Foostival 2024: A Celebration of Community in France and Germany! – GuildWars2.com
Foostival 2024: A Celebration of Community in France and Germany! – GuildWars2.com
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/foostival-2024-a-celebration-of-community-in-france-and-germany/
The beloved community-driven event is back this October in both Germany and France!
October 8 Balance Update Preview
October 8 Balance Update Preview
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/151530-october-8-balance-update-preview/
Hi, everyone, Welcome to the preview for the October 8 balance update! We're only a few weeks past the release of Janthir Wilds, so this update will be a bit smaller as we continue to watch and evaluate the impact of the new spears and relics. As always, the goal of previewing these changes is to...
Squishy, Soft Friends for Your Lovely Homestead Are Here! – GuildWars2.com
Squishy, Soft Friends for Your Lovely Homestead Are Here! – GuildWars2.com
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/squishy-soft-friends-for-your-lovely-homestead-are-here/
Add a touch of squoosh and squash to your daily life.
Introducing Push—A New PvP Game Mode – GuildWars2.com
Introducing Push—A New PvP Game Mode – GuildWars2.com
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-push-a-new-pvp-game-mode/?
Soon there will be a new PvP mode, but we need your help developing it!
Screenshot of the month - Don't forget!
Hi everyone,
Don't forget that we have a "Screenshot of the month", that will be displayed in the sidebar of this community.
All you gotta do is take an in-game screenshot and make a post in the community.
You can read more about it here and see the earlier screenshots as well.
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Weekly c/guildwars2 Question Post - Week 37, 2024
Welcome to the Weekly Question Post on c/guildwars2!
This post is dedicated to those questions that you might not think is worth making a whole post about, but sure is worth getting an answer to ;)
Remember to also take a look at the links in the sidebar, which holds lots of great resources and information.
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The Surprising Lore of Valravns and the Ripple of Whispering Brook.
(opinion) Lowland Shore has the best events since Grothmar
I'm so impressed with the regular events in Lowland Shore so far. I think they're the best in the game excepting maybe Grothmar. Just like that zone they managed to make almost all of them have some little gameplay twist or gimmick that makes them more interesting than bog standard versions we've seen a hundred times before.
I'm honestly having so much fun exploring this map and just taking it in as it comes. Such a great feeling after years of repetitive meta events that all boil down to the same zerg rush gameplay.
Janthir actually makes me want to log in and get lost in the world in a way I haven't felt for a while.
These mini expacs really aren't doing it
So to preface/disclaim, I love the new zones. JL is a gorgeous zone with great music and reminds me strongly of Grizzly Hills from WotLK back in the day (still one of my favorites there), and JS has serious Diablo vibes, which I absolutely adore. The encounters are interesting, and at least the first of the antagonists was interesting. There's a lot to like here.
That makes it worse, then, to say I am done with them after just a few hours. Story quests done, map complete, got my Falling Star, did the meta. Could always grind more mastery XP, but I've got the ones that mattered to me.
With the old "full" expacs, you had elite specs and hero points that pulled you back to those zones on alts, some- eg guano, frogs, shroom, chak- that were actually fun challenges to tackle. I've been back to HoT / PoF / EoD a dozen times and more over the years.
It just really seems a shame, then, to spend all of this time on awesome art and music and encounters for it to be rendered pointless so quickly. There will be a legendary back at some point in the cycle that will be interesting for a bit of poking like the living world legendaries, but even that's just a 1-off.
At least in SotO there was the prospect of obsidian armor to give it some legs, but unless interior decorating is your thing, this one really just doesn't have a shelf life. I finished up, looked around, and immediately went back to working on stuff elsewhere in the game.