6:18 pm, November 12, 2014
This week's Blizzcon brought us a panel on D3.
A quick summary:
http://www.diablofan...ouls-panel-live
A few things that stand out and seem very similar to what we are experiencing in GW2 (stole [..]
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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 [..]
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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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8:16 pm, March 26, 2014
A lot of people are concerned about legendaries no longer being special. A lot of people feel cheated for making 2 of the same legendaries. Here is my proposal that may or may not address the issues:
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8:16 pm, February 28, 2014
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/90306-problem-with-gem-card-need-advice-please/
this is the thread I created about a card I bought from an online shop which resulted to scam! I posted the link of [..]
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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 [..]
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2:16 am, December 19, 2013
Writing for Guild Wars 2 is a hugely collaborative effort, and at times that collaboration transcends the sum of its parts. Sometimes a character takes on a life of its own and we, t [..]
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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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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1:39 pm, November 23, 2013
Having leveled two characters to 80, I have the following observations and opinions:
- The time it takes to get from 1 to 80 is suitable, but the first 40 levels can feel really slow while the last 1 [..]
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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2:16 pm, October 31, 2013
GW2G is a discussion forum. This means that we expect a certain level of quality in our posts, but it also dictates how we expect our users to act. We try to allow you to discuss all subjects in a non [..]
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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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3:10 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 [..]
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2:55 pm, October 7, 2013
Before Gw2 release I played a bit of WoW, Dota 2, LoL and CS:GO and watched a lot of game streams and frequented some forums and things were generally good. However I have had to completely avoid all [..]
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1:21 am, October 7, 2013
I've had my fair share of complaints about the game so far but since those can be mostly fixed, I'm waiting to see what will happen but there is one thing that made me not play for nearly two days now [..]
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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 [..]
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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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1:39 am, October 5, 2013
This game is good, but certain steps of some personal storylines are just completely overtuned. Stuff like being put into dialogue and then having five mobs spawn on top of you after the dialogue ends [..]
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11:55 pm, October 4, 2013
As of last patch: While in a dungeon as long as anyone in the party is in combat mode no one can use a waypoint to resurrect.
Let me start by saying I do like it, it was ludicrous during my first run [..]
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7:08 pm, October 4, 2013
So I didn't get to play any of the BWEs or stress tests so I'm wondering how well the races are balanced. ANet of course said that they're pushing to make them as balanced as possible, but of course e [..]
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4:03 pm, October 4, 2013
Hello, folks!
Now, I know that there is a thread about this topic (and I am going to read it) but please, hear/read me out.
I am conducting a research on gender-bending in GW2 for my Game Culture cl [..]
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3:48 pm, October 4, 2013
I'm going to make this thread a little different from my other threads. To avoid another "thehotsung" thread where I voice my opinion and make everyone go cucoo for coco p [..]
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3:16 pm, October 4, 2013
Hey guys !
So I'd like to talk with you on the PvP of Guild Wars 2. But also on the gameplay in general, the design on general of Guild Wars 2, sPvP and Esports.
(It will get more specific to GvGs an [..]
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3:16 am, October 4, 2013
Guild Wars 2 provides lots of ways to defend yourself. Presumably, every class/build has access to two or more. I make use of whatever I have on hand, but am neve [..]
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10:37 pm, October 3, 2013
Well, i love Guild Wars 2, i have a Female Sylvari Thief at level 16(just turned 16) and now ill go to the nearby 15-25 area in order to continue leveling, which is actually A LOT OF FUN, all these ev [..]
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9:16 pm, October 3, 2013
So I have just hit level 80. Up until now I never paid for armor repair. I just purchased new higher level armor after a few pieces were damaged as I went up in l [..]
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7:49 pm, October 3, 2013
--> First of all,if you are a fanboy with a biased opinion that is unable to express your opinion in a reasonable manner or read about what other people think without getti [..]
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9:54 am, October 3, 2013
I'm a noted alt-aholic in games like these, and I'm trying to avoid getting mired too much in fiddling around with different characters. In the 4-5 months I played WAR, I never got [..]
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10:25 pm, October 2, 2013
Alright.. so I exploded in anger over someone for messing up too much in FotM and they obviously got upset over the situation, and then typed "Well.. I'm going to add your account to the IoJ Blac [..]
