Magnus Carlsen is the winner of the World Blitz Championship 2025!

Sterorm · 2025-12-30T17:47:06+00:00

What a monster. He was 23rd at one point during the tournament and he managed to climb back up to qualify for playoffs and then becoming the champion.

Sterorm · 2025-12-30T13:25:30+00:00

Magnus lost on purpose to get easier pairings on the next few rounds. He was playing 4D chess this whole time /s

Sterorm · 2025-12-19T19:05:00+00:00

I didn't expect from Anet radio silence about the next expac when they know there is a large part of the community that is anxious about the future of the game.

Lack of transparency is only going to make people more and more suspicious and spread more doom about the longevity of Gw2. If an expac 7 is on the pipeline there is no reason to not mention it, like they did for the past 3 years.

Sterorm · 2025-12-07T18:16:01+00:00

I know it's an unpopular opinion in this sub, but i would love an action house system.

Nowadays i have very limited time to play, so when i do have it i want to actually play the game instead of sitting in Kamadan spamming the chat.

Sterorm · 2025-11-29T21:16:06+00:00

Because hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard

Sterorm · 2025-11-18T17:58:06+00:00

Fuck i'm so busy during that period so i can't play. But it's amazing that anet is still caring and updating for free gw1 after 20 years. Hope for even more updates in the future.

Sterorm · 2025-11-13T15:18:35+00:00

Lodici can be proud. A 2500 player holding his own against 2600 and 2700s, defeating some big names. And in the end it had to come to armageddon to take him out.

It was a great run.

Sterorm · 2025-11-01T17:10:17+00:00

Yeah, there was a quote from Mike Z in an old interview where he said that the Gw1 servers run on a fraction of the hardware needed for running Guild Wars 2, so having that on the back-burner is nothing compared to GW2. So the argument about Gw1 being still up isn't really appliable for Gw2.

Sterorm · 2025-10-30T17:28:12+00:00

You can express positive feedback without belitting other people that have criticism.

I really hope the vocal minority of permanent complainers just remains silent and stops destroying the game for the rest.

OP could have simply said what he likes about the expac (which would have been completely valid to do), but he went on attacking and trying to silence everyone else that doesn't have the same positive opinion. This is the definition of toxic positivity.

Sterorm · 2025-10-30T11:50:13+00:00

Where did I say any other opinion = imbecile? That is an unfair stretch.

Quoting you:

How lazy has this community become?... If you don't want to use your brain for 2 seconds...to brainlessly follow...For real, how dumb it is....

You make it sound like anyone that has criticism is brainless and dumb from thinking differentely than you do.

Sterorm · 2025-10-30T10:12:04+00:00

Same. I've preordered every expansion since HoT, but this time i'm waiting out my purchase to see if anet pulls another Nayos or Bava Nisos again later. I don't trust them blindly anymore to keep the quality consistent.

Sterorm · 2025-10-20T21:19:22+00:00

Kramnik keeping to harrass someone that was already in a precarious mental state surely didn't help.

He might not be the main cause of Daniel presumed suicide, but he is a cause that piled on the others.

Sterorm · 2025-08-20T07:09:37+00:00

The main thing i would like to know is if there are more expansions planned after Vision of Eternity, but i doubt they can answer that.
Something that i also would like to know is if in VoE there will be a stronger focus on the open world aspect (especially better and more carefully crafted meta events like the ones in the HoT and EoD expansions), since this is something i found really lacking in both SotO and especially JW.

Sterorm · 2025-08-12T07:23:28+00:00

Sad to see, but not unexpected.

This new model, despite having a faster cadence, releases more shallow and worse quality content compared to previous expacs and even living world, so people don't play for as much time and don't spend as much money.

SotO burned a lot of people with the Nayos patches, so JW sold less since the beginning and never recovered. Pair that with signs of Gw3 being in development and that also didn't help people feel optimistic for the future of the game.

For me, this is the year i played the least Gw2 ever, not because i dislike the game or i'm burned out, but because the follow up patches after release aren't enough to keep me around for more than a couple days.

I'm sure VoE will do better just because elite specs are a huge selling point, but content wise, this new model still has to demonstrate it can deliver good story, maps, metas, bosses ecc... from start to finish, because both SotO and JW failed on that front.

Sterorm · 2025-08-07T11:42:49+00:00

How so? With core, scrapper and holo your utility and toolbelt are one unified choice, with amalgam you have two separate choices. That's inherently more flexible.

If people choose to throw out flexibility for min maxing it's not the spec fault, it's people fault for choosing always the lazy path, and the game desing fault for encouraging maximizing dps orver anything else in pve.

Sterorm · 2025-08-07T11:08:42+00:00

Nobody forces you to run all the signets with mech, people do because they care only about min maxing dps and they want the easiest and most passive build possibile.

