Guild Wars Character and Hero Builds Lists

Character builds for Guild Wars One, both PvP and PvE.
http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Another list of character builds.
http://www.gwpvx.com/PvX_wiki

An exhaustive list of Hero builds.
http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Category:All_working_hero_builds

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Guild Wars One: Maps, Weapon Finder, and Beginner's Guide

The Guild Wars Guru has a nice collection of maps at this site, plus a "collector finder" that perports to find the weapons with the attributes you need.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/sjeng/index.htm

This page has a collection of articles aimed at the beginning player.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/new-player-s-center-id227.php

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Guild Wars One Guides

A guide to quests in the original Guild Wars, grouped (roughly) by location and level.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/guld-wars-quests-guide-walkthrough-t20956.html

Here are a collection of guides that include a beginner's guide, character specific guides, mission guides, etc.
http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/Products/PC/guild_wars/faqs.html

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Interested in Guild Wars 2?

Here is a bit about the beta, with some game details for folks who haven't played the original Guild Wars.
http://persephonemagazine.com/2012/05/02/guild-wars-2-beta-review/

Here are a series of videos that talk about various aspects of the game.
http://www.youtube.com/user/CaraEmm/videos

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Rift: The NkRebuff Addon

NkRebuff is a Rift addon to manage buffs.  The only documentation I found was this wiki.
http://wiki.riftui.com/NkRebuff

I also found this explanation of why some buffs don't show up.  Scroll to the bottom of the page and read the last posting.
http://forums.riftgame.com/addon-api-development/300355-nkrebuff-version-2-0-0-released-2.html

The project manager is looking for add-on help for this and other Rift add ons he's written.
http://forums.riftgame.com/addon-api-development/316070-looking-co-authors-help.html

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Rift: Gearing Guides

Rift's theory crafting seems to be very very complex, with variables such as synergy crystals, builds, vendor locations and goods, gear available from factions, and various types of currencies and which gear they buy being mixed in unpredictable ways.  I don't see resources that help one, either, so I'm going to try to find good gear guides in the hopes that this helps at least those who happen to have a similar build.  Here they are, in the order in which I found them--

Warrior Reaver Macro Guide (February 2012, Patch 1.7)
http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-general-discussions/classes-telara/warrior-discussion/warrior-guides/284246-stipplings-38-reaver-macro-guide-38rv-16wl-12pl.html

Synergy Crystals for Mages (July 2011)
http://bluedots.org/old/2011/07/07/rift-mage-synergy-crystals/

Chloromancer Guide (February 2012)
http://bluedots.org/showthread.php?41-Comprehensive-Chloromancer-Guide

PVP Gearing Guide (March 2012)
http://www.rift.rpgparadise.com/guides/pvp/187-rift-pvp-gearing-guide

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Guilds I Have Seen

WTF Spagetti's blog entry about various types of guilds (he lumps them into the three general classes of social, casual raiding, and raiding) got me thinking about how The Solo MMO Player defines the guilds on his realm:

The Frat Boys: These guilds like to get together and trash the place, kill all the NPCs, block the entrance to the Auction House, mess with players out minding their own business, etc. and whose peak WOW experience was last year's zombie invasion.

The Users:  The guilds that invite as many folks to join as possible so that they can use them to cherry pick the best drops for the officers and then boot the members who complain about this treatment.  This guild is only interested in what's in it for them.

The Losers:  These are the new guilds which are started by those no one else will allow in a guild so that they can lord it over somebody.  The officers are inexperienced and domineering and these guilds don't last long.

The Fruit Cakes:  These guilds are distinguished by officers who are nuts or who allow their crazy significant others to rule the guild.  You can usually tell who is off their meds by the amount of Scripture they quote alternating with angry rants against you, the new guild member.  Run away, run away!

The Pro Athletes:  These guilds are the ultra serious raiders, with cut-throat competition for who has the best stats, gear or raiding slots.  Join at your own risk, assuming that you can meet their very stringent criteria and raid every night of the week on top of reading everything possible to prepare for raiding.

The Taxi Drivers:  These are leveling guilds with a twist.  They look for high level players to walk low level players through instances.  Very few folks here know how to play their characters as everything is given them.  Avoid if you want to learn to play the game.

The Kmart Shoppers:  These guilds want one thing and that's the "best" loot, whatever that happens to be this week.

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Rift: Currency Summary

There are way too many currencies in Rift!  This recently updated list is helpful in knowing what you need for various items.
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Currency_(Rift)



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Rift: Rogue PVP Builds

A discussion of rogue builds in PVP (dated June 2012).
http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-general-discussions/classes-telara/rogue-discussion/rogue-guides/322076-quiescent-presents-soul-soul-guide-how-pvp-rogue.html#post3844006

This site collects rogue builds, including PVP.  It is not dated so I can't tell how recent the builds are but if you click on the link, you can see when the build was last updated.
http://www.riftroguepro.com/rogue-builds

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Rift Mobile Authenticator without a Smart Phone?

Supposedly the BlueStacks emulator allows one to run the Rift Android mobile authenticator on a PC. The first URL has a link to the download, and the second (dated last January 2012) talks about BlueStacks.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1151408-Rift-Mobile-App-without-android-apple-smartphone

http://samsunggalaxyandroid.net/2012/01/bluestacks-app-player-out-of-alpha-beta-bound-soon/

Apparently BlueStacks is still in beta.
http://androidcommunity.com/bluestacks-app-player-for-windows-enters-beta-20120327/

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