Paeroka’s Ponderings: What’s new in this year’s Halloween festivities?

21 Oct 202221 Oct 2022

I love and hate festivals in MMOs. In general, I think that most MMOs capture the spirit of the respective festival quite well. This is especially true for the Halloween…

Guild Wars 2: I finally got myself a dog

31 Aug 202231 Aug 2022

After sleeping a night on it, it was obvious that I just had to get the Desert Shiba mount skin. I actually love the Springer mount as it is, but…

Guild Wars 2: Free mount skin for (some) players

30 Aug 2022

As part of the game's 10th anniversary, ArenaNet is giving a "Black Lion Special Mount Selection Licence" to players which lets you choose one mount skin from a whole range…

Re-experiencing Guild Wars 2 on Steam

29 Aug 202229 Aug 2022

Guild Wars 2 has officially and quite successfully launched on Steam. It's currently got a "Very Positive" rating on there with its base game being free to play. Some restrictions…

Screenshot Saturday: Restarting Guild Wars 2

27 Aug 2022

I decided to take a look at Guild Wars 2 from a beginner's point of view. That is, with a fresh clean Steam account that doesn't own anything! It took…

Welcome, new Steam Guild Wars 2 players!

24 Aug 202224 Aug 2022

Now with the influx of new players (at least, I hope and think that we're seeing new people join the game now), I went to check our two old guides…

Guild Wars 2 is coming to Steam!

16 Aug 2022

Just in time for the game's 10th anniversary (most certainly not a coincidence), Guild Wars 2 will launch on Steam - on August 23, to be precise. If you haven't…

Screenshot Saturday: New glasses

6 Aug 2022

Some time ago, I had bought more gems for myself. I had not wanted to spend them on anything immediately, but rather wanted to save them for when I see…

GW2: Changes to some World Bosses

20 Jul 2022

I was wondering how extensive the announced changes would be that ArenaNet patched in on Tuesday. Great Jungle Worm, Shadow Behemoth, Fire Elemental and Svanir Shaman Chief had their health…

Short term goals in Guild Wars 2

10 May 2022

I am still loving the latest expansion for Guild Wars 2! It's just that with the small amount of gaming time that I have, I do not always decide to…

Which MMO has the most useless housing system?

10 Apr 2022

I saw this article on Massively Overpowered about useless housing systems in MMOs. Of course, this is a more or less subjective question, but that's why I liked reading about…

GW2 End of Dragons: First Impressions

28 Mar 2022

First of all: There won't be story spoilers in the text. I hope the screenshots won't include story spoilers either. I tried to be careful with them! I currently have…

Feeling lost in Guild Wars 2

22 Jan 2022

I got to spend a bit of time in Guild Wars 2 again recently for the first time in months! But there is the feeling that I've been having almost…

Bloganuary: What is your favorite screenshot you’ve ever taken?

20 Jan 202220 Jan 2022

Finally another bloganuary prompt that fits to my blog! The original asks about a photo which doesn't quite fit. But screenshots are close enough, I guess. I don't really want…

Most viewed blog posts in 2021

9 Jan 202210 Jan 2022

I think it's nice to take a look at the blog's stats once in a while, even if I don't care about hits much. As long as there are some…

Games I’m looking forward to in 2022

9 Jan 202216 Jan 2022

My current list of games that I'm looking forward to this year has three games and one expansion... Not that many, although I am quite sure I will find a…

What is an MMO road trip you would love to take?

2 Jan 20222 Jan 2022

The original post from Wordpress' bloganuary asked for a "real world" road trip, but it makes more sense to think about the MMOs I'm playing instead. My first thought was…

GW2 End of Dragons: Mechanist Love

24 Nov 2021

I am so out of the loop with the upcoming new elite specialisations in Guild Wars 2. When it comes to these specializations, I want to know whether it's worth…

Finally a gourmet in Guild Wars 2

16 May 2021

One of the good things of returning to an MMO after not having played it much for a longer time is that there is so much to discover (in MMOs…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (May 2021)

2 May 2021

Guild Wars 2: What's coming next I actually wasn't expecting ArenaNet to give us a timeline of what's coming when in the next few months, but they did! The highlight…

Games I’ve been playing in March ’21

4 Apr 2021

I know of several other bloggers who write about the games they've been playing - most recently I read Rakuno's post. Since I haven't spent that much time in any…

Things I’ve never done in Guild Wars 2

14 Feb 2021

I admit that I never liked playing norn. I do like them in general and I like their culture, but they are just so... huge and slow with their running…

My MMOs in 2020

25 Dec 202025 Dec 2020

No new MMO has made it on my list this year. I did give New World a try, but ultimately ended up not liking it. It's okay and I am…

Necromancer or Revenant for rediscovering Guild Wars 2…

8 Nov 20208 Nov 2020

After writing here that I want to replay through the old zones of Guild Wars 2 with my new necromancer, I decided to take a look at the revenant. A…

Replaying vanilla Guild Wars 2

4 Nov 2020

I previously tried to get into the necromancer, the thief and the ranger again. For some reason, when I don't play a class for some time, I forget about the…

Guild Wars 2: Roadmap for the next 7 months

1 Nov 20201 Nov 2020

I was so happy to see ArenaNet post a roadmap for the game. Even though I fully expect the possibility of delays (as it says: "subject to change"), it is…

Which MMO does Halloween best?

13 Oct 202013 Oct 2020

I really like the autumn and halloween events in MMOs! When I saw ArenaNet announce the date for their Halloween event (it starts today, by the way) for Guild Wars…

Return to Guild Wars now!

1 Oct 2020

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…

A friendly competition

19 Sep 202019 Sep 2020

I found this post in my drafts. It was originally written back in 2014 and should have been the teaser post for a roleplaying event in our Guild Wars 2…

GW2: Ascended Armor 2/3

9 Sep 20209 Sep 2020

How late exactly am I? I finally finished my second ascended armor set. That is, my mesmer got her cloth version... years ago, I guess. For a long time, I…