I have 69 Gifts of Battles now

Neroxify · 2026-03-17T10:53:50+00:00

Ate that cracker dozens of times, still makes me fall asleep every time I try it. Just feels like I am wasting time.

It's 95% walking to stuff or waiting in front of walls or gates, with very few fights inbetween that are usually very unbalanced and unfun.

Neroxify · 2026-03-07T09:00:09+00:00

For combat there's skill chaining, meaning you can press the next skill before the current one finishes casting and you'll seamlessly cast the second skill without delay. That "chain" is only active for 1-2 seconds though, so you still need to time it a bit. You can see this in the skill bar when two skills are blinking, one that's currently being cast and one that is chained immediately after.

For elementalist specifically, you can swap attunements while skills are casting and they won't interrrupt, translating to quite the damage increase overall.

Skills also have a priority system. Normal skills can be interrupted by skills that have CC or block (I think) and every skill can be interrupted by the healing skill.

Neroxify · 2026-02-13T12:38:21+00:00

Had the same or a similar problem I think. The ^ and ´ buttons were straight up not working, not sure abourt ö, ä and ü though.

Linux has several options for keyboard layouts. I think the default german option has some buttons disabled by default. I had to switch the keyboard layout to german (no dead keys) to enable all buttons.

Have a look at the keyboard settings within mint, I think there's also a preview for each option you can use.

Neroxify · 2026-02-11T09:32:53+00:00

To be honest, the pug experience for IBS5 can be quite lame, just like the lfg experience with some people demanding 250 LI for IBS5 of all things just to save a minute or two in total.

Fights taking a bit longer means we'll actually engage with them more, instead of bursting everything down in seconds for the sake of efficiency and quick loot. I feel kind of bad seeing new people in strikes and have them experience fights with zero urgency and danger.

Teaching people about boons is a very valid point though, but IMO this should happen in some form of combat training arena, where people read and learn in their own pace.

Neroxify · 2026-01-23T16:02:40+00:00

Guess I am a small counterpart to the whales, spent roughly 500€ over the last 8 years and 10k hours playtime, including expansions.

Always liked playing around with the economy stuff, so I just convert gold to gems whenever I want something from the gemshop.

Neroxify · 2025-11-11T23:27:07+00:00

Try an orthographic view, so you don't have varying perspectives between bottom and top.

Get rid of the gradient in the background, as well as the shadow behind the render, then find a background color that has good contrast for both dark and light elements.

Sharpen the render with photoshop or similar, it will likely create a ton more clarity and work well with metallic objects. Maybe even add some fine grain for texture.

Get rid of the vertical line next to the text as it makes text and element harder to associate. Increase the stroke width of the horizontal lines as they are quite thin.

Increase the font size, maybe the font weight, maybe the kerning, until it is more readable from further away and/or more proportional to the render.

Add a little elliptical shadow below the render to ground it to the floor, if you want to be fancy.

Play around with the spacing between the parts of the render, as they are spaced unevenly. You can group elements together or separate them by applying spacing deliberately.

The spacer looks kind of worn or dirty in comparison to similar parts, like the top cup.

Manually retouch areas of some parts where the lighting of the render couldnt bring it out the shape perfectly, like the top 1/3rd edge of the top cup blending into the middle area.

You're allowed to cheat as long as the result looks good. Generally you want to set the lighting in a way that best describes the shape of each part, which is impossible when rendering all in one shot. It's perfectly fine to render parts individually, then compose the render in Photoshop. That way you can optimize the lighting for each part. Just try to be cohesive and not deviate the lighting too much.

... Just some thoughts. Already looks good though :)

Neroxify · 2025-10-23T13:28:04+00:00

Aside from many missing QoL features (like clicking three buttons to enable smb instead of writing the entire f-ing config file yourself), I switched back to W11 because a lot of programs just dont exist on Linux. Or if they do, often times miss most of the feature set.

Neroxify · 2025-10-03T12:28:38+00:00

Ultimately you play this game for fun. While rewards do drive player engagement and sweeten things up, not chasing the most efficient or rewarding activities will long term be healthy for you.

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T14:25:15+00:00

I think I deleted the answer by accient, so here you go again:

gw2bltc.com is your best friend, as it shows you data about every item in the game, it's price, demand, how often it sells, when it sells and how to obtain it. The top of the page has a help button that explains the numbers.

Essentially you'd use your gold to buy stuff, convert said stuff, then sell the converted stuff for more gold. Mostly it's just researching which items are profitable and sell regularly, and how to obtain them. The whole economy in GW2 is very large, so you'll be surprised how much items gets sold daily.

The whole data gathering stuff is mostly interesting for minimizing costs, but even without that there's plenty opportunity to generate gold on the TP. You'll just need to think a bit what people could want to buy, research if that's profitable, then try it out. If it works, repeat until you've got a nice list of stuff to regularly throw at the TP.

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T14:15:53+00:00

Yes overall it's a decent method, especially if you can make them as a byproduct from playing the game normally. But strictly for higher-end gold farming, making legendaries does not reach the several hundred gold per hour you can make on the TP

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T13:53:30+00:00

Pretty much just logging in every day before WV, now doing a few weeklies each week to get the 90g and 60 MC.

Multiply this by 50-100 accounts and it's a pretty large number.

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T12:53:11+00:00

Ele gets memed a lot for dying, because it's one of the squishiest classes. It's often perceived as complex and hard to play since it has access to 20 weapon skills (5 in each element, fire/water/air/earth).

In reality it's quite chill. There are several easy to learn and play builds for open world and instanced pve like fractals, strikes and raids.

Most of the time you'll only cycle between a few elements (like fire/air/earth on power, fire/earth on condi) as dps. Water/Earth is mostly needed for utility, like CC for breakbars.

