Luthan.5236

Yes. In the wiki are the old dates - it seems like they want to include classic/normal New Year's - for the Chinese/Lunar one we have the own festival later. Maybe there was a reason they didn't want to start it 1 week later - to do the full 3 weeks with a normal start/end date. Therefore extending it just by 2 days. But it might as well be a concidence - no fixed rule to include New Year's and them having made a mistake ... it really ending 2 days earlier. We'll see. (Would not be too bad to NOT fully extend it to the stark of another week. When you think about the weekly skin chests with the 200/200 weekly points. Though here they are super easy to grind as long as you can do the JP. Would give ~4 instead of 2 days in the last week.)

There usually is always a basic stuff merchant. Good that you found it now. As others explained: For volatile/unbound it would not make sense though. But since they also sell the latest expansions to new players it is common to have the general merchants as well as some basic weapon/armor vendodr (selling the whilte level 80 stuff lol).

This sounds like an issue. I wonder why certain stuff would not automatically register on moving to the inventory. (So you could just get stuff you have in the back and move it to the inventory and then back.) For the stuff you had before the achievement got implemented. (They do not seem to be able to do a full automatic on things you ever required prior to the achievement so it needs some kind of trigger.) The binding seems to be the thing here - moving bound stuff out of the bank triggers it automatically for the achievement. Otherwise you need to bind. (Add to collection.) And for the stuff with mat storage slots you can just deposit it again (then it will be unbound) - did this for some stuff. This is what Eloc hinted at - I guess. (Maybe it could get a storage slot but they are picky about what items are getting a slot there since afaik there is an upper limited they can't change and they can't remove old items from there.) Other than that they maybe should consider setting the trigger to bind ... only for skins and other stuff. Allowing for such items like the runestones to add to collectoin without binding.

Personally I play engineer - and I played all stuff in release order (older maps without mounts after a looogn breakk when I returned a a time where mounts already were available). I can say that most stuff is soloable. Except maybe some hero challenges in the HoT map and the obvious group content (group events, and the stuff like dungeons/fractals/strikes/raids). I did most of the achievements for the maps and the story chapters. With the mechanist engineer felt even better/tankier cause of the mech. Since you do not want engineer: Elementalist and thief ... I'd also consider them hard to play (squishy and/or in need of a lot of keyboard acrobatics even when not planning to play on a pro level). You can try one from the other 5 ones. I'd say ranger cause of the ranged stuff + pet is good to solo. For my "2nd main" (do not really have a lot of experience with it lol) I went for mesmer - to be able to place portals for others if needed for JPs or stuff like that. There also was a nice sturdy build (Chronomancer) where I found it even easier to solo champs in HoT than on my engineer (before mechanist got released). Warrior is the "high health + heavy armor" guy and the necro has the infamous "2nd health bar" (the shroud). Guardian maybe a bit tricker out of the 5 that are left ... heavy armor but low health and it relies a bit on the use of the skills to stay alive. I have played most stuff besides Engineer and Mesmer on core professions only though. (Found the guardian not too bad while leveling core guardian and playing the core personal story and the core tyria maps.) Use a boost if you want. If you do not feel comfortable try to make a 2nd char with the same profession (don't delete the first one cause of birthday presents and the character age) and try a bit to level that one. Imo best to try for an own build - at least at the start. Using a build from some website while having no clue about the profession (and the other possibilities) is not a good idea. Better to find your own style. (Then you can adjust some pro builds if they don't seem to be to your liking but might still be feasible with small adjustments where you find them better to play.)

They fixed the wrong thing. Patch notes days "Fixed a bug in which the new episode announcement would appear repeatedly. " and I though they just made a mistake in writing the notes (cause for me there never was a bug regarding this - except that now after the patch it announced chapter 11 again with the green star thingy) but the mail is sending again and again. 😄 But it could really be Evon lol. He needs a lot of attention maybe.

