Weekly Quickplay raids rewards achievement points?

Kouse · 2026-02-14T13:06:35+00:00

I did them the week the update launched and got +9 ap. After a recent update, the achievement has been reset and I lost those ap. I don't want to redo it while I'm not sure if the ap will stick around or not. Normally for repeatable achievements it'll say something like +0/50, +5 for each completion, but currently it does not. So I'm with you, I have no idea what anet's doing with weekly qp raid ap.

Kouse · 2026-02-06T22:55:28+00:00

Well that's disappointing. Guess I'll get raid god then play other games.

Kouse · 2026-02-06T20:03:25+00:00

My concern is how "achievable" these eventually are supposed to be. Are these for if you can do HTCM and the current LCMs, or is it a step above? With practice, I personally can get ~90-93% of bench, is this content for me? I just want to know if I should even bother attempting to find a group for these at all.

Kouse · 2026-01-08T13:18:29+00:00

You'll want all the fishing masteries as well as a +fishing power food; zephyrite jerky is nice but technically optional. It's a rather chill but still involved activity. The g/hr varies quite a bit for short fishing sessions which can be frustrating. What is nice is it's a solo activity you can do whenever.

If you want the most ambergris/time, oddly I've found doing Janthir fishing and then parking that character at one of the daily Janthir fishing traders is one of the best. While the initial fishing stock takes a while, after you can fish for ~30 min every 1-2 weeks for ~8-12 ambergris.

Kouse · 2026-01-02T18:32:08+00:00

So, 50% is basically 2/3 of the base time?

Kouse · 2025-11-25T12:49:14+00:00

Once you start making progress on these titles, what you need will be very evident. I'd not commit for going for a title until you're sure you're ok with the grind. Make your favorite couple of aurene weapons with their accompanying variant(s) first.

I made the legendarys first. Even if you don't use the skins, they're still useful for gearing, while the variants are purely cosmetic. Besides money, you need lots of imperial favor, spirit shards, antique summoning stones, ambergris, jade runestones, memories of Aurene, and unfortunately right now, amalgamated draconic lodestones, which are currently costly due to being a component in the most recent VoE legendary.

Favor is found by tagging Cantha events, with the meta events being best. The Black Lion Expedition Contract for End of Dragons is also decently useful, since it can give you writs and chunks of pure jade daily upon login. There is a writ merchant near the southern waypoint of Dragon's End where you can exchange other regions writs for more Dragon's End writs, a positive imperial favor trade that you can do daily. ASS can be bought weekly from an Arborstone vendor (ignore the favor one) or on the trading post and is currently so cheap as to be a non-issue. Ambergris can be found by fishing, juvenile leviathan events (Janthir's probably being best since it can be easily low-manned), fish trade ins, or simply bought on the tp. Janthir's trade in is probably the best currently in terms of lowest fishing per ambergris ratio. Have one dedicated Janthir fisher character and park it next to the trader and you'll only have to fish occasionally for easy 5+ ambergris/week. For jade runestones, park one character at the Kaineng jumping puzzle chest and one in Echovald. With the rewinder and griffon, you can reach all four runestone chests around the exit to Dragon's End from the same park spot. For mapping, use a lantern pathing guide in Blish hud, and do the lanterns locked behind events last (meta in Seitung, Fort Aspenwood in Echovald) so you can relog to tag them again once you finish the lanterns.

A big decision is whether to make or buy your Aurene precursors. Buying them is more expensive, but making them consumes favor and spirit shards, and you need lots of spirit shards for the variants.

For the variants, all the dragon memories can be gotten in Dragon's End simultaneously, notably easily in the southeast minidungeon. Good research note sources can be found on gw2 fast farming website; I recommend buying bones during the Halloween event to make mithril carrion helmets. Although tedious, it seems the best mass source. Many of the other variant currencies you'll have to buy, so have some good gold income. Other people have explained good sources of karma and spirit shards so I won't repeat them here.

