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All Brace for the Rise of the Quaggan!

Posted 01/04/13 by Lensor

One of the twisted Quaggans the protagonists in “Heart of the Quaggan” will encounter – the wretched creature “Quaggom”

In honor of the recently announced Guild Wars 2 “Heart of the Quaggan” expansion, GWOnline have decided we are going to change our Charr head logo to one of a mighty Quaggan! Not much is known about this new expansion yet, save the name, and that the story line will revolve around a young Quaggan and his three friends on a quest through vales, mountains and caves to vanquish an ancient enemy. During their travels they will join up with five others, one of each of the already playable races of Guild Wars 2, plus one mysterious character in a pointy hat who likes his pipe. Also, the Quaggans will become a playable race! Their race-specific elite skill? “Quaggan, Smash!” Our new logo will go well with the new direction ArenaNet is taking, making Quaggans the chief protagonists of their next expansion, and we could not be happier.

The soon-to be new GWOnline logo head – the fearsome Quaggan!

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Free Transfers to All Medium Population Servers Next Week

Posted 26/03/13 by Lensor

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.

For the next week, all the medium population servers will be free to transfer to. Might be worth giving one of them a look!

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Guild Missions Update Good News for Casual Guilds

Posted 22/03/13 by Lensor

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!

This month we’re bringing you three new bounty hunt targets that are more insidious, more deadly, and more elusive than ever before. Take a look at this bit of intel, if only so you’re not caught completely off guard when you have to adapt your strategy:

2-MULT – This defective prototype weather golem has been storming around Timberline Falls. Target needs to be brought in for a software patch.
Big Mayana – This voracious hylek is wanted for questioning about a recent poisoning. Target is thought to have taken refuge in the canopy of Sparkfly Fen.
Yanonka the Rat-Wrangler – This rogue ogre is wanted for spying on and sabotaging various factions vying for control of the Fields of Ruin. Target is notorious for using pet rats to do her dirtiest work.

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31 Days of Sales in the Gem Store

Posted 01/03/13 by Lensor

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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Gamebreaker’s Viewers’ Choice Award Show Awards Guild Wars 2

Posted 31/12/12 by Lensor

For those of you who missed the live stream the other day, Gamebreaker.tv just released a video of their 2012 games award show. And there is no denying it – this year’s great winner was without a doubt Guild Wars 2. Taking home the awards for Best Graphics, Best Soundtrack, Best New MMO, and Best MMO, it was a great evening for the buys and gals over at ArenaNet!

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Angry Joe Tops 2012 Best Games List With Guild Wars 2

Posted 30/12/12 by Lensor

As we all learned earlier this year, Angry Joe really likes Guild Wars 2. How much so is now even more evident, with the release of his personal 2012 Top 10 Best Games of 2012 list.

We here at GWOnline can only agree with the congenial gentleman’s assessment!

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The Wintersday Advent Calendar is Here!

Posted 01/12/12 by Lensor

As advertised a month and a half back, the 2012 Wintersday Advent Calendar is up and running. Launching off the calendar today is a work by Nian, an artist at GW2 Guru. We also have a few of our own artists here in GWOnline participating, so check it out!

2012 Wintersday Advent Calendar

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Fan-Made Guild Wars 2 Music Videos

Posted 09/10/12 by Lensor

Today we are spotlighting two awesome fan made Guild Wars 2 music videos. First out are Taylor, Lara, and Malukah who made their own cover on the GW2 theme song “Fear Not This Night”, some say it is even better than the original.

And then there are Verse Academy, with what can only be described as an epic rap. Original content at it’s very finest, and I for one cannot wait to hear more.

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ArenaNet on the State of the Guild Wars 2 Economy

Posted 15/09/12 by Lensor

John Smith just released an article about the current state of the Guild Wars 2 economy over at the official ArenaNet site. In the article he explains how ArenaNet is using the supply and demand figures gleaned from the Trading Post to adjust in-game availability of different items. Also, to remove some of the surplus they have instituted some temporary Mystic Forge recipes using those same items.

We’ve noticed several markets that are clearly out of sync in terms of supply and demand. It isn’t interesting or fun to have a market flooded with items that contain very little value, so we’re making adjustments to the game every day. Players can expect to see these markets even out over time.

While adjusting the supply and demand will bring markets closer to non-vendor based equilibrium, there is still the matter of massive surplus of some items. To address the surplus, we’ve created some new, limited-time Mystic Forge recipes that use these items. These recipes create boxes that give chances for gold and some cool items.

John also explains some of the actions against exploiters taken, backing up the argument with some figures of the extent of the exploit. For example, almost 1.5 million weapons were bought for practically nothing at a bugged karma vendor, averaging out at 300 weapons bought per player taking advantage of this bug.

Finally, he shares with us a breakdown on the current in-game distribution of gender, professions, race and crafting discipline. Because, as he says, everyone needs data.

Gender, profession, race and crafting graph

The current Guild Wars 2 in-game demographic distribution.

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ArenaNet Releases First WvW Ranking List

Posted 13/09/12 by Lensor

So you’ve been kicking it in WvW the last couple of weeks, and you might wonder, “Are we really this good, or is our competition that bad?”. Earlier today Mike Ferguson released the first ever WvW world ranking list over at the Guild Wars 2 official forums.

Starting on September 1 we began using the results of the 24 hour WvW matches to begin rematching worlds using our matchmatching system. We needed to fix a few bugs with the matchmaking server in the first few days which is why our data starts at that point.

Below are the current up to date rankings for all worlds. At some point we would like to deliver this data in a much better format but for now we just want to get the data out there for everyone to take a look at.

I am still trying to format the results of the 24 hour matches so I can start posting them here as well, but right now I have an excel table with lots of columns that I need to convert over and it’s not playing nice. Hopefully I can post them sometime in the next few days. I’ll try to update this thread with current rankings whenever possible.

- Mike Ferguson

On the top of the North American worlds we have Henge of Denravi, in Europe Vizunah Square is the reigning as number one. Follow after the jump for the full list. Not happy about your world’s position on the list? Go out and do something about it!

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Angry Joe Becomes Happy Joe When Playing GW2

Posted 07/09/12 by Lensor

When Angry Joe reviews Guild Wars 2, he is..happy. The review is a good thirty minutes, but well worth the watch. The score? A perfect ten. Viewer discretion is advised, some coarse language. He is Angry Joe after all.

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Guild Wars 2 Weekly

Posted 25/06/12 by Lensor

A somewhat slow week, the largest news were that ArenaNet will run a Guild Wars 2 stress test on Wednesday June 27th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT (GMT-7). A short stint during European prime time. All thumbs are held that BWE3 will be announced soon thereafter.

In other news, long-time ArenaNet artist Kekai Kotaki will be leaving the company shortly, leaving with the profound quote “For all I have done here, this is all I have done”. After eight years it is understandable that he wants to do something else, but he will for sure be missed by the Guild Wars 2 fans who have come to adore his style.

Other than that the week saw a blog post by Colin Johanson about ArenaNet’s “Is it fun?“, philosophy on game design, we got an inside peek on the ArenaNet studio and RPGamer published an interview with Chris Whiteside and Eric Flannum.

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