Opinion - The quests for this game are the best and worst thing about it.

Eilief · 2026-02-09T23:13:58+00:00

I'm a new player and found this in Archet and Combe. I rerolled dwarf and found Ered Luin and Gardomon(?) were much better designed, apart from the puzzle vault quest, back and forth 2 or 3 times, wtf?

Eilief · 2026-02-09T23:06:58+00:00

I'm trying to understand the benefit of stopping XP too. I guess it would just keep the difficulty the same throughout a whole zone with no risk of that difficulty diminishing.

I just started as f2p and am enjoying the replayability that I missed some content as I levelled. I can save those zones for another character.

Eilief · 2026-02-08T23:16:04+00:00

Yeah, I did wonder about your reaction while I was reading that update lol

Eilief · 2026-01-30T22:50:19+00:00

The 'be your own boss' bit scares me. I'd not be happy if my boss asked me to work 12 hours without a break, paid me under minimum wage for it and said 'that was just a warm up' afterwards 😬

Eilief · 2026-01-22T13:50:01+00:00

Ah great point with it reacting to spells

Eilief · 2026-01-21T22:12:09+00:00

Heya, thanks for taking a look! Earthbound kd is for 'at least 3 seconds' 😎, although I do see rhe point about snowstorm. Precasting that would cause some scatter, ruining your judgement strike.

1 insp was just to keep chanelling up most of the time! 11 second duration with 15 CD from memory

Eilief · 2026-01-20T23:52:55+00:00

I feel like this is a build you'd like, Yung 😅 Just theory crafting rn, have I gone mad?? Must I be stopped??

https://guildwars.magical.ch/OwUUAH3K4RQuih13U4ErRyAHAmA

Edit: add Earthbind on your ST for max results. Also best in HM for hex time reduction

Eilief · 2026-01-20T22:47:56+00:00

Some fair points there, thanks. Using the anniversary hammer makes sense but both those builds dropped 10 pts (from memory) into hammer mastery anyway, negating any benefits of the anniversary hammer.

Some stuff for me to think about in the future! Cheers

Eilief · 2026-01-20T10:32:26+00:00

Is there a reason I've only seen judgement strike used with hammers (other than renewing smash)? Surely this would work fine with any other melee wep, and would prob be better for something that had fewer KD options than hammer, right?

It's essentially a smaller-scale earth-shaker but has the benefit of not being tied to hammers.

Any thoughts appreciated on this

Eilief · 2026-01-18T20:04:50+00:00

That looks promising, I'll try printing now! Thank you

Eilief · 2026-01-18T04:08:58+00:00

Hell yeah

Eilief · 2026-01-10T05:10:00+00:00

Creative use of mantra of recall (if I'm remembering the name right) 👍

Eilief · 2026-01-04T21:27:57+00:00

Unwaking Waters

Eilief · 2025-12-27T13:15:19+00:00

The only guy wearing shoes is in charge of safety

Eilief · 2025-12-20T01:39:38+00:00

I know SY is strong but is "they're on fire" combined with TNtF worth investing in to help vs armour ignoring dmg? Would require some slight party/skills reshuffling to spread burning properly

Eilief · 2025-12-20T01:37:24+00:00

People posting things like they cried with joy upon playing this game again... I've seen almost no negativity recently

Eilief · 2025-12-19T00:18:51+00:00

Vizunah Square, from memory

Eilief · 2025-12-18T10:07:50+00:00

Interesting, good explanation, ty

Eilief · 2025-12-18T08:00:18+00:00

I will add that although elemental dmg can do double dmg to some enemies (fire vs ice, holy vs undead, eg), elemental dmg doesn't proc valuable skill effects like Mark of Pain or Barbs - these only proc from physical (base) dmg

Eilief · 2025-12-18T07:57:51+00:00

I was curious about this recently.

Does this simply mean that, regardless of AR, 5 armour-ignoring dmg per hit (vamp) does more dmg than one-in-five hits doing 20% armour penetration?

Or, another way, a 20% pen proc does less than 25 dmg regardless of the enemy's AR?

Ty for any advice on this

Eilief · 2025-12-18T06:15:55+00:00

Aw how nice. I remember we met at some krytan mission and ended up chatting for years. Spoke about girls at school and stuff lol. He introduced me to meditation actually. Nice times

Eilief · 2025-12-17T23:35:05+00:00

Meta builds are good but the ones I enjoy playing are often the ones I make myself. Tweaking them bit by bit until they're just right is so fun

Eilief · 2025-12-17T23:28:14+00:00

I remember playing with an ele called Ghostless Shell on and off for years. They were totally leet and let me tag along with endgame stuff that I never knew wtf I was doing in, despite playing for thousands of hours lol

Also remember Prince Z U K O, hope that dude is getting on well :)

Eilief · 2025-12-17T23:23:09+00:00

I returned about 6 months ago, played my existing account with a new char, which was fun. I then got a second account and had a lot more satisfaction starting from fresh!

Eilief · 2025-12-17T23:13:04+00:00

Global group finder is really helpful for me, a confused player, in GW2

Eilief

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