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In-game currencies other than gold and karma, soul-bound items

6:18 am, November 23, 2014 http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/11/21/the-daily-grind-do-special-currencies-in-mmos-annoy-you/#comments A nice thread on in-game currencies. Personally, they irritate me.  The gam [..] View

Announcing Improvements to PvP and the Ladder Test Season

6:18 pm, November 19, 2014 Hello, Tyrians! We’re very pleased to announce that on December 2 we will be releasing some major updates to PvP that will enhance and improve a number of areas of the PvP experience. Matc [..] View

Living Story.......One step closer.....to Exit

6:18 pm, November 19, 2014 Ok, i`m one of those uber persistant  guys who goes beyound 100% when he puts his mind into something.As long time GW player and fan i was in 7th heaven when i heard about GW2 being [..] View

Logged on after 6+ months.. ran level 50 Fractals

6:18 pm, November 3, 2014 Got rewarded with 3 rares. Logged off. Related Trivia: The team consisted of people with more than 16k AP with one guy having all the legendaries and 9 world completions. Also, I noticed that inste [..] View

Adopt-a-Dev was a Blast

6:18 am, November 1, 2014 Hello Tyrians, A few weeks ago, some of us on the WvW team were chatting about how we can better connect with the community, and we came up with the idea of joining different guilds in different leag [..] View

How Each World Fared in the WvW Fall Tournament

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 [..] View

I get the feeling GW1 lore is incoming...

7:18 am, October 25, 2014 So, many people around here (myself included), are not really interested in the incoming Living Story updates due to the lack of hype.  Tonight's POI live show showed off some new fo [..] View

Join Us in Celebrating the World Tournament Series Invitational Qualifier Tournament this Weekend!

7:18 pm, October 24, 2014 Only this weekend’s World Tournament Series Invitational Qualifier stands between the top PvP teams in Guild Wars 2 and the Finals event in Beijing, China, where players fr [..] View

The New Leveling

7:18 pm, September 14, 2014 So, I ****** off one of my characters(just got tired of the look and didn't want to sink gold/$ into TP), and made a new character the other day...after the patch.  Holy cow nuggets! [..] View

When I started playing GW2, my dog was alive.

7:18 pm, September 6, 2014 Now she is dead and yet GW2 has no expansions. I'll be dead soon and no talking about upcoming expansions. ANet will wait until everyone is ing dead? C'mon ANet, people with cancer are buying gems, do [..] View

Introducing the New TradingPost

7:18 pm, September 4, 2014 As part of the upcoming feature pack for Guild Wars 2, well be shipping a change thats been a long time in the making: a brand-new Trading Post! Weve put a lot of work into it to str [..] View

Tournament of Glory signups close September 5!

7:18 pm, August 29, 2014 Dont forget to sign your team up for the Tournament of Glory, where you and four of your friends can compete for exclusive tournament armor, legendary crafting components, and other prizes. Every team [..] View

September 2014 Feature Pack: Improvements Galore

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

Points of Interest Episode 4

7:18 pm, July 31, 2014 Its time to talk over The Dragons Reach: Part 1 with a few of the people who helped create it! Content Designer Karl Horvath and Narrative Designer Angel McCoy are joining Kate to look at the newest [..] View

2nd Anniversary Predictions

7:18 pm, July 31, 2014 Within less than a month it will have been two years since GW2 released. What do you expect or would like ANet to do? Considering the patch tuesdays fall onto 12th and 26th, I assume we'll get the Dr [..] View

Quality in GW2?

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 [..] View

Super Newbie: 3.0

7:18 am, July 16, 2014 Hey guys, so I've played a few free to play mmo's and even paid for a Runescape gold membership like 5 years ago (Oh lord, go ahead, criticize me for my poor choices xD), and anyways, I don't know whe [..] View

Number of people in your guild - Discussion

7:18 pm, July 14, 2014 As we all know, that MMO games are different every year, and some people willy-nilly have a different view on some things. Years ago MMO games wasnt that big, as it's today. That's why i would like t [..] View

Getting tired of berserker

7:18 am, July 9, 2014 Okay so, if you run Berserker armour and so on that's fine, I understand it's uses and if you want to run it in your build, that's great. One thing I am getting tired of though is people are always d [..] View

What can I do that's fun?

