobra
North American Commu [..]
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11:03 am, September 30, 2013
If you ever saw huge amounts of gold linking in the chat by your guild members / people in the /map chat, you know that gold linking in gw2 is possible
So, I wasted my time doing a little research in [..]
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9:56 am, September 30, 2013
Based on my understanding representing a guild allows you to earn that guild influence points, enjoy that guild's benefits, and participate in that guild's chat. Representing a guil [..]
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9:31 am, September 30, 2013
Hi everyone, thank you for tuning in and view this post.
When you're in Cursed Shore, things you're probably going to see are people on /m chat yelling on how to **** Grenth or "lfg arah speed r [..]
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8:59 am, September 30, 2013
Hello fellow members,
Is it worth making a warrior? I've been reading about how warriors lack any fundamental input in tPvP (is this team pvp?) because every other class can do a job better (ie. DPS, [..]
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8:17 am, September 30, 2013
If anyone remembers, I created that video series about D3 criticizing various things that were wrong with the game.
I created a video to sum up my thoughts on Guild Wars 2.
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8:15 am, September 30, 2013
Hello fellow Guild Wars 2 Guru members,
I have recently leveled my first level 80 warrior and I have around 1.3g and I haven't really gained any gold at all. What should I do to start? Should I just [..]
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7:37 am, September 30, 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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7:31 am, September 30, 2013
tl;dr: basically ac has become knocklock heaven.
new bosses have room covering aoe in path 3 that knocks you down, path 1 spawns a ton of scavengers and new abilities on stalkers [..]
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6:50 am, September 30, 2013
First time poster, sorry if this has already been discussed somewhere, but my friends and I have been very excited for Guild Wars 2 for a long time and are enjoying it immensely, but I have some serio [..]
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4:59 am, September 30, 2013
That's my opinion after playing GW2 for last several months since beta (2x lvl 80s - Ele and Guard and a few sub-80 alts) and after playing GW1 considerably since launch (champion of the gods, gwamm a [..]
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4:51 am, September 30, 2013
Just when you thought the bots were gone, something much worse has arrived. The latest is a zerg of players/bots that teleport around Tyria in time to a schedule of champion spawns. [..]
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2:45 am, September 30, 2013
General Questions
Will there be a subscription fee?
No. There is no monthly subscription fee. Once your purchase the box or a game key, you are free to play as much as you want.
Will there be micro [..]
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