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8:36 pm, October 2, 2013
Lately I've been doing WvW mainly to explore the zone's maps and I've noticed a few things that would make this massive battle feel much more pleasant than it currently is. The system itself is intere [..]
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12:15 pm, October 2, 2013
I find while i'm playing that i don't get to do a personal story line quest often and that is my favorite part of the game. You only get one quest for like every 3 levels so after the quest you need t [..]
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12:15 pm, October 2, 2013
Hello all!
First and foremost, I would like to give a very deserving shout out to the entire Guild Wars 2 development team which has (in my opinion at least) had one of if not THE best launch in the [..]
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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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11:28 am, October 2, 2013
One of the features I would love to see in the game, which have been seen in many forms in many other games, is the idea of locked and/or trapped containers. No surprise is that I like to play rogues [..]
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11:28 am, October 2, 2013
TL;DR, Dynamic events aren't dynamic because they don't depend on each other, and are basically public quest loops that respawn 5 minutes after completion. Also, this Forbes article sums up how I feel [..]
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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 [..]
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6:16 am, October 2, 2013
This is more intended for ArenaNet employees to read. I know they read these forums and I'm hoping they will see this, think about it, and maybe even respond to it. It is also open for discussion from [..]
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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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9:31 pm, October 1, 2013
This is more intended for ArenaNet employees to read. I know they read these forums and I'm hoping they will see this, think about it, and maybe even respond to it. It is also open for discussion from [..]
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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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3:39 pm, October 1, 2013
Professor Omadd, Headmaster Emeritus of the College of Synergetics, anxiously twisted his ear as he waited for the sylvari woman to wake. She had been thrashing violently in the isolation module for d [..]
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2:51 pm, October 1, 2013
I am a fan of the game. Yes, there are some things which can be improved. Any game has these. However, I believe that, technically, the game ca [..]
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2:34 pm, October 1, 2013
What are you currently spending your Karma on?
I'm approaching level 80 and I haven't spend a single point of Karma. Are the specific items I would be spending Karma on and items t [..]
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12:32 pm, October 1, 2013
Before fixing anything, let's quickly identify the core problems with GW2's PvE today. And by "PvE", I mean only the open-world PvE here, not personal story or dungeons.
So, the problems:
- [..]
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11:34 am, October 1, 2013
Ive seen a large amount of threads being made regarding such things as:
Server Populations
Server Xfers
3 Teams
Server Rankings
Zerging
Although these are separate factors, they all come together to [..]
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10:54 am, October 1, 2013
So i just taking a break from gw2 for a month, and 2 days ago, before i come back, my guild mate text me sayin that a lot of commanders, golden titles, legendary wielders and even somebody without tho [..]
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10:06 am, October 1, 2013
Hello people. To collect some player's opinions about current topics and some of the changes GW2 made compared to other games, I created a survey. I avoided questions about stuff like class balance or [..]
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9:31 am, October 1, 2013
Currently, to get world completion you need to also explore all 4 of the WvWvW maps. I hate to start a negative thread but I don't think it is fair to force someone to PvP just to g [..]
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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 [..]
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9:13 am, October 1, 2013
I guess you can call this "Someone just got owned by a thief" - But i honestly have not had ANY trouble at all against other classes.
Sure, I've met skilled players that outplayed me, my ha [..]
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8:34 am, October 1, 2013
Although there's certainly no shortage of strong opinions to be had about the Lost Shores Event in these fine forums, I figure I might as well share mine -- in the form of a long, drawn-out retrospect [..]
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8:17 am, October 1, 2013
Im fed up. Im fed up with people moaning, crying, complaining or boasting, claiming and bragging about how Tequatl requires "so much co-ordination" and "everything must be organised!&qu [..]
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6:48 am, October 1, 2013
I'll admit, the Fractals have been pretty fun and I'm sure there is some way to make the Ascended gear work in some way down the line. Right now though both the Fractals and Ascended gear are carrying [..]
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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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5:31 am, October 1, 2013
As an avid GW1 player I was rather disappointed that many of the aspects of GW1 that I loved had not returned for GW2. Many of the lessons learned in GW1 also it seemed had not been passed on to the s [..]
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4:24 am, October 1, 2013
By take over heart, I mean the hearts that are essentially "good guys took over this place, for now..." so you're left to do whatever the programmers forgot to remove in order to get that ba [..]
