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Tag: Guild Wars 2

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MMOs and me: 2022

2 Jan 20232 Jan 2023
I find myself playing MMOs a lot less often than I have two years ago. There are several reasons for that, I think. One is the lack of time and…
Fun!…

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…
Blogging Months…

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…
Blogging Months…

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…
Blogging Months…

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…
Blogging Months…

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…
Games…

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…
Blogging Months…

Which MMO mount do you like using the most?

21 Aug 202221 Aug 2022
Justin from MassivelyOP asked this question in their column "The Daily Grind" and rather than leaving a comment there, I prefer answering this question here. I do go with mounts…
Blogging Months…

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…
Blogging Months…

Gaming Goals for August/September 2022

8 Aug 20228 Aug 2022
It's rather difficult to set any goals at all when I have no idea how much time I am going to have to play a game in the evenings or…
Blogging Months…

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…
Guild Wars 2

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…
Guild Wars 2

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…
Guild Wars 2…

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…
Guild Wars 2

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…
Games…

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…
Blogging Months…

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…
Games…

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…
City-builder/Simulation Game…

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…
Guild Wars 2…

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…
Blogging Months…

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…
Game Design…

Would you play your favorite MMO without its IP?

25 Sep 2021
Massively OP mused about this question recently... and since it's a question, of course my brain started trying to answer it for myself. Star Trek Online was mentioned right in…
Guild Wars 2

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…

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…
Guild Wars 2

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…
Paeroka's Ponderings…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Railroading in MMOs

24 Jan 2021
It took me a long time until I could finally step into the Shadowlands expansion in World of Warcraft. And I am immediately longing for WoW Classic again (well, the…
Elder Scrolls Online…

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…
Games…

Favourite game intros

12 Nov 2020
A German streamer has a little series where he watches game intros with the viewers and they rate them together. While watching, I was wondering which game intros I personally…
Characters/Classes…

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…
Guild Wars 2

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…

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