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Yes, I like them. For me it is a welcome way to farm essences. I'm not so fast and with the regular rifts I can only farm T1 rifts myself and when I follow T2 and T3 groups the event is usually over before I arrived. Here I can just complete the mission in the instance with public or private groups and get the reward.

Any chance for another Gem Card/code sale for Europe? The last one was at April 2022. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-20-off-guild-wars-2-gem-cards-in-europe/

Biggest problem for Asia is that the servers are located in USA and Europe. VPNs like NoPing and ExitLag may be worth a try but may very well make the situation worse as they can only work if the routing from your ISP to ArenaNet/AWS servers is sub-optimal. They cannot decrease the physical distance. Login server errors: I get them as well. These are usually internal server problems at the side of ArenaNet. Even when the error message blames your firewall or router. I have a great connection to GW2 servers, with pings usually between 30 and 45 and no disconnects but I still get error 42 messages that pop-up a lot on certain days. By the way: I'm a gamer of the old days. Used to play FPS games on dial-up. Pings of 200 to 300 were normal back then. Ofc, a ping of 500+ or even 3000 is totally unplayable.

I'm sorry, but you cannot convert Steam GW2 accounts to ArenaNet GW2 accounts. The reason or this is a business reason. Steam takes a cut on any sales that is done via the Steam version of GW2 while with the ArenaNet version all reveue goes directly to ArenaNet. Therefore, you cannot convert. Allowing so would hurt business for either Steam or ArenaNet.

Can you post a full crash log here? Maybe some smart forum users can identify the "third party software" that ArenaNet support talks about. Then you can try uninstalling it to see if that makes the game run stable on your system. Edit: I see that GeforceNow is a hosted gaming service. This perhaps limits your options to change installed third party programs. If that is the case, you may have to contact GeforceNow support to see if they installed any third-party software that interferes with running Guild Wars 2 there.

I always have pings in the 30s-40s. Playing from ZeelandNet/Delta ISP in The Netherlands on EUR servers. I think the servers are great. No lag, no packet loss. No disconnects.

I somewhat disagree. Turtle is tanky. No other mount has this. Turtles has more DPS (when you have a gunner) Turtle can take two players Turtle can quickly destroy CC bars While the SkyScale and Griffon clearly win as best mounts overall, I often use the turtle for these reasons. Other mounts I hardly ever use, except for the niche use tailored for a specific mount such as the sand portals.

Best advise in general is to play content when it is new/hot. Ofc, you cannot do this when you just created an account but keep that in mind. For now you will have to find a guild that runs these events (There is a guild that is literally called Twisted Marionette and regularly runs this mission) or keep an eye on LFG to join on peak times. Usually in weekends and in the evening. Return to ... events would very much help to revive less-played content.

It's not that paying more will yield more content. To get more content ANet will need to structurally be a larger studio. For that they need to have the confidence that they will make enough revenue with the franchise. Not just once but in the long run. Perhaps the large influx of new players with the Steam release has helped this more than any price increase of the expansions would have.

You will have to do the Chalice of Tears jumping puzzle multiple times. For some this is a deal breaker so it is good to know before you start. Nevermind, that was for Aurora

We already got a major one with DX11 this year. And I got another one just by upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 11 because of a newer driver path. (Same hardware)

Older driver 531.41 DCH here. Windows 11. No problems.

I really wish for an option of using no relics at all and using the old runesets instead. I got legendary runes configured as Divinity runes with a +10% health bonus and lost it.

Still waiting for my +10% health that I lost from my legendary rune set (Set to Divinity) when SotO got released.

We got the same issue during our daily T4+rec fractal run. During malnourished we were unable to eat a new birthday cake. Did the devs hire a doctor?