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1:28 am, October 1, 2013
I use wikis as the resource of choice for video games. I've stopped looking at Gamefaqs and random sites for information about Diablo 2 and Runescape from back in the day. Guildwiki was an introductio [..]
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1:14 am, October 1, 2013
First off, I don't know if this is the proper place for this, but here it goes.
The new Temple of Grenth event has been killing people en masse every time I've done it, and I think I figured out a wa [..]
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1:02 am, October 1, 2013
The current optimal group layout only favors teams that stack full berserker armor and faceroll DPS through everything while simply learning what and when to dodge. Most classes are [..]
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10:47 pm, September 30, 2013
Please let me preface this with:
If you are still enjoying GW2 and/or happy with ArenaNet, that's fine and I'm happy for you.
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Some of you may recognize me (mainly for my math posts) if you freq [..]
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9:02 pm, September 30, 2013
The title is such b/c I thought it less argumentative than "my victory lap over the GW2 community". I was basically right about all my predictions for GW2 widely derided as "trolling&qu [..]
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8:06 pm, September 30, 2013
I would strongly suggest you to avoid replying here, if you are here to debate yet again if this script is ok or not it has already been discussed
Anyway i love this mod been using it since it was re [..]
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6:32 pm, September 30, 2013
I could work with the old DR system but this one... ? not so much.
This DR doesnt seem to reset after few hours anymore...
Is there any info about new DR? how does it work /reset now?
also i hear th [..]
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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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5:45 pm, September 30, 2013
This doesn't mean ignore the negatives, but there's a whole helluva lot things GW2 has avoided that, sadly, other MMO titles have failed terribly at. Bullet points won't make me any more right or wron [..]
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5:11 pm, September 30, 2013
After reading various posts on FotM, I have realized that there is a common theme to them:
The encounters are well designed and challengingSuperior Loots and Chest Rewards
So, I wanted to check it ou [..]
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5:04 pm, September 30, 2013
We need help with figuring out how to do this one, me and my group spent about 1-2 hours in here dying, being knocked over and bleeding to *****.
Spoiler
All the ones in the green circle we f [..]
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5:01 pm, September 30, 2013
GW2 has major issue with novelty of its content. The developer have spent most of their time developing each unique zone with its own content to complete and while it was incredibly [..]
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4:39 pm, September 30, 2013
I've thought about writing this a lot before I decided to actually do it, because I wanted to get some feedback from other players to make sure it wasn't just me. I held off a day when I saw the patch [..]
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2:05 pm, September 30, 2013
I have tried this now about 7 times, all fails. We seem to be understanding the overall concept of the boss, but at ~10 of his health there is an active debuff that causes you to ta [..]
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1:14 pm, September 30, 2013
My guild and I ran two fractal runs (6 zones) both on difficulty 1 to help people reach difficulty 2.
From memory, the zones we played were:Dredge high rise (led into caverns) x2Winter/Ice Style frac [..]
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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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8:17 am, September 30, 2013
i searched, couldnt find anything, so if a re-post or similar, please just delete/lock thread/direct me where to post!
now please be respectable, don't debate with some on there "hate", it [..]
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6:23 am, September 30, 2013
TOPIC ALSO GOES FOR PRE PURCHASE ITEMS
A day or two after headstart I used my tome of influence for my guild, due to guild bugs the game swallowed my tome of influence and gave 0, no influence to my [..]
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5:48 am, September 30, 2013
I'll go straight to the point here: ANet has almost completely destroyed the "Mule" character in GW2. Having multiple dungeon armors and weapons fills up my bank pretty quickly and continuin [..]
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3:35 am, September 30, 2013
I really want the shoulders and helm from this dungeon, but I have trouble finding even one person to group with. Why does everyone avoid Crucible of Eternity?
Add me if you're hav [..]
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3:09 am, September 30, 2013
Just a heads up to users here, in case anyone notices it and doesn't question it. It is considered an exploit and there's been some recommendation to not 'over craft' or whatever in [..]
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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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2:32 am, September 30, 2013
Mini Guide
New Rewards
New Achievements
Week 2 Addendum
Mini Guide
Starting Tuesday, June 25:
Upon logging into Guild Wars 2, you’ll receive a mail from Lionguard [..]
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