Guild Wars

[dry pilot]

❤️

[fickle barn]

Yeah female charr voice and others were added

[limber tangle]

beta is in a few hours right?

[left phoenix]

Alright, Im gonna need y'all to test engi, thief and ranger elite specs and give me feedback while Im at work!

[unique herald]

i wont be free till next week tuesday

i want to test troub and evoker so bad

[glacial locust]

i'm 50/50 on whether i want to test specs or keep working on obby chestpiece

[bright stump]

basically going to be testing specs the entire week

[fickle barn]

That’s rough that only gives you one day to play the specializations

[unique herald]

prob will get more time on weekends but knoiwng my luck prob wont

end of august always sucks ass

never good

thinking about it this year's is probably the peak of ass

[glacial locust]

https://snowcrows.com/news/preparing-for-the-visions-of-eternity-beta might be helpful for someone

[bright stump]

yeah those are for the ones that want to do exploratory for benchmarking and finding rotations, builds, archtypes

not to dissimilar to how the WvW community right now is heavily heavily theory crafting on paper too

keeping in mind that there will be future changes on expansion launch, as well.

[glacial locust]

there's also some general information about betas for people who haven't done them before

[bright stump]

beta gonna mess with my kill counts @_@

the beta characters are totally not going count towards player kills lol

oh lol

thanks anet

not the first time they've done that though lol

it's up now though

interesting.

weapon mastery seems to be given with the beta characters

ritualist gets greatsword as a default

[shadow loom]

tbh im too lazy to test it out

i play abit of galeshot and evoker

i dont like galeshot unfortunately

idk if its intentional or something

when you go into galeshot mode

the auto attack is disabled

if you go in and out , it disabled again idk

[glacial locust]

that sounds like it's probably a bug

[shadow loom]

you think so?

[glacial locust]

i think in the last showcase they saw some pretty major bugs and didn't have time to fix them

like apparently the galeshot 5 knockback, if it gets reflected back at you, shoots you out of the map

[shadow loom]

galeshot that jump back shot

is like

2 steps kinda

kinda sad

AT LEAST it felt smooth

LMAO

[glacial locust]

there's also the nebulous "changes will happen based on feedback"

[shadow loom]

theres 1 skill where galeshot jumps up

to a target location where your mouse is

i think i also encounter a big on that skill

[glacial locust]

like engi kits don't turn off auto-attack and neither does necro shroud so idk why galeshot bow would, pretty sure bladesworn doesn't either...

[shadow loom]

when im enable auto attack

and use that movement skill

i jump on the spot

instead of moving where i want

you know what

let me try and login

maybe im drunk and see the auto attack is disabled

yup nope

[glacial locust]

could try re-enabling it, but i wouldn't be surprised if the beta is buggy

[shadow loom]

ok let me enable it and go off galeshot mode

nope

it turned off again

[glacial locust]

yea that's gotta be a bug

[limber tangle]

🏃‍➡️ gotta try out troub

[shadow loom]

i wonder if its intentional tho

because

theres enhanced auto attack

[limber tangle]

so it's a different skill?

oh... new elite specs don't come with new weapon?

[glacial locust]

hmm yea maybe it's not supposed to be an auto attack and they're mostly thinking you're gonna build up for the super 1 and then use it

[shadow loom]

it will turn into this

[glacial locust]

or maybe it's supposed to disable for hawkeye and auto before it flips over to it

[shadow loom]

or maybe

galeshot isnt even a mode you should be in

for long period

because of resources

[glacial locust]

no, i'd guess that's part of why weaponmaster was added in SOTO since they were running out of options for many professions

[shadow loom]

just need nerd to let me know how it work

but it still feels so weird

if its not on auto attack

[glacial locust]

i feel like most of the builds punish you for spending a long period in one "mode"

[shadow loom]

im m issing out so much dps just being in galeshot

[glacial locust]

but yea there are some heavy hitting combos you're probably supposed to hit with gs, lb, or offhand axe

[shadow loom]

ive made evoker and galeshot for now

evoker is yea...

[limber tangle]

I immediately went to mistlock as soon as I saw how many people were in LA

[shadow loom]

1 element gaming

when you in combat you cant switch the element pet

[limber tangle]

so evoker is not being an elementalist anymore?

[shadow loom]

unless thats a BUG agane

[glacial locust]

no i think that was intended from the preview

[naive quiver]

Troubajail gonna be so full

[glacial locust]

though i imagine unless you grab the "you have to stay in this one element" grandmaster you're still gonna want to cycle through elements and hit your bigger cds

...or at least between a couple, but i guess there's some traits that make fire wizard look kinda cool so i might try that

too bad i named my elementalist for air attunement

[shadow loom]

yea the element is still swapping freely

just the pet

[glacial locust]

yea they were saying you sort of specialize in a pet when they showed it off before

[shadow loom]

but i dont play ele so idk much about it

im just curious about how it plays

[glacial locust]

and then you can specialize harder by picking that grandmaster so you only have your one attunement

[shadow loom]

also it seems

ritualist boon radius

is 240 only?

[glacial locust]

i think the pet reduces the cd to swap to its element, and reduces some cds in the element, so i think it's kind of got multiple steps between only 1 attunement and swapping through all of them

[bright stump]

Definitely for WvW balance reasons lol

but no reason why they couldn't up that to 360 like the rest of staff stuff

[glacial locust]

at least for pve

[limber tangle]

Troub feels weird

doesn't feel like it's going to be a pure DPS

but it's definitely not going to be that great at aDPS

also troub kind of spoils some plotlines cause you gotta tell the tales of some famous people

[shadow loom]

why would ppl care about that

NA ppl dont read

[limber tangle]

If I could read that I would be offended

I guess troub could be a strong healing alternative to chrono.... but why

aHeal in mesmer but don't need to worry about clones

but can't qHeal

[tardy ore]

whats the deal with the beta marked character slots ?

