Guild Wars 2

I just came back from a long hiatus and am looking for a guild. Madcast looks perfect! Could I get an invite please?

I’m looking for a casual, friendly guild that is interested in mostly PVE. I craft, do the occasional dungeon, and am interested in doing some world bosses (never done one). Mostly I’m just looking for a good time with friends.

I’ve a fair share of mmo’s including the original GW as my very first. I played GW2 during betas through launch for a few months but burned myself out and stopped playing. My main is a level 80 warrior; armorsmith/weaponsmith. I currently play on the Jade Quarry server.

Guild Wars 2 reached it’s peak sales and descended a couple months ago, but that does not mean they are not still selling plenty of copies. A speculative friend of mine just bought the game after playing the free-trial and I’m sure there were others who did as well.

Free to play for this game would be bad. Not only because Anet’s buy-to-play model is just fine but because when a game goes free-to-play many assume the game is dying (which is isn’t).

When using the skill Vengence, with the trait Sweet Revenge, I can die twice by dying before the fifteen seconds of Vengence is done, and then dying after I return to a waypoint, because vengence stays active upon death. This is really annoying, though I think I’ve found a work around by just waiting till the remaining time on Vengence is finished. Hopefully this is a quick and easy fix for Anet, I’m tired of dying twice. :P

This thread is not so much about what new skills could be added but how new skills could be added, specifically weapon skills as it seems pretty easy to simply add new healing, utility, and elite skills. Note: My main character is a warrior, so most of the inspiration for this post comes from the warrior proffesion. I do not know how well this would work with other proffesions but I think it is versatile enough to apply to all proffesions.

First of all new weapons could and should be added. Scythes(though possibly this is saved for an upcoming Dervish proffesion), pikes, whips plus a host of others could be added.

Secondly new types of weapons could be added. For example; instead of having just a one-handed sword you could have the choice between several different types of one-handed sword like a short-sword, a long-sword, or a scimatar. Each could have new skills as well as variations on current one-handed sword skills with different effects pertaining to each weapon kind. This would vastly improve the amount of skills and skill variations, which has good and negative effects. Balancing would probaly become harder, but if done carefully it could be a very fun way to expand your proffesion. I hope Arena Net creates new proffesions and skills to keep this game fresh and exciting for years to come.

I understand that there will not be a free-trial for a long time, but I was curious if there was any word on a free-trial coming in the future.

Has there been any word on a free-trial? I am currently trying to some friends of mine to play and a free-trial would be the best way for them to learn about the game. Thank you in advance.