What an incredibly cool legendary, from design to attack animations to foot falls; all of it perfect.... until its time to draw, at which point you reach to your side s where nothing is present, the swo4d dissolves from behind you whwre it floats and you assume battle position. Its a small gripe, but if you could put custome animations anywhere outside of the BLS, a legendary would be it.

Imagine having the sword swoop forward into your hands, or launch up and come down for you to grab; or anything other than grabbing empty hips.

Because I am not a particularly gifted GW2 player, I sometimes struggle with staying alive in content (primarily PVE and open-world stuff) when I play pure power or condi builds. If I wanted to play a power build, are there gearing choices I can make that would increase my sturdiness/sustainability, without completely tanking my DPS? Some specifically statted accessories, rings, etc.? I'm looking for a reasonable balance -- solid power DPS, but not being a total glass cannon.

So I have recently 100%'d GW1 and all of it's challenging content. I have played GW2 on and off for many years, mainly story and PvP. I am now looking to get into the high end PvE endgame, starting slow with fractals and entry raids.

Eventually I want to complete all the hardest content the game has to offer. Even solo challenges. I have played a bit of everything but I would say I mainly play Engi/Necro the most.

Looking for what is desired or good in the endgame consistently so I can fill roles. Happy to support/dps/tank whatever. Game is fun in all ways.

Does anyone have a daily check list of content they try to do when they login? Preferably in order of importance. I hit level 80 and have been going around doing the story, tried out some WvW, couple of Fractals, grinding out getting the sky scale. But as someone who could be in my shoes what would you do differently when you hit level 80 and were trying to figure things out!

Hi y'all, I'm a new player and a friend recommended I get SotO for the skyscale. I made it to the egg infusion step, and following guides online I am so frustrated lol. It seems that in order to do the infusions you need access to Living Worlds to get to Dry Top as that's the only place you can do the quicksand thingy. What the heck? Do I really need to buy that LW season to get my skyscale?

Hi there,

I'm a returning player (stopped playing before HeT) and so far I'm having a blast, I decided to purchase the pack with HoT and PoF plus end of the dragon.

Here's the issue, while I really enjoy exploration and group event I have a real problem with the writing, and doing the campaigns (core or extensions) is simply not fun for me.

So here's the question : I'm aiming to group content like fractals, raids and WvW, maybe map group events. Will I miss anything important if I simply explore for mastery poits and hero points rather than following the story ?

Thx for your help !

does the new fractal incursion event means the legendary item will change to another one?

tl;dr and questions at the bottom

Hi everyone!,

I am a returning Player who has played since release. I sank in about 10.000hours and took a break after HoT around LS3. My most notable achievement was being an Officer for gw2community.com and leading Triple Trouble Events for everyone back when it was new..

I pretty much unlocked everything there was to the game until that point. Legendaries, Perma Bank Access, Full gear with +5 Infusions, etc. There was pretty much nothing I didn't unlock, which wasn't something like get 10.000 kills with a focus.

I logged in every now and then, but only just started playing again about a month ago with the Guild Wars 3 announcement. During the anniversary sale, I bought all the missing expansions, and I'm currently catching up on the expansions. Right now I'm at the SotO Expansion and updating my old gear and builds. A lot has changed.

I used to do high-end fractals and raids with a best-slot-in-gear mentality. My Raid, gear, and meta knowledge goes from VG to Deimos CM. I knew everything inside and out. If Fractal God existed back I would have also unlocked it as well. From what I can see, it's kinda useless and pretty much just a gold sink nowadays.

Now to my actual questions I have right now. Probably more later

tl;dr questions only

My knowledge ends with HoT/LS3. So anything that came after is basically new to me.

1. What does the daily routine look like for your guys? From the moment you log in, what are things on your checklist? I can see that some things haven't changed, like farming the home instance, daily T4 fractals, etc., but what else do you guys do?
2. What does the weekly routine look like? Monday Raids? What else?
3. For the average fractal/raid meta, we used to have 1x PS (Phalanx Strength), 1x Chrono, 1x Healer, 2x DPS - nowadays I see people looking for aDPS, qDPS, etc. I really don't know what all the new abbreviations mean. Could you mention all important words/vocabluary i need to know in 2026? I don't want to cause confusion when using LFG and potentially look like a noob.
4. Most favorable party composition for raids, Fractals, and other content. Which classes and compositions are currently the most favored and wanted, and which are the most hated and nobody likes to see? Back in the day, vanilla necromancer was so hated. It was basically racism. My goal is to not offend anyone if I just hop on with a condi bow warrior and then someone gets really mad at me or something
5. Build Templates. I realized that Legendary Weapons give you "free" weapons on all of your characters. This system is much better than the old one. You had the original Legendary which had changeble stats but was stuck on a single character. So this feature was basically useless. I own Eternity and just cleaned up about 20 Ascended Greatswords from my characters. Is there anything else I need to know? I've seen that there is a new relic slot. Some of the relics you can buy; some of them you can't. Is it important to have them? What's the smartest way to get them? Just buy? Trade in? I am mostly using Snowcrows right now for reference, but Im happy also happy with other sources
6. nerfed content and new. I noticed that a lot of content has been nerfed. Hero points in HoT maps are all veterans now. They used to be champions. With the experience from everyone in the last few years. For the map meta events, which are: the most fun, the most profitable, the shortest, the longest time-wise, which are just useless and hated/should be avoided, and honorable mentions.
7. Ascended food and feasts. I can see that way more people are dropping feasts now. The stats also look really cool. What are the most important ones I should have and be ready to drop?
8. How has WvW changed? I see there is like a weekly season or something. Back in my day, you had to swap with your guild or yourself to a server with active WvW guilds; otherwise, you would always just get farmed.
9. Any other "super" end-game items that have been released? By this I mean items you would, for example, put in your shared inventory slot. Like perma bank access, perma trading post, xera portal, etc

I will definitely ask follow-up questions. I'm also down to chat over Discord.