[fickle barn]

its for the beta subclass charcaters

thats goingon for a week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq8nu-9CIp4

[tardy ore]

thats the reason why the servers are so fucked up ?

[glass sigil]

Not sure fi someone posted this but

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/161462-we-have-temporarily-disabled-the-evokers-minor-trait-evocation-while-we-address-a-crash-issue

[glacial locust]

basically they copy your stuff to those slots but things that you get on those characters will not copy back over

so don't get any good drops on a beta char lol

[tardy ore]

wvw is gonna be a shit show

[cloud narwhal]

How do I get my head around Untamed?

[sullen narwhal]

Wdym

You go into pet fusion and spam your pet skills then leave it and hit your 1 skill

If you have the trait that resets on weaponswap, weaponswap and press 1 again, if not spam all your keys for 20s then repeat from start

[pale flint]

i played a little with ritualist earlier and i like it. i'll definitely play aorund wiht it on launch

[glacial locust]

it felt interesting the little i played it but i noticed the spirits weren't retargeting things unless i told them to shoot something specific

[pale flint]

yeah there was a little jank with spirits on my end too. im not sure how much of that was the servers dying tho tbh

[glacial locust]

reddit's saying the damage output is abysmally low so hopefully they take another look at the scalings

[pale flint]

tbh i assume they'll address all this based on feedback. i'm leaving it to the long term players to criticise that part. for me i was just looking at how it feels and what it does, and i think some of the spirit jank aside, it feels nice 🙂

[glacial locust]

yea the first impression is it's kind of what i wanted, but i also recently figured out power harb is pretty close to what i wanted (and plays kinda similarly) so i guess it's pretty wait and see, at any rate the other light especs appeal to me too so i'm sure i'll have something to play

[pale flint]

yeah same. im most interested in ritualist, troubadour, evoker, and trueshot

[glacial locust]

i feel like if you look at scourge and you look at harbinger, ritualist kind of has a good deal of overlap with both of them, at least in whatever abstract way i picture the vibes in my mind

[pale flint]

maybe, but i really like the whole ritualist class fantasy, so even with overlap im still content

it was my main in gw1 for years, so im happy to be able to be that again

[glacial locust]

yea i liked my rit a lot in gw1 once i finally got factions, though it was kind of a pain until i unlocked summon spirits, i guess i'm trying to figure out what i want from the spec in gw2 without turning it into power scourge

like for a second i thought "maybe the spirits should be the f skills"

[crystal cave]

damage is never finalised, def not in betas

[bright stump]

numbers don't matter rn

it's just if it feels good or intersting to play

or if things are broken/clunky, etc

[crystal cave]

some of these specs are absolutely borked :v

[digital bronze]

hihihi

how is the beta going

[bright stump]

game borking a bit

give it a few hours

[crystal cave]

servers have been borked

[digital bronze]

is it available for a week or something

[bright stump]

it's working ish, but don't sit in LA lol

full week.

[crystal cave]

and evoker is functionally disabled :C

[digital bronze]

okie ill try it out later in the week after most things get fixed

[bright stump]

things will mostly get fixed probably by tonight

hopefully a bunch of hotfixes and iterations come in though

there's some things that need to be adjusted for functionality.

[pale flint]

yeah lions arch is a mess of disconnects. it's okay outside, but still some issues with servers on and off

[tardy ore]

i guess its servers being overloaded by beta character creation/data transfer

since they are basicly duplicating peoples banks

[crystal cave]

this is the first time its happened between like the last 4 betas ive been a part of

[limber tangle]

Striking dummy requires going through LA though. Kind of sucks

I disconnected out if mistlock as well

[crystal cave]

i use mistlock->aerodrome
it truly is pay2win

im in mistlock its stable post patch

though i cant say that about beta chars specifically

[pale flint]

i was ok in orr zones for a while, since theyre a lot quieter, but still eventually dc'd there too

[tardy ore]

i kept getting login server errors everytime i ported somewhere

[crystal cave]

the consume all button is now second last to the open wiki button so ive opened about 18 wiki pages unintentionally :C

[digital bronze]

THERE'S A OPEN IN WIKI BUTTON??

[crystal cave]

its new

[limber tangle]

Oh nice

I dont need the add-on anymore

[crystal cave]

and annoying 😓

[digital bronze]

wait this is going to fuck with my muscle memory

[bright stump]

hold up that's new

[crystal cave]

exactly

[limber tangle]

Actually I guess add on is still nice

[digital bronze]

[limber tangle]

I can have partial overlay of wiki summary

[crystal cave]

dang gw2 addons have gone nuts in the last couple of years huh

[pale flint]

you cna also /wiki item link to go straight to wiki

no addon needed

[crystal cave]

That's what I use yea

[shadow loom]

hmmm

[digital bronze]

yeah i like that more or the osrs approach

[shadow loom]

it seems that slime class dmg

[crystal cave]

but having wiki as an overlay is nice

[limber tangle]

That too slow for me

[shadow loom]

is crazy high

[crystal cave]

a lot of classes are like that

[limber tangle]

I want my mouse hover hotkey

[shadow loom]

fk galeshot tho

(for now)

[digital bronze]

WHAT

WHY ELEMIA

WHAT IS HAPPENING

TELL ME

[limber tangle]

I still use /wiki et though

[bright stump]

it's hilarious

[digital bronze]

PLEASE

[bright stump]

it has waaaaay too much kite lol

[limber tangle]

Rip Gale shot

[digital bronze]

NOOO

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN

[shadow loom]

when you switch to galeshot

[crystal cave]

galeshot gonna yeet people in pvp so hard

[shadow loom]

your auto attack is not auto attacking

[crystal cave]

huh

[digital bronze]

oh that's just bowmage

[bright stump]

You don't want to spam the 1 in gale shot though

it uses charges

[limber tangle]

Oh yea troub

[shadow loom]

since when it uses charge?

