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    Guild Wars 2 Secret Toymaker gifting has begun!

    December 18, 2020

    Guild Wars 2 Secret Toymaker gifting has begun!

    Secret Toymaker gifting has begun!

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 09:39 AM PST

    Sign-ups are now over and we managed to gather over 300 more than we got last year!!! We are really happy with that.

    Step-by-step guide on gifting

    Step 1: Check your match

    Head on over to https://secrettoymaker.com/events/2020 to see your match. There you will see their account name and their notes.

    Step 2: Get creative

    Now that you have your gifting notes, it's time to figure out what to give. Some people give easy notes, and some not so much :D

    Remember, the minimum value is 10g

    Step 3: Send your gift

    Once you have figured out what to send out, it's time to mail. Copy the account name into the recipient tab and put the items in. It's nice to write a fun mail to go along with it :D

    Remember, if you gift Black Lion items leave your signature in the gifting window. The gift note doesn't tell who send it

    Step 4: Mark as sent

    Go back to the event page, and press "Mark as sent". This will show your match on the website that you have sent them your gift.

    Step 5 (optional): Gift more!

    On the event page you have an option to donate, to receive more people to gift!

    When you get gifted:

    Head on over to the event page, https://secrettoymaker.com/events/2020, and press "Mark as received". This will notify your Secret Toymaker that you have received you goodies.

    It is also nice to send a reply to the mail :)

    Gifting ends at 9.1.2021, 23:59 UTC

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    Dodge the snowballs again, gingerman path

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 12:52 AM PST

    [Art] Digital artwork I created of my Mesmer: John Cogbeard! :D

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 11:52 PM PST

    Wintersday fashion contest NA/EU by guildMM

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 04:04 AM PST

    Please Anet, spread out the class-specific buffs

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 04:55 PM PST

    Not the traited buffs like Spotter, etc (though I wish those were compressed too) Im talking about things like the spirits and the banners.

    On paper, these sound like a good side-benefit of taking a particular class. In practice, since these are all unique and can be stacked, it means every serious raid group wants all of them for max optimization.

    There are 9 classes and 18 elite specs in this game. Yet every raid group includes:

    • 1 Druid
    • 1 Banner Warrior
    • 2 Chronos or an Alacren + 2 Chrono/Firebrands

    Thats half the raid group dedicated to 27% of the specs! If your favorite class isnt one of these 5, or you prefer the other elite spec, better hope you can fit into the other 5 slots youre competing with every other spec in the game for!

    If there was something core to how the game was designed for this it wouldn't be as big of an issue, but the problem I have with this is how easy it is to fix!

    Combine the banner and spirit effects, rename the spirit effect like "empower ___" (empower damage, empower burning, empower healing, etc), and give it out 1-2 other classes that have support builds that aren't currently viable. Now you have 3-4 classes that can fill that role, and supports are split into "quickness, alacrity, and empower" instead of "Quickness, alacrity, and druid + warrior" (obviously giving druid a healing increase or something similar to make up for it)

    This also helps with how boring of skills banners are since the bundle was removed. I know no one used them for the bundle, but now the whole utility slot is just for a flat stat increase with nothing interesting about it.

    There are even similar numbers of banners and spirits, keep one of the spirits unique to druid (probably water or Air), and give the other four to each of the banners (also make the banners shorter duration, similar to the spirits).

    Ideas for ways other classes that could gain Empower ____ buffs:

    The Expirimental Turrets trait for Engi/Scrapper, the turrets die quicker than spirits but have other benefits like blast finishers and the Supply Crate.

    A new elite spec in EoD would obviously be an easy way to add a new one, for a class other than Mesmer, Guardian, Revenant, or Ranger hopefully.

    Changing one of the less used glyphs to provide the spirit effect for a duration after activation based on attunement would be a cool way to bring it to Tempest, and Water ele was one of the core games support-y specs. Plus the spirits already are elements themed.

    EDIT: this has gotten a lot of attention, and there is some confusion in the comments. To be clear, I'm not talking about boons like alacrity and might (though those could use more wide spread sources) and I'm not talking about buffing banners or adding a new effect to the game

    I'm specifically saying that the spirits buffs should be spread around so that druids aren't always a requirement, and the current banner buffs replaced with them as it is the most logical 2nd source of them. This idea would work just as well in reverse making the spirits provide banner buffs, but that's less fun and engaging imo.

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    Just a casual day in Divinity's Reach

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 02:19 AM PST

    The Real Endboss Of Guild Wars 2 : Triple Trouble Triple One Burn!

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 09:12 AM PST

    Monthly Achievements Were Very Rewarding

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 10:15 AM PST

    Fully defeated players should NOT scale events

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 08:51 AM PST

    GW2 philosophy is to always be glad when you see another player. And while there are certainly numerous events that fail that (anyone whose done Aurora or Vision probably knows what I'm talking about), Anet has mostly achieved that! It's why the community always brags about being so friendly. Because Anet has expertly designed it so.

