They’ve been talking about the next phase of making sPvP more rewarding, of which one of the things on the agenda is being able to use your PvP skins in PvE 
No date on it yet, but they’ve been pretty aggressive at getting the new reward program rolled out.
Thank you for the write up and video Psynch. I really enjoy your videos and theorycrafting of the lore, you’re a great storyteller
Don’t worry they’ll nerf this method like they nerfed crafting to 80. Give it 2 patches.
They’ve already stated that the glory reward vendor will be removed in the future, that this promotion is a limited time offer. New rewards are incoming however – keep your eyes on the PvP forums
Not quite what you are looking for but you can use the Achievements leaderboard to see the last date someone in your guild earned an achievement point.
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/achievements
Log in, select the guild you want to check and mouse over the achievement number. Of course this will not show anyone that’s just logging in to dance in Lion’s Arch or w/e but since points come so easily it’s a good indication of your guild member’s last date of activity 
I’ve already got badges out the wazoo but I’m really enjoying the new glory rewards in sPvP
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On the side note some of the most satisfying times I’ve had in GW2 was while map exploring by myself or with a friend, climbing mountains in the middle of nowhere. Taking a second while standing on top of the cliff looking around at the beautiful area surrounding me, with animals roaming around in wilderness. Underflows would destroy that feeling making it look like another Queensdale. But then again, that’s an adventurer in me speaking.
I agree with this – we really don’t need massive amounts of players on every map, it’s nice to strike off into the wilderness and get away from the madding crowds from time to time
Pandas are coming over to gw2
After what happened to that game that shall not be named, I doubt if any MMO will ever release pandas again. Like ever
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Tequatl Terror Squad attempts to do Teq kills on regular servers but with 5500 members it’s difficult not to trigger overflows
Recruitment is currently closed but they do take requests to come to your server:
http://www.reddit.com/r/TTSCommunity/comments/1tx12p/what_servers_should_tts_do_teq_kills_on/
Cool
Oh, almost forgot – there’s also a glory promotion going on atm. You can use your glory to purchase any of the dungeon sets or Cultural armors from special vendor in the Heart of the Mists.
2014 is going to be an amazing year for GW2 and the community!
Chris
Looking forward to it
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On the other hand, it looks like ANOTHER greatsword.
I agree that the graphics setting in that pic don’t do it justice, but it’s a STAFF!
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Dodge.
I went back to WoW for a few days when they were offering free play time and the one thing i missed more then anything was dodging, that and moving while casting.
Also the graphics in GW2 are superior to any other mmo.
Every class can cast something while moving. I don’t know why some of the people here insist on being dishonest when describing other games.
umm im not being dishonest, unless they have changed every single caster in WoW to cast while moving in the last few months what i said is 100% true.
WoW is incredibly outdated these days in every aspect, they are desperately playing catch up, look at there new expansion, they have copied paste things from more modern mmos.
Yes, you are. While you can’t cast everything while moving, you can cast some things and you certainly aren’t rooted in one place for a duration of the fight.
It’s more like evolving rather than desperately playing catch up, while GW2 devolved by introducing an obvious, flat out gigantic grind with the introduction of ascended gear.
Warlock 2.5 sec rooted Shadow Bolt fillers and 3 sec rooted Chaos Bolts ftl.
I went back and watched our Heroic kill of Deathwing and it was just awful, sitting there, rocking back and forth casting shadowbolt fillers. Ugh, never again.
Cataclysm ended over a year ago. You obviously don’t even play any more, like most of the others here, and therefore have no idea what you’re talking about.
I will say this, however. Roleplaying a zergling and spamming 1 doesn’t sound like much fun.
Just looked it up on WoWhead, buddy. Nothing has changed, those spells root you like a turret making for the most BORING combat mechanics ever created.
The spec that casts chaos bolt, doesn’t have access to shadow bolt. And each spec has the ability to cast their main spell while moving, if they so choose. Stop being dishonest.
What makes the combat here so great? Dodge? I tried this game and found it to be awful. What strategy is there? What optimization? You just run up and spam your tiny number of buttons because it doesn’t matter. And dodge once in a while, randomly, because you can’t see past the particle spam.
Solo PvE isn’t a challenge, in dungeons you pull to a wall and stack, and in WvW/world champ farming, you roleplay a zergling and spam 1.
Because plugging in macros and boss mods make a game challenging?
WoW is such a borefest spreadsheet game, it got completely ridiculous when we could predict down to the hour when we would take a boss down because a tank got a shield drop or a healer got a trinket. It’s no wonder they lost 3 million subs since GW2 launched.
Three. An elementalist, a guardian and a mesmer.
Plus a bunch of name holder toons that I haven’t leveled yet. Love playing my elementalist too much