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It’s not my favorite launcher design (that would be HoT) — I would have gone with one of the beautiful cityscapes instead I think — but it strikes me as an odd thing to complain about. Log in and you’re on your way! I AM glad that we finally have a new character selection background and quite a lovely one at that! ☺️

Oh cool, thank you so much for the link, @Inculpatus cedo.9234 😄 I’m glad I’ll be able to get myself refamiliared with my different characters’ abilities in the training grounds — I nearly died to some tired zombies the other day! 😅 And Shing Jea looks sooo gorgeous! 😍

Still no Sylvan jackal mount? 🥺 I love a magical plant theme and a sylvan jackal that zips forward in a swirl of leaves just seems sooo perfect! Edit: In the meantime, I’d love to be able to buy the following mount skins: 1) Dark Monarch Skyscale 2) Funerary Scarab 3) Bioluminescent Raptor

I don’t recall any either but I would have probably skipped if there had been. So do we know there is going to be an introductory tutorial in the new zone? For new or any level 80? Or the option to start a new character there as well?

Do you mean the first part of Heart of Thorns or the new expansion? (I didn’t think the latter could be accessed yet.) Sorry for the newb question — I feel like a newb again! 😅

I’m in a similar place, not having played regularly since early 2019. I have every class and most elite specs leveled and geared but I seem to have forgotten how to do anything. 😅 I think I’ll create a new character to get the intro tutorials again…

Hello, I would like to join! It has been several years since I played regularly and I’ll need to get orientated but I used to do some raids and tier 4 fractals. I would like to do those again but I also enjoy casual runs, meta events, etc. and am looking forward to exploring Cantha. 🙂

Thank you!!! I’m glad to hear that skimmers can indeed go underwater now — I’ll have to log on just to try that out! :) LS1 instances? Really? Via fractals or...? I feel like a lot of games are focusing on nostalgia, or maybe that’s nothing new and inevitable from time to time. Never having played GW1, I wasn’t crazy about all the references in PoF that I guess only made sense if you’d played that and I imagine I should expect even more from Cantha. I know WoW released it’s “classic” last year and it looks like ESO is following this year’s return to Skyrim with Oblivion next year. So much human stuff! I play GW2 for the Sylvari and ESO for the Elves! :lol:

Nevermind :disappointed:

I guess I was hoping for an overview or highlights... Or what other players feel was significant... Looking over the pages of the Gemstore thread was informative but I haven’t found so easy a way to check on the state of classes and gameplay...

Checking in! I will say that I cannot bring myself to buy mount skins in other games because GW2 mounts are sooo much cooler and the skins are dyeable! So what’s new? It looks like there aren’t any new mounts since the Skyscale, but can the Skimmer now go underwater? Any new Sylvari stuff? The Tanglewood glider looks cool — too bad I didn’t catch that! But still no Sylvari jackal that comes apart and back together in a swirl of leaves? But now how about classes? Major changes overall? Are Druid pets still gimped?

Sad. Scourge was a spec I was enjoying after Druid was destroyed. :'(

look at how pretty she was! Oh man i want one. WoW has a spider mount that cost 2,000,000 gold, and everyone wants it. https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/89334/the-scrapped-spider-mount/p1# I dont get why they scrapped this one, there are spiders all over the game. I mean seriously if its because people have a phobia thats really a laughable excuse in a video game. If you start doing that might as well make the game hello kitty island adventure.Gorgeous! :love: That’s my favorite spider model in GW2 and the mini I use most often! I love the mounts we do have but so sad they scrapped this one. :disappointed:

The pet nerf needs to be revoked. Trading one advantage or mechanic for another is one thing, having it gimped to little more than a hindrance you are still saddled with is another. It may be overstating it a bit, and I wouldn’t like to see Druid lose having a pet option as part of why I was drawn to the ranger class was animal companions. But that is also part of why I hate that nerf: it doesn’t make sense thematically and feels like you’re telling me my Druid neglected her pets or hurt them through her class choices. :( There was already a significant trade-off of DPS when taking Druid spec rather than a third core spec and Celestial Avatar was already nerfed — no further trade-off was called for IMHO. Now removing Glyph of Empowerment I totally understood as it was a unique buff. And then staff 3 absolutely needs to evade; it makes no sense to not function this way! I had regularly used this in raids to reposition, avoid damage and give my group a healing boost. How does a shard/punch/etc. knock me out of mistform??? It’s like salt in the wound after the pet nerf. :disappointed:

No, I have multiples of different classes primarily for character concept and to wear different armor. I very rarely swap builds on a character, mostly do build changes when I’m experimenting or trying to optimize for particular content. But I know many people who will be glad for build templates who currently do so through Arc, which seems to always be buggy. So I think those who like alts will continue having alts and those who swap builds will now have their lives made much easier. :)