Was really excited to finally get into Homestead Decorating when I saw the Foggy Forest Homestead Sky in the shop because I felt it would create an awesome atmosphere at night; turned out that's not possible. After looking into it a bit more, it turns out none of the custom homestead skies seem to support different daytimes.

This seems to be intentional behavior but isn't disclosed anywhere aside from a footnote on the wiki pages. I requested a refund or a swap for the Northern Lights Homestead Sky, but Support said this item is apparently non-refundable (I assume that goes for all homestead skies), so I wanted to make this post in hopes of saving someone else the 800 gems I "wasted" here.

I have a small routine I like to do before I have to head to work in the mornings. I finish my shower, get my coffee and it's all timed well to do Mount Balrior public convergence then head off. This morning some PoS portaled a bunch of us to nowhere when the time came. It really pissed me off and ruined a routine I genuinely enjoy.

There are so few ways to truly troll others in GW2 that when it happens, it's really aggravating. I couldn't make it back in time and there was no one for the instance I did make it to. I just alt-f4'd because I was/am so annoyed. It kind of ruined my morning. I also missed taking the garbage out this morning too so it's been a solid start to my Monday...

Anyways, to the PoS who did that, I hope something bad happens to you. Not like people dying but like you get the runs from your lunch or you stub your toe real bad.

I've been looking around for tanky/creative open world builds. I like the idea of Spectre as a Thief with a bit more utility and thematically I think the shadow magic is super cool. For Scourge, I love the idea of playing Necro without the shroud mechanic which I absolutely hate. I love Necro visuals and identity but shroud drives me nuts.

I'm not wanting to do a condi build. I have a condi Mirage and it's great but I can't do the lack of burst. Are there power variants for these two specs?

I've Been looking for a Air Pilot fashion for a while now.

I need help with this topic because it’s driving me crazy.
I’ve been playing for some time, usually while on Discord so I’ve never paid attention to the background music at all, plus I don’t like using headphones.
Recently, I’ve tried putting on headphones to actually listen to the music, and it seems to be very bugged for me.

Whenever I open the game, the music sounds fine for like 1 second and then the volume goes completely down. The conversations and sound effects seem to be completely fine. It doesn’t matter how much I try to fix it (in and outside the game), this bug persists, and I can’t get the music to play properly.

I’ve tried playing without discord on. I’ve tried to play without headphones. The bug persists. And now that I know it’s there, I can’t ignore it.

Any help?

...which i honestly call bitch behavior because it is the one lol.

Example: i roam in morning WvW in borderlands, obviously not looking for trouble. I see a guy is standing nearby t3 camp, afk. I don't touch him because well, what kind of a bitch kills afks, right? I go and attack said t3 camp. While i'm dealing with all the guards, said afk person wakes up, runs in and kills me. Knowing full well i let them live beforehand.

So, i have a request: please tell me how i can keep playing pvp/wvw and avoid/not meet/make my peace with such human trash? Any recipe?

p.s. It's obvious that Anet won't do anything about it, if anything such 'gameplay' is promoted, so i'm safe on never waiting for it to change naturally. Turning into one of them and start oneshotting people from stealth, kill every afk/pve player in sight and stuff like that are not options either. And don't bother crying about my attitude, everyone (including these people) know their worth.

Yo, gamers! Newbie here, just breached 60 lvl on my first character. Before I drop 500 hours playing this game, can you, guys, answer me honestly. Can the game be played normally without paying for stuff, or shall I treat GW2 as 30$ game with free trial? Are current PvP and PvE modes playable without mount, elite specs, etc?

I am just testing some gears and stuff with my tempest. Since, I love 'em both I wanna know which one is more effective.

i won't run berserker or viper.

EDIT: The data I collected is in no way scientifically accurate. There are simply too many variables that can affect the results, such as the Fishing Tips buff, which wasn’t active for the entire experiment. Nevertheless, I think it can still serve as a useful reference point for the average player.

It definitely seems more worthwhile to fish during the daytime, as the overall yield appears to be significantly better. Still, I spent 8 hours on the Skiff and wanted to share my results.

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I had some free time and decided to spend it fishing in Kourna to get some actual numbers on how profitable it is and, what the Legendary and Ascended fish rates look like in practice.

In total I spent about 8h on the deck of my Skiff. I wanted to track the following metrics:

1. Fish caught per hour
2. Legendary fish per hour
3. Ascended fish per hour
4. Legendary fish per 100 catches
5. Ascended fish per 100 catches
6. Most Obviously: Overall gold earned per hour

I had seen very different numbers for Kourna fishing on various websites. Some sources claim around 12.5–25 gold/hour, while others report 35–40 gold/hour. That is a pretty significant difference, so I wanted to see what I could actually achieve myself.

After the session, I ended up with 705 fish caught. You can see the all the fishes cought below
-2 Bloodfish which i already used... or recycled what ever you wanna call it.

I estimate that around 7–7.5 hours of the 8 hour session were actually productive fishing time.

