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News/20200116

## January 16, 2020: Toraen's retirement as bureaucrat and a new RFA

For countless years Toraen worked for the PvX wiki as an administrator, improving codes, wiki bots, tending to the day-to-day work, acting as a neutral and mediating voice wherever necessary. Eventually, he was made bureaucrat, and kept taking care of PvX wiki even when Guild Wars' player base was shrinking and the activity in PvX with it. He has recently decided to pass this role on to Krschkr as the time he could spend for PvX became too few to take care of the involved work. We'd like to express our gratitude and respect for his tireless work throughout the years!

To fill the gap Chieftainalex has been nominated to become a new administrator. All users are invited to provide their feedback to his request for adminship.

(update 1st July 2020, the RFA has been successful)

There have also been changes in policy. Recently we've decided to update the naming conventions for build articles, PvX:NAME. The changes lead to a more consistent naming pattern, which allows to identify the content of build pages more easily just by looking at the page title. Many page names have been adjusted accordingly, so if you have bookmarks or other links to previous page titles you may need to update some of them.

We've also implemented a new type for PvE builds: **quest**. It allows for builds that will help players to complete content that requires specialized builds, such as solo quests. Moreover it is the place for specialized builds that help to finish particularly difficult content, such as Hard Mode Only quests. All users are invited to contribute builds or feedback to this new build type. You can also browse the builds that have been added so far, both vetted and untested ones.
News/20110725

## July 25, 2011: Editing Restrictions

Recently, several Curse.com based wikis have been the targets of spam/vandalism bots. As a stopgap measure, Curse admins removed the abilities to create pages and upload images from users who are not autoconfirmed. The admins of PvX have been discussing more permanent and less restrictive solutions with Curse and hope to be able to resolve this issue soon.

### Progress

* The Abuse Filter extension has been installed and is in use to block suspicious edits. The filters are mostly provided by the admins of GuildWiki.
* The ConfirmEdit extension needs to be updated, as the current Simple Captcha is no match for modern spambots. ReCaptcha was removed due to being cracked, and thus less effective.

### Workarounds

If you are a new user and would still like to submit builds without waiting for the autoconfirmed requirements, create a link to the page you want to make in the community sandbox, and next to it state that you would like another user to create the page for you.

-- **Toraen** *talk* 01:30, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
News/20170810

## August 10, 2017: Recent Image Outages

Recently, the Mediawiki software this wiki runs on was upgraded, and it did result in several images (any that had quotes in their names, particularly the skill icons for Shout skills) dying. They should all be fixed now but please let me know if you find any still broken images on any build pages. Thank you. Toraen (talk) 06:55, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
Dagger Spam

**Dagger spam** refers to:

## Current builds

Dagger Spam Player Builds
* Build:W/A Seven Weapons Stance Daggers
* Build:W/A Warrior's Endurance Daggers
* Build:R/A Together as One Daggers
* Build:Mo/A Dagger Spammer
* Build:N/A Soul Taker Dagger Spam
* Build:E/A Dagger Spammer
* Build:A/any Dagger Spammer
* Build:A/any Shadow Theft Daggers
* Build:Rt/A Spirit's Strength Dagger Spammer
* Build:P/A Heroic Refrain Daggers
* Build:D/A Dagger Spam

Dagger Spam Hero Builds
* Build:A/any Dagger Spammer Hero
* Build:R/A Dagger Spam Pet Hero (with pet)
Portal:Player versus Environment

**Reason:** Outdated

Alliance Battles ·
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**Player versus Environment** ·
Random Arenas ·
Speed Clears

Welcome to the **Player versus Environment Portal**! The Player versus Environment Portal serves as a main page to all of the numerous Player versus Environment content located in and around the site.
Player versus Environment is the main gametype played by many players. Most players, even those primarily focused on Player versus Player, play PvE to some extent.

**Elite Missions and Areas**Fissure of Woe • Underworld • Sorrow's Furnace • Tomb of the Primeval Kings • Urgoz's Warren • The Deep • The Ebony Citadel of Mallyx

Player versus Environment is a type of gameplay common to RPGs in general. This is where the character engages in combat with AI-controlled computerized opponents, as opposed to PvP, where she/he engages with human players as opponents.
In Guild Wars, PvE content is available to roleplaying characters. However, a PvP character can engage a set of computer controlled opponents known as the Zaishen (especially during tutorials) as well as other players. In PvE gameplay, the primary purpose is to complete the storyline. In addition, PvE players can "grow" their characters, gain experience, learn skills, acquire better weapons and armor, improve titles etc. This is done mainly by completing quests and missions, venturing into explorable areas to fight monsters, and farming.

**Make New Guides**
* See PvXwiki:Guide Format and Syntax for the style and formatting used by most non-profession guides on the wiki.
* Critically needed guides-
	+ Please fill in all of the elite mission areas.

