Guild Wars: New Costumes

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With this Wintersday, Anet has introduced a new feature to Guild Wars, namely costumes of Grenth and Dwayne. These costumes are just like fashion in Perfect World and are worn over your normal armor. They have no armor value or anything, just to look a bit different. These costumes can be worn at all times and you won't have to put them away in your bags when you don't want to show it anymore thanks to 2 new slots in your equipment window. One for hats, and one for the rest of the body. The one for your head also serves for your season, festival hats which no longer have to be worn as an armor. Like armor these costumes can be dyed in any color you like. Grenth and Dwayna costumes are available for purchase from the In-Game Store and the NCsoft Store.

Guild Wars : Underworld - Dhuum Awakens!

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Something stirs in the Underworld. Something ancient, powerful, and utterly evil: Dhuum. Banished eons ago by Grenth, this dark avatar of death has bided his time and grown in power. Now, Dhuum is free!

Yesterday Anet has added this new end boss to the Underworld, only a couple of weeks after the nerf. New drops from the Underworld end chest are Dhuum's Soul Reaper (which is a gold inscribable scythe), and 2 new miniature pets: the mini Dhuum and mini Smite Crawler.

I haven't personally done any UW lately, but it takes about an hour or two to finish it. Not something I'll be doing any time soon with all the work I got. I can hardly be online for like one hour some days. So Anet really made it so that only people who have lots of time (or no life) will really do it more than once a day, which you will have to if you wish to become rich of it.

Guild Wars: RiP UW Sc

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+500 days of Underworld Speed Clearing (UW Sc), the past months with cruel efficiency thanks to "Uway", by the Guild [Zraw]. 7 Minutes for a complete run, can't say I didn't enjoy it myself. The one-hour Ursan Rush from a year and a few months back was a joke compared to that. Now that they nerfed Uw Sc completely it makes me wonder if it hadn't been better if Anet (Arena Net) had never nerfed Ursan. Maybe then people hadn't gone searching for new ways, faster ways, to do UW. Probably they would have... xD

Anyway, with Halloween Anet introduced some skeletons in UW that made Sc runs impossible. Everyone was happy monday that they could continue again with their runs as Halloween had ended. BUT the terror of Halloween visited us again last night. A little bug fix ensured that the skeletons of Dhuum were to stay where they belong. With an Imbagon, a conset and much damage a UW trip will once again take about an hour to finish. There is no need to panic about ectos (globs of ectoplasm), the skeletons drop more or less quite a bit of ectos. Though the price of ectos has gone up with 1k already since yesterday, and I'm sure they will keep on rising...

To find out more about these skeletons of Dhuum, visit:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Skeleton_of_Dhuum

If you are in panic now, take a deep breath! There are other things to do then just UW Sc to make money. Don't quit with GW and don't go outside in the swine flu epidemic zone; that would just be wrong. Ofcourse if you're a noob, I shouldn't be cheering you on to do other things, it means I'll be in more fail runs in SoO and FoW... xD Just joking! Keep on gaming!

Guild Wars

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GW (Guild Wars) is accessible to new players. This not only because of the level cap of 20, but also the smoothness with which you can go through the story campaigns. The different stories are: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall and Eye of the North.

By the time you are halfway though one of the campaigns you’ll be at the maximum level and you’ll gain access to better gear. These armors are made by NPCs (armorers) in towns and outposts in exchange for materials that are acquired from killing monsters (loot). A benefit from this system is that you don’t waste time and money on crafting items you don’t need, to get to the point where you can make what you need. You are going to have maximum armor (also named 1.5k armor) rather quickly, but this armor is cheap and in our opinion not the best looking. More experienced players will wear prestige armor which is a lot more expensive (from 15k to a lot more).

Skills and builds

Besides this you can survive and finish a campaign with a limited amount of skills. Yet to be a more than average gamer you need to have access to a wider range of skills. Though you will only be able to equip 8 skills on your skillbar. So you need to put some thought into which ones will fit best for the task ahead. Of course new players who are not familiar with the combinations of skills (builds) can get help from the community (e.g. PvX Wiki).

For more detailed info on skills you can visit the Guild Wars wiki:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Skill

Farming

Specific builds are generally created to be used for farming or title hunting, solo or in a group. Farming plays a large part in getting gold and crafting materials for armor, weapons and offhand items (focus items and shields). When farming players go to certain regions and attack creatures and/or bosses to attempt to obtain rare items, experience and gold. Different popular areas are Bogroots ("froggy farm"), Slaver’s Exile ("vsf"), Shards of Orr ("SoOSc"), Domain of Anguish (DoA), Fissure of Woe (FoW Sc) and the Underworld (UW Sc).

The latter was updated (nerfed) a few days ago. With the patch ArenaNet made numerous adjustments to NPC and monster locations. This was done to reduce the Speed Clearing* (Sc) of the dungeon with the popular farming "perma sin" build, or at least to make it a lot harder to finish it.

* Speed clearing means finishing a dungeon/area with specific farming builds within a very short period of time compared to regular groups who take much longer.

Update notes can be found on the Guild Wars wiki:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Game_updates/20091022

Trade

All that farming gives you lots of good loot which is worth a lot, but you won’t need everything you find. So obviously you want to sell these items to other players because just selling them to NPCs (merchants) won’t yield much gold at all. Due to the lack of an auction house, like in other online games, selling items can be a tedious job.

The only way to sell things is by typing a message in the chat. There is a chat channel specifically for trading, but these channels are not linked between towns/outposts so people come together in specific towns to sell their items. An example of such a town is Kamadan (Nightfall). With the result that these trade channels get flooded by people trying to sell their items by spamming their messages. And thus Kamadan became known as "Spamadan".

Also there is a limit in the amount of gold (100k) you can trade. Of course there are several rare weapons and other items that are worth far more than that. This resulted in the usage of highly-demanded items (e.g. Globs of ectoplasm a.k.a. ectos) as a currency. Like real-life gold these items fluctuate in prices, so prices of items are usually hard to keep track of. Some community websites offer auctions, but of course this doesn’t work as good as an in-game option.

Overall we like the game alot and we'll continue to play it.

Please don’t hesitate to tell us your opinion or if you got remarks on ours!