Esterie.7409

Just in case anyone didn't know, you can drag your tracked achievements in your watchlist to order them how you'd like. But yes, I agree, I'd love to be able to see my tracked achievements AND Wizard Vault tasks at the same time.

This is regarding the Astral Ward Cloak, the reward for finishing the Honorary Astral Ward collection. I finished this collection a few days ago and put it on one of my characters, only to be very confused why I couldn't slot an exquisite jewel into it like other exotic back items. Apparently this cloak is level 0 and thus cannot have anything beyond measly pebbles slotted into it. As this collection is kind of involved and the item has exotic stats, I believe this is a bug and hope it gets fixed.

Was hanging around the Wizard's Tower and cashed in my astral acclaim for laurels and was surprised there was no laurel merchant. Considering there are some recipes available via laurels and crafting stations are there, would be nice to see a merchant added.

Yep, just popped in to test and I'm still stuck at 0/20.

As the above posters said, you get the skin after unlocking six antique armor pieces sold by Myung-Hee at the Royal Court in Seitung Province. You get an ascended version of the cape for unlocking all the antique armor skins.

Yes! I get so much use out of the taxis in Kaineng especially. I haven't yet mastered how to efficiently navigate the city between the lower and higher areas. Sure I could use my skyscale to clamber up to the heights, or I could taxi, sip my coffee, and enjoy the view. It's quite immersive.

Title is a mouthful so let me explain. When the elite specialization gloves unlocked by Mechanist are worn, your characters nametag and the ! that appears over their head while fishing now appear at their feet. I've also noticed this on other peoples characters, though have not managed to get a screenshot in that instance. With gloves off // With gloves on

I can't speak for general events, but I'm kind of surprised they didn't go the HoT and PoF routes with a choosy chest at the end of each meta. Choose between a material used in the new legendary crafting, some extra map currency, or other materials. I know when I was making my last gen 2 legendary, I ran HoT and PoF metas regularly for the amalgamated gemstones. Would be a way to keep people coming back to the EoD metas once they have their achievements. Edit: Ayyy as of the 3/15 patch the metas now reward Hero's Choice Chests!

Since I can foresee skiff skins being a big thing, I'd LOVE a skin that looks like the corsair sloop. A simple viking-ish ship with a tall bow and stern and a sail. A mini of this ship already exists, as linked previously, as well as one docked near Aurene's Cave in Seitung Province. There could also be a version that displays your repped guild emblem, similar to the Cavalier/Guild Cavalier weapons. 😉

Yes, the ability to change the cursor size and even something just like a high-contrast version would be greatly appreciated! I know there's a third party program that only changes the cursor appearance, but it would be nice to have these options baked-in to the game settings.

One Crazy Trick that I would recommend to anyone who dislikes WvW is that even if you have no current plans to make a legendary, always have the Gift of Battle reward track active. At least to have one Gift of Battle to bank for when you do want to make a legendary. Every day there's usually at least one WvW daily that can be done quickly with little-to-no need to group up or do the PvP aspect of WvW. Mast of Monuments is easy enough, especially in your home borderlands. Veteran Creature Slayer is also easy if you know the spawns (sometimes you do need to wait 10+ minutes for it to spawn which isn't ideal). I prefer the Veteran Harpy in Alpine Borderlands. If it's your home borderlands, you can wait up on the edge and you are immune to enemy damage to make the wait easier. Even Camp Capturer and Mists Guard Killer are easy to do solo, the latter being very easy if an enemy keep/tower is nearby and you can wait for the guards outside to respawn over and over. Is this a quick way to get a Gift of Battle? No. Depending on how many 'easy' WvW dailies you get per day, it may take a few months which is why I would recommend slowly doing 'easy' WvW dailies whenever you can. But this is a very casual, low-stress way to get a Gift of Battle. WvW and group combat in general makes me anxious sometimes, so it's nice to chip away at it little by little, which generally is how I prefer to make a legendary anyway. Yeah, sometimes you'll run into enemy players which is to be expected, and to be honest I would not be entirely disappointed if there were other, non-WvW methods to get a Gift of Battle. But..... there are ways to get it that are as PvE-adjacent as you can get. At least the Gift of Battle isn't exclusively sold for skirmish tickets.... 😅

Yes! If the armory would remember what stats etc. I had on a legendary when swapping it out it would feel much more fluid. As it is now, it feels very clunky to swap from, say, staff to greatsword on my Necro and having to reselect all stats. It feels like a step down from just keeping weapons in my characters inventory and quick-swapping. (And I know templates are an option here, but an unnecessary one for the Legendary Armory imo.)

Yeah, I was a little disappointed that Aurora/Vision/Coalescence weren't included as I only have Aurora and Vision personally. I hope it's something they can work on for a future update!

Here is my first character, Vientha. A sylvari ranger I made the day the game went free-to-play. The first picture is shortly after she became level 80 (shortly before HoT release), and the second picture is how she looks today, from a series of info cards I made for my toons.

I tend to use Knight of the Thorn for my Sylvari, because... obviously. Some of my other favorite titles include: Illuminated, Ex Machina (this one is perfect for engineers), Dark Traveler, The Emperor, Master of Secrets, Mistwarden, and The Hunter. I don't care much about the exclusivity/prestige of a title or if it was tied to a difficult achievement, but more about if I think the phrase or word sounds interesting to me or matches a characters "theme".