**Expand stubs**
* [[Introduction to PvE]] • Urgoz's Warren

**Add new Guides**
* Add newly-found or newly-made guides to the lists on the left, in their respective place.

**Add new areas**

* All working PvE builds
	+ Great working PvE builds
	+ Good working PvE builds
* PvE Guides
News/20071220

## Notice - 14 December 2007

### Online on new server

Thanks to Razer we finally got new server and are back online at full speed! Now we run on 2 servers, one for httpd/mysqld and another one for Squid. Old server acts as squid - that's why transaction went so fast.

### Why did it went so slow in the first place?

In past 6 month or so we were using budget dedicated server with only 1.6Ghz Celeron and 1 GB RAM. And the only reason we were online was thanks to Squid - proxy/cache. But it depends on having as many pages in cache as possible so there is no need to re-generate them and run advanced PHP script therefore safe CPU time and RAM.

Anyway, somewhere during update we installed mediawiki extension (RSS for the news) that purged all cache. There was only 1 line but it did it all. After that load on server was so high that cache never had a chance to fill up before page was changed again - so it entered loop of death with several mysql crashed and other bad stuff.

### What now?

First of all we have a fast server - but it also has mirrored RAID 1 - so there is basically 2 copies of database and all files - in case one crashed it will be all safe stored on the other one. There is also external backup.

If there is any problems - please report.
News/20091116

## Build Packs and Sandboxes

Build Packs are now available for download. Each pack contains the builds for one of the categories on the main page of PvX (AB, GvG, Running, ect.) sorted into Great and Good builds. Suggestions for new build packs that cover more specific criteria can be made at PvXwiki:Build Packs/Submissions and you can help us keep the build packs up-to-date with PvXwiki:Build Packs/Updating.

Users with a sandbox in their userspace are encouraged to add them to the new User Sandboxes category by placing {{Sandbox}} at the top of their sandbox page. If you don't want the tag there, instead add [[Category:User Sandboxes]]. We hope that this will encourage users to share theorycrafts and personal touches on existing builds without cluttering the build space. A link to the category is provided on the main page under the Miscellaneous section.

### Update: 20 November 2009

A subcategory for Sandboxes, Category:Codex, may now be used for pages specifically for Codex team ideas. Tag your page with {{Codex}} or [[Category:Codex]].

### Update: 22 November 2009

All build packs were completed and have been linked to the main page.
News/20080911

## PvXwiki got hacked

### What happened?!

Due to a big security hole some 3rd party got access to out MySQL backup utility. It has been used to run simultaneously restores in order to crash the MySQL DB. And they did succeed with that.

But since we had nearly daily backups it wasn't a problem by it self. We could just restore. However, whoever did crash the DB also deleted all DB backups and snapshots. The latest backup admins had downloaded and stored was from 23.08.2008. So the only option was to use that DB to restore PvXwiki...

Since this server has RAID and runs on ext3 it is nearly impossible to restore deleted files. In theory it is possible - but it would require several days or weeks offline time.

### Sorry

Hhhippo and I are deeply sorry, as much as we possibly can be. After all security of this website is our responsibility. I just hope you guys will understand and forgive us for this mistake...

### Actions

We will setup an external backup solution using our hosting provider iWeb.ca - it has a dedicated person who will check the server and backups every day. They will be stored and copied to safe locations etc. It cost a lot - but it is the only way to ensure this that this wont happen again.

Again, we are sorry!..

gcardinal 15:16, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
Rumble in Trunkopolis

*This article is a stub. You can help Cobalt Wiki by expanding it.*

 Teams | Blue, Green, Red, Yellow

 ***"Hunt wanted Metalfaces in downtown Trunkopolis. Collect their bounty to win fame and glory. Dominate the area around the bounty collector for great sucess! Argghhh!"***

**Rumble in Trunkopolis** is a 4-teams Bounty map first introduced in v104 Alpha, being the first official Bounty map.

The goal is to collect loot, either by picking up the loot laying around the map or killing other players who will drop their loot upon death, and then deposit it at the Volt Converter located in the center of the map.

It is possible to get flung out of the map. If you fall down beyond the left side of the map, you will not be able to get back up. There you can also find some birds and trunkans.

## Featured Pickups

* Matter Army Issue
* Plasma Gun
* Gyrojet Gun
* Grenade Gun
* Thermal Bomb (Spawns after the match has started, in top of the mid floor block)
* Klonk
* Shield Belt Battery

## Feaured Loot

* Capacitor
* High Capacity Capacitor
* Resuscitating Herb
* Pungent Mushroom
* Master Servo
* Circuit
* Memory Module
* Epic Circuit
* Massive Egg
* Stunning Ruby
* Transistor
* Glorious Jade
* Marvelous Sapphire
News/20080527

## The Clear tag

Lately, it seems more and more people are using multiple consecutive <br> tags to format their userpage, or are making userboxes and leaving them with no special formatting afterwards. The former has the problem of not adapting to later changes to the page; the latter has the more serious problem of disrupting the flow of text and moving section headers around. Fortunately, a simple solution to both exists: Template:Clear. Usage notes have been added to that page.
Portal:Codex Arena

Alliance Battles ·
**Codex Arena** ·
Guides ·
Guild Battles ·
Heroes' Ascent ·
Player versus Environment ·
Random Arenas ·
Speed Clears

Welcome to the **Codex Arena Portal**! The Codex Arena Portal serves as a main page to all of the numerous Codex Arena content located in and around the site.

