Guild Wars 2

Why you Can't Ignore Ascended Gear

3:16 am, October 16, 2013 This is pretty straight-forward. I know a lot of people think that you can ignore ascended gear because it is optional. So, let's run with that. Why did ascended gear get introduced? Most people agre [..] View

Additional Gear Tiers: Economic Inevitability

12:38 pm, October 9, 2013 Looking at market prices from launch until now of staple items we see a clear trend of decreasing price,  namely exotic armors and weapons.  This is partly because [..] View

Sunken ships = mobs pass trough walls

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 [..] View

That's Good Apple Juice

6:24 am, October 5, 2013 So this new pvp map is looking pretty cool.  In the stream Jonathan mentioned that they're looking for more Quake and Unreal style map design, where it's kind of a vertical design.&a [..] View

Moving Goalposts: Levels

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 [..] View

The idea of swapable Utility Spells

9:48 pm, October 3, 2013 There are currently 2 main Systems for Skill progression in MMO- or Action-RPGs the "vertical" and the "horizontal" progression: In the "vertical" progression you have u [..] View

VP - Reading Between the Lines

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 [..] View

Guild Wars 2 and Progression

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

Raids in GW2?

1:12 am, October 2, 2013 So my question is do you think it work with raids in GW2? I myself would love to have some raids to do something that needs 15+ coordinated friends to beat and i have never understood why so many on [..] View

AMA Post-Mortem Discussion, What You Got Out of It

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 [..] View

Looting is not a fun experience

9:18 am, October 1, 2013 Looting is not fun in my opinion. I had this feeling since the first BWE and it stayed with me through all iterations of the Beta/Stress events so far. The experience and actual action of looting feel [..] View

I am astonished GW2 is still alive, what keeps you guys playing?

8:33 am, October 1, 2013 I quit the game around level 50 several months ago because I just couldn't take it any more. This is a guy who played several F2P mmo's, including a korean mmo, and getting pretty far in it. What keep [..] View

Would you want more PVP mode/variety?

5:22 pm, September 30, 2013 hey guys! One of the things that i love about GW1 was the variety of PVP mode (FA, JQ, RA, HA, GVG, AB). I love GW2 especially the PVE side (i enjoy dungeon, personal story, dynamic events...) I'm jus [..] View

Gearing up at L80 - a semi comprehensive guide to endgame gearing

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 [..] View