Over 3 months after launch and it’s still the top selling MMORPG on Amazon. 
I agree with pretty much everyone here, Fix the Current Game, Balance the Classes better, then deal with new content..
Content is wonderful but when you cannot even play it due to bugs that do not get fixed, it just angers your customers.
Balance is actually pretty good right now.
Of course there’s a few bugs (to be expected in any major launch) but they’ve been really good at addressing them. The game is so good it’s worth the patience while they get these couple pesky ones dealt with.
“But January and February are actually are biggest updates to date. They’re even bigger than all the stuff we did in October, November and December. And I think that when people see how much stuff they’re gonna get for no monthly fee in January and February, they’re probably going to be blown away. These two months combined are basically an expansion’s worth of content for free.”
An expansion’s worth of content for free – the value of this game just continues to get even more amazing
More purchases than expected, bigger and more popular than expected, used 90% of bandwidth at peak over November patch weekend – Crazy popular!
And did he just throw down the gauntlet at WoW? 
Greetings fellow traveler!
I would like to point out that the items you are looking for, lodestones and t6 mats are RARE items. They do not drop readily, are not easily farmable and they never have been since the game launched.
Let’s look at t6 mats. Vials of Powerful Blood for example.
There are certain types of mobs that drop blood: Skelks, Bats, Trolls, etc. The lower level mobs drop the lower level bloods while the higher level mobs drop the higher bloods. If you want to farm the rare t6 blood, farm the mobs that regularly drop the t5 – this will give you a CHANCE at the rare t6 drop. Also note that the new mobs they added to the game in the last patch, the Young Karka, also drop blood.
Now after you’ve farmed these fellows for awhile you will find significantly more t5 blood in your bag than t6. This is because t6 is RARE.
What you can do is sell your excess t5 mats on the Trading Post and use that gold to purchase t6 from other players that have listed them on the Trading Post or you can use the t5 mats in a Mystic Forge recipe that creates a random amount of t6 mats.
Here are the best places to look for mobs that drop the mats and Mystic Forge recipes to transmute t5:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.gw2db.com/
http://www.guildhead.com/
This is what everyone is doing, what everyone has been doing since the game launched.
Happy Hunting!
According to Xfire, every single game in the top 10 is falling.
Every.
One.Except they’re not? Did you even look?
I did, did you?
All the games have weekend spikes but week over week they all are falling.
Indicates fewer people using xfire.
Everywhere I go the game is packed. Starting zones, Lion’s Arch, WvW, dragon events. Just finished doing a Claw of Jormag in Frostgorge, there was over a hundred people there.
There’s a couple zones that don’t get much traffic – places like Iron Marches or Brisban Wildlands. Some more world boss events (with timers please <3 ) would fix that right up
I think it’s spectacular, best MMO I’ve ever played
You missed a few
Big thanks to all the fine people at ArenaNet, most enjoyable MMO experience I’ve ever had
They’re plants, they have a right to grow where ever they want
Sylvari propaganda!
(j/k <3)
One of the very cool features of GW2 is that you get to pick a UNIQUE name, not a name that someone on every server has.
You and only you can have your name.
these server stats are only counting accounts on each servers.
not actual players logged in at any moment. lol.otherwise you would see a HUGE difference between day and night time, and clearly there isnt.
But they do fluctuate on the time of day.
Many of the FULL servers have high nighttime populations because of WvW – our Aussie & Oceanic players.
Boy it makes them nervous when they see how well GW2 is doing
I doubt WoW is worried about GW2 Most of the people I came here with are already back and playing and enjoying. But besides that wow is guaranteed a 15 month subscription fee a month regardless of anything they can kinda count on that a GW2 kinda depends on some one buying gems regardless of the numbers playing if no one buys their gems they are losing money every second they stay on line
Most of the people in my guild came from WoW, maybe 80%.
That’s 200 active people.
Are you saying WoW is better cuz they triple dip? Box + sub fee + cash shop? Most gamers I know are tired of getting ripped off
Thats also ignoring the fact that the xfire numbers suggests Gw2 has 1/2 the players that WoW has and I am sure if they reached 5m sales we’d have heard about it !
Well, WoW is in Asia while GW2 is in NA & EU only.
So far
and what xfire doesnt work in asia?
but fine, lets ignore the gw2 is 1/2 the wow population part ! WoW still showed a decline from 120k hrs to 22k hrs with no corrisponding or well lets say negligable corrisponding drop in subs !
I think you may have misunderstood me Galen or maybe I didn’t phrase it correctly.
According to xfire GW2 has half the players that WoW has with only 1/2 the market penetration since it’s not in Asia yet.
It’s feasible to say that GW2 and WoW currently have the same population in NA & EU.
Boy it makes them nervous when they see how well GW2 is doing
Thats also ignoring the fact that the xfire numbers suggests Gw2 has 1/2 the players that WoW has and I am sure if they reached 5m sales we’d have heard about it !
Well, WoW is in Asia while GW2 is in NA & EU only.
So far
Absolutely I would recommend it – and I have!
Stellar game, solid contender for PC game of the year.
Great value, no sub fee and free content patches every month.
My brother that use to play WoW just bought it yesterday when I told him he could pvp at 80 immediately without leveling or gearing up. He hasn’t come out of WvW yet.
I participated in a Balthazaar kill yesterday on Sanctum of Rall. I do it every couple of days along with the Zho’Qafa Catacombs event (trying for the rumored and highly rare Final Rest staff).
Another one of my obsessions
sadly I have had no luck with that since I can only get my husband to do it with me- that is a suicide mission for two players.
I guess you haven’t had any luck with getting Final Rest?
I run it with my guildmates mostly, we have a big guild and can always find peeps for groups.
No luck yet on Final Rest, but I’m willing to give it a few more runs
Thanks for replies. I’m still checking every one or two hours, and Crystal Desert has remained full. This time, it was at bottom of the list, presumably meaning, the most full.
This doesn’t make sense. Are active players keeping the servers full 24 hours a day, or is something else going on? Could botting by hundreds of folks take up space from folks who actually want to play?
The server status is dynamic, they do change throughout the day depending on how many people are logged on. Just keep checking, late at night & early in the morning are best times to check on Full servers.
Bots are really not an issue, ANet took a hard stance and has eradicated most of them
Is there any guilds on Sanctum of Rall that do things during the daytime hours
in Guilds
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That’s because its made to make your brain like to do it.
PSYCHOLOGY FTW!
Fun – it’s addictive!