7:18 am, July 4, 2014 Okay so I have been playing Gw2 since it's start and I have a level 80 warrior, necro, guardian and engineer. Thing is, as of late the characters I have are a bit.. bleh.. I can't find any real fun [..] View

I'm here couse of censorship

7:18 pm, June 10, 2014 Hi o/ I wrote on the official forum asking for a link to a free forum about guild wars 2 without censorship and zealot CMs. The post got obviously removed and i got signed for infraction. As all the [..] View

Have ANet responded to weapon/skill criticism? A question about ANet transparency.

7:18 pm, June 5, 2014 Hello! I rarely visit the forums but I have seen after a bit of searching that I'm not the only one who finds the skill system very boring and static. I have found a lot of threads on different forum [..] View

GW2 Main Forum is so unfun

7:18 pm, May 15, 2014 An Error Prevented Saving:Flood Control: Please wait 600 seconds between posts! What exactly is the point of 600 seconds? Isn't 60 seconds enough? Or are they expecting people to type out wall of pos [..] View

Megaservers or not Megaservers?

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

Introducing the new DrumInstrument!

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

Pay-to-win

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 [..] View

Cash->Gem<->Gold Conversion

9:16 pm, April 2, 2014 Forked from here.  Quoted for context. Mordakai, on 02 April 2014 - 02:40 PM, said:So, Raspberry brings probably the most controversial aspect of GW2 up:  buying a [..] View

Introducing the MegaserverSystem

3:16 pm, April 2, 2014 Were down to the last major feature to announce in our upcoming April 15 Feature Pack, and its a pretty huge one: were making it easier to play with your friends on every PvE map, regardless of home w [..] View

On legendaries & wardrobe (a proposed solution)

8:16 pm, March 26, 2014 A lot of people are concerned about legendaries no longer being special. A lot of people feel cheated for making 2 of the same legendaries. Here is my proposal that may or may not address the issues: [..] View

The Trinity, Roles, GW2, and You

8:16 pm, March 19, 2014 I'm now genuinely curious what the psychological attachment to the Trinity is. GW2 does not have the typical Holy Trinity and throughout many of the threads here there seems to be some form of attachm [..] View

Hackers, WvW Season II and Anet's apathy

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

Why don't people like Activities?

8:16 am, March 19, 2014 Over the past month or so, I've spent a lot of time playing Sanctum Sprint, making an effort on my own part to see how fast I can finish the race.  In that time, I've witnessed a lot [..] View

Dynamic Enemy Leveling: Yay or Nay?

2:16 pm, March 16, 2014 QuoteIn LA you are surrounded, even if you're the only one on the map, by Vets and Elites. Dynamic LS spawns would either increase or decrease this number based on actual people in the map. This is a [..] View

Belated Birthday Gifts to the Soldiers?

2:16 am, March 14, 2014 In GW1 I've been thinking about this for a while now. I have birthday presents now on my toons (who are naked, now). Are there enough people playing for me to login and give 'em away? My question is [..] View

Account wide agony resistance and a mission with it.

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 [..] View

[Blog Carnival] What was the first Living World season like for you?

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 [..] View

Has anyone else been affected by the map exploration bug?

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

GW2guru protecting scammers?

8:16 pm, February 28, 2014 http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/90306-problem-with-gem-card-need-advice-please/ this is the thread I created about a card I bought from an online shop which resulted to scam! I posted the link of [..] View

Living Story Season 2 - What would you like to see?

2:16 pm, February 23, 2014 Self-explanatory title. For me: 1. NEW Enemies. Surely, we got several new factions in Season 1 (Molten and Toxic alliance, Aetherblades) but these somehow felt more recycled than new. The only real [..] View

Do you think GW2 players are stupid customers?

