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Go with the Flow

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 [..] View

Introducing the World Tournament Series finalists

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 [..] View

Finding the perfect match

6:18 pm, November 20, 2014 Hello, world! My name is Justin O’Dell, and I’m one of the server programmers on the Structured Player vs. Player (sPvP) team. I’m here to talk to you about the upcomin [..] View

Announcing Improvements to PvP and the Ladder Test Season

6:18 pm, November 19, 2014 Hello, Tyrians! We’re very pleased to announce that on December 2 we will be releasing some major updates to PvP that will enhance and improve a number of areas of the PvP experience. Matc [..] 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

The ESL Go4GuildWars2 Cups Are Heating Up

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 [..] View

Log-R-Tron, Glints Gaze Mask, and Pact Airship Balloon in the Gem Store

6:18 pm, November 11, 2014 The battle in the Silverwastes continues, and we have everything you need to make your journey more enjoyable! Save your strength and have a golem cut down your trees, scare your foes with glowing [..] View

Guild Wars 2 and ESL Partner on Cash-Prize PvP Tournament

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 [..] View

Tyrias Point of No Return

7:18 pm, October 20, 2014 A Living World The return of Living World Season 2 is rapidly approaching. When the season resumes on November 4, we’ll see the story pick up from the cliffhanger that left one of the worl [..] View

Overwolf Contest Results!

7:18 pm, October 17, 2014 Greetings, Tyrians! You fought, you flipped, you streamed! And now, at the end of the World vs. World Streaming Contest with Overwolf, we have our winners: First PlaceChemsorly Second Placeshinry [..] View

Reminder: Participate in the Overwolf World vs. World Streaming and War ReporterContests

7:18 pm, September 30, 2014 After our successful partnership on the Overwolf WvW App Challenge, which saw player Prefrontal Cortex win a $2,000 cash prize and a lot of Guild Wars 2 goodies, weve partnered with [..] View

World Tournament Series Finals Dated and Slated

7:18 am, September 27, 2014 The Guild Wars 2 World Tournament Series will name a champion this December in China! Its our first truly international tournament, bringing together top PvP teams from North America, Europe and Chin [..] View

Tournament of Glory Qualifiers Update

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 [..] View

The game's content is poorly distributed, while its progression is simply lacking

7:18 am, September 18, 2014 With the New Player Experience (the NPE), A.Net set out to redistribute the game's progression, in hopes of making the game more appealing. My core issue with this idea is that they focused on a syste [..] View

The game's content is poorly distributed, while its progression is simply lacking.

7:18 pm, September 17, 2014 With the New Player Experience (the NPE), A.Net set out to redistribute the game's progression, in hopes of making the game more appealing. My core issue with this idea is that they focused on a syste [..] View

Announcing the Overwolf World vs. World Fall Tournament Contests

7:18 am, September 16, 2014 Last month, we partnered with Overwolf to see who could develop the best app for World vs. World in the Overwolf WvW App Challenge. Some amazing apps were created as a result, and you can explore the [..] 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

Ready Up: Episode 20

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& [..] View

Balance Changes in the September 2014 Feature Pack

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 [..] View

PvP Visual and RewardUpdates

7:18 pm, August 14, 2014 The September 2014 Feature Pack, which we announced yesterday along with our World Tournament Series, is bringing exciting additions to PvP! Today, well be talking about two of our additions aimed at [..] View

(How) Would you recommend GW2?

7:18 pm, August 14, 2014 I noticed GW2 is on 50% sale and I was like "maybe it's a good time to convince some friends to get it". That was moslty a hypothetical thought, since my friends who're into MMOs are already [..] View

Release Notes for The Dragons Reach: Part 2!

7:18 am, August 13, 2014 A historic summit is about to take place in the spreading shadow of Mordremoths advance, but not all of the world leaders have agreed to attend. Can you convince uneasy allies to come together and coo [..] View

Ready Up: Episode 19

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 [..] View

Mini Scruffy and More in the Gem Store

7:18 am, July 30, 2014 Its time for another week of sales, savings, and sensational new items! Read on to learn about our new Home Portal Stone, a miniature Scruffy the golem, and more! NewMini Scruffy [..] View

Your Vote Decides the GuildWars2 International All-StarsTeams!

