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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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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7:18 pm, July 6, 2014
....for "botting, extended unattended play, using macros, or similar behavior."
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....whaaaaat? I literally just came back and I've never done those things, and I've playe [..]
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9:16 pm, April 19, 2014
Hello GW2 players. My name is Kellth and i recently have launched a news/blog website about video games. Currently we are covering two video games for we only cover games we are passionate about. We a [..]
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3:16 pm, April 7, 2014
Hey there,
I recently tried to access gw2spidy via smartphone (Google Nexus 4). The site loads fast and looks almost exactly like the desktop version...with one major exception: it is missing the co [..]
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8:16 pm, March 20, 2014
First up, I mapped my PS4's Dualshock 4 controller to GW2 and thought I'd let you guys know how it's been going, and thats FANTASTIC! For the past 2-3 months when I play I play with the DS4 and recent [..]
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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 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 [..]
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8:16 pm, November 26, 2013
So recently there has been a ton of talk about the living story, the quality of it, the cons, the pros etc etc(please keep that discussion out of this thread). All of this has me wondering, where are [..]
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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 [..]
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2:16 am, November 22, 2013
I recently logged into guildwarsguru.com for the first time in a really long time and looked through my post history there. The only part I was really active was posting pictures of my armors, and wow [..]
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3:16 pm, October 18, 2013
Stopped playing just after the Christmas holidays and recently redownloaded the game. Has a lot changed since then? Have they added a lot of new content? What's there to do after finishing the story l [..]
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12:11 pm, October 17, 2013
So i've been playing GW2 for about a month or so after its release and i really enjoy playing it and haven't really stopped ever since I got it. But recently I've come to notice that i'm really gettin [..]
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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7:56 pm, October 12, 2013
This is a pretty simple argument that I recently though up. Why did we dislike people who bought from gold sellers in Guild Wars 1? Because, they could buy their way to get whatever they want in the g [..]
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9:16 pm, October 11, 2013
Kymeric hit on something that I wanted to respond to, but felt it needed it's own thread. Here is the quote and the source is here: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/86228-x-post-chris-whiteside-on- [..]
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1:41 pm, October 10, 2013
Recently just tried to run CM. Seemed to be more mindless than I remember, spending more time looking at the map to respawn than actually fighting and having fun.
I hear they beefe [..]
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10:33 pm, October 9, 2013
So I didn't have this problem until recently when I got 50% map completion, but the hero achievement ''been there done that'' says I got 49%. So from now on and up I miss 1% in the achievement panel t [..]
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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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3:52 pm, October 7, 2013
Hello, I have recently started to record let's play videos on youtube, It's not much, my first time doing something like this, but I would love if you guys would take a look and tell me what you think [..]
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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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1:39 pm, October 7, 2013
Recently I have seen many people who grow bored of the game. One possibility to improve the current situation is to have more lvl80+ areas.
Unlike guildwars 1, when I reached level 80, there are only [..]
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1:32 pm, October 7, 2013
Well I have two level 80's (1 being a Mesmer and another a Warrior), a lv 68 Elemental, 40 Necromancer, 35 Engineer. On my Mesmer i have reached 100% map completion and 75% on my warrior. &am [..]
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6:13 pm, October 6, 2013
Hello, all! Im John Smith, and Ive recently had the unbelievable opportunity to join the ArenaNet team and work on Guild Wars 2 as the resident economist. Guild...Read More
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10:10 am, October 6, 2013
yeah this has probably been asked a billion times before but i looked up some places to "farm" and so far very few of them have worked out for me. I dont particularly like farming. I cannot [..]
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9:58 pm, October 5, 2013
I've been recently considering a server transfer for a variety of reasons, mostly revolving around WvW (rankings, guilds, alliances, drama, etc.) and, due to the difficulty in determining the variable [..]
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9:05 pm, October 5, 2013
So recently i've discovered a few items with some... discrepantcies, i suppose might be the correct word. Has anyone else noticed any of these? both were around the time i turned lvl 30, and the only [..]
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7:59 am, October 5, 2013
Overheard in Lions Arch Central Plaza:
As many times as I've been through the area, I've not heard this before which makes me think it was just recently added, a short converstion between a sylvari a [..]
