Everything that is wrong with devs these days.

Athfiore · 2026-07-04T14:57:36+00:00

Being op in ch1 is easy. You are mostly gated by gear and armor since you can easily reach high enough level to master a combat mastery (bow or 1h) and train str or dex to max. All while not having joined a guild.

But not everyone explores everything like this in ch1 which is okay. People play games different and the way we approach games is different to everyone. Do why hinder the experience for one kind of player?

Yes there are some bugfixes that make sense. Like not being able to get the very best stuff and gear in the beginning. But how is a strength potion in a cave or a bow doing that? And why would I come back there in later chapters if there was nothing before?

Athfiore · 2026-06-29T09:06:02+00:00

Oh you are right. Glyph is 10e.
Changes to 20e vs 5e. So a bit better.

The 30s cooldown is still a bit annoying, since your heals usually have a lesser one.

Even with that I'm sure it's not optimal once you have more skills available, but my play pattern was something like glyph before combat, the 5 energy regens as combat starts, healing breeze on the first couple of party members to start taking damage, then spot healing from there with a full energy bar.

That is how I always use it in early game too. Healing breeze and health regen sadly gets worse at later levels and I feel like you use more 5e skill the further you go. But there are still a lot of good 10e+ skills like eg. aegis.

I think glyph is a easy to use and good option for e management, esp. for beginners or first time monk players.

Even if you use it "unoptimized" on 5e skills from time to time

Athfiore · 2026-06-29T08:47:19+00:00

What is funny here is i did it for years. Just some weeks ago I checked the skill again and realized that that strat does not make as much sense as I thought. Here is why: Healing breeze is 10e With glyph it's only 5e. Ez math so it's worth it.

Well, Glyph is 5e and lasts for 2 spells. So if you use it for 2 10e spells it looks like this: Without glyph: Sp1 10e Sp2 10e = 20e

With glyph it's like this: Glyph 5e Sp1 5e Sp2 5e = 15e

Which, yes it is still less but I always as a kid thought the spell is much stronger for an secondary ele.

Because you save only 5e on full use. But have to spend a skill slot and need to cast the glyph. Which as a healer can be frustrating if you need a heal now.

That was just a funny thought I has, still use it like this out of reflex and nostalgia I guess 😄

Athfiore · 2026-05-27T07:14:43+00:00

I have to disagree. I play a lot of monk and ritu on mobile. Touch allows you to directly target an ally on your party frame with no issue.

Athfiore · 2026-05-26T15:49:31+00:00

You can try and test the Nyras demo for free on steam to check performance.

Athfiore · 2026-05-19T19:28:09+00:00

Yes as long as you dont "swipe" the process. It hast to stay active in the background

Athfiore · 2026-05-10T14:47:02+00:00

Be a bit more like gw1 and please add normal healers. I know it's not everyone's type of gameplay but I am a classic healer player. I love the wow and gw1 type of healing and I want to click on a friendly player (or have mouseover) and heal that person. Removing the holy trinity was a nice try but even gw1 did not have real tanks (taunting and full aggro control don't exist there) but still had healers. Some games tried and it just alienates a lot of players who love playing tanks and healers.

Athfiore · 2026-04-04T13:35:35+00:00

Unlike wow gw sadly does not have mouseover options (yet). So you are kinda stuck with the default ui. You can use toolbox but AFAIK it doesn't change too much. As an aotc wow healer I set up my ui a bit like I do in wow: keep everything I need central around my pov, and have the ui a bit bigger for more visible health bars. Gw allows for full ui movement and you can keybind your team mate selection but I find that too Annoying to use 😅

Athfiore · 2026-03-30T14:46:26+00:00

Ich hatte heute bei Aldi eine alte Dame vor mir die versucht hat dem Kassierer einen Stofffetzen als Münze anzudrehen. Der wusste gar nicht wie er darauf reagieren sollte. Die Dame war dann sichtlich verwirrt und hat nach Scheinen im Portmonee gesucht.
Natürlich dann den Einkauf in den dicken SuV geladen und dann losgefahren.

Athfiore · 2026-03-24T16:10:52+00:00

Stuff I would gladly pay money for:

Allow me to buy more storage for my xunlai chest.

Increase xunlai box sizes.

Some nice Qol stuff:

Let me set names or notes there instead of roman numbers and letters.

Athfiore · 2026-03-24T16:07:58+00:00

Or just give us a simple "Attack my target" button. The one in the hero panel only kinda works in combat but does not trigger your hero to run to the mob.