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 [..] View

Let's talk Nomad gear

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 [..] View

GuildWars2 is on Tumblr!

7:18 pm, June 25, 2014 Hi, everyone. Regina Buenaobra here. Im the North American Community Team Lead at ArenaNet, and Im here to talk to you about our new Tumblr site for Guild Wars 2. Tumblr is going t [..] View

Win a Legendary Weapon in Tournament of Legends 2!

7:18 pm, June 11, 2014 Were proud to announce that Tournament of Legends 2 will be starting soon! Like the original Tournament of Legends, this is an opportunity for you and your team to not only demonstrate your battle pr [..] View

I'm here couse of censorship

7:18 pm, June 10, 2014 Hi o/ I wrote on the official forum asking for a link to a free forum about guild wars 2 without censorship and zealot CMs. The post got obviously removed and i got signed for infraction. As all the [..] View

~ Edge Of The Mists Champ Farm ~

1:36 am, April 30, 2014 This video will show you how simple it is to jump inside a Edge Of The Mists farm and start racking in the gold, karma, exp/WvW exp, WvW achievements, badges of honor, champ bags and more. I made this [..] View

Tournament of LegendsUpdate

3:16 pm, April 19, 2014 Thank you all for such an overwhelming turnout to the Tournament of Legends! Weve seen well over 200 teams register to battle it out for their chance at a legendary weapon! Because the community came [..] View

Black Lion Tickets

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 [..] View

New Drum instrument and Avian Minis in the Gem Store!

9:16 pm, April 8, 2014 Im proud to present you with this weeks newest offerings from the Black Lion Trading Company! Were bringing you three beautiful miniature birds for your collection and a drum that will revolutioni [..] View

Pay-to-win

3:16 am, April 3, 2014 A lot of the pay-to-win arguments Ive seen lately stink of what I call subjective advantage. It was summed up best in a recent thread I shall link at the end of this post. In a nut shell the purposed [..] View

Introducing the MegaserverSystem

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 [..] View

Announcing the GuildWars2 Tournament of Legends

9:16 pm, April 1, 2014 Greetings fellow Tyrians! Allie Murdock here; Community Coordinator at ArenaNet. Im excited to announce our first GuildWars2 Tournament of Legends on April 26-27 for Europe and May 3-4 for North Ameri [..] 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

Wardrobe System+Charges=cluttered bank

8:16 pm, March 25, 2014 Wardrobe System This new Wardrobe System will still result in cluttered bank space for many players.  As they will not want to use multiple Transmutation Charges on the same item to [..] View

Introducing the WardrobeSystem

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 [..] View

Learn About Critical DamageChanges

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 [..] View

Runes, Sigils, and BalanceUpdates

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 [..] View

Will Arena Net just let Guild Wars 2 die?

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 [..] View

Why don't people like Activities?

8:16 am, March 19, 2014 Over the past month or so, I've spent a lot of time playing Sanctum Sprint, making an effort on my own part to see how fast I can finish the race.  In that time, I've witnessed a lot [..] View

Instead of an Atlas a Journal.

2:16 pm, March 17, 2014 A friend send me a link today to a Arenanet page on Flickr of all places. My response was Why the f:ck is that not on the Atlas? And in all logic Why the f:ck is that same thing not in game? Then i as [..] 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

Damage Downtime as a Component in DPS Calculation?

2:16 am, February 24, 2014 What is Damage Downtime?: DDT is the time spent not attacking that is unrelated to an attack's central action window. What increases DDT?: Dodges, Movement, Knockdowns, Interrupts, Fear, etc. Why ca [..] 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

Results of international Guild Wars 2 survey

2:16 pm, February 18, 2014 Hello, Some of you may remember a survey which has been done by GameStatistics on September 2013, about Guild Wars 2 players opinions about the game. The link for the survey had been put on Guild war [..] 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

Is now a good time to jump back in?

