September 10th, 2012 
ShaderX 
I am proud to present Yakisoba’s First world completion member. Voyage Vidimus! Achieving 100% completion on all maps. Congratulation!
Furthermore, he has only played 222 Hours and 34 Minutes on this character!
Expect many more first and world first from Yakisoba, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
August 25th, 2012 Tsubaki To commemorate the launch of Guild Wars 2, we’re making a special hat available to all players for free! The Celebration Hat is a baseball cap with the iconic Guild Wars 2 dragon logo—a stylish addition to your town attire!
You can find the Celebration Hat in the Black Lion Trading Company in the ‘Style’ category by pressing ‘O’ while playing the game. The hat is available at the cost of zero gems. The Celebration Hat cannot be traded to other players. The hat can be worn by any character on your account.
The Celebration Hat will only be available from August 25 (during Headstart) through September 12, so don’t wait! Just enter the Black Lion Trading Company before September 12 to get one!
August 23rd, 2012 Tsubaki Galmuth, our resident Yakisoba Celebrity Chef has kindly made a simple guide for all new members who want to play with members from a different starting area. Using the portals located in Lion’s Arch, players may go to the 5 different starting races. Enjoy the simple guide she has made below:
Get to Hero’s Panel
Press ‘H’ to get to panel. Click on the PVP tab on the left. Click on top button to go to Heart of the Mists.
Exit PvP Tutorial Area
New players will land in a PVP tutorial area. Run straight ahead and up the stairs, then travel through the gate.
Exit Heart of the Mist
In the new zone, run through the Lion’s Arch gate. It’s flanked with a pair of lions.
Get to the Grand Piazza
Once in Lion’s Arch, head to the middle of the map where the Grand Piazza is. Cross the bridge to the circled area where all the gates are.
Go through the respective gates
Each gate goes to a racial starter city. Members of each race are positioned outside their respective gates, so you can take your cue from there.
Black Citadel – Charr
Divinity’s Reach – Human
The Grove – Sylvari
Hoelbrak – Norn
Rata Sum – Asura
August 21st, 2012 Tsubaki 
We will be conducting a stress test tomorrow Tuesday, August 21 from 12:00 Noon PACIFIC Time to 4:00 PM PACIFIC Time.
We will be actively working on the game during the event, so you might experience connectivity problems or discover featu
res that are not working as designed.Any issues you experience are a result of the rigorous conditions of the stress test, and are in no way representative of the state of the game at launch.
By participating in this stress test, you’re helping us make Guild Wars 2 a better game. Thanks for your cooperation—we’ll see you in-game!
August 19th, 2012 Tsubaki 
The big day is finally coming. The years of waiting, is soon to be over. Guild Wars 2 will launch in 5 days time.
And we have a list of things we need our members to prepare and get ready for launch day itself. It is going to be very very hectic and crazy, but if you follow this list- you’ll be fine.
1. Download and get registered on Mumble.
For those who have not done so, it’s high time you got it ready. Recently we increased our security for mumble and will only let non-registered members stay in 2 channels: Recruitment or AFK Room. To register your mumble nickname, come into mumble and post on our facebook to request for any officer to register you. Once registered, you will have full access to the member level rooms. This is going to be troublesome if you only want to do it on launch, so make sure you get registered earlier. For a small guide and FAQ on Mumble, check this page out.
Mumble is an absolute priority for Yakisoba, and we will only add members into the guild once the game start via mumble.
Also, please add your FB name on your comment so we can identify you better. To do this, first right-click on your nickname and select Change Comment. You may notice some members have banners in their nicknames, we are using this nifty signature generator for it.
2. Wait for Guild to release homeserver information on Facebook/Mumble
We will only be releasing our finalized homeserver information a few days before the launch. We will not announce on our blog. This is at the request of our alliance. All members please take note that choosing your homeserver is a one time affair. Once you selected a homeserver, you cannot switch (even by deleting all your characters) unless you pay using the gemstone. Arenanet has hinted that there might be free server transfers during the first week, but it’s highly important that you do not choose the wrong server.
We suggest that all members to be present at least on Day 1 headstart to choose their server. All you need is to select your server, and you don’t even have to create your character to be part of it.
In the event of a full server issue: We can only hope and pray that Anet will slowly increase the server cap. Keep checking the homeserver lists, and transfer whenever possible. Those who are affected, I’m afraid you’ve lucked out.
3. Collection of funds on live
Once the server go live, we will need to raise 10 silver to create the guild. To help speed up this process, we require all members to send 50 bronze to Tsubaki or Shader at launch. We will announce our ingame nickname on Mumble, and once we receive your mail, we will add you to the guild. This acts as a mini “entry fee”. 50 bronze is fairly easy to grind for, just do one dynamic event and you will have enough money to send us.
All of the excess fund will go into our guild bank, and will be used only for guild related matters. On our stance of Guild bank, please refer to our white paper.
4. Representing the Guild
Once added to Yakisoba. Please remember to represent the guild. Representing the guild allows you to earn Influence points for the guild whenever you login, complete dynamic events, WvW or PvP. Influence points is used to upgrade the guild and we will get plenty of guild benefits for Yakisoba members. When you make a new character, do remember that by default, you will not represent any guild. So do represent your new character as well.
On top of this, always remember you are representing the guild. Be mindful of how you treat others around you. Everybody in our server are our allies. We will be playing and fighting along side with them. Thank god there is no more Ks-ing to worry about in GW2. Respect everyone, and always maintain and uphold the image of Yakisoba. Never engage in any public smack talks, trollings, flamings in game, or on forums. We take this very seriously and will not hesitate to remove any member damaging the reputation of our guild.
