Guild Wars
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Guild Wars 3 announced! … What?
Apparently, Guild Wars 3 just got announced! Or, well, to be more precise, it was mentioned in an NCSoft shareholders meeting. This means that we know nothing except that it is in development. We have no idea about the setting, planned features, release window, etc. But what we can assume, at least, is that the…
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Return to Guild Wars now!
As Massively notes, Guild Wars (1) doesn’t require a character name to log in anymore. Well, in my case, the recent change doesn’t make a difference. I always kept screenshots with the names of my characters and had all of my accounts’ characters in the same guild, so that I would not forget their names…
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Promptapalooza No. 16: My earliest memory of Guild Wars
This Promptapalooza prompt was shared by Syp from Bio Break: “What is your earliest memory related to one of your core fandoms?” I decided to tell you about Guild Wars, because Guild Wars 2 has been the core of this blog for many years. I still have the email archived: “Join the Guild Wars Factions…
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What’s the point in housing?
In a post musing about the problems with housing in MMOs, Roger from Contains Moderate Peril said that you can ask 100 players and will get 100 answers as to what makes good housing good. And this made me think when is housing good for me? For example, I love the housing in Rift and…
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Screenshot Saturday: New dervish
I didn’t think ArenaNet would run sales for Guild Wars on Black Friday, but they did. So I bought a new character slot to play a new dervish on my main account. I do have two other accounts, but I never actively played on them. I like being able to send my new character whatever…
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Gaming goals for November
I usually don’t like to make something like this as it seems weird to add “goals” to something that should be there for relaxation. However, I tend to spend money on games and then end up not playing them and that seems like a waste of money. So, by adding a few gaming goals, I’ll…
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Gaming nostalgia: What about Guild Wars?
I think it was Rift with their Prime server that started the nostalgia trip into the beginnings of several MMOs. Rift Prime launched in March 2018 and community-wise it was nostalgia as everybody started new and there were no expansions out yet. Apart from that, it was the same as on the live servers. Still,…
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Mixing my MMO
I am currently playing very different MMOs, because they each give me something I want from this genre while lacking in other areas. Elder Scrolls Online has this seemingly huge world to explore, but the housing is subpar. Guild Wars 2 doesn’t even have housing. But both games have a beautiful world! So, I thought,…
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2015 in screenshots
As I previously said, Haffle’s “Screenshots Of The Year 2015” post inspired me to do something like this myself. Instead of going by game, I will try to go through the year by months. January 2015 was all about the Guild Wars 2 stencil contest that ArenaNet had hosted together with fansites – and, of…
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10 years: Guild Wars nostalgia
Guild Wars turned 10 years old this week. The original Guild Wars, of course, not Guild Wars 2 (which will be 3 years old this August, by the way). Back then I had just started to get into PC gaming and most of all, into MMOs. World of Warcraft had been my first MMO which…
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Guild Wars 2 vs. Rift vs. Trove: Part 2 (Lore)
This is the second part of the blog post series “Guild Wars 2 vs. Rift vs. Trove”. The first part was about “Basic information“. This part now focuses on the lore of the games. Once again, my goal is not to say which game has a better lore. Neither do I want to bore you…
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Guild Wars 1 on Steam’s sale
I haven’t seen Guild Wars on sale for quite a long time. Today, however, it is on sale on Steam. All versions are 50 % off for the next 48 hours: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, the expansion Eye of the North and the trilogy (containing the campaigns Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall). A little information in case…
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Foostival 2014: Interview with Ramon
Update: Check out the corresponding gem cards giveaway (EU-only). Open until March 31! This is the interview from Foostival with Ramon Domke, the German community manager of Guild Wars 2 (click this link for the Guildnews version and this link for the Wartower one – the videos are identical!). It was done completely in German…
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Me and my Mini-Mes…
After I had written about the online game I’ve been playing the longest, I figured I should “revisit” all my MMO characters. Mentioned and shown below are only the ones I called my “main” in games that I have played for more than one month. I couldn’t possibly list and show all the twinks and…
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Guild Wars 1 Nostalgia: Costume Maker
I deleted my norn mesmer yesterday. She was my second mesmer and my only norn, but no matter how hard I try, I just do not like playing the norn. I like their lore and everything, but I prefer small races (like dwarves, hobbits, gnomes, asura,…). I also needed that character slot for my new…
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