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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

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

Where did Blizzard go wrong with D3 and what A.Net could learn from it.

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 [..] 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

Thoughts on the September Feature Pack?

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 [..] View

Blizzard improving on ANET's Concepts

7:18 pm, August 27, 2014 Over Last one year, I am noticing Blizzard is taking ANET's concepts (at least I heard about these from ANET first) and implementing a much better solution. ANET's multiguild approach vs., Blizzard's [..] View

September 2014 Feature Pack: Improvements Galore

7:18 pm, August 26, 2014 Hello, everybody, Im Isaiah Cartwright, the lead game designer on Guild Wars 2. Im going to be introducing you to three of the changes to Guild Wars 2 coming up in [..] View

Thief max range issue

7:18 am, July 12, 2014 Hi all. I'm finding that playing thief (my main moreorless), the lack of 1200 range is really handicapping for a lot of pve. I do not mean dungeons, or speedclears, as range is somewhat useless there [..] View

Megaservers or not Megaservers?

9:16 pm, April 20, 2014 Is anyone else having a problem with the new Megaserver set up?  I don't know about how it affects WvW; this is from just a World Event PvE view.  With world events [..] 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

Introducing the new DrumInstrument!

9:16 pm, April 9, 2014 Hi Guild Wars 2 music fans! Im Aaron McLeran, the audio programmer here at ArenaNet. Im here to tell you a little bit about the new drum instrument thats available now from the Black [..] View

On legendaries & wardrobe (a proposed solution)

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: [..] 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

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

Hackers, WvW Season II and Anet's apathy

8:16 am, March 19, 2014 WvW has always had it's share of hackers but it seems that this issue has became more dire lately. It's no longer just one or two flying mesmers per month. Now some fights are plagued by perma invisib [..] View

Why Healing Power Sucks, By WoodenPotato's (also bad mob design)

8:16 pm, March 14, 2014 Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.co...ng_power_sucks/ tso said:The problem is not the numbers, it is the ham fisted mob design. We can see this clearly when a mob gets zerg scaled, as it magnifies [..] View

Just something I noticed

8:16 am, March 7, 2014 So Arena Net said that they would be addressing the issue of condition builds being completely outclassed by direct damage builds in all forms of content. Now they have released a patch featuring thr [..] View

"[ArenaNet] trying to make the game easier to learn."

2:16 am, March 7, 2014 https://forum-en.gui...rst#post3087123 Initial topic of the thread was largely about the particle effects and how they render the game unplayable in many instances, so the response itself is kinda OT [..] View

Has anyone else been affected by the map exploration bug?

8:16 pm, March 6, 2014 This started 16 days ago. The day of the LA invasion patch. They added two new POI's into LA that apparently completely ed the world exploration reward system and does not reward the gifts of explorat [..] View

CDI: Fractals

8:16 pm, February 25, 2014 https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/CDI-Fractal-Evolution/first This I take a bit of an issue with.  Its one thing to solicit information on classes.  I [..] View

Outsourced Development?

8:16 pm, February 3, 2014 So a comment I read struck me as interesting earlier today.  The concept that ArenaNet outsources parts of its development.  Now, these concepts are nothing new in [..] View

Another PUG Experience

8:16 pm, January 24, 2014 So, today I was pugging for a CoF P1 run (yes, CoF P1, that's how serious this issue is) and clearly stated in the LFG that the requirements were that the people joining for using a zerker setup and w [..] View

Grouping for Storyline Finale, how long does it take?

8:16 am, January 23, 2014 Hello, I'm working on my first character in GW2 and I've reached the part in the storyline where I'm required to group.  I've found many threads complaining about it so I'm not here [..] View

Jute/linen farm exploit and bans.

8:16 am, December 30, 2013 http://www.reddit.co...ans_last_night/ Quote... It seems there was a popular farming spot for linen. I don't think there's any point on hiding where, if you google "guild wars 2 linen farm" [..] 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

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

I miss the GW1 armors

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 [..] View

Don't use the TP until fix

10:08 am, November 17, 2013 Just wanted to make a public service announcement that the TP is currently broken and that trying to retrieve retracted buy orders will result in a complete loss of your money. Furthermore, items sold [..] View

Anyone else being kicked from the login server!?

