Vengeance

Flame & Frost: The Razing Update

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:47:00 -0400

March 26, 2013 Update to Flame & Frost: The Razing Living Story

New WvW Progressions and Abilities - "We’re adding a brand-new WvW progression system—which includes new World XP and new WvW Ranks. You can use your WvW Ranks to purchase new titles and abilities that are exclusive to WvW. We’re also rolling out new WvW achievements to help you track and plan your progress; you can keep track of them in your Achievement panel."

Braham’s Struggle - "Join Braham on his journey to find aid for those norn who stayed behind in the foothills of the Shiverpeaks—a journey that will bring you into conflict with the deadly Molten Alliance!"

Rox’s Mission - "Team up with this young charr gladium as she strives to prove her worth on a dangerous errand in the midst of a war zone!"

We’ve Been Infiltrated! - "Confound the Molten Alliance’s war efforts by destroying these spy posts wherever you find them!"

Improved World vs. World Performance - "Beginning March 26, you’ll be able to see way more players on-screen in WvW, even in the largest pitched battles!"

New Guild Bounty Hunt Targets - "More fugitives are on the run, and the Tyrian authorities need your guild to bring them in! Prepare yourself for a challenge, because these three new bounty targets are more elusive and menacing than ever. Bounty Hunt Training missions are perfect for a new or small guild looking to work their way up to bigger challenges."

Introducing Leaderboards - "We’re excited to announce that we’ll activate Guild Wars 2 leaderboards with the release of Flame and Frost: The Razing on March 26. However, the leaderboards website won’t be visible to players until we’re sure it has stable information, which could take up to a week after the release goes live on March 26. Initially, the leaderboards will feature WvW rankings, PvP player rankings, and total achievement points."

Need Guidance? - "Heralds in each capital city will bring you up to date on the latest Living Story content. Look for special scouts in Diessa Plateau and the Wayfarer Foothills who will point you towards nearby activities."

World vs. World: The End of Culling

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:14:00 -0400

From the official forums on Culling.

If you’ve ever played World vs. World in a large group, you’ve probably noticed that there were some enemy players that you couldn’t see. That was an unfortunate side effect of a process called culling. I’m pleased to announce that in the upcoming patch on March 26, we’re going to turn culling off completely in WvW.

This will make invisible enemies (except those using invisibility skills, of course) a thing of the past

Culling on

Culling Off

A World vs. World without Culling

Now that every client will know about every character within range, we’ve provided a new set of WvW options to control how all those characters will be rendered. Setting these options should allow players with various hardware configurations to enjoy WvW at a reasonable frame rate.

Under the new system, characters can be rendered in three different ways:

High resolution models - These are the high-res character models that you’re all already familiar with.
Lower resolution fallback models - These are the models that we’ve been using as placeholders in WvW while the hi-res models load. They differ depending on race and armor class, though human, sylvari, and norn share the same model.
Nameplates only - We don’t render the model at all and instead only show the nameplate for that character.

We’ve also added two new options to allow players to select how WvW characters are displayed:

Vengeance Report: Thursday, March 07, 2013

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:23:00 -0500

New Memebers

Welcome to all our new members who has joined Vengeance!

World vs. World

Even Tier 1 servers can fold. SoS has now dropped down to Tier 2 and will slowly fall further into lower tiers. Many guilds have left SoS server for various reasons and have moved over to Blackgate which we like to call SoSGate/StackGate. Blackgate is a much stronger server and it is possible for them now to beat Jade Quarry in Tier 1 match.

Sanctum of Rall did benefit as well. OCX from SoS has now made SoR their home. This is a great addition to SoR and will help strength our oceanic presence and keep SoR competive in tier 1. Will be enough? Time will tell.

WvW Update

This has been pushed to March so hopefully this month!

Guild Missions

Vengeance has unlocked Guild Bounties with more Guild Missions on the way!