* **The "Codex"/"Deck" can be found here.**

* Each Profession has 15 Non-Elite Skills to choose from and 5 Elite Skills to choose from. This is known as the Deck/Codex.
	+ Assassins will always have Desperate Strike and Fox Fangs in their Deck/Codex so they can use attack-chains.
	+ Rangers will always have a Codex version of Charm Animal in their Deck/Codex, this form of the skill only allows a pet to be taken when 8 Beast Mastery or more is used.
	+ Resurrection Signets are always available.
* Elite Skills can only be selected from the Primary Profession (So an Assassin cannot use "Coward!" for example).
* A primary profession may only be used once per team.

These rules make the Codex Arena similar to Sealed Deck as it is considered an in-game implementation of such.
The Deck/Codex changes every day, at 12:01 AM Pacific (7:01 UTC), see the link on the right for the current Deck/Codex.

**Make New Guides**
* See PvXwiki:Guide Format and Syntax for the style and formatting used by most non-profession guides on the wiki.

**Add new Guides**
* Add newly-found or newly-made guides to the lists on the left, in their respective place.

**Improve on the Arena articles**
Main Page/editcopy message

**NOTE:** This page is for users to tweak or propose changes for the Main Page. Admins will keep an eye on this page and copy over good contributions as needed. The Main Page is too rich a target for vandalism, but we want every user to be able to contribute their own suggestions for the Main Page in an organized fashion.
Portal:Alliance Battles

**Alliance Battles** ·
Codex Arena ·
Guides ·
Guild Battles ·
Heroes' Ascent ·
Player versus Environment ·
Random Arenas ·
Speed Clears

Welcome to the **Alliance Battle Portal**! The Alliance Battle Portal serves as a main page to all of the numerous Alliance Battle content located in and around the site.
Alliance Battles are used by players to easily get Luxon and Kurzick faction for progressing through the Factions storyline. They are a 12 on 12 competition with numerous NPCs and oftentimes the first PvP experience a player in Factions will have.

**Make New Guides**
* See PvXwiki:Guide Format and Syntax for the style and formatting used by most non-profession guides on the wiki.
* Critically needed guides-

**Expand stubs**
* Kaanai Canyon

**Add new Guides**
* Add newly-found or newly-made guides to the lists on the left, in their respective place.

**Add new maps**

* All working AB builds
	+ Great working AB builds
	+ Good working AB builds
* AB Guides
News/20081117

## Problem, 2008 11 17

You've probably noticed over the past few hours the site has been running slow and PvXbig isn't working properly. It appears that the server has been acting up. Unfortunately both of our server side admins haven't come on yet for the day. As such you just have to remain patient, if we're lucky it might be temporary (for what ever reason). If not, we just have to wait it out until either Hhippo or GCardinal come on to have a look.  **~ PheNaxKian** **Sysop** 17:38, 17 November 2008 (EST)
News/20080114

## News - 14 January 2008

### Build Master Policy Implemented

Our Build Master Policy has been implemented! Votes from Build Masters are weighted twice as much as standard votes, and BMs can also remove bad votes.

Congratulations to our first three buildmasters: Pluto, Skakid9090, and Unexist!

To get involved in the Build Master Selection process, go to PvXwiki:Requests for Build Master Status.
News/20080918

## PvX Forum

A strong community is vital to the success of PvXwiki; pretty obvious, right? Unfortunately, too often, people fail to make a distinction between chatting with other users on their talk pages and outright trolling which tends to distract from the wiki as a whole (not to mention that wikis aren't designed to handle large, fast paced "conversations"). With that in mind, we've decided to try a little "experiment." The <<< DELETED >>> is essentially a (generally) un-moderated area in which PvX users can have those same conversations without the drawbacks. We're expecting that people will take advantage of the Forum (i.e. that people will stop having these conversations on PvXwiki), so enforcement on user talk pages may increase.
New User Guide

Welcome to PvXWiki, the largest database of Guild Wars character builds! This is a guide for people new to PvXWiki, it gives an overview of our policies and general tips for editing and creating builds. There is also a small section on how to customize your own user page and signature.

Things You Should Do* Sign all your comments, using four tildes (written as ~~~~)
* Keep your actions within policy and try to follow guidelines.
* When editing pages, use the 'Show preview' button. This can be found underneath the editing window.
* Remember to indent your comments on talk pages.

Things You Should Read* Guide to important PvXwiki policies - Read this first.
* General Article editing guide - Basic wikicode.
* How to make a build - How to create a build, general guide.
* Voting on builds
* How to make and use a custom signature
* Your userpage - Guide to creating and maintaining an awesome userpage.
Secret Hideout

*This article is a stub. You can help Cobalt Wiki by expanding it.*

 Teams | FFA

 ***"Dr Red was never much for socializing, but at least he left some shield batteries and a Rail Gun for easy grabbing!"***

**Secret Hideout** is a Deathmatch map introduced in v100 Alpha.

Two lava rocks will spit out from the lava in a specific pattern and will kill the player instantly on contact. They can be blocked with a Shield Belt. Railgun shots will not pierce fireballs, nor will they move if hit by a Railgun shot.

