Updates to the Specter and Scourge builds postponed after the July 18th patch for obvious reasons.

Hi everyone and welcome to the first Screenshot of the Month competition!

Do you like taking screenshots in Guild Wars 2 and perhaps would like to have it showcased in the community? Behold, brave Tyrian! For you have come to the right place.

The rules are simple:

• One (1) screenshot per participant.
• Upload the screenshot to this post and type a short description / caption of the screenshot.
• The screenshot should be around the 16:9 aspect ratio, so it fits the sidebar.
• Screenshots of cute Charrs is allowed, but will result in one (1) downvote to even the playing field for the rest of the competitors.

Give an upvote for your favourite screenshot to determine which one is the ultimate screenshooter!

The competition will end and the winner announced 16/07.

Me personally, I'm already bored out of my mind only by reading it, but I'll have a look and judge after getting first-hand experience.

How do others feel about dailies, weeklies, monthlies as currency grind for reward?

KROOF is pretty thrilled about it, I've linked her post as an additional source for people. The prospect of a neutered battle pass without the anti-social aspects is worth mentioning.

Hey there,

after few months of developing and playing around with the GW2 API system, I've created a website for players to share their characters and their equipment and builds.

Introducing gw2geary.com . A fast way for users to share their characters or inspect others.

The website is made as user friendly as possible. By creating a username, you'll have the option to submit your API keys, then make them public/private or delete them, thus making your account and characters associated with the API key public/private.

The purpose of this website is to be an everyday tool for characters equipment and build sharing.

Another feature is our love for Fashion Wars, so the option for the skins is there as well.

Here you can inspect my account and his characters: https://gw2geary.com/a/Terter.4125

This is my main character: https://gw2geary.com/c/Terter

Give it a try and tell me what you think! :)

Maybe it will even have animations.

In case anyone is interested.

I'm very curious to know more about relics, I'm also personally "invested" since I have all 7 leggy runes.

Slog fractals that take faaar to fucking long:

• Siren's Reef (everything)
• Molten Furnace (boss especially is a time waster)
• Deepstone (that stupid riddle room serves 0 purpose whatsoever but to waste time)
• Twilight Oasis (everything)
• Shattered Observatiry (everything)
• Sunqua Peak (fuck this shit)
• Silent Surf (hey this fractal is super short but the boss takes 20 minutes because fuck you gargle our arse)

Fractals that are fine to good:

• Aquatic Ruins (two "pre-rooms", easy and quick boss, my favourite)
• Swampland (boss is a drag, but not half as bad as others)
• Uncategorized (two JPs and two pre-rooms, quick and easy)
• Solid Ocean (boss is a drag but at least you can have a wank on the side)
• Underground Facility (quick enough if people don't suck so borderline bad)
• Urban Battleground (kill a boss, rush through everything)
• Snowblind (start is a drag but then you can just rush it, boss doesn't drag it out too much)
• Chaos (I love zero waiting rooms to bore you to death)
• Molten Boss (so rushable I love it)
• Volcanic (start is slow but the rest is quick, so it's enjoyable)
• Cliffside (so rushable, Mesmer Masterrace Portal Bitch)
• Captain Mai Trin (what Silent Turf tried to be)
• Aetherblade (so rushable, teleport through everything, do the puzzle and you're already next to the boss)
• Nightmare (good balance between waiting rooms and bosses)

2/3 shit Fractals and the ratio becomes worse with every new one. AMA.

Also that_shaman is on mastodon now. :-)

Link to the creator and a gif of the moving bits on it. https://mastodon.art/@Keeya/110611807424963947

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/guildwars2/t/132649

Hey all, Metabattle has put the finishing touches on our guide to the new fractal:

As usual, we've tried to pack in as much detail as possible, and it joins our ever-growing guides sections that now cover PvE, PvP and WvW!

The guide will also be updated to include CM mechanics when that arrives.

(posted over here on kbin with permission from the original poster on the bad site)

Welcome to the Weekly Question Thread on c/guildwars2!

This post is dedicated to those questions that you might not think is worth making a whole post about, but sure is worth getting an answer to ;)

Remember to also take a look at the links in the sidebar, which holds lots of great resources.

• Guild Wars 2 Wiki

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/guildwars2/t/128818

With the latest expansion announced and that technically this guide was on the books for a few years, I managed to finish it! I had to borrow my husband's account for getting the Griffon mount but I think it was super worth it. Let me know what you think and feel free to share this with anyone/everyone!

https://www.cheshiregaming.com/2023/07/getting-griffon.html
*edit due to weird url image thingy

So the weapon beta has been up for a bit and I experimented with my main class, Mesmer. Results are meh.

Problem: only off-hand we have is shield, and shield really doesn't do much. It's probably going to find use in tanky builds, but that's it. Biggest problem: blocks are channels, so you can't do anything for several seconds on ends.

Everything else: too much tailored towards their specialisations.

• Axe stays melee condition, sword stays melee power. Won't change anything up.

• Dagger has slight applications in ranged power.

That's it. Dagger maybe for ranged power, under certain circumstances.

Axe Virtuoso? Dagger Mirage? Both meh. Shield with anything? Double-meh with a sigh on the side. Chrono with dagger as DPS? Can't compete with anything.

I'd hope that smarter people than me will find some applications, but I'm afraid that all that's being checked for is meta DPS, so there's probably nothing to be expected from on that front.

Dagger Ambush Spam kind of worked almost somewhat, DPS-wise. Riveting.

Less content of worse quality, but much more aggressively monetized? Half the content at the same price?

Anet axed Living World, rebranded it as "Mini Expansions" and is reselling it to us at full price. Complex mount system gets sidelined in favour of A mount to rule them all. Class skills and mechanics that have existed for years and years and years without issue are suddenly a problem and get gutted, dumbed down or removed. Classes get homogenised and simplified. Very little actually new systems get created, instead the existing game gets switched around as a much easier alternative. More focus on easy and cheap to develop daily/weekly content for whatever the current's expansion faction is.

I know that pattern.

I also know another pattern. SquareEnix. ActivisionBlizzard. NCNet.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/712397

At least according to Lord Hizen ... Haha!

• So, who -- apart from the Overlord -- has played the new Fractal already?
• Was it fun?

So if you're dependend on your account-wide AR to get to 151, you'll enjoy the boss fight.

Expansion site: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/secrets-of-the-obscure/

Trailer: Click Here

Announce Blog: Click Here

Combat Updates: Click Here

Story, Mastery and more updates: Click Here

ThatShaman Countdown: Click Here

After the Dragon Cycle - Guild Wars 2 News: Click Here

First Contact: The Kryptis and Rift Hunting: Click Here

Includes a pinch of content besides the new Fractal, it seems.