It will be sometime between 9am PST and 5pm PST. Those are the regular office hours for ANet.
On the 23rd? That’s 4pm – 12pm GMT, so we almost get it a day late?
Normally the time for the holiday stuff to drop is at Noon PST. It’s been that way since almost the start of the first GW. And normally they have specified the time.
BUT since they are dropping an expansion at the same time they have not said the exact time so therefore a guess of sometime between 9am PST and 5pm PST is close to what it will be.Any specific time anyone (besides ANet themselves) gives is just a guess and only a guess.
So in other words, between 10am PDT and 6pm PDT. 
(is it PST?)
On that day, PDT. 
Noon pacific (3pm est) that friday?
Which would be 1pm (4pm edt) that particular Friday, considering that clocks aren’t moved back to Standard Time until a little over a week later?
Halloween is the best event of the year.
What is the worst event of the year?
Based on yearly events (and not promo events), none. Anet has always had a great track record when it came to holiday events. They were always extremely well done and fun to boot. Even in GW1, the yearly holiday events were a sight. It was always one thing I could count on with Anet to exceed at.
But if you just want basic events, including promos for upcoming content, then check out the Karka Invasion (which was still fun, but a disaster at the same time). Or the more recent Mordrem Invasion…. just ouch.
Thank you for the info and I totally agree. ANet has always done the holiday events right!
It’’s too bad that Cantha isn’t currently accessible in GW2 since the Canthan New Year holiday events in GW1 were always fun as well. 
Either by sheer force or by the heroes eventually quitting the fight due to either exhaustion or despair (or both)?
After all, even with the best case scenario of Mordremoth’s defeat, there are still so many more elder dragons to defeat afterward.
I want to play as a Quaggan Ranger with a Human pet.
The smashed up machinery near the hidden strawberry patch in Diessa Plateau always looked a bit like a broken down train to me. Maybe the Charr did try it once but the asuran waypoints put the railways out of business. And steam trains went the way of the horse.
Similarly to how the emergence of the cross-country telegraph poles/lines eventually put the Pony Express out of business after about 18 months?
I also miss her, even more bittersweetly after viewing her (via her holograms) as a happy and bubbly teenager just prior to her going crazy after apparently peering into the Eternal Alchemy.
Also, was there ever an in-story explanation as to why she was the only Sylvari with that type of “hairstyle” or anything even close to it?
Forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere but I couldn’t seem to find the answer:
How will the other races treat the Sylvari among them, particularly in the other races’ capital cities? For example, will all of the Sylvari there be rounded up and placed in internment camps just in case even some of them were to later turn into Mordrem?
Sorry about reviving an older thread, but after both this recent article and this recent article, it’s strangely become more relevant than even I could’ve imagined!
One.
Seriously… one (a male human ranger, just like in the first Guild Wars).
I suppose that I’m the complete opposite of an altoholic.
Then you might just wanna go on Elder Scrolls Online.
The Elder Scrolls Online is indeed an awesome game with (among many other positive things) gorgeous graphics, but so is Guild Wars 2.
I’m basically the opposite of an altoholic (i.e. I only play one character in any MMO that I’ve ever played), so an extra character slot is of little use to me.
Warrior’s skill ceiling is actually much higher than it appears.
Especially for the ones from Golden State!
Yadda, yadda, common sense, yay you’re awesome. I already made my argument and you made none.
I see that you’ll be rooting for the Cleveland Cavaliers the next few weeks.
Warrior’s skill ceiling is actually much higher than it appears.
Especially for the ones from Golden State!
Perhaps Sepp Blatter was behind it?
In the “some other MMO’s already have this” department: The Elder Scrolls Online has a /sitchair command that summons a chair that your character then sits on (not to be confused with the /sit command that has your character sitting on the ground).
It’s pretty handy, particularly in taverns and inns. 
For the most part, I lack a proper imagination when it comes to MMOs. I am a human male, so I struggle to identify in a game with anything other than a human male. My character’s looks very rarely deviate from my own. I don’t RP or anything like that, but for some reason I just feel like my avatar should be as close to me as I can get. Almost like “If I were born into this world, I’d probably still be some version of me” sort of thing.
