Author Archives: Greibach

About Greibach

I'm a software engineer by trade, and a semi-hardcore gamer at heart. I have been playing video games for almost 20 years now (yikes that makes me feel old), and am deeply in love with Guild Wars and many other games.

Thoughts on the Multi-Guild System:

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During PAX Prime, among all of the demo and PvP playing there was also a myriad of panels from the ANet team. Most of the information wasn’t strictly news, but we did manage to snag some tidbits about the upcoming guild system. Although it is far from complete, the biggest announcement was the structuring of guilds and their relation to accounts.

Here’s the set of relevant information:

- Account belongs to a guild
- One Character can represent multiple guilds
- Can choose to not represent a guild
- Earn influence with guild
- Perks: storage, ect… bought with influence.
- Use influence to make keeps harder to take in WvWvW

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Guild Wars 2 PAX Prime Report: Frenzy + Healing Signet

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Day 1

Another PAX Prime has come and gone from our city of Seattle. Fortunately we managed to avoid the H1Nerd1 outbreak like we had a few years ago but as always, PAX can be a very draining experience. Just like Frenzy + Healing Signet: it’s awesome and hilarious, and probably will leave you wiped. There’s so much to see and so much excitement in the air! NCSoft has always had a large presence at PAX, typically having a large space with huge murals of the games on display along with tons of demo stations. While they did just announce their new MMO Wildstar, GW2 was really the star of the show; so much in fact that it had 3 different locations dedicated to it (Alienware and Logitech). Even with more floor space than probably any other single game aside from Halo, the Guild Wars 2 stations and booths were always completely packed for all three days, literally from opening to closing.

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