Watch for the return of the Xunlai Tournament Agent this Thursday, January 11th. This character will appear in Lion’s Arch, Kamadan, and Kaineng Center. If you earned any Wintergreen Weapons by predicting playoff results in the Xunlai Tournament House, or if you won them in the Winterfest Playoffs, you will be able to collect your choices from this NPC. Please make sure that you have given us the correct information for your account, as explained here, or you may miss out on collecting your prizes.
In addition to being a fun and challenging way to play Guild Wars, Alliance Battles can offer excellent training for other types of PvP combat. Read today's PvP Primer article for details, player tips.
This coming weekend, you will receive twice the normal number of Experience Points for every Elite Skill that you capture in Tyria, Cantha, and Elona. So join us this weekend—with existing characters or perhaps with a new one—and double up on the XP! The event starts at Noon PST on Friday, January 12 and ends at 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, January 14.
This week's State of the Game article details a Guild Wars build, with information on how to play the build, what skills to use, skill selection criteria, and equipment choices. Find the weekly SotG here.
January 8, 2007 (BELLEVUE, WA) — The annual Guild Wars® Wintersday Festival kicked off on December 20, 2006, drawing new and existing players into the game in record-breaking numbers. Players racked up more than 20 million hours of gameplay during the Wintersday Festival alone as they participated in holiday-themed quests, festive events, competitive snowball fights and received unique Wintersday gifts. This year's Wintersday Festival was the fifth major holiday festival to be celebrated in Guild Wars, the hugely popular online roleplaying game developed by ArenaNet® and published by NCsoft® Corporation, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games.
In keeping with that spirit of giving, the festival has been extended for a week, now ending at noon PST (8 p.m. GMT) on January 11, 2007. This extension allows Taiwanese players affected by last week's earthquake and countrywide Internet outage a chance to revel in the festivities. In an additional show of holiday spirit and goodwill, Guild Wars players have offered to share their Wintersday gifts with those affected. Plans are currently underway for a massive in-game gift donation.
Topic of the Week Print News | Mail News | Category: Forum Content Pick Up Groups... Love em or hate em, almost all of us have been part of one at one time or another. So we're asking you to tell us why you love or hate them. Check out this thread to join the discussion.
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Requirements: Good Board behavior, some Knowledge of the game, willingness to keep on a schedule, most of all have Fun doing a exciting job.
** all Jobs are volunteered there is no payment for doing these jobs, except for the opportunity and pleasure to entertain the GW Community.
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We are happy to announce that the Wintersday Event will be extended until 11:59 p.m. PST on Thursday, January 11th (7:59 a.m. GMT Friday, January 12th). You can use these days to enjoy more PvP battles in the Snowball Arena, to join the holiday quests and missions, and to redeem your collected Candy Cane Shards for Wintersday Gifts. Find out more here.
In response to player request, and in celebration of the extension of the Wintersday Festival, we offer a new wallpaper image based on last week's Wintersday card. This wallpaper is available in your choice of ratios and resolutions, and can be found here.
All of you who participated in the Xunlai Tournament House Winterfest Predictions should make sure that your account information is accurate and up to date. The Xunlai Tournament House Representative will be reappearing in late January to give out the Wintergreen awards to everyone who earned them, but that can only take place if we have your correct information. Click here for details.
This week's PvP Primer article offers several tips to aid you in getting into group play, from selecting a guild to using community resources to acquiring tools for better team play. Check out this week's PvP Primer and party on.
Our roaming reporter this week recounts the stories of many gracious participants in the Wintersday Festival, citing nearly two dozen players who showed the very best of the holiday season. He also shares valuable information about the duration of the event, as well. Could that be an icicle lengthening on the eaves? Find out in this week's issue of The Scribe.
Fort Aspenwood in Cantha offers new players an excellent opportunity to break into competitive play. With its automatic party formation system and its lack of Death Penalty, Fort Aspenwood is a great environment in which to learn lessons that apply to all forms of PvP.