2:16 am, November 14, 2013 Having massive trouble doing two specific things: dungeons or fractals. I can't seem to be able to join them anymore, as every time I do I get kicked from the game, saying it can't connect to the logi [..] 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

Guesting and overflows

2:16 am, October 29, 2013 I play on Desolation. I'm in Europe, but tend to be online for approx 16~ hours a day, so I see everything. When you play around the clock (not everyday, I'm not mad) you see how the community works a [..] View

The lag

2:16 am, October 28, 2013 So it's been a year and the lag has gotten worse (understatement) not better.  With the introduction of WvW leagues the lag has hit extrodinary levels. We all know it's there, we've [..] View

Reported about 20 botters today, 4 of them multiboxed

4:16 am, October 26, 2013 Just an off day or is it getting worse? Has anyone seen Arenanet address this issue lately? The last ones I reported were 4 rangers stacked on top of each other all moving together, all dressed the sa [..] View

Paid extra for a head start that seems like Beta.

9:24 am, October 16, 2013 I don't want to be negative, but I'm going to be anyway. I paid extra (paid months early) for a three day head start that feels more like another Beta. The head start is 2/3 over and I still haven't [..] 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

On-demand content?

3:22 am, October 14, 2013 1. GW2 is a solo game. While the game has group content or groping makes the content more enjoyable, in it's core, GW2 is a solo game. When you buy GW2, you are buying a game that you will solo with t [..] View

Bugged Mail System

1:41 am, October 13, 2013 In the first BWE I tried to send my friend some mail and it didn't give it to him. I passed it off as a bug, I went to send him another item and it came up with "Previous request still being proc [..] View

What's the point?

12:54 am, October 13, 2013 I keep bringing up solo, repeatable on-demand content here and I figured I'd actually make a thread about. This probably won't be just about that, but with a title that's "slightly" open to [..] View

Fastest way to level

11:57 pm, October 12, 2013 Hey everyone, since I am going to be leveling alts soon what is the most efficient way/ fastest way to level? I am not sure how I am going to approach this. I do not care if I will be missing any cont [..] View

What Happened to the Direction of ANet?

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- [..] View

Selling on the TP and not getting anything

2:26 am, October 11, 2013 I've noticed that I don't get and money most of the time when I sell something on the TP, even when it says Success. Is this a known issue? Should I just start vendoring everything? View

How satisfied are you with your profession?

2:25 am, October 11, 2013 Survey Link: https://docs.google....vUFgzWjA5MHc6MQ I've seen lots of complaints from people that their profession has issues or the other profession is too overpowered and so on and so forth. I'm in [..] View

Pre-emptive Guesting List

2:19 pm, October 10, 2013 Yes. This thread. We all knew it was coming. ArenaNet have stated you need FRIENDS on a server to guest to it. Now, of course... that means we can simply work around the issue (why we should have to [..] View

Party members disappearing?

12:21 pm, October 10, 2013 Greetings, I find myself writing here the fourth time already, haha, sorry about it, but I've no idea what the hell's going on anymore. Once again, I hope it's okay to post in this part of the forum.. [..] View

Disconnections increasing

11:11 am, October 10, 2013 So I keep being disconnected quite often lately. Yesterday my whole group got disconnected and all our progress from the last 5 minutes (including items, karma, etc) were lost/rolledback. This is beco [..] View

Haven't gotten a rare drop in days

7:36 am, October 10, 2013 I have spent on average 2 hours a day for the last week in Orr, Frostgorge, the new explorable zone, and a 60-65 area of a Charr zone. I have not gotten a single rare drop and I use 26% food, 5 travel [..] View

Stress Test Wednesday August 15th

5:12 am, October 10, 2013 This was posted on FB a couple of hours ago.  I didn't see any threads about it so I figured I would post it. https://www.facebook...ars2?ref=stream Quote We will be conducting a st [..] View

Strange armor sizes

7:30 pm, October 9, 2013 i have noticed that some armor have size issues(gigant shoulders for the sylvari/human, normal on the norn, human having a "fat coat", while it looks fit on the sylvari), but never saw anyon [..] View

Magic Find - Why it is bad!