## Featured Pickups

* Blaster Gun
* Matter Army Issue
* Railgun (Spawns after the match has started, at the bottom right zone, next to the lava)
* Stick Grenade
* Shield Belt Battery (Spawns after the match has started, at the top left platform)
Build

"**Build**" is a term with several meanings. You can infer the intended definition from the way it is used in each instance.

ArenaNet often announces in-game that "a new build of Guild Wars is available." This means that the game has been updated while you have been playing. You should quit the game and re-start to get the update.

Other meanings refer to a certain configuration for a single character or a whole party.

## Character builds

A character build refers to the composition of a character. As there are a myriad of ways to develop a character, different builds are often compared, discussed, lauded and criticized in web forums and/or chat rooms.

For Guild Wars, the following information is usually pertinent:

* Primary profession
* Secondary profession
* Attributes used (including the amount of points alloted to each)
* Equipped skills

The following information is also occasionally included:

* Equipped weapons and items
* Equipped armor
* Equipped runes

Also, while not being an essential part of a build, a strategy description often helps other players to better understand a build's purpose, strengths, and weaknesses.

## Team builds

A team build refers to the combination of individual character builds to form a party. A team build should include the needed individual builds as well as strategy for how the players should work together.

Team builds for different PvP types and PvE areas can differ greatly.

## Builds on PvXwiki

**A list of builds can be found here, organized into subcategories.**

The subcategories contain builds that have been created and tested by users of this wiki. Some will work well for you, some might not. Always remember that everyone should play with the build they are most comfortable with and do not hesitate to tweak any build you see to your specific needs. These are rather starting points for your own build than "set-in-stone" final wisdom.

If you're feeling adventurous, or just want more inspiration, you may also wish to have a look at the not-so-complete untested builds. You could even test some of them out and help improve them.

To add your own build to the Wiki, please visit PvXwiki:Writing good builds and make sure your build meets the page's criteria. After that, visit PvXwiki:Style and formatting for instructions on how to create a build article.
News/20090624

## Real Vetting Update

In the next few days, an updated version of the vetting policy will be implemented. This policy will lead to a few key changes regarding how vetting works as well as the rating scale.

The main page will be updated to reflect these changes.

The primary change here will be the removal of the "Other" category and the deletion of all builds currently residing in it. As always, any of these builds can be moved or restored to the userspace per user request.

To see the new Real Vetting Policy, go here.
News/20190117

## January 17, 2019: Fandom migration for EEA accounts

Recently, Gamepedia (which is part of Curse) has been sold by Amazon to Fandom. This means that account data needed to be transferred, and any accounts from European Economic Area (EEA) countries needed to approve this transfer before it could happen in keeping with EEA law. A notification was sent to the associated email of affected accounts, but if you missed it and your pages/account no longer show up, there is still a method to reclaim the account and pages: How to Reclaim your Site Account

There is a limited window to reclaim your account (as Twitch will not hold onto the data indefinitely) so if you wish to resume editing at PvX with your current account, please reclaim soon.
News/2020 Archive

Recent updates
* **Current News**

2020 updates
* Thursday 16th of January  (talk)

**This is an Archive of the news from 2020. Please do not edit it.**

## January 16, 2020: Toraen's retirement as bureaucrat and a new RFA

For countless years Toraen worked for the PvX wiki as an administrator, improving codes, wiki bots, tending to the day-to-day work, acting as a neutral and mediating voice wherever necessary. Eventually, he was made bureaucrat, and kept taking care of PvX wiki even when Guild Wars' player base was shrinking and the activity in PvX with it. He has recently decided to pass this role on to Krschkr as the time he could spend for PvX became too few to take care of the involved work. We'd like to express our gratitude and respect for his tireless work throughout the years!

To fill the gap Chieftainalex has been nominated to become a new administrator. All users are invited to provide their feedback to his request for adminship.

(update 1st July 2020, the RFA has been successful)

There have also been changes in policy. Recently we've decided to update the naming conventions for build articles, PvX:NAME. The changes lead to a more consistent naming pattern, which allows to identify the content of build pages more easily just by looking at the page title. Many page names have been adjusted accordingly, so if you have bookmarks or other links to previous page titles you may need to update some of them.

We've also implemented a new type for PvE builds: **quest**. It allows for builds that will help players to complete content that requires specialized builds, such as solo quests. Moreover it is the place for specialized builds that help to finish particularly difficult content, such as Hard Mode Only quests. All users are invited to contribute builds or feedback to this new build type. You can also browse the builds that have been added so far, both vetted and untested ones.
News/20080117

## Informal Discussion Begins Regarding PvXwiki2

I'm sure that some people are aware that ArenaNet has lost no time in creating a Wiki to document Guild Wars 2. For us at PvX, this raises the inevitable question of where GW2 builds will be stored. I for one would like to see a second PvXwiki -- while we may not have earned the best reputation, I hope few people would disagree that we've done a better job than GuildWiki did. One of the problems however was that we started too late. While a a lot of people on this site may simply enjoy discussing builds for the sake of doing so, the only people who genuinely *need* all of the content that we have to offer are those who are either new to the game or perhaps those who are new to PvP.

