I own 2 copies of the game (1 via Steam and 1 via the standalone Launcher).

I installed the Steam version and until now, used the "-provider Portal" Steam Launch option to switch between them. With Lunar new Year approaching I decided that, typing 2 words to change Versions, is too much of a hassle and looked for an easier solution.

Turns out, it's really simple: By adding the GW2.exe, from the Steam installation, as a "Non-Steam Game" you are able to create differnt Shortcuts, with differnt Launch options, for the same Game.

First boss gets stuck in its invuln-AoE-phase. Resetting fractal, entirely leaving the lobby, nothing has reset it.

Couple of bug fixes and some LFG polish, but over 300MB. Huh.

Part 2: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/141813-game-update-notes-january-9-2024/#comment-2057112

We are temporarily disabling gliding in WvW due to a crash issue and will re-enable it once the issue is resolved. Gliding is only disabled in WvW, other game modes are not affected.

Zerglings go splat. No, seriously. I think I lost a year of my life wheezing my lungs out, I haven't seen anything that hilarious in like a year.

Many events have a bit of a grace period once the last item is being given to the NPC, so others can get rid of their items and get participation. Many events also have a timer, so if you hand in the last item 15 seconds before the event ends and the NPC gives it another 60 seconds of grace period, the event fails.

Just joking, it doesn't fail. That would be an immensily inept way to design a game. All items being handed in has priority, the event checks for that before declaring fail or success state.

Except in current content. The beacon part of the Nayos meta, for example.

I'm trying to get back into GW2, in large part because it's one of the few MMOs I've liked that actually works well under Linux.

For a frame of reference, my main was a Nord Necromancer with ~33 mastery points, and the three easier-to-acquire mounts. I completed the main story and HoT, and sort of drifted out in the middle of PoF for like two years. Just bought the EoD expansion while it's on sale.

I've got one 20-slot bag and four 15-slots, and maybe 1-2 slots free at any given time. I suspect my problem is less "bag space" per se, and more a hoarding tendency-- crafting items, "turn it into some NPC for a quest" items, seasonal tonics and exchange items. Hell, I still have the Level 80 token that came with the original purchase, because I figured if I skipped to 80, I'd miss the Personal Story.

Is there a good rundown for discard/sell/keep somewhere? One thing I've seen in other games that I appreciate is when they say "these seasonal items are now obsolete and will be deleted/can be auto-sold for trifling sums".

Alternatively, should I just treat this character as a walking treasure chest, park him, and try to shared-slot things of actual value to a new character? Part of me says to fire up a revenant-- I always mean to try it, but I suspect now I'll be disappointed after spending my holiday playing too much Code Vein, where it was the term for "formally speaking not vampires, but, yeah... vampires."

If you do not own the deluxe upgrades for HoT and/or PoF and were thinking about getting extra character slots anyway, you can get the slot plus other bonuses for 40 gems less than just the discounted character slot alone right now.

The PoF one also has a lounge pass (Lily of the Elon, near Amnoon), which is very nice if you don't already own one. They both have a few cosmetics.

It doesn't show a time in-game when the deal will end unfortunately (instead just shows the "1 available at this price" message) and I couldn't find that info elsewhere.

Probably save to assume that they will keep selling half a season of Living World once a year for an almost full full box price, but I'll wait until something is actually released. Maybe it'll be more than 85% cannibalized and recycled mechanics and art assets.

@that_shaman@mstdn.social Amazing work!

If anything or anyone can save this expansion for me it's Peitha. Of course this would mean that she turns out to be the ultimate villain in the end, but we cannot stop trusting her nonetheless.

Just finished it, works now.

What kind of goal are you working towards? Legendary weapon or specific skin, please share! I'm kind of looking for new inspirations😅

And I'm pretty sure our Commander and his herald are fucking.

Reward: pwetty cape. -> [&AgF5igEA]

Oh, and that Single-Use Dungeon Portal Scroll is a scam. It doesn't even teleport you to Camilla, it drops you off at the entrance of Lion's Arch like the regular scroll. Shame.

There have been several reports of 72h bans and I'll just link to a reddit modpost.

It's most likely just a false positive, yet it'd still be annoying to get banned for half a week over nothing.

Edit: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/140918-players-are-being-given-72-hours-bans-for-unlocking-waypoints-for-another-playeraccount-with-turtle/page/4/#comment-2042375

Fun's over, mate.

Just healed 100 nm Afflicted, 0 problems, absolutely fucking retarded OP. Shit's hilarious and will get only better with the rifle.

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Switched MoC for Null Field in that specific case since Uber AoE Condi Removal of Doom ruled supreme in that specific encounter.

Cake is fixed, praised be the Lord.

Yes I stole it from Reddit.

You monster.

Hopefully one day lemmy will have actual polls, too.

... and this completes a Map ... and you get a Black Lion Chest Key ... and you get really lucky.

When I play Engineer, I usually have exactly one Engineering Kit equipped as a Utility Skill and I basically (want to) use this Kit as my 2nd Weapon Set.

This works pretty well, but has the downside that the Weapon Swap Key only swaps from kit back to weapons but not to the kit (how would it know?) and when I press it (accidentally) while not/no longer in combat it swaps to my other actual weapon set.

So I had the idea to bind the key I'm normally using for weapon swap. i. e. ^ (caret) on my QWERTZ keyboard, to the 3rd utility slot which is where I normally place the kit skill.

Perfect ... Exactly what I wanted for my Engineer:

• The weapon swap key now alternates between current weapon set and kit
• I can no longer accidentally swap to my other weapon set

But since GW2 does not support per-character keybindings, I would need to rebind keys again whenever I play a different (normal) profession.

Hmmm .... What if I (instead of messing with in-game key bindings) add something to my AutoHotkey script (I'm already using for Jump+Dodge) which lets me toggle Kit Mode mappings by using some special key (Numpad0 for example)?

kitMode := false

#If WinActive("ahk_exe Gw2-64.exe")
; Toggle kitMode on Numpad0/NumpadIns 
Numpad0::
NumpadIns::
	kitMode := !kitMode
	Return

#If WinActive("ahk_exe Gw2-64.exe") and kitMode 
; Assuming default mappings on a QWERTZ keyboard
; Map ^ (weapon swap) to 9 (Utility Skill 3)
^::9

When I'm now on my Engineeer, I press Numpad0 once to enable Kit Mode which makes my weapon swap key alternate between current weapon set and kit (3rd utility slot). And when I log a different profession, I press Numpad0 once again to restore the original behavior.

🛠 Mission accomplished 🛠

See https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013762153-Policy-Macros-and-Macro-Use

You may bind dodge and jump to a single key.

Alliances and Team Transfers have to die so World Restructuring can live.