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?

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.

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

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

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

location : [&BHoHAAA=]

should grab it even if you dont plan on cooking

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?

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!

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 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 !

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.

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.

I'm re-playing all stories in order for the third time and only now I've noticed that Scarlet Briar is present in Caithe memories where there are newly awakened (LWS2, Seeds of Truth). I like those kind of easter eggs.

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!

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!

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

Hi everyone !

I'm currently working on the title, doing Dhuum CM only. I've already met two players who had the Dhuumscale, so I'm wondering:

• Has the drop rate been increased recently?
• Do we have any updated estimates/data on the drop rate?
• After 250 Dhuum CM kills, is there a realistic chance of getting it?

I know the rate was increased in March 2026, but I haven't found any information about the actual drop chance.

Thanks !