8:16 pm, February 17, 2014 I haven't played in almost a year. I loved initially playing but I ran out of things to do. I sort of got into the living story but then school and work started so I had to quit. Not I have a little t [..] View

Where would you place "new" LA?

8:16 pm, February 11, 2014 If or when we lose LA, either to Scarlet or some future events, where do you think the best safe haven for all the races of Tyria would be? Give arguments for and against your suggestions, and discu [..] View

Release Notes for theEdgeoftheMists

8:16 pm, February 4, 2014 Chase Scarlets Aetherblade pirates into a place beyond time and space the mysterious Edge of the Mists! Visit our forums to read todays release notes! View

The most important thing (opinions)

8:16 am, February 1, 2014 Edit: Thanks much to Konzacelt for posting this on the official forms for me. Heres the link if you want to follow or partake in the discussion there. https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/T [..] View

Your opinion about PvP bans over missed Solo Tournaments

2:16 pm, January 31, 2014 Well, this is the kind of 'ban' I am talking about. I actually wrote a thread about this in reddit, but I'm not going to lie - it went terrible. The backstory is that I accidentally failed to enter [..] View

Presuming you made it to level 80 once ...

8:16 am, January 31, 2014 So I asked a bit about leveling and read a bit about leveling in various places and the word "grind" comes up. I can understand grind in relation to repetition; once you play a game you've p [..] View

After what point would you use real cash instead of in-game gold?

2:16 pm, January 30, 2014 All exchanges have a dual currency system in place however it is easier to pay with real-funds than it would be to play with in-game gold. With this premise what is the exchange rate that would, if yo [..] View

Coming Soon: The Edge of the Mists!

2:16 pm, January 28, 2014 Prepare to chase Scarlets Aetherblade pirates into a place beyond time and space the mysterious Edge of the Mists! View

Upcoming Guild Wars 2 PvP Community Tournament Events

8:16 pm, January 23, 2014 Looking to satiate your competitive urges? Weve got you covered. Whether you want to watch some high-level gameplay or jump into the action yourself, weve got Guild Wars 2 tournament [..] View

What do you think of the Trait Lines in GW2?

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 [..] 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

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

Guild Wars 2 Is Changing Billing Platforms

2:16 am, December 7, 2013 On December 8, well be upgrading Guild Wars 2 billing processing by moving to a new, advanced billing platform. Were excited about this change, and we hope it will allow us more oppo [..] View

Black Friday Weekend Sales

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 [..] 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

World XP and You

8:16 am, November 28, 2013 When we added the World XP system to World vs. World, it was our goal to create a sense of character progression in WvW gameplay. We wanted to reward people who put time into WvW by increasing the too [..] 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

Isn't this an example of horrible customer relations by Anet?

1:46 pm, November 25, 2013 Martin Kerstein Head of Global Community Critickitten: You mention in your first paragraph that this is your opinion. I changed the thread title to reflect that (which you could have done in the first [..] View

Should Anet bring back Rune only drops?

7:10 pm, November 22, 2013 As some of you are certainly aware, in GW1 it was fairly commonplace to receive a drop that was essentially a piece of armor you couldn't use (say it was for the wrong size or species for example) yet [..] 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

Perception of "Grind"

10:36 am, November 19, 2013 I've come to the conclusion that people only drop the "grind" bomb when the content itself is not intrinsically fun. When people aren't enjoying doing X content for Y item, they complain abo [..] View

A map, and expansion theorizing

8:16 am, November 18, 2013 So at this stage I'm mostly just the guy who wrote that lore summary once and drops by like once every year to contribute something, probably half-finished, and then leaves because Guild Wars 2 just h [..] View

World vs. World: MidseasonReport

2:16 am, November 12, 2013 For the past three weeks, the first World vs. World season has been packed with intense battles for power and dominance. North American and European worlds have been divided up into three leagues apie [..] View

Should we be able to dye our hair in game?

10:14 am, November 11, 2013 Not by using gems but in the game itself. Not a makeover either. Even in GW timeline hair dye should have been around for ages. Now that rifles and all these crazy machines are showing up. Hair dying [..] View

Bring Back Inactive Players With Gems?

