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    April 10, 2021

    Guild Wars 2 Weekly /r/GuildWars2 Question Thread - April 10, 2021

    Weekly /r/GuildWars2 Question Thread - April 10, 2021

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 06:00 AM PDT

    This thread is dedicated to questions that you've never really felt the need to start a thread for, but would still like to see answered/discussed.

    Resources:

    Please also consider sorting the comments in this thread by "new" so that the newest comments are at the top, since those are most likely to still need answers.

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    TM up! And he lost his pants again (illustration by me)

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 01:16 AM PDT

    Most anticipated EoD features? WvW alliances? New guild activities? Tengu playable race? Toggleable open world PvP? No no no...much simpler:

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 06:35 AM PDT

    Hardstuck SAB Tribulation Contest!

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 02:01 AM PDT

    Hello Reddit!

    Hardstuck is organizing yet another competition for you all, this time for the Super Adventure Box yearly event!

    The event will feature a video submission speed-run competition for SAB Tribulation Mode in every zone, with a total prize pool of currently 5000 Gold spread across the Top 8 of each individual zone.

    Prizing will keep increasing by the time the submissions deadline is reached, so feel free to send more items over at Mela.2918 if you would like to contribute!

    Submission Videos of the runs must be sent on Discord at Mela#4287 by April 25th 9PM UTC.

    Quick Rules:

    • Videos for the submission have to be from this year's Super Adventure Box

    • Performing jumps that allow you to get outside of the map right before the very first Checkpoint in W1Z1 and basically the whole map is not allowed.

    • Using Skills that are outside of the SAB game mode such as pets, minions and actual profession weapons or skills is not allowed

    But that's not all the jumping I have for you, there is more.

    The Top 2 participants that end up claiming most of the SAB zones for themselves, will join into a live full SAB speed-run for the final showdown. The person that ends up winning most of the zones in the live segment will win more Gold, some shiny Gems and a personal drawing of a character of your choice in a nice Super Adventure Box theme, made by our amazing Artlord Emecci! Make sure to check out some of his work!

    The Winners will be shown and will participate in the Final live segment on Mela's Twitch Stream on April 26th 2PM UTC

    If you're interested in more events like these then the best way to know when they're happening is to join our Discord Server and become Hardstuck with us!

    We hope to see a lot of you participating, dodge jumping and bashing your head against walls.

    Good luck and have spikes!

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    John Corpening returns to Anet

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 04:53 AM PDT

    Former PvP and WvW Team Lead / Competitive Game Director who left Anet in 2016 (to Amazon Studio) came back recently in November 2020 as Senior Software Engineering Manager .

    Linkedin

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    When you’re helping out a friend and they keep getting aggro from everything that moves.

    Posted: 09 Apr 2021 03:40 PM PDT

    Teh's Trails Map Completion TacO Pack

    Posted: 09 Apr 2021 01:12 PM PDT

    Teh's Trails Map Completion TacO Pack

    https://preview.redd.it/ca88sqnic7s61.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=490f16da759659b58f661a893e0761e72b38f17a

    Hey there explorers!

    Teh here, aka [null] from the Overflow, with the public release of my map completion pack!

    Some of you may have heard about this project through the grapevine or from me talking about it in the Overflow discord, or even from me commenting on Souls' world record speedrun posts. I've kept it under wraps for a while until I was happy enough with it to release it to the public, and today I'm ready to do just that! If you don't care about the fluff, feel free to skip down to the bottom section and just grab the pack for yourself to test out.

    So what is it?

    This pack is designed to help you fully explore all 32 maps in core Tyria in order to get 2x Gift of Exploration. These items are used to craft legendaries and often are what prevent people from doing so. For most people map comp is a huge undertaking. The goal of this pack is to make map comp as smooth and fast as possible.

    Why should I use this pack?

    The answer is simple: Speed. There are many tools and packs available out there to guide you through map completion but I think you'll all find that they pale in comparison to the routing and techniques used in my pack. I'm a map comp speedrunner and I've worked for hundreds of hours with other speedrunners to find the most efficient routing and methods possible. This pack is a culmination of all that experience and includes all the same tricks and tools that I do in my runs. Just a month or so ago I ran 0-100% map comp, non-segmented, in 12 hours using this same pack. Souls', who currently holds the official world record of 11 hours 43 minutes uses this very same routing (albeit from a slightly older version).

