Guild Wars 2

I received an email today from: " gw2@ncsoft.com ", talking about combat tips..
In fact I just received another one now as we speak. So that’s twice that I’ve received an email from this address with the same topic.
I’m a little worried though cause I’ve never gotten an email from this address before..

Did anyone else get an email like this?
PLEASE HELP, I’m a lil worried that this is fake ??!!

Don’t trust it. I got the same email just now, and I’m 99% sure it’s a sham aimed at hacking your account or something. Unless an Anet dev says otherwise, I ain’t clickin’ it.

EDIT: Welp, an Anet dev said otherwise, so don’t mind me! :p

I also got the e-mail, and since I’m not a new player, it really puzzled me, so I had to spend some time analyzing it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was from guildwars2.com, but guildwars2.ncsoft.com which is not the game website and has “A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt – learn more.” notice in Google, paired with non-readable links usually used for tracking users or deceiving them, made me really suspicious.

In addition to the issues mentioned above, the https certificate for the referenced site guildwars2.ncsoft.com is broken. It’s for *.bluehornet.com , so anone reading that email really must consider it a phishing attempt. Please fix your cert asap.

And as a side note, I was briefly impressed with the “how was I added to this list?” link, until I read the provided data and realized they were wrong, i.e., didn’t actually correspond to me opting in to anything. Kinda defeats the purpose if you can invent things there.

CAREFUL HERE!

I received such an e-mail today from ‘guildwars2@ncsoft.com’. It looks legit. No terrible language, tips are ok, some nice pictures in it, nice formatting. However, almost every link in it goes like http://guildwars2.ncsoft.com/ct/(add a row of cryptic numbers an symbols here). Even the ones that claim to bring me to the official “GuildWars2.com Combat Page”, as well as the official Wiki and even Forums page.

Are you really sure, this is not a phishing mail? Please double check!

Thank you.

I thought you Anet was trying to send me a message or something lol. I got it twice so I figured I must have ranked fairly low on their now “Player Skill Assessment” campaign.

Chris Cleary.8017:

Reguarding email security

That was a wonderful typo.

I, too, thought I was getting schooled on my awful gameplay…

Now if only we could reguard topics from hypoxia-inducing tl;dr posts referencing entirely separate issues which, in the minds of these blowhards, somehow rank above consumer concerns about phishing attempts…

The tab target nearest enemy part made me laugh. It’s been my pet peeve since original GW and the same (bad) targeting got baked into GW2’s engine.

Just today, was fighting the mob of Svanir near the chest in Wayfarer with about six of them directly in front of me. Pressed Tab and target selected was the furthest away on the opposite side of the clearing.

This target mis-selection happens so often, my gf is tired of hearing me say it.
My point is that this can go wrong as advice to new players who find out it doesn’t work as advertised.

Natsu.2589:

*CAREFUL HERE!*

I received such an e-mail today from *’guildwars2@ncsoft.com’*. It looks legit. No terrible language, tips are ok, some nice pictures in it, nice formatting. However, almost every link in it goes like *http://guildwars2.ncsoft.com/ct/(add a row of cryptic numbers an symbols here)*. Even the ones that claim to bring me to the official "GuildWars2.com Combat Page", as well as the official Wiki and even Forums page.

Are you really sure, this is not a phishing mail? Please double check!

Thank you.

Footer of every GuildWars2.com page

©2010–2014 ArenaNet, LLC. and NC Interactive, LLC. All rights reserved. Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet, NCSOFT, the Interlocking NC Logo, and all associated logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCSOFT Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArenaNet
"ArenaNet is a video game developer and subsidiary of NCsoft"

I actually got two of those e-mails this morning. I figured they were probably coming but it was nice to get a refresher course Thanks ANet!

Veeber.3192:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArenaNet
“ArenaNet is a video game developer and subsidiary of NCsoft”

Every day you’re visiting guildwars2.com and not guildwars2.ncsoft.com and are talking to ArenaNet team, and have no idea what the real site of NCSoft is – ncsoft.com, or n-c-soft.com, or nc-soft.com, or nice-company-soft.com.

The reason why they’re doing it is gathering metrics – with these redirects they can easily tell which links were the most interesting ones and were clicked, as well as who clicked them (if all e-mails are different and contain your hashed user ID) – a veteran, a newcomer, a frequent gem purchaser etc. When used in a non-evil way, this can help identify the areas where community lacks information, and provide it, and by providing it make the game friendlier for everyone – both newbies and pros. Most likely, this is a universal system used for all games run and monitored by NCSoft.

The reason why we were panicking, though, is that it was not done by GW2 team as we know them – like, having links of guildwars2.com/redirect/%hash% sent from news@guildwars.com or news@arenanet.com, but from a company which most of the community have rarely ever heard of (or forgot already anyway).

Got the email twice this morning as well… very weird.

Return Email also does not work. (Tried a reply and got a FAILURE-DAEMON)

This has to be legit (beyond the fact that Anet employees have said it is a valid mistake)….it’s using an email proxy address I ONLY have ever used for GW2 sign up and Support tickets. I seriously doubt anyone would send out random emails to this proxy (as it has TWO . extensions in it.).

If this WAS a phisher, it was the best formatted and worded one I have ever seen.

Not sure why anyone would ever reply to any email you are unsure of the source…..you just verified to the sender that you are a valid address and that usually ends up putting your email in a much more profitable email list sold among spammers…never a smart move.

I love how the tips on how to stay alive are illustrated by the Warrior skill bar with Healing Signet. This has to be real.

What about the sneak preview email on what’s happening next week?
Can I tell people about that one?

Edit: Don’t want to freak anyone out – just kidding!

While we’re on the topic, can we talk about your hatred of trees? Both this and the recent ‘reasons to return’ email (which I thank you for, I’d totally forgotten amidst failing hardware shortly after burning out for a bit!) had ridiculous amounts of white space. I mean, look at this! http://pastebin.com/kxU7kisQ

My boyfriend linked me to this forum paste and told me to check my email…turned out I had gotten this email too. Gave me a chuckle!

The imgur image below (pulled from a thread on reddit here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/293spr/been_playing_the_game_since_beta_today_anet/) shows the email for those who are curious.

http://imgur.com/ZsptyZd

Thank you so much. After 21 months of playing the game I was wondering how to start combat.

Seriously, aren’t we used to this level of competence by now?

Thanks for the replies!! I was worried for a bit till my bro said something along the lines of it having to be real, but I still had my doubts till I had real confirmation on here ^^ always good to be cautious with things like this .

I found it kind of amusing, that you needed to give people tips about a combat system that can be facerolled for the vast majority of it.
But that aside one thing seems conspicuously absent… other people. It’s almost as if there is a implicit expectation that your not going to be working with anybody else, I wonder why that is?

But seriously, every time I hear Arenanet employees speak on anything combat related multiplayer is never talked about, certainly not in any degree of depth. Just an observation.

Tumult.2578:

…..
Seriously, aren’t we used to this level of competence by now?

Wow…..good to know you never made a mistake.