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GWOnline Events – January Update

Posted 28/12/12 by

Just a quick update this time around everyone. Although Christmas and Wintersday is wrapping up the holiday season is still in full swing for many of us and it is with that in mind that we have decided not to hold any events for January. To compensate for this however the events from December will have their deadline extended to Midnight on January 31st 2013 (UTC). This will not include the Monthly Events race however which will end this month as usual, it is also worth noting a monthly event race will not feature in January.
This means there is still heaps of time to get your entries in. For details on the events currently available and how to enter head on down to this post.

Enjoy your holidays and we will see you all next time!

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

Posted 25/12/12 by

A quick message from the whole team here at Guild Wars: IncGamers to wish you all a Merry Christmas. We hope you all have a wonderful day and have plenty of free time to enjoy Guild Wars 2 over the holiday. Merry Christmas everyone!

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GWOnline Events – November Winners

Posted 05/12/12 by

Our judges have convened, the six divines were consulted and the winners have been decided for Novembers events!

Monthly Achievement Race

First up is our Monthly Achievement Race. Participants rushed to complete their monthly achievements first, so who was the fastest this month?

Coming in first was newcomer ‘vaguelazytangent’ as their character Ambereen. Ambereen plays on Northern Shiverpeaks and represents the guild Avatars of Glory, keep up the work you’re making your server proud!

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GWOnline Events – December Update

Posted 29/11/12 by

Welcome back for December’s update on our now monthly round of contests and competitions, or as we like to call them; events. Firstly lets check over Novembers happenings:

Unfortunately we again had technical difficulties on our part involving the Hide and Seek event, we have therefore decided to postpone the event until server guesting is implemented. The staff really want this one to happen and as soon as we can begin hosting it we will let you know. We rolled out a new Screenshot Contest where we had you taking a screenshot of your player in action. As of writing there were only 2 entries (the contest awards the top 3 participants) but its still open! Get your entry in quick for consideration. We also continued our Monthly Achievement Race where we had you racing to be the first to finish your monthly achievements. At the time of writing we have had NO entries however, if you enter now you could win as the contest awards a prize to the first to enter rather than the first to finish.

Raye’s entry for Novembers Screenshot Contest

These contests are open until Midnight on Friday 30th November (UTC) so there is still time to get your entry in! See Novembers post for details on how to enter.

For December we are running three events, the Monthly Achievement Race and the Screenshot Contest will return and we are introducing a new ‘creative writing’ style event. Read on to find out more…

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13 skills unlocked, so many to go!

Posted 25/11/12 by

13skills

After a few months of beta testing and three months after the release in August, the GWO Elementalist forum has “unlocked” thirteen skills of Guild Wars 2′s attunement swapping profession.

What are those “Skills of Interest”, you might ask?

On a regular basis, Gorani – the forum’s moderator – takes an in-depth look at a skill, its current use and stats, its history since the early betas and how well it does compared to other skills. Does is have synergies with traits, is it more useful in PvP or PvE? This and more, you can find on the “Skills of Interest” threads.
You are invited to leave a comment and join the discussion. Share your expertise with the community and perhaps learn something new, too.

Swap to the Elementalist forum now and check out the latest addition to the series:
Signet of Air.

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GWOnline Events – November Update

Posted 05/11/12 by

Greetings all!

For those who missed the original post last month GWOnline has begun hosted a range of in-game events for all of you to participate in. In October we held the Monthly Achievement Race (which we had no entries for, remember you’ve got to be in to win!) and we also planned to host a version of Hide and Seek but were unable to due to technicalities on our end.

In terms of prizes we think that Large/Heavy Loot bags and Dungeon Tonics work well. This month we may be able to organise Candy Corn and rare Halloween crafting materials for prizes as well. If you have any suggestions on items that would work well as prizes please let us know.

So what is in store for November? Read on and find out…

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GWOnline’s Events and Competitions

Posted 26/09/12 by

By now most of you have had a chance to get into Guild Wars 2 and play it and the general consensus is that you all like it! So what would make a great game even better? In-game events and competitions hosted by the staff here at GWOnline of course. Not only is this a chance to get involved and have some plain ol’ fun but you could also win fabulous prizes. Therefore if you like fun and prizes, read on.

