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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6:18 pm, November 13, 2014
(Please note that the following post could not be posted on the Official Forums, due to me being banned from creating new threads. If you'd like to repost this in the official forum [..]
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7:18 pm, October 17, 2014
After four weeks of intense fighting, filled with hard-fought victories and heart-wrenching losses, the WvW Fall Tournament finally came to an end with six worlds claiming the right to call themselves [..]
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7:18 pm, September 19, 2014
After battling through a harrowing bracket last weekend, the first four of eight North American teams have qualified for the Tournament of Glory Finals! If qualifying teams meet eligibility requiremen [..]
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7:18 am, September 16, 2014
Last month, we partnered with Overwolf to see who could develop the best app for World vs. World in the Overwolf WvW App Challenge. Some amazing apps were created as a result, and you can explore the [..]
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7:18 pm, September 8, 2014
http://happycatproductions.polldaddy.com/s/what-future-do-you-want
With the release of the feature pack tomorrow, Guild Wars 2 adds a number of features that many in the community are excited about. [..]
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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7:18 am, August 11, 2014
We all know that Anet's writers are frikking awful and the common meme said is "I can do better."
Well I decided to literally do better by reworking a particularly painful piece of writing [..]
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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 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 [..]
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8:16 pm, March 25, 2014
Wardrobe System
This new Wardrobe System will still result in cluttered bank space for many players. As they will not want to use multiple Transmutation Charges on the same item to [..]
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8:16 pm, March 21, 2014
One of the balance changes coming in the April 2014 Feature Pack is the introduction of ferocity, a brand new stat that will affect your critical damage. Ferocity is being introduced to make bonus cri [..]
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2:16 pm, March 20, 2014
Hello there! I’m Roy Cronacher, and as a game designer for ArenaNet, I’m excited to tell you about upcoming changes to the trait system. These changes focus on improving the ease o [..]
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8:16 pm, March 14, 2014
Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.co...ng_power_sucks/
tso said:The problem is not the numbers, it is the ham fisted mob design.
We can see this clearly when a mob gets zerg scaled, as it magnifies [..]
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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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8:16 pm, February 28, 2014
MODERATOR EDIT: A list of authorized retailers is listed in a later post. All other sources are not to be trusted.
Hello all. After playing the game for 3 months I decided to buy some gems to enhance [..]
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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 [..]
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2:16 pm, February 18, 2014
Hello,
Some of you may remember a survey which has been done by GameStatistics on September 2013, about Guild Wars 2 players opinions about the game. The link for the survey had been put on Guild war [..]
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8:16 am, January 18, 2014
A simple question up for discussion; we've talked extensively about gear but most of the impact a person has in game actually comes from traits and getting the skills "just right" so to spea [..]
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8:16 am, December 30, 2013
http://www.reddit.co...ans_last_night/
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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" [..]
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2:16 am, December 11, 2013
Although the nights are long and dark, folks all over Tyria are in good cheer Wintersday has begun! Snowball fights, festive activities, and (best of all!) toys all help to keep joy alive through the [..]
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10:08 am, November 17, 2013
Just wanted to make a public service announcement that the TP is currently broken and that trying to retrieve retracted buy orders will result in a complete loss of your money. Furthermore, items sold [..]
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2:16 am, October 28, 2013
So it's been a year and the lag has gotten worse (understatement) not better. With the introduction of WvW leagues the lag has hit extrodinary levels.
We all know it's there, we've [..]
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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 [..]
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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. [..]
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9:16 pm, October 17, 2013
A post has been put out by Martin Kerstein, Global Community Manager of ArenaNet.
I want to take a moment to give you an update on how we will enforce part of our forum Code of Conduct in the future. [..]
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3:16 am, October 17, 2013
Source: http://www.guildwars.com/events/tradeshows/gc2007/gcspeech.php
Jeff Strain, one of the three founders of ANet, was asked to make a speech about how to make an MMO. I would like to provide a f [..]
