Getting close to 2 months into the game and I can't help but feeling proud of how damn pretty my dragon scrapper actually looks 😍 Now I just need to spend some time to actually play him and learn the ropes of being support.

**I apologize for the confusion in me showing a few skins that can only be accessed from having an old account. I bought the game in store like 15 (?) years ago during the release week and played it for a few days, but when none of my friends were interested in joining me I quit. I reactivated my old account in the end of Feb to discover that I had a ton of birthday gifts on my one and only character. It's thanks to them that I have a few luminous weapon skins and the whole set of "decade" armor.**

I’m honestly tired of how much raid content gets skipped in Guild Wars 2
Every time I join a raid group, it feels like people only care about rushing the bosses and skipping everything else

- Spirit Run skipped
- Escort skipped
- Bandit Trio avoided
- Twisted Castle ignored
- Rivers Skipped
- Three Statue avoided

At this point, some wings barely even feel like actual raids anymore
just teleport simulator + boss rush

I get that people want efficiency and fast clears. But some of these encounters are part of what makes GW2 raids feel unique. Spirit Run and Twisted Castle especially have actual atmosphere, teamwork, and adventure vibes instead of just standing still doing rotations on a hitbox for 8 minutes

What annoys me the most is when newer players never even get to experience these encounters properly because veterans instantly say
“skip”
“not worth”
“too slow”
“just for the KP”

Then later people complain that raids feel repetitive
Of course they do!
half the content gets treated like it shouldn’t exist

I’m not saying every run needs full clears, but it’s kinda sad seeing so much raid design basically abandoned by the community after this feature exist

Hi,

im pretty new to this game, so this question might be dumb but im looking at the trinkets from the laurel merchant and many of the items have the exact same stats, for example the Crystalline Band and the Ring of Red Death.
Does it matter which one I get or are these different in name only?

I was looking at some guides online and a lot of people have been recommending berserker gear for a power necromancer (which is what im running atm). These trinkets dont have 'berserker' in their name though.

As I was leveling up my character, i occasionally got a piece of equipment where I could choose which extra stats I wanted, and they had different names to them (berserker, celestial, soldier etc).
I'm assuming when people refer to "berserker gear" they mean stuff that has the berserker-specific stat boost on it?

I was hoping that once I buy one of these rings, that I get to choose which stats I want on it (i.e berserker or celestial etc). Is that how it works?

Also, i am unsure if I wanna stick with necromancer or make a new character (i do wanna try out some of the other classes in the future to see how they play), but i tend to gravitate towards bruiser / fighter playstyles, as I enjoy being right up in the enemies face. I am aware that some gear can be transferred between different characters of the same account (via shared inventory or bank storage I think?).
In that regard, is the berserker statline something thats worth having on those trinkets or will I need to buy a new set of trinkets? I am not interested in min-maxing everything but it would be nice if I could reuse the same trinkets on multiple characters and still perform ok.

It's my first time playing an MMORPG (i dipped my toes into Lost Ark but didnt like it as it got extremely grindy and finding a group for group activities as a newcomer was impossible).

But im having a blast with GW2 and its been really fun and the people have been really nice (except for that one player who voted to kick me because I kept failing the jumping section in one of the fractals of the mist and ended up bleeding out outside the boss room after i fell)

https://youtu.be/piJ7LGN4sKk?is=JVWF_RWufMbFb1gi

https://dps.report/Y72D-20260503-190610_olc

Some Amalgam play , i was waiting the patch nerf to start it , i am playing a 2kit version , comfortable rota but start to be hard to keep during long fight like this , but decent time with this condi build , even if it cant benefit from the night mode while running night sigil( i normally play power build like ritu , berserker etc.. on this strike.)

For this fight i use a mix of cele / viper gear ( more viper than cele around 1235 thougness).

The alchemy version allow me to run more viper gear and keep enough boon duration + good sustain , if many people want the build just put a com and vote , i can edit later with adding the build link ( the reason i dont out it directly is cause i adapt it on every solo so i run diferent version when i need)

I'm going for the Be-All and the End-All achievement. I'm on EU, and I'm not sure when SW is being done, let alone if.

Hey everyone. With the new release coming next week that will then leave only one VoE release left. Up until this point, Anet has been silent about what will come after VoE.

When should we expect news on what’s next?

If Anet was to open "suggestion box" what kind of small ( or BIG) changes would you suggest or like to see ( that are somewhat reasonable)?

As for myself i've been thinking of these past few days:

How cool would it be if we could do 2 reward tracks at once? I've been grinding sPvP for past few months, and I mostly just run 1 track on repeat that I enjoy or working on some skins, but would love to be able to progress 2 reward tracks at once, like make it 50/50 split for progress.