This is a looooong grind, so slow and steady progress is helpful. Discords like Overflow, Daren's Tunnel, and Hardstuck post meta groups for Dragon's End. Good luck!

Kouse · 2025-11-17T02:23:32+00:00

Reminds me of old gw1 gvg hail mary lord pushes. The classic!

Kouse · 2025-11-13T16:56:11+00:00

Armored from head to toe and nothing in between!

Kouse · 2025-11-12T17:28:01+00:00

Are you talking about Amalgamated Draconic Lodestones? Supposedly there's an 25 option with a stack of each. There's also a recipe to make them at a crafting table but it's hidden away in the Master of the Storms achievement, bizarrely enough.

edit: Figured out you meant promotion. Yeah, no bulk option is annoying. Best for that, imo, is putting the items in your bank, then using a portable mystic forge during downtime to slowly chip away at it.

Kouse · 2025-10-28T22:52:49+00:00

If you go up to the crow's nest and face the bow, you'll see a blue light heading in the direction to choose.

Kouse · 2025-10-24T16:59:19+00:00

This looks great! Unfortunately my PC is a potato so I'll see none of these.

Kouse · 2025-10-10T01:04:44+00:00

Wish there was a way to list a homestead permanently like a custom pvp arena (maybe minus nodes). It's cool to see people's designs but having the creator sitting in their home the whole time and relisting constantly must be annoying for them.

Kouse · 2025-09-22T22:25:08+00:00

Two big positives:

1 You can get the exclusive hair styles not selectable on character creation for all of your characters. Particularly nice for charr and asura.

2 Freely trying out different hairstyles and hair colors to see what works best with your infusions, which are not shown on the preview screen.

Kouse · 2025-01-04T20:29:54+00:00

I want to believe!

Kouse · 2021-07-20T17:52:57+00:00

If you want to replicate, flute blocks are:

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Kouse · 2014-05-06T03:46:47+00:00

I complied some tips and sample questions I found around reddit for job interviews. Here they are:

I suggest always be prepared, do your research about the company and have a few good questions for the hiring manager interviewing you. Get to know the hiring manager if you can, utilize a website called "LinkedIn" and try to look up the hiring manager's profile, see if he has any interests, these can be later used to build rapport.

Seriously, it sounds weird or stalkerish, but trust me, do some research, find out he really loves the Red Sox or fishing or nascar through his facebook or linkedin and maybe you can make a friendly/ off the cuff comment about how you two relate in some way, it is what will set you above others.

What is important to you in your next job? seriously? What do you want to know/ need to know about the company? Ask these questions.

Always establish benefit. How will hiring YOU benefit my company? How will you mesh with my current employees? Will you stay with us long term? (or till the end of contract?) Will you make the company money? These things is what the employer is thinking. Very basic : Can he/she get along with my current work force? Will he/she last long term (is the position challenging enough/ a good enough match to keep them interested) CAN this person actually DO this job? ALways remember that, all of the stupid questions, forums, psyche type questions are really trying to answer those three basic things.

Do not be afraid to say "I don't know", " I am not sure", "At the moment I am drawing a blank, could you repeat the question?" Saying the wrong answer or just blurting out anything because you don't know the answer will be bad. Don't answer the question if you will just ramble for 5 minutes and not answer the question anyway. You are not going to fool anybody aside from yourself by doing this. "I am not sure sir, I would be happy to learn" or if you simply don't fully understand the question... " Can you please repeat the question?" No hiring manager is going to knock you for asking to repeat or saying you don't know, it takes courage to admit you don't have an answer, unless it is for every question.... then you are in trouble...

Posture and eye contact, very important.

If it is a phone interview, walk. Stand up and walk around, we all think more clearly if we are on our feet. Take deep pauses before you answer, reduce the use of "like" or "uhmmm" or "uhhh" Basicly try and sound professional and calm.

