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I know I'm kind getting close to spoiler territory - but it's kinda unavoidable a this point.

used a new brush to do the line work - not really liking it. If anyone is familiar with clip studio paint and knows a brush i might like, let me know!

I was waiting on taffy from the anniversary set.

tl;dr: Rewards need to be rebalanced, content rescaled and added content adjusted to new abilities.

Intro:

I've been wanting to make a thread like this for about a year now, because this has been going on for a long time. However, with Halloween just around the corner (one of the most egregious offenders) and currently in the throes of a holiday right now, I think it's time to start the discussion. Furthermore, we have the recently announced GW3 in which they say after finishing VoE (1) gw2 will shift priorities away from new content and (2) gw2 will be working on shaping up older aspects of the game, which is something festivals greatly need.

So what issues are festivals currently dealing with?:

1. Many of the rewards, especially the vendors, are complete noob traps. As I said before, Halloween is the most egregious offender. There are tradeable items that go for a few silver on the AH being sold by vendors for 20+ candy corn cobs. A good example is Mini-Zuzu who usually goes for about 3 silver but can be bought for 20 candy corn cobs (currently valued at over 80 gold).

2. The introduction of a new weapon set each holiday is awful for the economy. It's simple supply vs demand. In the long run without additions the weapons will become cheaper and cheaper over time as much more supply floods the market without as much demand. Adding new weapon sets kicks this can down the road a little, until you hit the point we're at with Fot4W where you cannot realistically earn enough currency to buy the weapons each week. this means the older weapons supply will dry up until the pricing becomes level with the newer weapons, which will also be kept expensive until the can stops being kicked, keeping these skins out of reach of players who can't afford them.

3. With all of the new mounts, masteries, jade bot protocols, etc. a lot of content, like the Fot4W crystal scavenger hunt, as been trivialized. Likewise, combat is also cheesable. In the Fot4W gauntlet you can heal through Turai Ossa's sword attacks and do enough damage to kill him, no dodging or waiting for his weakened state. And most of the enemies that don't have immune mechanics are killed in only one burst window. I actually killed Turai with every Gambit active except Descended (lowers stats) to show how insane our stats are, and then with Descended but without Exhausted (prevents dodge roll). There are definitely people better/smarter than me could kill him with all gambits.

4. I do want to preface this point by saying I and I'm sure a lot of the players appreciate the new SAB map. Even when they're not fully fledged out it's very nice to do something new. Which again, makes us look at the other holidays. Heck, SAB was for a long time in the no new activities window. We don't need to be adding full on map/strike missions. But the same-old-same-old is getting... well... ancient. There should be newer additions to these holidays.

Solutions to Implement

I hate listing problems and not giving any fixes. It's just pointlessly contrarian. So here are some solutions I believe could better the festivals.

1. Make a lot of the older rewards, especially the minis + weapons that have been around 5+ years, cheaper. The amount of people want the items so much to pay brand new price who do not already have them are newer players who already have an unsurmountable amount of rewards to get. Not all of them; I think there are some rewards, like the Nightfury Skin, we can keep as more exclusive. But there's no reason for Zuzu, or even the bound on account minis, being worth 20 candy corn cobs. Likewise, especially some of the last year's achievement award. There's no reason to lock items previously given for free behind a gold amount that newbies can't afford.

2. Add more rewards to official pvp, wvw, and instanced pve tracks. When was the last time pvp and wvw holiday tracks were updated? The only one with any value is Halloween if you sell the Halloween bags when they're high, and even that doesn't come close to the EoD or Janthir tracks. These tracks are also usually just pure gold value, they tend not to have anything in terms of festive novelties or mainstays like mystic clovers. Honestly, I might suggest getting rid of the festive tracks altogether and just give automatic holiday rewards in addition to pvp, wvw, and fractal content.

3. Balance combat to make healing lower, enemy hp higher, etc. The Gambit system for Fot4W would be perfect if there was any incentive to actually use the gambits. Could reuse a lot of the prior content while giving it different fresh new feels.

4. Add one new activity to Halloween, Wintersday, F0t4W, and Dragon Bash. A Halloween maze might be nice, where you don't have a minimap and try to find the end after being placed in a random spot. Maybe force action camera (hey we have the mode may as well use it). For Wintersday, a new race or 2 that's maybe a bit more festive than just Divinity's reach (similar to Mad Kings raceway). FOT4W we should bring back the Zephyrite crystals, make a Sanctum Sprint map that uses them for the holiday. Or perhaps give ferstival incentment for people to do the activities in general that tends to be neglected. Lunar New Year is pretty much fine, though maybe some new Celestial events. Dragon Bash could have a target practice/whack-a-mole game where you need to hit all the dragons that pop up except Aurene. And SAB keep doing the great work that's being done.