Gem Store

The Gem Store is having a sale for the month of March! You will see sales from 15% to 40% off.

Flame and Frost: The Razing

March 26, 2013

A hybrid army erupts through fiery portals in the Shiverpeaks. A Molten Alliance between the dredge and the charr Flame Legion has created a force powerful enough to massacre any who stand in their way. One settlement, one homestead at a time, they’re wiping out all resistance. The razing has begun.

In Flame and Frost: The Razing you’ll meet the norn Braham and Rox the charr, two Tyrians who fervently believe in doing what’s right, no matter the risk. Join Braham and Rox in a desperate battle to defend their homelands from annihilation in the third installment in this four-part series!

Vengeance Report: Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:58:00 -0500

World vs. World

Commanders

We have more commanders in Vengeance to help lead world vs. world. Welcome all our commanders. Z Trance, Northstar, Eurlin, Higgins Worthington, Befsi, and Tyler.

WvW Game Update

WvW updates have now been pushed to March to allow more time for game developers to test and polish the update before release. Read here for the thread.

World Rating Rest No longer

Anet finally decided not to reset the world ranking which would have been a disaster for Tier 1 and Tier 2 servers. I do feel bad Sorrow’s Furnace who is seems to be dominating and stuck in Tier 8 for a very long time.

Sanctum of Rall in Tier 1

Finally SoR has fought its way up to Tier 1 status server! It may have been a bit controversial mainly coming from Blackgate server who SoR kicked back to Tier 2. Sanctum of Rall entered tier 1 as the second place server. Jade Quarry first and Sea of Sorrows third.

Jade Quarry vs. Sanctum of Rall vs. Sea of Sorrow

SoR first Tier 1 match up! This was an exciting match up that many have been waiting for and apparently a lot of other people on SoR as well. Reset night was chaotic. Many guilds including Vengeance could not get all our guilds members in any of the borderlands. I believe 6 of us made it in on the first night after reset. Ques were very long.

First week in tier 1 SoR did very well and took the first place lead over the weekend and held it for 3 days. SoR began to loose the lead during the weekday. First week in tier 1 showed that SoR still has time coverage gaps but we also knew our Asian guilds would not be on this week. SoR finished third in this match up with JQ taking first and SoS taking second.

Second Week match up is still on going, but it appears that JQ will take first , SoR will take second and SoS to third place. During the two matchs it was evident that SoR has the strongest North American Prime time, JQ strongest overall coverage, and SoS strongest oceanic server.

This still has been a very fun T1 match up and it shows that SoR does belong in tier 1 and will be staying.

Gem Store

New items are in the gem store for Valentines day including Roses, New Red Dye Pack, and Self Style Hair Kit. More information can be found here.

Flame & Frost - The Gathering Storm

February 26, 2013

The situation worsens for the citizens of Wayfarer Foothills and Diessa Plateau. Volunteers have eased the burden, but more refugees hobble down from the Shiverpeaks.

The storm there gains momentum, but the forces of good are beginning to rally.

They’re sending their heroes to defend the land and its peoples. Someone must hold back the gathering storm.

In Flame and Frost: The Gathering Storm, the second installment in this four-part series, the stakes are raised, and battles rage, in the foothills of the Shiverpeaks.

Guild Wars 2 Expansion ?

Link to article

We anticipate NCsoft will also launch a mobile version of Blade & Soul in 1H through one of Japan’s leading mobile-gaming platform operators, DeNA.
NCsoft plans to roll out its new titleWildStar (currently being developed by US-based Carbine Studios) in 2H using CD packages in the US and Europe.It also intends to launch Guild Wars 2 in China, Taiwan, and Japan. An expansion pack for Guild Wars 2 is slated for a 2H release in the US and Europe.

