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The Stream Team: Time for a talk in Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure
Massively OP's MJ was surprised to face and defeat Peitha's brother after finding Isgarren (she thought the search would take longer), but not as...
One Shots: Lightning strikes twice
When you see lightning on the horizon, it may be time to seek shelter, brew a favorite hot beverage, and settle in for a...
Guild Wars 2 unveils the Guardian’s ‘bullets of justice’ and delays some WvW restructuring plans
It's not every day that you see a tanky MMO class run around with pistols, but that's the sort of fun lunacy that's coming...
Guild Wars 2 teases shortbow Engineers and their ‘essence-infused arrows’
I have to say, as someone who counts a Holosmith in her top handful of Guild Wars 2 toons, that I couldn't initially see...
Massively Overthinking: Pervasive old MMO ideas that aren’t really true
A while back, Eliot and I were discussing one of his columns, in which he noted that in the eldest of the elder MMOs,...
Guild Wars 2 introduces the pistol-totin’ Elementalist for testing November 28
Elementalists, your time to pew pew in Guild Wars 2 is finally here, or will be when the weapon proliferation beta goes live on...
Guild Wars 2 shows off the support options of Mesmers with rifles
You probably do not think of rifles as a supportive option most of the time, and if someone claims that she will heal you...
The Stream Team: The search for Isgarren in Guild Wars 2
After searching Guild Wars 2's Bastion of the Obscure, Massively OP's MJ finally saw Isgarren through a memory fragment, in which he was conversing with...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 445: Rally for Project Gorgon
Justin and Bree discuss Project Gorgon's community, Wayfinder's layoffs, LOTRO's Corsairs of Umbar, WoW's Guardians of the Dream, and Guild Wars 2's Through the Veil, with adventures in WoW, Fallout 76, LOTRO, and Project Goron, plus a mailbag topic on why more MMOs don't use contemporary real-world settings.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Five Guild Wars 2 event farms to combat your labyrinth letdown
My favorite thing about Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event is the Mad King's Labyrinth. There's nothing quite like it,...
Guild Wars 2 previews the Revenant’s upcoming tether-focused Scepter weaponry
If you don't love Revenants in Guild Wars 2 now, you will never love them again; you can hear the Scepter saying you should...
The Daily Grind: What’s clogging up your main MMO character’s bank right now?
Lord of the Rings Online seems deliberately designed to make even people who enjoy organizing inventories (me) a wee bit crazy about it. I...
One Shots: Protect me, mighty cactus!
Health care in fantasy worlds is a tad peculiar, to put it lightly. Doctors routinely mix it up on the battlefield, medics throw explosive...
Guild Wars 2’s staff Warrior opens a new avenue for frontline support
In case it isn't obvious by now, ArenaNet is clearly planning to drop a new video and dev blog for every single new weapon/class...
Guild Wars 2 previews the Thief’s upcoming axe proficiency gameplay
The upcoming weapon proliferation of Guild Wars 2 is giving Thieves an all-axes pass, if you know what we mean. You can axe any...
NCsoft Q3 2023: Mobile MMOs, not the classic PC titles, are dragging NCsoft down
If you were hoping that NCsoft's financials might perk up in Q3 after a full year of downward incline, I'm afraid I'll be disappointing...
Guild Wars 2 previews mace Rangers ahead of November 28 weapon proliferation beta
We're just one day in to Guild Wars 2's Through the Veil, and ArenaNet is already charging forward along its planned roadmap, specifically with...
Perfect Ten: The single best expansion from 10 MMOs
Holy crud, do I not know that I'm setting myself up for some major pushback today. Oh, I feel that to my core, friends!...
The Stream Team: Into the Obscure in Guild Wars 2
Surprise! You may not believe this, but Massively OP's MJ's next task in Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure is to hunt rifts!...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil’s Inner Nayos and convergences
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure was a bit of a different expansion in that it wasn't one big chunk of content dropped...