4:17 pm, October 9, 2013 *[Flame wall: Initiated!]* Magic find is a bad stat. This is not news to many, and many others refuse to accept it. I'm here to draw the line and briefly explain some of the reasons why it is bad. - [..] 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

"Casual" PvP in GW2 feels godawful to me.

3:09 pm, October 8, 2013 How dare I say such a thing. Kinda long rant here. But really, there are 2 forms of PvP for a non-hardcore player like me: random sPvP and WvW. Both of them, both of them feel like zergfests. And I' [..] View

Guilds functions still buggy & other suggestions

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 [..] View

Is gw2 casual players friendly?

6:54 pm, October 7, 2013 This is not ment to be a whining or complaining threat. I am as the title says a casual player enjoying games such as LoL since you can jump in and play whenever you want mostly because it is abaut sk [..] View

"Slayer" achievement, missing kills?

12:38 pm, October 7, 2013 I logged in today after almost a week of no playing, and started running around. I ****** a rabbit and noticed I earned the Indiscriminate slayer achievement again. I already earned that achievement s [..] View

Why this game will never meet my expectations

4:58 am, October 7, 2013 or be as good a game as I thought it would be, or I would like it to be. The developers/producers behind this game are NOT from the original Guild Wars crew.  That is it in a nutshe [..] View

Is creating a party "slightly" broken lately?

12:11 am, October 7, 2013 A few patches ago I started noticing issues with creating/joining a party: 1. right clicking a player doesn't offer you the option to invite them to your party/join their party 2. even if you are able [..] View

Anyone else have their ping skyrocket in the last 2 days?

11:33 am, October 6, 2013 Hey all, My ping was fine from game launch to 2 days ago (50-100ms), but in the last 2 days it started going up significantly to 250-300. It gets even worse in large battles (NOT an FPS issue at all, [..] View

Current state of PvP.

11:24 am, October 6, 2013 I made this thread on reddit and would also like to receive feedback from gw2guru community as well. I haven't experienced the whole experience of PVP in Guildwars 2 (as in reaching level 80 and so o [..] View

Limited character set in game chat

3:45 am, October 6, 2013 I'm very disappointed that in the latest four months that issue was not fixed. Right now it is impossible to use the most characters from Cyrillic, Greek or Japanese ingame chat, despite the numerous [..] View

ANet's handling of Halloween has been nothing but disappointment

9:37 pm, October 5, 2013 Reposted from the R and D thread on Black Lion Chests since it wasn't 100% on topic so I brought it here. This thread is to discuss the way that ANet has handled this installment of Halloween, most n [..] View

Stop crying, Learn how to work around overflow

9:36 pm, October 5, 2013 I've seen so many threads on "how I can't play with my friends because of overflow" Well, here's your answer until ANet can put some more work into it.. honestly can't believe so many peopl [..] View

BLTC bug - Can't buy anything.

9:36 pm, October 5, 2013 Hello all, I'm experiencing problems using the Black Lion Trading Company. Whenever I select an order and press the "buy" button the game gives me this error message: "Your order did no [..] View

Aren't my thankful in support.gw2 (@nctaiwan issues)

6:56 pm, October 5, 2013 Greetings, I am from Hong Kong with an gw1 account in past. In 2006, GW1 sales in Taiwan, NCTaiwan take care all players from Taiwan and Hong Kong. Player in Taiwan / Hong Kong with have no choose, [..] View

URGENT! I may be being hacked

2:40 pm, October 5, 2013 so I logged in and wanted to go buy some shoelaces for my character with my karma I got. then I looked at the top fork and thought ok thats a cool fork. then I looked down and saw the other fork! as y [..] View

Annoying Mad tower Bug?

