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 am, October 22, 2014
Even though the Black Lion Trading Company started celebrating Halloween early, we’re not out of festival goodies yet! Read on to learn about this week’s new offerings, plus li [..]
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7:18 pm, September 23, 2014
From bright displays of color to incendiary gathering tools, this week the Black Lion Trading Company is all about setting yourself apart from the crowd. Read on to learn about our two new permane [..]
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7:18 pm, August 14, 2014
The September 2014 Feature Pack, which we announced yesterday along with our World Tournament Series, is bringing exciting additions to PvP!
Today, well be talking about two of our additions aimed at [..]
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7:18 pm, July 10, 2014
Hello Tyria,
Joshua “Grouch” Davis here, Competitive Events Manager at ArenaNet. Its my privilege to announce that at this years gamescom, well be partnering with our friends at [..]
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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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7:18 pm, July 1, 2014
The Gates of Maguuma release begins today, and we here at the Black Lion Trading Company have the perfect items to send you on your way in style! Log in while the release is live to unlock free, p [..]
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9:16 pm, April 25, 2014
Spring here and Tyria is ripe with natures bounty! Take advantage of all that the earth has to offer with your own set of permanent gathering tools! The Molten Alliance Mining Pick, Consortium Har [..]
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9:16 pm, April 17, 2014
This is probably a big "duh" to most of you, but just in case:
If you ever wanted to give your Ele a Necro mask, now is the time.
By simply creating a character, any starter Wardrobe look [..]
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3:16 am, April 16, 2014
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We here at the Black Lion Trading Company have been busy preparing to bring some exciting inventory changes online. Were proud to present you with three brand-new armor skins, five f [..]
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2:16 am, March 2, 2014
And so we come to the close; the end of Living World Season 1. And as I contemplate how Arena Net is likely to ruin the one thing that quite a number of us are hoping for from this event (an end to th [..]
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8:16 am, November 27, 2013
...being put up available for other races?
Just curious.
I know it's just for scholar classes but personally, I'd feel pretty bad if everyone can start suddenly wearing Norn t3 heavy even with a sli [..]
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1:39 pm, November 23, 2013
Having leveled two characters to 80, I have the following observations and opinions:
- The time it takes to get from 1 to 80 is suitable, but the first 40 levels can feel really slow while the last 1 [..]
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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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3:26 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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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 [..]
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5:47 am, October 19, 2013
I entered a guild which said there are no actual rules. I was told by the guy inviting me to the guild that I wouldn't be reported for swearing or being a douche.
So that's exactly what I did. Only 2 [..]
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1:44 am, October 16, 2013
It's awesome how the Arenanet team puts so much detail into creating hilarious situations for GW2!
I swear I ran around chasing this little messenger golem in Metrica Province for a full hour just to [..]
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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 [..]
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8:53 pm, October 12, 2013
Just wanted to let anyone who goes to gw2 forums (not here official)
Do not say anything about Anet forcing us to use the gem store. I got my forum account suspended for that. Not that it really bothe [..]
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5:21 pm, October 12, 2013
You see 3 people dressed the same way and doing the same thing, and reflexively start to report them...
...before realizing it's a single mesmer. With clones.
I swear, I have tw [..]
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9:14 am, October 10, 2013
What is up with ANet and their apparent peg-legged sailor fetish? I understand that every game has a theme, but I swear, there's not a single zone in the game where you won't come accross pirates, ban [..]
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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 [..]
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5:07 pm, October 9, 2013
When was the ability to preview armor that's not the same kind you can wear (light, medium, heavy), and why? I've stoped playing the game for a while after the ascended gear was added, and an coming b [..]
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7:34 pm, October 7, 2013
Just curious. 10 Gold seems a lot for something you can only wear when no combat is near.
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7:54 am, October 7, 2013
Here's my current situation, I'd appreciate your advice:I have 8 characters of each of the 8 professions, all level 80. Currently all 8 characters are mainly wearing level 80 green [..]
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12:20 am, October 7, 2013
Add 5-10 levels after level 80 that have a ridiculously huge, exponential curve. I'm talking Diablo 2-status curve from 93-99.
The point is that you're already wearing the best armor in the game at l [..]
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3:59 am, October 5, 2013
Hey!
At the time I s making my main I didnt know that norn look better in most of the the armors but draconic and few others. Now that I know that and transformation kits are in game I am thinking if [..]
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1:47 am, October 5, 2013
When the Tyrian Explorer's Society sends me a letter saying "hey, nice job for exploring!" that's nice.
But when they send a gift - repeatedly - of **** I can't use, it somewhat mitigates t [..]
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11:36 pm, October 4, 2013
Can Charr wear actual hats like the pirate hats in this video?
I want a charr engineer but those armors are what I want to wear so if the charr cannot wear them, it kinda ruins that race for me.
Any [..]
