Guild Wars 2

Me after running to a safe spot with no mobs around:

Here’s one for you guys, i’m surprised no one posted it yet

I recently contacted Arenanet through their support page as inquired as to whether or not they had any plans or desire to re-release GuildWars in an HD format and received a response today.

I was told that they were unsure about whether or not it was something they would do but they encouraged me to create a forum thread to see if the idea gained any momentum.

This is the thread where we can have our voices heard and bring about the re-release of such a beautiful and captivating experience that was GuildWars.

For those of ya who haven’t had the opportunity to enjoy the original GuildWars recently or even in its heyday, the game was a work of art. A true Da Vinci in the gaming world.

If ya have played GuildWars and would love to play it again in HD, a simple upvote is all that is needed but please feel free to comment what it is that ya loved so much and why it would be the greatest re-release and remaster ever!

I personally loved the storylines as well as the elite skill capturing and multi-class character system. Ranger/Necro and Warrior/Monk FTW!

Oh crap, I missed that one… Would have participated had I known beforehand.

Hi Gaile,

thx for the kind comment :-) Just feel free to to use any of them in the Community Showcase Live show. I´m glad to contribute to community events (and to be honest – proud that somebody takes notice from time to time ^^)

Best regards and have a nice weekend
Benjamin

P.S.: More Sylvari-based artwork´s on its way, too…

I like the style, original gw2 ;D
Though some lines are kinda out-of-race – asura-wise ;D

I’ve been wanting to make some Guild Wars 2 themed artwork for a while now and since Halloween was coming up, I thought it’d be a great time! Here is a quaggan dressed up as a witch and ready to trick-or-treat! Unfortunately she’s been spooked by a rather cute looking ghost! Is it a quaggan ghost? It could be! Let’s hope it doesn’t steal the quaggan’s treats!

I had a lot of fun working on this!

Marzy

Walhalla.5473:

We’ll see his Endgame when Primordus is dead and he is absorbing its Energy. ( Ironically our Characters now also can absorb Magical Energy, its possible that we also absorb some of the Elder Dragon’s Energy after its Death then, which could be a WTF Moment for Lazarus. )

Lazarus: “You are… Dragonborn. But such a thing… surely that’s not possible…”

“Quivering with unstable magical energy, strangely warm to the touch. You should be careful carrying this around.” – Scholar Glenna, referring to Blood Rubies.

The first indication Reinard had that something was wrong was when he noticed a face staring at him from inside the mystic forge, twisted and distorted by the swirling magical energy, but distinguishable enough. Dull features. Smiling.

Spooky.

A quick glance around the area suggested that no one else seemed to notice what he did, which meant he was the only one seeing the spooky face in the swirling fountain. Which is when he noticed the herd of moa birds stampeding through the square and down into the trader’s forum, hovering over so slightly above the ground, their movements silent.

Frowning, Reinard took another look around the bank and out into the distance to see if anyone was reacting as they should – terror, perhaps – but found that everyone was going about their daily business.

“Um,” Reinard said smartly.

“What was that?” Casteless asked from where he was hunched over his item chest, sorting through trinkets he’d collected. There was the click of a latch releasing followed by a snap and a string of charr expletives.

Reinard went over the ways he could potentially respond in his head and decided he wasn’t satisfied with any of them. “Nothing, never mind,” he said instead, his brow creased in thought. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Casteless’ fur start to slowly shift into another shade, from brown to purple, but he decided to not look. The denial was beginning to set in.

There was a pop followed by a roar and the the lid of a chest being slammed shut.

“Sir,” said a very irritated asura from somewhere, “If you damage the chest you buy it.”

“Yeah, yeah,” Casteless grumbled. He caught sight of Reinard and crossed his arms. “What’s wrong with you? Look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

Which is precisely when Reinard’s dead mother floated through the bank, phasing through one wall and the other.

“Um,” Reinard said again, mouth agape.

The ring on his finger was getting starting to burn. He raised his arm so he could examine it further, and found that the bloodstone ruby set in the center of it had a faint glow. Which solved one mystery, at least.

“Give me one second,” he told Casteless. slipping the ring off his finger. The charr responded with an eye roll and headed towards the exit. Reinard walked over to the short tempered asura.

“Yes,” Reinard said pleasantly, his norn height towering above the asura. “I’d like to make a deposit.”

Hello, everyone! I’ve made a few GW2 paintings over the past year or so, and I figured I’d share them with you. The Guild Wars series has such a gorgeous art style that it’s difficult not to make any fanart, it’s been a huge inspiration since GW1.

Thank you for looking! Feel free to ask if you have any art-related questions, I’m always glad to help.

(For more of my art, including non-GW stuff: http://dona-vajgand.tumblr.com).

I’m open for commissions! PM me or check my Tumblr for more information if you’re interested. <3

This is a fan made trailer, celebrating the fourth anniversary for GW2! It features scenes from all Living World seasons as well as Heart of Thorns.

