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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6:18 am, November 1, 2014
We have a lot of talented people in the Guild Wars 2 community. One of our community members has created a series of fantastic infographics that show you, at-a-glance, how your World performed in th [..]
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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 am, September 15, 2014
Many veterans in recent days complaining that leveling is hard, annoying, long drawn etc, etc... So I decided to show that you can do it otherwise.
Simply in 2 minutes
Here's my guide:
https://www.y [..]
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7:18 am, September 13, 2014
To celebrate the recent addition of finishers to the account Wardrobe, were holding a weekend sale! From now until 11:59 PM PDT (06:59 UTC) on Sunday, September 14, you can pick up all of our permanen [..]
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7:18 am, September 4, 2014
This week on Ready Up, join our Competitive Events Manager and host Josh Davis and Competitive QA Embed, Jessica Boettiger as they talk about the upcoming World vs World Fall Tournament and cover up [..]
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7:18 pm, August 28, 2014
This week on Ready Up, join our Competitive Events Manager and host Josh Davis and Competitive QA Embed, Jessica Boettiger as they talk about the upcoming World vs World Fall Tournament and cover upd [..]
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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, 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 [..]
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7:18 pm, August 5, 2014
.......making gold?
I've been looking around since I came back for season 2 and a lot of ghe old methods seem out of date or simply less effective so I figured Id inquire as to some of the clever me [..]
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7:18 pm, July 6, 2014
....for "botting, extended unattended play, using macros, or similar behavior."
.................
....whaaaaat? I literally just came back and I've never done those things, and I've playe [..]
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7:18 am, May 21, 2014
Its an exciting week for the Black Lion Trading Company! Weve got a brand-new set of weapon skins, new faces in Total Makeover Kits, an adorable Mini Piglet, the return of the Bazaar Quaggan Mini [..]
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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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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 [..]
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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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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 [..]
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8:16 pm, March 27, 2014
Were implementing some changes in the upcoming feature patch to the economy and want to tell you about them now. Were excited about what these alterations will mean for the game.
The End of Repair 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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2:16 pm, January 28, 2014
A new week means new, innovative items in stock at the Black Lion Trading Company! Mine to your hearts content with the new, infinite Watchwork Mining Pick, or look your best with the new Mask of [..]
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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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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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9:16 pm, October 18, 2013
It’s almost time for the inaugural World vs. World Season! Tonight, when the weekly WvW matchups reset, the season will officially begin.
European and North American servers will be broken [..]
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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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10:47 pm, October 17, 2013
The recent update changed currency exchange interface,
It automatically listed all my gems when go into gems->gold tab.
I want to go back to other tab but I accidentally hit the Trade button.
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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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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 [..]
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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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10:05 am, October 8, 2013
With the recent sale of the character slot, I have bought myself a 8th slot for my last profession.
When I got the new slot in my account, I am surprised to see that I cannot see all 8 of my characte [..]
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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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2:10 pm, October 7, 2013
So, I have a theory. I'd like to share it for discussion.
Between the most recent stress test and the one before it, we went from 3 servers listed as full to 11.
I have a hard time believing that th [..]
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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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7:13 am, October 6, 2013
In an effort to keep the noise down over discussing the various points hit upon by Colin's most recent post, I've taken the time to create different threads in the General Discussion forums to cover t [..]
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6:49 am, October 6, 2013
In an effort to keep the noise down over discussing the various points hit upon by Colin's most recent post, I've taken the time to create different threads in the General Discussion forums to cover t [..]
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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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1:39 am, October 5, 2013
hi, been getting 35-60 fps solid thru all tests, including the recent ones.
logged in today, and getting 1 - 5 fps......
gtx560ti
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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 [..]
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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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9:43 pm, October 3, 2013
I saw this post: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/12/19/enter-at-your-own-rift-what-do-the-trion-layoffs-mean-for-rift/ in relation to Rift's recent staff redundancies.
However the paragraph that ca [..]
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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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7:27 am, October 3, 2013
So I will say that I have never seen such a tightly controlled message as I have this week.
An interview embargo that just released Wednesday/Tuesday in the first week of July, with the ArenaNet Comm [..]
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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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2:49 am, October 3, 2013
In this thread we will be discussing the most recent addition of vertical progression to GW2 with the Lost Shores update & what it really means for GW2. This topic has a tendenc [..]
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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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12:37 pm, October 2, 2013
I was hoping someone might be able to direct me to a somewhat recent poll or source of info on profession popularity/prevalence, since I find it interesting, and know many others do as well.
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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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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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11:33 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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10:08 am, October 2, 2013
Preface; the following is born of my own personal opinions, preferences, and principles. It is in no way intended to defame or challenge the views of others, nor to begin an argument or flame war. I s [..]
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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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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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6:53 am, October 2, 2013
In a recent post on the official GW2 forums hosted by ArenaNet, I criticized ArenaNet for not disabling the WvW orbs because of an orb exploit that was causing a great deal of trouble. &n [..]
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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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11:37 pm, October 1, 2013
I did a quick search, and I couldn't find a recent thread on this issue, only the mentioning of it in various different threads.
So, days into the game, I'm sure many of you have either reached level [..]
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10:58 pm, October 1, 2013
I am all for difficulty in a game as long as the rewards are large enuff to sort of compensate for the risk.
I did the first dungeon on Storymode and had some fun. We died a few times but it wasn't l [..]
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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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12:06 pm, October 1, 2013
Good Afternoon Fellow Tyrians!
I sat down this morning was looking over the forums again and started writing. This post may be a little disjointed and hop around a lot but I think [..]
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11:54 am, October 1, 2013
HI there, recent made a thief and I am level 11 but not until I check I actually unlock weapon swap at level 7 but I did not get it got the other unlocks like the 2 utilities and 1 trait point.&nb [..]
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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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11:25 am, October 1, 2013
Posted to GW2 Forums, I don't expect it to last. Please comment there as well.
TLDR: Points are boiled down here, but I encourage you to ready the body.
The Right to Make Money
N [..]
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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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9:37 am, October 1, 2013
The boy couldn’t have been older than eighteen. A pool of blood reflected the lights of Divinity’s Reach, and his ***** rattle still echoed back and forth between my ears.
I state [..]
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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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9:10 am, October 1, 2013
Scarlets recent interruption on the celebration at Divinitys Reach has some people feeling pretty low but even in the worst of times, the Black Lion Trading Company is here for you! Treat yoursel [..]
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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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