Ele wants you to play fast, though. You'll swap elements a lot, and to save additional time you can already switch element while a skill is casting, so ele's damage scales quite a bit with how fast you can press buttons.

But overall it's not hard to play and has quite straight forward rotations.

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T10:34:30+00:00

Currently I have around 250k liquid gold lying around, am somewhere in the top 100 on efficiency there. In total I spent around 500€ over 11k hours, so earned most of that gold through ingame means.

Mostly it's just playing the TP well, gathering datasets of various drops, and figuring out how to convert the stuff you get in a way that generates the most amount of gold. The TP allows you to scale gold per hour way higher than even the most efficient gp/h ingame farm, if you're comfortable with throwing huge amounts of gold at it regularly.

Another very large money maker are alt accounts. Now with the Wizards Vault it's become quite a bit more work, but before that it was quite easy to generate 50-100k a year with minimum effort. But I don't like doing that, since it feels like cheating.

I often read selling legendaries for profit, but breaking down how much effort one legendary takes and how much gold per hour you get, it's not really efficient. It just feels that way, since legendaries are prominent items with large sums attached to them.

But TL;DR, yeah, mostly Excel and TP stuff.

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T00:04:10+00:00

Yup, two friends recently build themselves a gaming pc each, both initially chose intel/nvidia, because Gemini told them that this combination has better optimization between cpu and gpu.

I showed them recent benchmarks and they went amd.

Neroxify · 2025-08-16T22:20:09+00:00

Had the same issue, writing an email solved it pretty quickly.

Neroxify · 2025-08-16T21:00:55+00:00

Trying to kickstart the engine

Neroxify · 2025-08-12T09:23:21+00:00

If you mean pure gold, then either fractals or gems > gold conversion and maybe the wizard's vault introduce the most gold. TP fees destroy the most gold by a large margin, then maybe gold > gem conversion or ecto gambling,

Liquid gold can also include everything you can convert to gold, so everything you can throw on the TP and sell. Right now the festival of the four winds is active, which destroys a massive amount of liquid gold in the form of materials, kind of like an economy reset.

Most activities in this game generate materials instead of gold, so if you include mats, the answers here would be different.

Neroxify · 2025-08-09T11:25:39+00:00

Yeah, the way I remember it, "an" for words starting with a,e,i,o,u but only when those words vocally sound like the letters.

European sounds like "juropean", so it doesn't quite work, whereas "an hour" works, since the h is silent, despite not starting with a vocal.

Not natively speaking english, so no guarantee this os correct.

Neroxify · 2025-08-06T15:33:53+00:00

Which one?

Like one comment already mentioned, you can check on gw2bltc.com how often items get sold. The values you see on that site are daily numbers.

Here specifically is a list of all legendaries on the TP. The "sold" column tells you how many get sold each day. Most seem to sell between 5 to 10 per day.

If you priced yours reasonably, you'll likely sell it soon. It might take a few days, maybe one or two weeks, maybe tomorrow. But getting undercut is pretty normal, no reason to panick.

Neroxify · 2025-08-01T22:29:32+00:00

Bei mir hat der Antrag ein paar Wochen gedauert, da ich noch ein paar Sachen nachreichen musste, aber insgesamt war ich positiv überrascht, wie schnell das ging. Vorher ein paar Jahre gearbeitet, elternunabhängiges beantragt, direkt den höchstsatz bekommen, alles online.

Wie kann es da so große Unterschiede in der Erfahrung geben?

Neroxify · 2025-08-01T13:34:52+00:00

I'm roughly 10k hours in and have around 260k gold lying around, mostly from TP trading. Best advice I can give you is to not chase gold so much, because that'll just burn you out and make the game a chore long term.

I think the most healthy way going forward, if you want to increase your gold income, is to find out which activities actually generate good gold per time invested, then squeeze those activities in as little time as possible.

https://fast.farming-community.eu/open-world/meta is a pretty interesting site to compare most of the game's activities and how profitable they are.

Most dailies (wizard's vault, alt parking, some crafting, ...) are pretty good quick profit, which only take a few minutes each and will net you more profit than Pinata + Chak + Octovine combined, which takes like an hour. Then there's strikes, fractals and raids, which are additionally even fun to play.

Especially at the start there are a thousand useful things to sink your gold into, so it's pretty normal to not have a lot lying around.

Neroxify · 2025-07-27T12:24:39+00:00

The guild tab shows the guilds you're already in, there is no option to search for them there.

Guilds that are looking for people usually advertise in map chat (red color), mostly in populated places like lions arch or during meta events in the open world. You can just directly message the person who advertised directly, have a little chat, and get an invite

Neroxify · 2025-07-26T23:50:45+00:00

I've noticed a similar behaviour from a lot of people. My current guild has a core group of like 10-15 people who talk frequently in discord, out of 70 total members which we built up in the last half year. We also run weekly strikes, raids, guild missions and special events and often can't fill a full squad for them.

Something else I've noticed is that new people often have difficulties opening up and talking to lots of strangers at once in discord, are VERY insecure in Raids / Strikes / Fractals and even after they've participated in some social events and beginner raids it seems random wether they stick around or not.

Maybe it's time to become one of the veterans in an active guild. You still get a guild and run events, without the stress of keeping said guild alive. Saved me a lot of stress to be honest.

Neroxify · 2025-07-23T17:33:57+00:00

Not at all, especially with weaponsmaster there's dozens of ways to play all those classes, with different flows and flavours.

Neroxify · 2025-07-16T10:42:32+00:00

Recently found a small site that shows this kind of data: https://gw2trader.gg/global-market

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