[A wild Anet Dev appears ! :D]

They've been told to be playing this event WB event. Literally a 4000% increase in dev contact this week, people been spazzing across discords.

[SUGGESTION: Please cheer up the Captain's Airship banker]

This is a highly valid point that makes me feel good about my life. I agree this is probably an unintended consequence which evidently impacts on individuals but am unsure that many people have been offended to warrant a fix.

I'm sorry you found the banker inappropriate....lmao

[Question about Boss Infusion Drop]

NCsoft owns Anet; who are the developers of GW2.Your "special event" is no more than data collection and marketing.This guy knows what's up, welcome to the exploitation phase :)

[Why is it that despite all the nerfs, engis are still so immeasurably strong?]

Minor damage, distance and maybe (extremely small) CD bump to Forge #2.

You want to nerf easy to counter gold strats and buff the single strongest engi skill in the game which provides high, constant mobility? SEEMS VALID

[What single major change would you like to see for Necro?]

Minion rework into valid power build seems logical, I would quite like managing health to summon more minions, they could balance this by putting a dps cap on individual minions. It would be really cool having to micromanage those kittens through raid mechanics and to have a valid power build.

[Why can Engineers...]

Technology beats climate change

[The problem with high end infusions]

There are lots with them that barely log in anymore ;-; Good luck bud, hope you find what you're looking for :)

[The problem with high end infusions]

Well said. This event is utter garbage. I rather not see stuff like this in the future.

Just try to ignore it I guess. There are a lot more liquid infusions around than people realise which do pass hands quite commonly. I have acquired 3 queen bees this year and 11 permafrost Dyes however, like most players who do this my goal is not trying to make money long term. It just makes sense to buy these items given the drop rate and proportion of players that have them who are largely inactive. Its pretty much a wealth thing, if you know what to do with your money you never won't be able to afford something you want.

[Macro users in PvP]

Unless you're theorising that this macro enabled him to skip animations (which it doesn't) then it's logical to assume that a slight amount of lag made it look like all the skills went off at once?

[Raids and discrimination.]

I play like that for more then 1 year now (only playing raids and never leaving aerodrome) and I still enjoy it.I go for the big kitten max enjoyment.

[Permafrost Dye!]

It wont drop because we buy everything under and hold it. That's why it's been rising for a month. Then hopefully sell in a spree before buyable on gem store announcement/shrug. The legendary market is worse so just deal.

[Join <Larsen's Biscuits> [LABI]... the most aWeSoMe AU/NZ/OCX/SEA PvX guild, NOW]

If you're not actual life aids you are winning OCE guild wars rn :/

[Looking for a new healer in fractals, mainly pugs]

Well if druid lacks punch how am I going to rec you scrapper? Holo with healing power secondary definitely is used as main healer for groups that know fights and can water combo with an SB. Now seeing as you already know whats viable lets both stop wasting time and play druid or chrono k.

[no one does underwater group event bosses]

Breathers are actually very cheap because you can get them with berries.I wouldn't tell my worst enemy that spending 4 hours getting berry breather is worth it.

[Looking for a new healer in fractals, mainly pugs]

I want to live in your meta. I think the best advice I can give (given your circumstances) is to play whatever you have the most fun with, as your group obviously doesn't care about clearing things as fast as possible. I just did some math in my head and you could run minstrel holo with healing turret. This seems to fit with your meta and may offer that 'Punch' you're looking for.

[Raids and discrimination.]

@"sarkysek.1085" said:Raids have no place in GW2, they only brought elitism, toxicity and pretended professionalism to the game. But the worst thing is that this ill mentality also spreads to other places within the game, other gamemodes that dont need it and its damaging to them. Raids and those who deem themselves higher human beings just because they play them will never be good for the game. Solution to this is simple: dont add any new raids and stop supporting the existing ones, so that they slowly die just like dungeons did so many years ago. And the toxic elitist mentality will die with them as raiders slowly quit the game.

Can confirm, As a raider I started gw2 4 months ago. I quit the game 3.5 months ago after spending about $900 (saves time/enables me to help guild/friends more/have a job ;) ) on quality of life things and completing 1 set of legendary armor/getting griffon/beetle. There isn't enough high end content in game and what is there is only fun for 'raiders' if you have a static (its not fun watching people drop buffs and not strafe out of damage/do less then 25k deeps). Whilst the raids are unique and very satisfying it simply isn't fun to be a high operating member of this community. You get little positive feedback/thanks like you would in other games for assisting with world events and the like (despite the fact you can do most of them with 3 raid groups...….) I found that my very existence outside of raid guilds was offending people as I did want to clear hard content. My last month of playing was purely leading/assisting raid training runs and logging in for statics before realising I was having much more fun with other MMORPG games :( . It wasn't a massive shock, Whilst gw1 was my favourite game ever I had put off gw2 for years as to 1. finish gwamm first and 2. wait for the "casuals" to die off; it never happened and this is their MMO now. That's fine :(

[no one does underwater group event bosses]

Underwater boss fight in a raid has been screaming to be developed for years.... unfortunately as stated above new players often skip underwater gearing. No ones going to spend money on that (no underwater encounters worth it) and the ascended collections (breather, etc) are quite literally time sinks. Some people that don't use arc and log on together for 3 hours a week (anets 'target customer') may do underwater guild missions occasionally.

[Full Minstrels meta on Chrono needs to stop.]

No, to my understanding its just a uuid, everytime its been changed it reverts back.

[Full Minstrels meta on Chrono needs to stop.]

swap berserker for Knights while keeping your BD. Knights (Power/Prec/Toughness, main stat toughness) is more optimal.Thanks so much, this is exactly what I wanted to hear/understand :)

[Full Minstrels meta on Chrono needs to stop.]

I don't see how taking minstrel as a first set on a tank chrono is in any way a bad idea though. Not everyone has been running this class for 3.5 years in raids or gets the chance to train 6 days a week. I've even tanked all wings in full minstrel when not needed. Why? Because it's just that much more fun to 1shot every boss and carry a PUG team.

Thanks for the clarification. Do you rate healing power? or do you think that minstrel is never BiS? Could I satisfy the Dhuum requirements for example by subbing berserker pieces for power/tough/feroc and keeping diviners for 50-60% BD?

[Full Minstrels meta on Chrono needs to stop.]

I run 1096 as too many runs had 1 or too people on 1050ish, the other setups are for soulbeasts/FBs. Am also pretty sure i clarified my understanding of toughness by stating how it's not needed if the chrono is hitting 2 and 4 moderately ok. But whatever, will do on the retreating away from lfg front. cheers for the tips on minstrels -1 piece support chrono.

[Full Minstrels meta on Chrono needs to stop.]

no one has to ask, people can play however they want, and everyone else have a clear choice on whether or not to play together.

I don't get your point, is it that you think its fine for everyone to just ruin half of all runs and force comms to kick by running ludicrous gear? How about if the dps just stack soldiers gear until they're 5 t under the tank? As in, are you saying that is a healthy LFG meta? I just don't understand your point of view.

[Full Minstrels meta on Chrono needs to stop.]

I'm not sure if trolling. The sample size is massively distorted from LFG (as these people don't log much or they wouldn't be in LFG anymore) and I'm not sure if you think support chronos are running full minstrels and tanks are running full minstrels with toughness infusions? Because this is the only way my brain cloud make sense of that essay you typed. :(

[Full Minstrels meta on Chrono needs to stop.]

Do you wipe more often having chrono(s) on full minstrel?Yes. Yes I do. They often can't upkeep buffs (don't know rote) they usually mistime shield 4, sword 2 and you better not be expecting aegis. The full minstrels chrono does not know the ways of guild wars.....

[Full Minstrels meta on Chrono needs to stop.]

I do play chrono, I support with 1096 t and like to tank with 1445-1555ish. I switch to hk as I don't like explaining how I would like the fight to go in PUGs (as someone said above). All I'm saying is that in GW1 it would be strange if I was duoing UW and the SS brought insidious parasite and not SS for dmg because it increases his lifespan I'd just leave. I don't like just leaving pugs and watching them then wipe/be in lfg looking for different comps for hours so it would help if we could all adapt to a meta? I'm not sure we want chronos that want to play full minstrel.....?