guild wars 2

Official Site: Guild Wars 2
Studio: ArenaNet/NCsoft
Launch Date: August 28, 2012
Genre: Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid B2P (Cash Shop, No Sub, Paid Expansions)
Platform: PC

Flameseeker Chronicles: Expanding into Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns

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When Guild Wars 2's expansion was announced, most of the questions on our lips were permutations of "What's the new level cap?" and "What...

Global Chat: What do you remember about Guild Wars?

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Late last month, the classic Guild Wars transcended its 10th birthday and prompted a flood of nostalgic posts and shared stories. A few MMO...

Guild Wars 2’s Lion’s Arch reconstruction has begun

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Guild Wars 2's Lion's Arch reconstruction has begun, declare patch notes and a new dev post released today by ArenaNet's Gaile Gray. The patch notes, which also...

Week in Review: NCsoft’s wild week (May 17, 2015)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review! NCsoft...

Guild Wars 2’s ‘movie monster’ Necromancer spec outlined

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Did you miss Guild Wars 2's Points of Interest stream on Friday? Me too. Every game seems to stream on Friday, and it's hard...

One Shots: Nothing to see here, move along

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Do you ever stop to realize just how much weirdness we see and dismiss every day as MMO gamers? If a fraction of the...
You can go ahead and fear me, really.

Guild Wars 2 unveils the Necromancer elite spec, the Reaper

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Under normal circumstances, Guild Wars 2 Necromancers have a pretty decisive philosophy of not getting involved in melee. It makes sense, after all. These...
All right, the Lopp have some chops here too.

NCsoft Q1 2015: Growth for Guild Wars 2, further deflation for WildStar

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NCsoft's first quarter financial report is out, and... you know, let's start with the good news. Guild Wars 2 is making the company more...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 13

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW's sub decline, EQ Next, GW2's Dragonhunter, EQ progression servers, SWTOR harassment, and adventures in Marvel Heroes, Secret World, and Guild Wars, plus mailbag questions on SWG's PvP and pay-to-win.

Tamriel Infinium: A guide to Elder Scrolls Online’s combat basics

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I was looking back through some of my posts about the Elder Scrolls Online, and I noticed that I've mentioned combat quite a bit....

Guild Wars 2 gives us a glimpse of the Necromancer’s elite spec

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Another week, another reveal of the next elite specialization reveal for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. If this new piece of teased concept...
We were the kings and queens of promise.

Scope out the Guild Wars 2 Dragonhunter summary

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You can't play a Dragonhunter Guardian in Guild Wars 2 right now no matter how much you might want to be wielding a bow...

MMO Mechanics: Three favourite action combat systems

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Virtually every MMO contains dangerous places that are filled with other players or NPCs that will attack characters on site, and many also feature...

One Shots: Bugs Bunny 2099

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What would Bugs Bunny look like if he were a futuristic space mercenary who chomped on freeze-dried carrots and spat out, "What's UP, doc?"...
So long my honey, so long my baby, so long my ragtime gal.

Betawatch: May 8th, 2015

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This week, Landmark was consumed in a fiery explosion, by which we of course mean that it had a big old wipe. But it's...

Guild Wars 2 initially aims for a small desert borderlands WvW test

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Even as Guild Wars 2 players are diligently farming zones in the hopes of obtaining a Heart of Thorns PvE beta key, ArenaNet is...

Guild Wars 2 unveils the Guardian elite spec: Dragonhunter

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Here we are in the wilds of Guild Wars 2 once again, and you can see we've got a big old dragon right there....

Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Guild Wars 2’s beta drop RNG

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Never before have I seen Guild Wars 2's Dry Top and the Silverwastes hive with such activity as we've seen this week. In case...

Plan out your Guild Wars 2 specializations with this tool

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One of the big changes coming with Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns is the revamp of the trait system into the new specializations....

Global Chat: What happens to original MMOs when they get sequels?

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Telwyn at GamingSF asks a question that I've contemplated from time to time: When an MMO gets a sequel, what happens to the original...

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