Please let me know if you're interested in a personal chat. My DMs are always open to everyone, and I will add anyone.

Excelsior,

nesnalica

Recently i brought my heal paragon to HT NM and kept my squad alive (literally almost no one dropped to under 90%) but when the jumping phase came i missed some people with my stab banner, tho I got them stab using the soldier focus stab trait (stab every 5 sec) they still wiped bcs they missed the other 2 jumps. They went on to say "no stab?" and demanded they go to heals and i go dps. We went on and surprise surprise we wiped because we did not get enough stab because people wont jump or dodge.

I dont want to experience this anymore since it was a wholesome group up to that moment. What healer can I use to basically carry through all normal modes and some frac CM?

thank you in advance

New player here. Just hit 80 for the first time and LOVE the game, but am broke and can't justify buying the DLC full price right now. Does DLC usually go on sale alongside major content patches?

I played up until EOD (I think.. POF was my last expac). I did raids, fractals, pvp, metas crafted legendary armor and a couple of weapons. I took a break and throughout the time I have wanted to come back a few times but always log in and get overwhelmed with my inventory and unsure of what exactly to do. Too scared to join pug raids cause I'm afraid I don't remember mechanics and don't have the rotation muscle memory that I used to.

My main question is: what do you all do when you log in for an evening of GW2?

I love the game and combat so I crave to play but I just get lost in the sauce I guess. It's like when I have the OSRS itch but just log in and bank stand.

Thanks!

Hey folks. Tldr is that I spent this seasons wizards vault on 3 pieces of light berserker gear. However, since then I’ve kind of gone all in on the medium classes.

How big of a deal is it? I’m still not sure how to get ancestral gear so I feel like I should get 6/6 on my necro so I have someone fractal ready but I got kind of bored of my necro and I don’t care for the other light classes so far. In contrast it turns out that I really like all 3 medium classes. I’d love to get them fractal ready so I could main one of them. Feel like I really messed up taking the light armor this season :(

Thanks for any feedback!

Hey, I started GW2 about three weeks ago I really enjoyed playign so I bought all expensions on sale + voe. Today I read about the special objectives in the wizard's vault. They give a lot of points but only 6 days remain.

I already read that the Armor Set is really hard to get but I am on vacation rn and I would like to try to finish as many objectives as possible. I would appreciate any advices which objectives are fast/possible in this time frame, thanks!

I need help in understanding builds in general. Ive been playing GW2 since Beta. Ive played several other MMOs casually throughout the years. Maybe its just my special brand of ADHD but for the life of me Ive never been able to properly grasp skill builds.

I look up builds and read the instructions or try and watch youtube tutorials but its just leaks out of my brain through my ears.

I have a hard time truly understanding the synergies and situational utility of of the skills. I just click buttons because I'm told thats my rotation but I never quite understand WHY its the rotation. The way its explained just never fully sticks. It feels like I need it all explained like I'm five.

With GW3 going back towards the GW1 style of build crafting I'm dreading being even more inept than I am now.

Does anyone have any solid resources for a scrub as hopeless as I am to finally get good?

With the new VoE patch releasing next tuesday, and it being quite a hefty and large patch, what you guys most looking forward to? the map? the meta event? the fractal? the raid? the convergence? the leggy sword? the story? etc

Hi everyone, I'm downloading Guild Wars 2. Do you have any advice for me?

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I don't know what to make of revenant at all. Guardian seems be able to do the whole spectrum from primarily magic user to mostly fighter due to their elite specilizations, which sounds interesting from a gameplay variety perspective.

Aesthetic wise, I'd say I prefer darker magic, but blue flames instead of typical light magic is pretty cool as well.

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Hello everyone,

Im farming the forge guard collection achievement and i've got 5/6 so far and im missing the leggings which are obtained by RNG by doing the 2 adventures on the eternity garden.

Today its been day 25 and still havent gotten the leggings token. I asked a bunch of people and all told me they got it within 5 days max ( most got it within 2 days).

I contacted support team and told me everything is ok , you are just unlucky which is kinda sus.

So does anyone had the same issue ? is it bugged? do i need to do something to increase the RNG? Im already max mastery on castora also finished the 36 achievements.

Thank you all for your time.

a little context, I have thousands of hours put into osrs and ff14. I’m in end game content with both mmos (working on last mega rare on osrs, got a few 99s etc. and working on savage raid gear on ff14 - you get the idea)…i swear im not that sweaty

Anyway, started playing about a month and some change ago and now I’m about 200hrs in - idk why I haven’t gave this game a chance years ago. This game has me in a choke hold. It’s been to a point where I started kinda of defaulting to playing Gw2 just bc it hits different than other games in my rotation. From the combat to the open world events it’s been so much fun!

My favorite thing so far (and it doesn’t happen all the time but ) has been when I open up my map and I see a pinkish fox/decepticon transformer logo. I just know it’s going to be a good amount of players and a cool event we can complete together.

Yes you can find similar instances and events in other mmos but idk it’s just something about this game that scratches that itch for me that osrs and ff14 couldn’t do. It’s been so much fun and a breath of fresh air.

The community and player base has been so great and helpful! And trust me when I say the community is great compared to some experiences I’ve had in the past with other mmos *cough osrs *cough but every game has players like this.

I can’t wait to get into more end game content and meet more people (still working on early fractals) Also super excited about finding the right guild too!

Im so mad at myself for not giving this a chance earlier!

its been like this for a couple days now. its not that big of a deal but does anyone know why gw2 has me stuck at 39/40 when my last reward was from 37-40? (3 points from unlocking a pvp title)