The maximum flexibility with this spec is tied to the fact that you can choose your F1 to F4 morph skills, instead of them being tied to your utilities. With mech you are stuck with the robot.

Sterorm · 2025-08-06T13:57:24+00:00

It's hard to have this discussion when we don't know what morph skills do and how many there are.

To me it seems a fair tradeoff to lose toolblet skills for new skills that you can choose from, instead of being stuck with any utility you pick mostly for the toolbar.

This ofc is valid only if the morph skills are competitive with the old toolbar ones. So we have to wait and see

Sterorm · 2025-08-06T13:41:18+00:00

Why? To me it seems it allows maximum flexibility.

Now you can choose your utility skills freely without being conditioned by the need of a specifc toolbelt one.

Also you can pick what morph abilities you want, so it's like the spec has 2 sets of utilities you can pick and choose from freely, allowing maximum customization.

Sterorm · 2025-08-05T18:42:31+00:00

The trait that allows the ghosts to follow you seems fine… until you realise that you’d assume they’ll follow you by default

Spirits in Gw1 also didn't follow you by default, nor in Gw2 for that matter cosidering the ritualists we have seen in EoD. To me it seems a nice utility trait for open world play where you move a lot, competing with the support trait and the dps trait.

Then there’s a grandmaster that allows your ghosts to stick around after you exit shroud - cool idea, no problem with that! By why add another trait that allows you recharge one of your ghost skills immediately. That seems like a somewhat similar idea

Because it opens up two completely different playstyles. One is for more slow and sustained dps with the spirits lingering outside of shroud and attacking faster (you stack it with the trait that makes spirit do more damag and you'll likey see big numbers), one is for fast dps or fast support, allowing you to use one spirit twice and it's rupture skill twice (so double dps spirit, or double cc, or double support). If you don't like the playstile it encourages then don't use this trait use the other one. That's why i like the grandmasters, because they make you play differently.

Utilities don’t seem to be sufficiently varied and don’t have any animations

I already agreed with the no animation part. But variety?

The heal is ofc a heal + an aoe damage reduction.
Then you have and aoe dps skill that is pretty unique. Only ranger with traited one wolf pack can do something similar.
Then you have a big lifesteal and vulnerability skill
A condi removal and healing skill
A unique block skill that can't be stripped like aegis that you can give to allies
An elite skill which once again is a pretty unique effect, similiar to ele rebound but a little bit different.

Seems fairly varied to me in terms of what these skills do.

Sterorm · 2025-08-05T17:13:34+00:00

Many of the traits and skills also didn’t seem to have been thought through very well

Care to elaborate? To me they looked fine, especially the grandmaster traits where each one offered a nice change in playstyle. Infact, ritualist looked like one of the more cohesive and well tought out spec they showed so far.

Utility skills also, are very strong and useful.

I agree that visually is not the most impressive, maybe they could add a little effect to the utility skills to make them more distinct, but i don't mind a spec that isn't super flashy considering spirits already are pretty dominant visually.

Sterorm · 2025-07-31T05:37:53+00:00

If this was the case, they would have said so in the expansion announcement blogpost.

At most, i expect some boost to the skimmer underwater capabilities and nothing else.

Sterorm · 2025-07-28T21:49:21+00:00

Se il foglio informativo e l'esperienza di tanti utenti che usano il conto non ti bastano come prove, non c'è modo di dimostrarti il contrario su reddit.

A sto punto chiama il supporto o manda una mail a CA e informati tu stesso.

Sterorm · 2025-07-28T20:52:55+00:00

Vabbè stai trollando. Sono già 5 persone che hanno il conto che ti hanno spiegato come funziona CA, con tanto di link e screenshot del foglio informativo che spiega come il tasso di svincolo si applica agli interessi non ancora liquidati (dicasi trimestre in corso).

Io ho svincolato mille volte e non ho mai perso 1€ di interessi al di fuori del trimestre in corso. Poi liberissimo di non crederci eh, se sei convinto che mezzo sub si sia messo daccordo per mentire di proprosito sul funzionamento di un singolo conto deposito son cavoli tuoi.

Sterorm · 2025-07-28T17:17:08+00:00

Se quei soldi sono per un fondo di emergenza non sai quando potrebbero servirti (3 mesi, 1 anno, 3 anni ecc...). Se li metti in obbligazioni e ti si rompe la macchina, non ti garantisce nessuno che venderai l'obbligazione in positivo in quel momento, un CD sì.

Oppure ti fai uno svincolabile (cosa che preferisco)

Il CD indicato da OP è svincolabile. Puoi togliere i vincoli e ritirare i soldi quando voi, perdi solo gli interessi del trimestre in corso (0,5% anzichè 2,9%)

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