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3:16 am, October 17, 2013
A post has been put out by Martin Kerstein, Global Community Manager of ArenaNet.
I want to take a moment to give you an update on how we will enforce part of our forum Code of Conduct in the future. [..]
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9:16 pm, October 15, 2013
Edrick was a monster, he brought his family shame
So the locked him in a box, mouth stuffed with candy corn
But now the son has risen to take his fathers name
Beware the Bloody Prince, the son of [..]
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10:47 am, October 12, 2013
My group and I are trying to perfect our current composition so we can reach the furthest levels of FoTM as possible. Clearly we're gonna need to utilize combo fields as well as possible in order to b [..]
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2:25 am, October 11, 2013
Survey Link: https://docs.google....vUFgzWjA5MHc6MQ
I've seen lots of complaints from people that their profession has issues or the other profession is too overpowered and so on and so forth. I'm in [..]
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5:12 am, October 10, 2013
This was posted on FB a couple of hours ago. I didn't see any threads about it so I figured I would post it. https://www.facebook...ars2?ref=stream
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We will be conducting a st [..]
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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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2:09 pm, October 7, 2013
With a lot of people saying one of the things they will buy from Gemstore is the extra character slots, i was wondering if there are more people like me, that are planning on having just one character [..]
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1:43 am, October 7, 2013
All emotion aside, which is the better option to revive a dead( not downed) player mid event/ dungeon or make them run back from the nearest waypoint?
Looking at in a logical manor I would say its be [..]
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1:21 am, October 7, 2013
I've had my fair share of complaints about the game so far but since those can be mostly fixed, I'm waiting to see what will happen but there is one thing that made me not play for nearly two days now [..]
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10:10 pm, October 6, 2013
The personal story ended up being one of those GW2 features that managed to massively reduce my enjoyment of the game. And it's not the story's writing, rewards or something similar - it's the way it' [..]
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7:41 am, October 6, 2013
SO I did a study on this comparing:
Mystic salvage kit: 25% chance of getting rare materials.
Basic salvage kit: 10% chance of getting rare materials.
Journeyman Salvage kit: 20% chance of getting rar [..]
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1:34 am, October 6, 2013
Some people may argue that it is largely pointless to speculate about a future tier of gear when it has barely been released, and I would agree. However, it gets exceedingly tiresome to read thread af [..]
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6:28 am, October 5, 2013
Daily achievements are very important in game, so current plans to fiddle with it are worrying.
1) Daily achievement provide alternative to rested xp found in other games and were kinda supposed to b [..]
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2:48 pm, October 4, 2013
has anyone seen any evidence of a visual weapon upgrade? something that would add flames or electricity around the given weapon?
its been said that there will be something like that in game but the o [..]
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2:02 pm, October 4, 2013
...was actually the endgame?
Yes, remember it was the initial idea that the entire world would be the endgame?
Let's pretend that tomorrow a new patch blasts GW2 with something like this.
Once you ar [..]
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9:48 pm, October 3, 2013
There are currently 2 main Systems for Skill progression in MMO- or Action-RPGs the "vertical" and the "horizontal" progression:
In the "vertical" progression you have u [..]
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5:44 pm, October 3, 2013
Hello
I wanted to post a real life account so that the rest of the world can see how Arena Net is doing and their response to people that have been hacked.
Last Saturday on Sept. 8th at about 5pm I [..]
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2:09 pm, October 3, 2013
Char name : Volrick
Server EU : Gandara
on Feb 7 i tried to login my account and it was suspended for account issue , i contacted support and this was their first reply
This e-mail is to notify you [..]
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11:56 am, October 3, 2013
Just a quick background on myself. I consider myself the casual gamer that ArenaNet said would especially love this game (MMO Manifesto). I have a PS3. Ive played popular games like Skyrim and Assassi [..]
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1:34 am, October 3, 2013
First of all, what is your take on having all races living in a friendly, co-operational environment?
On one hand, it's cool from the world event perspective and whatnot, that everyone can help and w [..]
