Was organizing my files and decided to touch up this small tribute that I drew back in December after hearing about the passing of Tybalt's VA, Jim Ward. Figured some here might appreciate it.

Starting around icebrood saga and onwads the maps are flooded with events. (somtimes its hard to just chill and enjoy the wrold lol)

From End of dragons there are visibly less players around.

Either ppl ignore events or there are not enough ppl to do them.

Theres way too many currencies.

Its hard to follow metas on later maps if you dont have skyscale.

All the zones are visibly more detailed than in the base game, but i still like the slower vibes of the old zones more.

The timers for events are way to short. Especially when there are not enough players to do them. Also some objectives require way too much time for what is given to you. For example destroy 10 "things" and each have hp of an elite monster. And the timer is like 6 minutes. Theres barely any time to do that.

Achievemnts are confusing and are hard to follow. the whole achievemnt page needs a rework imo.

Theres no tutorial to crafting or any intruduction that it exists at all. apart from some drops but yeah.

Once you get skyscale and warclaw, the other mounts became obsolete. Except griffon in some situations.

Getting soto skyscale is almost impssible for ppl that have limited game time. Some metas are practically dead, and if not for my summer break i would never get my skyscale.

All this may seem like i think negatively about the game but quite the opposive i absolutely love it. I just wish that there was either more ppl doing stuff or bigger possibility to do stuff yourself. Also less clutter with the curriencies, more quality of life, more tutorials. Refreshement of achievemnts and mounts and we good.

Thats how i feel about the game atm. Cant wait for the future stuff :D

I can’t believe I didn’t try this game sooner. I recently started playing GW2 not because of the GW3 announcement, but because I’d started dreading logging into WoW TBC to raid. It was my first real attempt at TBC content, actually raiding and doing something meaningful, and I just hit a wall with it. Someone suggested GW2 since it’s F2P, so I gave it a shot.
I’m currently level 54 and completely hooked. The exploration, the build systems, the story quests, the adventure guide, crafting I love all of it, just experiencing something new. The other night I was just out mining, still getting the hang of crafting, when a world event popped up out of nowhere. There were 50+ players all fighting through it together, then another event or boss spawned right after, and it turned into this fun, insane chaotic fight.
I haven’t been this excited about a video game in a long time.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ hopefully it stays till and through 80.

I was standing in Lions Arch about to start crafting when I received a random group invite and message from a fellow Ranger/Soulbeast, "follow me to charm pets."

He had me at pets.

I jumped into his giant turtle mount thing and next thing I know we are bouncing around different zones as he shows me areas around Tyria to charm animals.

I even got to ride in his cool boat!

Shoutout to Turtle Trekker for the random Ranger adventure.

The GW2 community is unmatched. I only started playing a few weeks ago, and I'm hooked on the game but it's the friendliness of the community that really blows my mind. Love to see it.

I haven't played WvW since EotM was still super active, but tried it again tonight. Lucked into a group with a tag and it was a lot of fun! I got 2 Gifts of Battle in less than an hour (with buffs/xp boosters), crazy!

With non-WvW people basically get 2 free GoB's with the WvW rush event, it would be awesome to somehow get an equivalent gift of exploration event for non-open world players! I have too many unmade leg starter kits because I'll never be able to finish map completion again

I know the time equivalency isn't the exact same, so would this look like to you and how would you make it 'fair'?

This is my fault, but I used a item to level up my character and skip the story, but regret it now and was wondering if I make a new character, will cosmetics be shared among characters?

Hi all, i bought the Underwater Homestead Package because i want to prettify my place despite barely having nodes lol

is it possible for me to make the same ambiance as the promo pic? it doesn't have to be really like this (and this is also the first time i'm gonna try homestead building/decorating >.<)

do i also have to get the Aurora Sky? i'm out of gold but gonna save up to buy it next time it came out in BL shop

Lately I've pivoted more into PvP after getting a bit tired of grinding open world and raids/fractals. I always loved the role of supports in any MMORPG game and especially here in Gw2.

Any new players reading this post please note that any and all classes / specs are valuable and can be played multiple ways, there are just some of the ones I personally enjoy the most playing with in 5v5 PvP.