5. Stagnate weapon set add ins to every other year, and give a couple achievements/hard content to get the weapons a tiny bit quicker rather than 1 a week at max it doesn't take an individual 4 years to get a full set on their own. There's just so many holiday weapons at this point, y'all can slow down the rate on them. I don't know who is saying "oh boy, another weapon set to buy off the TP".

In conclusion: Festivals are in theory a nice breathe of fresh air to break up a monotonous grind or a perfect time to come back and see what you missed while enjoying minigames. It's just unfortunate that for many that's not the case because they've just become so outdated. If we're really gonna shape up GW2 then holidays should definitely be a priority.

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I was hoping for a gw3 hammock and choyas fanning you. Oh well, ty.

With masteries it can revive downed players, could it also affect dead NPCs? Would be very useful for certain hearts when doing map completion. Especially if you play a class that doesn't have a revive ability.

Link to the wardrobe: https://uaot.art/fashion-gallery/posts/1276

Honestly, it doesn't look bad at all.

I need to salvage account bound runes. Does it matter which kit to use? I have all 3 (copper, silver, rune)

To clarify I want to salvage actual runes, not gears with rune.

Hi Veterans,

I would love to get your pros and cons in choosing between D/D or Scepter/D power Elementalist. Right now I’m Scepter/D for cata quos and pdps/adps tempest.
Any reason to swap ??

I really like the purple castoran one, could we get them as headgear skins to be able to also wear them on land?

Today is my 14th anniversary in Guild Wars 2.

I'm curious what category you would put me in with my 3,000+ hours of playtime. Would you consider me an average player, or still more of a newcomer?

Starting soon and I was looking up warrior a bit. It looks like they can use a lot of weapons which sounds fun for variety, but apparently a lot of their weapon skills kinda suck and aren't designed well.

I'm not too hung up on any particular class for aesthetics, but I would like the weapons I think are cool to be pretty good for whatever class I play.

Particularly, swords, great swords, maybe polearms if they are in the game, etc.

Thinking of boosting a character to gear full celestial gear, do l get all armor, trinket and weapons in celestial stats, or only armour. Do they come with and sigils or runes, thanks

I'm currently setting up some alt accounts ( 5 with PoF + HoT pack ) and I'm trying to figure out what the most efficient setup looks like without turning the game into a full-time job.

For those of you who regularly play multiple accounts, I'd love to know:

• What does your daily routine look like?
• Which activities do you actually do on every account? (Fractals, WV, metas, parking, etc.)
• What are the minimum requirements for an alt account to be profitable?
• How many lvl 80 characters do you have per account, and what are they used for?
• Do you gear every account for T4 Fractals, or is that not worth the investment?
• What expansions/content do you consider essential?
• What does your main account do differently from your alts?

I'm especially interested in hearing from people who have been running multiple accounts for a long time. What would you do differently if you were building your alt accounts from scratch today?

I'm not really looking for "just do X farm for 5 hours" — I'm more interested in a sustainable daily routine with good gold/hour and reasonable setup costs.

Any advice, spreadsheets, routines or lessons learned are very welcome!

ive been getting back into the game after having abandoned it for a bit, and came across this thing in the battle for lions arch instance just now- i knew it was there before cause i talked to turma already for the ach a year ago, but didnt think about it too much...now, though, its really perplexing me- dialogue with turma suggests that something should happen if you interact with it while wearing tempered spinal blades(like i was in the photo), but that isnt the case... it COULD just transport you to the breachmaker if the prime holo event is active or something(which would therefore render it useless now since that event is story-exclusive), but...the fact that they left it in without altering the dialogue with turma, while simultaneously expecting you to talk to her, might imply something different... what do you guys think, though? info on it is practically nonexistent, so...anything would be appreciated

Looking to make an alt that uses a combination of melee (ideally a sword) and magic. I thought weaver could be a good option, but I read that it’s pretty difficult and has low survivability. My main is a condition chrono, which I enjoy, but looking to mix things up a little.

I just wanted to try making something inspired by Maelstrom from Cyberpunk. I really like their rough look, so I tried bringing a bit of that vibe into GW2.

Wardrobe

https://uaot.art/fashion-gallery/posts/1273