Vengeance Report: Friday, January 23, 2013

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:15:00 -0500

Free World Transfers - Will Be Over

Free world transfer will no longer be available after January 28, 2013. To transfer after January 28 you will have to pay a gem fee to transfer worlds. The gem fee for world transfers is based on the population of the world you want to transfer to. Transferring to a high population world will be more expensive.

Guesting will now be introduced which allows you to play on a world other than your home world. For more information read here

World vs. World

Sanctum of Rall vs. Stormbuff Isle vs. Tarnished Coast

Sacntum of Rall has finally placed 1^st in the tier 2 bracket beating out SBI and TC for 2 weeks straight. SoR and TC welcomed SBI to the T2 bracket by making them finish 3^rd place. The 3^rd week rotation will be a dominate match for SoR, but TC wont give up with out a fight. SBI will not be a contender as many SBI guilds have left to join other competitive servers. We also welcome those SBI guilds that have joined to fight for SoR!

Sanctum of Rall has recently had a lot of EU, Asian, and Oceanic guilds transfer to SoR. Sanctum of Rall has always been lacking presence in that time slot to be a competitive T1 server, but with the new additions this will certainly help SoR push to T1. SoR is unofficially known as the "Strongest North American Presence” hopefully SoR can still prove that when we get to T1.

Culling and Load Changes

There will be some changes that are coming in the January update to to World vs World. Read the changes here

Legendary & Ascended Gear

Congrats to Northstar on Vengeance first Fractal Capacitor (infused)

Congrats to Iriswaltz on his Legendary Incinerator!

Flame and Frost : January Update 2013

The sky falls and the ground shakes in the lands of the north. Charr and norn refugees crawl from the wreckage of their homes in the Wayfarer Foothills and Diessa Plateau, struggling to find shelter in the south. The call goes out for volunteers to assist the victims in this time of need, when earth and sky seem to have become the enemy…

Flame and Frost: Prelude is the prologue to a multi-stage narrative that will bring big changes to Guild Wars 2 in the months to come.

For more detailed of the event click here

ArenaNet now has a Sound Cloud page. Listen to various music and sound clips from Guild Wars 2 here

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Vengeance Report: Friday, January 11, 2013

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:59:00 -0500

Happy New Year! May 2013 be a great year for everyone!

World vs. World

Commanders

Congrats to Eurlin for saving enough gold to be a commander. Vengeance now has two commanders Z Trance and Eurlin to help lead SoR in world vs. world.

Sanctum of Rall vs Stormbluff Isle vs. Tarnished Coast

This week will be a new server match in tier 2. Blackgate has earned enough points to move into tier 1 bracket and Stormbluff will be moving to tier2. This will be an interesting match for SoR since we have never played SBI. Maybe this match SoR can place 1^st in T2 match.

Sanctum of Rall vs Blackgate vs. Tarnished Coast.

Tarnished Coast moves up to tier 2 and Isle of Janthir moved down to tier 3. TC has been a much better server to play against in World vs. World. It was good change for a tier 2 matches, however SoR has still places second to Blackgate in our tier 2 matches. SoR is the strongest North American prime time server but lack an Asian/Oceanic presents to help SoR push to 1^st place in tier 2.

Vengeance video

Check out some of the latest videos from Vengeance

Vengeance in Fractuals of the Mist

Vengeance takes garrison from Blackgate with 5 people.

Vengeance hold that line!

Vengeance Report: Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:48:00 -0500

Worlds vs World

Sanctum of Rall vs. Blackgate vs. Isle of Janthir

Finally the server rankings have become stable and servers are in the right tiers. SoR is currently in tier 2 and has been going well for SoR in tier 2 bracket. Although SoR has been placing 2nd in the matches, SoR does not lose it's desire to try and place 1st. This week may be the week for SoR. SoR is currently holding 1st place with a decent lead. If SoR can continue to hold out until Fridays server rest it will be the first win for SoR in this match up.

