tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:04:38 +0000guild wars wikigaileemilyexploitpvpupdatesNPCalliance battlesalphaandrew patrickbetabirthdaybotscontestsdat fileeventsforumsgctcguild wars 2izzyjobsmachinimarawr cuprenderrumorsalessuggestionstriviaA blog dedicated to all things ArenaNet including Guild Wars and the much anticipated Guild Wars 2.http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ravious)Blogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-485038384535559942Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:29:00 +00002008-03-01T05:39:40.782-08:00updatesThe game has been updated to build 25,306. A lot of bugs have been squashed, and there are a few small miscellaneous updates. The two most notable are a few NPC changes in Fort Aspenwood and Ilsundur, Lord of Fire losing its inherent health regeneration buff. [source]http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/03/update-february-29-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-2092400119268554038Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:59:00 +00002008-02-27T12:08:35.786-08:00contestsGaile recently stated on her wiki talk page that a new contest was forthcoming that will now tickle the left side of your brain. To the laymen this means that it will revolve around intelligence rather than artistic skill.Most of ArenaNet's prior Contests have involved some sort of artistic skill. The least amount of skill probably stems from the Brand the Boss contests, which gave us Molotov http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-contest-coming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-8818456035721401443Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:34:00 +00002008-02-26T08:48:46.883-08:00salesThe numbers were a little hazy with NCSoft's last quarterly report showing Guild Wars having sold 4,500,000 units. Well, Guild Wars fanatics, ArenaNet has just reported that they have sold over 5,000,000 units! The success is terrific given that the game is less than 3 years old, it started from a new company and a new world (read: IP), and it was a non-subscription MMO.This is a great http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/qui-pt-success.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-2976178549969884057Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:22:00 +00002008-02-25T12:32:56.689-08:00eventsmachinimaThanks to Machinima.com for hosting. A hi-res version (where you can see the people say "Nian!" is available from machinima.com as well). Be sure to check them out. They have a lot of other cool videos from Guild Wars and other games.I am working on two other videos, although I suspect the one on the Bonus Missions is going to change drastically. The other is a story of Gwen. The hold up there ishttp://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/canthan-new-years-2008-montage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-2474035223483012505Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:30:00 +00002008-02-23T17:44:09.844-08:00birthdaygaileguild wars wikiGaile has made a page over at the official wiki where community members can guess what the third year birthday miniatures will be. Here is the link to that page.Birthday miniatures are a Guild Wars tradition that started when the earliest made characters (April 28, 2005) turned one year old. Any character that has a birthday will receive a birthday present. The birthday present item contains http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/guess-3rd-year-presents.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-4717476699485400318Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:45:00 +00002008-02-21T17:10:54.619-08:00dat filegaileupdatesA minor update was released today bringing the Guild Wars build to 25,242. There was only one "substantive" change where a few of the NPC Archer positions on the Isle of the Dead were moved around. There were also a few small graphic glitches that were fixed; the biggest being (according to fansite murmurings) a bug that affected Cynn's dress.The reason for the uproar, is that most people had no http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/update-february-12-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-6950271512936132698Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:00:00 +00002008-02-19T17:29:35.267-08:00emilytriviaThroughout the Guild Wars history, and even in the playable periods, civilizations and cultures have risen and fallen like waves, but sometimes we see ripples of one falling wave affect a rising one. Asura meet Stone Summit, Stone Summit... Asura.Back in November, 2005, ArenaNet gave the free mini-expansion Sorrow's Furnace to existing Guild Wars accounts. The expansion opened up a dungeon http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/oola-steals-dwarf-technology.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-8431676847702611270Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:30:00 +00002008-02-19T12:35:55.990-08:00andrew patrickgctcpvprawr cupThe GuildCafe Tournament Committee (GCTC) for the next 2008 RAWR Cup is requesting community input. They are deciding everything from tournament prizes to guild division placements. Drop by the GCTC home or they have ongoing tournament chat.They also are trying to decide how to handle tournament map lineups. They seem to be focused on three major options:1. Completely random maps in which we can http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/2008-rawr-cup-seeking-community-input.