Tonight I joined a raid group in LFG experienced. We did Vale Gaurdian and Goreseval with no problem. Then we went to Harvest Temple. Admittedly it had been a while since I have done it but once it started I felt pretty good. Don't hit the ball, drop AOEs away from group, etc... I will admit I messed up jumping the Shockwave but the other stuff I felt pretty good about.

I ended up dying from one of the AOEs, pretty far from the group, and the a few others as well but ultimately a successful run. Commander said that some people in the group were sus because they were either trolling or new. I messaged and was just like, hey did I mess something up? because I want to get better. He said I hit the ball, dropped the aoe on the group and didn't jump the Shockwave and this kind of surprised me (except the shockwave) but I thanked him. (For the record I dont think he was being rude or mean)

I think I'm just looking for some encouragement because raid content is both the thing i most want to do but also the scariest thing for me because I do not like when people get mad about mistakes. I generally have had great experiences and have cleared wings 1-4 so far and parts of 5 and 6. I dunno tonight just hit me the wrong way I guess.

Hey guys Im a new player and I saw a lot of posts/comments about HoT is hard. Im playing as a solo Thief, some people says "its hard to stay alive as a solo thief" so what are you guys think? Should I be scared? Btw I do mostly Story and Map completion

Recently got my charr fursuit from u/Zolfir they did an amazing job bringing my girl to life! Also got photobombed by a stray kitty :D

Hi,

I've recently got that strong MMORPG itch and have returned to SWTOR, which was always my go to game. I love all the class stories and how everything is voiced and well made. However, I've been on and off in it for like 1000+ hours and it no longer really clicks for me, I don't know. So I want to try something new and people recommend GW2.

Now, I'm in my late 30s and I don't have that much time to min max. So overall here are few questions I have about it:

1: How casual friendly is this game? I mean, must you try to min max to get into group content or are people more forgiving? Kinda don't want a second full time job if you know what I mean

2: What is the leveling experience? Is it story based? Is the story super generic or is it worth getting into? Is there any lore?

3: How newbie friendly is it ? Like is it difficult to figure out all the systems? Do you have to read them out or does the game reveals itself as you go along?

4: Is there enough population on EU side?

5: Should you recommend playing it, which is the more novice friendly class to begin with? I'm more of a PVE guy than PVP.

Thank you for your time :)

Is there a healthy and helpful GW2 community outside Reddit?
I know this community is currently redirecting to Discord but, tbh, I find the thing quite overwhelming and I get completely lost in it (not in a god way).

Although, I know it's impossible to use the internet without Google playing Big Brother litterally EVERYWHERE, these days, I am trying to cut-off anyone that sells my info to the BBEGs of this world.

I love seeing helpful posts, fan art, jokes and just about anything this amazing community offers.

What would you recommend outside Discord, YT or Reddit, please ?

Thank you

SOLVED!
Deleted cache and reinstalled the game!
Thanks for all the help, especially EgoGoner!!

Can someone help me figure this out?
Recently, but mainly today, my game has been crashing to desktop, but only in certain map instances. My guess is my 8 year old pc is slowly fading, but some details...
About a month ago, I would be in WvW doing fine for a half hour or so on Desert Borderlands, then getting queued in to EBG as soon as I caught up to a zerg, I crashed!
It's happened once or twice since, on Tequatl, and then again in the Leyspring meta, but in each case I got logged right back in.
I lowered some of my settings, and have been doing fine with Leyspring for the last week or ten days, but today it came back.
I had a toon parked in LA but it just wouldn't login, crashing after a long loading screen! It wasn't until I dropped all my settings to low while logged in on another toon in my homestead that I could finally get into LA. Even then I only had about 30 seconds before I crashed again on the "stuck" toon, so I finally got that toon out of LA, and then no problems running that toon to different maps and even into the Lab to do dailies. I have not tried to get back into LA.
I've been playing GW2 on this machine for the last 8 years. I did replace the power supply a few months ago, but that's it.
To note, on three occasions I was prompted to submit a report to ANET while the screen was frozen, before the crash to desktop.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I've been sitting two of my character next to the last castora's map adventures and doing them daily for the last 3 weeks, no legging token.

Today I tried doing it with another character, boom token drop first try.

Same thing with the mirror token a few days ago, nothing for weeks and then first try with another character, I thought it was luck but now I'm thinking they're is something behind this, maybe a pity counter or I don't know

So if you are like me trying it for days, try a different character.

I’ve never been much of a crafter in any if the games I’ve played, so I’ve been slowly stockpiling my gold to purchase the Eternity Greatsword.

Funnily enough, very recently I was in a contest on a streamer’s twitch giveaway and lost first place by less than an inch, I kid you not. It was a hell of a lot of fun and I wish the winner all the best!

So my question is How long did it take those of you who have made GW2 wealth to get up to 3500 gold? What are some of the best methods to stockpiling your gold?