[digital bronze]

why does that sound like my kind of gameplay

[limber tangle]

Spoils stuff

[digital bronze]

🤨

[shadow loom]

im pretty sure it doesnt

[digital bronze]

IM SCARED

PLEASE

MY BOW

i just want an actual ranger job

why do mmos do this

[limber tangle]

We have one

[shadow loom]

it doesnt cost a charge

[limber tangle]

It's called dragonhunter or ice bow ele

[crystal cave]

ice bow is a healing weapon dont scam people like that

[limber tangle]

[bright stump]

oh i thought it was going to be like fb pages

[tardy ore]

bow renwgade

[bright stump]

hmm. interesting that was our intrepation early on since you promoting camping the bow is awkward lol

[limber tangle]

I can report they troub is shiny

You have the orchestra following you around

[shadow loom]

so stal

[bright stump]

it's not even shiny enough

[shadow loom]

your repelling shot

[bright stump]

visual clarity on it

[shadow loom]

is here

[bright stump]

needs some better toot toot

[digital bronze]

[shadow loom]

backward to here

[digital bronze]

ok la

not bad

[shadow loom]

not alot but its smooth at least

no rubberband at least

[digital bronze]

shorter than 10 yalms i think

[limber tangle]

It's joever stal skipping work to play gw2

[shadow loom]

but stal

you will love this

[digital bronze]

WEE

GAP CLOSER??

[shadow loom]

literally WHEEEE

[limber tangle]

Grapple shot

[bright stump]

it has so much mobility

[digital bronze]

LMFAOO

[bright stump]

yeah you can leap

and leap

and leap

[digital bronze]

bow time

[bright stump]

and leap

[digital bronze]

[bright stump]

and leap

[shadow loom]

its a skill that doesnt need a target

so its really fun

[digital bronze]

YAY

i was about to say dont make me resub to ff

but i think im safe

[limber tangle]

Oh

It has iframes too

[bright stump]

you can leap so much rn with galeshot.

[limber tangle]

You can just use it to ignore a mech

[shadow loom]

all i want to know is

does boons helps with the recharging

[bright stump]

should be fixed

[shadow loom]

and im too lazy to test

[bright stump]

not affected by alac, similar to fb pages.

[shadow loom]

whats fb

[bright stump]

firebrand

[shadow loom]

i keep thinking of that boomer site

[bright stump]

galeshot mechanic is similar to firebrand books

[crystal cave]

I did not think this through

[digital bronze]

LMFAO

[shadow loom]

also i heard

rev spec does a crazy fk ton of dmg again

[bright stump]

but it feels bad to play

[shadow loom]

gonna get nerf to the ground yet again

[bright stump]

but it does because of stats

[shadow loom]

i mean

thats rev in general

always feeling bad to play LOL

[crystal cave]

also if you havent made your beta char yet make sure to dump in jade bot cores and infusions in your bank

[bright stump]

also no identity

[crystal cave]

dont mess up like i did :^

[bright stump]

troub is not better than chrono in the least currently

[crystal cave]

you take that back rev is funky and cool

[bright stump]

at least, pve side.

wvw troub is fantastic

[shadow loom]

i like vindicator and its my main

but still

[crystal cave]

the only rev i dont play :v

[shadow loom]

they are so annoying to play sometimes

[crystal cave]

to each their own i guess

[shadow loom]

yea i played herald for awhile

i actually fell aslp

[crystal cave]

D:

you can fix that

jsut play condi

ez

[shadow loom]

yeah condi is really fun

but i still think galeshot

main weapon isnt longbow again

[crystal cave]

watching good rev players play is like actually watching a pro artist

wasting 0 energy

[shadow loom]

yea i like rev alot

but mastering it is...

[crystal cave]

it can actually be mesmerising

[shadow loom]

stop

[limber tangle]

ok this GW2 talk got me out of bed

[shadow loom]

promoting 'mesmer'

[crystal cave]

[shadow loom]

also idk why ppl keep dc-ing

[limber tangle]

🎵

[shadow loom]

i havent dc at all if im on

[crystal cave]

doot doot

I havent been able to log into a beta char for more than 4 seconds

puts me in LA

insta crash

0 stars

[shadow loom]

im using exitlag

idk if that helps

[crystal cave]

mmm
im using being in the uk but its not helping sadly :c

[shadow loom]

UK problem

tho i think NA is crashing as well

[crystal cave]

I'm on na servers yea

dont ask why

[shadow loom]

we are better , thats all

wait im not from NA

muk just say

rolling his face on his keyboard on almagam and did 50k dps

did anyone try

[bright stump]

yeah amalgam is push everything off cd since it gives you the unique buffs

[shadow loom]

the rat class

[bright stump]

paragon gives every boon except alac is funny lol

power creep the hell out lol

antiquary condi is doing something like 47k though

so

also nearly pressing every button off cd

[crystal cave]

fun

i mean if you wanna talk beta spec dps

beta bladesword first number was like a million dps becasue it would start the fight with a dragon slash that took the golem from 100-80

its just not worth worrying over compared to finding out the playstyles the specs will settle into

and whether those playstyles are anet approved ™

[shadow loom]

is evoker bug fixed?

i still wanna try it

[crystal cave]

nope

[shadow loom]

well i gues

im sticking to galeshot regardless

maybe i play qdps galeshot

[crystal cave]

conduit looks cool as heck

[glacial locust]

i kinda feel like cele alac tempest is like this, idk what i'm doing and am covered in boons, not even sure where the alac is coming from because none of the tooltips mention it

i think it was auras but the trait that i think is doing it doesn't mention giving alac to auras

[bright stump]

I dunno about that in pve tbh

From the overload?