This is still considered to be a group effort - the guild upgrades. Supposedly faster for a bigger guild. Small guild might take their time. But even solo it is possible. I have maxed the mine + storage ... slowly (though I would not need that) working on the mining rate. You just need to tag events fast - and a lot. On that map. Can be annoying and you can have lots of bad like. Like ... 5-6 events no shovel. Then sometimes 2-3 and 2 of them awarding a shovel. Try to do it slowly. Not playing by time - instead like ... 5 shovels a day or so. It will get easier at the higher tiers when you slowly can farm while upgrading until you unlock the next mine thing that needs shovels. Unless you really want to push fast that stuff needs a lot of mats and farming to push the levels. Also there is the option to "buy" shovels. Ask in Silverwasts (maybe when a meta map is active with commander) or in LA. Technically afaik you let someone enter your guild and donate them. Some people are supposed to have a lot of shovels. (When not needed for own guilds and from playing the meta for farming and getting them every now and then letting them gather up.)

Kinda glad I have waited on the renown chests (from the repeatable achievement that I only did for the AP + then daily the south east one in Syntri to refresh the buff). Rewards there seem to be nicer now and I have 38 chests stored. The convergence think not also has the chest as a vendor (daily one). Not sure if I like the change to the portable Gharr Leadclaw item. (Gives a dialogue first. But better than having to move elsewhere cause some stuff was not included in the old version of the vendor of that item.) Convergence seemed annoying/boring. Too much running around. (SotO ones felt better.) But I need to read up on it on the wiki a bit more once more info is there. (Seems the achievements do not want you to repeated it as often as the SotO ones.)

Haven't tried it yet. What I found odd: There seemed to be no guidance towards the starting point. (Through story or mail.) I think the one mail I received was for the raid (and the vendor near the raid entrance). Just had to look the convergence up in the wiki.

Have not looked at this yet - not really playing WvW a lot lol. But the ticket cost seems extreme. Only for hardcore players then. Gold cost (for the blueprints) ... might be okay. At least for someone that also farms PvE a bit. I think they might have wanted to increase the value of the normal blueprints so new players can earn a bit by selling them? (Their TP price went up I assume? :P) Bit sad that ... if I read it correctly ... the guild stuff got devalued by only having 1 category (no normal, superior, guild) of sieges. On the other hand it will save inventory space when you had a bit of each type before.

Small update. Mainly focused on delivering the raid - for people that like to grind raids. I like that the story was short. With Wintersday soon + a new PvP season in a few weeks. Easy to finish most stuff super quickly and then doing th convergence 3 times a week until the other achievement is done. (Then once per week for the unstable motivation from the 1st weekly step.) Already did the story + all story achievements on my main. (No hard one included there. Just talking and staying alive.)

There is no forced 50 percent winrate. The system aims to make balanced matchups - this indirectly leading to 50/50 wins/losses. At the very top and bottom it should be different/harder. And of course while people with wrong rating still are trying to rank up/down. (Especially after the soft reset when a new season starts.)

Confirmed. Working now. First yesterday I had the problem with it "looking broken" like Zebulous described. (Thought I had some bug in the browser or enabled some weird mode there.) Only after cleaning cookies and data it worked again - but I could not login (problem described here). This is now fixed and working again.

It's annoying that the stuff from the Kodan vendor (the weapon selection box) seems so rare compared to other festivals. I think I have a lot more unlocked at other festivals and here only 1 or 2 (maybe even bought directly and not from a box not sure anymore). Annoying when the festival overall is one of the most expensive ones because of a lot of minis that have a very high cost in candy corn cobs + the nightfury skin that costs as well. I just hope the weekly vendor box for the skins at Wintersday won't cost 10 diamonds as well. (Snow diamonds are a bit more expensive though you have not that much other stuff to buy with them.)

What about the rentable raptor? Not sure if without any masteries at all ... that is enough. Afaik only one of the options (food?) costs 5g and the other ones (including an NPC that offers mount rental) cost only 1g. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_King's_Steward

Also don't forget: You need a min amount of matches to appear in the leaderboards. Afaik 15 per week. Unless you really play PvP dedicatedly this can be a lot - especially for people with not much free time, other games/hobbies to do and in GW2 currently the halloween festival. Personally I aimed only for 3-4 each day (atm 3 for 5 days a week for the 15) ... until the league chest is finished (platinum) - then only doing 1 match per day or every 2 days ... for fun. This will always have me lower than the required matches. (Well I am not good enough to get into the top 250 so it doesn't matter anyways.) Though I play not too rarely (still finishing my chests each season.)