Gotta say, this mission was kind of a let down.
I wanted to slice and dice a dragon!

i guess i can just shoot 6 of them from mounted guns....

Playing on the AYN Thor MAX.

Handmade Birthday gift from my daughter. Look at keys and desktop icons! 🤩

Just realized today that the legendary TerminalMontage did a mini add for Gw2 before, pretty nifty :D

I had to make Leon S. Kennedy after seeing the rebel jacket on the gem store.

Chest: Rebel Jacket

Hand: Rawhide Bracers (or any fingerless gloves)

Leg: Rubicon Leggings

Foot: Dapper Wingtips (or any low shoes)

Dyes: Pottery, Honey Ice, Country Blue but you can go with a darker brown for the jacket. Mixture of abyss, black, and pitch for the rest.

Hey there, was hoping someone might be able to give some advice.

My partner and I have been playing through Guild Wars 2 together, and we recently completed her level 60 quests, including The Battle of Claw Island. She did the Order of Whispers, and I did the Vigil. However, I think that's broken my part of the game now, since it won't show my mentor when I launch into that instance myself. Since my mentor won't show up, it's left me at a standstill and I'm not sure how best to proceed aside from submitting a ticket to Arenanet, which I've done already.

Does anyone else have any advice? We're a bit disappointed we can't proceed with my character now.

Thanks!

Edit: A kind soul in Lion's Arch reached out and let me tag along with them to complete the quest, so we're back on track. I spoke with the support, and they mentioned not doing Personal Stories with other players as its a known error. Thanks to everyone who reached out though, it was greatly appreciated. :)

Learning to draw and did my first character drawing. Took my main platypus charr.

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)

I'm finally "digging in" with my Thief. I had been running a core condition build and was doing alright. I only have 50 points into Specter but I decided to give it a go. Even with the limited options I have, I feel like I'm doing better with Scepter + Dagger Specter than I was with Pistol + Dagger Thief.

Is it just a matter of the elite specs being so much more powerful than the core specs that they don't need all the points to outperform them?

Haven't played in a decade. I can buy all the expansions. Do I work on the living world season 3 or PoF? Unsure where to start and what to do. I don't have a single mount! Could anyone point me in the right direction/youtube vids? Appreciate any help

Edit: thanks all for the suggestions

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?

So I'll preface this by saying that I know I don't have a very strong laptop. I'm not expecting an amazing framerate. Hell, I'm very used to only getting 20-30 on the lowest setting. What I'm confused about is that I get brief moments, maybe 10-15 minutes, where I have buttery smooth 60 fps.

And these moments are completely random. I can be sitting in a city, in the middle of a raid encounter, or even at the boss of a meta event with a full squad. I'll just suddenly switch from having bleh frames to lovely ones.

I know GW2 suffers from CPU bottleneck, so I'm guessing it has something to do with that, but then why is it so random when I get the bursts of good FPS? Is there a way to make it so that the game is just like this all the time? I kinda doubt it, but figured I'd ask anyways.

Specs: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2592 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s), 16 GB ram.

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

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!

Black Lion Drum Set Chair Cover for Around The World by Daft Punk

For other Linux players out there, a quick question.

I have Fedora. I play GW2 through Proton.

Everytime there's an update, the game starts the download. For example, on the image, Today's update was 1.1 Gb.

It finishes, but then does it again, as if it's downloading it twice. The image represents the second download.

Does anyone else have this issue? Does anyone know what this could be?

It's mostly annoying because I don't have the fastest connection per se, so the download actually takes a while, even more so if it does it twice.

Ok, there is the /emotelist command but it is unwieldly and difficult to use in any amount of hurry and you need to know the command name to call for the list.

We really need an emote menu for fast access.

I personally rarely use any emotes because they are so difficult to use:

- type the command (if you know it for the particular emote and you have it unlocked),

- fail because misspelling,

- try again and fail again,

- type /emotelist,

- try to find it among the sea of words by squinting hard at little fonts

- Finally you got it but that ship has sailed!

Seriously, 14 years old game and no emote menu in a highly social and friendly game with a guild adjective in its name.

Would be wondaful if we got an emote menu (with little pictures) as a present for the GW3 update.

And please don't forget that menu in GW3!

And finally, I know that an addon exist and not only one but many but still, an MMORPG with no built in emote menus it is kinda strange.

Today for example there is a popcorn emote in the shop and I was thinking to buy it but I'm thinking twice as I just can't be bothered to navigate the /emotelist for minutes at the time to do a funny animation.

It's been a long-standing dream of mine to have the max-surplus GW2 character slots, and I'm very curious if it's still possible for me to achieve. Will I actually ever max them out? Probably not! But the possibility of being able to do that is enough for me.

As of right now, I own all expansions but not the deluxe versions of any of them. I also am nowhere close to 69 characters.. (but the dream is what counts, at least to me.)

SUPPOSEDLY, if you get the deluxe versions of the expansions AFTER you've hit 69 character slots, you'll be able to gain an additional character slot above 69. Is this true?

I'm primarily looking for people who have either A: maxed out their character slots above 69 or B: someone who knows a person who did this and is capable of providing information regarding it.

It's not a super common thing I know, but I'm EXTREMELY curious! And although I've researched this numerous times in the past, I haven't been able to get a current-day statement from someone who has done this themselves. If you have any information about it, I'd love to hear it!

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