[crystal cave]

yea you have a bunch of traits that share boons with auras

and you share a million auras

[bright stump]

Most of my game knowledge is wvw based, and there's a huge balance split

[glacial locust]

the rotation only uses fire overload so unless that gives like 20s of alac i don't think so

[crystal cave]

you do just about everything except resolution i think?

but catalyst does literally everything

[bright stump]

The most I've done in pve is that I've cleared things to a decent degree but things have changed since I've done clears

[glacial locust]

yea i should try catalyst too but for big group stuff i like ranged options

and was trying to get a flow feeling for ele with something easier

[crystal cave]

it got tacked on in a recent patch

[bright stump]

And ig you doing need to be the solo giver of a boon, technically

[crystal cave]

i dont think they fixed the tooltip :v

[bright stump]

Alsc on granting an aura?

[crystal cave]

catalyst is THE premier ranged healer

[bright stump]

That's busted as hell

[crystal cave]

yea

[bright stump]

Takes 0 effort to apply lol

[crystal cave]

pretty much yea

you take the water trait that shares auras with allies when you gain them

<its free real estate gif>

[bright stump]

Powerful auras, yeh

I miss Alac in wvw

Pve balance is pretty tame compared to wvw

Pve you can bring so many options to cover

Wvw doesn't have that option

Near mandatory classes for the role

[shadow loom]

already huh

[glacial locust]

how many kits does it use

[shadow loom]

2

bomb and nade

[glacial locust]

and flamethrower looks like

i think my engi is my 2nd most played character but my fingers are too old for it lol

[limber tangle]

Oh shit I should check out engi

But I'm back in bed now

[glacial locust]

how's the pneumonia anyway

[shadow loom]

im not playing the game anyway

all i wanted is to try out galeshot

[limber tangle]

I'm 8/10 done pills

And in a few hours 9/10

But I don't feel 9/10 better

Well at least it's not getting worse

Really bored though

[shadow loom]

[limber tangle]

...

Geez

Didn't know you hated me that much elemia

[shadow loom]

i love laying on my bed

i can read like

10hrs of random manga

[limber tangle]

Bruh I love lying in bed too

Just not 12 hours a day

[shadow loom]

i love laying 12hrs a day

if i can

but theres just

not enough nice manga to read

[limber tangle]

It's probably more than 12 for me

Oh

[shadow loom]

at this point i almost clean up all the manga in the app LMAO

[limber tangle]

Elimia new pic

[shadow loom]

honse

[limber tangle]

I can't tell if it's an eye patch on phone

[shadow loom]

hair covering

[limber tangle]

Wait it's a gacha horse?

[shadow loom]

yeah

[limber tangle]

[shadow loom]

if i have to say

i play honse

for like 2 years .... 2 months now?

2years is in jp , 2 months in global

[limber tangle]

Rich gacha whale detected

[shadow loom]

but lets not talk about that in gw2 chat

[unique herald]

i meaan still relevant with ur gw2 stuff

[limber tangle]

Eh... GW2 is in gacha mode for another week

[shadow loom]

its not relevant tho

theres no horse in gw2

[limber tangle]

I finished my 4 winds things a few days ago

[shadow loom]

from what i remember

you cant find horse in gw2

[limber tangle]

Hmmm probably some kind of gacha for mount

[crystal cave]

true

[limber tangle]

We got yaks

[shadow loom]

no mount skin as horse as well i think

tho i think griffon

got that pegasus

[crystal cave]

pepegasus

[limber tangle]

We got kitty

Gud kitty

Pet kitty

[shadow loom]

my minion in gw2

is always that ghost kitty

i think i never change out of it

[limber tangle]

Ded kitty

[shadow loom]

yea i got it as soon as i get into the living world

thats my motivation back then

[limber tangle]

I think I used skele kitty for a while

[crystal cave]

i use calcifer the jade bot

i actually gachad when that came out

i think i bought like 10 keys

[limber tangle]

Oh no

[shadow loom]

i think i got a jade bot skin

[limber tangle]

Not the black lion gacha

[shadow loom]

this fatty

[crystal cave]

cost me alot of in game gold

[shadow loom]

also my wide screen monitor

is always funny

i cant see their face

the whole reason why i only make human female

instead of norn

[crystal cave]

make salad

its a dps increase

[limber tangle]

Oh right you also have ultrawide

I noticed the same thing on my screen

No norn head

[unique herald]

same problem

[shadow loom]

my character screen

got eye of the north

[glacial locust]

why must you do this to me beta character

[crystal cave]

lmao

why you map comping on beta chars tho

[glacial locust]

i'm not it's automatic whenever i zone

[crystal cave]

ooh

[shadow loom]

oh is it?

[crystal cave]

yea i guess ive never left the aerodrome with a beta char before

or mistlock

[glacial locust]

and i'm just zoning as soon as i load into LA lol

[shadow loom]

i see....