Coming Soon World vs World

Some new changes will be coming to WvW. Advance notification of new builds, Alt +F4 is no excape, No more insta-build walls & gates, and Breakout Events. Read the latest changes here

PVE Group and Days

Vengeance has its official PVE days on Mondays. We have been running Fractal of Mists every Monday starting at 7 pm EST. If you would like to join please sign up on the forums! Other dungeon days can also be scheduled. Feel free to message Moni who is our Dungeon Queen to set up times! She is always looking for groups to run!

Wintersday is coming!

December 14 - January 3, 2013

It all begins on Friday, December 14th, in Lion's Arch, where Zommoros the djinn will transform his home, the Mystic Forge, into a giant snow globe. There, players can take part in a new jumping puzzle, which is a giant snowman , have snowball fights with other players, and be part of a chorus of holiday bells.

But that's only the beginning. Each day after that, Toymaker Tixx will be making his way to each of the capital cities of Tyria, with each stop featuring new and exciting holiday activities. He'll begin in the Sylvari Grove on the 15th and end his journey in Lion's Arch. But of course, Tixx's being an Asura means that his toys probably aren't the most stable of constructions, and the holiday event will go out with a bang as the toys in Tixx's workshop go haywire, bringing about Toypocalypse! It's up to players to "defend Tixx's present-delivering dolyaks and the gigantic toy-making machine from waves of maniacal toys." So get on out there, Tyrians; spread some holiday cheer and save Wintersday

Check out the Wintersday video

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Vengeance Report: Friday, November 02, 2012

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:51:00 -0400

Legendary

Congrats to Valryrian! Vengeances first member to acquire a legendary weapon. The Dreamer – Short bow!

Vengeance Videos

Watch and see some of the latest Vengeance Video’s.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Northstar242/featured

Here is the latest video from the Halloween event - Mad King Dungeon

World vs. World

Some big changes to world vs. world in the November 11, 2012 patch.

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/news/Update-Notes-November-01-2012

Closed a number of exploits that inappropriately allowed access to keeps.

Orbs of power have been removed from WvW to address hacking and balance issues. They tended to strengthen teams already in the lead and were irresistible targets for hackers and cheaters, both of which could have an unfortunately large impact on any given WvW game. Orbs or some similar mechanic may return in the future, but only if we’re confident that they won’t create similar issues.

Week 7 Rotation

Sanctum of Rall vs. Sea of Sorrows vs. Isle of Janthir

This should be a great match. If IoJ comes out fighting this should be a great 3 way battle. SoR moves up to Tier 2 for this match! This should be interesting match up since there are no more Orbs of Power.

Week 6 Rotation

Sanctum of Rall vs. Tarnished Coast vs. Eredon Terrace.

This was pretty much a bye week for SoR. TC put a decent fight on the first day, but could not keep up with the force of SoR. Props for TC for still coming out to WvW even if was for a keep or two. Eredon Terrace was a no show. Easy win for SoR.

Week 5 Rotation

Sanctum of Rall vs. Sea of Sorrow vs. Tarnished Coast

This was a truly fun battle. Non stops battles around the clock. The point lead changed a few times between SoS and SoR. SoR took the lead mid weak but SoS oceanic pushed hard near the end of the rotation and sealed the win for SoS.

The Lost Shore

November 15^th Guild wars 2 Event begins!

Something stirs in the Sea of Sorrows…

Unravel a mystery of monstrous proportions in The Lost Shores, a massive one-time world event that will change Tyria forever!

Free World Transfers: Limited to Once Every 7 Days!

They should have done this for the get go! Better late then never.

Due to community concerns about the effect of free transfers on world versus world,starting on November 1 we are going to change how often players are allowed to transfer worlds. After the update, players will be able to transfer worlds once every 7 days instead of once every 24 hours. We are also actively working on getting the guesting functionality in place.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Vengeance Report: Monday, October 22, 2012

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:05:00 -0400

New Members

We continue to have new players join Vengeance for Guild Wars 2. Welcome all who have joined us.