Any other unimaginative wierdos like me out there? =D
Yay, someone else like me x)
I only ever play human males made to look as close to me as possible (including physique and height etc)
I don’t know why but I just like having myself in the game as if I was in that world instead of this one. I prefer it to playing as some random cat thing that I have no relation to.
I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one who does that!
And yes, I’m a human male both in-game (in fact, in all of my games) and in real life.
Don’t get me wrong, I still love GW2 too.
I suppose what’s helped me not get tired and/or burned out on any one MMO is that I tend to rotate between several of them once every few weeks depending what I’m in the mood for, playing only one or two of them at any one time.
In my case lately, the rotation has included GW2, TESO, DC Universe Online, Marvel Heroes, Star Trek Online and The Secret World, with non-MMO’s Battlefield 4, FIFA 15 and Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag thrown into the mix as well (all of them on my PC except for FIFA 15 and AC:BF, both of which I play on my PS4).
I suppose the only downside to rotating once every few weeks like that is that I don’t advance as quickly in any one game as I would’ve if I’d concentrated only on one or two games for several months or even years.
As for TESO, my only real quibble with it is that (as had been stated earlier in this thread) there’s currently no actual Ranger class available.
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I’ve been enjoying both GW2 and TESO for quite a while and will continue to do so. In fact, they’re both my fantasy-based MMO’s of choice.
They’re just different enough from one another that I don’t feel like I’m playing the exact same game. Still, among other things, they’re two of the most beautiful looking MMO’s I’d ever experienced.
Agreed
Also agreed. Though somewhat less so than both GW2 and TESO (not surprising considering the age disparity), LotRo is still a beautiful game.
Among the other aspects of TESO that I’ve been very impressed with is with many of its quests’ narratives with their interesting twists, turns and resolutions.
I’ve been enjoying both GW2 and TESO for quite a while and will continue to do so. In fact, they’re both my fantasy-based MMO’s of choice.
They’re just different enough from one another that I don’t feel like I’m playing the exact same game. Still, among other things, they’re two of the most beautiful looking MMO’s I’d ever experienced.
All I have had go wrong is random voices coming from no where and that is easily ignored.
In the game or in real-life?
I don’t want everything in the game all happy sunshine and daisies.
Though that would be an interesting twist (in a Twilight Zone sort of way) if everything in the game literally turned all happy sunshine and daisies.
Does this mean that I need to hurry up and finish Living Story Season 2 (I just recently started the Echoes of the Past chapter) by January 24th so as not to have any Season 2 spoilers revealed?
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A well done GW2 Tabletop RPG done would be epic!
I picked Ascalonian because master ancestry.
Including Gwen.
And at least in my mind, my GW2 ranger (as is his sister, obviously) is definitely of Ascalonian ancestry since he’s a direct descendant of my GW1 ranger.
The fun thing about ancestry over 250 years is that your original character makes up just around 0.1% of the new character’s ancestry from that period. The other 99.9% don’t necessarily have to be Ascalonian.
Especially since the Ascalonians were driven from Ascalon in GW1?
put a tux on a Quaggan
Along with a monocle and a top hat.
You’re quite welcome.
Heritage isn’t an option during character creation, only during that part of the story as a result of selecting the dead sister path during character creation. We get options for: social class, regret, deity, and profession-based choices. I haven’t made a new one in a while, but they probably still ask the personality question even though it’s been removed from the hero screen.
I wonder why they removed the personality question from the hero screen.
In any case, I’m glad that I chose my ranger’s ancestry question to Logan “correctly” even if I hadn’t designated it as such during character creation (my ranger does indeed look Ascalonian, with lighter skin, blue eyes, dirty-blond hair, etc.). I suppose that I would’ve had to come up with some in-story explanation to myself if I’d given Logan one of the other answers and my ranger’s sister then ended up looking either Krytan, Canthan or Elonian.
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