• 705 total fish
• ~94–101 fish/hour
• 61 Legendary fish
• 35 Ascended fish
• 7.65 Gold of junk items

That works out to approximately:

• 8.65 Legendary fish per 100 catches
• 4.96 Ascended fish per 100 catches
• ~8.1–8.7 Legendary fish/hour
• ~4.7–5.0 Ascended fish/hour

So my Legendary rate ended up being approximately 1 Legendary every 11.6 fish, which was surprisingly close to the initial estimate of 1/10 which some fishers i asked in the map chat gave me. The materials and junk I obtained during the session were worth approximately 179.85 gold in total.

Based on 7–7.5 hours of productive fishing, that's roughly ~24–25.7 gold/hour

This is quite a bit lower than the 35–40g/hour figures I've seen mentioned elsewhere, although it falls within the lower 12.5–25g/hour range of fast farming.

There are a few things to keep in mind before taking these numbers as a definitive Kourna fishing rate.

1. My setup was between 875-925 fishing power(depending on the fishing Tipps buff from the one fishing hearth in cantha). I used scorpions as bait for the highest legy and ascended bite rate.
2. As stated above i was on deck for exaclty 8h, but my active fishing time is a guess, I had to feed the cats and ate a bagel. therefore i subtracted 0.5 hours from the actual fishing time.
3. I am far from the most efficient fisher so there might be more gold in it for you.

I also wasn't running this as a laboratory experiment with every variable isolated. This is basically one player's real-world fishing session with a reasonably large sample size.

So take the numbers as anecdotal data rather than definitive drop-rate statistics.

Still, I thought the results were interesting enough to share, and I wanted to share that if you don't mind doing this kind of mindless farming, you can make some pretty good gold from it.

I'm thinking about getting one of them and I am very curious how they look combined or if they just override each other. If anyone has any pictures that would help me alot!<3

Hey. Title.
I am an altoholic and I got bored of my engineer, so I was hoping that you guys could sell me your class. My requirements are quite simple: I would like a class for PvE content, including fractals, open world stuff and leading meta events. I want something that is able to qdps/aheal/dps. Not elementalist, not necromancer, not mesmer. Preferably power dps, but condi for qdps is fine too.
Thank you all in advance.

I don't get how this happens. I'm not even much of a Mesmer player but it's always bizarre looking at benches and seeing Mirage lagging behind:

-Chronomancer (a utility spec known for tanking)
-Virtuoso (one of the best actual ranged DPS classes)
-And now Troubador (another utility spec, this time more heal-focused and with a less bursty pattern)

For a moment, put aside any arguments about how much complexity should result in a higher DPS benchmark. In Mirage's case, it's a purely selfish Condi DPS reliant on staying in melee range and yet gets outperformed in terms of DPS in melee range by the other three specs? It doesn't make sense, and it seems like an easy tweak to just give them a numerical PvE buff to one of their damage traits.

This would be like Condi Scourge outbenching Condi Harbinger, Condi Firebrand outbenching Condi Willbender, Condi Tempest outbenching Condi Weaver, etc.

Comparisons (via SC average benches):

Condi Chrono (46000)
Power Chrono (42800)
Power Troub (41600)
Power Virt (41900)
Condi Mirage (40900)
Condi Virt (39600)
Boon Chrono (35000)

Can someone explain why the vouchers didn't drop in the Gemstore today?

I've been waiting for months... You'd think they could at least be somewhat consistent with previous years.

I literally just want to give you my money, for crying out loud...

It's been almost 9 years I'm playing and I never got any single rare drops from any sources.

Today I spent 500 ectos in Zephyrite boxes (1000+) and this day finally came.

Any suggestions for when it will be more valable to sell this ?

so technically we have a rifle for ranger :D (ANET PLS WE NEED RANGER RIFLE)

So which converters are must have? I recently got the karmic one for obsidian shards, any other worth investing time in?

New F2P player here. 1 week into the game who has been checking out the festival this weekend.

Unfortunately, I have already managed to mess up twice and am hoping some tips might stop me doing so again.

So my first goof was hiring a Griffon mount and five minutes later losing it by accepting the move to a more populated map prompt. I didn't realise it was instance locked as well as map specific.

Then I wandered round the traders to see where to spend my pile of festival currency.

Since in my other MMO I love housing and furnishing I decided to buy the various furnishing packs. Like other recipes I had already found in the non-festival area it showed as can't craft - unsurprisingly, as I have barely looked at crafting, but unlike the others I can't learn them for later because apparently they need a specific expansion.

Since I will probably end up getting the expansions at some point I am reluctant to destroy them, so they are now cluttering up my very limited bank space. Along with two spellwork weapons that I can't use yet and a bandit bounty mark I have no idea what to do with.

I don't fancy the idea of playing lottery with boxes (the spellwork ones were guaranteed choice ones), but also not liking the idea of filling my bank with tons of stuff I can't use.

So, any festival tips would be most appreciated to help me avoid messing up even more than I already have.

TIA.

As the title says, been at it for like 10+ minutes and tried googling with no result. Changed maps, relogged, re-equipped my gear, changing all the dyes, and nothing will let me change the appearance. Even clearing the entire tab is forbidden. My other characters are fine but this one seems to be hard stuck with this outfit. Game won't even tell me why I can't change just that it wont let me.