12:41 pm, October 5, 2013 Am I the only one experiencing the bug where you jump into the clock at the very end and you get sent to the start instead of inside the clock? Now before you say I just **** at jumping I complete the [..] View

Map Completion Issues

12:27 pm, October 5, 2013 So I've just realised (maybe the horse has well bolted but still) that for 100% map completion, you need to do the WvW zones too... at least I think that's right? This seems like such a stupid idea, [..] View

I Don't Care for Weapon Swapping

10:58 am, October 5, 2013 Okay, let me start out by pointing out that I'm not saying that weapon swapping is a stupid, unneeded mechanic that should be cut from the game. So now that that's clear... In GW1 I was never one to [..] View

"When its ready" + "Our time is now" = "Its not ready now"

9:05 am, October 5, 2013 As much as I love this game, she still needs to cook for at least another 30 minutes.  Between the FPS issues multiple players are experiencing on decent rigs, the amount of people w [..] View

Are all of the emotes in the game?

8:51 am, October 5, 2013 I have tried multiple emotes that were in the original game, but have done nothing, such as /attention and I can't remember the others right now. They give no error message, but no animation or text i [..] View

now that we're getting a LFG tool...

7:02 am, October 5, 2013 Heya- just wanted to post this to get some thoughts from people about the new looking for group tool we supposedly will be getting soon... What will happen when people bail out on their group?&n [..] View

Target loss on camera rotation

4:56 am, October 5, 2013 I know this is not  a new issue.  You rotate the camera and you either lose your target or switch targets.  Currently, a quick single click (mouse [..] View

The Problem with Alts

1:39 am, October 5, 2013 When I start an alt at this game, I pretty much felt 'done' by level 30ish. Elite slot I wanted unlocked. Barring any bad picks on utility, most of the utility slots are filled with what I considered [..] View

Hoping to reach an Anet employee with a complaint (I've tried other methods of contact)

1:20 am, October 5, 2013 I've often heard stories of how GW2 forums could often be overzealous with their moderation and I didn't believe it. Most times people exclude information, painting only their side of the story but th [..] View

just saw this article: Guild Wars 2 Still Plagued With Issues; Direct Sales On Hold

11:00 pm, October 4, 2013 http://www.inquisitr.com/317412/guild-wars-2-still-plagued-with-issues-direct-sales-on-hold/ reading this article kinda pissed me off plagued with issues? can't connect? the overflow system has wo [..] View

The Dynamic Events Issue.

8:02 pm, October 4, 2013 Disclaimer: I fully understand that no two players' games can be completely the same, so I also understand that this doesn't plague everyone. The problem is that just because this is not happening to [..] View

Elitist vs. Objective

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 [..] View

Dear Arena Net

7:03 pm, October 4, 2013 Sure there has been quite a few problems with the game on launch, lots of issues with skill points and quests (which I believe are all fixed today) Sure trading post messed up Friday and you owe me 8 [..] View

Hair limitations

6:06 pm, October 4, 2013 In the dying minutes of today's stress test I was trying desperately to get the look of a human male ranger I planned to main just right.  However, I couldn't find a single hairstyle [..] View

Don't you think the game difficulty is way too easy?

3:52 pm, October 4, 2013 There are already a lot of threads discuss about the social issue in gw2. Personally I think it the difficulty. You can solo your story, explore, farm, and level to 80. Some new comer already felt bo [..] View

Email Authenticator is bad

3:26 pm, October 4, 2013 i had decided my account could use some security, as i dont have a phone of anykind, i opted for email authenticator, this was a bad choice, as i am asked to "authenticate the link emailed to me& [..] View

You are not making it easy for me to answer, let me try again

3:22 pm, October 4, 2013 "Hello, It seems you already expected this thread to be locked or deleted, but I didn't just close this to meet your expectations. There are many valid reasons threads, comments, etc. may be de [..] View

"Play for fun" unviable, I'm starting an in-game protest.