8:16 pm, February 21, 2014 In many threads here I keep coming across a baseline conspiracy theory which is that Anet is bleeding people dry of their money and they are doing it successfully because ... Well that's where the log [..] View

Friendly fire

2:16 pm, February 13, 2014 I know I have brought this up before but I have a new take on it and was wondering what people think of it. So friendly fire is when an attack you make damages characters on your own side. Nothing to [..] View

Reward: Where is it in GW2?

8:16 pm, February 11, 2014 OP quoted here gw2guruaccount, on 11 February 2014 - 04:08 PM, said: A continuation of a discussion from another thread opened to the public; the question is simply where the reward of the game and i [..] View

Where would you place "new" LA?

8:16 pm, February 11, 2014 If or when we lose LA, either to Scarlet or some future events, where do you think the best safe haven for all the races of Tyria would be? Give arguments for and against your suggestions, and discu [..] View

Dev for a Day: Condition Damage

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 [..] View

As a casual player......

8:16 pm, February 2, 2014 I am constantly in awe of you guys and gals who work out ALL the stats on armour/weapons to the nth degree...seriously I look at the stuff you write and I get a headache !  one guy w [..] View

Your opinion about PvP bans over missed Solo Tournaments

2:16 pm, January 31, 2014 Well, this is the kind of 'ban' I am talking about. I actually wrote a thread about this in reddit, but I'm not going to lie - it went terrible. The backstory is that I accidentally failed to enter [..] View

"We were making [the wurm] specifically for the hard core groups"

2:16 am, January 25, 2014 http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1w1bpt/josh_foreman_we_were_making_the_wurm_specifically/ QuoteHey, thanks everyone! We spent a lot of time tweaking the balance on this, and Im glad that [..] View

Another PUG Experience

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

Do you think comparing GW1 to GW2 makes sense?

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; [..] View

Twisted Marionette - A step in the right direction?

8:16 pm, January 23, 2014 Hi all. So, I'm hoping you've had a chance to try out the new temp world event, and formulated your own opinions on it. Personally, my reaction is that it's a nice change. Seems like a mix of tower [..] View

ArenaNet to "address [...] the dominance of Berserker/DPS"

8:16 am, January 12, 2014 Forum: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/professions/balance/PvE-Revising-the-DPS-Meta/first#post3480529 Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1uyt5e/some_steps_will_be_taken [..] View

Random Derpy Observations Upon Returning

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 [..] View

Recap: The Living World of GuildWars2

2:16 pm, January 7, 2014 As we announced back in December, were down to just four releases to go in the current storyline of living world. The first of those four releases is nearly upon us, and we wanted to help take a momen [..] View

If GW2 married Skyrim

2:16 pm, January 1, 2014 I think that game would rock the world. They really should learn from each other. I just bought Skyrim LE on Steam and I can't get enough of it. Flaws of both can be seem in the other game. Here are s [..] View

Jute/linen farm exploit and bans.

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

Anyone ever taught of creating a Dugeoun guide?

8:16 am, December 27, 2013 Hello. Just Wondering if anyone has ever taught of creating a Dugeoun  Guide for the people that could use the help with tips and pointers? View

Exotic Items MUST be modified to include Infusion Slots or..

2:16 am, December 22, 2013 The whole concept of Ascended Gear is working counter-productive to the concept of using various stats combinations to counter different situations to the advantage of playerbase. With the advent of a [..] View

Job-o-Trons Journey: TheEvolution of a Gag

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 [..] View

Watch the GuildWars2 OathVideo

8:16 pm, December 16, 2013 The Great MMO Migration Contest has ended! Thank you to everyone who participated. Well be welcoming the winners of the contest to Tyria with a free copy of Guild Wars 2 soon via ema [..] View

Good job on the new healing skills /sarcasm

2:16 am, December 12, 2013 So I fully support adding more skills to the game, and even support Arena Nets reasons for starting with healing skills. However I have a problem with their current implementation. Two problems, actua [..] View

ANet can get alot of respect back by doing..