I tend to put T4+recs on a daily basis, usually after reset. While one of the most beautifully designed fractals, Sunqua Peak seems to be universally disliked in pugs because of a combination of reasons: In comparison to other T4's, Sunqua combines a long stage before the boss with a long boss fight. Even 3 years after the release of the fractal, usually half of the group doesn't understand the Tidal Bargain mechanic or is unable to handle it right. Failing this mechanic is highly punishing to the group. The boss is constantly moving around, even when you break the break bar in time. This makes builds with AOE heals, AOE DPS far less effective. The boss fight has a flurry of no-no zones and spread mechanics, making it hard to stack for buffs and revive a downed player. The punishing Tidal Bargain mechanic is right at the end of the boss fight, making failing it more punishing in time played as you need to redo all stages of the boss fight. Players tend to leave after a failure. This actually is a good choice because a group that does not handle Tidal Bargain well the first run tends to fail again the second one. But one leaving usually leads to the rest leaving which means the progress in the path towards the boss has been a waste of time to all. The relative long wait between the completion of the fractal and the delivery of the reward chests gives an opportunity to trolls to trigger the "leave instance" dialog. Which looks too similar to the "instance completed" dialog. Besides obvious solutions like: Git gud, Don't pug, Play with guild, Play T1 instead of T4, Require killproof, I would love to see some changes here to make it a more enjoyable experience with random T4 pugs: Move the water phase with the Tidal Bargain mechanic to the beginning of the boss fight. When players fail, there is less progress lost and players can quickly try again without having to do the other phases all over again first. Make the fractal a bit shorter in play time duration so it is more in line with the other fractals. Both the pre-events and the boss fight. Maybe the game needs to make the Tidal Bargain effect easier to understand to players. Allow for more opportunity for players to revive a downed ally without being immediately punished by spread mechanics and no-no zones. Allow for players who mostly attack or heal via AOEs to do so a bit more effective. Allow for a bit more time between spread mechanics to stack buffs and heals. Just one or two of these points would improve the experience in it's total and bring it's difficulty level more in line with the rest of the T4 fractals. What are your experiences with pugging this fractal at T4? Do you like it as it is? Or would you prefer certain changes?

It's normal. And very much a personal regard to how much time you have, where you spend it on, how much the game keeps attracting and interesting you. And whether GW2 is your primary game or just one of the many. To me, GW2 is my primary game and I play it on a daily basis I like long term progression so working on things like achievements, legendary gear maxing masteries is a meaningful thing for me to spend my time on. If I did not value this, I would probably have paused a lot more often.

C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\d3d11.dll This should not be there. DX11 should be loaded from the Windows installation. Not the GW2 installation folder.

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I own the soundtracks of Guild Wars Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall and GW2 but after that I haven't seen any soundtrack CD's from ArenaNet. Not in collector's editions and not as separate sales. There have been some beautiful soundtrack releases on Vinyl but I don't have a record player and sound quality of vinyl is a step back from the digital perfection of uncompressed CD audio. So I skipped on them. I like CD's as physical collectible medium and if the price is reasonable I would love to buy a CD collection for: GW: Eye of the North GW2: Heart of Thorns GW2: Path of Fire GW2: End of Dragons GW2: Secrets of the Obscure GW2 Living World Seasons 1-4 GW2: IBS For those who missed the collector's editions, a re-release of these CD soundtracks would be nice as well GW: Prophecies GW: Factions GW: Nightfall GW2: Core game (Even many who bought the collector's Edition were unable to get their CD's because of problems with the signed CD copies from DirectSong)

When trying to buy the Secrets of the Obscure MP3 soundtrack from Amazon.de I am a person from The Netherlands. The soundtrack is not findable on Amazon.nl. Normally I can buy goods from Amazon.de without problems.

After a week and a bit, the Wizard's Vault will have it's first quarterly reset. If I have claimed but unspent Astral Acclaim currency (up to 1300), will I keep that for the next round or will everything be lost that is not spent?

Not with the current state of sPvP. sPvP seems to get very little attention of the studio. After all these years we still only got Conquest and a beta version of Stronghold. While sPvP is okay as it is, it remains a niche game mode in comparison to the rest of GW2. GW1 has much better and broader sPvP support. So, a revival of e-sports would suit the old CORPG better. But we all know that the GW1 player base is a shadow of what it once was. WvW could be a nice target for researching if an organized tournament with first-class commanders and live streams could be feasible or not.

I play daily T4 + recs as Tempest DPS with random pugs and I run this build: Tempest Condi DPS fractal build. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PGgEsEWWAbixwqYk4o6c12A-DyQYrgOqRDHeYUUAdJgzxggEEbgXTPm2+VA-e Does your group need AlacDPS? Easy. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PGgEsEWWAbixwqYk4o6c1WB-DyQYrgOqRDHeYUUAdJgzxggEEbgXTPm2+VA-e It's robust because of the mostly Celestial stats. It won't break any DPS records but DPS is fine as long you're not playing CMs. Usage: Summon as many fire elementals as you can. Mistlock singularities help because every time you use one it resets the cooldown of "Glyph of Lesser Elementals" so you can summon another one. Pririty is with fire attunement. Cast everything there. Cast a firestorm. Cast Overload Fire whenever it is ready. When all is used, switch to earth and/or air and cast until the overload is ready. When your healer is struggling, switch to water and your water skills to do some off healing. Overload water is a decent group heal. You won't have much problems dying with this build. Today I played T4 Thaumanova and all other players died or fell into the reactor. I was able to solo the last quarter of the boss with my elementals and the protection that the Celestial gear pieces give me.

Not much in there for me as Tempest. I hoped for some defensive buffs after the obliteration of Stone Heart and the removal of +10% maximum health on the runeset I use. (Divinity)