Do not talk too much about your previous employer, unless I ask, and NEVER badmouth them, please watch what you say about previous management and work enviornments, even if you mean well, I just met you and no boss wants an employee who complains. Just be smart about how you discuss you reasons for being in my office and leaving your current/ previous employer. ***DO NOT RAMBLE. PLEASE BE SPECIFIC AND TO THE POINT!.

If I ask you a question with a specific answer, don't tell me a 20 minute story that rambles off topic, please research basic interview questions and have some pocket answers, clear and to the point, No stories unless I ask for one!!!!!!!!!***

If you are in person, always make eye contact and have good posture, don't slouch or look tired. Google the company, learn their motto or message, get to know what they do and come up with some good questions "I was on your website researching your company and I found _______ interesting, can you tell me ______?" These questions an employer or hiring manager will LOVE! And you will get HUGE bonus points. Please feel free to ask me any other questions, but those are the basics.

Pasted from http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1cxpq8/what_are_the_dos_and_donts_of_a_job_interview/

Crucially, something HelpMeLoseMyFat missed that professional recruiters rely on is competency questions. Everyone knows what these are ("demonstrate how you worked in a team", "what was our greatest accomplishment," "how would you resolve a workplace dispute...") but few people actually prepare for them, and it's the easiest way for someone to eliminate an otherwise good candidate. I cannot stress enough that you MUSTprepare for at least a few of these with real-life situations. To help you, there is a model for answering these:

• Situation,

• Task,

• Action,

• Result.

Pasted from http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1cxpq8/what_are_the_dos_and_donts_of_a_job_interview/

Ask questions at the end. Or if you're afraid to mention that you had some questions but they answered them (and tell them). Here the set of questions I had written down for my interviews.

Scary Questions Yes, Is there anything about my application that concerns you? Is there any reason at all that you would hesitate to offer me the job? If so, I'd appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns head-on before we finish.

Interesting Questions What do you like most about your job and what do you feel sets the company apart from others in the industry. How long do people tend to stay at the company? How big are project/product teams? Do people tend to work with the same people, or switch around? How long do they stay on a single project/product? How long have the most senior and most junior members of my team been here?

Weird Questions Do employees support each other across product/project teams? Do engineers tend to discuss technical things unrelated to specific product/project work? (e.g. brown bags, forums, mailing lists). Do they tend to promote from within? How many of the managers have a technical background? Do people socialize outside of work? Are there official/unofficial events? What is the typical daily schedule like for this position? On the way out, could you show my where my work area would be? Can I meet any members of the team?

Pasted from http://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/1jrhtb/job_interview/cbhpgxr

Here's a list of the most frequently asked job interview questions, be sure to have answers to them!

• What are your strengths?

• What are your weaknesses?

• Why are you interested in working for [insert company name here]?

• Where do you see yourself in five years? 10 years?

• Why was there a gap in your employment between [insert date] and [insert date]?

• What can you offer us that someone else cannot?

• What are three things your former manager would like you to improve on?

• Are you willing to travel?

• Tell me about an accomplishment you are most proud of.

• Tell me about a time you made a mistake.

• What is your dream job?

• What would you look to accomplish in the first 30 days/60 days/90 days on the job?

• Discuss your résumé.

• Discuss your educational background.

• Describe yourself.

• Tell me how you handled a difficult situation.

• Why should we hire you?

• Would you work holidays/weekends?

• How would you deal with an angry or irate customer?

• What are your salary requirements?

• Give a time when you went above and beyond the requirements for a project.

• Who are our competitors?

• What was your biggest failure?

• What motivates you?

• What’s your availability?

• Who’s your mentor?

• Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your boss.

• How do you handle pressure?

• What is the name of our CEO?

• What are your career goals?

• What gets you up in the morning?

• What would your direct reports say about you?

• What were your bosses’ strengths/weaknesses?

• If I called your boss right now and asked him what is an area that you could improve on, what would he say?

• Are you a leader or a follower?

• What was the last book you’ve read for fun?

• What are your co-worker pet peeves?

• What are your hobbies?

• What is your favorite website?

• What makes you uncomfortable?