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9:58 pm, October 3, 2013
Trying to level an alt and having a sluggish time. Let me state up front I am not a completionist and I prefer to shove as much time into direct levelling as I can, when levelling
[..]
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9:08 pm, October 3, 2013
So recently I've been talking to some friends how they regret going for a specific Legendary but unless they knew 1000 of people there was no way they could maybe trade it for another, but rather pay [..]
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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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7:22 am, October 3, 2013
I say charr. Recently ive been playing with the PvP locker and ended up dissapointed with so many armors that have clipping issues with my charr.
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10:12 pm, October 2, 2013
Hey everyone,
I just hit 80 with my first Norn warrior and im now on the hunt for skins for my exotics. I always liked Logan's armor (looks similar to this , paladin-y) But I recently bought the PvE [..]
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7:08 pm, October 2, 2013
Two of my guild-mates bumped into each other in-game, and one made a jokey comment in guild chat about the others *****, and they started to do the /dance emote. Next thing we know she finds herself w [..]
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6:41 pm, October 2, 2013
I recently bought 1600 gems, to get one of the 2 outfit sets and the boxing gloves, with the left over 600 going to either dyes or minis. I can't decide which of the two to get (pirate or cook), which [..]
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2:39 pm, October 2, 2013
Hello all, recently started playing in the head start. One thing I've noticed is that I've been having a hard time making any money in the game.
Thus far, most of my income has bee [..]
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12:19 pm, October 2, 2013
https://www.facebook...151098751069209
QuoteEffective immediately we have disabled sales via buy.guildwars2.com. To be clear, box and digital sales are still available via our retail partners. We are [..]
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11:33 am, October 2, 2013
Hello
First off, I apologize if this is in the wrong part of the forum... I couldn't really figure out where to post this. Maybe in the questions and answers, but since it's probably more of a bug, [..]
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9:09 am, October 2, 2013
Hi!
I recently made a Swampland tutorial video.
Its main subtitles are Hungarian, but it has English closed captions.
I'm not a pro fractals player, but I wanted to teach some of the tricks for star [..]
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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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6:15 am, October 2, 2013
To preface this, let me say that I'm not trying to say "QQ I'm quitting". GW2 is still fun.
Now, on to the conspiracy theory. If you don't feel like reading a wall of text, there's a tl;dr [..]
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3:23 am, October 2, 2013
I recently hit level 80, and I've been saving my Karma since day one. I haven't even reached Orr yet, as I've been focusing on getting world completion. I have accumulated 50k Karma, and I'm wondering [..]
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12:59 am, October 2, 2013
I've recently started playing RIFT since it's F2P now and it's been fantastic. Yeah it's a gear grind game but you don't have to gear grind for top of the world gear (outside of dungeons is what I mea [..]
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12:34 am, October 2, 2013
So I just recently hit 80 on my Norn warrior and began aquiring a lot of the more detailed looking gear. Unfortunately I hate the way most of them look on my body type. I am debating whether or not I [..]
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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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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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9:31 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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5:55 pm, October 1, 2013
LIVING WORLDDragon Bash
The Ship’s Council of Lion’s Arch is sponsoring Dragon Bash, a celebration of the Tyrian spirit and resolve to defeat the elder dragons. Bash on dragon pia [..]
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3:50 pm, October 1, 2013
Pretty hard to complete the Molten Alliance achievement when every server I tried last night were missing these.
Anyone see an ArenaNet response to this?
Servers I tried: Sanctum [..]
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2:33 pm, October 1, 2013
Getting back into GW2 after a long hiatus.
I already have a level 80 mesmer but i've been wondering what class should I level next.
Basically my question is, what class(es) do think work the best whe [..]
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2:32 pm, October 1, 2013
I have not been able to play a whole lot recently and I keep hearing about all these secret areas and thing that I am missing in the map. Can someone please give me a rundown of just one area about th [..]
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1:36 pm, October 1, 2013
before people start saying, reaching level 80 is pointless an that everything in the game gives exp, and so forth. I would like to state discussion is more for leveling Alt purposes.
Now, since the g [..]
