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Merry Christmas from your favorite #GuildWars2 red flags! (and me) 🎄
Merry Christmas from your favorite #GuildWars2 red flags! (and me) 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Hey @guildwars2.com just saying but your hamburger menu on the site has been broken for a while now making it impossible to navigate to subsections on mobile devices
December 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
You're not supposed to be able to turn the camera on the prophecies select screen but if you rotate it on any other expansion and change it back while you're still on character select it will keep the previous rotation 😅
December 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It's been 10,000 years since I've last seen these in #GuildWars wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedbac...
December 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Grumpy Grinch mode activated:

One 20-Slot Large Wintersday Gift bag costs as much as two 24-Slot Orichalcum Lockers or SEVEN 20-Slot Halloween Pails

End grumpy rant.
December 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It's only gotten slightly worse this year just under 250g at the moment! So at least it's relatively stable? ... ❄️ ⛄
Annual "Wintersday is way too expensive" post. Here's a graph showing how much gold you will have to spend if you want to unlock a skin from a previous year:
December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This one has been taking a while but so did the 🦀. Another marker for science:

🧺, 🍿, 🗡️, 4 × cuteness overload
dance 🤔
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Don't be like me:

1. Do the new player event for a free skin
2. Talk to the mist stranger for my reward
3. Mindlessly click through the conversation options to get the box
4. Realize the box only contains skins for the profession you accept it on
5. Already have all the Necromancer skins...
December 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Wait.. wrong game 😅
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Wintersday done, time to go on a ski vacation!
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Today's wintersday post is up thatshaman.com/post/2025/12...
that_shaman - Upcoming features from the December 9 patch
that_shaman - Upcoming features from the December 9 patch
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December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Guess I'll watch the replay the next day because that's deep in the night in EU 😅
🎬 Premiering Wed at 7 PM PT: The Making of Guild Wars: Celebrating 25 Years of ArenaNet! Go behind the scenes of the franchise, the people who built it, & the community that calls Tyria home. Register to get notified when it goes live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpm2...
The Making of Guild Wars: Celebrating 25 Years of ArenaNet
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December 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Now I feel sorry for Sareb that I completed the event before he got a chance to tell me all about it 😅
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Here's another example in Spamadan with everything maxed out at 4K on a RTX4070. DX9 is clearly the bottleneck with the new bloom and SSAO shaders.

So if you're not running something like Reshade (you could probably use the vulkan version) or TexMod you're likely better off using DXVK
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you're encountering FPS loss in Guild Wars Reforged I would recommend giving DXVK a try.

1. Download dxvk-x.xx.tar.gz from github.com/doitsujin/dx...
2. Extract d3d9.dll from the x32 folder into your installation folder
3. Profit?

For example Spamadan Region 1 on a basic GPU:
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🤔 I noticed Guild Wars Reforged has some OpenGL ES 3.0 engine code and mention of mobile UI elements. Maybe they're trying to figure out if it's feasible to port it to mobile platforms in the future as well?
December 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The DPI scaling in #guildwars reforged looks fantastic but it's also bugged 😅 it somehow also affects the mouse rotation speed of your camera (making it waaaaay slower the higher you set your DPI has been set)

I'm playing at 150% and even with the camera slider set to max it's "bearable" at best
December 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Here we go! #GuildWars #Reforged is out
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Actually crazy to think it's still getting updates after more than 20 years but I've been playing #GuildWars since it launched back in the day so I'm looking forward to the quality of life updates #reforged will bring tomorrow!
December 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Looking at how #WoW is implementing its housing system I'm slightly jealous at the ability to preview decorations. Can we please have this as well?
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Got the crab dance emote. Got the endless tropical crab tonic. Can't dance as a crab. Sadness 🦀
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I was slightly annoyed they placed those soldiers you need to heal at the Shimmering Basin heart inside those tiny tents. My skimmer doesn't fit in there so I just kept hugging the walls spamming the 1 skill..

Today I learned you can just shoot them with the number 3 skill. I'm a doofus.
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
/excited ...
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Did you know you can consume a chromatic sap to gain 5 aether-rich sap which you can use to buy a chromatic sap that you can consume for 5 aether-rich sap allowing you to buy a chro...

Basically both VoE maps only have a single currency that's split between your bank and wallet
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM