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Met my partner in 2013, and one of the first things we started doing together was run around Tyria. We don't play that often anymore, but still manage to get on for at least a night or two every Halloween and Wintersday.

Recently had our 3 year wedding anniversary, and having gone through a rough patch with the current...everything...(gesturing broadly), wanted to commemorate the feelings with a shared world and experiences that have always brought comfort.

Tattoos by Mia @ Golden Scarab in Seattle

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You may not be ready to deal with the reapercussions.

Took me most of the month to finish it. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! Love all the new homestead decor we've gotten. Sure do wish we had candy corn decor!

I just want to give a shout out for the whole gw2 team, I am almost into tears after 13 years back to where I started doing another starting area quest as the credits role is just phenomenal.

Everything as it was, as we were and as we are, simple , naive and with a wondrous feeling of exploration, starting our journey with a very simple quest. A request that would mark the same core that pushed us on our journey, an act of kindness, trying to help a random person.

Just .. brilliant.

Thanks for this journey, marking over a decade of memories to cherish.

Stay safe!

Jokes aside, what is this thing? Am I supposed to do something with it?

ANet have confirmed that one of the bits of new content we'll be getting during the upcoming maintenance period is a new map in Orr. What are your hopes for what content will be packed into that zone?

Thought I might farm my karka shells for Kudzu but rethinking it now, I thought Dredge were annoying but this is next level, I hope whoever invented them steps on legos every time they get out of bed

Aggros from 50 miles away. Every attack it gets evasion. Evades to roll a mile across the map and vomit poison puddles. Oh you caught into melee range finally? Nope going to sidestep and evade again. Immune to CC. Boon strip useless because it has continual boons for some god forsaken reason. Permanent armour buff. Oh you thought it was dead? Nah it just got 50% of its health back. It evades during its recovery animation too.

So I thought, well since it is evading so much maybe going condi would be better. No that's even worse because it just deletes all 20+ stacks of bleed just because it can. Then I can't keep up the stacks because it's constantly evading. HOW DO YOU KILL THESE THINGS WITHOUT ALL THIS SONG AND DANCE

Just curious to see what specialization players like to run in the game and their reasoning behind it.

I'm sure there's PvP repercussions for this... maybe? But Mesmer just feels so awful to play in the open world because you can never keep clones up long enough to really strategize around them. I can only stomach virtuoso and troub in the open world, because everything else feels like I'm constantly burning potential when I kill a trash mob and have to regen my clones again.

So is there a reason that they shouldn't retarget when a mob dies if you're still in active combat? Or switch to a new target with you? Would anyone be opposed to this?

Hello! I know that this post is going to seem a bit random, but I’m making this post on behalf of my brother.

My younger brother recently told me that he feels a lack of hope for the future because of a variety of things. While I won’t get into the specifics of them since that isn’t relevant for this post, I realized that a good chunk of the reason why he feels this way is because he lacks a solid friend group to do things with. 2020 really messed things up for him socially, and he’s been rather aimless with making friends since. I think by making friends and hearing things from them, he’d have a better chance at finding that sense of hope he needs in his life to keep moving forward.

I believe having access to an MMO where my brother can connect with people and forge bonds with them will help him feel better about himself in the long run. And while I know I could hypothetically ask this about any MMO, like FFXIV for example, I think GW2 might be the best fit for him out of all the decently big MMOs since it’s free on Steam. Money is tight for him, and from the 10-ish hours I’ve played of it so far (Norn Ranger feels so fun to play), I think he’d be a fan of the gameplay as well. But before I recommend it to him, I wanted to get your guys’ thoughts on it first.

Would GW2 be a good fit for my brother to help him make friends and find hope in his life? How easy would it be for him to find a group of people he can get along with? Would the community be willing to help him play the game and get invested in it? I know that this is a bit of an odd post, but I wanted to try and help him out in some form. He is my brother, after all.

Mods, I apologize if this post is weird, or if the tag is incorrectly used. I read the subreddit’s rule before writing this, but if I did something incorrectly, please let me know so that I may fix it. Thank you.

Since Phantasmal Warden (Focus 5) is moving to Utility & ,clunky targeting aside, attacks in 12 instances, Sharper Images on Dueling traits could provide Condition Mirage/Chronomancer/Virtuoso with Blood stacks. The same skill also inflicts Vulnerability for condition damage boosting and with Staff 5 (for Mirage/Chronomancer) it creates Confounding Bolts.

Along with the helpful defense against projectiles I feel like at least for solo pve it's better than eg. Crystal Shards that most use on Mirage (I use Illusionary Ambush), assuming the other 2 utility slots are taken by the condition Signets.

Do you think it will be a viable option?

Will keep this is short as possible.

I play from approximately 10:00pm (or later) to roughly 2:00-3:00am CST. I need to find a WvW group to join that is active during that time. ANY help would be appreciated.

Regarding the wide encounters of challenging fights gw2‘s late game has to offer, I feel like this hurts the community. It’s like asking for killproof on the tutorial.

You can easily solo shiverpeaks. On the bears I‘ve yet to get the achievement to cc them multiple times because in all my time no squad had such a low dps to make this even possible. Fraenir isn’t worth mentioning - just bonk. Boneskinner you can take 5 seconds out of your day to write „stick to tag“ and it‘ll work out.

In 500 clears or so I haven’t encountered a single group that couldn’t deal with Boneskinner or WoJ and even if it gets messy it’s usually good for a laugh as you can clear these bosses with 1-4 people anyway. Also because it’s so wildly pug‘able the avg cleartime isn’t bad at all.

I really like gw2’s raids but the lfg is pretty dry most of the time and I feel like ibs5 is still a better way of introducing people to the content than quickplay.

• Arborstone: Frilled Shark
• Lowland Shore: Violet Screamer
• Janthir Syntri: Boreal Cod
• Mistburned Barrnes: White Bass

List of eligible fish.

Does anyone play with minimap disabled? I'm trying it out and tbh gw2 seems like it's sort of designed for you to have the minimap always turned on. Turning it off however does allow me to feel more immersed jn the environments, and to appreciate the beautiful world designs. I don't feel like I'm blindly following a compass marker anymore

Hey friends! It's been a month since I started to play GW2 and the experience has been nothing short of amazing. Being an ESO veteran it was really refreshing to start a new MMO game, and I fell in love with the world, the characters, the combat, and so on.

In ESO I am a 100% PVE player, the PvP never appealed to me, mostly because setting up a PvP build is a grind of its own, so I was very happy to know that GW2 conquest doesn't require previously farmed gear to be enjoyed!

So, as the title says, I wanna learn the fundamentals. I have a ranger and a Deadeye already in lvl 80, but I wouldn't mind rerolling a new toon to play it PvP exclusively. What class/build is good to learn the basics of PVP? I appreciate any tips or suggestions.

I see the event is ending soon so I don't know what I even have time to get. I just got a mail notification about the event I am low level though.

He was once human, just like Kormir.

He has his own realm, just like the other gods.

He commands hordes of powerful minions whose abilities reflect his theme. (much like Balthazar and his fire-themed minions)

He has human worshippers throughout Tyria.

Unlike the other gods, however, he never wanted to abandon humanity. In fact, he seems to love humans so much that he returns every year just to play with them.

I have 8/9 Equipment / Build Tabs filled and don’t know what to do with the open slot.

The other slots are:

1. Power Reaper
2. Condi Reaper
3. Open World Reaper
4. Power Harbinger
5. Condi Harbinger
6. qDPS Ritualist
7. qHeal Ritualist
8. aHeal Scourge

As you can see I have all roles filled besides aDps but I‘m fine with aHeal beeing the only scourge build.

I’m looking for something niche or goofy not for raids, fractals or hard solo content preferably sth like Core Necromancer lmao. Maybe another Ritualist or Harbinger Build but I don‘t see a world where it would play wildly different than the one I already play. Doesn’t have to be good at all lol a niche idea is fine tho a unique usecase would be really cool!

I‘m technically missing Core Necro & Axe / Axe

I thought about a tagging build but aHeal scourge with boons & staff is already decent, if you know a better one feel free to lmk. I was also thinking about giving it to special raid role but I can only think of a scourge for the pylons in w7 which would be a decent choice I guess.

Thank you in advance

Hey everyone,

Looking for a new class to main. Primarily want to play through the entire story (+all expansions) with my girlfriend.

I would like one of its weapons to be Greatsword as I have Eternity and love the skin. Don't mind whatever the other weapon is.

I would also like it to be able to solo most champions/legendaries if possible. I'm pretty good at games, but my gf... well... this is her first real MMORPG and she struggles with games, but she enjoys them!

The easier to play, the better as I do have carpal tunnel and slight trigger finger :...)

My main was Reaper I played a while back, so something else would be preferable. I've tried untamed a little.

Thank you in advance!!

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Update regarding Gamesplanet being an authorised retailer:

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I just came back to Guild Wars after years of break, and back then not even having been into endgame too much. About the Halloween Event; the Lab farming. Since I have no real reference due to lack of experience, and I think the Fast Farming website is overexaggerating by quite a bit, I just wanna double check here to get a grasp if that’s the expected outcome: I’m getting roughly one stack of Trick-or-Treat bags per hour, which could be sold directly for 7 Gold, with all additional items dropped and for a round number, let’s say I’d get 10 Gold per hour out of the Lab. The website claims it’s closer to 30. I think? Am I doing this right then? Are the Lab farms worth it? Or is it all about holding onto the bags to sell off later in the year?