3:20 pm, October 4, 2013 Premise I'm one of those who plays the game to have fun; I do not care for treadmills, grinding, farming, and all those brain-dead activities. I like to entertain myself through different, funny activ [..] View

Concerning the dungeons

3:19 pm, October 4, 2013 A couple friends and I decided to so our first dungeon today and it was a total train wreck. We sat outside the Ascalonian Catacombs to get 2 more people to join us and found them pretty quickly, but [..] View

I absolutely do not like this..Gear grind in GW

3:07 pm, October 4, 2013 QuoteIn November well unveil the first Ascended items. This new rarity type falls between Exotic and Legendary on the spectrum of rarity and has slightly higher stats than Exotics. Source: https://ww [..] View

New Underwater Content: Balance Attached, Maybe?

2:40 pm, October 4, 2013 So, I haven't been the most up to date on the November 15th update, but I've heard it referred to as the "Sea of Sorrows" update, talk about beaches, and Anet's little post with some pirate [..] View

Unable to queue new guild upgrade. Anyone else experiencing this issue?

1:59 pm, October 4, 2013 So, I'm trying to rush Guild Workshop so that our guild can rapidly start completing upgrades.  I've completed Architecture Level 1, but I am unable to queue either Architecture Leve [..] View

Anyone else created a profession twice?

1:44 pm, October 4, 2013 I created a Norn Warrior and a Charr Warrior for the different stories.  I couldn't decide on which one to choose so I made both...   Already have a mid level Charr [..] View

Why are we playing GW2?

1:39 pm, October 4, 2013 I want to start off by saying - This is NOT meant to be a post to complain about the game I'm just wondering if anybody has an idea of what they plan on doing to add substance to the game's content. [..] View

Unable to login?

10:11 am, October 4, 2013 Anyone else having issues with the login? I'm getting error 42:0:9001:xxxx "The game is unable to gain access to the log-in server at this time..." View

World hopping makes some servers dead?

9:59 am, October 4, 2013 I am in the us server HoD which is used to be the one of the most popular servers. In LA there is even no one talking, can't find any dungeon/fotm group for hours nowadays. I am wondering if it's just [..] View

Terrible GW2 Customer Service Experience

7:18 am, October 4, 2013 Well, its been almost 3 days now. After playing game since release, i been always an example to follow. Always reporting for botting, or gold sell spamming in every case did apply. I been a fellow gu [..] View

What did you think Guild Wars 2 would be like?

2:27 am, October 4, 2013 Anet own quote "Were a company of passionate gamers with one mission: to make Guild Wars 2 the best MMORPG ever created." Since for some, including myself, the game is no where as great as [..] View

Armors feels out of place

2:11 am, October 4, 2013 Warning, the following statements below is a rant. Viewer discretion is advised If there is one thing that I could criticize Anet is how horrible and how out of place the armors in this game feel.& [..] View

Ascalon Catacombs SM: Rock Throwing

1:15 am, October 4, 2013 I'm not sure if anyone else knows about this, but for the story mode version of the dungeon, after you get past the traps there are rocks you can pick-up and use to **** the bosses extremely quick and [..] View

Do you think Nexon changed the game?

11:59 pm, October 3, 2013 I'm not claiming anything by stating this but as we all know, before release Nexon purchased a large share of NCSoft (enough to make decisions I believe) and hired somebody onto the Guild Wars 2 team. [..] View

Need help: I really **** as a player!

11:50 pm, October 3, 2013 I first picked this game up on the pre-order early access.  I have since made many characters (one of every class) and got three of them (Ranger, Elementalist and Mesmer) into mid-le [..] View

Monster attacks hard to see for anyone else?

11:19 pm, October 3, 2013 Playing a melee guardian and I was doing AC story and on the some fights I just keep dying because I cannot see anything. All the spell effects make it hard to actually see the bosses swings and the c [..] View

Open letter to the Guild Wars 2 Devs

11:09 pm, October 3, 2013 I posted the text below on the Guild Wars 2 site earlier this evening. I hope that many of you feel the same way and will lend your voice to getting this changed. Happy hunting. Dear Devs, I've bee [..] View

Fix For Login Errors(not server down fix but for those who get it when server is up)

8:09 pm, October 3, 2013 Ok, so, 3 times since I got the game I have had it bug out and not let me login for whatever reason, cant remember exect error but the fix I found thats worked for myself and everybody I have had try [..] View

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