Guild Wars 2 presents us with a golden opportunity however. When a game first comes out, particularly during open beta, there are no established builds. People may, via theorycraft, decide that a particular skill is good simply because they can recognize its value, but it's a stage during which everyone is learning. The key to a successful PvXwiki2 is to establish ourselves as the place to go to discuss all of those new develops as they are occurring in the context of build creation. It won't last forever of course, but if we can establish a strong reputation from the beginning and get more people involved, we can build a strong community from the start.

As the header indicates, all the discussion so far regarding a PvXwiki2 has been very informal. However, I was spurred to create this news item by a couple of conversations I had on MSN Messenger regarding the possible future of PvXwiki in regards to GW2. We were bandying about a couple ideas about how to make the site successful, among other things a strong relationship with GW2W (which will obviously see tons of traffic when GW2 first comes out) were mentioned, but I wanted to give everyone, Admins and users alike a chance to get involved in a discussion to plan (in a very rudimentary and even theoretical manner) how to best establish ourselves (assuming we plan to do so).

The theoretical goal of a "BuildWiki" should be to originate the meta. While this is largely impossible, we do have an impact on Guild Wars, and when Guild Wars 2 comes out, we'll have an opportunity to possibly come much closer to achieving that goal. And if we manage to do so with reasonable success, we'll have a much brighter future (and hopefully a much improved reputation).

So, any comments related to the formation of a PvXwiki2 (I believe Gcardinal may have registered a domain name for this eventuality), the best ways to promote such a site, the best ways to prepare, anything along those lines should be posted on the talk page.
Portal:Speed Clears

Alliance Battles ·
Codex Arena ·
Guides ·
Guild Battles ·
Heroes' Ascent ·
Player versus Environment ·
Random Arenas ·
**Speed Clears**

Welcome to the **Speed Clear Portal**! The Speed Clear Portal serves as a main page for all of the numerous Speed Clear content located around the site.

	+ Manly Spike
	+ Mesmer Spike
* The Underworld
	+ Terraway
* Domain of Anguish
	+ Trenchway

	+ Manly Spike
	+ Sinway

*Frog Scepter*

* Catacombs of Kathandrax
	+ Manly Spike
	+ Spearway

*Emerald Blade*

* Raven's Point
	+ Naga-way

*Eaglecrest Axe*

* Rragnar's Menagerie
	+ Stormway
	+ Manly Spike

*Dryad Bow*

* Shards of Orr
	+ Snow-way

*Bone Dragon Staff*

	+ MQSC
* Kurzick Faction
	+ MTSC

* All working SC builds
	+ Metagame working SC builds
	+ Great working SC builds
	+ Good working SC builds
News/20080512

## In re Trolls

PvXwiki has, as I'm sure many people are aware, experienced a steady increase in the amount of trolling and disruptive behavior. However, the Admin team has largely turned a blind eye to such activity. After all, generally speaking, there's no harm in letting people have their fun. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly more difficult to ignore the deluge of trolling that pervades PvX. There's a difference between harmless trolling and "We're gonna flood RCs trolling." Even then, were people willing to contain their trolling solely to user talk pages and use Minor Edit we might have been able to continue to ignore it. Lamentably, this has not been the case. Indeed, that "harmless" trolling has increasingly become the source of NPA violations, 1RV violations, and general wiki-drama. Yes, we want to allow people to have fun, but when that fun begins to have an increasingly deleterious effect on the Wiki and the community an appropriate response has to be developed and it has gotten to the point where the Admins are essentially left with two options: make a decision to ignore the trolling once and for all or ban the offenders. Yes, we're never going to be able to eradicate all of the inane/elitist behavior that goes on on PvX, nor would we necessarily want to, but we do want to make an attempt to improve the community.

If I thought that posting this note would be enough to quell even a fraction of the trolling that goes on on PvX, this would be the end of the message, but I don't and this isn't. For all the trolls on this wiki, inveterate or otherwise, consider this a **final warning.** From this point forward, disruptive trolling (i.e. trolling which has a deleterious impact -- to be left to the discretion of the Sysops) will result in a **permanent ban.** Furthermore, Sysops are vested with the authority to protect the offender's talk page from non-Admin edits (to prevent further trolling). Finally, Sysops are authorized to revert on sight any edits made by sockpuppets of the offender and to ban the sockpuppet.
News/20171024

## October 24, 2017: AWS Migration Issues

Post-migration, it seems that nothing in the File: namespace migrated correctly. This means all images hosted on the wiki are dead. The only exceptions are the images used by the PvXbig extension as they are hosted separately. A ticket has been submitted and I will update this news post as I learn more. Toraen (talk) 13:01, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Update: The issue with the images has been resolved. PvXbig mouseovers unfortunately still do not work. Toraen (talk) 09:17, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
News/20091214

## Suppress Redirect

All auto-confirmed users should now have the ability to suppress redirects when they move pages. Suppress redirect is a tool that allows you to move a page and not leave a redirect behind.