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-8563876759902077183Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:28:00 +00002008-02-18T17:34:14.923-08:00forumsguild wars wikisuggestionsA fan of any living, evolving game is going to have suggestions for change because the nature of the game is to evolve. The same goes for Guild Wars, which has changed to amazing degrees. Some of the best changes have seemed to come directly from fans, such as, henchmen, moving mouths, and most recently the Party Animal title.Suggestions, especially ones that are well thought out and give the http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/suggestions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-2758865907749412745Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:32:00 +00002008-02-18T17:40:01.554-08:00guild wars wikiizzypvpIsaiah Cartwright is the man behind the balance and metagame of Guild Wars PvP. His wiki talk page is a spawning ground of every imaginable conversation on skills and builds.Today he spent quite a bit of time updating and reworking his talk page so that he could find and get good feedback without wading through piles of steaming wyrm bile. In the process of doing so, he cracked and went insane.http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/izzy-is-clearly-insane.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-2781068825266592918Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:01:00 +00002008-02-18T17:41:48.620-08:00emilyguild wars wikijobsThe wonderful Emily Diehl has written a veritable wall of text on her job at ArenaNet and what it took to get there (and what she believes is important for future game programmers/developers).The high point for all you dreamers:I don't think I can really stress just how ridiculously into games I am and have been my entire life. From growing up and falling in love with my Atari, to playing pretty http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/emily-diehl-talks-on-her-job.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-396981434930125441Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:11:00 +00002008-02-14T05:15:22.128-08:00botsguild wars wikiMost fans of MMOs loath bot players, especially in Guild Wars where there is almost a mini-game dedicated to tracking bots and trying to screw with their macros.Now if you notice a swarm of bots entering and leaving a specific outpost you can post on a special BotWatch page on the Guild Wars Wiki. This will help A.Net Agents do the inevitable.http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/botwatch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-8999039947424644801Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:58:00 +00002008-02-14T05:01:59.439-08:00exploitgaileGaile stopped by in light of a back and forth discussion concerning how Guild Wars has been so sound when allegedly (according to one vocal forumgoer) the security is surely lacking.She gave a list of helpful tips, but the most important is to "gather all the details you can about the exploit and send an email to community@arena.net." [source] Also make sure you don't leave yourself in the dark http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/arenanets-exploit-request.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-8080192722149938953Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:02:00 +00002008-02-13T13:04:47.501-08:00ArenaNet made an update to Guild Wars today, which supposably took care of the exploit the aforesaid hacker was using to crash people's clients. If one thing could be said about ArenaNet, it is their attention to exploits and critical bugs.http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/update-watch-out-in-ab.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-8858280762528175979Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:14:00 +00002008-02-13T09:20:30.238-08:00alliance battlesexploitrumorThere is a heavy rumor going around about a "hacker" that can crash party members OUT of the game. Most of the events are described as happening in Alliance Battles (12 Kurzicks vs. 1 Luxon), although it has been claimed the "hacker" is going to strike Heroes' Ascent next.What is the hacker's agenda? He wants the 117 people who took advantage of an exploit to fight Mallyx... unbanned.Fighting http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/watch-out-in-alliance-battles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-1423238154060299331Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:08:00 +00002008-02-13T08:15:14.716-08:00emilyNPCrenderThe wonderful Emily Diehl (hard at work creating the new Guild Wars (2?) website took some time from her busy schedule to post some fantastic renders of the Canthan New Year's NPC - the Nian. The Nian is a one-of-a-kind NPC that can only be killed with consumable items - fireworks.http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/nian-render.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-2941591690955782517Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:01:00 +00002008-02-13T08:14:00.419-08:00alphabetagaileguild wars 2Many a discussion on the Guild Wars forums involves the upcoming beta for Guild Wars 2, set to debut in some form in the second half of 2008. Gaile Gray recently showed up to bring light to a few things on the beta...Let me give you the scoop on testing, or at least as far as Iam able. First, it's very early for us to have plans for testing, and in truth,we really do not have firm plans in mind http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/guild-wars-2-beta.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7528372306044774510.post-6853701057838649699Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:25:00 +00002008-02-13T06:31:01.071-08:00"Because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist."The purpose of this blog is just to give up to date news about all things Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2(and ArenaNet supposing they branch off into other games).Much of the news will be a collective of GuildWars website, GuildWars wiki, and the various forums dedicated to the wonderful game.http://arenanetnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/purpose.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ravious)0