5. Form up parties of 5
It will be good to form up parties of 5 among yourselves to do the PVE contents in this game. It’s faster exp to tag monsters (doing 5-10% damage at least) as a group, as opposed to solo killing. This speeds up your level process in dynamic events and renown hearts quests.
We are hoping that we can get as many members to level 20-30 on the 2nd day so we can start organizing our WvW sessions by the 3rd day.
6. Read up on Guild’s WvW Member Handbook
The handbook can be found on our facebook page document here. Kuch and Cara are our current WvW officers and they will be in charge of the planning and execution of WvW. Other officers may also step in to help with the leading of any organized WvW sessions.
When we conduct any organized WvW sessions, we expect participating members to be on the WvW mumble channel, and to maintain voice discipline. Speak only to alert other of ambushes, out-flanked or backstab. Also, you are expected to listen to orders. If given an instruction to attack or retreat, please listen. Do not run off on your own to do your own thing. We are fighting as a cohesive force, usually against larger numbers so we need all members act together. We are not going to be a zergswarm with everyone doing their own things. WvW is serious business, as the officers will be coordinating with the other alliance officers on the battle.
If you want to run around and do your own thing, do not participate in an organized Wvw session.
7. Have fun
Okay, we seem to have laid down some very serious stuff. But, at the end of the day, remember to have fun!
Even though we starting to sound a bit hardcore, we aren’t! We’re just putting a little seriousness in our game so we can all enjoy better. May Guild Wars 2 be the game that we will reside in for a long time!
August 15th, 2012 Tsubaki 
We will be conducting a stress test tomorrow Wednesday, August 15 from 12:00 Noon PACIFIC Time to 4:00 PM PACIFIC Time.
We will be actively working on the game during the event, so you might experience connectivity problems or discover features that are not working as designed.
Any issues you experience are a result of the rigorous conditions of the stress test, and are in no way representative
of the state of the game at launch.By participating in this stress test, you’re helping us make Guild Wars 2 a better game. Thanks for your cooperation—we’ll see you in-game!
August 15th, 2012 Tsubaki 
August 28th, 2012—the day Guild Wars 2 launches—is fast approaching. Everyone here at ArenaNet is anxiously counting the days right along with every Guild Wars 2 fan. In just a few weeks, the servers will go live and each of us will be setting out on our adventures in Tyria!
As you may have seen, we host a countdown timer on the front page of our official website. The information below will give you specific details about times and dates based on whether you pre-purchased, pre-ordered, or are picking up a copy of the game on release day.
- Pre-Purchase with 3-Day Headstart: Everyone who pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 will enjoy three full days of Headstart Access. The three-day Headstart Access will officially begin at 0:00 AM Pacific time (GMT -7:00) on August 25th. However, please note that in order to ensure that we’re fully prepared for that fateful hour we may bring servers online up to 3 hours prior. If you’re a player committed to getting in first to grab that character name of your dreams you’ll want to be keeping an eye on things during that time period.
- Pre-Order with 1-Day Headstart: Those who pre-ordered Guild Wars 2 will be able to participate in one day of Headstart Access. The one-day Headstart Access will begin at 0:00 AM Pacific time (GMT -7:00) on August 27th. NOTE – Pre-Order code registration is now enabled.
- For those players who have not pre-purchased or pre-ordered the game, Guild Wars 2 will officially launch at 0:00 AM Pacific time (GMT -7:00) on August 28th.
- Download the Client today: If you’ve registered your pre-purchase or pre-order and created your Guild Wars account you can go to account management today and download the client. Be sure to update the client periodically to minimize your download at launch.
We look forward to seeing you in-game very soon!
August 10th, 2012 Tsubaki 
For those who missed out today’s stress test because of work or school, you are in luck! Anet just announced another stress test tomorrow. Looks like they have lots of things to iron out.
Thank you for all your help in today’s Stress Test!
We will be conducting a Stress Test on Friday, August 10 from 4:00 PM PACIFIC Time to 8:00 PM PACIFIC Time.
REMEMBER: We will be actively working on the game during the event, so you might experience connectivity problems or discover features that are not working as designed. Any issues you experience are a result of the rigorous conditions of
the stress test, and are in no way representative of the state of the game at launch. By participating in this stress test, you’re helping us make Guild Wars 2 a better game. Thanks for your cooperation—we’ll see you in-game!
August 2nd, 2012 Tsubaki 
We will be conducting a stress test on Thursday, August 2 from 12:00 Noon PACIFIC Time to 4:00 PM PACIFIC Time.
Unlike previous stress tests, we will be actively working on the game during the event, so you might experience connectivity problems or discover features that are not working as designed. Any issues you experience are a result of the rigorous conditions of the stress test, and are in no way representative of the state of the game at launch. By participating in this stress test, you’re helping us make Guild Wars 2 a better game. Thanks for your cooperation—we’ll see you in-game! ~RB2
There will be a stress test on Friday, August 3rd 3am til 7am (GMT+8 time). For those who don’t have work, enjoy!
They will not be wiping the BWE3 data, so Yakisoba will remain on Gate of Madness for this Stress Test. Do note that this is not our server for launch. Also, if you can please help record some in game footage for the guild. Ideally doing PvP or WvW related things with other Yakisoba members. Thank you!
August 1st, 2012 Tsubaki 
Breaking News! Rubi announces the launch time for Guild Wars 2 Headstart! All members take note, headstart will start 25th August Saturday 3pm for all GMT +8 timezone members. We hope you are ready for this!
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