This is a useful tool that can help cut down on a lot of unnecessary redirects, but should be used in accordance with redirect policy and is not for deleting pages or wiping votes. Abuse of this tool can result in a lengthy ban.

Suppress redirect can be found on the special 'Move' page. Redirects are suppressed by unchecking the checkbox that says 'Leave a redirect behind'.
News/2017 Archive

Recent updates
* **Current News**

2017 updates
* Tuesday 24th of October  (talk)
* Thursday 10th of August  (talk)

**This is an Archive of the news from 2017. Please do not edit it.**

## October 24, 2017: AWS Migration Issues

Post-migration, it seems that nothing in the File: namespace migrated correctly. This means all images hosted on the wiki are dead. The only exceptions are the images used by the PvXbig extension as they are hosted separately. A ticket has been submitted and I will update this news post as I learn more. Toraen (talk) 13:01, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Update: The issue with the images has been resolved. PvXbig mouseovers unfortunately still do not work. Toraen (talk) 09:17, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

## August 10, 2017: Recent Image Outages

Recently, the Mediawiki software this wiki runs on was upgraded, and it did result in several images (any that had quotes in their names, particularly the skill icons for Shout skills) dying. They should all be fixed now but please let me know if you find any still broken images on any build pages. Thank you. Toraen (talk) 06:55, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
News/20110811

## August 11, 2011: PvX patches

Hey all! We've just had some things deployed that have fixed some of the older outstanding issues with PvX per below:

* **PvP Skills**

~~These should now have **the correct skill id** for templates.~~ Still bugged.
* **Skill Icons**

All skills should now have the correct icons. This includes PvP skills without ones to begin with, and PvE sills (such as whirlwind attack) that displayed incorrectly.
We also attempted to fix the RSS feed for Special:RecentChanges but failed (the link will be removed in a subsequent patch)

***Let us know if something's broken/not working on the talk page!***
 **~ PheNaxKian** **talk** 16:51, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Guild Wars: Limited/Sample

**This is a sample entry for the Guild Wars: Limited contest.**

* PvXwiki name: Scottie theNerd
* In-game name: Shocking Revelation
* Category: PvP Team
	+ 1 x A/Me Shadow Farmer
	+ 2 x R/any Glass Arrows Spiker
	+ 1 x Mo/W Frenzy Healsig Monk

## A/Me Shadow Farmer

* Shadow Arts: 12 + 1 + 1
* Deadly Arts: 8 + 1

1. Arcane Echo
2. Shadow Form
3. Dancing Daggers
4. Entangling Asp
5. Signet of Toxic Shock
6. Resurrection Signet

Equipment: Vampiric Daggers of Fortitude, +30/+30 Spear/Shield defensive set

Usage:

* Cast Arcane Echo followed by Shadow Form.
* Use skills 3-5
* Recast echoed Shadow Form before the first Shadow Form expires.

## R/any Glass Arrows Spiker

* Expertise: 12 + 1 + 1
* Marksmanship: 12 + 1

1. Glass Arrows
2. Penetrating Shot
3. Distracting Shot
4. Dual Shot
5. Natural Stride
6. Resurrection Signet

Equipment: Vampiric Recurve Bow of Fortitude, Survivor runes

Usage:

* Cast Glass Arrows and maintain on recharge.
* Spam Penetrating Shot
* Use Distracting Shot to disable key skills (e.g. Res Sig)
* Use Dual Shot as part of a spike
* Use Natural Stride to block attack chains.

## Mo/W Frenzy Healsig

* Divine Favor: 10 + 1
* Healing Prayers: 12 + 1 + 3
* Tactics: 8

1. Signet of Rejuvenation
2. Signet of Devotion
3. Healing Signet
4. Frenzy
5. Dolyak Signet
6. Unyielding Aura

Equipment: Ebon Sword of Enchanting, 20/20 Healing focus

Usage:

* Spam signets to heal allies
* Use Healing Signet for a self heal
* Use Frenzy to pressure foes
* Resurrect allies with Unyielding Aura.
News/20110504

## May 4, 2011: Flux

As of the April 29th update, the Global PvP effect, Flux, was added. With this, there has been implemented a monthly cycle of passive, environmental effects which effect all players in any PvP Arena. As stated in the Developer Notes which came out in parallel with this update,

*"The introduction of Flux is a compelling tool to help us keep our competitive formats dynamic, while allowing us to further balance the game. Because slight shifts in the meta are expected from Flux to Flux, it allows us to better target overly problematic builds. If powerful builds can thrive in environments that are not suited to them, we can review the skills to bring them more into line. We want to encourage gameplay where the team that wins does so because they've played more skillfully."*.

Currently, the effect is called Unyielding Spirit. This effects boosts damage dealt by a player, by 1% for every 2 points of Death Penalty incurred. While this Flux is not conducive to any certain build, this can notably influence team formats such as GvG, where base pushes can be thwarted by teams resurrecting after a wipe, or HA, in formats such as King of the Hill.
News/20100309

## March 2010 Administrator Evaluation

Currently the most active administrators are undergoing evaluation by the bureaucratic staff. If you've seen any particular contributions by a particular administrator that make you think they're not fit for being an administrator (such as abusing their rights as an administrator) please add a link to it on this page, under the appropriate administrators heading.

