Due to the incredibly high volume of spam comments, I have completely disabled anonymous user comment posting.

~Jack

Updated the forums with the latest version of gwBBcode. The new version adds some nice features such as primary attribute effects as well as all of the new skills added to the game in GW: EotN.

gwBBcode is brought to you by Liu Pi. If you want to learn more, you can check out his website: www.gwshack.us.

Released a new background image for the site today. The images come from the recently announced Guild Wars expansion "Eye of the North".

Enjoy!

Added a new article called "Adrenaline 101".

It is a combination of Charles Ensign's excellent article on adrenaline from team-iq.net and some more updated information about specific skills from guildwiki.org.

You can get at it here.

Ward Against Noobz[Wa] changed their guild name to Victory on Demand[VoD].

The appropriate changes have been made in the forums.

Cheers!
~Jack

Added two new PvP Primer articles from the Guild Wars website in additional to Martin's excellent article Who Is The Beatdown?.

PvP Primer - Miscellaneous Game Effects
PvP Primer - Running the Numbers

This is an article written by one of our crew, Martin Alvito, quite a while back. Sorry it took me so long to get it up on the site.

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This is an update and revision of another M:tG inspired article I wrote several months ago. The title is borrowed from an article making the basic theoretical point written by Michael Flores, a UPenn grad student in mathematics at the time.

The point of his article was simple, and extremely clever. He noted that virtually all decks in M:tG had cards which were flexible, known as utility cards, which could be used to attack the enemy or disrupt enemy attacks. The point of the article was that in any 1v1 competitive situation, one player sitting at the table would inherently have a more aggressive deck than the other. This deck was the beatdown deck, and the player with the slower-developing deck was the control deck. The beatdown needed to use its utility to attack in order to win, and the control needed to use its utility to defend in order to win. Misidentifying oneself in the match would inevitably lead to bad play decisions and losses.

Straightforward update to the look of the forums so that they more closely resemble the rest of the site.

Also added a small article (just a table, really) that breaks down the cost of skills under Quickening Zephyr, Energizing Wind, and combinations of the two.

~Cheers

gwBBcode 1.7.2 has been released, and is now installed on the forums!

This update to gwBBcode adds all the new skill changes up to the Feb 9th skill update, and fixes things that have been wrong as far back as November (Watch Yourself, some paragon skills).

gwBBcode is brought to you by Liu Pi. If you want to learn more, you can check out his website: www.gwshack.us.

I felt inspired to work on the site last night and spent a couple hours coding and debugging the HoH timer.

Halls matches last 8 minutes, and occur every 12 minutes. This most recent change was made to the game less than 24 hours ago, and our halls timer is synced correctly with the new time limits. Now if only gwBBcode would adapt to game updates that quickly...

Enjoy the timer :D