8:16 pm, December 5, 2013 As we all know, ANet seemed to have left what made the original Guild Wars so great, out of GW2. ANet could easily gain back the players they lost and the respect of all the original GW1 players, and [..] View

Fractals: My gripes.

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 [..] View

Three step solution to removing Magic Find

6:38 pm, November 28, 2013 This is my outline on how to do this right. Sort off. 1) Month 1: Discontinue MF item creation: "Rogue Second in Command after Shatterer has started consuming certain kind magic, he is rebelling [..] View

World XP and You

8:16 am, November 28, 2013 When we added the World XP system to World vs. World, it was our goal to create a sense of character progression in WvW gameplay. We wanted to reward people who put time into WvW by increasing the too [..] View

Where are the world builders?

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 [..] View

So We Are 80 Ongoing Series Weekly "Get Ready Get Set Fractal!"

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 [..] View

I miss the GW1 armors

2:16 am, November 22, 2013 I recently logged into guildwarsguru.com for the first time in a really long time and looked through my post history there. The only part I was really active was posting pictures of my armors, and wow [..] View

Ascended Berserker Gear over 12% Increase In Effective Power

8:16 pm, November 21, 2013 Using a Sword/Warhorn Warrior Build with traits set at 30/30/0/0/10 on each, there is a 12.6% change in having all Ascended Gear to having all Exotic Gear. Please feel free to use this post as a refe [..] View

Why GW2 needs an Expansion

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 [..] View

Dev's Can't Complete Temples Due to Bugs

8:16 pm, November 19, 2013 I've heard a lot of people say that most of the bugs in this game have been fixed. To that I say: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Devs-try-to-stream-temples-and-they-bug Quote http:// [..] View

Fractals: The source of the problem

8:16 pm, November 19, 2013 Well after looking over these new previews for the next update I found myself immensely underwhelmed, and even bordering on offended. This is primarily because I dont play Fractals, and dislike gettin [..] View

Perception of "Grind"

10:36 am, November 19, 2013 I've come to the conclusion that people only drop the "grind" bomb when the content itself is not intrinsically fun. When people aren't enjoying doing X content for Y item, they complain abo [..] View

A map, and expansion theorizing

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 [..] View

The Origins of the Dragon Bash Theme Song

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 [..] View

Are you still doing World Boss events?

2:16 am, November 12, 2013 When Anet made the change to World Boss events that guarenteed one rare a day, I jumped on the train.  I had the overlay and tried to make it to all of the world bosses at least once [..] View

Bring Back Inactive Players With Gems?

8:16 am, November 11, 2013 Is this a good idea or ripe for abuse? I just saw this pop up in reddit. I know some players aren't coming back at all to the game for one thing or another but will this bring back the ones that wande [..] View

Falsely Accused And Banned

8:16 am, November 10, 2013 Hey everyone. Yesterday, as usually I was playing GW2, nothing special, FOTM level 38, WvW and AC P1/P2. Later on that day, when I tried logging back in GW2 I received a message upon the log in scree [..] View

People using cash to buy legendaries

8:16 am, November 10, 2013 What do you think of these people? Just joined a party wherein someone with Juggernaut, Moot and Flameseeker Prophecies was talking to someone else on how he had to spend so much RL money to finish h [..] View

Combating The Lonelyness.

7:01 am, November 10, 2013 Hello everyone! I've been playing for a little while (have been kinda busy lately) but now I'm back and having a ton of fun exploring and stuff. I can't help but notice that this title is a little la [..] View

Gw2 forums too strict?

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 [..] View

Are RPGS and Casual Gamers Really Compatible?

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 [..] View

Headstart acesses unavailable?