    So it's just for speedrunners?

    Absolutely not! You're welcome to run the pack at any speed you'd like. If you want to brain off and just follow a trail you can most certainly do that, and you still will find that just following proper routing will shave a lot of time off your map comp experience. The pack also comes with a lot of quality of life features, like different trail colors, mount markers, heart zones to tell you where to complete hearts, descriptions on how to complete them the fastest and the ability to easily toggle on and off the stuff you don't need (like hero point trails, if you buy them from WvW!).

    Short Teaser: https://streamable.com/nrdjxe

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    ​

    Alright, enough talk, just give me the pack to try out!

    Direct Download Link

    You can find the Git for the pack here.

    Installation instructions (just drag and drop into the TacO POIs folder), a marker legend, and other useful info can be found in the wiki.

    You can also join the official Teh's Trails discord for support or issue reporting!

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    Edit: Skyscale is used but not required for the pack, there's always a non-skyscale path included. Griffon is highly recommended/required, but you could technically just follow the path from below for the most part.

    Edit 2: Also, yes, my pack uses waypoints. You can find an example of how that works here. (ignore the trail as that's a very old version haha)

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    Anyone else think of not the bees Nic Cage when they see Mesmer sword 1?

    Posted: 09 Apr 2021 08:37 AM PDT

    Solo Caudecus Manor Path 1 - Warrior [7:46]

    Posted: 09 Apr 2021 07:07 PM PDT

    Gamers are exploring virtual worlds while our own is on lockdown

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 08:24 AM PDT

    I tried heal/boon herald for raids in place of druid and was pleasantly surprised

    Posted: 09 Apr 2021 07:24 PM PDT

    OK - so I've made just about every raid build, and got to theorycrafting - cause I like to - and got to wondering after some of the recent patches if herald could fill a druid's role in raiding.

    In my opinion, the core of heal druid's role in raiding is:

    • ensure 25 stacks of might for 10 people
    • ensure fury uptime for 5-10 people (depends on if they take storm spirit or have a FB)
    • ensure the squad has some consistent heals
    • provide some burst heals when needed
    • provide unique (offensive) boons

    So with that in mind, I took heavy inspiration from another build to form this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PmwAw6ZlpQJMLiidRTMMqiJShsCagn7ldrE-zRJYqRHfZUdKkeF47A-e

    It, in my opinion, is able to cover all of the core of druid's role - it just doesn't have all the same utility to cover some of the specialized roles (don't try to push on SH with this...). Maybe it can cover some unique roles I haven't thought of though...

    For might/fury, I present a replay's boon table (names hidden to protect the guilty):

    https://imgur.com/a/FOGg7o1

    Consistent heals are provided via regen combined with Elden's Respite.

    Burst heals come from staff (though best to camp sword/shield for might gen).

    Unique boons are:

    When comparing to druid, herald's pros/cons:

    Pros:

    • Makes boon support roles easier (allows them to take greedier DPS builds)
    • Permanent stronger regen/protection/swiftness - particularly useful if people need to move off-stack for mechanics
    • Better at tanking - better self sustain and blocks
    • Stronger burst CC
    • Strong "bursty" DPS buff

    Cons:

    • No spirits
    • No entagle, less push (see gors/sam/SH)
    • Basically no ranged support (except what they get on stack)
    • Harder time might capping - I haven't had much trouble with might-gen, but I feel like druid can cap might for 10 squadies, their spirits, 5 flesh golems, a dozen turrets, and have more leftover
    • Lower condi cleanse - staff has some condi cleanse, but can't compete with healing spring + CA-2

    So on some fights, druid would certainly be preferred, but I feel like on others this could actually be a stronger alternative. The best example I can think of is CA - a bursty power DPS buff, an AoE knockback on low CD (for shields), and plus stacking regen/prot/swiftness helps collectors have an safer time are all good fits.

    What are you all's thoughts on this build?

    EDIT: So my understanding from the wiki was flawed, and burst of strength hits 5 targets, rather than applies the buff to 5 targets. That kinda cripples much of the reason for this build.... but still a fun thought.

