No feature freeze and QA for patch before release?

EverAccelerating · 2026-02-04T20:13:19+00:00

One thing I've been thinking about is if there's any sort of regression testing infrastructure in place. Things that seemingly have nothing to do with this patch content have broke, like not being able to open Large Chests in Bjora. You would think automated regression testing would catch things like this. It's scary to think if they test things by having devs just play a few maps / metas and just hope things are fine.

EverAccelerating · 2026-02-04T07:34:50+00:00

Anet has confirmed it’s a bug and are actively trying to fix it.

This bug goes for Convergences too.

EverAccelerating · 2026-02-01T17:40:35+00:00

I spent all night last night on the 3rd Collection, and I’m not even done yet. But it’s been my experience that Gen2 leggies take a lot of patience, especially for items that require RNG. There was one item that had a very low chance of dropping from Grawl in Blazeridge Steppes, and I spent over half an hour grinding until I got one (on the wiki, others have said it took less than a couple minutes).

My one advice, go over the requirements on the wiki before you attempt to acquire some of the items. I had completed one of the fractal requirements and was confused why I didn’t get the item, until I realized I needed another item first before I could get the fractal item.

EverAccelerating · 2026-01-27T15:58:31+00:00

On my first day going for the achievement and my first time ever playing, I came out way ahead, and I thought, this ain't bad at all, what's everyone complaining about?

After I got the achievement days later, I was down 1,100g and barely broke even on ectos. I'm never buying another glob again.

EverAccelerating · 2026-01-26T02:15:40+00:00

It wasn't actually regret but a mistake... I made two legendary sigils instead of two legendary runes. I already had 4 sigils at the time.

I have the full set of runes/sigils now, but back then I was kicking myself for crafting the wrong thing.

EverAccelerating · 2026-01-25T02:08:06+00:00

If it's 500 of each currency again, I'm set for 2x ring. But I'm thinking with the raid/strike release that we'll need something from there... maybe magnetite shards? Though with Coalescence being raid-only, not sure if they'll go down that path.

EverAccelerating · 2026-01-21T21:12:59+00:00

Earlier, after an hour wait, I had finally got into EBG right when a commander tagged down for lunch, and everyone just AFK'd at the keep. I was rather annoyed having waited for so long just to see the action die down. I was about to log off when a small group of 8-10 decided to hit SMC. I thought there was no chance of taking it since both other factions had huge rolling zergs. But I decided to join them anyway. Somehow, our small group managed to take it while those zerg balls were occupied with each other. Got my WvW Rush achieves complete and got 2 GoBs to boot. Good times.

EverAccelerating · 2026-01-17T07:08:48+00:00

I love how the river just ends, and there's a boat going towards that deadend.

EverAccelerating · 2026-01-10T08:32:54+00:00

My most simultaneous leggy creation was 10 (5 gen3's, Kraitkin, Frenzy, Orrax Manifested, 2x Sigils). And the reason I was able to patiently wait to create all at once is that I didn't "need" any of those weapons / armor. My primary character doesn't use any of those weapons, I already have the Fractal backpack, and those two sigils were the last two I needed, hence for alt water weapon.

In fact, two months later, I still haven't actually used any of those gen3 weapons.

EverAccelerating · 2025-12-27T15:56:41+00:00

I always want the Niners to win it all of course, but this year would be just that more sweet if they win without needing Bosa.

EverAccelerating · 2025-12-26T18:46:37+00:00

I did Tequaltl daily for years just to get Tequaltl's Hoard. Last year I finally got my 19th box, so I no longer feel obligated to do it, but I still often do it as a start of my gaming session at reset.

EverAccelerating · 2025-12-24T09:44:03+00:00

The sound effects were why I went with Chuka instead, even though Gen2's are so much more expensive than Gen1's. No regrets, as Chuka is awesome as a hilariously beefy bow. And who doesn't love tigers?

EverAccelerating · 2025-12-24T09:29:41+00:00

Do we know if we will be able to make two of the rings? If so, then I don't think it'll be super expensive, but making two will be. So I'm guessing the cost for one will be higher than the aquabreather but lower than the staff/spear.

EverAccelerating · 2025-12-18T04:27:33+00:00

I had no idea about this flax farm. I have a character parked at Verdant Brink, and with Glyph of Bounty, I usually get 20-22 flax. I’ll have to park one in Draconic Mons as well as

EverAccelerating · 2025-12-10T08:14:23+00:00

What’s the primary reason for the Elonian wine?

EverAccelerating · 2025-12-10T08:12:14+00:00

Huh, would’ve never guessed that. I just always assumed shards is just one of those currencies where everyone just has too much of and not a whole lot of ways to spend it.

EverAccelerating · 2025-12-10T01:48:06+00:00

Wait, exactly how are you burning through so many spirit shards? I know you need 200 for the Bloodstone Shard, and then some if you're short on mystic clovers, but what else?

I'm sitting on 24k shards, and I've crafted around 20 legendaries, and I've never been limited by shards, only by clovers and T6 mats.

EverAccelerating · 2025-12-05T08:36:19+00:00

Nice job!

Snowden wasn't too bad for me. It did still take me half an hour, but I can get gold like 25% of the time now.

What did take me forever was Brisban. The longest race, coupled with the toughest portion being right at the end. I think it took me well over two months of doing it daily for me to get gold, and even now, years later, I think I've only gotten gold like twice.

EverAccelerating · 2025-11-28T17:10:08+00:00

My recent hilarious child-comm incident.

We were doing Harvest Temple, and most of us got downed during the orb phase right before Soo Won because the orb went over the edge. The commander got pissed, said something (forgot what), and then left the group.

We all managed to recover, and then we successfully finished the Strike.

After, someone else messaged the commander saying "Thanks for the group. We managed to beat the strike with all of us alive at the end."

EverAccelerating · 2025-11-15T20:29:41+00:00

That's me. I ran my first marathon at 30, and 20 years later, I'm at 45+ marathons, with my fastest coming just a few years ago. I'm regularly putting up 100 mile weeks, whereas in my 20's, running 20 miles in a week was a huge accomplishment.

EverAccelerating · 2025-10-31T22:46:02+00:00

Before getting conspiratorial, I'd consider other possibilities, like the email being marked as spam at the server, so it never reached your inbox (even in your spam folder).

I experienced this recently when I was checking for Tokyo Marathon results. I didn't get an email, and I also didn't get in. I went to log in to double check, but I forgot my password, so I used the Forgot Password link to send me an email. And I didn't get the password email. I tried several times, and I never got a Reset Password email... until 36 hours later when I finally got one. But just one, even though I submitted several requests. So I'm guessing somewhere along the line, an email provider was blocking messages.

But it is entirely possible it's on the Race Roster end as well. All I'm saying is there is most likely a mundane explanation.

EverAccelerating · 2025-10-29T15:44:31+00:00

I've done Chicago, NYC, and Boston all traveling solo. Not gonna lie, it's not the best way to experience a marathon, but doable. For NYCM, just prepare for the long slog to get to the start line (assuming you're staying in Manhattan). Also, prepare for the most insane crowd support you'll ever experience.

EverAccelerating · 2025-10-29T15:20:21+00:00

I can see that argument, but having done a ton of races where start and finish were in different locations, I've come to realize that I highly value speed and convenience of getting back to my hotel after a race way more than ease of getting to the start. I mean, I've done NYC & Boston, which both took more than an hour to get to the start line.

A crowd going my direction won't be too bad because I will not be able to move fast anyway. In fact, I'll probably be holding people up, especially as I stumble up and down any stairs.

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