https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/5813441

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.

Sales Q3 2023

GW2 sales appear to be almost unaffected by the SotO release (2023-08-22) . Not looking good.

Sales Q3 2022 for comparison

EoD release (2022-02-28) was in Q1 2022 and sales didn't significantly increase before Q2 2022. Similar to PoF (2017-09-22) where it also took until the next quarter (Q4 2017) for sales to really pick up (almost 35K million). So maybe there is hope, i. e. how many people did you tell that they should buy SotO after you have played it?

Source: https://kr.ncsoft.com/en/ir/irArchive/earningsRelease.do

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/139721-legendary-weapon-starter-set-2-contains-weapons-which-were-already-in-set-1-intended/

• It contains Weapons which were already in Set 1. i. e. Quip and Bolt.
• I used the new starter kit for bolt and got literally nothing. (maybe a false alarm)

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_Weapon_Starter_Kit%E2%80%94Set_2

Choosing the Bolt or Quip starter kits currently results in no items being received. This has been confirmed as a bug. It is suggested that players do not select a kit until this is resolved.

... since this will prevent LFG from showing that the Commander's map is full.

Moving yourself (Commander) to a separate subgroup was once used to help others to find the player whose map they should join. But this is no longer needed, since

Commanders and lieutenants are now sorted first in their subsquads following the patch on November 8, 2022.

But since LFG apparently uses Subgroup1 to determine whether a Squad's map is full, keeping this habit does more harm than good.

Yep, I agree, LFG is a mess.

-> Concert for the Ages

... also known as The best Event in the entire Game

One Charr!

E. g. Sandswept Isles

Today I made some progress (5 Tier 3 Rifts) by joining a commander in Amnytas who was using Rare Motivations to track and open Tier 3 Rifts. Then I joined a squad in Sandswept Isles doing the same thing, but I wasn't making any more progress towards the task while the commander (who was using the motivations) apparently did. Though I received Tier 3 Essences from the event itself, i. e. not (only) from weekly reward chests.

Also, Sandswept Isles did not work for the Rift Hunt Vault Daily Task (a day or two ago) and there is a [merged] bug thread on the forums about various Rift Hunt Reward Issues.

With Side-Lace Pants (500 Gems) and possibly Stylish Shoes (400 Gems) for a total of 1400 Gems ≈ 17.50 € ≈ 70% SotO

Preview on Norn

That's the content we want, not hunting stupid demons for months and months. On the other hand ... in RPGs this is the kind of content the community typically provides via mods.

Despite of mixed feedback on the forums it's pretty clear that this (kind of) armor will make ArenaNet a decent chunk of money. Well played!

This is what I hear in my head each time I play the Skywatch Archipelago Meta or rather visit the location of the final event, when it's not currently running.

@[email protected] That was smooth, but did you see the Boots?

I know it's entirely my own fault, but I somehow feel I have to get the weekly rift hunts and weekly vault tasks done, before moving on to things I actually like to do in the game.

I see a lot of guides popping up which suggest that Rift Hunting is a good method of making gold in the game, but I completely fail to understand this. IMHO it's terribly boring and does not even have a good gold/hour ratio.

My understanding is that the main reason for doing Rifts is to get those Essences which you will need for the new Legendary PvE Armor, i. e. you do the Weekly Rift Hunting Achievements which give you a decent amount of additional higher level Essences (even from Tier 1 Rifts) and that's it.

Doing Tier 1 Rifts without receiving Kryptis Rift Extraction containers has very poor rewards and doing Tier 2 and/or Tier 3 requires very expensive Kryptis Motivation consumables which means you either need to join (leech) a Tier 2|3 Rift Hunting Squad (those appear to be rare) or organize one yourself and try to share the costs. But maybe I'm not quite getting it.

Addition: It appears that the gold making strategy is based on using the Essences you get from your Rift Hunts to craft and then sell Uncommon and Rare Kryptis Motivations on the TP which implies the following to make this actually work:

• You don't need thoses Essences yourself, i. e. you are not interested in the new Open World Legendary Armor which requires a LOT of them.
• There is or rather continues to be a market for those Motivations, i. e. people are willing to buy them to do (additional) T2 and/or T3 Rift Hunts for higher level Essences beyond the 5 x 5 Weekly Rift Hunts which grant them via reward chests.

Here are some gold making alternatives with varying levels of required skill/engagement.

• Fishing
  • sell Chunk of Ancient Ambergris
  • craft and sell Zephyrite Fish Jerky
• Daily (limited chests) Map Metas
  • Dragonfall, not on a fixed schedule, IMHO the best (most fun) map meta in the game
  • Istan (Palawadan + Great Hall), every 2 hours, use LFG to check for a squad and join the commander's map instance early
  • ...
• Daily Fractals
• Easy Daily Strikes, i. e.
  • Shiverpeaks Pass
  • Fraenir of Jormag
  • Voice of the Fallen and Claw of the Fallen
  • Cosmic Observatory
• Other Daily Strikes including Challenge Motes (CM)
• Weekly Raids
• sPvP (Automated Tournaments)

... from which you could choose the actual eqipped sets. This would allow for one Equipment Template for Power with all power weapons (stats) and one for Conditions or Support with all condition/support weapons (stats) and it would solve the weapon swapping issues with Legendary Weapons.

Basically Equipment Templates would have multiple weapon loadout variants. But I assume ArenaNet is more interested in selling us full Equipment Templates, even when those are merely used to store weapon set variants.

Just having 4 additional slots for a passive set would already go a long way. Assuming of course that moving legendary weapons between the active and the passive set would not remove their customization and upgrades.

@[email protected] said:

Looks like you can actually equip Jade Bot Cores on a F2P account as well 🤔 (you do need a second player to send one to you)

• Which weapon skin did you choose using the Black Lion Weapons Voucher?
• Which skin/mount/... was randomly unlocked by using the Knife Tail Gang Hunting Bond?

I chose the Elegant Fan Focus Skin for my Elementalist (despite Warhorn being the offhand of chocie for pretty much all builds at the moment) and got the Equinox Staff Skin from the Knife Tail Gang member.

This is how Weeping Willow says Thank you, ArenaNet!

Amazing! Especially the navigation of Tangled Depths. Some of the transitions were breathtaking, too.

While it's clear that this kind of skill is far, far beyond my reach ... HoT maps are where I need to go and try out the new flying mount masteries.

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/138309-we-are-temporarily-disabling-the-ability-to-transform-quartz-into-charged-quartz-crystals-while-we-address-an-issue/#comment-2001604

We are temporarily disabling the ability to transform Quartz into Charged Quartz Crystals while we address an issue.

We'll update once we have addressed the issue and re-enabled this content.

Does anybody know, why?