Almar's GuidesWelcome to AlmarsGuides.com! Almar's Guides has helped over ten million gamers world wide overcome some of the most challenging and frustrating elements of gaming; helping to improve the playability and enjoyment of all gamers. If you've come here looking for help with gaming, you have come to the right place! I've been a complete nerd my entire life, clocking in over twelve hours a day on video games for the past decade of my life. I have put in more hours than someone would spend earning a Phd on a subject. When you want accurate information on a subject trust an expert, so let me ask you, who better to trust than the biggest nerd there ever was?
5/20/13 Hey everyone! I just needed to post this update today because I got some serious laughs from this major burn I did to a troll on one of my Youtube videos. He posted a really negative comment and got burned so bad by me that he's going to need to use some extra neosporin ;P
5/12/13 Happy Mother's Day! 4/12/13 I managed to get my computer back up and running. I got some donations and a lot of help from my subscribers which I am eternally grateful for! It wasn't enough to cover the whole video card but it was enough to cover some and I was able to get my computer back up and running fast enough to where i didn't lose too much time in work =) Thanks to everyone who donated, I love you guys, you make everything I do with Almar's Guides worth it! 4/9/13 So I have a new breaking news story about what has been going on... About two or three days ago I started having trouble with my Computer. It started with a lot of lag one day and then the next day my computer would just keep restarting on me every 20 - 30 minutes. I made a Youtube video about it and asked for some help, luckily I got the help I needed and was able to diagnose the problem. However now I just need the money to buy a new Video Card for my computer. For those curious my about the problem... My Video Card was over heating. I looked up the normal temperatures for Video Cards which it says should be 40 - 60 degrees celsius. My Vid card was running at 110 - 120 degrees. Obviously way over what it should have been at. Right now though i don't have the money to buy a new video card and what i am able to do with my Youtube and my website just became extremely limited. I am on my Laptop now which isn't my 'work' computer and I have almost nothing but Dreamweaver and the games I USED to play installed on it. Hopefully I can be back up and running soon but this is a really crappy situation as I have already been very short on money. Since I quite literally have nothing else to do I will probably keep posting updates to my website to keep everyone updated. However my mood has been down in the dumps the past few days so in all honesty I have no idea what is going to happen with posting updates. All I know is I need to get my computer up and running now or for lack of better words I am completely and utterly screwed. 4/7/13 I've been playing a lot of Diablo 3 over the past few weeks because I really need money. I've been getting a few sales each and every day on the RMAH but nothing super signifigant yet although I definitely can feel it increasing. It's going to take time before I can really build up a capitol and make a lot of money via D3, hell it may never happen with the sad state of the game. We will have to see how things go, for now I am just working on building up my Barbarian. If they ever make the game good at least I will have an uber character that is extremely high paragon level. 3/31/13 So it has been forever since my last update to the website... I will probably backdate a few things just so when I archive it, everything will look better =P However if anyone reads this, which I know some people do, I have been playing a lot of Diablo 3 recently believe it or not.. I am kinda liking the few changes they are doing with the game and I never really hated the game when everyone else did. Also I have been playing a lot of Guild Wars 2 primarily so I don't fall behind again like i did when I stopped playing for like 3 months. I am mostly just making videos atm, Youtube is a great source of income and that is exactly what I need atm. This year I plan to expand a lot with both my website and my Youtube, if everything goes according to plan I am going to buy a more professional