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1:22 pm, October 1, 2013
Today's sale gave us cheaper character slots. They are currently being sold for 600 gems instead of the normal 800. This lead to the price of gems spiking - currently one can buy 100 gems for 2,22g.
F [..]
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12:46 pm, October 1, 2013
Something has started to bother me about Anet recently more so than usual. It started a couple weeks ago when I got an email basiclly telling me to use the gem store, and I am sure everyone else got i [..]
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11:52 am, October 1, 2013
As the title states, we (NoX = Norse Oil eXpedition) are starting our very own cast shows on youtube with the main emphasis on Guild Wars 2 only. We recently started our videos and they will focus alo [..]
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11:07 am, October 1, 2013
I am posting this here because the source article has been removed (the Internet never forgets though), so it's more Rumor Mill than news, I suppose.
Source: http://gw2.game-guid...mike-zadorojny/
T [..]
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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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9:52 am, October 1, 2013
For close to a year, I've been running my gaming channel, The Awesome Incarnate, and within 6 months picked up such an audience that I was partnered with TGN. After my successful coverage of SWTOR, Ma [..]
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9:14 am, October 1, 2013
so recently GW2's load times have been getting a bit silly at launch they are not that bad but now loading Lions Arch from character screen takes about 23 seconds and that is on an SSD...
why does it [..]
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8:53 am, October 1, 2013
First of all, as far as I know, Guru mods do not approve of folks simply posting a Yes/No-length answers, so I've requested a poll for the people that just want to select a number. Hopefully, it will [..]
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6:48 am, October 1, 2013
Is anyone not getting any extra ore from the Orichalcum nods or extra nod mining?
I have been farming for over a week now, and I never got an extra Orichalcum ore. When my server had like 18% bonus c [..]
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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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5:34 am, October 1, 2013
https://forum-en.gui...irst#post477887
Scroll down.
"Its not an exploit to skip Kholer. Hes a bonus boss that unlocks a central waypoint, drops loot, and also gives a chest.
People skip him b [..]
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2:42 am, October 1, 2013
Recently Anet has posted many changes that modify items from soul bind to account bind. One of these examples includes Karma recipes.
As such, isn't it better to have the Karma to be account bound ra [..]
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1:49 am, October 1, 2013
Recently I am considering a build to stack bleeding.
I do understand that in the current game status, condition builds may be inferior to power builds due to stacking cap and in a certain degree, the [..]
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12:46 am, October 1, 2013
Hello all,
I've recently seen the legendaries and quite a few other GS skins while playing the game, but I have a problem:
I want to wield a weapon, not an over-sized burger flipper or spatula like [..]
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11:42 pm, September 30, 2013
I just recently ordered all my parts and when they come in I will build it (obviously haha). I am just wondering how well my computer will be able to run GW2.
My build:
Asus Z87 MB
120 gb Corsair Neu [..]
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11:29 pm, September 30, 2013
I saw something in a thread recently. It was about the living story content, and it went something like this:
QuoteQuoteIt wasn't so bad at first, but once you fall behind a bit and the content goes a [..]
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11:14 pm, September 30, 2013
Penitent/Shelter playing in Cursed Shore has been effectively crushed recently by two highly effective changes: first, the baby vet spider zergs that often last long enough for loot to disappear, and [..]
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11:03 pm, September 30, 2013
Hey everyone, I recently completed all 37 jumping puzzles (those with achievements) and I thought I would share my experiences of them with the GW2guru community as well as providing guides for each i [..]
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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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10:31 pm, September 30, 2013
I've read that in order to guest to a server we'll need to have a friend on said server, which is okay.. but I've also been seeing some rumors recently that you'll need to remain in said friends party [..]
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9:32 pm, September 30, 2013
Hello recently I have had having trouble in a GW2 quest. This Quest is Asura Personal Story Quest and its called "Beta Test" its a level 14 quest and I am having lots of trouble beating it. [..]
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8:28 pm, September 30, 2013
So I regularly listen to FZD schools youtube videos to help me with my art, and in the latest episode he mentions he has invited his friends who are currently working on GW3, now I know Kekai recently [..]
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8:19 pm, September 30, 2013
How many of you recently have logged out in perfect health only to find your character dead naked on the ground with over 11.64 silver in damages the next day?
This is now the second day in a row for [..]