## What is this evaluation?

Administrators are constantly being monitored by the bureaucratic staff in an informal manner, and users can ask for a formal review of a specific admin at any time. Recently it was requested that a formal review be taken of the (currently) most active admins, as there hadn't been one in a while. The review will result in one of two things for an administrator:

1. The administrator has been seen to be doing his duty, and will keep his rights as an administrator and continue as normal.
2. The administrator has been seen acting in an unacceptable manner for an administrator (abusing rights etc.), and the Bureaucrats will decide if it's necessary to remove the users right as an administrator.
New User Guide/Voting

The **rate** option can be found at the top of a build page next to where it says "build", "discussion", "edit", etc. Note that before you can rate a build, you must meet a few conditions - see Autoconfirmed users for more information. By pressing the "rate" button, you are taken to a page where you can vote on three main points of a build:
* **Effectiveness**: This is about the overall usage of the build, asking two questions: "Does it get the job that it is meant to do done?" and "Does it do it well?" This accounts for 80% of the overall rating.
* **Universality**: The Universality section is about the versatility of the build, basically asking: "Can it be changed easily to fit different scenarios while retaining its effectiveness?". This accounts for 20% of the overall rating.
* **Innovation**: This means how original the build is. If the build or something similar has been done before then it's not original. This does not effect the overall rating, it is merely for information.

Pressure
Don't feel the need to vote high or low on a build just because everyone else does. Peer pressure is no reason to change your vote. Even though your vote is different from other votes, it cannot be removed without a legitimate reason.

Other Votes
If you believe that another vote is factually wrong, post the reason why on the voter's talk page. Usually, this is accessible in the voter's signature. Make sure to add a link to the build. By looking on most users' talk pages, you can see examples of this. If the voter does not respond, post the problem on the Administrator's Noticeboard.

Comment
Your comment should reflect the rating you have given the build, you should not vote a build "great" and say "this build is trash". The comment you give should explain why you've given it what you have, why do you think it deserves X in effectiveness or Y in universality?. For builds you don't give a perfect score (and sometimes even those that you do), give feedback on how to improve the build "It lacks skill X, which would make it a lot better because of Y". Note that **votes without sufficient reason can be removed at any time by Administrators**, so ensure you have explained your reasoning thoroughly.
Portal:Random Arenas

Alliance Battles ·
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Welcome to the **Random Arenas Portal**! The Random Arenas Portal serves as a main page to all of the numerous Random Arena content located in and around the site.

**Make New Guides**
* See PvXwiki:Guide Format and Syntax for the style and formatting used by most non-profession guides on the wiki.

**Add new Guides**
* Add newly-found or newly-made guides to the lists on the left, in their respective place.

**Improve on the Arena articles**

* All working RA builds
	+ Great working RA builds
	+ Good working RA builds
News/20100124

## Concerning Build Master Position Removal

The BM position is to be removed entirely **on Sunday 31 January**. Many on this site view the position as a failed experiment. The position was originally created for knowledgeable PvP'ers - people who would know what they were doing and be able to explain to other users how or why a build was either good or bad. These people would also command respect simply because of who they are and the guilds they play for, not simply because of their "position" on PvX. However, due to many circumstances, the position became one that often resulted in flame wars, trolling, and many headaches for the Administrators.

## Understanding the Administrator's Position

The Sysop position should be a merely janitorial one. Sysops can delete pages, block users for policy violations, and remove obviously biased/sockpuppet votes, and take any other actions (within policy) in an effort to clean up the site. Sysops should be a neutral third party. They can have build knowledge, and it can help them remove some of the more obviously wrong votes; however, user arguments over build votes should be discussed on the build's talk page or on the user talk page of the voter rather than on the AN. The Noticeboard should only be used for issues that can not be solved through user discussion.

## User Responsibilities

The void left by the BM position is expected to be filled by the normal users here at PvX. Users will be expected to discuss builds bluntly, and at times explain to other users of this site why builds are good or bad. It will be the responsibility of the users here to discuss builds, vote on builds, report vetting problems to the AN, etc. In turn, we hope this will provide users with more understanding of the game and will help their ability to distinguish between builds.
News/20190512

## May 12, 2019: Changes to Voting Requirements & New Projects

Thanks to the fine folks at Gamepedia, we recently were able to adjust the rating extension to lower the requirements for users to vote. Previously, you needed to be registered for 3 days and make 8 edits before being allowed to rate a build. Now, you merely need to create an account and make two edits (edits to your "User:" page or "User talk:" page count, but not your "UserProfile:" page).

Krschkr has launched two projects to aid in finishing getting PvX's hero teams up-to-date, please give him a hand by testing out builds per the projects and reporting how they perform. For more details, see the links below:

* PvXwiki:Project Standardized Testing: Goal is meaningful, comparable build ratings and creating at least two votes per team build.
* PvXwiki:Project 7 Hero Meta: Making a high quality 7 hero meta team build page driven by community consensus.
News/20071221

## Notice - 21 December 2007

### Server

* sendmail was installed. So now email works again as well as email verification and email notifications.
* Script for automated update of skill database for pvxcode was made. Admins will have option to auto update skill db at any time without directly accessing server.