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GWOnline Front of Site Changes

Posted 18/07/12 by

In our effort to make the site super friendly for everyone we continue to add bits and pieces. Today we have rolled out the “tabbed” news page here on the front of the site. Just below the main feature you can see some tabs, click these and you can check out the news, community blogs, GWOnlineTV additions and forum posts with decent excerpts. We hope you guys find this useful for checking updates on the site and I wanted to get this done before BWE3 kicks off later this week.

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Winners in GWOnline’s BWE2 Key Giveaway

Posted 05/06/12 by

Yesterday at the stroke of midnight (PDT) we closed our very own Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend 2 key giveaway, and quickly drew the winners using a true random sequence generator. We wish to again thank ArenaNet for this opportunity to put a smile on the faces of 20 community members. Our only wish would be that we could have given one to all the entries!

We had three ways to enter, all giving equal chance for a win. Most people opted for the Twitter password (“Mirror Images”) whereas only one found the password hidden at the forum (“Primordus”) in a thread showing an amazingly detailed papercraft Mesmer model by community member Convex. And in between there were a bunch of people who showed us their way with words and posted limericks.

Here are some of the limericks posted. For some reason Asura and Norn seemed to be reccurring themes ;)

There once was an kid from Rata Sum,
whose very first Golem made an odd hum.
He took it to a squabling Krewe
and before they all knew
a blast knocked’em all back on their bum.
- Sir Jack

There once was an Asura named Stort
Who was so unreasonably short
All the others called him names
and played cruel little games
So he sued them and took them to court
- poketama

There once was a happy Norn,
Who sat on a big *** thorn,
He let out a yell:
“This hurts like hell”
And he wasn’t happy no more
- GrungeLord

How much the small Norn has grown
He wanted to make sure it was shown
A big rock he could pick
He threw like a stick
An Asura was squished by what was thrown
- tcgrad

List of all the winners.

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GWOnline Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend 2 Key Giveaway

Posted 02/06/12 by

We here at GWOnline.net are very happy to announce that we have gotten 20 Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend 2 keys from ArenaNet to give away to our community. That means you!

The contest ends tomorrow Sunday June 3 at midnight PDT (Pacific Daylight Time).

How to Enter

  1. Make a post in the contest thread over at our community forums.This is a must for everyone who wants to enter, since your post order will become your “ticket number” in the draw.
  2. Do one of the following.
      1. Keep an eye on our Twitter account and PM Lensor the “GWOnline Beta Key Password” which will be tweeted there sometime in the next 12 hours.
      2. We have edited in a different “GWOnline Beta Key Password” in an original post somewhere on the GWOnline community forums. If you find it PM Lensor the password.
      3. Post a limerick about Guild Wars 2 and/or GWOnline in the contest thread.
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Site News: Forums Being Updated – Side Effects Seen

Posted 14/02/12 by

We are currently cleaning up the GWOnline forum install, which is leading to some temporary side effects. For instance some people are having difficulties posting new threads, and new user registration has been a little iffy. Despite this we chose to keep the forums on-line during this process, since browsing and posting in threads still work as normal. So if you are not able to post a new thread do not fret – it is not you, it is us!

Hopefully everything will be back to normal soon. In the mean time, please be patient with us, we are working as fast as we can! :D

Update: OK! We are back in action, the templates just need a quick rebuild to resolve the issue. You can now post away with new threads!

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Get Social with GWOnline

Posted 05/02/12 by

We have been quite busy this past week in the site and there are a few ‘social’ features that have been added. First up is the new GWOnline Facebook page and we would love to see you all hook up with us on FB. You can find our Facebook here. Don’t forget we have been on Twitter for quite a while and you can catch our updates on #guildwarsnews so follow us also on there.

Finally, we have just launched our new IRC channel for some live chat action. You can use your fav IRC client connect to the the quake.net IRC servers and join #gwonline. You can also join the live chat through out handy embedded site chat channel here. Pop in and say hello!

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