Hi!

I've enjoyed playing Guild Wars 2 on Steam Deck a lot over the past few years.

About two years ago, I've created a controller layout for the game, with around 84.000 hours of playtime across Steam's player base, alongside a video guide on how to get it all running.

Although both the guide and the controller layout are still usable, the keybindings are outdated by now and setting up the game can be a bit finicky.

So I've spent the last few weeks creating an updated controller layout, a dedicated website with information on playing the game on Deck, as well as a small application, which should make setting up the game easier:

https://gw2ondeck.org/

The application is, of course, completely free and open source (GPLv3) and does the following things:

• Downloading and installing the most recent version of my controller layout
• Providing importable keybindings for that layout
• Setting optimized graphics settings
• Improving Steam's radial menus by importing game related icons instead of button glyphs
• Updating everything of the above, when new features are available

There are video guides available for using the app and the controller layout, as well as an FAQ section, which I hope to expand whenever necessary.

Although I'm very certain that the app can't really break anything, I can only do so much testing with one Steam Deck and one Guild Wars 2 account. So I'd love to have some feedback on the whole thing. Does it work for everyone? Is it even useful? Did I overlook something important? I'd be very grateful for every piece of feedback I could get, be it positive or negative! Thanks in advance!

The updated controller layout is, of course, also available via Steam's Community Layouts as Nyankas v2, if you don't want to use GW2OnDeck, although it's missing the customized icons, as these can't be uploaded there.

TL;DR: Is the stuff on https://gw2ondeck.org/ Quality Armor or Foo?

I need to harvest a LOT of them. I'm running around in Lake Doric for them.

For those that don't know: Mount Balrior Raid Expert is an achievement of the new W8 raid. To get that achievement you have to obtain 100 points for each of the bosses of the wing. You obtain one point for each person in your squad for whom it was the first kill time ever that they kill that boss.

1. It is a pyramid scheme. By design, only about 1/11 players can get it (at best).
2. It encourages people that don't wanna train to do trainings. They are irritated more easily and are way less patient towards new players. Because they don't wanna train new people, they only want to get the achievement.
3. It will only be harder as time goes on to get this achievement, further increasing the toxicity of it, as people rush to get it.
4. It makes non-training runs worse. If there is an underperformer, you can't kick him because people will get angry that they wont get points for the achievement and they will leave. If you don't kick him, you'll both waste time on easily preventable wipes and people will also leave because of it.

Training runs should be done by people that actually want to train. If you want to encourage trainings, you should reward re-clearing wings, doesn't matter if it's a training run or not.

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Seems that the most recent Steam upgrade has caused some Linux user's game to lag after ~30 minutes. Restarting fixes the issue

However, there are other fixes that may eliminate the need to restart like adding to the launch arguments of the game:

LD_PRELOAD=

dxvk Github Issue

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Did it twice now. It sucks. Just my opinion. Most times I couldn’t even figure out where to go.

If you are interested in Guild Wars lore, I can recommend taking a look at this YouTube channel, which I just discovered: https://www.youtube.com/@Evan4K

A short overview of every mount and how players actually use (or don't use!) them in game.

Catalyst will be able to gain energy while a jade sphere is deployed. This totally changes the gameplay of the specialization :o.

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Hello! This is my first "long" video (it's only 5 minutes) about Ardent Gale, an NPC players can interact with in Lowland Shore. This video is an extended version of a short I made last week, which focuses more on the Valravn lore: https://www.youtube.com/shorts//_TzZcGY001o

Feel free to provide feedback about the video (either one). I already have some notes for next time, but I'm always open to hearing more input!

I'm so impressed with the regular events in Lowland Shore so far. I think they're the best in the game excepting maybe Grothmar. Just like that zone they managed to make almost all of them have some little gameplay twist or gimmick that makes them more interesting than bog standard versions we've seen a hundred times before.

I'm honestly having so much fun exploring this map and just taking it in as it comes. Such a great feeling after years of repetitive meta events that all boil down to the same zerg rush gameplay.

Janthir actually makes me want to log in and get lost in the world in a way I haven't felt for a while.

So to preface/disclaim, I love the new zones. JL is a gorgeous zone with great music and reminds me strongly of Grizzly Hills from WotLK back in the day (still one of my favorites there), and JS has serious Diablo vibes, which I absolutely adore. The encounters are interesting, and at least the first of the antagonists was interesting. There's a lot to like here.

That makes it worse, then, to say I am done with them after just a few hours. Story quests done, map complete, got my Falling Star, did the meta. Could always grind more mastery XP, but I've got the ones that mattered to me.

With the old "full" expacs, you had elite specs and hero points that pulled you back to those zones on alts, some- eg guano, frogs, shroom, chak- that were actually fun challenges to tackle. I've been back to HoT / PoF / EoD a dozen times and more over the years.

It just really seems a shame, then, to spend all of this time on awesome art and music and encounters for it to be rendered pointless so quickly. There will be a legendary back at some point in the cycle that will be interesting for a bit of poking like the living world legendaries, but even that's just a 1-off.

At least in SotO there was the prospect of obsidian armor to give it some legs, but unless interior decorating is your thing, this one really just doesn't have a shelf life. I finished up, looked around, and immediately went back to working on stuff elsewhere in the game.

Can't seem to find a definite answer for this...

I tried it a bit with my reaper in pve and it seemed okay, but I wasn't doing anything challenging that really put it to the test. I haven't tried the others classes yet.