### Bugs

* Cry of Pain: Image was added.
* Template: Saving Template code function now gives filename correct name.
* Skill db update to latest.
* Rate on Admin noticeboard fixed.
Now there is a link directly to the Rating page:
http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Rate/Build:N/Me\_Midnight\_Solo
*Notice wiki/**Rate**/Build:N/Me*

### Build rating

Changes were made to build rating system to ensure that only real users can rate builds.

From now on, in order to rate any build you have to:

* Make at least 8 edits before voting
* Confirm your email address
* Not be in blocked users list

If there is any problems - please report.
New User Guide/User pages

Introduction
   * *What is a user page?* A user page is a place where you can share information about yourself, your interests, in-game achievements, or anything else. Your signature and contributions will link here, so anyone who wants to know more about you will probably end up here.
* *Where can I find my user page?* In the top right corner, you can find a drop-down menu. Your user page is the first option, just below your username. Click to reach your user page.

Basics

Your user page is probably still empty, in this case the editor is automatically opened. If not, click the 'edit' button at the top of the page, second from the left in the right-hand side tabs.
Now you are editing your own user page! A few advices before you start:
* While making your user page, you will probably want to see your progress. To do so, it is highly advised to use the 'Show Preview' button (instead of 'Save page'). This way, you can see what your page will look without flooding out Recent Changes.
* Before saving your page, rethink whether you forgot something or not.

Customizing
For those who have never made a User Page before on another wiki, it is advised to start with an existing template or user page. Either find a user page which you like the look of and copy-paste the code over to yours, editing it in the right parts to make it relevant to you. Alternatively you can use this exemplar User Page template, instructions on how to customize it for yourself are listed on the edit screen.
If you have made a User Page before on another wiki (such as GWWiki or GuildWikia) then you can copy-paste the same template here. Be careful to change internal links to external ones. You will need to re-upload any pictures you want to include on the page.
Once you become more fluent in how to edit these types of pages you can create your own designs.

Wikicode
Wikicode is a programming language designed for wikis.

Things that work* Most of HTML codes
* Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Things that don't work
You may find that some things don't work in wikicode. For example:
* Javascript
* Everything else.
News/20111212

## December 12, 2011: New Mercenary Category

We are now starting a trial run for a new category of PvE builds: Mercenary! Depending on the success of the category, it may become a permanent addition to our buildspace. If the category goes unused for more than a month after the next Guild Wars game update, it may be removed, so start submitting builds soon if you want to see it stay!

To add a build to the mercenary category, use *merc* in the build tag **INSTEAD** of *hero*. These two categories need to be separate so that people looking for hero builds that don't require mercenaries can do so easily. We expect that this category will largely be team builds, but if you have a single hero build that is normally not viable without more of that profession (like a Ritualist build that normally can't compete for the limited ritualist slots with SoS, SoGM, or ST) feel free to submit it. -- **Toraen** *talk* 03:13, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

### Update

The mercenary category has been removed. This was due to lack of any builds being vetted for the category, the hard mode update making elementalist heroes more viable, and the addition of the new Ritualist hero with the Winds of Change part 3 update. Builds that require mercenaries may be submitted to PvX provided they clearly state in the name that they are Mercenary builds, but they will not be placed in their own category. Non-mercenary builds still will not be subjected to PvX:WELL as a result of any mercenary build submission. -- Toraen confer 06:49, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
New User Guide/Policies

One of the most important things about any wiki is their policies. Because anyone can create an account, write and edit pages, regulations are needed to prevent anarchy. Here are some of the more important ones and a quick summary of what they do:

You are valuable
Everyone - even the newbiest of newbies - is valuable to the wiki. Everyone deserves the same level of respect, and you should never belittle yourself because you didn't know something. In return, we ask you to treat us with respect.

Assume good faith
Assume that people are trying to help. Unless the edit was obviously malicious or spiteful, assume it was an honest mistake or that the user in question just didn't know that they weren't supposed to do that.

No personal attacks
The name says it all. At all times, refrain from attacking other users. Comment on content. Not the contributor. Read the policy for a more specific description of what counts as a personal attack.

Only revert once
Essentially, this policy is meant to prevent edit wars. One person may feel that a certain point should be included in an article while another user may feel strongly that it should not. The proper way to deal with a situation like this isn't to just keep adding (or removing) that point until the other person gives up and stops trying. If you make an edit and someone reverts it, explain why you think it shouldn't have been reverted on the article's talk page.

Disruption
This policy lists things that you should never do on a wiki. It's not restrictive - in fact, you probably already realize that these things are wrong. Take the time to read it. It's not very long.

Article Ownership
Simply put, the wiki is a product of the work of the community. Just because you write an article does ***not*** mean that you own it. At the bottom of any edit screen, see the following text:

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**Please note:**
  If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it.

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The exception to this is your userspace - see PvXwiki:Editing User Pages.