Huge shout out to skilled players plating these specs, you really make my Mirage shine by providing safety. No particular order: Scrapper, Paragon, Firebrand, Luminary, Specter, Scourge and Druid.

I am not saying these are meta picks or that every player playing these specializations is good, but I feel a lot more confident seeing them on the same side during fights.

All that being said, dear Deadeye, Daredevil's and Galeshot's, know that I will always be teleporting away from your drama :D

Have seen some comments and observed that certain expansion zones have more players than others. For example, it's always easy to find players doing various things around SOTO, the piñata in Path of Fire, or the big meta event in HoT. But some expansions, ex EoD, are much more sparsely populated.

Would the game benefit from having expansion rush events where content from that expansion has bonus rewards for a week? That would get players back into those less populated zones periodically.

Looking at Snowcrows as a reference do I really need Soto expansion to run this build? Im just not understanding why its saying soto expansion is required

Hi everyone, I'm looking for help finding a decent build for my setup.

Forgive me Im new and this game can be kind of overwhelming with all the builds and different rotations I'm seeing.

Im looking for a decent fractal dagger/warhorn build where I can play support healer but also do decent dps while nobody is getting hurt.

As I hit tier 2 fractals Im noticing the need for damage is greater and I want to be able to do more while still using my harriers/healing runes build as It's taken me a long time to get the 4 ascended pieces.

Thanks

I've been watching Pile of Recycled Siege Equipment prices as I save up for my second Strife Unending. Imagine my surprise when I see the price is down almost 10 gold and I happen to have one on a character and it wasn't from opening a box.

Did they add them back to the loot table for taking things or is this possibly from the rush event currency?

started this quest a long time ago, and I'm finally deciding to do it. Been doing fractals for months and beat swampland dozens of times. I beat it again yesterday, but there is no moss in my inventory. I checked GW2efficiency for "clump" "moss" and "swamp" and nothing is popping up. Any ideas? (also I know the highlighted item is not for the clump, I just wanted to show that swampland has been completed)

Been a looong time I have been farming rifts in VoE for token to that Restless Captain. No drops not a chance… already been farming them for 2 weeks. My question is; do Rifts in Shipwreck Strand reward Gloves Token or am I just doing something stupid? Help needed since there are no info I could find. Appreciate it ✌🏻

I love the thief playstle of Shadow stepping in and doging, the shadow stepping out, jumping over my enemies and just basically be an evasive little shit that deals lots of damage.

Since barely any content creators do anything with thief, I have to come up with a build myself or get intos from other sources. For example Reddit

For PvE, forgot to mention that

Edit: I found a build I quite enjoy. My Fantasy of the evasive little shit works really well with it. I don't quite remember the exactly trait names but the specializations I'm using are Acrobatics, Trickery and Daredevil. The engine is basically, dodging gives me lots of might paired with relic of the Daredevil and once I land with my Dodge I deal an average of 3-4k damage. Full Berserker's equipment and Daredevil staff.

It's really fun, cause I'm quite literally an evasive little shit that deals too much damage XD

So basically, I thought I'd ask before I push forward with maybe something I'm not actually looking for to achieve this. The urge is strong, an itch that I must scratch. So many times I look around all the modes the game has to offer, and I see it, I see a giant blob of enemies all in close proximity, I want to make a build that drops an absolutely absurd AoE combo on top of all of them at once, I want to nuke them with max damage and take them out. So far, I have some ideas at what to make, but there's just so many classes I haven't tried seriously yet. What's a class that can do what I envision?

yo im level 32 and i had abillity to ride it but now i have some chair bind and i cant ride it can someone help asap

I'm curious how the GW2 community defines different types of players.

At what point would you consider someone a beginner, an average player, or a hardcore player?

What do you base it on?

• Mastery Points?
• Achievement Points?
• Completion of difficult achievements?

I'm interested to hear what criteria you personally use.

just salvaged 1200 tokens worth of rare helms from the dungeon guy that sells the armour and got no ecto just silk scrap, is this normal?

So this is my first char, a big ahh norn rev, does bro look good or nah?

Btw with this i have discovered that i am a VERY bad photographer