World vs. World

Commanders

Vengeance has two commanders in the guild. Z Trance and Adoriah. Thank you all who contributed to the commander book!

Week 4 Rotation

Dragonbrand vs. Sea of Sorrows vs. Tarnished Coast

Week 4 match was bitter sweet. Dragonbrand guilds/players were able to fight some of the guilds that left Dragonbrand to play on Sea of Sorrows. This was a fun match in away but Dragonbrand just did not have the numbers and SoS steamed rolled their way to victory. TC finished second and a very tough loss for DB.

Week 5 Rotation

Dragonbrand vs Fort Aspenwood vsTarnished Coast

Vengeance started the new rotation with high hopes for Dragonbrand to see how strong Dragonbrand can come together with the loss of many guilds that transferred out of Dragonbrand. We felt this would be a good match up for us. Vengeance did what we could do throughout the weekend on varies borderlands, but Dragonbrand just did not field enough players in world vs. world.

There will be no further report to this match

Vengeance has transferred - Sanctum of Rall

Many members voiced their concerns and some members temporary left to another server for a few days while Vengeance decided what to do. Week 5 match up from above is what broke the camels back for us. Vengeance always does what best for our members and the guild have always come first. We gave it our best each and everyday for Dragonbrand, but we have decided to move to Sanctum of Rall for a better world vs. world experience for everyone.

Week 5 Rotation

Sanctum of Rall vs. Sea of Sorrow vs. Tarnished Coast

A great match up so far and best of all we get to fight against some of guilds that we are very familiar with. This battle is still can still go either way. SoR took the lead early Sunday morning from SoS, but the lead is not by much. This will be an exciting match up.

Halloween: Shadow of the Mad King

500 years ago, a tyrannical Krytan king was slain by his own people, those who had suffered greatly during his reign of lunacy. It is said that this king’s body was chopped into pieces, and his spirit was banished to the Underworld, but that he can return to the mortal realm for just one day a year: on Halloween.

Of course, that’s just an old folktale. Isn’t it?

It’s been 250 years since the last alleged sighting of Mad King Thorn’s spirit, and today, Halloween is safely celebrated by children (and merchants) all across Tyria.

But! Strange energies are rising under the autumn moon. Is there perhaps some truth to the old stories? Do you dare to find out what’s really going on?

Vengenace Report: Friday, October 05, 2012

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:53:00 -0400

New Members:

Welcome to all our new Vengeance members!

Website News:

We had some interruptions with our domain, but all issue have been fixed. Vengenace website can always be given out as www.VengeanceClan.com or www.VengeanceClan.org

World vs. World

Week 4 Rotaion:

TBD - Dragonbrand will most likely match up against a familiar server that we beat previously.

Week 3 Rotation:

Dragonbrand vs. Blackgate vs. Fort Aspen

This was probably the best match up DB has had, but this match quickly turned into a rollercoaster. Dragonbrand started out very strong taking the points lead early and gaining more points throughout the week. BG and FA went back and forth for second but gaining on DB’s point lead. Mid week DB was up by 25k in points, but over night off peak hours DB suffered a huge blow. Blackgate had a few EU/Oceanic and even a Fort Aspen guild transfer to BG midweek to help cover their off peak time to help Blackgate win in this weeks match up. A controversy move by Blackgate rallied them making up that 25k point deficit and surpassing DB’s lead in just 24 hours. Dragonbrand may not have liked it but Blackgate never gave up on the fight and did what they must to win this weeks match up.

