6:18 pm, November 21, 2014
Match flow in PvP is affected by everything from team formation and arena queuing to the way players actually enter matches. I’m happy to announce that the process players use to enter PvP a [..]
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7:18 pm, August 28, 2014
Hey, folks,
As we continue to grow Guild Wars 2 and plan our next steps for the future of the game, its important we have a solid foundation for all the new players we plan to welcom [..]
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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 am, June 28, 2014
I'm mostly debating between the gilded(20% gold from monsters) or the magic find utility. The karmic would have its purpose to but don't really see myself using karma on a regular basis for anything. [..]
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3:16 pm, April 19, 2014
Thank you all for such an overwhelming turnout to the Tournament of Legends!
Weve seen well over 200 teams register to battle it out for their chance at a legendary weapon! Because the community came [..]
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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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9:16 pm, April 1, 2014
Greetings fellow Tyrians! Allie Murdock here; Community Coordinator at ArenaNet. Im excited to announce our first GuildWars2 Tournament of Legends on April 26-27 for Europe and May 3-4 for North Ameri [..]
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8:16 pm, March 21, 2014
Yesterday we introduced you to some of the upcoming changes to the traits system. Those changes, while exciting, are just one part of the balance updates bundled into the April 2014 Feature Pack! Toda [..]
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8:16 pm, March 7, 2014
We extinguished the molten alliance, blew up the aetherblades, poisoned the toxic alliance, and finally ****** scarlet in what to me felt like five seconds. . . But that doesn't stop what's coming fro [..]
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2:16 pm, February 3, 2014
The purpose of this thread is to discuss Condition Damage in the game whether you think it's fine, is completely broken, or could just be tweaked to be more useful.
My thoughts:
Instead of a global [..]
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2:16 pm, January 24, 2014
Why or why not?
Before you instantly say "Yes" or "No" consider that they are two different games with two different mission statements, systems, and almost two different genres; [..]
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2:16 am, January 8, 2014
Because I am an insane person and a huge derp, I have decided to end my sabbatical and resume playing GW2 at least for a time. I hope my derpness amuses someone slightly in a parra [..]
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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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8:16 am, November 21, 2013
So, I have delayed posting this topic to give the Living Story updates a chance.
And, truth be told, LS does accomplish its purpose: giving people a reason to log on every two weeks.
But many player [..]
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3:26 pm, November 13, 2013
Hello folks. It’s Maclaine Diemer, back again with another post about music. For this month’s Dragon Bash content, we wanted to have a recognizable theme, and the idea was brought [..]
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2:16 am, November 6, 2013
Ok, laying the groundwork here for the conversation:
First, there are many definitions of casual gamers. In fact, I hate the idea of calling people casual or hardcore. However, many people would cons [..]
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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 [..]
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2:46 am, October 23, 2013
Hello! I'm a local lurker here, usually posting for my podcast/lorecast that can be found here - http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/34901-lorecast/
However, shameless advertising isn't why I'm here [..]
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6:13 am, October 14, 2013
So the guild wars 2 launcher was downloading a 700 files update or something. It was at 99 so I click log in and it said the following "you've enabled email authentication for [..]
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4:54 pm, October 7, 2013
I'm having a hard time understanding why Guild Wars 2 uses a leveling system. You can PvP in WvW or sPvP from level 1. However the game restricts much of the content of the world PvE unless you level [..]
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2:25 am, October 7, 2013
Hello there,
Even though I owned GW1 and played it a tiny bit, I still consider myself a new GW player.
I'm not familiar with ArenaNet but I have to say that with this new patch I feel a bit disappoi [..]
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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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10:25 pm, October 5, 2013
So tried to log in thie morning and my password was invalid apparently. So I go to check my email to see if my password had been changed. It doesnt say it was. So I go to reset my password...and guess [..]
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9:21 pm, October 5, 2013
Warning: this is a potential spoiler. This concerns a location at the Breach waypoint in Diessa Plateau There is a skill point and vista in that area, and while this thread doesn't [..]
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4:32 pm, October 5, 2013
I think GW2 is missing a very important feature from GW1. That is a Trait Template similar to GW1's Skill Template.
Also, I still don't see the purpose of retraining traits and the associated fees. I [..]
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5:32 pm, October 4, 2013
In the topic about class balance philosophies, one of the things that came up was the notion that something needs to be done to increase the depth, complexity, and longevity of the system. &a [..]
