Personally, I love getting right in the face of the BBEG. I love trading blows, parrying, and dishing it back. The guardian is perfect for me because I love using the Aegis mechanic to block and then counter with stacking boons.

What’s your favorite playstyle for GW2 or other rpg’s?

Hey guys I’m from NA but I’ve been playing in EU all this time for over 500 hours. I have joined multiple guilds and have many friends. Do you think it’s worth it to switch to NA. My daily reset happens at 8pm and sometimes I miss some content during the weekends as EU trains start early in my time. I don’t want to make the switch and then regret not finding anyone in the LFG. I primarily use LFG for any kind of activity. Also suggest me some discords where I can ask LFG for any instanced content that fills up soon.
Thanks in advance

Background: I played a lot on and off from release until about 2018. I was in multiple raiding guilds and would clear wings 1-4 every week. I would also do t4 fractals every day. I have recently come back and am really enjoying playing through the expansions and new content but when I go back to play t4 fractals it's a lot different.

The average damage people are doing is much higher so a lot of boss encounters are cleared very quickly. This seems to be exacerbated by groups looking for specific team compositions: aheal, qdps, etc. (In 2018 it was usually just all dps and vibes, maybe a healer for CM) The unique mechanics of some fights can now just be ignored completely or sometimes they don't even have time to impact the fight in a meaningful way. This is cool I guess, but sometimes disappointing too.

Recently, when solitary throne was a daily, I was able to find a PUG that was very reluctant to run it but ended up going in. Two other people in the group, as well as myself had never done it. I had watched a couple of videos and read the wiki as I've heard it was tough and wanted to familiarize myself with the mechanics. We got to the boss pretty easily but after getting the boss under 30% and then wiping two times, 3 people left the party and we were unable to fill.

I think the hate for this fractal is undeserved. There is a lot to keep track of and ignoring the mechanics comes with harsh punishment. It mostly just seems the fractal is designed to be a direct answer to the current meta of fractals of stacking in one spot and face rolling the keyboard until the boss dies.

I feel the state of the game and the meta of fractals have made the barrier of entry to t4 much lower. That to me is amazing, but it also seems players may not be getting the chance to learn to play around mechanics in end game content and this fractal is basically a skill check.

I also think the other complaint of the fractal takes too long to fit into the daily grind of doing 12 fractals says a lot more about the state of fractals as a whole and the concept of daily challenges in videogames than it says about the fractal itself.

Idk maybe I should just go to bed and thank you coming to my ted talk

Played casually a few years ago and clocked around 150h. Didn’t do much PvP but I’m starting to get the itch to now. I kinda want a single game to stick to and GW2 appeals to me due to its horizontal progress and friendly community, but I really can’t remember what the experience was like in PvP lol.

Come join the 21st King and Queen's Horrorween 2026 community event, Boo's of the Ooze!

This October 24th on EU, join your hosts Daniel Frozenwind and Mad Queen Malafide in Lion's Arch, starting at 5:30 pm CEST. Take part in various fun games and activities, and have a chance to win fantastic prizes!

More info and raffle here:

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/177374-the-21st-king-and-queens-horrorween-2026/

Do not miss the Chromatic Costume Contest, the haunting melodies from the Ghostly Quartet, and the adrenaline and high octane from the Blasphemous Blob-bounce race!

I'm pretty new to MMOs and playing thief, currently lvl 36. I like the combat but half the time idk if I'm playing it properly or just pressing buttons.

I've done my first dungeon and tried PvP once. Got destroyed in PvP but obviously I've only tried it once so I'm not expecting to be good.

What should I focus on learning first? Any weapons you'd recommend while levelling? And for PvP, what am I actually supposed to do as a thief?

People have told me it's a hard class to learn. Was thinking about trying warrior but I do enjoy thief so I'd rather understand it a bit more before switching.

Any advice or guides that explain the basics and why you're doing things? Don't really want to just copy a build and still have no clue what I'm doing.

I also LOVE the action cam!

EDIT: Cheers everyone, I've been reading through all the replies even if I haven't replied to each one. Honestly the community has been so helpful since I started playing, both here and in game. Makes getting into an MMO for the first time a lot less overwhelming. Appreciate you all taking the time to explain things!

Hey, I wanted to start the game, preferably as a human knight since dwarfs are not playable. Is there any non overengineered knight armor set in the game? Could you give me the piece names so I can google for them?

When i search online for transmogs i see the most ugly lightshow rave party armor sets known to man, surely this game also offers some more down to earth drip right?

Also a normal knight would be guardian or rather warrior profession?

Since hyped for gw3, wanna go for gw2.

Since never played it before - and beein a rly big fan of doing pvp sometimes:

Is the pvp balanced? Like gear capped?

Like for example Crystal Conflict FF14?

Or does gear matter for pvping?

Also:

Does it take tons of hrs to catch u veterans up interms of gearing overall?

Ty allt

The mean pseudo vampire and the guild's golem, a scrappy merc, and the black citadel's most sensitive indoor charr

When we first got this outfit, I was rocking it so hard with the weapon skins back in the day. Then this year we got Transform emote and I had enough to buy it so i thought why the hell not? So I dressed up again and put the Transform emote to use.

Some may ask themselves, if it's better to sell or to open these bags. The answer is sort of subjective, but I'll try to state my thoughts and would like to invite others to add their opinions about it here.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trick-or-Treat_Bag

The prices after this first week are continuing to drop and I'd say you have to ask yourself what you want out of it.

It's a great source of gold, if you need it, since they can be farmed easily with any profession all day long and sell like hot cakes on the tp.

Opening them floods your inventory with plastic fangs, chattering skulls, nougat centers, candy corns, various halloween tonics some finishers, rotten eggs and toilet paper.

As of writing this post, a stack of 250 bags sells for roughly 7g 80s on the tp.

If you are after Candy Corn Cobs, my advise would be to sell the bags and buy the cobs directly. Opening a whole stack of bags, leaves you with give or take 1000 candy corns, which can be traded into one Cob, however on the TP a cob goes for 4g 30~90s currently. Thus you can get almost 2 cobs for a single stack of bags.

They also have a rare chance to drop items like Vassago, Onus etc as well as T6 materials. Also, they can drop Courtly Weapon chests, which are account bound and contain a choice of one of 12 weapons with a unique skin you can get only from this chest or from guaranteed unlock tickets.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Courtly_Weapon_Chest

Lastly there is a super rare chance to get infusions, some selling for a pretty penny, but usually you'll need to open tens of thousand of bags just to get one.

tl;dr: don't care about the weapon skins and super rare chance for infusions? sell the bags!

need candy corn COBS? sell the bags and buy them directly.

So, I was harvesting flax in Verdant Brink when suddenly I started spewing black clouds and feathers all over. I didn't have any infusions, I don't own Nevermore, and the effect stayed going until I changed maps. But it was very cool, and I'm curious what set it off and/or how I can get it permanently. Anyone know what it is?

Hopefuly i found my mmorpg for the next few months.

Hopefuly i get fast a mount?

With and without text.
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