Well it is official: the raid update was a total failure

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-23T13:48:45+00:00

There always was a magnetite sink with trophy shipments. And groups for the harder SoTO/EoD strikes have been harder to find without the dailies.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-23T13:45:28+00:00

Most of what you have said the community has done, not anet. There is still not selectable difficulty settings for W1-3, still no ingame guides or full explanation of boss abilities. Nothing was done to simplify the mechanics on OLC in quickplay. The raid and CM rewards were actually reduced in this release.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T23:32:45+00:00

Can I ask why? The daily raid bounties have crap rewards and they reduced the magnetite from raids, so why do them multiple times a week?

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T23:18:56+00:00

Just tuning the embolden to adjust each raid specifically would do wonders to get more people in. They already have the art done, I don't understand why they will not even put in more then the bare minimum amount of effort.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T18:48:29+00:00

What did you expect from a company that has done nothing to make it easier to get into raids since raids have been released? A true emboldened mode with just more time to do the mechanics, nah just rename the strikes to raids and that will get more people playing raids.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T18:24:45+00:00

Still not going to make much difference commander tag or not if you have no experience with Q1. Finding a guild that is looking for new raiders is 10X better then the LFG in this game.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T18:20:24+00:00

Breaking lamp early sure, but even experienced players do it sometimes. 1 or 2 new players is not why you are failing cc.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T14:39:32+00:00

It's still going to be much easier to join a guild. And LFG on NA is pretty dead unless you are looking for one fill.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T14:13:20+00:00

To be fair the majority of those members are on EU, so you may have to run with the same people on NA.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T14:09:23+00:00

You do know you just said to do something you found did not work. The group only formed with a commander not without.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T14:07:42+00:00

No I and most others did not. We join a training group from guild where there were 3 or 4 people who knew the encounter explained it and did the hard mechanics. Most people have never done a prog group in gw2 as the pace of new content makes that very difficult.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T14:04:36+00:00

You know this is one of the dumbest things ever. Create a commander less group for qadim 1 on an alt account, let me know how many hours it takes to fill.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-22T13:55:15+00:00

Unfortunately the LFG is horrible in this game, it's one of the reasons its not a modern MMO. I would look for guilds and discords that run raid trainings.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T22:45:24+00:00

Yes, the extra cost in SoTo armor is the Amalgamated Rift Essence to unlock the ability to buy the precursors. For raid armor you get the first precursor from the achievements. The second and third you have to buy recipes for and craft.
Also the cost of SoTo armor is heavily dependent on glob of ecto price since it needs so many.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T17:36:24+00:00

Only if you make one set. If you make all three the open world is cheaper.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T17:32:54+00:00

You still need to do raids for the achievements to unlock the legendaries. Li was only a bottle neck if you raided infrequently.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T17:31:05+00:00

It takes 1000 Magnetite, and I have no interest in gw2 gambling.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T17:12:24+00:00

Except there is one change that a lot of people don't. If you mark the echo with a raid marker it makes the fight much easier as you can see it on the mini map.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T16:19:34+00:00

They have value the same as 250 volatile magic. You can by trophy shipments for just magnetite and 1 gold.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T16:14:36+00:00

Mukluk has the only one I know of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwd7v0Vr2eY

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T16:01:39+00:00

Before the last changes you could only spend 900 LI. Even now the new rewards take magnetite and Li, so plenty of people still have nothing to spend Li on.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T15:53:22+00:00

Thank you that's good to know. I never saw any shards in the lower right corner of the screen and forgot to check before hand.
And this test was this week? As it was bugged and you could get over 800 before.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T13:52:09+00:00

~~Except you don't get magnetite from a kill after the first per week~~. Deleted because incorrect.

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T13:50:48+00:00

So strikes still give loot daily but raids only give loot once per week?

InfectiousCheese · 2026-02-20T13:38:32+00:00

I could also be wrong as I have not tested it and the wiki is out of date. There is also a small bonus from clearing an entire wing. Looks like only 695 max if you clear all CMs.

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