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10:37 pm, October 4, 2013
Any help on what gear set this is?
http://i.minus.com/jbbh9NurOoivQO.jpg
Every listing I've seen it listed as "PvP: Leather, PvE: Unknown" or just "Unknown". I [..]
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3:48 pm, October 4, 2013
I really like what ArenaNet is doing....creating a game that says they don't have roles, but in all reality, it does. It's basically impossible to create a game that has 5 dps throw [..]
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3:05 pm, October 4, 2013
Ok, before the rage comes in hear me out.
I have been thinking this wayyy before it happened.
Earlier today I was doing TA Runs, got my 180 blooms, took a break and came back online.
I went over to t [..]
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1:12 am, October 4, 2013
I realized whenever I go to any part of MAP, game adjust my lvl accordingly in most cases SCALE DOWN. So my question is If i am wearing level 50 ARMOR/WEAPONs and As I scaledown accoridng to the map, [..]
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3:21 pm, October 3, 2013
Hi, my name is Chuydog, and I am a MF gear junky.
I am addicted to wearing my MF set whenever I do anything except WvW or Dungeons. My addiction has become so bad that I have negle [..]
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2:51 pm, October 3, 2013
I don't know if anyone else has had this problem with their human, and it's likely trivial to most people, but this has been bugging me for quite a time-- does anyone find that when using light skin, [..]
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8:35 am, October 3, 2013
I'm on the lookout for a piece of medium shoulderpads, relatively large I guess because that fits my character more. However, it seems that most shoulderpads classified as large seem to have some quir [..]
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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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11:28 am, October 2, 2013
Last night I was excited because I had been running COF for the last week to farm 3 armor pieces. So I ran P1 after logging on which gave me the final tokens to get the pieces.& [..]
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9:28 am, October 2, 2013
The Black Lion Trading Company is proud to introduce a new line of fashionable headwear. These cuddly caps are optimized for cuteness and available in the Gem Store today! Were pleased to inform y [..]
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9:16 am, October 2, 2013
First of all, I love Guild Wars 2. I've been with the series since the beta of Guild Wars 1, which I also played way too much. It has some flaws, but overall I love it.
What I don't like is somethi [..]
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3:58 am, October 2, 2013
This will be a long post. There is a TL;DR at the bottom if you're not invested in reading a lot.
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I am a hardcore MMO player, as I'm sure some of you are as well. I hold this title because I [..]
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12:17 am, October 2, 2013
I'm having a blast in this game but sometimes I feel kind of jealous how other races have much better looking armor than my Asura does...
It seems like the other races have such better or more notice [..]
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12:03 am, October 2, 2013
Hello everyone, I am uZu, and I am overly pissed @ Anet's costumer service.
As a start, I must say that I enjoy GW2 a lot and I think it is an amazing game, however, it's costumer care/support (even i [..]
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11:20 pm, October 1, 2013
GW2 2012 Best (Worst) of Awards
Its that time of the year again! Where we look back into the previous year and project into the new year. To make the best of 2013, we have to look [..]
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7:14 pm, October 1, 2013
I hate jumping puzzles and I want invader's gear.
I have a nice set of berserker's emblazoned gear, but when I'm not traveling in a small group would I be better off wearing MF gea [..]
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6:38 pm, October 1, 2013
Well I'll put this here in TA seeing how I have NO idea where to put it.
Right then! Off we go!
I made awesome looking Norn that is near the Space Marine size(~3,5m). I also used the "big tough [..]
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12:14 pm, October 1, 2013
I used to remember that this minigame was fun when people actually played it , i usually joined 5 to 6 matches per play-through a day after done a dungeon or some spvp...now its just filled most of th [..]
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10:01 am, October 1, 2013
I swear I want to slit the throats of NPCs that say that.
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8:34 am, October 1, 2013
Although there's certainly no shortage of strong opinions to be had about the Lost Shores Event in these fine forums, I figure I might as well share mine -- in the form of a long, drawn-out retrospect [..]
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8:30 am, October 1, 2013
Warning: Massive Wall of Text Ahead. A 3001 word wall to be exact!
I will start out by saying that I have played a wide variety of games over the years, however guild wars was the very first online m [..]
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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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5:19 am, October 1, 2013
As Im sure some of you are awear there is an event in the Temple of Lyssa that has become a popular farming exploit.
This exploit is now preventing players from finishing one of the few, well designed [..]
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3:49 am, October 1, 2013
My character is wearing an infused Red Ring of ***** (offensive infusion).
I also have an infused Snaff's Gyre (offensive infusion also) sitting in storage that can be converted to Berserker.
#1 Will [..]
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12:44 am, October 1, 2013
So today I was looking forward to buying my warrior a few pieces of exotic armor which is nice because I just hit level 80 and he was still wearing trash. Statswise I quite liked the look of the Melan [..]
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12:27 am, October 1, 2013
So... i've only taken notice of this now, if you equip the chestpiece of medium armor from the citadel of flame exotic, and try to place ANY kind of shoulderpads on you, it won't show, i realised this [..]
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11:32 pm, September 30, 2013
So a few days ago, when I wasn't a member of this forum yet. I received my first precursor, not by putting hundreds of rares and exotics into the Mystic Forge, no, I received my precursor Dusk, by far [..]
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11:13 pm, September 30, 2013
(i had this posted on guild wars official forums but the admins destroyed it changing my posts changing the topic names and deleting multiple posts, So hopefully i can get my concerns heard properly h [..]
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10:22 pm, September 30, 2013
(This topic contains subject matter which is being posted by a person who uses immature terms, but would prefer if people could take a mature attitude towards it)
(Please keep the "But then all t [..]
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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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5:39 pm, September 30, 2013
Most of the medium armour chest pieces are longcoats. Does anyone know if there will be any (more than the puffy-sleeved one and starter one) that don't have a coat or skirt/cape design?
For example, [..]
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5:20 pm, September 30, 2013
In most of the MMO's I've played, there is always a player who stands out from everyone else, whether it's accomplishing world first, server first, and even being known to have wealth.
For everyone w [..]
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5:13 pm, September 30, 2013
In this thread we'll be discussing magic find. The benefits, the negatives & its impact on GW2 as whole. This topic has a tendency to draw opposition from bot [..]
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5:13 pm, September 30, 2013
edit: "for" lol. drinking wine, cheers!
I've grown so weary of all other games I've been playing. Diablo 3 just really sucks, you can't make one post on the forums without fanboys reporting [..]
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5:12 pm, September 30, 2013
Too many games slack off on creating dynamic environments and overlook weather and sound, resulting in the mood of the environment being too dull. Guild Wars 2 has done so many thin [..]
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5:09 pm, September 30, 2013
Since I've messaged + emailed the appropriate people on the official forums without a response, I figured I could try to ask here...
About two days ago, I made the mistake of making very angry (altho [..]
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5:09 pm, September 30, 2013
Originally I just wanted to do the math, but then it became more than that and i feel the need to share my thoughts. Disclaimer: Lots of text, also might belong in suggestion/ideas but that's what mod [..]
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2:53 pm, September 30, 2013
Welcome to our newest release, the Bazaar of the Four Winds! You may be wondering what there is to do and how to get around, so what follows is a short guide to point you in the right direction.
Spoi [..]
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2:01 pm, September 30, 2013
Is anyone else struggling with the lack of diversity in the medium armor lineup? I feel like every armor set has the same sillouette (i.e. trenchcoat) and none of them really fit my [..]
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1:29 pm, September 30, 2013
Hello guys,
I have been a fierce critic from GW2, both on these Forum and I tried to send numerous suggestion tickets and posts on the official forums as well, but apparently ArenaNet doesn't like th [..]
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1:23 pm, September 30, 2013
EDIT: I WISH I COULD FIX THE ERROR IN THE TITLE. DO'H!
I absolutely love the fact that you can customize the colors, it's about damn time. But [..]
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12:37 pm, September 30, 2013
I prepurchased GW2 and played the head start, and let me tell you. This game was the most fun i have ever had.... from levels 1-60. Therein derives the problem. I loved finding secret areas, and wande [..]
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12:32 pm, September 30, 2013
I'll start by saying why I made this thread.
See, I love Charr, love their story, love the zones dedicated to them, but I keep second guessing my choice in being one. Why? They look like **** in armo [..]
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11:56 am, September 30, 2013
Well been trying to do Arah over past few days and needless to say the only path people seem capable of completing is the warden path.
Each path seems to have something that just d [..]
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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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7:44 am, September 30, 2013
When I bought Guild Wars 2 I was expecting an event filled schedule with quirky things to do and keep things fresh. In beta I highly enjoyed the Hunger Game's event and even more so The Chaos invasion [..]
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7:01 am, September 30, 2013
So I just bought a Jotun Greatsword for my lvl 20 Guardian with my lvl 80 Thief. Transmuted it onto a white GS and put it in my bank. Went on my Guardian and I could wear it despite it being Soulboun [..]
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3:48 am, September 30, 2013
I'm just as excited as GW2 as the next guy and can't wait to play in 2 more days!
But there is just something about the armor designs that just doesn't look 'good' in the game...
I don't even know ho [..]
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3:30 am, September 30, 2013
When using pirate leggings on pre-view you get a naked character ( see screenshots ).
Since you at least get to see underwear when you unequip armor I don't think Anet meant for it to happen.
Guild r [..]
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2:57 am, September 30, 2013
I've been playing for long now and i don't seem to be contented with my character's appearance does anybody feels the same way? additionally female models are better but i don't like to play as one.
[..]
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2:47 am, September 30, 2013
Hello, I'm brand spanking new to this forum, but I've been chased here by the utter weirdness of the official GW2 forum. A few posts here led me to believe it's a different kind of community.
I've b [..]
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