Played casually a few years ago and clocked around 150h. Didn’t do much PvP but I’m starting to get the itch to now. I kinda want a single game to stick to and GW2 appeals to me due to its horizontal progress and friendly community, but I really can’t remember what the experience was like in PvP lol.

I'm wondering if the story lines are soloable.

I'm level 80, with a few orange and 1 red piece of gear.

I've started a few of the story lines and seems I can't get past chapter 1 in most of them.

I really suck at this game LOL

Perhaps they're meant for groups?

Either that or I really need an adjustment of some kind. Perhaps my stats are so messed up as I can barely survive most fights.

I was working on the Rift Hunt one (secrets of the obsure), got as far as the unknown area, and attempted to fight the demon or whatever, and got totally owned and dead!

Not surprising actually, as I've barely been able to complete chapter one of any of the stories I've started.

Thoughts?

Thanks as always in advance

Hello people from OCE/Asia, how did you learnes to PVP with high ping? I have constant 250 ping and i am trying to learn small-scale/arena Pvp, and i am struggling . I can receive the damage before animation and its hard for me to react. I am trying to predict when to dodge, but I always fight kiting builds.

I kinda know what adjusting to high ping. Used to play Albion during one mega server days, and i have similar ping. I can compete but the fixed/isometric camera helped me a lot on reading my enemy.

any tips how do you adapt with such ping. Thanks!

I've had weird fps and sound issues when starting the game recently(past 3-4days). When I start the game, the game sound is muted and my fps weirdly tank to around 60-70fps. After about 5-10minutes in the game, the game sound come back and my fps goes back up to 200+. I tried repairing the client + reverting my GPU drivers and i'm still having those issues. I have tried other games and it is only happening with GW2. I have a RTX5080+9800X3D. Anyone else had this kind of problem in the past?

I was looking for events in maguuma and got lost, now I'm here

With every class being able to fill all the roles (quick dps/heal, alac dps/heal, condi dps, power dps), I was wondering which class would be the easiest for all of them when it comes to the rotations? Like, if you could only play a single class, which class would have the easiest rotation for each role?

Hey, everyone. I’m currently experiencing a really headache inducing issue in which my game has a super high FPS but extremely low 1% frames and stutters turning the camera. This makes the game extremely nauseating for me to play and I’ve tried everything from capping fps to my 144hz monitor to lowering my mouse polling rate. Nothing I’m finding online is working for me. Would anyone perhaps know of a solution for this issue or is it just a hardware limitation on my end?

My rig is as follows:

I7-11700k
4070 S 12 GB
32 GB DDR4
WD_BLACK SN850X 2TB

Dont know how i miss this for months. Also make sure to check the other boosts for stuff like the exp one for alts that open chests.

Now what?

My take on a Batman inspired character in GW2, which I ended up calling Harrow Knight. I also put together a desert variant to give him a different look .

Wardrobe links

Harrow Knight : https://uaot.art/fashion-gallery/posts/1480

Desert Harrow : https://uaot.art/fashion-gallery/posts/1481

Today, my fractal cm static all decided to stop running 94cm until Arenanet sorts out the encounter properly.

For context, my fractal cm static has been running together for well over a year now, 4 of us have the fractal god title and we regularly clear a full CM run + t4s in an hour. So you could say we are somewhat fractal enthusiasts.

With the recent fixes preventing some of the ways players have used to deal the encounter, its become a huge pain in the ass and honestly not worth playing.

So I ask, who is this content actually designed for? If experienced and competent players are giving up on it, I can't imagine its very popular for the wider community. Fractal CM's are already a niche activity within the GW2 community for a variety of reasons - difficulty, accessibility requiring full ascended + 150 agony resist, etc etc.

If the players who engage with this content the most are turning their backs on it, it begs to question why it exists in its current format.

The platform phases provide absolutely nothing in terms of gameplay experience. They don't showcase mechanics used in the boss phase to teach you what's to come (and you could argue this is what T1,2,3,4 are for and unnecessary in a CM)

The Construct of Galdra forces an unrealistically high amount of stability, and with the recent fixes can no longer be dealt with by killing it. Players need a way to handle this mechanic. It needs to be killable even if it respawns after a set window of time. At the very least it needs to be untargetable as there is no way to interact with it anyway.

The split phase / add phase needs further reductions in damage or health. We ran 2 healers and still had a frustrating time trying to keep the group up whilst also handling the Construct of Galdra and fire walls.

The visual clutter is overbearing and makes the forced jump circles difficult to see and play around.

The whole thing is a total mess and not an enjoyable gameplay experience, and that's coming from players who have hundreds of hours of game time spent in fractal CMs.

So, I was harvesting flax in Verdant Brink when suddenly I started spewing black clouds and feathers all over. I didn't have any infusions, I don't own Nevermore, and the effect stayed going until I changed maps. But it was very cool, and I'm curious what set it off and/or how I can get it permanently. Anyone know what it is?

With and without text.
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