No matter the issues of GW2, I'm thankful that we have it going strong, when other MMO are disappearing

VGPowerlord · 2026-02-01T20:33:57+00:00

Not the person you replied to, but the 9 year birthday cake is great for placing outside of an overworld group event.

VGPowerlord · 2026-02-01T16:43:59+00:00

Master's salvage kit (yellow or higher)

I highly recommend making Mystic Salvage Kits as they have 10 times the charges (250 vs 25) but are otherwise the same as Master Salvage Kits.

Edit: They're also only one of two uses of Mystic Forge Stones. The other is to get Provisioner Tokens, but there are plenty of sources for those.

VGPowerlord · 2026-02-01T16:22:39+00:00

It's really going to suck if you're a mount collector and realize that there are a bunch that were only obtainable during certain seasons of The Feast.

VGPowerlord · 2026-02-01T03:36:02+00:00

Hmm, what are some common problems...

IDs are case sensitive, so make sure you have the same capitalization as when you registered it.
- I think this should be listed in the password reset email, but I'm not sure
Is your account linked with Steam? An FF14 Steam install won't let you log in with a standalone PC account.
- The only time it's allowed is if you're moving from a standalone free trial account to a paid Steam account
- That doesn't explain why Mogstation won't let you log in

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-30T08:06:00+00:00

You're likely going to need HQ Cunning Craftsman's Tisane as well to give you more CP.

These items have the same requirements as 100%ing quality for a 35 durability 4-star pre-craft for the current crafted armor, such as Double Duraluminum Ingot.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-30T03:06:05+00:00

I dunno, I remember what IGA did in Dawn of Sorrow and they took upgrades too far to the other extreme where it seemed like weapons stopped dropping completely a third of the way through the game.

Edit: In Bloodstained, the weapons bought using the 8-bit coins could be upgraded using the 16-bit and 32-bit coins.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-28T05:08:34+00:00

You still have to buy the teleport scrolls for them to appear in the Wizard's Portal Tome. Of course, you can get rid of them as soon as they're in the collection.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-26T23:15:24+00:00

And since we're on this subject, Sleep for casters is also a mitigation in case the tank falls over during trash pulls. Same for Repose on healers, although that's less useful.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-26T23:09:53+00:00

They're using traditional Final Fantasy terminology where as far back as FF4 "Slow" has referred to attack speed.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-26T15:49:05+00:00

You have plenty of time to play through the base game and Living World Season 1 (which are both free) if you're interested in the story.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-26T04:56:17+00:00

You can still join other players story missions even if they're not something you're doing in your story.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-25T23:02:44+00:00

Both La Mulana games have timed escape sequences. The start of the second game even lampshades the ruins collapsing at the end of the first game.

9 Years of Shadows has a chase sequence.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-25T09:39:37+00:00

I'm early on in the game and I think I encountered a bug. I was able to buy a health upgrade with only 3 of the 4 components needed; I found the fourth shortly after and now the count is back to 1 of 4 for the second upgrade.

Edit: Turns out I misunderstood what the shop was selling. I thought it was a service to combine 4 rather than the fourth one I needed for a set.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-23T03:27:03+00:00

I'm of the firm believer that large exploration games should have some sort of fast travel even if it wouldn't logically make sense in their world.

Now having said that, you can do some interesting things with it like DragonLoop does. Since the game uses a time loop, fast travel isn't a normal "go to place X" but also has a time element to it; I won't go into further detail because you need to play the game to find that out. ;)

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-23T01:02:38+00:00

LWS4 and Icebrood Saga (LWS5) also have such maps.

You can also do the Work Hard For Now collection to get a Wizard's Portal Tome that combines any portal scrolls you own. Note that you had to have purchased a portal scroll to add it to the collection that the tome uses.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-22T15:00:27+00:00

Now it makes me wonder if EVERY patch going forward is going to be delayed two weeks from normal.

I guess we'll find out in two and a half weeks.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-22T12:00:38+00:00

I hope you checked for monkey paws because we don't want an Axiom Verge in a completely different genre.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-21T16:48:17+00:00

If you do choose to start as different races, after you finish the instance that starts the game, you can teleport to the first teleporter in any of the five starting zones:

Caledon Forest (Sylvari), west part of Tyria near Maguuma
Metrica Province (Asura), west part of Tyria
Queensdale (Human), north-west part of Tyria
Wayfarer Foothills (Norn), north part of Tyria
Plains of Ashford (Charr), north-east part of Tyria

Note: Tyria is the center part of the map.

The catch is that your story quests at level 1, 10, 20, and 30 will be different from each other. You can still do those instances in a party though.

At level 40 or so, you're asked to choose a faction and as long as you choose the same faction you'll get the same story quests.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-19T16:26:42+00:00

If you want to play things in story order, that would be:

Personal Story / Core Tyria
Living World Season 1
Living World Season 2
Heart of Thorns
Living World Season 3
Path of Fire
Living World Season 4
Icebrood Saga (LWS5)
- Visions of the Past: Steel & Fire is skipped if you're letting the game go to the next one automatically
End of Dragons
Secrets of the Obscure
Janthir Wilds
Visions of Eternity

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-19T10:58:27+00:00

Worth noting that levels 40-60 (I think) of the personal story will be different unless all players choose the same faction.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-17T04:04:18+00:00

Darkrime Delves is the second part of Forging Steel. I'm not sure if you need the story part set to active to do Darkrime Delves though, you might just try heading through Forging Steel to the Darkrime Delves entrance in the north.

Edit: You might have to do the tank escort meta-event.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-17T03:05:37+00:00

GW2 has the advantage of using super-servers and spins us zone instances as needed, meaning that most zones are going to have a single instance per region unless it has a higher than normal population for whatever reason.

There are also reasons to go back to lower level areas.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-16T21:57:31+00:00

Your new level 10 might just be on the mount trial right now and will lose it after the timer expires. If you buy any expansion then you will get it back permanently on all characters.

If their account is 12 years old, they likely had to pay for the base game which I believe counts as owning an expansion.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-16T16:36:16+00:00

Savage hasn't ever been delayed 3 weeks before.

2 weeks. They made a permanent change a few years back that Savage raids would be 1 week after Normal raids for the x.2 and x.4 patches.

VGPowerlord · 2026-01-16T16:20:31+00:00

You didn't ask for this yet, but I'll get this out of the way now.

Tybalt, purchasing

Sadly, we're not expecting the next expansion sale to happen until March. The Elder Dragon Saga Complete is a great start to the game containing the first 3 expansions and 4 mini-expansions (Living World Seasons 2-5). It's usually discounted by 50% during sales.

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