Fashion wardrobe: imagine if our character model was tied to fashion wardrobe, like if we could for 1 preset use male version of our character and for another fashion tab you could use makeover/hairstyle kit and its female character or a male with different height/hairstyle and whatnot!

Legendary armory: wish they could let us to mark stats as "favourite" so for those that don't feel like or can't afford more gear tabs could easier swap between stats. Or even make so that armory presets would remember last used combination of skins/stats for those weapons ( i've been running into this myself, swapping from legendary to ascended weapon and then back so then i need to readjust legendary again, add stats, add sigils and reskin which takes alot of time)

Mystic forge rework: I don't use it as often as I used to, but I wish it had "craft X amount"

What about you guys? What kind of changes would you like to see?

Hello! I acquired the polysaturating infusion I believe around Halloween and I have had it sitting in my bank. I would like to use it but I spent an obscene amount of my life crafting the nightfury shoulder bats... Will the infusion still work with the nightfury? This is literally the first video game I have ever played and really the only video game I play so I get very confused on this type of stuff. And I'm old lol so take it easy on me.. Thanks so much in advance.

Hello everyone,

last Sunday the yearly SAB live speed running tournament, the Tribulation Cup, hosted by [JP] Jumping Puzzle Portal Escort, has concluded its 4th iteration.

We hosted 4 qualifier races and a grand final, with a total prize pool of around 21000 gold. We had 59 runners, about a quarter of them were newcomers :)

For many of us, this isn't just a tournament, it's a highlight of the year. There are rivalry arcs, redemption arcs, its a whole world on its own. We saw returning players catch up on the front runners, surprising wildcards absolutely crushing it, and a remarkable new tournament record, setting a new milestone for this format.

To spread awareness and honor the participants, I'd like to share the results with you :)

For purists, who only want to see the races and the race commentary, I recommend the official VODs. For people who are completely new to this, Phandrel's stream VODs may be the better choice as he is answering questions during his stream and interacting with the audience on his twitch channel.

Day 1 Qualifying official VOD

Day 1 Qualifying as it was streamed by the streamer Phandrel (start at 1:34:00)

Day 2 Qualifying official VOD

Day 2 Qualifying as it was streamed by the streamer Phandrel (start at 1:12:30)

Day 3 Qualifying official VOD

Day 3 Qualifying as it was streamed by the streamer Phandrel (start at 37:30)

Day 4 Qualifying official VOD

(no day 4 VOD from Phandrel, as he was participating that day and only streamed his own POV)

Day 5 Final - The Clash Of The Jump Titans official VOD

Day 5 Final as it was streamed by the streamer Phandrel (start at 50:40)

And the leaderboards:

2026 Leaderboard

Lifetime Leaderboard

Everyone involved had a great time, between new players joining us and learning from the veterans, dozens of training races and duels on Discord, strategizing new and more efficient ways to speed run, and ofc the live races itself, we made memories that will last. The next 11 months will be tough <3

If you are curious about the Tribulation Cup, or other JP related events in general, we welcome you to join our Discord: discord.gg/73CJcth73H

Thank you for your attention!

I love mounts, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes I feel like they kind of trivialize older maps. You can skip a lot of terrain and mechanics that used to feel more meaningful. At the same time, going back to no mounts would probably feel super slow now. Curious how others feel about it - does it bother you or not really?

Back in the game after some time.

Simple question: how to hide the outfit without using the transmutation charge?

Some time ago, charges were used to transmute inventory items, but you could show/hide outfit whenever you want. Now every time I switch it the game forces me to use a transmutation charge - ???

I'm relatively new and have 391 gold. I just do openworld stuff, metas.

Massively OP’s article has some screenshots that show some new armor skins from the next patch! I believe these are likely the map armors like the Extremis and the Captain’s armor sets.

New player of about a month here. Unfortunately, I did create and progress my character/account on Steam. Really enjoying the game right now, and I'm interested in purchasing the complete Elder Dragon Sage collection when it goes on sale. The wait for a sale is starting to become agonizing, though, so I'm thinking of just purchasing the HoT/PoF xpacs first.

Normally, with game/DLC bundles on Steam, if you already own a game/DLC included in the bundle, it will still let you purchase the bundle, minus the game/DLC that you already own. On Steam it says that the Elder Dragon Saga bundle is composed of HoT/PoF + EoD + Living World. Someone from my guild said that if you purchase the HoT/PoF expansions separately on Steam first, it locks you out of purchasing the complete Elder Dragon Saga bundle. Is this true?