[crystal cave]

makes sense

you actually can go to every wp in the map on the beta chars

so i guess you've technically finished all the maps

quick time to make a legendary

[shadow loom]

i cant wait to play the new spec in expansion

for now ..

no pet to play with

for evoker

[crystal cave]

yo galeshot seems

bad...

i think they should go the direction of bsw and give more options for arrow gen and remove weaponswap
so that we can play the ultimate bearbow ranger

maybe there'll be new pets in the expac that'll make the bird trait useful :^

[shadow loom]

muk doing galeshot now

lets see how it goes

[unique herald]

how does one access beta?

or is it the same client

nvm

[crystal cave]

i take it back galeshot players seem to enjoy it

and it hits hard

[shadow loom]

well for now

spamming button 1

is tiring

looking at muk enabling auto attack mid rotation is so funny

[crystal cave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUckv7Fdg2c
looks its at least 5 buttons

[unique herald]

idk if im dumb

nvm

i am dumb

carry on

[crystal cave]

its 63k first number and 49k end rn

[unique herald]

was wondering why evoker was making no sense

then i realize someone said its disabled in map chat

[shadow loom]

yasuo with a bow

shooting through the windwall is your source of dmg

[unique herald]

ok

i understand nothing of any buttons i press on any of these classes

Luminary looks sick

[crystal cave]

end of my testing sadge got febe to do

but seeems stable now

barring evoker

[unique herald]

yeah

evoker was the one i wanted to try the most

well atleast i know visually luminary would be the calss to make me not wanna go light armor only

[crystal cave]

a lot of visuals go really hard on this batch of especs

reminder that the evoker heal skill is you petting an otter

[pale flint]

tomorrow morning whne im out of peak hours im gonna log in and play aorund more with the specs

[glass sigil]

Game of the year 10/10

I think I’m going to turn my main into a scourge but later down the line, I’ll make another necromancer to be a ritualist

[shadow loom]

I mean...

Rit and scourge might share the same gear

For now

Since the dps side of rit is coping

[glass sigil]

Yeah but….

Sand shades

I can make shades out of sand

[shadow loom]

They felt the same i think

[glass sigil]

[shadow loom]

Except from what i see

Rit spirit have more precise timing

Rupture mechanic to keep buff up

[glass sigil]

Also the closet to yeet sand on my enemies’ eyes

[shadow loom]

Scourge sounds better from what i think

Sounds , i mean plays

[glass sigil]

nws nws

[shadow loom]

Enough ya

We rice shower

We not evil

[glass sigil]

… but can we be mean to bad guys though?

[shadow loom]

Theres no bad guys in our eyes

[glass sigil]

okay fair

[shadow loom]

Just go build some sand castle with scourge

[glass sigil]

or a sand angel

Actually wait or like

Make like sand star fish or whatever

Like with those buckets you see in the isles for summer time

I would do that

I should try out evoker when the servers won’t implode with beta charas, it’s another class I wanted to try out

wait I found out thieves elite skill if used with the new thief class will summon a skritt in thieves clothes hold up-

[crystal cave]

they turned off the beta 😔

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/161496-temporary-halt-of-visions-of-eternity-elite-specialization-beta-event/

antiquary is such a fun class yea

[shadow loom]

oh rip

[glass sigil]

... but can we still login the game?

[shadow loom]

for sure you can

game doesnt go down

[glass sigil]

I'm trying to login my elementalist in caledon forest, getting network error rn 😭

sad news, I can't login to any of my charas rn

[crystal cave]

restart game?

[potent crow]

you prob got in the server they shutdown for beta, relogging should solve it

[glass sigil]

no i mean like

wait i can try relog

[digital bronze]

saved..

[glass sigil]

MY GIRL IS NOW IN RATA SUM BLESS 😭

now I can turn her into a scourge lmao

[potent crow]

nice

[limber tangle]

no longer a steam pleb!

[teal vault]

I use steam but with my original Anet account, pretty convenient to have the game right in my library

[glass sigil]

oh I'm gonna need more hero points to continue getting scourge stuff erm

back to the map mines again LMAO

[pale flint]

did they disable the beta rn or somehting? i logged in just now and my slots are gone

[teal vault]

yep https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/161496-temporary-halt-of-visions-of-eternity-elite-specialization-beta-event/#comment-2333760

[pale flint]

i was hoping to try it out tongiht! oh well. ill get another go later

[potent crow]

they'll prob extend the beta

[pale flint]

yeah they said in the post they will

so at least theres that

[dry pilot]

I tried to use conduit yesterday but...

Was it just me, or razah canibalized shiro tagachi

And a bunch of tooltips were fucked up?

First razah passive

"Channel the assassin"

And there was no option to equip Shiro

[crystal cave]

Raza kinda bugd

The bar was green instead of brown for me

I think playable though I could equip razah and shiro and hit the golem

[lament kayak]

This owl have seen some shit

[crystal cave]

excuse you its a raven

[rocky sparrow]

ain't it named hawkEYE

[crystal cave]

oh yea i just picked a random birb

dont mind me

[crystal cave]

Real talk I'm pretty sure that's just a close up of a tengu

[dry pilot]

I had no shiro, only razah, but passives looked like shiro some of them? Very weird

[bright stump]

a lot of stuff was pretty janky and not quite working

outside of ele and razah

for example, I'm not sure if signet of inspiration was meant to work with Troub f5 or not

Spirits AI targetting is an issue for ritualist, but also there's some jankery around how the minions/summons taking condis isn't entirely working properly - not working with anti-toxin relic

in WvW, some of amalgam's modifiers aren't working properly

lot of tooltip timers/stack counts not being correct for warrior/troub/luminary

Oh, a fun one.

