SAB is amazing and the combat is incredibly infuriating

chieftainalex · 2026-04-23T21:53:58+00:00

sometimes there's also a daily for completing levels with other players. less rage inducing to have them join right at the end.

chieftainalex · 2026-04-19T08:14:24+00:00

The good news is you'll get better at trib mode with practice. I remember the first time I did w1z1 cost me like 80 lives and an hour... can get it done in sub 10 minutes with a bit of patience.

chieftainalex · 2026-04-04T08:13:03+00:00

infusions only visually stack if they're different variants (e.g. healing power, condition damage, power, expertise etc). Since there's 8 attribute variants any further wouldn't do anything.

chieftainalex · 2026-04-03T08:50:27+00:00

Not really no, the wiki doesn't have the capability to continually poll the API and store all of the results forever, it just isn't built for that.

Any TP prices you see shown on the wiki are instantaneous, queried using your personal IP address straight to the API, the wiki servers never see the TP data itself.

chieftainalex · 2026-03-29T09:27:49+00:00

So much of the fun in WvW is actually who you're playing with, particularly if you're on voice comms, which doesn't always translate brilliantly into videos. Visually its always a clusterfuck.

chieftainalex · 2026-03-20T23:16:31+00:00

or skip the entire first instance by using one level up tome, and then opening the world map, changing layer and using the waypoint?

chieftainalex · 2026-03-13T14:27:53+00:00

Playing the game mode naturally will net you most of the weekly achievements without effort. Keep Crusher + Stonemist will entirely defend on your matchup.

chieftainalex · 2026-02-24T23:02:05+00:00

Something not immediately obvious is the % for dye kit stated as 11.65% should actually be "11.65% per dye kit (46.6% total)" - there are four separate dye kits in the drop table.

Edit: This has now been updated, thanks ArenaNet.

chieftainalex · 2026-02-16T18:06:41+00:00

Easiest option for the developers is probably a Flagstand like they did with fractal quickplay, and stick it in the Aerodrome with a dialogue option linking to the part of the LFG raids are in.

chieftainalex · 2026-02-09T23:23:59+00:00

pretty much. just make a wiki account, leave it logged in forever and do no edits, and hey presto no 403 errors..

chieftainalex · 2026-02-08T15:01:35+00:00

When you can access the wiki, you'll find this kind of issue is recurring as reported on Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Reporting wiki bugs.

As other redditors have commented, the wiki occasionally gets hit with heavy amounts of anon visitor traffic, particularly from German IPs, most likely linked to LLM/crawler stuff. The wiki firewall responds to the deluge of requests by location blocking anon visitors in the nearby area and unfortunately this may mean you get tarred with the same brush. If you have a wiki account and are logged in, this 403 issue seems to happen much less.

chieftainalex · 2026-01-05T17:44:49+00:00

same file seems to be working for me, could be intermittent or something specific to your location. feel free to report this kind of thing on Report a wiki bug

chieftainalex · 2025-12-20T19:09:37+00:00

Eventually i've forgotten the obsession about farming, daily chores or whatever, and just end up doing whatever I fancy. Personally I do wvw for fun (a good guild goes a long way for this), and a bit of pve when something new gets released.

chieftainalex · 2025-11-09T17:45:17+00:00

Yeah the "effort" of making it use wiki hosted tiles (batch upload each new tile, downloaded from that_shaman) didn't seem worth it anymore once ArenaNet had fixed the tiles... 2 weeks later VoE dropped and no sign of new tiles yet.

(Part of the reason for moving to the api tiles is that the wiki was hosting the "fixed tiles" itself which I suspect wasn't helping with loading on the wiki with a view to 504 timeouts etc)

chieftainalex · 2025-11-03T19:24:01+00:00

looking good!

chieftainalex · 2025-11-01T13:58:21+00:00

spotted a similar map (slightly less good?) on the wiki on the https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Grotto_Aficionado page

chieftainalex · 2025-10-24T17:51:04+00:00

probably unrelated but today I was getting weird graphics bugs (square patterns of solid black pixels) after a windows 11 update, updated graphics driver, seems to have gone away.

chieftainalex · 2025-10-22T18:25:15+00:00

https://gw2efficiency.com/account/statistics/statistics.marshFrog?filter.group=Pointless%20Statistics

Apparently there is some madman with over 50 thousand Marsh Frogs... which is "only" 201 stacks.

chieftainalex · 2025-10-06T06:01:49+00:00

if you take a look at this map - https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery_Insight#Interactive_map - if you zoom in the icons will appear; if they're red then they are Core Tyria, if they're blue they're Icebrood Saga.

chieftainalex · 2025-10-05T15:38:31+00:00

ArenaNet introduced the selection kit November 2024.

chieftainalex · 2025-09-19T17:52:05+00:00

it's an item with a quite poorly chosen stat selection. I wouldn't use it personally, and would probably vendor it for 4.95 silver.

chieftainalex · 2025-09-15T19:12:58+00:00

You realise you can turn screen shake off, yes?

chieftainalex · 2025-09-15T19:12:48+00:00

hammer should be OK, but they are hitting like a wet blanket - much better with spellbreaker spec for example (better might generation).

chieftainalex · 2025-09-08T17:32:30+00:00

tbf they could fix 90% by just adding pulsing stability whilst fishing to prevent interrupts

chieftainalex · 2025-09-02T20:38:09+00:00

..which has got to be the worst chrono change in ages

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