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    [Win] W4 CM Full Clear 14:14

    Posted: 09 Apr 2021 09:13 AM PDT

    Logs:

    https://dps.report/VLZB-20210407-004710_cairn

    https://dps.report/rUkV-20210407-004947_mo

    https://dps.report/sTyC-20210407-005510_sam

    https://dps.report/W7qX-20210407-005938_dei

    PoVs:

    Deaxon (Chrono): https://youtu.be/8C2zgLrfTBU

    Duarte (Ren): https://youtu.be/_HSAbphLfTY​​

    Aizza (Chrono): https://youtu.be/g06RglVUUyY

    Mythic (Chrono): https://youtu.be/O1b5nSyRNOk

    Nero (Chrono): https://youtu.be/yftPvKQ8pP4

    Enko (Chrono:) https://youtu.be/nMJgqxFPVJU

    Dragonback (Chrono): https://youtu.be/TPM6N21PjZs

    Luna (Berserker): https://youtu.be/MxJlKwPuDiE

    Overview: We wanted to push our W4 CM speed clear ever since the Hardstuck NA vs EU W4 CM race a few months ago. Also not sure if you guys have noticed, but power Chrono is pretty strong right now, so instead of going with our old standard comps, we went PURPLE. Our clear could have been 15-20 seconds faster quite easily, we have an 11 second faster Samarog CM, an 8 second faster Deimos CM, and we could have min-maxed our rotations on Cairn more to skip the 3rd green entirely. However, due to scheduling, fatigue, and the Hardstuck Raiding Tournament on the horizon, we have decided to call it here!

    Cairn: Quite standard. Cairn CM doesn't actually gain any extra health over normal mode so as long as we efficiently fit the special action key into our rotation, our kill times can be very similar to normal mode. The only other catch is skipping greens and getting petrified if you skip more than 1. We went to the first green since Chronos are just casting phantasms anyways in their CS opener, and we used nature spirit to get stability for the 2nd one. We should have easily been able to skip the 3rd green entirely, but due to some inconsistencies, laziness, and other factors, we just played it safe and focused on the rest of the wing.

    Mursaat Overseer: Honestly, nothing super note worthy here. The Banner Berserker and some help from the Druid cleared the scouts so that we didn't have to deal with any soldiers. The rest was just rotations.

    Samarog: This is where things started to get interesting. We had never done power Chrono stack on Samarog or Sam CM before this grind, but it was quickly obvious how powerful it is with pretty little effort.. It has insane CC, Stability Mantra, and it's rotation is not very restrictive. The one caveat is that during our grind, Samarog CM became bugged. The spears don't always get pulled in, and there is no obvious tell what causes it from what we can tell. This made the boss more reliant on RNG and luck, It's not impossible to stay consistent, but it's still a loss if you have to adapt in a suboptimal way due to the bug. I hope it get's fixed before the tournament! ;) ;)

    Deimos: Deimos will probably be the most controversial boss from this full clear. We opted to skip the 75% and 50% with Continuum Split, and sacrifice the 25% green. This is overall a cheezie/exploity move, but it just worked so well for our strategy that we went for it. We had our Druid tank and our alacrity Renegade hand kite, his build is quite unique and he stayed very very close to the group with hands in order to give us his juicy buffs. Some minor things to make the strategy work as well include: Mass Invis at 10% so that we don't all immediately get murdered by the 6 Sauls when we get ported, using Inspiring Reinforcement to have stability for his slams at 10%, our BS intentionally losing stealth first to try and bait the attacks of the Sauls, and we also swapped to 10% damage reduction food during the roleplay before the 10% phase.

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    if u want sab infusion - just do it

    Posted: 09 Apr 2021 02:29 PM PDT

    Just want to state that tribulation mode is actually fun once u get used to it. The first run is a fkn pain in the ass and maybe takes hours, but second and third run will be much faster and after that its just an extremly good jumping puzzle which is a lot of fun to run multiple times.

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    Is my video card dying

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 07:45 AM PDT

    in wvw i keep seeing green ribbons coming from someones skills

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    [iV] Invicta Luna | Shattered Observatory Fractal | Artsariiv CM Restricted 0:43s (no consumables, no trap precast)

    Posted: 09 Apr 2021 09:32 AM PDT

    Hello everyone!