"We Will Never Yield!" On warrior in WvW had a fun interaction where life leech would still do dmg, and kill you at 1 hp

[glacial locust]

i really hope that spirit ai targeting is not working as intended, shroud autos are a big part of the necro rotations i've used so far but rit really turns it up to 11

[bright stump]

Stal,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV7zKyDH2ew

since you hate CS sometimes :P

[crystal cave]

I'd still say learn cs cuz its useful for the raids and stuff where chrono's good

[bright stump]

ya it just becomes use it for moa for cc

that's what the non-CS rotation opens up for.

[shadow loom]

wtf bro

@digital bronze

why is my cat and that leopard go to you

[limber tangle]

???

Oh

[digital bronze]

[limber tangle]

Trying out beta?

[shadow loom]

what beta

[limber tangle]

Oh right it got disabled right?

[shadow loom]

We will be restarting the NA World vs. World maps shortly to remove ritualist spirits that remained in the game after yesterday's pause of the Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity beta event. Players in World vs. World will be sent to the character select screen. WvW will be unavailable for up to ten minutes, after which players can resume playing normally.

LMAO WTF IS THIS

my imagination is like

theres like a thousands of spirit lingering in WvW

and it looks like a haunted house LOL

[limber tangle]

Wtf? That stuff made it into Wvw?

How?

[glacial locust]

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fo68f1s5nxbkf1.png

i guess that's not wvw but i imagine it looks the same lol

except i guess pve maps die and get recycled periodically so... it's probably worse

[shadow loom]

beta character and live server is the same

its not a seperate server

[limber tangle]

Oh shit never knew that

[digital bronze]

does tp to friend not work if character is level 1

and you're trying to teleport to a higher level area etc?

[glacial locust]

says it cannot be used in tutorial areas

come to think of it, i don't remember ever being able to skip the intro sequence no matter how hard i tried

[digital bronze]

i'm out of the tutorial though

in the first map

do i need to get out of that?

[glacial locust]

i feel like it should work if you're in the first map... but idk how you got out of the tutorial without level 2, i didn't think you could get through it without leveling

[digital bronze]

i'm level 2 now i think

[glacial locust]

Can teleport characters below level 80 to the areas heavily affected by the release of magic in Tyria, such as Lake Doric or Bloodstone Fen, if the areas have been unlocked on the account. These areas are otherwise inaccessible to players below level 80 because they require completion of the living story or the use of a portal scroll, e.g. Lake Doric Portal Scroll."
maybe that's the problem? where are you trying to go?

[digital bronze]

WE MADE IT

[glacial locust]

[this is the closest i can find to a happy emoji]

[neat stratus]

Wow I remember that parking spot even after so long

[digital bronze]

maybe i continue lw1 tomorrow

gotta play a bit of gw2

[glacial locust]

yea i have 8000 ancient coins because of those chests lol

[digital bronze]

im having withdrawal

also i think i like asura bc of movement

feels nicer than human

but holy shit do they look ugly

[glacial locust]

yea ugly gremlin represent

[digital bronze]

i tried to make them cute but

[glacial locust]

i like to intentionally make mine the ugliest i can

[digital bronze]

there's no saving that face

[glacial locust]

idk if you want to work on obsidian legendary armor but i found out the weekly convergence achievements give a bunch of rift essence really easily so it might be worth doing those

[shadow loom]

i wanna work on it yet im lazy

[glacial locust]

i'm close to a chest piece except for the 250 luck and the 600 goddamn ectos

[shadow loom]

im not even close i think

[glacial locust]

if you do the weekly convergence achievements twice you'll have enough for a piece

[shadow loom]

CM?\

[bright stump]

I don't like the look of obby armor

[shadow loom]

bear cm

or

soto cm

[glass sigil]

Posting my female Asura for stal for inspirations on hers maybe?

[shadow loom]

cm

i mean

conv

[glacial locust]

no just regular public, it's just do 3 of each of them each week and you get the bonus essence chests

[glass sigil]

Plus this is the closet nice face after using the makeup over kit

[shadow loom]

hmmm

i'll think about it

i hate doing it alone

[glacial locust]

yea i've been meaning to ask when i run them but not sure about interest

[pale flint]

im donw to do that stuff too, anytime!

i just ingore whats going on in the story and do th emission

[glacial locust]

tbf in mount baylior the dialogue is so quiet i can't tell what the story is supposed to be anyway lol

[pale flint]

i did that one on stream a little bit ago thats supposedly giga spoilers, but i just turnd down the volume and didnt read and it was fine

[limber tangle]

trails stonks in shambles

also asura stonks in shambles

[shadow loom]

i cant with asura

[limber tangle]

Do you have anything other than human?

[shadow loom]

cat ear is catgirl right?

[glacial locust]

i gotta figure out a new face for my human, whatever i did before looks wrong somehow

[shadow loom]

all my character looks exactly the same

all my human looks like this

same sliders

[pale flint]

dont gotta improve on perfection

[glacial locust]

https://tenor.com/view/umm-wait-nathan-fillion-gif-4809231

[bright stump]

i love how off the deepend people can get

[rocky sparrow]

all the rich people paid to be eye cancer

[crystal cave]

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Paper_Bag_Helm_Skin_(Happy)
in case you dont care what your face looks like

just gotta wait for halloween in like 3 months?