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12:30 am, October 3, 2013
I've been doing quite a few of these events in the past few days, some in the overflow and some on my own server, and in either case much of the time I notice a debate in the chat log about how the ev [..]
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8:45 pm, October 2, 2013
I asked a question asking whether world population meters include people that were logged out on the official forums.
The thread resulted in 20 or so replies.
https://forum-en.gui...ple-logged-out/
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5:12 pm, October 2, 2013
it seems it is not only me. i was running clock tower for 7 hours yesterday. i failed everytime because of lag. but the reward is very useless . does anyone having this bug?? i was waiting. [..]
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12:41 pm, October 2, 2013
On July 27 and 28, we watched our European community compete in the first Regional Qualifying Tournament. Through a lot of teamwork and discipline, Team Paradigm faced off against Car Crash in a fight [..]
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12:34 pm, October 2, 2013
I know racial skills aren't the focus of the game, and they're kind of a tack-on thing to add flavour to your character, but I can't help but feel like Anet didn't really think them through all that w [..]
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11:29 am, October 2, 2013
Hi All,
Last night I was having trouble with the TP. I was anable to purchase or sell items. I had 2g+ on me but when I tried to purchase materials to craft a new weapon, the BUY button stayed grey. [..]
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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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8:44 am, October 2, 2013
Hello folks,
I came across a thread in another forum asking for peoples ages and people seemed to be into it. It seems like it would be interesting to take it a step further so I t [..]
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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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7:30 am, October 2, 2013
Yes there are things that are great about this game. In fact, there are areas of this game that are revolutionary and awesome.
Yet, there are too many areas that make this game seem like it was slapp [..]
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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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1:40 am, October 2, 2013
Status of appeal changed to waiting and a message that was attached:
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Hello,
In the coming hours, we will be restoring account access to those who were suspended for exploiting the bugged vendo [..]
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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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11:21 pm, October 1, 2013
Today I wanted to play with a reallife friend that started a few days ago and he needed to do a few dungeons in storymode. As I already have done them I know the tactics to have a pretty solid run wit [..]
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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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10:12 pm, October 1, 2013
This is a repost of my survey on the official forums. I am trying to expand the audience and reach of this survey. You would help me greatly if you could get your fellow GW2 players on reddit or ingam [..]
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9:47 pm, October 1, 2013
Hi all,
I have submitted a ticket to Guild Wars 2 Support Team regarding macros and this is what I got for an answer:
QuoteHi,
We don't have the ability to say "You can use this here, but not [..]
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8:11 pm, October 1, 2013
After seeing several posts in the tecnical forum about losses in performance i decided to check it out and benchmark the game myself.
Resultsgot me a litle of guard, i got an overall drop of near 10 [..]
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7:00 pm, October 1, 2013
I started this game since head-start which was 28 days ago and I have only spent 125 hours in the game which comes out to 4.6 hours per day. I'm not a rusher yet the game is losing [..]
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6:42 pm, October 1, 2013
Abstract
Would someone get Anette-chan out of here?! We don't need her tomfoolery now. Shoo you damn charr, go back to Ascalon!
Gems are bad 'kay? That's what I always say. And thanks to Cube's [..]
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3:46 pm, October 1, 2013
Was just on facebook home screen and Arenanet posted (I am paraphrasing):
Stress test in 15mins 9:10PDT to 10:10PDT. They took down the message when I went to their page...Edit: 10 mins for the stres [..]
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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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3:39 pm, October 1, 2013
Dragon Bash is almost here! We made some real-world versions of the dragon piatas you’ll find in Guild Wars 2 tomorrow and shared them with our friends at various gaming si [..]
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1:38 pm, October 1, 2013
It is not at all uncommon for my target to completely drop/change (sometimes even to a friendly target) out of nowhere. In PvE this is particularly annoying, as it often results in unintended aggro. I [..]
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12:14 pm, October 1, 2013
Hi!
TLDR: Yes, it gets your further.