    Yet fully defeated players keep scaling events making it harder on everyone. And it's not their fault! They're probably new players and don't understand how the game works. It's 2021 soon, it's time to change it so if a player is fully defeated then they don't count for scaling purposes.

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    7 Years ago Today: The Maguuma Christmas Special

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 03:40 AM PST

    Legendary Armory

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 06:23 AM PST

    Should I start?

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 08:04 PM PST

    Should I start playing guild wars 2 now?I have been looking for a mmorpg to start playing.Also can anyone also tell me if the game is free or paid.Does it have a free trial like ffixv and if so , what are the limitations of the free version.

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    Is it possible to add the graphics/UI settings found in WvW to PvE, so that the visual noise would be reduced?

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 12:48 AM PST

    For example, instead having names on top of players, players would have job/class icons instead, much like faction icons in WvW. Also the targeted enemy would automatically have a small icon above the enemy. And the damage numbers as well, is it possible to reduce the size or even shorten the duration they are on screen, or maybe even disable them since it's already registered in the battle chat option. I know you could just disable enemy and player names, but with all the visual effects and blob battles, it's hard to see through it all, maybe with this you could identify enemies and allies more easily.

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    Killed this fellow several times until he started this slick move whenever downed. Hacking ?

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 02:05 PM PST

    "An apple a day Jormag away."

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 06:43 PM PST

    Please don't keep me hostage in story instances

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 01:23 AM PST

    I'm a returning player that started playing again with an IRL friend. I feel awful that they have to literally sit there as a hostage and listen to 5min monologue. It devalues the story. Every joke and quip becomes incredibly annoying because it comes at the expense of my time. Please make it skippable or on the background. I don't understand how a few story instances are smooth and NPC's give you the lore dump on the background and some expect you to just sit there as if a movie.

    I held off playing Whisper's of Jormag till it had VO but man, the very first instance already triggered me. You have to do the instance a minimum of 3 times to get all the achievements. That's like 10min of listening to THE SAME monologue. What's worse is that the commander is all like: "WOW STEALTH". Like... what? You've been on almost every inch of the world and seen/interacted with stealth a million times and now you're blown away by it?

    Dear Anet, please value YOUR time and MINE. I love your game and have a Merry Wintersday!

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    Support repeatedly closing (and reopening) an alt

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 01:04 AM PST

    tl;dr An alt account that I made on Sunday night has, so far, been banned 6 times by ArenaNet's automated banning software or something to that extent.

    On creation, I was able to play through the starting quest and then logged off. I woke up to "The code you entered is invalid. Please check your information and try again." You'll be hearing about the code a lot. I emailed support and received this reply. Great, I thought. Well, I wasn't even able to log in before the system banned it again in a span of less than 2 hours. I replied to support email and got this reply. I was able to play for an hour or so at this point. I did some HoT completion to get the glider and enough airship parts. Lo' and behold, I was met with this while playing. I emailed support again, got a reply, and tried logging in. Like before, I wasn't even able to get past the login screen. Here is the email chain between the previous ban and the current one. I'm sure you get the pattern. Between this ban and the next ban, I was able to get some more HoT + PoF done along with some crafting using like < 100g of materials a guildmate sent me because the repeated account locks are preventing the validation countdown (the thing preventing me from using the TP) from occurring. More bans, more unbans, here's the continuation of the chain. After Kimly's reply, I got to finish up most of what I needed to do, but I was once again met with a ban message, except the reply I got from support was different this time.

    For anyone who is keeping track, the account has been closed 6 times now and isn't old enough to even send mail or really use the trading post. I haven't used any VPNs, bots, hacks, macros, RMT, or literally anything else that comes even close to breaking anything on the ToS. I've received pretty much the same automated reply in most of these support messages, and most of the other support messages are apologies for my account getting caught in their "security review". I replied to the last message I showed above, but I doubt it'll get anything but the intern's copy pasted reply.

    As for sub rules, I've obviously contacted support (and plenty of times, at that). I'm getting pretty much just automated replies at this point without anyone actually looking into what's causing this.

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    Gem Cards seem to be back in EB Games Australia

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 09:49 PM PST

    Just bought gem cards in EB Games in Tasmania. They told me in store they just came back in yesterday. I'm assuming that's true for other states, but I haven't verified.

    However, with the exchange rate being what it is, this amounts to a considerable savings.

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    4AM 10-Chronomancers Samarog run! Was really fun playing heal Chrono and 1111 on staff :D

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 06:18 AM PST

    Caption this screenshot!

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 01:59 AM PST

    Suddenly high GPU usage after the update today 17/12

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 11:43 AM PST

    Today after the update I keep having huge GPU usage spikes. Guild wars 2 taking up more than 90% of my GPU when normally it takes about 30-40% maximum.

    Does anyone also have these issues after this update?

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    Why are wurms benith Skyhammer still a thing?

    Posted: 17 Dec 2020 12:55 PM PST

    I lose so many figths on that map when I accidently target them and use my skill with obstructed, while enemy just look at me, its not even funny anymore.

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