[What is considered an Activity?]

You enter and go afk, some minutes later you have your daily

[What is considered an Activity?]

I could not grab the crab today so I could not really play but it doesn’t matter for the daily you get it when the match time is over, as anyone had 0 pts I assume it was broken for all.

NPC: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Activity_Lead_Cassi

[What is considered an Activity?]

Click the location button, it will point you to an NPC in lion arch talk with him and spent your time in a broken mini game

[Please remove Def event from daylies and weeklies]

Opposing to name and intention your (nearly) only chance getting a defense event for a tower is conquering a defended tower and cleaning the remaining defender after capture as they trigger an defense event immediately.

[Some missions from the daily shop need to be looked at]

4 hours ago, vares.8457 said:

Defending a point in WvW has been in the game before the new dailies and is not that hard to complete. 

Yeah, but it's condition has been hardned recently, Repair a wall/door doesn't count anymore.

Defending a keep usually gives success, as the area for kills that count is large enough.

Ironically, your best chance to get a successful tower defense is attacking a defended tower and cleaning the enemies inside after capture.

[How do you get to heart of Maguuma for dailies?]

I use the egg-chamber port (as other already mentioned above) and then an WP outside (you have to set map to middle level to see them)

[Do you regret pre-ordering SoTO?]

13 hours ago, Sobx.1758 said:

Pretty sure that comes with any expansion purchase even without prepurchasing it though.

With prepurchase I have it earlier. 😀
(edit: the Shared inv slot)

[Can someone smart tell me what to do with my mystic coins]

The big question is:

How will those with many accounts will behave, when simply login doesn’t give you coins anymore.

Will they start playing the new dailies or simply stop login in their alt-Accounts, which would reduce MC supply quite a lot I think.

[Gems was not delivered to my account.]

There are several restriction for new accounts that need time to pass by: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Account#Limitations

I've no clue about Steam Accounts.

There is also a Gem delivery time of up to 12 in some cases even 72 hours especially for new accounts and new payment methods.

They are for preventing fraud and sometimes are also based on the financial transaction provider services.

[New Player Need Advice]

48 minutes ago, Kovac.4372 said:

Mastery points to unlock the next tier, so my earned XP literally goes to waste.

Your Xp goes to (hidden) spirit shards not to waste.

[Looking for a new main character.]

Hm, I find my Marauder/Dragon Daredevil (currently I most often play OW/Story with with Staff/Shortbow and occasional switch to DE with rifle/SB, happy to try staff/rifle soon) has a decend lifepool (21.6k life with lvl-10 jade-Core) and very good sustain, with signet of malice as heal skill, 66% life-steel on crit food and if needed Invigorating Precision as further very powerful self-heal. That's currently one of the most tanky builds I play.

[Just Deleted All My Characters]

Hm, I hope you didn't bought bag-slots, build-slots nor equipment slots (all char bound and gone).

I hope you are also happy to reset your chars birthdays back to 0. (I am not sure about account birthdays, is it depended on the oldest char or independend.)

[Vision or Aurora based on my progress?]

35 minutes ago, Brandolf.6048 said:

Are these maps going to be so dead that it is going to be really hard to complete?

I wasn't there since I have both 🙂 but I didn't had much trouble seeing people when I did them 1-2 years ago. Also on Map-daily days there are more people than on other days and of course use commander/mentor tag and map chat/lfg, if there are group events to do.

The druid-stone achievement on draconis monis was the worst in my memory, not because I missed people, but for the endless (looking) repetition of hearts.

Ah and start the buying of 100  Funerary Incense early (if you aren't a passionate bounty hunter with 300 mosaics), the more time you have the cheaper (500-10000 Trade Contract ) and less effort (no hearts. just Primeval Steward) they are.

[Vision or Aurora based on my progress?]

35 minutes ago, Sias.4592 said:

Also remember, in order to start Vision, you'll need to clear all PoF Raids,

No, you don't need any raids for Vision nor for Aurora.

You start Vision by purchasing the Trance Stone from any Volatile Magic Collector.

You start Aurora by purchasing the Sentient Seed from the Gleam of Sentience, which is a converter unlocked by combining other converters from completing the following achievements:

• Cin Business
• Conspiracy of Dunces
• Lessons Learned
• Token Collector

35 minutes ago, Sias.4592 said:

Start both

I agree, but Vision needs Kralkatite Ore x 3,060 and Powdered Rose Quartz x 3,000 (HP buayable), don't try Vision if you are far away from that. Any attempt to fast farming that amount will stress your motivation hard. Farm it slowly and steadily (homenode, meta, Istam hearts, meteorits, ...)  and don't forget you can also buy it from Eternal Ice Shards (e.g. play IBS Strikes) and for volatile magic (5 per day) on dragon fall.

The above wiki links are very useful guides.

[Please remove the RNG from Mystic Clover crafting.]

In the end you do it so often, that it even out 😀

And if you want to be more even, also on smaller numbers use the 1x recipe, not the 10x.

[Are daily login rewards going away?]

Maybe it's a good idea to bound it to the daily, i.e. don't give it to login, but to finishing 3 daily tasks.

[How am I meant to sort my bank and inventory when I have no idea what I need?]

There is the chat command /wiki and there is item-shift click and they work together

/wiki <item-shift-click>
that’s all ingame support that currently exist.

if you know a bit about programming you can combine the bank inventory api and wiki lookup in a little program.

[I Just got the Skyscale....and It feel Very bittersweet.]

I got the skyscale twice, at release on my main acc, beginning of the year for my 2nd.

The hardest and time consuming part was convincing me to do it again. Once I managed to convince me, it just took me 2 weekends to get it. The map-currencies from the „return to“-achievements are already a very nice shortcut.

I don’t really care how difficult it is for others.

[Aquiring ascended gear]

https://gw2efficiency.com/crafting/ascended

The fastest way is crafting it. If you have to learn crafting: https://gw2crafts.net/

Probably your brother can spare 300-400 gold you need to craft armor and weapons.

 

[GW2 should finally add "inspect gear" ability to examine other players' cosmetics]

I am against, my chars want to preserve their privacy. 😉

[Will there be any World vs World changes in upcoming expansion?]

10 minutes ago, Sobx.1758 said:

Kind of. But Warclaw exists.

Elites as well, so yes, SotO will add new weapon-combinations and new-relict-effects for those who buy it.

[Will there be any World vs World changes in upcoming expansion?]

WvW is never part of an expansion, simply because it must not require expansions to play WvW

[Special Forces Training Area no longer accepting squads]

I tried from EotN and it worked. And I was alone in my squad.

[Special Forces Training Area no longer accepting squads]

15 minutes ago, leila.7962 said:

The Aerodrome one still not working.. july of 2023 lol.. incredible. ... It didn't work with a squad

It does work with a squad (just tried), but only with a max 10 player raid/strike squad. It never worked (and likely will never work) with a 50 player squad. As 50 player is the default, you have to switch size before you can enter.

[The best months of WvW were lived at the Edge of the Mists]

On 7/16/2023 at 8:37 PM, Ashen.2907 said:

I never cared all that much for edge of the mists. Perhaps the fact that opposing forces avoided eachother in order to focus on PvE even more than sometimes happens in WvW contributed to my take on the map. 

That was a balance problem. Green had always 2-3 times as many people than red and blue. 
So what do you do with 20 vs 50 as commander?

The rate times when it was more balanced it had over the day more fights than WvW.