If you have any additional questions about Guild Wars 2 races, professions or game mechanics this video has answers. ArenaNet posted a brand-new video called What is Guild Wars 2 on the official ArenaNet’s YouTube channel. Enjoy!
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Developer Corner: John Smith on Mystic Chest Recipe Deactivation
On Midnight PDT Monday, the temporary Mystic Forge recipes that create Mystic Chests will come to an end. The Mystic Chests were fantastic and served their purpose, but their time is over. Players may still combine the ingredients from existing Mystic Chests, but no more chests will be created.
How to craft legendary greatsword Twilight
There are two legendary graetswords in Guild Wars 2. Yesterday we shared with you a visual guide How to craft legendary greatsword Sunrise, and today we have for you Keyraa Ashborn’s visual guide How to craft legendary greatsword Twilight. On the image below you can find all necessary mats to create the legendary greatsword.
How to craft legendary greatsword Sunrise
GW2 player Nodocify @ reddit has decided to put together a visual guide how to craft a legendary greatsword Sunrise. On the image below you can find all necessary mats to create the legendary greatsword.
Sparkfly Fen Crafting Material Locations
Sparkfly Fen is a high level zone 55-65 in Maguuma Jungle.
| Name | Location | Type | Items gathered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeks (Click here for map) | Sparkfly Fen | Vegetable | Green Onions |
| Banyan Sapling (Click here for map) | Sparkfly Fen | Tree | Hard Wood Log |
| Verdant Herbs (Click here for map) | Sparkfly Fen | Herb | Head of Garlic Sage Leaf Thyme Leaf Mint Leaf Tarragon Leaves |
| Blackberries (Click here for map) | Sparkfly Fen | Fruit | Blackberry |
| Platinum Ore (Click here for map) | Sparkfly Fen | Ore | Platinum Ore |
| Cauliflower (Click here for map) | Sparkfly Fen | Vegetables | Heads of Cauliflower |
| Rich Platinum Vein (Click here for map) | Sparkfly Fen | Ore | Platinum Ore |
| Coral (Click here for map) | Sparkfly Fen | Gemstone | Coral Chunk Coral Tentacle Coral Orb |
| Variegated Taproots (Click here for map) | Sparkfly Fen | Vegetables | Carrot Turnip |
| Portobello Mushrooms (Click here for map) | Sparkfly Fen | Vegetables | Portobello Mushrooms |
How to keep your account secure in GW2
According to the latest Mike O’Brien’s post on the official GW2 site, the only way to keep your account save is by using a unique password for any account you care about!
The basic truth is this: hackers steal game accounts because they already know the account name and password. They know them because they stole them (via security breaches or spyware) from another game or site where the person used the same account name and password.
If you’re not sure how to protect your account, there are some ArenaNet tools that may prevent hacker’s attack:
1. Email Authentication: When you first login, we ask you to validate your email address. After that, whenever you attempt to login from a new location, we send email asking you to approve or deny the login attempt.
2. Password Blacklisting: We’re building a blacklist of all the passwords that hackers are scanning for — it’s already at 20 million passwords and growing — and we’re preventing new customers from choosing any of those passwords. (The blacklist contains passwords only, not account names.)
More details you can find on the official Guild Wars 2 news page.
GW2 Queue Size Data Revealed
ArenaNet President Mike O’Brien posted a collection of charts showing the queue size of each map for a given world. These charts are for the North American and European worlds (this data was collected from 8:00PM Sept 14th to 9:30PM Sept 18th).
We thought these charts would be useful information for people to see, as it helps illustrate why some worlds have much longer waits than others. Hopefully it will also help some people decide to leave some of those higher population worlds for one of the worlds with smaller (or no) queues, which would reduce the queue pressure on the overloaded world and help provide more manpower for the smaller world.
Some other information we gathered from this timespan:
– Almost 30% of the total players who logged into the game queued up for WvW
– About 3% of the total players who logged in and queued never got in.
We’re completely ecstatic about the first number and not happy at all about the second. We’re looking at a number of short term and long term solutions that should help make that second number go down even if the first one goes up. As we make progress on those solutions we will keep you updated.
ArenaNet Limits World Transfers
North American Community Team Leader Regina Buenaobra announced today that the free World Transfers will be limited to one transfer every 24h.
We want to give you a heads up: Starting with the new WvW rotation tomorrow, we will limit the free World transfer to one transfer every 24h. This should address some of the unwanted WvW exploits we have seen, while still giving people the opportunity to switch a server to play with their friends.
Source: forums.guildwars2.com
Verdant Herbs Map Locations
Name: Verdant HerbsLocation: Sparkfly Fen (55-65), Fireheart Rise (60-70), Mount Maelstrom (60-70)
Gathering type: Herb
Items gathered: Head of Garlic, Sage Leaf, Thyme Leaf, Mint Leaf, Tarragon Leaves
Rarity: Normal
Requires: Mithril Harvesting Sickle
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Locations:
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- Sparkfly Fen (55-65)
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- Fireheart Rise (60-70)
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- Mount Maelstrom (60-70)
Leeks Map Locations
Name: LeeksLocation: Sparkfly Fen (55-65), Mount Maelstrom (60-70), Frostgorge Sound (70-80)
Gathering type: Vegetables
Items gathered: Green onion
Rarity: Normal
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Locations:
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- Sparkfly Fen (55-65)
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- Mount Maelstrom (60-70)
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- Frostgorge Sound (70-80)