    We decided to try to do a Restricted Artsariiv kill, first to see how good it would be with our 2SLB 2DH 1Ren comp and second because it hasn't been optimized before. We thought having to CC the adds during split phases would slow us down, but turns out that we had more than enough CC, so we just went for the fastest and most reliable CC schedule we could think of. Hope you'll enjoy watching the kill as much as we enjoyed doing it !

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    Log: https://dps.report/qeN0-20210408-181727_arriv

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    PoVs:

    Delay | Soulbeast | https://youtu.be/sNi-C4DgOYI

    Pineapple | Renegade | https://youtu.be/eN8ulRzczj0

    Tantor | Dragonhunter | https://youtu.be/4pxsuQ2lUvY

    Magic | Dragonhunter | https://youtu.be/9EU_5dDrLks

    BlackHawk | Soulbeast | https://youtu.be/NyzJXwiRz2k

    Soulbeast

    Taking gazelle on both Soulbeast was probably the only way to get enough CC to achieve this. Unmerging gave us access to the core F2 ability on gazelle. This ability to CC multiple targets at the same time while also being at high range. The Soulbeasts staggered Sic 'Em so that they wouldn't have to wait for it to be off cooldown to start p3, because waiting was taking more time. We also started the boss very quickly to get as much One Wolf Pack as possible in p1. Each Soulbeasts could only castOne Wolf Pack One Wolf Pack once on the mistlock because if one of the Soulbeasts double cast it it wouldn't have been off cooldown at the beginning of p3 which would have made p3 extremely difficult. Thanks to the Lightning field provided by the Renegade using Inspiring Reinforcements Soulbeasts were able to get Severance sigil and Twice as Vicious in p3 using only a Leap finisher from Worldly Impact.

    Dragonhunter

    Dragonhunter provides a decent amount of CC thanks to Bane Signet, Binding Blades and Blind/Slow that could be applied with multiple skills like Leap of Faith, Symbol of Blades and Purification. They were the main source of damage as the lenght of the damage phases and the lenght of the CC phases right after allowed them to have a full burst in each damage phase. The Dragonhunters used Shield of Courage to aegis p2 and p3 slams in order to not have to dodge to upkeep scholar uptime and to allow the Soulbeasts to use channelled skills like Whirling Defense. They also used the Honor traitline to precast stronger symbols in p1.

    Renegade

    The Renegade did a "Reversed" rotation than what is seen on most videos. This is because in our CC ditribution the Renegade uses Forced Engagement instead of Darkrazor to cc an add which allows for a rotation more focused on damage output. The specific advantages of this rotation are: higher Soulcleave's Summit uptime and the ability to simultaneously CC 2 Adds during the second CC phase with only 1 Forced Engagement. Soulcleave's Summit scales with the Renegade's power that is heavily increased thanks to the Bane Signet buffs, this resulted in Soulcleave's Summit doing a total of 300k during the whole fight. Lasting Legacy was ran to sustain 25 stacks of Might throughout the fight.

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    That's it for the theory, hope you'll like the videos!

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    SAB Bauble Drop

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 03:12 AM PDT

    I never played SAB but i want to get more into it the next days So my simple question is Do you get more baubles in tribulation Mode/do you get less in easy mode? Or is it just for the challenge and achievements ?

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    the download speed falls and rises, its been hours i tried restarting router and pc, disabling firewall, started the setup with administrator nothing seems to work.

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 02:24 AM PDT

    50% codes

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 08:03 AM PDT

    any codes for 50% off expansion you guys dont need ?

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    "Your screenshot folder is full"

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 01:08 AM PDT

    So I've hit my screenshot limit, apparently...
    I've moved my old screenshots out of my normal folder, deleted some and renamed some, yet I still can't make anymore screenshots. Does anyone know what I can do?

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    What is the release date of the latest chapter of Champions?

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 04:52 AM PDT

    Spirit Shards

    Posted: 10 Apr 2021 07:04 AM PDT

    I have around 200 spirit shards, and recommendations on what to do with it?

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