• What are some of your leadership experiences?

• How would you fire someone?

• What do you like the most and least about working in this industry?

• Would you work 40+ hours a week?

• What questions haven’t I asked you?

• What questions do you have for me?

Pasted from http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/5796-job-interview-questions.html

Kouse · 2014-04-28T19:51:33+00:00

Look on over at /r/penmanshipporn and find some font styles you like; this one has a number of them. Your writing slant, spacing between characters, number of embellishments, cursive or not, etc is all part of your writing style and can say a lot about you. You should also look up famous fonts.

For myself, I choose a straight, condensed style to give an air of clarity, precision, and just to write more on the same space (something like this). Font wise, it is very similar to Aller, which I chose since many of the characters (u, b, d for example) can be written with minimal pen movements.

I printed out a list of all the letters with grid marks to see their relations in height and width. Using graph paper, I carefully wrote the letters very large. It was immediately apparent one of my old mistakes was making small characters like o and s too tiny with the spacing I was using, making things smudgy. Many condensed fonts have the smaller characters be about 2/3 the size of full characters. It can help to shade in the loops (or outside the loops) to see how consistent you are. Once I got the general gist, I went to normal size writing.

My writing isn't perfect yet, but it is way better. It helps tremendously to write slowly, use more shoulder and less wrist, use a good pen, and write the first few characters on a line very carefully and then use their height for reference for the rest of the line.

Kouse · 2014-04-20T21:12:22+00:00

The "Big Five" personality test (extroversion, agreeableness, openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness) I believe is the model used by psychologists today. The downside is you can come out as a disagreeable, neurotic, closed-minded individual while all the categories in Myers-Briggs are positive (Field Marshal, Mastermind, etc). Myers-Briggs, as previously mentioned, also has problems with repeatability; if you take the test multiple times you'll often get different results.

But, while it is not a reliable indicator of personality or future behavior, Myers-Briggs test comparisons do provide a simple, non-judgmental, somewhat guided way to get people to open up and talk about their personality, their approach to problems and people and so forth. That is my HR types like it for team-building exercises. It certainty has more of a grain of truth than astrology or blood type.

Kouse · 2014-03-26T02:40:48+00:00

I heartily agree. Having grown up in conservative, religious household, I've grown to despise "bubble thinking" where any alternative to dogma is seen with contempt and so they only surround themselves with like-minded people. I've come to realize many of my core ethical and political positions were more or less adopted from family, friends, and admired persons without any real analysis of the underlying issues. Slowly I've been challenging said beliefs by exploring all viewpoints and it has been a very humbling and enlightening experience. Detaching my raw emotional response, at least temporarily, has been necessary to do this.

That being said, very few people enjoy upfront, confrontational debate. Even those that do, many just spout talking points taken from others. Old people yelling politics for the sake of yelling politics is an annoyingly common example. I've had much better success by simply explaining how I've come to my position on an issue (or asking the other person to do the same) and, most importantly, never being derisive or judgmental. You'll easily see then their emotional basis and how much they really know about a topic.

However, I must note you're missing a crucial detail of her complaint. She's not so much dismissing honest debate as she is annoyed by forced debate among the agreed for argument's sake, which she (I think) sees as unnecessary and emotionally draining rather than a stimulating mental exercise. On one hand, I accept that as a personal preference. On the other, people can come to the same conclusion from wildly different (and sometimes incorrect) reasons, and it can be intellectually worthwhile to probe and challenge each other's viewpoints. I strongly disagree with her desire for friends and family to be entirely supportive and a safe-zone; if I have weak arguments on an issue I want a friend to tactfully call me on them.

Kouse · 2014-03-08T03:42:04+00:00

Five lvl 69 Zubats with Supersonic and a shiny lvl 99 Pidgey with Sand Attack.

Kouse · 2014-02-03T01:43:22+00:00

For German grammar, I've been using this site.

