The Guild Wars 2 blog was updated once again with ArenaNet’s Leif Chappelle, one of the Living World designers, discussing how they approached the design of the Living World. Through content updates ArenaNet are aiming to keep the world evolving and we’ll see more holidays, dungeons and more as the story progresses.
Check out the full update here.
Read more & comment >>The ANet team live streamed some Living World content earlier today. If you missed it, you can watch it at the link below.
The March patch is finally here and it’s another big one! Check out the full notes below and as always, join our discussion and tell us what you think!
Flame and Frost: The Razing
A hybrid army erupts through fiery portals in the Shiverpeaks. This “Molten Alliance” between dredge and Flame Legion has created an enemy powerful enough to massacre any who stand in their way. One ranch, one homestead at a time, they’re wiping out all resistance. The razing has begun.
In Flame and Frost: The Razing, the third installment in this four-part series, we meet Braham and Rox, two fervent Tyrians who believe in doing what’s right, even if it means putting themselves in danger. They’re defending the people and places they love, and they’ll need your help.
Dailies are easy extra income, mystic coins, laurels, and karma. This is a short guide giving some pointers on ways to make the dailies easier, by giving hints on how to incorporate them into normal play or combo-ing them.
I would suggest you start with the following if you plan on completing them… they are relatively short but also fairly specific. These dailies are also pretty easy to synergize with other dailies.
Read more & comment >>Colin Johanson just made a post over in the Guild Wars 2 official forums that ArenaNet is opening up all medium population servers for free transfer next week. So if you were looking to move, now is the chance to do so free of charge.
Good afternoon PC game fans. Its time for a round-up of what’s some of the gaming goodness that’s been happening around the network for week ending 16-23 March.
IncGamers Podcast/Vidcast
In the week in which John Riccitiello has announced his resignation as CEO at EA, the question on everybody’s lips in the IncGamers Podcast is: how exactly do you pronounce his name? We’ve done our best to assess his reign at the head of EA; from the early days of getting Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge off the ground, to the anti-consumerist practices that now define the company.
Speaking of which – it’s SimCity! Yes, the debate and discussion that surrounds this game is rumbling ever onward. We’re in on it too.Elsewhere, Battlefield 4 has been teased with erotic rain imagery and Saints Row IV has shown off some naked car surfing in a recent trailer. How is this pair of 4′s likely to shape up?
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Guild Wars 2 Guild Missions – now also for smaller guilds!
ArenaNet’s Anthony Ordon just posted an update on Guild Missions over at the official Guild Wars 2 blog. Smaller or more casual guilds will be happy to hear that this update includes content specifically geared to them. Once a guild has Art of War level 3 researched, they can start researching Bounty Hunt Training Mission, where the guild has to track and kill a single bounty target. What is special about these missions is that they do not rewards Guild Merits, but in stead 3,000 influence for the guild. This way guilds with smaller regular influence earnings can still accrue enough influence to buy some of the more costly guild upgrades. Other news include three new bounty hunt targets; 2-MULT, Big Mayana and Yanonka the Rat-Wrangler as well a whole new weapon set available for purchase in exchange for Guild Commendations!
As the 26 of March draws closer, ArenaNet has updated the Flame & Frost page with more information on what to expect including new WvW progressions and abilities, improved WvW performance, new guild Boiunty hunter targets, Leaderboards and more.
Check out the full update now on the official site.
Read more & comment >>Get your farming in while you can! Tell us how you feel about this change in our thread.
In the next release we will adjust the way that world mega bosses award their loot. The current chests will stay lootable once per day per character, but each boss’s guaranteed rare item drop will be moved to a separate chest (visually similar to daily achievement reward chests) that can only be acquired once per day across an account.
Our intention with this change is to keep providing rewarding loot for world mega bosses while avoiding overwhelming participation in boss fights (and overwhelming the economy with rares) from players cycling through each character slot for each boss every day.
A quick patch went up last night to address a few bugs. Notes are below.
LIVING STORY
Flame and Frost: The Gathering Storm
Guild Bounties
Story
Professions
Mesmer
A new teaser page for the Flame & Frost: The Razing, which is due on 26 March, has been posted by ArenaNet.
In Flame and Frost: The Razing you’ll meet the norn Braham and Rox the charr, two Tyrians who fervently believe in doing what’s right, no matter the risk. Join Braham and Rox in a desperate battle to defend their homelands from annihilation in the third installment in this four-part series!
ArenaNet just announced that the in-game gem store will be offering a new item on sale every day throughout March. With discounts ranging from 15% to a whopping 40%, there should be a bargain to be had for most tastes. Each offer runs from midnight to midnight Pacific standard time.
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