8:16 am, November 11, 2013 Is this a good idea or ripe for abuse? I just saw this pop up in reddit. I know some players aren't coming back at all to the game for one thing or another but will this bring back the ones that wande [..] 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

Less Than A Year Later.

6:01 am, November 6, 2013 I've heard of games breaking promises, but it at least takes the community over a year before they can call bullcrap on all aspects of said promises. In the case of GW2 it only took 3 months, and we'r [..] View

Tower of Nightmares Guide

2:16 am, November 5, 2013 A massive, deadly Tower has been revealed in Kessex Hills, built by the new Toxic Alliance of krait and Nightmare Courtiers! This guide will help you get started in the fight against this new threat. [..] View

Guild Wars 2 is Awesome

12:09 pm, November 1, 2013 I have never been so engaged by a game as I have been by GW2.  Even on my low end rig, this game is beautiful and runs well.  Dynamic events are fun. & [..] View

Release Notes for TowerofNightmares

8:16 pm, October 29, 2013 Marjory Delaqua and Kasmeer Meade have found a way to pierce the veil protecting the krait in Kessex Hills! When the illusion falls, brave heroes need to be nearby to deal with the kraitand whatever i [..] View

Collaborative Development Topic- Living World

2:16 am, October 29, 2013 I just thought I'd go ahead and link this here, so we can have a place to discuss it. https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Collaborative-Development-Topic-Living-World Quote Hi All, We a [..] View

Server population Poll

4:42 pm, October 26, 2013 I know someone else already sent this poll around but I found it interesting that 35,000 people already placed their answers in, so I feel like it now displays a good variety of what may be pretty acc [..] View

World Status

12:44 am, October 20, 2013 Is there a place to see the Full or Low status of each world? I'm asking because I'm not at my computer to log in and check. Could someone check Henge of Denravi for me if possible? View

My issue with the personal story

3:27 am, October 19, 2013 I've been thinking it through and I think I've realised part of the reason the personal story feels so stale to me. First off I definitely want to iterate that I don't DISLIKE the personal story, I j [..] View

The Edge of the Mists: A New Map is Coming to WvW!

3:16 pm, October 18, 2013 Greetings, folks! I’m here to announce an exciting new development in World vs. World! We are in the process of designing a brand-new map that will let you enjoy WvW while waiting to enter [..] View

Can I Still Run It?

4:14 am, October 18, 2013 Since this morning and the new client update, whenever I open up the client, it says "Guild Wars 2 has encountered an error" and that my computer does not meet the minimum specs required des [..] View

exploration in gw2

11:09 pm, October 17, 2013 hey all iv been watching these forums for a long time and thaught id do my first post iv played gw1 since first beta, and cannot wait for gw2, but the one thing im not 100% on is the exploration, in [..] View

ArenaNet clamps down on open speech

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. [..] View

The Family Business

9:16 pm, October 17, 2013 By the third night, the mob around Castle Thorn had grown so thick that their bonfires reached the river, making a constellation of pyres that stretched as far as King Oswald Thorn could see. &#8 [..] View

Change to ArenaNet "Personal Attack" moderation policy

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. [..] View

Release Notes for Blood and Madness

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 [..] View

Just Some Desired Quality of Life Changes

6:01 pm, October 14, 2013 First, I suppose I should give the required statement of "I didnt see any similar threads, please direct me to them if they are in existence". Ok, so after my time with the game so far, the [..] 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

Create your customized playlist in GW2 with GW1 sounds

3:16 am, October 14, 2013 This wiki explains you how to replace current sound in GW2 with your own music: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Customized_soundtrack If you feel a bit nostalgic you can put any songs from GW1 Serie [..] View

so guildwars 2 has forums....were here why? oh...right.....

7:10 pm, October 13, 2013 why are they closed again? isn't the game officially launched? of not wouldn't you open them early? why have them at all? we have this place..... 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

Proffession Quests

12:07 pm, October 12, 2013 Hey guys, have not posted here in a long time, how are things? Just posting something that has been bugging me when I roam around Tryria. You ever feel like your proffession does not feel like a prof [..] 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

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

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