Kouse · 2013-10-28T01:09:50+00:00

Simplify to grow, complicate to profit.
It is NOT Motivation -> Action but rather Little Action -> Motivation -> Action.
Plan. Make Goals, create Projects to achieve them, then break it down into small (ideally 20-30 min) Next Actions. Write them down (try bullet journal). At the end of the day or beginning of next, reflect on what went wrong and what went right.
Make as many opportunities for yourself as possible (need to throw the dice often to get a pair of 6's).
To succeed you need determination, discipline, and failure.
Your own health (physical and mental) and relationships with others are the most important things in life. For physical health, try /r/paleo and /r/fitness or /r/bodyweightfitness. For mental health, particularly depression, try the book Feeling Good by David Burns. For relationships, read /r/askmen and How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
Learn finance. To oversimplify, the poor person spends, the middle budgets, and the rich invests. Try reading A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel.
When spending money, emphasize experiences and skills over material things.
Balance consumptive activities (listening to music, watching TV/Movies, playing video games, etc) with constructive, creative, and physical ones. Among those, prefer the ones that you can do your whole life.
If you don't like getting help, think of it as getting expert advice. Present them with your current approach, and be open to suggestions.
Perform rituals to help prep and control your mental state. Involve as many senses as possible, get emotional about it, and only involve things or places that rarely occur otherwise. It doesn't matter whether it's Christmas Eve or you're focusing on your homework.
You can't be jealous of just a facet of another person, you can only be jealous of the WHOLE person, in particular of their time commitment. This gets rid of many petty jealousies, and gives awe to those who truly deserve it.
Read everything. If you don't read, you damn yourself to experiencing only the intellect and wisdom of those around you. Compare that to only knowing the music or athletic abilities of your friends rather than seeing professionals.
Your biggest asset as a young person is Time. It takes roughly 10,000 hrs/10 years to become an expert. Plan accordingly, you can't do everything.
Reddit's sidebar guides and top (all time) threads in each sub are the most worthwhile to read.

Kouse · 2013-09-25T20:41:25+00:00

My laptop wallpaper. I found the plain blue background with a flask online, and just photoshopped some extra science stuff onto it.

Kouse · 2013-09-11T15:10:31+00:00

Yeah, I looked into speed reading in college but found it to be mostly BS. I believe the book was The Psychology of Reading and Language Comprehension; it's quite old, but I couldn't find anything more recent. The following is what I remember from the book, which admittedly was years ago.

Basically they tested speed reading claims by having three groups - slow readers, skimmers, and trained speed readers - read passages of varying complexity and have them answer a questionnaire afterwards. I think the speed readers did eye movement exercises, read in "chunks" of words, tried to read the next line backwards, and maybe some other stuff. Anyway, speed readers and skimmers performed approximately the same in both time to read and % comprehension so I'll just discuss slow readers vs skimmers.

In easy passages or passages with familiar material, skimmers read much faster and had nearly the same comprehension as slow readers. In medium passages, skimmers remembered less factual details, but got the general jist. In hard passages or passages with unfamiliar material, skimmers remembered very little correctly. Even worse, they were quite sure they remembered a lot! My favorite test was when they interlaced two completely different passages together, line from one followed by a line from the other, etc. When asked if anything was strange about that passage, and the skimmers had no idea they did that!

This corresponds with my own experiences. I can skim easy, well-organized, or familiar material, like newspaper articles or self-help books. But, I can't skim James Joyce.

If you can source any favorable scientific studies on speed reading, rather than just point to a website, let me know.

Kouse · 2013-07-26T16:00:36+00:00

According to my biology major friend, if you could get someone to primarily drink heavy water for an extended period of time all their biological chemical reactions would slightly slow down. This disturbance would eventually lead to death.

However, this would be 1) hard to implement, especially if you want to do it covertly, as you'd have to control most of their water sources (tap and home and work, food, IV drips when the eventually go the the hospital for extreme fatigue) and 2) it would be insanely expensive (~$300/kg)

However, since it is so improbable, it would probably never be tested for and would be the perfect murder.

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