Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2's November 10 update brings a big skills and balance pass across every profession and the first gray-box beta of the new World vs. World Borderlands map.

Finish the GW2 Halloween weekly in about 30 minutes: run the Bunny Bounce at the Mad King's Raceway for 5 points per lap, 40 laps for 200 points.

Halloween and Wintersday top our Guild Wars 2 festival tier list. See how all six festivals rank for gold, karma, activities, and replay value.

The best Guild Wars 2 mastery XP farms for every expansion, from Dragonfall and Drizzlewood Coast to convergences, plus solo options for spirit shards.

Are Guild Wars 2 festival gobblers worth it? Compare Candy Corn, Snowflake, and Zhaitaffy Gobbler upkeep costs and see when each boost pays off.

The best settings for Guild Wars 2 come down to four changes that matter more than the rest of the options menu combined: Effect LOD, Character Model Limit, your ground-targeting mode, and camera field of view. Everything else in the menu is safe to leave at its default until those four are dialed in. I […]

The fastest way to get ascended gear in Guild Wars 2 is through a mix of Wizard’s Vault purchases, fractal and raid rewards, and profession crafting, since no single method covers every gear slot. Random drops from raids, strikes, and World versus World rank-ups can also grant pieces, but they are too unreliable to plan […]

A wiki-style walkthrough of structured PvP, covering requirements, gear, queuing, ranked versus unranked, matchmaking, Conquest scoring, roles, map objectives, and rewards, in the order you actually need them. Guild Wars 2 PvP requires nothing more than a level 1 character, since every player’s gear and stats are normalized the moment a match starts. From there, […]

To play PvE support in Guild Wars 2, keep your squad topped up on quickness, alacrity, healing, and barrier while staying close enough for it to land. What Playing Support Means in Guild Wars 2 In practice, that means maintaining boon uptime, healing through predictable damage, cleansing dangerous conditions, and breaking defiance bars, all without […]

arcDPS is legal in Guild Wars 2, since it only reads combat data your client already generates rather than granting any unfair advantage over other players. This guide covers every configurable window in the combat meter, the extensions built on top of it, and how it behaves across PvE, WvW, and PvP. I tested each […]

The correct way to use magic find in Guild Wars 2 is to stop trying to keep it maxed out during normal play. Instead, you stockpile the specific containers magic find affects and only push it to its 750% cap when you are ready to open all of them in one sitting. I tested every […]

Food in Guild Wars 2 is a consumable that grants a temporary stat buff called Nourishment, and using the right one for your build is one of the simplest ways to boost your performance. Utility consumables, ascended feasts, and duration primers all build on that same system to push your stats even further. I have […]