Week 2 Rotation:

Dragonbrand vs. Jade Quarry vs. Crystal Desert

Dragonbrand did pretty well in week 2 match up but was no match for the amount of force JQ had. JQ had a 24 hour presence at all times. Dragonbrand and Crystal Desert got stomped on during their off peak hours. If its one thing Dragonbrand has learned form JQ is that they are a very organized server and their use of Mesmer portals. Dragonbrand took second in points beating out Crystal Desert

"My Legend Grows!” Forging Your First Legendary Weapon

Vengeance Report : Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:21:00 -0400

New Members

Welcome to all our new Vengeance Members! Glad to have you with us in Guild Wars 2

World Completion

Congrats to Meijo to becoming Vengeance’s first "World Completion” explorer. Mejio completed this task not long after release. Thank you for being Vengeance’s World Guide! Now you have a nice shinny Gold Star!

Kriss Kross Award

I am not sure if there is an achievement for completing the entire jump puzzles in GW2, but if there isn’t one. I made one for you. Congrats on the Kriss Kross Award Naya, Kiljark, and Skoya. So if you need a jump puzzle solved...Naya, Kiljark, and Skoya will make you, jump, jump …Daddy Mac will make you, jump, jump.

World vs. World & World Rankings

When the rankings were released after two weeks of 24 hour rotations along with the announcement of one week World vs. World rotation, Dragonbrand server placed in the Top 10 of the pack. Dragonbrand rank 9 were pitted against Maguuma rank 11 and Tarnished Coast rank 13 for World vs. World

Vengeance’s battle plan was always to enter the Red Borderlands and in this case Maguuma. This would allow us to have as many members possible without a long queue to enter. Eternal Battle ground is just too much of a popular choice.

Vengeance hit the ground hard to help capture and claim keeps. Vengeance was able claim Greenbrier. We were able to hold Greenbrier for a total 4 days from the Tarnished Coast zerg…GB was like Fort Knox with all the upgrades and a ton of siege equipment from players and members. GB finally was captured by TC since we could not fully help defend, since we were needed to help protect Dreaming Bay and the orb from getting captured by Maguuma. Once Dreaming Bay was secure, Dragonbrand players were able to take back GB and another guild was able to claim it.

This morning patch to the game client fixed a bug in Maguuma that made the Keep Lord in Garrison unclaimable and gave Maguuma an advantage. This was now fixed and Dragonbrand players quickly attacked Garrison. Vengeance was able to claim Garrison during this morning siege. Hopefully we and other Dragonbrand players can hold Garrison from being taken until the week rotation is over.

Dragonbrand as a whole is doing very well. Dragonbrand server is totally dominating World vs. World in all the borderlands as well as Eternal Battle Ground, but battles do shift quite quickly.

Enjoy the Fruits of Dragbrand’s labor!

As of 9/18/2012 : 8:30 AM EST

World vs World Matches changed to 1 week

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:13:00 -0400

As announced on the official forums by Mike Ferguson:

"The match that ends Friday September 14 is scheduled to be our last 24 hour match.

The match that starts on Friday will be 1 week in length. We anticipate having week long matches for a couple weeks before switching to the 2 week format.

We are switching to a 1 week schedule so we can continue to let the ranking formula adjust server rankings faster than every 2 weeks, and it will hopefully help people get acclimated to the cadence of a longer match.

The 24 hour matches were good for getting servers into initial ranking brackets, but it does significantly change how people approach the game and we’re hoping the 1 week matches will make people feel a little better about investing significant resources into their holdings."