2

less than that actually

[glacial locust]

oh that reminds me we should see if the endless mini tonic makes not-asura movement better for stal so she doesn't have to play asura

[digital bronze]

but can i have that on

the whole time

[glacial locust]

i think not in raids

[digital bronze]

oh

[glacial locust]

but i gotta double check

hm yea no raids and some random stuff disables it but otherwise i use it for world events etc. most of the time

it does just cost karma though so it's basically free

[fickle barn]

im preety sure you can

its a headpiece skin

[fathom pine]

Think there is an angry smiley one

[glacial locust]

oh that's the bag not the tonic

[fickle barn]

oh

im preety sure u can have the mini and large tonics in raids yes

i can test

cause they work in combat

[glacial locust]

wiki says no but worth a shot

[fickle barn]

yeah tonics are disabled in raids

[limber tangle]

?? it's not a helmet skin?

[glacial locust]

the bag is a helmet skin, the smolifier is a tonic

[glass sigil]

oh are we showing off our characters or

[glacial locust]

for anyone who wants to run convergences the first one (mount baylior) is in ~half an hour

happens again at reset+3 if that works better, and the other convergence (from wizards tower) is reset+1.5

[shadow loom]

8am , im dead inside so ..

i think imma do content only on my night time

[glacial locust]

ah rip, they're every 3 hours so you should still be able to do them those are just the times that work for me

[limber tangle]

Are you in the same hours as stal? Feels like I always see you up when I'm up

[glacial locust]

https://tenor.com/view/well-yes-but-actually-no-meme-aardman-the-pirates-pirate-gif-26563702

[limber tangle]

I meant Elimia

But are you also in SG?

[glacial locust]

no i'm in NA

[shadow loom]

im infact

SGNAEU

its 8am like its NA , like why am i even awake

[limber tangle]

I knew it

you never sleep

you're probably AI

[pale flint]

sleep is optional

[neat stratus]

AI = actual insomniac

[glacial locust]

oh shit recipe for spicy herbed chicken at the pact supplier today, i think that was the last one i needed for orrax

[digital bronze]

is there any mod or anything in gw2 that makes a sound when you target something

[glass sigil]

I just looked this up and I don’t think the search results understood the assessment

I got a Reddit post asking if it’s possible to change sound files of the weapons

[tardy ore]

maybe there is something in the accesdibility settings

on that note, targeting in tjis game is very janky

[rocky sparrow]

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reaper's_Hood

Have this to cover you rat

@digital bronze

[crystal cave]

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Customized_soundtrack
might help

nothing for specifically targetting by the loooks of it

[crystal cave]

when you say target do you mean like when you press ctrl t or just when the enemy bar shows up on your screen?

[tardy ore]

im 7 clovers away from crafting sunrise

[crystal cave]

gacha time

[fathom pine]

@digital bronze coming in about 4 hours

[potent crow]

If you preordered the ultimate edition, the gems in that package can buy both

[fickle barn]

I’ll be grabbing the Warclaw it’s the last I’m missing of all the plushies

Until the skimmer gets one this year probably

[digital bronze]

i don't have enough for those!!

i bought bank slots and stuff so..

do we know when the beta is coming back

[unique herald]

October 28, 2025

[fickle barn]

xD

[glacial locust]

twitch drops started btw

[crystal cave]

Rubi popped into the snowcrows discord

[fickle barn]

Yeah it’s the same drops as last time in case missed

[digital bronze]

wow

thats so nice

they actually address it

[bright stump]

For those that know, the fact that they had to reset maps is telling on how hard the bugs hit the infrastructure

[digital bronze]

its so refreshing to see anet and osrs devs

[bright stump]

Anet devs have a hit and miss track record. It's nice when we get it, other times it is absolute radio silence

The C in Anet is for consistency

[digital bronze]

i came from ffxiv so my expectations are rock bottom

[glacial locust]

and sometimes they don't expect reactions they really should have expected, like when they changed runes

[crystal cave]

I mean here in gw2 land yoship is a god

[bright stump]

WvW main, we're beyond rock bottom

[digital bronze]

LMFAO

i feel like its a grass greener on other side thing tbh

[crystal cave]

People regularly make fun of the regular dev Stream Devs needing to use cheat mode constantly

Which is kinda unfair imo

[digital bronze]

like yeah he knows how to play the game

but the jobs in ff has been shit for years

the cope is it gets better next expac but thats in 1.5 years

[unique herald]

arent u live rn

typing in here

[digital bronze]

YES I AM

[unique herald]

OH YEAH

WELL

I HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD STREAM

AND THAT MARE ONLY GETS BROUGHT UP TWICE

[crystal cave]

Who's mare

[glacial locust]

there are no horses in gw2

[brisk snow]

WHAT THE FUCK DOES A HORSE HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING

I WANT TO KNOW

[bright stump]

what's a horse?

[unique herald]

stupid ff drama

[glacial locust]

https://tenor.com/view/avatar-the-last-airbender-gif-6037055492951935036

[crystal cave]

Ah

[brisk snow]

oh its drama

[unique herald]

TLDR: SE hates mods, SE C&D's a major mod people advertised and threw around in and out of game

all it does is synchs ur mods with other peoples mods at ur choosing

so your friends see ur mods

[brisk snow]

where does the mare come into play

[unique herald]

The mod is called Mare Maritor-something

cause thats the name of the moon in FF

[brisk snow]

oh i see

[unique herald]

in GW2 terms

[brisk snow]

i understand

[unique herald]

its arenanet C&D'ing a mod database website

also that guy who made the mod

made bank

kofi link

[crystal cave]

Mmm
I'm gonna be honest I find ffxivs entire anti 3rd party thing really juvenile

[unique herald]

to me its just they are free to do what they please and if they want no mods than so be it

if they are ok with it then so be it

their ip their choice of direction

what i hate tho is

they say their choice

and dont do shit to back it up

so its kinda lowkey annoying

[crystal cave]

I haven't actually played the game so idk

But from what I've heard it's "banned but if you don't tell anyone it's ok"

[glacial locust]

...i wish gw2 had more mods, i want more ui options

[crystal cave]

Which is awful

Try reffect

[glacial locust]

hmm i'll take a look at it sometime

[crystal cave]

Yea gw2 modding popped off recently with nexus

[potent crow]

I dont think they accept mods that alter ui

You can add ui elements

Just not alter existing

[crystal cave]

There's mods that move UI elements around I'm p sure

[glacial locust]

i really want a better indicator for auto chains

[bright stump]

raidcore nexus?

