Category Archives: Guild Wars 2

Defying Explanation

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

As a regular dungeon runner in GW2, the single place that is always a source of confusion for my party members is the Defiant buff unique to Champion and Legendary foes. On a near-daily basis, I find myself having to … Continue reading →

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Flame and Frost Impressions

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

This week marks the release of Guild Wars 2′s first major update of the year, Flame and Frost: Prelude, which promises to lay the groundwork for bigger updates throughout the first half of the year. Between both GW1 and GW2 ArenaNet … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Why Fractals are Really, REALLY bad for the GW2 Community

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

A lot has been said about the newest addition to Guild Wars 2, Fractals, and I want to start out by pointing out a few great things about Fractals. One, they are great end-game content for people who love challenging … Continue reading →

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Opt Out: Chris Whiteside AMA

Posted on November 26, 2012 by

I didn’t have the stomach to make perusing the forums and reporting the good bits into a regular feature here, but Today’s AMA answers a bunch of important questions and spurred me to action. I understand the AMA is not finished … Continue reading →

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Ascended Rage

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

We now have some of the facts about the new Ascended tier of items. I joined in yesterday morning’s fan rage but at the end of the day–literally and figuratively in this case–my reaction and those like it were uncalled for regardless of how … Continue reading →

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Opt Out

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

In general, I hate forums. I’ve always found them to be a place where people with lost perspectives go to argue, except “argue” means “state one’s position without backing it up with reasons or evidence, call out the devs for … Continue reading →

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Three weeks later: my thoughts and a special giveaway!

Posted on September 18, 2012 by

It should come as no surprise that I’ve been quiet on the blogging front lately–as I’m sure you have, I’ve been playing Guild Wars 2! On a kneejerk I decided to roll not four but seven alts in order to represent … Continue reading →

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My headstart and launch, in pictures

Posted on August 29, 2012 by

Got around to curating the more than 200 screenshots I took in the last 4 days and made an album out of my favorites. Check it out! Also, one more quick tip to supplement yesterday’s post: drawing on the map, … Continue reading →

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Guesting workaround and display name change trick!

Posted on August 28, 2012 by

It’s here! And the servers aren’t down for everyone! Woohoo! I had an awesome headstart weekend–when the servers went up I was able to get into Jade Quarry, get both of the one-word character names I wanted (Vimm and Nani,) … Continue reading →

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The Power Of Friendship

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

Friday’s announcement about the Wayfarer’s Reverie event was a bittersweet experience for a lot of us Guild Wars fans–we got a reason to jump into GW1 and revisit a bunch of nostalgic locations, but it was also an opportunity to … Continue reading →

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