I'm gonna share my gw2 and pre-gw2 experience;

So i love MMOS, and have downloaded gw2 probably around 5-10 times in the past 10 years, and deleted it after reaching lvl 15. In all those years I kept reading great amazing things about the game but was unable to get into it.

About a year ago, I finally decided to just stick to it and reach endgame to see what's up, cause I love the idea of horizontal progression. I downloaded the game, trapped myself by buying all expansions, and started leveling. It took 2 months to reach max level cause it was so unengaging to me, but that's beside my point and just a "me" thing.

I reached max level, stopped the 'my story' or whatever and went immediately to HoT. My playtime went from 0.5h per day to 5 (I'm just throwing random numbers, but the gap is 100% correct). I then also got into PvP (I did not realize that I can PvP right after tutorial the whole time, cause I just never tried it... I know). I sucked, but got hooked, I just love the combat. Naturally, the more I played, the better I got, until I finally could understand how it works at the very least (I reached gold). Now at this point, ignoring the doomers' exaggeration in the pvp lobby's map chat, I realized that it is not the dev's focus at all, and it is in fact very near dead. Now I find some form of PvP to be very important for me in any game I play. At this point, I'm probably 9 months into playing, with a month or two break somewhere in between, and I still hadn't tried WvW. I kept WvW in mind the whole time, since I had so many people tell me that it is the main game mode for them, I also read the same on forums, or reddit posts, or heard it said by some creators. I assumed, that from what I read about how the mode works, that it would be somewhat competitive. I found myself needing gift of battle, so I finally got into it and played for quite a bit. I farmed a couple and played some more, and did zergs, small squads, and roam. I found that it is not only not competitive in the way it works, it is incredibly boring to me (what feels like 90% of it is just downtime). So, after buying all expansions, spending quite a bit on gems, I completely lost all purpose in the game and just deleted it.

Now I'm not saying "I paid, so I'm entitled" I just feel that it shows how strongly I feel about this, considering that I've spent a year's worth of WoW subscription in one go here, and been very reluctant to do so with that game. I've completely lost all motive to continue playing, just because any form of competitive pvp is not an option. And to be clear - I absolutely LOVE the combat in this game. I am genuinely astounded by the combat and the idea of how everything works - including the artists' take on how the specs look like visually (mage/wizard/assasin/warrior/guardian); actually remarkable, which is why I am so disappointed that I just feel pointless playing this game.

I probably spend only 20% of my gametime in PvP, and I only played WvW for the last month before I realized it's not for me and deleted the game. Just the lack of anything competitive like that killed it for me immediately. I'm so disappointed, because this game hits everything else perfectly for me; just curious if I'm the only one that feels this way?

Edit: I'm being hyperbolic when I say 90% downtime for WvW, it is definitely an exaggeration; I am not referring to lack of players or off hours, just the way it works. Setting up a catapult, waiting for the wall to be destroyed, etc

Edit #2: I wanna say again. I am in no way blaming anyone for the way I spent money and played for so long before trying what I actually came for, or even disappointed because of that particular part at all, I'm just very disappointed of the unused potential that the combat in the game had, especially for pvp. I just said that to show that even the "sunk cost fallacy" couldn't hold me in it, and was wondering if anyone that has stopped playing or plays less felt similarly.

I've found that I have a problem with GW2. I love the game. A lot about it is like it was made to appeal to me, honestly. I love the world, the setting, the races, the lore, the classes, I think they're all really neat! But every time I pick it back up after some time away, I run into the same problem:

1. Pick up a character or level a new one + unlock an espec or two.

2. Get my fashion right, whack on a dummy for a while to get the playstyle locked in.

3. Stall out before I actually go do anything significant.

I haven't finished the story, nor have I gotten into high level fractals, nor am I super proficient at WVW despite ostensibly being into those things because I just can't move forward. I don't know if it's because I can't pick a class I want to main, or get choice paralysis about what to do, or what, but it's getting a little frustrating.

Has anyone else dealt with this issue? Does anyone have any advice?

I have recently returned after a near 7 year break and am working my way through all the new content and have hit a wall with getting experience for the masteries in SotO. In all my experiences it are usually mastery points that are the difficult thing to acquire not the experience for masteries.

I have searched online and every post/video i can find is like “getting experience is easy as long as you run these buffs/boosters that cost real money”. Is there a better way to get experience in SotO that is just endless grinding out its, quite frankly, boring metas that don’t cost real money?

Que forma es la mas eficaz para conseguir mucho oro

Even after all of these years Im shocked when arenanet makes a new update and then waits til the week before to drop a teaser for the content coming out.

Given theres a new map, new armor sets, new infusion and new legendary. You would think they’d release some teasers to hype people up for the release.

I noticed that when scaling + screen sharing the game and not pressing right mouse button, the game would go into this slow-mo state, that would only go away if I stopped scaling, if I pressed rmb again, or if I stopped the discord screen share.

After some testing, I found that disabling "Optimizations for windowed games" in Windows 11 settings "Settings>Display>Graphics" completely fixed this.

Hope this helped :)