7:18 pm, July 28, 2014
I was reading posts on the usual Trahearn-hate threads, and one person said "Quality is relative." So I thought, what is good quality in an MMO; and where does GW2 lie in [..]
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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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8:16 pm, March 11, 2014
Hey thar!
With the first Living World season at an end, and just an epilogue patch to come, GuildMag's asking you for your views on the first Living World story arc! We're collecting the community's [..]
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8:16 pm, November 26, 2013
Episode 27 Get Ready Get Set Fractal!
So this time we are preparing for the Fractured patch. This should go a long way into getting us to stick around longer in game. Because right now the game is re [..]
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8:16 am, November 18, 2013
So, my previous thread got deleted, and I haven't (yet) been informed why. (Shoutout to you, admins!) Here are the contents of the disputable and controversial upcoming update.
I am NOT supporting o [..]
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8:16 am, November 18, 2013
So at this stage I'm mostly just the guy who wrote that lore summary once and drops by like once every year to contribute something, probably half-finished, and then leaves because Guild Wars 2 just h [..]
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8:16 am, November 13, 2013
...is how it ties in with your personal storyline.
Seriously, even though it was just a TINY fraction of this living world chapter, it made my character FEEL like a character.
If you haven't seen th [..]
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2:16 am, November 9, 2013
So i was looking through the forums on gw2 today and came to a thread asking why karma was nerfed so hard. Feeling the same way, i checked out the thread. Here is it copy/pasted.
"ANET,
For newb [..]
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7:03 am, October 18, 2013
Spoiler
Yay! Zaitan is dead after a severely disappointing one dimensional final battle! Everyone lives happily ever after and Trahearnia lords over everyone with his smug, dreary, cheap-motivati [..]
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2:27 pm, October 15, 2013
I wasn't sure if other's felt the same way I did on the topic of limited skills. Mind you, when I say skills, I am referring to your skills on the left side of the interface or more commonly - your we [..]
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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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5:05 pm, October 11, 2013
You never know what you'll find at the bottom of the sea. Shame there wasn't a chest though.
Keep exploring!
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8:18 pm, October 8, 2013
I understand I'm going to receive a lot of flac for posting this but I just feel it has to be said. I'm only lvl 12 and already the game is aging quite badly for me. I'm going to try promptly outline [..]
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12:59 am, October 8, 2013
The best names are always unavailable soon after release, but since the game just started you have the potential to get anything. I thought I wasn't going to get it, but I got the name I really wanted [..]
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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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7:44 am, October 7, 2013
Simply put, Gear-Grind adds a much higher sense of accomplishment once you reach something than getting something that 'looks better'. IF I wanted that I wouldn't play MMORPG's, I'd play something lik [..]
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4:12 pm, October 6, 2013
Hello there
As I could see there wasn't any topic related to what I'm about to tell so I created one myself.
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4:32 am, October 6, 2013
Has anyone come across any rare-ish loot that has dropped from mobs? I.e. something like the golden phoenix sword from GW1, only farmable from a specific area and not otherwise obtainable through vend [..]
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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 [..]
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9:16 pm, October 5, 2013
A major problem with GW2's Dynamic Event system is that there are a ton of events people just ~don't do~.
Every event in a given level tier gives the same Experience, Karma, and silver - no matter ho [..]
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6:33 pm, October 5, 2013
So like many I have GW2 fever and spend most of my free time reading, watching, thinking on the subject. I'm an altoholic so I've decided to build characters for each slot available. I haven't like, s [..]
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2:14 pm, October 5, 2013
There is no dignity in *****. Post up here how your opponent met an embarrassing end.
1) This, bearing in mind this is his actual butt and he wasn't on a horse -
2) One of the Tamini soldiers was [..]
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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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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3:18 pm, October 4, 2013
So I just finished the jumping puzzle at SS. Getting up to the top wasn't terribly hard, but it took a modicum of effort. The reward for that was a green level 76 item, a sapphire orb, and a green lev [..]
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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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12:42 pm, October 4, 2013
So did anyone else immediately shut off all the sound except for the music for this second last quest? Defending Trahearne felt way far more like the emotional final ending than the actual finale was [..]
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2:16 am, October 4, 2013
I'm tired of seeing all of these threads about people crying over how 200 hours of content at launch isn't good enough. Here is my response to (for lack of a better term) cry babies. I'm not sure if i [..]
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8:05 pm, October 3, 2013
some of you may have the same question as a user lately:
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How is slowly introducing more and more elements of CEVP respecting the player? I made an informed decision about this game based on the [..]
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5:55 pm, October 3, 2013
Hi guys! So I played this game religiously since the second BWE up until the first part of Flame and Frost. Totaled about 1400 hours played from Launch until then, so I pretty much did it all at the t [..]
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2:31 pm, October 3, 2013
I am guessing this could have been thrown in the "how many points do you have", but since it wasn't, here's a new thread.
A bit of a spoiler:
http://wiki.guildwar...iki/Achievement
At 1k a [..]