What is a jumpdodge?
You jump and dodge simultaneously.
Advantages:
A further jump while in/out of combat.
My testing has been for jumping forward only since [..]
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11:26 am, October 1, 2013
Greetings!
We are excited to introduce you all to the new and improved Borderlands maps and the Borderlands Bloodlust buff. As part of our continuing efforts to introduce new and interesting mechanic [..]
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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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10:30 am, October 1, 2013
A ****** at the Dragon Bash has thrown lions Arch into Chaos! The culprits responsible for the mayhem have holed up in their hideout. Inspector Ellen Kiel spearheaded the investigation into the ****** [..]
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10:06 am, October 1, 2013
Hello people. To collect some player's opinions about current topics and some of the changes GW2 made compared to other games, I created a survey. I avoided questions about stuff like class balance or [..]
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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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8:17 am, October 1, 2013
Im fed up. Im fed up with people moaning, crying, complaining or boasting, claiming and bragging about how Tequatl requires "so much co-ordination" and "everything must be organised!&qu [..]
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5:37 am, October 1, 2013
I am posting this topic here because I needed a place to type this text since I can't post on the official forums. Letting my friend copy paste it here and thought well the more people that see this t [..]
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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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1:22 am, October 1, 2013
Hey there, in case you hadn't seen the update today. Arenanet added some new temporary recipes to reduce over-inflated items.
Recipe is: 1 Glob of Ectoplasm, 1 Mystic Coin, and 2 stacks of 250 of som [..]
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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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9:09 pm, September 30, 2013
This video took a very long time to make but I am happy with the result. If the griefers weren't there in the beginning the run would have been even faster.
Select scenes with commentary0:15 - Deali [..]
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8:00 pm, September 30, 2013
During the last month I switched my keys quite a few times and I still can't say I'm totally happy with the result. So i decided to share my control map as a subject to criticism and suggestions. And [..]
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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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5:27 pm, September 30, 2013
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/arenanet-tracker/topic/245481-ill-be-honest-about-the-gear-and-gearchecks/
The results aren't pretty...
QuoteThis is something that existed prior to ascended gear, and [..]
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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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3:19 pm, September 30, 2013
Hello WvW players,
Im here to make an announcement regarding season one of World vs. World. After careful consideration of feedback, weve decided to make some changes to both the timing of the inagur [..]
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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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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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9:41 am, September 30, 2013
From what I understand the "Diminishing Return" changes were added as a solution to combat botting. As a result, legitimate players are being effected negatively by having [..]
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8:47 am, September 30, 2013
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The Living World conceptAn ever changing worldUnique experience with each loginPlayer banding together and building towards a persistent world.New content every 2 weeks with unique rewards and a [..]
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8:19 am, September 30, 2013
Ok, so I've already posted this on a couple other forums - but I'm so happy with the results I need to let my fellow Kiwis/Aussies/Pacific Rim peeps know what's up.
I was getting a pretty good connec [..]
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8:11 am, September 30, 2013
Lolz they gave me a temp forum ban for doing this on the official forums, for that reason alone I will duplicate the post here.
I think ArenaNet has shown the community how it really feels about bot [..]
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5:43 am, September 30, 2013
Let me preface this with the following: Do not let this thread devolve into bickering and moaning over which game is better, WoW or GW2. I often referenced WoW in this thread in order to provide a bas [..]
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4:00 am, September 30, 2013
Hello folks,
A couple of weeks ago on this very site I posted a survey pertaining to demographic data of Guild Wars 2 players. The response has been pretty good thus far and I've t [..]
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3:35 am, September 30, 2013
I'd like to share my thoughts positively on this matter.
As you all know, a decent sum of the community are currently upset with the idea of a new tier in gear. Whether casual or people that just sha [..]
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2:45 am, September 30, 2013
General Questions
Will there be a subscription fee?
No. There is no monthly subscription fee. Once your purchase the box or a game key, you are free to play as much as you want.
Will there be micro [..]
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