[crystal cave]

Yes

[digital bronze]

mainly bc of console

console cant mod

[unique herald]

||If stal is still here im curious if she would click that||

[cloud narwhal]

Damn Tequatl is way more fun with like <20 people.

So many mechanics you never see in masses

[fickle barn]

Was fun before the power creep yeah

[potent crow]

Power creep does that. I rmb squads organizing roles when the rework happened

6 on turrets, 4 on turret protection etc.

[glacial locust]

i don't think i've ever been on turrets for teq... maybe just enough to get an achievement for it

[potent crow]

I don't rmb if there is an achievement for it

The turrets are the ones that clear poison on ground that kills people and destrys the bone wals

[glacial locust]

i know i have his mastery point but i don't remember ever seeing the turrets open to sit in

[potent crow]

Its quite far back

Between where you attack teq and the center battery

3 on each side

[glacial locust]

i mean i've seen the turrets they've just been full every time i was going to sit in them

[potent crow]

Ahh

Gotcha. My b

[glacial locust]

dw i phrased it ambiguously

[cloud narwhal]

How reasonable is it to get every achievement in this game (not counting wallet warrioring)?

[bright stump]

define every achievement?

there are achievements which haven't been obtained right now

and some of the achievements literally require wallet warrioring

(I'm rich you know, twice told legend, ecto gambler achievements, etc)

[cloud narwhal]

which achievements haven't been obtained yet? the newer ones?

[bright stump]

this has not been obtained yet.

[glacial locust]

there are historical achievements you won't be able to get

[bright stump]

it will be, soon.

13 years after game launch

there's a few people i know that are close

bear in mind

This will take you like 2-3 years of continuous optimal play

much likely loonger

there are a lot more people with this, than there are people with Ultimate dominator 6+

[cloud narwhal]

Ok how about just PvE achievements

[bright stump]

The Facet of Prisms and Boundless Light achievement

that one realistically should take you a super long time to get, since it's every variation of a generation of legendary weapons

I believe a handful have it

a bunch of the strike/CM titles

ie the extreme end of the difficulty scale raid fights

God Walking Amongst mere Mortals - you need to play an entirely different game

[cloud narwhal]

I saw that title often and I always wondered where to get it

[bright stump]

hmm abyssal fractal master

which requires all abyssal fractal skins. super long grind.

so unrealitic to get all achievements.

just not enough time to be able to dedicate to them since each of them will require focus and time dedication into it

[cloud narwhal]

I mean I'm maxxed in osrs so I would be up for the challenge

I really like collecting

[glacial locust]

there are a lot of long term achievement goals to go for, but there are some that are literally unachievable that keep you from true 100%

[quasi halo]

nice, i'm near the 4k one

[fickle barn]

my upcoming chest owo;

yeah every 5k you get free gems its nice too

[fickle barn]

BETA is back up and will last till the 29th

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/161598-the-elite-specialization-beta-event-has-resumed / we're baaaaaaack. Beta test for the upcoming elite specs is back, and extended til August 29th.

[crystal cave]

wahoo

[potent crow]

Unfortunately, there are quite a bit of achievements that are now "historical." This basically means unachievable for people that haven't gotten them yet. You can look at all those in the historical tab in gw2efficiency. The historical tab in game will only show unachievable achievements that you have >0% progress on

[pale flint]

i had a nice play with torubadour and paragon now too

not feeling paragon, but troubadour is good

[limber tangle]

I tried it for a bit a few days ago. My brain is too smol to figure out what buttons I'm supposed to be pressing but it definitely feels good to not have clones

feels like some kind of support DPS

[pale flint]

in my mind its sona

[glacial locust]

well, fire wizard is silly

best dps i've ever done on the golem while i have 0 idea what i'm doing

[potent crow]

They usually tone the numbers based on ceiling in beta, so hopefully its just the floor of it thats low

[glacial locust]

i do like the 20k burning ticks though, those were what i missed most from guardian

[crystal cave]

evoker is

slightly overtuned

as is tradition

its not an elementalist espec if it isnt outdpsing the next best thing by 10k on release

[glacial locust]

i should try it in some content to see how the survivability is but grinding for rewards i can't keep when i need to do real grinding feels like a waste

[digital bronze]

https://x.com/GuildWars2/status/1959026888187552200

Guild Wars 2 (@GuildWars2)

Our current Twitch Drops campaign will run as planned & end Sunday, Aug. 24 at 11:59 p.m PT. However, due to the recent connectivity issues with the elite specialization beta event, we're re-running the same drops starting Aug 25 at 9 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) until Aug 29 at

X · Aug 22, 2025, 10:56 PM

[crystal cave]

its ele you have a bunch built into the kit, if you want
the air bunnny meditation is also one of your higher damage skills while doubling as a stunbreak and an evade