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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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2:28 pm, October 4, 2013
If this is in the wrong section I'm sorry I couldn't find a section for dungeon discussion like there is for WvW/PvP.
We have been clearing every explorable since the 1st week of launch on a weekly [..]
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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. [..]
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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 [..]
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8:40 pm, October 2, 2013
When I think back to GW1, I think of the nostalgia factor of Droknar's Forge, Marhan's Grotto (remember the icy floor?), Ascalon City, Kaineng, Yak's Bend, and many of the other outposts. They were me [..]
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5:44 pm, October 2, 2013
I have an idea, a silly, hilarious, impossible idea that I would toss out there to get flames, lols, and feedback.
I've considered trying something called a 'peasant quest'.
The idea is this:
Pick [..]
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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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7:55 am, October 2, 2013
Guild Wars 2 is now more than one year old, and Gamestatistics, which makes various surveys on videogame topics, would like to gather some opinions from the players.
Thus, current as well as former G [..]
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3:54 pm, October 1, 2013
The story in this game is absolutely terrible. Its a shame because this world has so much potential. Everything to the combat, artwork, lvling its all really done nicely. However the effect the very b [..]
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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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2:57 pm, October 1, 2013
Well ever since they did all of their "optimizing" magic my enjoyment has gone downhill. The reason for that is now for "optimization" purposes my game doesn't always show everyone [..]
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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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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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5:56 am, October 1, 2013
I played guild wars since just before Factions, its the best online game ive ever played, been waiting for so long for GW2. Its not a bad game, its far better value for money than most games,  [..]
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2:55 am, October 1, 2013
Hello,
I do not know if it has been done yet, but I am making a guild that's sole purpose is to have a chat for finding people to do dungeons easier. It would work by when you want to find a group fo [..]
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1:55 am, October 1, 2013
So, I just found a post on reddit that I believe everyone should see:
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I believe I can speak for a large number of people from Sanctum of Rall when I say that tonight something happened that I [..]
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12:07 am, October 1, 2013
"You are extremely misinformed and the main problem with what you're saying is you seem to have the flawed notion that 1v1 matters in GW2. Just because profession x can **** profession y (althoug [..]
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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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9:20 pm, September 30, 2013
Well since many of us have already achieved 80 for some time and have mostly been doing Cursed Shore of Orr for farming either karma or gold or both (dont think there is a better map for this purpose) [..]
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8:45 pm, September 30, 2013
Over on the official forums, the mystic forge is affectionately known as the mystic toilet. And why shouldn't it be? Especially when you have players throwing 350g worth of weapons in at a time and ge [..]
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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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7:21 pm, September 30, 2013
Hi everyone,
We are now about 5 weeks into the release, and most players have had time, if inclined, to play at level 80 now.
While there is plenty to do, I am wondering when we will get info about h [..]
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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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5:24 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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5:13 pm, September 30, 2013
I know there are already hundreds of threads across the forums and gwguru regarding the recent nerfs/buffs to dungeons and so forth. But I do want to point out certain things I've noticed so far regar [..]
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4:47 pm, September 30, 2013
Ideas:
1. ArenaNet says: People do not have to join a guild to gain valuable item. Friends have created guilds.
- And I answer: How can I find friends since the lack of common goals? How long can I pl [..]
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4:00 pm, September 30, 2013
This is not MY guide its The Great Assassins Guide off the GW2 forums i think it will be helpful so i am posting it here
This guide has one purpose: To teach people how to damage a world boss. This is [..]
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10:13 am, September 30, 2013
Who: Every. Human. Ever.
What: We'll be forming up and organizing the BIGGEST human sync dance EVER. The idea is that we get together as many people has humanly (*snicker*) possible and get togethe [..]
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8:07 am, September 30, 2013
Credit to Gli for posting it in the other thread, but I believe this deserves a new thread for discussion purposes. I won't post a summary here, but read it. Your mind will be blown, it's amazing !
h [..]
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5:44 am, September 30, 2013
Background:
In the 25-35 zone, there is an event mob that used to spawn roughly every 3 minutes, in the same place.
Killing the mob completes an event, giving players 1000XP, 100 karma, 60 copper.
Hug [..]
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4:30 am, September 30, 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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2:54 am, September 30, 2013
I know, I know... Tinfoil hat on. But, with the amount of fail surrounding recent updates, is it possible that ANet would purposely tank their own game to spite NCSoft for some reason or is their deve [..]
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