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8:06 pm, September 30, 2013
Google chrome is coming up with the red Malware screen whenever I go to guru. I don't believe it, I am sure its a false positive, but just wanted to bring it to the attention of peo [..]
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7:29 pm, September 30, 2013
For a while like a lot of people I thought explorable mode dungeons were just a mess of spells and waypoint zerging. I do feel this way still to an extent. But the purpose of this thread is that I rec [..]
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7:24 pm, September 30, 2013
Hi, recently I watch videos of WvWvW matches and found that many of the players have all of their skill bar filled, so that means that they are at least level 30. So that raised me a question: How fas [..]
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7:11 pm, September 30, 2013
Hey, everybody! Im Matt Wuerffel, one of the game designers on Guild Wars 2. I wanted to take a moment to talk about some of the things weve been working on recently: new rewards and updates to the ac [..]
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5:57 pm, September 30, 2013
Just thought I would sign up to brag about my unexpected windfall of gold thanks to China
About a month and a bit ago I stopped playing GW2 due to me being busy for the Christmas season. I recently [..]
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5:53 pm, September 30, 2013
Hello, as it is bugged yet again on my world I am in immediate need of one that is up.
Requierment;
- Active/claimed Temple of Balthazar
- Screenshot with some sort of timestamp (windowed mode or wh [..]
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5:42 pm, September 30, 2013
I recently took the opportunity this last, brief, stress test to take a single picture of every character creation option choice (physique, skin/fur pattern, face, hair, tattoo, ears, horns) for each [..]
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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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2:04 pm, September 30, 2013
Now, I'm not sure if many of you have heard, but recently within the last two weeks, ArenaNet has unleashed Dhuum.
Yeah, him and his ban scythe. Thing is, Dhuum is just slaying anyone.
For those of [..]
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1:25 pm, September 30, 2013
Is it just me or did at some point during the last two weeks or so the "revive" action has become way too sticky?
Way too often I'm spamming the loot key over a pile of corpses and end up r [..]
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11:18 am, September 30, 2013
"We recently had a big press event in Beijing where our own Colin Johanson and Isaiah Cartwright announced the date for the first Guild Wars 2 Closed Beta Test In China, happening May 2nd through [..]
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10:01 am, September 30, 2013
Hello everyone,
Recently the LUGO Entertainment team, myself and Zach Sharpes specifically, created a review on the first two weeks of our experience in Gw2.
Check out what we had to say over on MMO [..]
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9:46 am, September 30, 2013
I've been lurking about on here for a while now, and here is my first contribution, please excuse my English as it is not my first language, but here goes:
THIS IS NOT ABOUT EVENT OR KARMA FARMING!!! [..]
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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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7:52 am, September 30, 2013
Someone care to elaborate how the hell condition dmg works on a SINGLE target while there are shitloads of ppl applying conditions to them?
I've recently switched to condition build and after that I d [..]
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7:47 am, September 30, 2013
Ok, so i'm dual wielding axes on my warrior. I was running with strength sigil on MH and Accuracy on OH. I recently got Strength on my OH too.
Is there any point in this?, will i get more damage from [..]
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7:46 am, September 30, 2013
Hey guys,
I think there is no topic like this, forgive me if i'm wrong.
It's time to put on those tinfoil hats again.
I recently saw this picture of the CE box again.
The first time i saw it i didn' [..]
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7:27 am, September 30, 2013
Literally, 1/2 of the world is not accessible... why, exactly, would that be the case?
Maguuma Wastes, Magus Falls, Fire Islands, Woodland Cascades, Scavanger's Causeway, Crystal Desert, Blazeridge M [..]
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5:54 am, September 30, 2013
Anyone seen this meta event working recently? I remember it used to start about every 3 hours but I haven't seen it working for days now...I have a character parked in the swamp that I check every 1/2 [..]
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4:58 am, September 30, 2013
Hello my fellow Guild Wars 2 players. I have recently developed an Android application that will map orichalcum node locations throughout Tyria. For those of you [..]
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2:20 am, September 30, 2013
Hi, I hope I don't come off as too rude in my simplistic title for this topic. I have been on a break for a long time in this game and recently came back. I am a true savant of game mechanics most of [..]
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