webcam soon and also start jumping on more new games when they come out. Right now I do about 2 games a year, mostly MMORPGs and if I get more funding I will be able to do other types of games like I could have done Dead Space 3, the Rift Xpac, the future SWTOR Expac and even put more time into EQ and possibly launch an EQ 2 section. Sadly my dreams and ambitions are just that. With every passing year though I have been able too put more time and more effort into my website and I will continue to do so. 2/28/13 Over the next few months I am going to be doing a lot of new content for Guild Wars 2! So anyone here who usually follows my work for that game, you can celebrate because there is a lot coming your way! ;D Aside from Gw2 the next game I am probably going to play is Elder Scrolls Online. I know it is going to be a complete and total failure of a game but the guides will be extremely popular for it for a few months and will give me more of the views and publicity that I deserve. Aside from that game I have gotten requests to play Neverwinter Online but i have no intention of playing it, it just doesn't look interesting enough to me. Also I may take a break sometime soon to play Dead Space 3. I loved the first two so I really want to play the third. Just don't know if I will have the money to buy it or if I will have to wait until it goes down in price. That's pretty much all for the month of February though. I'll see you guys next month ;) 2/26/13 I've really been too busy playing games to post a real update here. I have been getting back into Guild Wars 2 after stopping Path of Exile for awhile. I've also been leveling up in Everquest and logging on Diablo 3 to milk the occasional auction. Things are going quite dandy and I am probably going to backdate some updates in here showing screenshots of the past few months just for a little fun reminder incase I or anyone else wants to go back and look at what I was doing then. I actually can't find any screenshots for PoE so we'll have to skip that lol. 2/8/13 Yay, it's my 23rd Birthday! 2/1/13 I've been pretty busy with things recently, mostly just been doing Youtube videos because I haven't had the time to pop open Dreamweaver recently. I'll be celebrating my 23rd birthday soon too, not like I have many festivities going on that day but I figured it would be worth mentioning here. Everything has kind of been at a stalemate recently in life but I am keeping my head up by telling myself it will all be cool soon. It's disgusting how much emphasis is put on money in life. When you're broke it doesn't matter about really anything else in life, you're just usually always unhappy. And ugh, I am so struggling for money. If you're wondering what game I am playing currently it's Path of Exile. I've been working on lots of guides for it but the community hasn't been very appreciative of them so I don't know how much longer I will be. I really hate working on Free to Play games they attract the scum of the MMO market most of the time... 1/12/13 How to predict, control and understand markets
I will be posting some updates soon and back dating quite a few more. Sorry I have been overly busy and lazy at the same time these past few months! 1/1/13 The start of a new year. I wonder what fortunes this year will have for us all! 12/25/12 Merry Christmas everyone! If you know me you'll know I really don't care too much about this holiday but it's nice of me anyway to wish everyone a merry christmas that does. I didn't get many goodies for christmas, some money which helps with the debt issues I have and also a new electric shaver which is worse than my old one. Aside from that it is just a normal day. 12/24/12 Today is Christmas Eve, the day before the worst day of the year. I'm the biggest grinch in the whole wide world so just ignore my hatred for the holidays celebrating the birth of the imaginary figure known as Hey zeus christ. 12/22/12 Hey look the world didn't end after all! Who saw that coming? *rolls eyes* 12/21/12 Oh no it's the end of the world today! Everyone enjoy your last day on earth! 12/20/12 I ran into someone I know at the bank today. Didn't say a word to them but I found it pretty interesting. It was awkward at best. 12/18/12 I've been too busy to post updates but since i am bored right now I think I may post a few and back date them.