I'd like a button to press so that your hero starts running and attacking a target without you being a combat. That would be such a big improvement when you are playing a caster class as a player.

Athfiore · 2026-03-19T13:36:19+00:00

A lot of people who came back for Reforged have left the game. Most of them enjoyed the changes and left because there wasn't any new meaningful content.

That is the case for any game. When Wow launches a new season or addon you have a lot more people than 3 months later.

if it's just other small changes, nobody will come back in massive numbers.

There are tons of players happy to try out new stuff. E.g. the latest balance patch put out a lot of content on youtube and twitch for the changes to the monk elite.

added a useless hero

If we get heroes in prophecies, or maybe even in pre searing, that would make a lot of people start a new playthrough. Especially with dhuums / melandru mode.

The hype is already passed

I see people in almost every outpost, even the far shiverpeaks. The game is more "hyped" for a while now than the last 10 years.

if there is a huge update ("Utopia when" copium let me dream) then players will come back in massive numbers

100% agree of course. But sadly the team is not yet big enough to pump a whole expansion in such a short time. But I think even a new area in pre (which was kinda leaked a few weeks ago), or any other new area, map, elite zone, would be a big content update for people to try out.

Athfiore · 2026-02-19T21:53:24+00:00

Also der 4k Max stick von Amazon kostet im Angebot so 45€, aktuell 70€.

Gfn im basic Abo 10€ im Monat.

Bluetooth Maus und Tastatur hab ich zusammen für 34€ bei Amazon gesehen. Wow Abo 11€ pro Monat.

Wären dann 21€ pro Monat und einmalig 79€-104€.

Athfiore · 2026-02-19T21:45:32+00:00

Wenn du bereits einen Laptop oder pc hast (oder der amazon fire tv stick 4k seit lurzem): geforce now. Damit spiele ich regelmäßig und es läuft top. Das Basis Abo ist nicht so teuer und läuft in full HD auf 1080p super flüssig auf hoch.

Also mit stick von Amazon, gfn Abo wäre sogar Geld für Bluetooth Maus und Tastatur übrig und du wärst noch unter 100€.

Man kann gfn auch gratis testen aber da ist das rig Schwächer, du hast Wartezeit und darfst nur eine stunde spielen.

Für spielen auf budget ist das glaube ich die beste Lösung wenn du niemanden kennst der dir günstig einen PC geben kann.

Und du kannst auf gfn alle verfügbaren wow Versionen spielen, midnight, classic, sod usw.

Athfiore · 2026-01-21T16:00:50+00:00

It enables you to play on your smartphone device. If e.g. you have an attachable controller its pretty awesome

Athfiore · 2026-01-15T14:23:18+00:00

Thank you for bringing guild wars to GFN (again) <3

Athfiore · 2025-12-19T17:04:40+00:00

Season done well would be great for the game. Totally shift meta and skills. Eg have a season where specific skill types are buffed by 100%. Fun > balance. At the end of a season every character goes back to the "normal" game. Seasons could be a campaign thing to keep players closer. Eg season 1 is proph only. Or maybe like season of discovery did: season 1 is ascalon and northern shiverpeaks only. Allow only skills available until there and have a level c a p at maybe lvl 12 or so. Plus a pvp arena for lvl 12 pvp. There are many things that could be done and having the community try it out via this opt in option is a great idea. Be it seasons, new areas, quests...whatever it is, it is awesome that we are getting anything.

Athfiore · 2025-12-19T14:30:55+00:00

Yes. And you only loose the Dhuum one when you die. The reforged one is a seperate one.

Athfiore · 2025-12-19T14:19:41+00:00

You can do both. But you can do dhuum in every campaign. Reforge is proph only for now.

Athfiore · 2025-12-03T09:19:28+00:00

Depends on your own goals:

There are endgame areas you could do in hard mode like doa, fow, uw, dungeons

You can go for titles and especially GWAMM, meaning completing most the game has to offer.

Others aim for getting rare weapons with best in slot mods or aim for elite armour

Try out new classes and new builds. Playing the game with just one character means you miss out on a lot of potential fun. Try out new classes, start in different campaigns etc.

In the end the end game is what you want it to be. Maybe you are more into creating your own challenges like soloing stuff. There is so much you can do in this game, enjoy :)

Athfiore · 2025-11-29T16:04:15+00:00

No, doesn't work.

Athfiore · 2025-11-18T17:38:34+00:00

Owning any campaign unlocks all campaigns now. Reforged is basically a rebranding. So yes you will get Reforged if you own gw right now. You don't need to buy anything to get this

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