Thank you! ^^

I just finished a new drawing today, a Sylvari.

deviantArt, tumblr

hey they used your art for the update~

So yeah… I’m a little bit an Asura fanatic. I love this race, all my playable characters are Asuras. I’m a sketching beginner so I thought that I’ll try to sketch some Asuras, cause why not.

First three are my test sketches of how anatomy and facial types goes, so they not the most interesting pieces by far.

Also since I’m a huge sucker for new stuff I thought to myself what would it be like to have a mounts in GW, and come up with this moa crazy idea with my daredevil on top of it. It is a rough one but for me capturing this idea was more important. Hope you enjoy it

Last piece is my attempt to draw a Charr character of my friend from Open Community. I hope she liked the final effect at least tiny bit.

What you guys think? Please let me know, and I try to post some new stuff here as soon as I scratch something! Excelsior!

I’m posting all of my GW2 stuff on this Tumblr: http://guardianbeargaming.tumblr.com/

But here’s my latest drawing (Rytlock in an evening gown, as he talked about in the Ash legion personal story) hehehehe

Another long while comes another Gw2 artwork this time of my charr guardian. I’m a masochist for things with detail -coughs- armourIlovehateyou.

fyi. my deviantart name recently changed to Pixelationer from Pk3rm3 =)

Here it is my sketch of Eir Stegalkin. Miss her ingame :<

i want to share with you my Eir cosplay and my boyfriend as Logan.

there are some things and some details that need to be fixed but i hope you like our works!

http://img05.deviantart.net/2555/i/2016/063/9/f/always_get_up_eir_stegalkin_gw2_by_jamiecool-d9tw0d2.jpg

http://img14.deviantart.net/7be6/i/2016/046/8/d/right_between_the_eyes_eir_gw2_by_jamiecool-d9rvxrz.jpg

http://img13.deviantart.net/5d38/i/2016/039/b/6/eir_stegalkin_gw2_by_jamiecool-d9r1mw2.jpg

I’m in love with Eir Stegalkin as I read the Gw2 Edge of Destiny novel XD so does the other members ok, love logan too, love rytlock too, caithe too, zojja too etcera etcera :O

So I painted Eir Stegalkin & her beloved black wolf, Garm~ ^o^
BTW, I’m new around here, in the forum~! I actually just painted for fun, then my only-real-life-Gw2-buddy told me there’s this community~

So, hi guys
just hope you guys like this painting of Eir Stegalkin & Garm! ^^

I had to stop not long into it because, as you note, that music is not to everyone’s taste and particularly not to mine (I listen to classical — ie anything from earliest days on up to around 1910 — swing, folk, and modern symphonic such as Two Steps From Hell). Since I’ve already seen all the cinematics and trailers, the interest to me would lie in how they were set to the chosen music, which means I have to want to listen to the music.

The first few bits did look well synced and chosen to the beat and lyrics, though.

This is going to be one of “those” topics, where a guy goes on a podium telling everyone what his opinion is, and they either burn him at the stake for saying it, or they listen, and consider what he might be saying may not necessarily be an individuals opinion but shared by a larger part of the community as a whole.

The Journey

So let me start by saying that for several dedicated years I considered GW2 my first MMO home since WoW, for a long time I invested myself into this game for various bits of content within it that I myself appealed to and avoided most of the content or simply ignored it, when I didnt have an interest.

When GW2 first came out, the premise I was told, as I suspect most of us, were told, was that this game was going to lean away from the steriotypical qualities of previous mmo’s in the genre. It wanted to do away with tab targeting, it wanted to break away from the role responsibility of heal, tank, dps.

It wanted to eliminate the notion of competative and toxic gameplay, by making the game open, friendly, and welcoming to everyone. I remember, when you could go into an area, without grouping with a single person, and still, if both of you wanted to take down the boss to get skill points, you could work together with a random guy to get the same reward.

This was the ideal MMO for me, it had no singular seperation of content between players, it was entirley, for everyone.

The Sign Of Things To Come

Then Fractals came, and suddenly, that concept was all but deminished. The introduction of ascended gear began a trend that would set off an endless chasm of divide between players that grew in quantity and quality of toxicity.

Fractals were only a small niche mind you, but they were the start of something, I knew that something was comming and I didnt want to believe it was going to happen. Not after this MMO I had just found, serving as a sanctuary, would promise to remove the idea of exclusive content from an MMO.

Yet here you had Fractals, the first sign of a storm to come, where content was designed specifically for one playerbase who were looking for challenging end game content. You needed a new type of armor and weapons, which required dedicated effort to attain and craft.

Now at the time this wasnt a major leap, so while it was worrying me, I didnt complain that challenging content could be added, people wanted it, it was fair to put something there.

But then bit by bit ugly signs of more of this content would start to appear, particualrly in season 1 during its exclusive limited time dungeon content that has now been added mostly to fractals.