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11:54 pm, October 2, 2013
Did CoF route three for first time and had a good time. Made it through the muck, fought the waves of spawns, and made to Burntclaw's island. That's where a Legendary creature became very underwhelmin [..]
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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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11:28 am, October 2, 2013
While I was updating my gallery I stumbled upon a screenie of Scholar's Uniform I took from the beta weekends. Anyone know what happened to it? Why wasn't it released?
This is the one I'm talking abo [..]
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11:28 am, October 2, 2013
Okay, I'm not trying to complain, Guild Wars 2 is a good game, I just want to hear the thoughts of those who loved gw1. I played gw1 for 6 years, it made me into the nerd I am today, and it will go do [..]
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10:06 am, October 2, 2013
When I first started playing, I was afraid that there wouldn't be much difference between zones since they were all set in the same 6 regions (Ascalon, Kryta, Orr, Shiverpeaks, Maguuma, & Steamspu [..]
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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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6:45 am, October 2, 2013
Since I've heard a lot of comments in this forum and others of how people were "doing it wrong". Oh you're after progression/loot/etc, you're doing it wrong. Well, how are you supposed to pl [..]
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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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12:03 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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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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8:55 pm, October 1, 2013
In beta weekends I found this charge to severly handicap my ability to solo areas beyond starting areas. They have reduced the cost for both of these at earlier levels so, at launch, I was willing to [..]
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8:41 pm, October 1, 2013
I was a former WOW player, Guild Wars 2 wasn't the reason I quit but I thought of it as the next step of the evolution. I've gone through UO, Ascheron's Call, Everquest, WOW, and a little Diablo 2. Up [..]
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8:15 pm, October 1, 2013
Soo... I've never actually written any sort of forum post like this, so here goes!
I hail from the Henge of Denravi server and found that we were lacking a central community hub. Sure, we have a stro [..]
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5:55 pm, October 1, 2013
So towards the end of the Wintersday update I decided to take a break from Gw2, I didn't think the break would be this long but I kind of just forgot about Gw2. Just earlier today I saw an hour long v [..]
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3:36 pm, October 1, 2013
Hey there.
I played since (and before) early launch, enjoyed GW2 for a while when I was just exploring/testing classes.
The novelty died pretty quick.
Bad voice acting, bad storyline, combat sy [..]
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2:08 pm, October 1, 2013
3 weeks ago, it was the universal trend to disregard any negative feedback towards ANet and their amazing game, whether it was valid criticism or just pointless ranting. Those posts would commonly be [..]
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12:04 pm, October 1, 2013
First - This is not a ***** and moan post.
I've been away for over a month (playing other games, still love GW2, but too many games, too little time). When I las [..]
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11:50 am, October 1, 2013
Today I got 100% completion in Cursed Shore, and I only came across 1 single event that would have given me karma except it was bugged.
Now maybe I was just unlucky and wasn't in the zone during the [..]
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9:43 am, October 1, 2013
After quitting the original GW, I have tried playing countless MMOs both F2P and P2P, and I never did find a replacement for GW. There just wasn't a game that could give off such an incredible impress [..]
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9:34 am, October 1, 2013
I've never had posts deleted by a moderator on another forum before, and I have used forums for years with thousands of posts.
At the official gw2 forums, I have had somewhere between 8-10 posts dele [..]
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8:01 am, October 1, 2013
If you haven't played a thief before, you might not know what this mechanic is.
"Revealed- You cannot stealth for 2 seconds."
You are afflicted with this condition every time you drop out [..]
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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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6:46 am, October 1, 2013
Having played most of the MMO's that are and was on the market for over 12 years now, I'm starting to get tired of the same cycle. Maybe I'm just getting older and less patient though, who really know [..]
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6:09 am, October 1, 2013
Whoa there White Knight! Take a moment to read this paragraph before jumping to a conclusion on what this thread is really about!
Guild Wars 2 is already like WoW in many ways, and unfortunatley in so [..]
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3:39 am, October 1, 2013
It's funny, I have a friend who is every exploration-oriented, and I'm always teasing her about it. However, today I found myself on an adventure of exploration that will always be a wonderful memory, [..]
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3:29 am, October 1, 2013
Wasn't there suppose to be a pink day celebration in LA today? I looked around this morning and couldn't find anything. I didn't even see anyone in pink. I ask in [..]
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2:32 am, October 1, 2013
As with making any new topic in a forum, there is a good chance it will backfire and get a bunch of people to stomp you out of existence. Especially when you're not a regular and ha [..]
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1:32 am, October 1, 2013
I'm at work and I wanted to get this out quick so I apologize if its been brought up elsewhere. Redirect if it has.
I quit playing GW2 for about 4 or 5 months, only really popping in to play the sup [..]
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12:21 am, October 1, 2013
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After reading reports in the loot issues thread, we spent more time investigating our rewards system. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we verified that all loot tables are indeed working correct [..]
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11:55 pm, September 30, 2013
I was playing on the server Jade quarry but i transfered in order to get a skillpoint wich wasn't working in my server, but since they implemented a 24 hour limit i couldn't go back, and now... just m [..]