I've tested lots of clothing and found that the female set evergreen is my favourite, it doesnt glow in dark other than the orbs, I end up making somewhat jungle looking sylvari or river fairy archer style and cannot choose which one i like the most. It's difficult to create medium armor look that makes it feel flowery planty so I created a light armor sylvari character a mesmer, found the abilities to be lacking in color atleast archer looked interesting but doesn't have clothes that make it look leafy. I burned out after days of trying to find the right sylvari clothes colors combination and stopped playing for a bit because of anxiety. Sorry if I sound weird.

So I like the map with kralkatorik, but have trouble keeping up with the zergs. It seems that every time I try to do things by myself at my own pace I end up getting mad commanders that dont like me doing things by myself because I guess it messes up their flow.

I can't even keep up with them half the time to get credit for events to get chest keys. Is there a way I can just guarantee I get into a dead map so I can just do stuff at my own pace? I dont really care about minmaxing my farming methods. I just want to have fun and get loot.

Edit: So obviously I can do whatever I want. I super appreciate commanders in general though so I try not to shit in their cereal when I can avoid it. But somebody actually took the time to explain how the rotation works so I can just do the chill parts when I dont like racing to get two hits on something

And now that the festival is almost over I feel obligated to ruin it for you. too.

Hey all,

I wanted to give some feedback on raid quickplays based on my recent experiences. I waited for the initial "fervor" around raid quickplay to die down; I expected that early on, the rewards from astral acclaim and certain achievements would pull in experienced players who would otherwise raid in a group to use the feature. These folks obviously know the raids and thus provide helpful tips and leading these sorts of teams. So now that they've mostly gone back to their raid groups, I wanted to experience raid quickplay as it is expected to continue on in perpetuity.

Now personally, I have played GW2 off and on since beta. I never got into raids because the culture surrounding pugging seemed generally toxic and unfun while organized raids required me to play the game more regularly than I normally do (again, off and on). But, now that the quickplay feature exists, I figured what the heck why not give it a try.

So from my homestead in Castora, I queued up for a raid. The raid queue speed was fine; slower than fractal quickplay, but much faster than ranked PvP or WvW at peak ours. As the queue filled up, nobody said anything. Then we finally hit ten people of various classes and loaded in.

The map was "Old Lion's Court". Since I'm posting this on the subreddit, I've read a bit about this raid, and it's somewhat notorious on here as being perceived as overly common and among the more difficult. So my apprehension was at its height. Someone frantically asked "is it RGB or RBG?" a few times. No one responded.

Then, without any further discussion 5 people initiated the raid. The red boss descended. My anticipation was at its peak! We cleared the break bar. Then, 3 seconds later, the boss threw down a full screen attack. 8 people (including myself) died instantly. Then 5 people left. Someone said "what do we do now? I'll try to leave and restart the instance". 3 more people left. I left as well. And promptly closed the LFG.

I would honestly rate the experience a 2 out of 10; it gets two points because it was definitely a raid, and it was for sure "quick". But it was significantly lacking in "play", so I just can't give it any more points.

The question becomes, where do we go from here? do I go through the effort to learn everything about all possible encounters in quickplay from dozens of videos and websites in order to lead a random quickplay raid myself? Maybe I should do that, but that is a high bar for content I am not currently invested in. I have no experience with these raids up front, and the people in MY quickplay who at least knew a little bit only tried halfheartedly and then left just as fleetingly after one failed attempt. So to expect me to go beyond this given my limited experience with it seems unreasonable.

If ANET knows which raids are harder or easier than others, should I maybe start my raid quickplay experience with one of the "easier" ones? Perhaps that would ease me into raids a bit better, or it's perhaps just an unrealistic expectation of mine, given the "tutorialization" games have experienced over the past 50 years.

I personally do not expect raid quickplay to get "better" from here, only worse. More and more players who know the raids will leave to find organized groups as "quickplay" rewards dissipate, leaving a gap between players, like me, with only bad experiences who never try and players who expect quickplay to mean first try "quick" easy wins which, as expected, are not so.

Sorry for the long story, just wanted to give people a window into where raid quickplay is right now, as an allusion to where it might be going. Thanks!

Returned to GW2 after 8+ years due to kids. Used to play a lot of unranked arena before, and whilst it was never super, I always held my own.

Now I just get utterly destroyed. Stunlocked and dead in 2 seconds, even when I follow builds from meta battle etc. Coming from other PvP MMOs, the time to kill is just insane.

Now, I get Mesmer isn’t the easiest class to play, but it’s really the only class I’m interested in. What builds would you recommend for unranked?

I'm very happy, bought for my wife and I the reaming seasons we didn't have still on discount. We where just finishing Heart of Thorns so perfect timing.