Path of Exile Getting Started Guide Scroll of Wisdom Farming Guide How to Reset an Instance in Path of Exile 12/13/12 Super big announcement for today! Turbine is relaunching Asheron's Call 2! For the first time since 2003! (or maybe it was 04) Either way this is a gigantic announcement and something they should be proud of. I am reactivating to give it a try and also because i have had a hankering to play Asheron's Call for the past few years. It's like my favorite game of all time and I just want to play it. After all I made a video not too long ago about this game and what made it amazing. You can check that video out here Asheron's Call and what made it such an amazing game 11/28/12 Everquest Rain of Fear came out today, yay! I've been running my Trader a lot recently in EQ, once I buy the expansion I will finally be able to run him while offline! How to setup a Skype Push to Talk Key 11/18/12 I resubscribed to Everquest recently, definitely working on getting some new content out for that game. Right now my Beastlord is level 92 with about 3.2k AAs. I gotta get level 95, learn the ropes of everything around that level and then by then I will have to buy Rain of Fear, level to 100 and learn even more stuff there. It's never ending! Also got my J5 merc, I solo'd the tasks. Probably will do it again on my Ranger/SK and then make a guide for it. 11/14/12 Vial of Thin Blood Gendarran Field Farming Thundertroll Swamp Farming Guide 10/30/12 I am adding all of my Guild Wars 2 Guides to this front page of my website for indexing purposes. So there will be a huge list of links in no specific order below. As for an update about myself it has been awhile so here it goes. I've been busy working on tons of different Guild Wars guides, mostly videos and the Halloween Event. I still have a ton of videos to go but I have lowered my daily video output to about 2 a day since at my old rate of pumping out 20 - 30 videos a day I not only lost subscribers on youtube I also ran out of stuff to do insanely fast. I'm hoping at this rate I can enjoy what I do more and extend how long it will take me to "complete" a game. If any fans are reading this and you'd like to see your game covered by me please shoot me an email (Submit A Guide link at the bottom of every page has all of that information). I'm almost done Guild Wars 2 and do not see any MMORPGs on the horizon for late year 2012 releases or early 2013 so I am going to be without an MMORPG to write guides for soon. I'd really like to get some feedback on what games I could cover. Guild Wars 2 Getting Started Guides Guild Wars 2 Auction House Guide Guild Wars 2 Tradeskill Guides Orichalcum Gathering Locations Ancient Wood Gathering Locations Rank 400 Profitable Chef Recipes The rest of this page here will include my Gw2 guides in an order similar to how they were listed above for index purposing. Also these pages are listed here incase anyone uses internet explorer and is unable to access the drop down menus. Getting Started Guides Gw2 Farming Guides Levels 1 - 20 Farming Locations Gathering in Plains of Ashford (1 - 20) Bandithaunt Caverns in Queensdale (1 - 20) Levels 20 - 60 Farming Locations Harathi Highlands - Ruins of Demetra (40+) Dredgehaunt Cliffs Jotun (Bone & Totems) 45+ Dredgehaunt Cliffs Gathering Guide (75s per 20min) Blazeridge Steppes Gathering Guide (75s - 1g per 30min) Levels 60 - 70 Farming Locations Straits of Destruction Gathering Route Fireheart Rise Wolves (Large Claw & Large Fang Farming) Fireheart Rise Char (Levels 70+) Mount Maelstrom (All Gathering Professions) Level 80 Farming Locations **Icebrood Colossus' in Frostgorge Sound - Corrupted Lodestone Farming (Up to 5g an hour!) Frostgorge Skelk & Arctodus Farming Location (Vicious Fang & Vial of Potent Blood) Frostgorge Sound Gathering Route Frostgorge Sound Troll Farming (Bad Location - Why NOT to farm here) Malchor's Leap Farming Route 1 Eastern "Safer Route" Minotaurs in Frostgorge Sound (Vial of Potent Blood) Malchor's Leap Farming Route 2 "Zone-wide Route" Cursed Shore Gathering Route (Video Guide) End Game Cooking Recipes (Turn what you gather into more money) Guild Wars 2 Karma Guides Almonds in Bulk Harathi Hinterlands - Lieutenant Pickins Apples in Bulk Avocados in Bulk Fields of Ruin - Fallen Angel Makayla Bananas in