Interactive Maps, Guides, Crafting Materials, Pets
The email blast that went out earlier is quite correct. Due to differences with timezones the event starts past midnight (this evening) for European players, the event starts worldwide at the same time. Obviously this means that it will run until the 2nd of November (again due to timezone differences).
While we are waiting on the first major game update “Shadow of the Mad King” scheduled for October 22nd, PC Gamer posted a brand new video about redesigned Lion’s Arch and Mists areas and spooky costumes for Halloween!
This is the first time that I’ve spotted an underwater legendary weapon. We would like to thank Monory for making it and sharing it with the GW2 community.
Shadow of the Mad King is the first major game release for Guild Wars 2 and will go live on October 22. This new game update will include a number of new features for all of our players to enjoy, new content to explore and see, and a week-long Halloween event.
Halloween Diorama Contest is your great chance to celebrate Halloween by sharing your spookiest creative efforts and winning a wide range of prizes like 2 branded peripherals from SteelSeries, graphics cards from NVIDIA, a signed Making of Guild Wars 2 book, and more.
Halloween is coming! It’s our favorite time of year, so in addition to the in-game madness that we can’t tell you about quite yet, we’re celebrating Halloween with a special arts and craft contest that we like to call the Guild Wars 2 Halloween Diorama Contest.
What is a diorama? Put simply, a diorama is a miniature three-dimensional model that depicts a scene through the use of miniature figures, props, and scenery. This is an example of a diorama from a previous contest we ran for the original Guild Wars.
This year we want you to put your imagination and craft skills to work by creating a diorama that combines two of our favorite things: Halloween with Guild Wars 2!
We’ll have a wide range of prizes, including cool Guild Wars 2 branded peripherals from SteelSeries, graphics cards from NVIDIA, a signed Making of Guild Wars 2 book, and more!
So get started on your diorama, and we’ll be following up soon with additional information and details on how you can enter.
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!
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.
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.
It is my pleasure to share with you the latest painting made by Jeffu “Baby Quaggan with their new friend“. Most of his wallpapers are my desktop and I hope you will find them adorable as much as I did.
Today, ArenaNet announced a great news for Mac Users – Guild Wars 2 will be supported on Apple’s Mac OS X. The Mac Beta is available to anyone who has purchased Guild Wars 2, but it’s still in a beta phase, thus, the performance and system requirements aren’t finalized. You can read the official announcement below:
