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Flameseeker Chronicles: Possible futures for Guild Wars 2’s strikes and...
Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga gave us a new type of endgame group content starting with its prologue chapter: Strike Missions. Each episode introduced one or more of these mini-raids, up until the...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Recapping the entire Guild Wars 2 The Icebrood Saga
When looking back on Guild Wars 2’s The Icebrood Saga, I think the most noticeable feature was its many ups and downs. If I’m really honest with myself, those ups and downs have been largely about...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: The disappointing second half of Guild Wars 2’s...
Welcome to part two of this overview of Guild Wars 2’s The Icebrood Saga. Last time, I talked about how the first half of this Saga was largely about readjusting expectations. Not so much about...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Three better ways Guild Wars 2 could have wrapped up...
It’s easy to be critical of a game when it lets us down. In some ways, it’s equally easy to fall into the trap of denying the flaws in a thing you love. As much as I love Guild Wars 2, I always want to...
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First Impressions: Diving into Oblivion portals with companions in Elder...
Like clockwork, The Elder Scrolls Online has flung wide the gates of its annual chapter release. This time, in Blackwood, we are headed to southern Cyrodiil, where the remnants of the once great empire...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s outage analysis, simplified
For my day job, I’m a software developer, and all of my previous jobs have been IT related in some fashion. I still remember some advice that my supervisor at my first tech-related job gave me: “If...
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MassivelyOP interview: Talking ship design with Star Trek Online’s Donny Versiga
If you play Star Trek Online, you know that ship collecting is one of the major pastimes of captains all over the Federation and beyond. As such, Donny Versiga, Staff Starship Artist for STO, has a...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: The End of Dragons reveal didn’t wow people – and...
We finally have our first real peek at the features and story of Guild Wars 2’s third expansion, End of Dragons. It has been a long time since this game got a proper expansion, and hopes were high for...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s new Harbinger, Virtuoso,...
One of the most anticipated features of any Guild Wars 2 expansion is unquestionably the addition of new elite specializations. We got our first peek at the first elite spec for End of Dragons, the...
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Guild Wars 2 details End of Dragons’ fishing and boat mechanics and masteries
Ever since ArenaNet announced that fishing – and its companion fishing boats, skiffs – would be a major feature of End of Dragons, Guild Wars 2 players have been anxiously awaiting more information and...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Everything we learned about Guild Wars 2 End of...
Fishing is one of those weirdly ubiquitous RPG systems. Nobody picks an MMO based on how good its fishing skill is, and nobody complains when a new MMO launches with no fish to catch. Yet, with the...
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Guild Wars 2 stream previews End of Dragons’ Vindicator, Bladesworn, and...
Guild Wars 2 players are getting no shortage of new expansion info lately, between last week’s fishing and skiff stream and last month’s preview of the first three elite specs. If you are still waiting...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Test driving Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons’ Vindicator,...
It’s time again for another End of Dragons elite specialization beta! It’s an exciting time for Guild Wars 2 players, who are learning what elite specs they will be playing as and alongside in this...
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What we learned from Guild Wars 2’s Specter, Untamed, and Mechanist elite...
The final round of Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons elite specializations was demonstrated for viewers on ArenaNet’s Guild Chat stream this past Friday – medium armor wearers, rejoice, for now is your time...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Specter, Untamed, and...
It seems like just yesterday that we were getting hyped for the Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons’ reveal stream. While we still have a few months to wait and likely a few more surprises in store for us...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Should Guild Wars 2 delete leveling?
Leveling is one of those things that you just have to have to count as an RPG, right? It’s expected. At this point, the concept of XP and levels has pervaded virtually every genre of games, from...
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No, Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons won’t have playable Tengu
Have you ever returned to an old park or neighborhood that you haven’t been to since your childhood and found it simultaneously super familiar but also completely changed? Get ready to feel that way in...
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Guild Wars 2 teases End of Dragons’ hovering, cannon-wielding new siege...
On Earth, turtles are known for being slow-moving, land- and sometimes water-dwelling reptiles with tough shells. In Guild Wars 2’s upcoming End of Dragons expansion, however, they will be known for...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s siege turtles and...
We are finally in the home stretch for Guild Wars 2’s upcoming End of Dragons expansion! With less than three months to go, ArenaNet is currently treating us to one last beta to try out all of the...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Touring Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons guild hall,...
With Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons expansion set to launch some time in February and the beginning of that month looming on the horizon, excitement from the Guild Wars 2 community is building. Cantha...
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Hands-on with Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons’ newly unveiled jade bots mastery
With the launch of Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons less than a month away, and the release date finally revealed, ArenaNet has held out one last secret to unveil before launch day, and that is its final...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Everything you’ve missed if you haven’t played Guild...
There are a lot of great MMORPGs out there, and even if you enjoy Guild Wars 2, maybe it’s not your main game. Maybe you got excited for the expansions but haven’t found time for every Living World...
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The most important reveals from the Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons influencer...
Guild Wars 2 fans are so close to Cantha, they can practically smell the incense wafting out of Shing Jea Monastery. And yet there are still many unanswered questions in many fans’ minds. The gates to...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: What to do first in Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons
Happy launch day! Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons is finally here! A big, meaty chunk of content the likes of which we haven’t seen since 2017. Guild Wars 2 plays host to a wide variety of content types...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Spoiler-free first impressions of Guild Wars 2 End of...
Remember when “Cantha confirmed” was a Guild Wars 2 meme? I, along with many other players, never thought we’d actually see Cantha in the sequel. And yet, End of Dragons is here and we can finally...
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Interview: Talking Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons’ soundtrack with lead composer...
Maclaine Diemer is the long-time lead composer for Guild Wars 2, with soundtrack credits going as far back as the very first Living World season, and most recently for the gorgeous score of End of...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Guild Wars 2’s post-End of Dragons roadmap
Last week, we got a tsunami of good news from Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet. Studio directors Colin Johanson and John “JT” Taylor, along with executive producer Amy Liu and game director Josh “Grouch”...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s open world is not the place for...
If you’re paying any attention to Guild Wars 2, you have, by now, no doubt heard the debate over the Battle for the Jade Sea meta event. On paper, it seems like a fairly standard meta event: It runs...
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Guild Wars 2 gives update on the Jade Sea meta, WvW, and DirectX 11
Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet promised more frequent communication in its recent post-End of Dragons roadmap, and today it delivered on the promise. Highlights include an update on the Jade Sea meta...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s restored Living...
Where were you nine years ago? I don’t know about you, but my life looked very different in 2013 when Guild Wars 2 first released Flame and Frost, its first official Living World update. The game has...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Touring Guild Wars 2’s restored living world S1E2 Sky...
Ready for another trip down Guild Wars 2’s memory lane, or, perhaps, to experience more of the game’s long-lost stories for the first time? Chapter 2 of Living World Season 1 Returns is now available,...
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Guild Wars 2 trolls are blocking others’ access to new legendary weapon...
Guild Wars 2 players are failing to succeed at failing because other players are trolling them by forcing them to succeed. Hang on, let’s start over. The achievement to unlock the new Zhaitan variants...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: What could Guild Wars 2’s fourth expansion be about?
Ever since ArenaNet’s studio leadership came out early in the year and confirmed that planning has begun on a fourth expansion, players have no doubt been mulling over in their heads what that...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s S1E3 Clockwork Chaos
Ask veteran MMO gamers who the star of Guild Wars 2’s first living world season was, and you’re not likely to hear names like Braham, Marjory, or Mai Trin. The most memorable character from Season 1...
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Hands-on with Multiversus: How WB’s new brawler stacks up against Super Smash...
Like most of the readers of this site, I spend the majority of my gaming time in MMORPGs, or I wouldn’t be here. But platform fighters are my second love. The Super Smash Bros. franchise was the...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Standout moments from 10 years of Guild Wars 2
Time sure flies when you’re slaying Elder Dragons, doesn’t it? Is it really possible that it has been a decade since our characters first set foot in locations like The Grove, Rata Sum, and The Black...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s restored S1E4...
Here we are at the penultimate episode of Guild Wars 2’s restored and retooled Season 1 content! The pieces are finally starting to fall into place, as Scarlet gathers more allies and monologues more...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up Guild Wars 2’s S1 reboot with episode 5,...
It’s finally here! The most memorable, most important part of Guild Wars 2’s Living World Season 1 story. The moment we’ve all been waiting for: the introduction of Taimi! Oh, and the battle for Lion’s...
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Guild Wars 2 is revamping Mesmer and Firebrand mantras – again – in next...
Over the weekend, Guild Wars 2 balance lead Cal Cohen and associate game designer Roy Marks swung by the ArenaNet Twitch channel to show off the game’s upcoming balance changes. According to the...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s What Lies Beneath, the next End of...
Happy anniversary to Guild Wars 2‘s End of Dragons expansion! Can you believe it has been a whole year? In some ways I feel like I’m still learning what End of Dragons has to offer, but in other ways...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: What we learned (and didn’t) from Guild Wars 2’s...
The most nerve-wracking thing about being an MMORPG player is uncertainty. MMO players don’t like change, and when a change is teased, many of us tend to rush to assume the worst. That said, it is no...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up the End of Dragons era with What Lies Within
It’s the end of an era: Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons era of content comes to a close with today’s episode, titled What Lies Within. Last time, the Jade Brotherhood dug too greedily and too deep in the...
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MMO Burnout: Lessons MMOs can learn from The Legend of Zelda Tears of the...
Like most MMO players, I am, first and foremost, a PC gamer. However, like many gamers born in the ’80s and ’90s, I also have a deep love for Nintendo and its various properties. It is also probably no...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s skyscale changes are great
So here’s a funny story: I was literally in the middle of writing an article titled “The time to make the skyscale more accessible is now” when the embargoed PR for Guild Wars 2’s new Secrets of the...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Secrets of the Obscure has me concerned for Guild...
If you haven’t picked up on it by now, I really like Guild Wars 2. It is my favorite MMORPG of all time and the one I have spent the most time in by far. But just because I love this game doesn’t mean...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure
It has been a weird time to be a Guild Wars 2 fan, with a lot of ups and downs lately. End of Dragons was, in my opinion, the best content ArenaNet has ever produced, but it was followed up by a...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil’s Inner...
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure was a bit of a different expansion in that it wasn’t one big chunk of content dropped on us all at once, but rather, much of it was promised to us in future updates...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Five Guild Wars 2 event farms to combat your...
My favorite thing about Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event is the Mad King’s Labyrinth. There’s nothing quite like it, even at the game’s other festivals. It’s just so much fun to...
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A fresh first impressions: Checking out Palia for the first time on Switch
Outside of MMORPGs, life sims are probably the most-played genre in my household. I originally bought Stardew Valley for my wife a few years ago as something we could do together that would help her...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s The Realm of...
Can you believe it has been more than half a year since we took our first steps into the mysterious, long-teased Wizard’s Tower in Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure? This expansion’s structure has...
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