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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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11:29 pm, September 30, 2013
I saw something in a thread recently. It was about the living story content, and it went something like this:
QuoteQuoteIt wasn't so bad at first, but once you fall behind a bit and the content goes a [..]
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11:11 pm, September 30, 2013
Just so you know this isn't a LOLOL wow coming out soon who has stopped for that as I myself won't be getting wow.
Anyway
Yes its sad but true i stopped playing because i got too 80 and hated the & [..]
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9:31 pm, September 30, 2013
I wasn't able to login to the game after being forced to change my email for login, and looking at the official forum, many many more had the same problem. If they feel they needed [..]
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6:36 pm, September 30, 2013
Love the game, but as most say, people go to forums only to complain. I have a few MINOR complaints, and thought it wasn't much to complain about, but... then I keep running into t [..]
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5:57 pm, September 30, 2013
Just thought I would sign up to brag about my unexpected windfall of gold thanks to China
About a month and a bit ago I stopped playing GW2 due to me being busy for the Christmas season. I recently [..]
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5:13 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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5:11 pm, September 30, 2013
Its no big secret that a lot of people are having money issues at higher levels. Especially for someone like me (Working on the Incinerator), you need to save as much money as you can! So here are som [..]
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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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5:01 pm, September 30, 2013
Hi!
Basically since I looked at the game for the very first time to me it was obvious that I would be farming dungeons for equipment. Doing WvW all day seemed very slow to me (SO many badges ...) and [..]
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4:39 pm, September 30, 2013
I've thought about writing this a lot before I decided to actually do it, because I wanted to get some feedback from other players to make sure it wasn't just me. I held off a day when I saw the patch [..]
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4:30 pm, September 30, 2013
http://www.gdconlineawards.com/archive/gdcoa_3rd.html
Guild Wars 2 wasn't even nonimated. What are they looking for? Innovation isn't one of them?
/shrug
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2:55 pm, September 30, 2013
Weve all seen the never ending posts about the game being empty, people flocking to other games and countless this game sucks posts. The rest of us kept playing the game. Most of us expected the gam [..]
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2:19 pm, September 30, 2013
Except I wasn't! Filed a support ticket, posting everywhere I can think of to try and get it resolved but tbh I have little faith left in them.
I mean how does this even happen? I've NEVER sent gold [..]
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1:39 pm, September 30, 2013
(If this is in the wrong forum, please move it. I wasn't sure where it should go.)
Hi all,
So my absolute favourite sword is the Icy Dragon Sword from Guild Wars 1, and it is apparently available in [..]
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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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1:07 pm, September 30, 2013
So I got an E-mail saying my account was trying to be axcessed from "x" place and "x" router number. If I wanted to I could let it be axcesses from there click this link. Of coarse [..]
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12:57 pm, September 30, 2013
So I was wondering what are people experiences so far with the explorable mode dungeons?
Our group did the first two dungeons Ascolonian Catacombs and Caudecus's Manor on story mode relatively easily [..]
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12:07 pm, September 30, 2013
Based on my understanding of the Mystic Forge (and the wiki), dumping 4 items into it will generate a new random item with the same rarity (or better, ~20% chance). If four items of the same type are [..]
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11:03 am, September 30, 2013
If you ever saw huge amounts of gold linking in the chat by your guild members / people in the /map chat, you know that gold linking in gw2 is possible
So, I wasted my time doing a little research in [..]
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9:46 am, September 30, 2013
I've been lurking about on here for a while now, and here is my first contribution, please excuse my English as it is not my first language, but here goes:
THIS IS NOT ABOUT EVENT OR KARMA FARMING!!! [..]
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7:45 am, September 30, 2013
Hello!
I've been reading posts a lot on guildwars2guru and I decided to seek advice on something that has been a particular problem for me the last few weeks: alts.
My main is a charr shout focused [..]
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7:31 am, September 30, 2013
tl;dr: basically ac has become knocklock heaven.
new bosses have room covering aoe in path 3 that knocks you down, path 1 spawns a ton of scavengers and new abilities on stalkers [..]
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6:37 am, September 30, 2013
I'm kind of upset right now, so tirade incoming.
Now, I love Charr. Their lore, personal storylines, models, animations, characters.. all are wonderful. So, of course, I rolled a Charr as my main. Ma [..]
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6:00 am, September 30, 2013
Just wondering how others have found the first part of this Fractal - where you have 30s to get all 3 Wisps through a changing labyrinthe of traps & mobs. My group were rolling [..]
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6:00 am, September 30, 2013
Is anyone else getting stuck on loading screens after several PvP matches? It just loads forever and there's no way out other than to minimize the game and close it. Last 10 minutes of the stress test [..]
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5:55 am, September 30, 2013
Ok so I was happy when I read:
Increased the loot rewards on many world boss chests, including the chests in Orr temples and the dragon chests.
But then I read:
Fixed a bug on certain world boss ch [..]
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4:15 am, September 30, 2013
Ok, so I started playing this game when it came out last year, wasn't really sold on it, decided to put it away for a while... Well, now I'm back.
I'm also full time employed and I don't have 80 hour [..]
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