Silly thought that stuck with me today.

Is there any explanation for achievments in universe? Like Commander has a little notebook where he counts numbers of killed krait or centaurs? 🙃

I understand that they are mostly for gameplay purposes, but in my imagination he stops at that bar in Divinity Reach once in a while and shows everyone his progress. On the other hand most of the side quests are done as collections/achievments so there must be some way for him to track these things.

Recent events have stirred up questions, within what is left of the Guild Wars 2 community, about the fate and whereabouts of Menzies. Should you find yourself asking them, worry not, Menzies was reincarnated into Rytlock Brimstone. He's been a loyal companion, I guess, for quite a while. But things are changing. When he was reincarnated, Menzies forgot much of himself. It may be possible that his new name, Rytlock Brimstone, is a containment spell holding his amnesia in place. It could also be possible that the name "Menzies" is neither spoken on wider Tyria, nor around Rytlock, because it will shatter the holding spell and cause him to start remembering who he really is. And then we're @#$%^. Like I wrote though: Things are changing. Menzies is regarded by some as evil. His time around us, as Rytlock, makes that hard to believe. Yet we forget, at our peril, the legacy of Ryland's loss. The passage of time has not healed the wound dealt to Rytlock's heart by the loss of his cub. Who does he blame for Ryland's death? Rytlock initially appealed to the PC for help to save Ryland. The PC put Rytlock's concerns for his offspring aside, opting for another course of action. You could say that the PC is to blame for Ryland's passing. I dare write that Rytlock entertains that notion on occasions too. The resentment over the loss of Ryland tugs at Menzies's heart. This life, this mortal life, that he donned allowed him to find happiness through his cub. When the Lord of Destruction recovers his memory and his hatred of life, the PC will become a object of his bottomless fury. Rytlock-come-Menzies is destined to clash with us in the not too distant future. He may recover Magdaer; he may simply wield the memory of Ryland. All the while, in our ignorance, we grope around in the dark trying to make sense out of the senseless. That is all.

I need to harvest a LOT of them. I'm running around in Lake Doric for them.

For those that don't know: Mount Balrior Raid Expert is an achievement of the new W8 raid. To get that achievement you have to obtain 100 points for each of the bosses of the wing. You obtain one point for each person in your squad for whom it was the first kill time ever that they kill that boss.

1. It is a pyramid scheme. By design, only about 1/11 players can get it (at best).
2. It encourages people that don't wanna train to do trainings. They are irritated more easily and are way less patient towards new players. Because they don't wanna train new people, they only want to get the achievement.
3. It will only be harder as time goes on to get this achievement, further increasing the toxicity of it, as people rush to get it.
4. It makes non-training runs worse. If there is an underperformer, you can't kick him because people will get angry that they wont get points for the achievement and they will leave. If you don't kick him, you'll both waste time on easily preventable wipes and people will also leave because of it.

Training runs should be done by people that actually want to train. If you want to encourage trainings, you should reward re-clearing wings, doesn't matter if it's a training run or not.

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Seems that the most recent Steam upgrade has caused some Linux user's game to lag after ~30 minutes. Restarting fixes the issue

However, there are other fixes that may eliminate the need to restart like adding to the launch arguments of the game:

LD_PRELOAD=

dxvk Github Issue

Valve Software Steam Github

Colors

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Did it twice now. It sucks. Just my opinion. Most times I couldn’t even figure out where to go.

If you are interested in Guild Wars lore, I can recommend taking a look at this YouTube channel, which I just discovered: https://www.youtube.com/@Evan4K

A short overview of every mount and how players actually use (or don't use!) them in game.

Catalyst will be able to gain energy while a jade sphere is deployed. This totally changes the gameplay of the specialization :o.

Hi everyone,

Don't forget that we have a "Screenshot of the month", that will be displayed in the sidebar of this community.

All you gotta do is take an in-game screenshot and make a post in the community.

You can read more about it here and see the earlier screenshots as well.

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Hello! This is my first "long" video (it's only 5 minutes) about Ardent Gale, an NPC players can interact with in Lowland Shore. This video is an extended version of a short I made last week, which focuses more on the Valravn lore: https://www.youtube.com/shorts//_TzZcGY001o

Feel free to provide feedback about the video (either one). I already have some notes for next time, but I'm always open to hearing more input!