Guild Wars 2 Game Update

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:50:00 -0400

Monday, September 3, 2012

Account Security Hackers have lists of email addresses and passwords stolen from other games and web sites, and collected through spyware, and are systematically testing Guild Wars 2 looking for matching accounts. To protect yourself, use a strong, unique password for Guild Wars 2 that you've never used anywhere else! Today a Guild Wars related fan site announced that its account database has been breached. That's important but just one of many apparent breaches of other games and web sites that hackers have been collecting email addresses and passwords from. Protect yourself by using a unique password for each game and web site account you care about, and especially be sure to use a unique password for your Guild Wars 2 account.
Customer Support Our customer support team is prioritizing hacked accounts and other blocking login issues over other types of support requests. If you submit a support ticket for a hacked account, ensure it is properly prioritized by following these instructions. We have now completed prioritized requests submitted prior to Saturday, September 1. If you have an older ticket that has not been completed, that means it's not correctly prioritized. Submit a new ticket using the above instructions, and in the title write, "Hacked Account - Ticket submitted August xx - Ticket number xxxxxx-xxxxxx" (fill in the date and ticket number of your existing ticket), and we will prioritize your existing ticket. In the past 24 hours we helped 2,574 players with hacked accounts and 2,867 players with other blocking login issues get back into the game.
Email Authentication Once you validate your account email address, we help protect you from attempted account hacking (even if the hacker guesses your password) by sending you an email every time you attempt to login from a new location, asking you to approve or deny the login attempt. Keep in mind, if you receive an email asking you to approve or deny a login attempt and you didn't make that login attempt, that means a hacker knows your password. Change your password immediately. Be sure not to flag an email authentication message as spam; if you do, your email provider may prevent future email authentication messages from reaching you. If email authentication is preventing you from logging in, contact our customer support team following these instructions and we'll disable it for your account. Reset Password We will leave "reset password" disabled until further notice. We don't want to allow hackers who compromise an email account to use that email account to steal the associated Guild Wars 2 game account. If you forget your password, please contact customer support. Network Connectivity Issues We experienced network connectivity issues today between our North American and European data centers, which caused intermittent errors with login, character creation and deletion, and guild manipulation. These issues should now be resolved. Parties & Guilds We've made progress but still have capacity constraints causing issues with party and guild functionality, including symptoms such as party members not appearing on the map, parties not staying together as they travel between maps or into dungeons, and guild manipulation not working. We're working on a fix and will provide a further update tomorrow. PvP Tournament Rewards PvP tournament rewards are currently not functioning properly. We're working on a fix and will provide a further update tomorrow. Trading Post We've been expanding the Trading Post's capacity to handle the huge volume of requested trades. After our test yesterday, we've been working to resolve some issues reported by players. We expect to have the Trading Post online for all players this evening (edit: after tonight's software update). Storyline Steps In last night's update we fixed blocking issues with the storyline steps "Stealing Secrets" and "A Grisly Shipment". We're preparing to fix issues with "The Battle for FortTrinity" and "Shell Shock" for tonight's update. Worlds & Overflow We're increasing world capacity as necessary to handle all the new players coming into the game. During this initial surge of high concurrency, and especially while most characters are low-level and thus playing in the same starting areas, it's common for players to be directed to overflow servers. To play with a friend on a different overflow server, form a party together, then right-click on the friend's portrait in the party list and click "join". We expect the use of overflow servers to naturally subside as players spread out more through the world. Forums Our most important priority at the moment is to ensure that the game runs stably and flawlessly. So as to not create additional demand on our infrastructure and on our programming team, we made the decision not to open the forums until the initial mass influx of players has calmed down a bit. Reporting exploits If you discover an emergency game-breaking or economy-breaking bug, do not exploit it, but please notify us immediately at this email address: exploits (at) arena (dot) net. You may also use this email address to report suspected security vulnerabilities. Thank you to everyone who has sent reports. However, note that we cannot respond individually to emails to this address. Next software updates We're making non-disruptive changes throughout the day. We'll publish the next back-end server update tonight at midnight Seattle time. The game may be unavailable for approximately 20-60 minutes while we perform this update.

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Guild Wars 2 Launches & Vengeance Is Ours!!

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:37:00 -0400

With much anticipation of early release we had a great amount of Vengeance members ready to login and claim our Vengeance name. In all the beta and stress tests we always had to use some variation to our guild name. We even had some talks of making our guild name more unique, but it’s hard to let go of the history and the formation of Vengeance back in 2006. With that said we had some great coordination and tips from our Vengeance members on how to quickly form the guild. Within a few minutes of the game launch, we were able to stake our name! Vengeance is ours and ours alone on the Dragonbrand server. Thank you all involved who helped quickly form the guild in Guild Wars 2.