Season 1 and 2

Now I did get to experience and play through all of the content in S1 except maybe Aether Path which ive still not touched with a 50 foot bargepole. The point is…

S1 while having a few misses for a casual like me, mostly was a hit, it added alot of world content, alot of content “everyone” could play granted the only limitation was the 2 week lockout period.

When S1 ended we had something of a timely drought to content, meanwhile we got new pvp content in the form of EOTM and early signs of ranked pvp being overhauled.

S2, finally came out with a much better format, 2 weeks like S1, but now, the content was permanent, with only a minor change from episode 1 to 2 otherwise everything remained generally samey.

The main world content got major updates and lots of pve side content was generally fun to do.

Then we got told HoT was comming, this first great expansion, at the time, I was genuinley intreagued, even hyped for HoT, but little could I have known that HoT was going to be the thing that changed everything for GW2 for me.

Heart Of Thorns

The release of Heart Of Thorns promised “challenging group content” which immediately set off my alarm bells considering up until this point Gw2 had been a game advocating for a casual playerbase that had no real understanding of that notion. E-sports was also being pushed hard this time round which also set me off because of the fact that I immediatley knew this E-sport thing wasnt going to take off successfully the way Arenanet hopes it will.

The issue is this…

E-Sports and Raiding, the Problem:

Up until that point, there was never a single piece of competetive content to the game that couldnt be done singlehandedly, or with a single friend. A small group of friends often speaks louder than a larger group of elitists.

The problem is that the lack of content for those specific 1% players from the golden days of wow such as TBC obviously screamed they wanted nostalgic content only they could access at the cost of everyone else.

This is not a healthy medium, its never been a healthy way to develop any content in any mmo. Making exclusive content that only a small minority will ever get to see literally creates the most defeating point of any game with multiplayer, exclusivity.

It literally means that only a small group of people with the skill, dedidcation, time, and care will ever actually see this content, ever care about this content and ever play, this content.

And frankly that is “not” good for a game that advocated itself as “the” casual mmo for players.

It defeats the entire point of having content, if that content is painted as “exclusive” in the first place, why even bother, when your probably never going to be on the level of those with e-sports pro gaming skills in pvp, or have the time/commitment to raid.

Why the Future is Hopeful

I believe A-net, you realize by now that both E-sports and Raiding has been recieved in a MOSTLY negative light, and sometimes, no matter how tempting a good idea seems, its often bad.

The problem here, is you came up with an idea that just doesnt fit the GW2 quota, that just doesnt belong here.

Raiding… is not content, that ever belonged in GW2, or had a place in it, nor is E-sports, both things belong in different games, focused entirley on content around that.

GW2’s strength, was its world events, its world raiding open to ‘everyone’ its “Personal” story that everyone is capable of doing.

Stick to what GW2 is good at, dont try to change it into something it isnt.

I am not asking you to remove raiding, per say, or to stop trying to make E-sports some kind of move, but I do think, frankly, that without a medium in which everyone has access to this content, your removing the reason GW2 was fun in the first place.

Theres a reason we call raiders the 1%, because thats all they will ever be. Only a minority of dedicated players actually raid, only a minority of dedicated pvpers actually want to be part of an e-sport.

Neither things, matter to the rest of us.

And I really hope, going forwards with season 3 and expansion 2, you focus on the majority, instead.

Alright people, if you want mounts, hear this. What if there were mounts that didn’t really effect movement speed (cause that’s stupid we have Waypoints) BUT RATHER, they gave us special combat skills? Like if we could get a Beetle mount from the HoT areas that would give us the skills of a Beetle Rider. Or we could get a Charr Tank (a smaller version of course) that would give us artillery skills or even a battle dolyak, that would give us high damage skills. Now these things would of course have to effect your health too and we couldn’t use them in PvP OR WvW but, idk, I PvE and RP and i see uses for this in both. It’s just a bit of a compromise. I feel like with the sonic tunneling tool or the witch’s broom or magic carpet, they were trying to give us something along the lines of a mount for looks, but this would serve an actual purpose. Just my 2 cents. So if i need to explain some bits and peices of this or something, or you want to point out a flaw, go ahead. I’m taking notes.

Hehe, exactly what I was thinking while coloring this. :D

Hey guys! I forgot this forum existed til it was suggested to me.
I just finished completing my third GW2 cosplay- a mesmer!

I worked on it for about 7-8 months between college and work. The main materials I used are worbla and craft foam. The staff is a pvc pipe base with a wooden dowel for support, and lots of sculpted worbla.

Imgur post with more pics here: http://imgur.com/gallery/VKyGj?lr=0

(char is wearing all phoenix armor except a carapace top and an ascended spire)

Hope you like it

Selana Firestone.6389:

Oh my word that gave me a giggle. How do you manage to make charr faces so expressive? Do you have one to study? ….erm, cats, I mean. Obviously, studying charr may result in loss of life and limb…

I have 2 cats! They like to think that they’re charr though.

A few more drawings.

1. Obscurity – Commission for/of Kashti
2. Charr Sketch