Bulk Kessex Hills - Sangdo Swiftwing Brisban Wildlands - Seraph Soldier Goran Gendarran Fields - Security Captain Vejj Black Beans in Bulk Gendarran Fields - Field Medic Leius Celery Stalks in Bulk Gendarran Fields - Milton Book Cherries in Bulk Harathi Hinterlands - Lieutenant Summers Chickpeas in Bulk Coconuts in Bulk Bloodtide Coast - Lionscout Tunnira Cumin in Bulk Plains of Ashford - Sagum Relicseeker Gendarran Fields - Milton Book Eggplant in Bulk Mount Maelstrom - Environmental Activist Jenrys Green Beans in Bulk Wayfarer Foothills - Albin Chronicler Horseradish Root in Bulk Kidney Beans in Bulk Snowden Drifts - Seraph Archer Brian Diessa Plateau - Kastaz Strongpaw Lemons in Bulk Metrica Province - Researcher Hrappa Gendarran Fields - Milton Book Limes in Bulk Mangos in Bulk Straits of Devastation - Agent Crandle Nutmeg Seeds in Bulk Gendarran Fields - Milton Book Peaches in Bulk Fireheart Rise - Nrocroc Chief Pears in Bulk Iron Marches - Braxa Scalehunter Pinenuts in Bulk Timberline Falls - Scholar Tholin Shallots in Bulk
Guild Wars 2 Halloween Event Guide (The First Six Clues) Haunted Doors & What they're all about Halloween Event (Part 2) Mad King's Labyrinth - How to Reach the Mad King's Realm (Video) Halloween Event (Part 2) The Clocktower List of all the Halloween Events (Coming Soon) Queensdale Pumpkin Carving Locations 10/23/12 10/12/12 Almonds in Bulk Harathi Hinterlands - Lieutenant Pickins Apples in Bulk Avocados in Bulk Fields of Ruin - Fallen Angel Makayla Bananas in Bulk Kessex Hills - Sangdo Swiftwing Brisban Wildlands - Seraph Soldier Goran Gendarran Fields - Security Captain Vejj Black Beans in Bulk Gendarran Fields - Field Medic Leius Celery Stalks in Bulk Gendarran Fields - Milton Book Cherries in Bulk Harathi Hinterlands - Lieutenant Summers Chickpeas in Bulk Coconuts in Bulk Bloodtide Coast - Lionscout Tunnira Cumin in Bulk Plains of Ashford - Sagum Relicseeker Gendarran Fields - Milton Book Eggplant in Bulk Mount Maelstrom - Environmental Activist Jenrys Green Beans in Bulk Wayfarer Foothills - Albin Chronicler Horseradish Root in Bulk Kidney Beans in Bulk Snowden Drifts - Seraph Archer Brian Diessa Plateau - Kastaz Strongpaw Lemons in Bulk Metrica Province - Researcher Hrappa Gendarran Fields - Milton Book Limes in Bulk Mangos in Bulk Straits of Devastation - Agent Crandle Nutmeg Seeds in Bulk Gendarran Fields - Milton Book Peaches in Bulk Fireheart Rise - Nrocroc Chief Pears in Bulk Iron Marches - Braxa Scalehunter Pinenuts in Bulk Timberline Falls - Scholar Tholin Shallots in Bulk 10/8/12 I have just started making some guides for non-games. They're still computer related (for now) and since I don't really have a great place to share them I'll post links right here on the front page. Installing and getting Ventrilo to work 10/7/12 Hey everyone! If you've been a long time fan you probably noticed that a lot of my website has been changing, graphically, over the past few months. All of the work on my website was done by a friend of mine who owns Dark Steam Creations. It's kind of a funny story (to me at least), I met him on Rift, a game that I played for maybe 1 - 2 weeks. I wasn't going to send him a tell at first but after seeing his persistant advertising in every single battleground I finally did. And I am more than happy I did. For someone so picky and anal about how things look he was always very patient with me and without him Almar's Guides wouldn't look even close to as pretty as it does now. I mean look at how awesome those buttons look on my nav bar /drool Anyway, I wanted to write my friend an article incase any of you guys are looking to start your own website and want some graphical work done in the future. I strongly recommend you take a look at Dark Steam Creations as it will most likely be the most affordable option you can choose from in graphic design. If you wanted to see a few of his creations and are too lazy to go through the link, here are a few of the pictures he gave me to display! You will have to click on them to display them in a higher resolution
10/2/12 Working on a lot of gw2 guides, here are a few! List of Guild Wars 2 Farming Locations I've done a ton of work on my GW2 farming locations page alone. Here are a few examples |
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