Guild Wars 2 Launch woes. As you would expect from most highly anticipated MMO there will always be difficulties. Guild Wars 2 was no exception. Even all the stress tests could not prepare ArenaNet for the amount of overstuffed servers and this was just pre release. Issues included not being able to group with friends, a non functional game store, trade post down for maintenance, issues with mail system, and a list of others issues. Most importantly sPvP and World vs. World was down for Dragonbrand server! I know that made some of our members a tad bit crazy, but they definitely got to sharpen their PvE skills! On the plus side Guild Wars 2 did not resort to a queue system that kept players out of the game. Players were able to enter an overflow server that let them play without interruption. This was such a nice feature coming from the last two MMOs that we played in and let you queue for hours before entering the game.

Hopefully soon it won't be too long that ArenaNet fixes the not working and broken issues.

-Northstar

Guild Wars 2 hits 400k concurrent users before launch

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:32:00 -0400

If you were enjoying Guild Wars 2 during the headstart weekend, you weren't alone. In fact, chances are 400,000 others were doing the same thing at the same time. Although Guild Wars 2 only officially launched in the wee hours of this morning, the game has already hosted 400,000 users online concurrently. At the same time. Yes.

ArenaNet and NCsoft have also announced that over one million copies of the game were pre-sold, not counting the one-day pre-orders. Of course, that number will rise as folks purchase the game now that it has launched.

President and co-founder of ArenaNet Mike O'Brien stated, "This is the culmination of a five-year journey and to be greeted by this level of enthusiasm by our fans is truly amazing. But really our work is just beginning. Now our focus is shifting to building on this living world we've delivered, continuously refining our game and improving services to ensure our players have the best possible experience."

If you are joining in on the launch-day fun, be sure to check out Massively's GW2 launch guide.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/28/guild-wars-2-hits-400k-concurrent-users-before-launch/#

It's the Final Countdown - Guild Wars 2 Launch Time

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:11:00 -0400

The Final Countdown – Guild Wars 2 Launch Times

August 28^th, 2012—the day Guild Wars 2 launches—is fast approaching. Everyone here at ArenaNet is anxiously counting the days right along with every Guild Wars 2 fan. In just a few weeks, the servers will go live and each of us will be setting out on our adventures in Tyria!

As you may have seen, we host a countdown timer on the front page of our official website. The information below will give you specific details about times and dates based on whether you pre-purchased, pre-ordered, or are picking up a copy of the game on release day.

Pre-Purchase with 3-Day Headstart: Everyone who pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 will enjoy three full days of Headstart Access. The three-day Headstart Access will officially begin at 0:00 AM Pacific time (GMT -7:00) on August 25^th. However, please note that in order to ensure that we’re fully prepared for that fateful hour we may bring servers online up to 3 hours prior. If you’re a player committed to getting in first to grab that character name of your dreams you’ll want to be keeping an eye on things during that time period.

Pre-Order with 1-Day Headstart: Those who pre-ordered Guild Wars 2 will be able to participate in one day of Headstart Access. The one-day Headstart Access will begin at 0:00 AM Pacific time (GMT -7:00) on August 27^th.NOTE – Pre-Order code registration is now enabled.

Download the Client today: If you’ve registered your pre-purchase or pre-order and created your Guild Wars account you can go to account management today and download the client. Be sure to update the client periodically to minimize your download at launch.

We look forward to seeing you in-game very soon!

Vengeance New Website

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:41:00 -0400

Welcome to Vengeance's new website. Our old site really needed an overhaul and it has been way over due for a maker over and it's time we get up to date. The site will be undergoing a lot of changes such as different themes, widgets, look and feel as well. Please let me us know what you think about the site and how we can improve it!

Just a few more days until Guild Wars 2 !!