10:25 am, November 4, 2013 Do you think they are going to stop pre-purchases soon? I just stumbled across this: http://www.greenmang...deluxe-edition/ customers notes: PURCHASES ON OR AFTER 17TH AUGUST WILL NOT INCLUDE THE 3 [..] View

How to discuss topics (like a guru)

2:16 pm, October 31, 2013 GW2G is a discussion forum. This means that we expect a certain level of quality in our posts, but it also dictates how we expect our users to act. We try to allow you to discuss all subjects in a non [..] View

Why so much hate?

9:18 am, October 30, 2013 Just a general question. I am not trying to troll or flame, but I have been wondering about this for near 6 months now. After reading these forums since November pretty actively I see so much negativi [..] View

PSA: I appreciate the help but......

5:17 am, October 30, 2013 Please, if you see someone kiting a mob and dodging but not attack don't **** the mob. They are most likely doing daily dodge. This happened to me 4 times tonight making a 5 min process take way longe [..] View

Incentive to repeat champion events

2:53 am, October 30, 2013 Just something i thought was important. Events with champions like the cyclops need to give item drops or chests. I enjoy killing the cyclops and it takes a decent sized group and some time to do. I d [..] View

Guesting and overflows

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

Why are there so many people on these forums who have quit?

11:43 pm, October 26, 2013 Ok so to start I'm still an active player on GW2. I haven't played a load of MMOs but of the ones I've played I really like it. I like the little bit of grind that there is in the game and I like to [..] View

Server population Poll

4:42 pm, October 26, 2013 I know someone else already sent this poll around but I found it interesting that 35,000 people already placed their answers in, so I feel like it now displays a good variety of what may be pretty acc [..] View

Guild Events - Balanced?

2:13 pm, October 25, 2013 I wonder what people's opinions on the balancing of guild events: - Guild Bounty - Guild Rush - Guild Trek - Guild Challenge and - Guild Puzzle I'm particularly interested in what small guild's takes [..] View

Executioner Costume should have been a Heavy Armor Skin

9:16 pm, October 23, 2013 Title says it all. Why can the costmes(Witch is awesome for a necro btw) look so cool yet we have so many armors sharing the same skins? EX. All 'Named' Armor should not all look the same, it takes i [..] View

Pretend you worked at Anet...

9:16 pm, October 23, 2013 So, I've been away from the GW2 scene for a while now... I just got kinda fed up with the direction of the game somewhere around the Tequatl rehash/ascended weapon introduction.  I h [..] View

For Interested Roleplayers!

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 [..] View

State of the Dungeon Crowd - Good or Bad?

11:36 am, October 22, 2013 Hello community.  I am an avid dungon runner.  For me, running dungeons is the best thing about the MMORPG genre.  As we all know, there is a fair [..] View

The ball was dropped on this game..

7:43 pm, October 19, 2013 Should have kept the Holy trinity or if you were going to remove it make a DEEP combat system not some spam fest where it doesn't matter what skills you use in a row and not really any combos to do ma [..] View

Don't ban us for farming....

6:59 pm, October 19, 2013 ... or just give us a legendary without the hassle of appealing a ban. They have people reviewing each case for botting bans, but they miss the obvious, like how I was making no money. I farmed the s [..] View

Wish this had the story line similar to GW1

4:07 pm, October 18, 2013 GW1 was such a cool game to jump in with some friends, do a few missions, go into the arena, spend time in the hubs trading. With GW2 it's just go to a random point on the map and spam with 100 other [..] View

The Edge of the Mists: A New Map is Coming to WvW!

3:16 pm, October 18, 2013 Greetings, folks! I’m here to announce an exciting new development in World vs. World! We are in the process of designing a brand-new map that will let you enjoy WvW while waiting to enter [..] View

Some changes I would love to see in GW2

1:02 pm, October 18, 2013 First off, the PvP system is broke. We really need a real rating system (WoW-like, you can't deny that this was a really positive thing for WoW) and not the point gathering system that we have today. [..] View

The Family Business

9:16 pm, October 17, 2013 By the third night, the mob around Castle Thorn had grown so thick that their bonfires reached the river, making a constellation of pyres that stretched as far as King Oswald Thorn could see. &#8 [..] View

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