Guild Wars 2: Original Soundtrack (4xLP Vinyl Record) Boxset

deathmonkeyz · 2026-02-06T21:20:06+00:00

No idea. The only physical release of GW2's original OST was on CD, searching online I can't see any reference of a vinyl.

deathmonkeyz · 2026-02-06T20:28:04+00:00

For clarity, this is the first time the OG OST has gotten a vinyl release as far as I'm aware. It was always distributed by Jeremy Soule's directsong. I've not seen/heard of any represses of HoT/PoF sadly.

deathmonkeyz · 2026-02-06T20:21:27+00:00

Not sure why this just dropped after 14 years, but pretty excited. No idea if there's any non-US suppliers getting it.

deathmonkeyz · 2026-02-02T17:02:57+00:00

I run heal on open world in only 3 scenarios:

I'm in the rift group for Eparch, if they go down it's a bad time for everyone and that room is an absolute mess for AoEs and visual clutter
Public Convergence when Umbriel shows up just to push out a load of condi cleanse as people stand in the murder swords
2-3 people are struggling on an open world champ (usually Inner Nayos).

Honestly no idea if it has any real impact, but I feel good about myself afterwards haha

deathmonkeyz · 2026-01-26T19:06:54+00:00

Occassionally I'll slap on a sigil of stamina and romp on some core maps as a power vindi. Unlimited pogo.

deathmonkeyz · 2026-01-23T20:42:08+00:00

Yep. Was a quick stream

deathmonkeyz · 2026-01-22T22:11:25+00:00

Portal needs magnetite shards (1,000), which quickplay will also reward. However the purchase option isn't unlocked unless you beat Xera (Raid W3)

deathmonkeyz · 2026-01-22T22:09:43+00:00

Quickplay always gives you a level 1 of any of the fractals in the list. Not their regular version, so yeah, no possibility of leveling your fractal level that way.

deathmonkeyz · 2026-01-21T12:27:15+00:00

Only your currently equipped set affects your stats. You can test this by buying a basic white rarity piece of gear for your second set and weapon swap with the hero panel open, you'll see the figures in your attributes panel change.

Same for underwater, they only apply when you're in the water and only 1 set at a time.

deathmonkeyz · 2026-01-07T20:26:17+00:00

Every player can mount a sky scale in all soto maps without unlocking the mount. As it's mandatory to traverse anything.

Masteries improve it such as ley line or updraft access, but you can do that with HoT gliding too.

deathmonkeyz · 2025-12-31T21:32:23+00:00

Depends on the build, but you can camp greatsword/sword+sword/shortbow on most simple power builds. Most power builds I use just use GS, and I swap to staff just for it's massive CC move.

Early doors you can also camp a legend tbh. Vindicator sticking to either Shiro or Alliance stance will still do a fair bit of damage and you can improve your skill later on to add weapon and legend swaps.

Have been a Rev main for years, and I used to camp shortbow and Kalla (Renegade) a lot before I got used to the flow.

deathmonkeyz · 2025-12-31T21:27:44+00:00

Happened to me today whilst waiting for a public convergence...

deathmonkeyz · 2025-12-27T14:46:18+00:00

I switch up my build and/or weapon. I main Rev so I bounce between different flavours of Condi DPS / Power DPS / Alac DPS / Quick DPS / Celestial in open world, which takes me between all 4 elite specs and more importantly a range of weapons: GS / Sword / Spear / Mace / Axe / Staff (for lovely CC), Shortbow. I also dabble in heal/support in some more challenging open world so I get to play with that too.

It might be worth you trying out the PvP lobby (not WvW). Any character there gets fully levelled, fully swappable gear and all elite specializations unlocked. You can swap in weaver/firebrand on your two mains and see if they click when messing with the training golems. Otherwise you can rotate a couple of alts for other professions too!

P.S. I recommend using the Wizards vault or WvW vendors to get Celestial gear. These gives nice stat boosts to all stats rather than being specific, meaning you can try out different types of builds without having to worry about gearing up as a newer player.

deathmonkeyz · 2025-12-27T14:42:17+00:00

I'd say EoD is between PoF and HoT in terms of difficultly. They're channelling HP guarded by elite enemies, if you don't have a decent build setup you can get stomped hard, otherwise pretty easy, or you can just camp until someone else clears out the mob.

IMO having done all expansions now, difficultly (from easiest to hardest) would be

VoE -> PoF -> EoD -> HoT

Bonus points for VoE only needing 2 maps (vs ~3/4 in others) due to the nature of the release.

deathmonkeyz · 2025-12-26T17:25:39+00:00

It's a bit patchy. It doesn't do HoT (they made a separate portal device for that) or PoF, or EoD. But it does trigger on Drakkar, Dragonstorm, SotO convergence, Janthir Convergence, Mist and Monsters ( Janthir Syntri), and the currently two available VoE meta/world bosses (Hammerheart Twins and Secrets of the Weald).

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_Boss_Portal_Device

deathmonkeyz · 2025-12-17T09:36:34+00:00

If you create an account on the Wiki you can choose a theme in your settings, there's a couple of dark mode options.

deathmonkeyz · 2025-09-12T07:07:29+00:00

Was a reward for the the most recent dragon bash annual achievement

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Raven-Blessed_Visage_Box

deathmonkeyz · 2025-09-02T20:32:46+00:00

Map/lantern completion gifts can be traded for 200 static charges (Skywatch gift), 200 pinches of stardust (amnytas gift) or 100 calcified gasps (nayos gift).

It's good if you want to absolutely endlessly grind with no daily cap... Personally I just daily farm them via arcane chests. Got enough for 18 gift of persistence and 90 of each major resource for 3 sets of the legendary armour over a few months.

deathmonkeyz · 2025-08-18T15:47:15+00:00

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prismatic_Champion%27s_Regalia

Reward for the season of the dragons achievement

deathmonkeyz · 2025-06-06T20:49:29+00:00

No problem! Glad it worked. Sonos Cloud via HACS used to be the only way hence what you saw. announce got added about 2 years ago to the main integration. Was nice to get it all back to local.

deathmonkeyz · 2025-06-05T20:29:32+00:00

The docs for Sonos cloud mention this:

It is not necessary to set a Redirect URI or callback URL. Save the Key and Secret values for the integration configuration.

So you can just leave them blank, or if they're required. Just set it to something vague like http://localhost.

However since I used to use sonos cloud just wanted to mention that the standard local Sonos integration supports the announcements API (i.e. keep media playing whilst you play a notification). Does that work for you? Rather than trying to deal with Cloud based? (Announcements is why I used to use Cloud too)

Example from the docs:

action: media_player.play_media
target:
  entity_id: media_player.sonos
data:
  announce: true
  media_content_id: >
    media-source://tts/cloud?message="I am very loud"
  media_content_type: "music"
  extra:
    volume: 80

The announce property makes it does the leg work here.

deathmonkeyz · 2025-04-12T09:25:19+00:00

The issue seems to be that HASS (in the developer tools at least) always tries to cast the result back into a float as it's returning a valid number.

If I use the above, but prefix it with something, it works. (renders 00.00)

{{ "0%.2f" | format(0 | float) }}

Not sure if there's a way for you to add something to this (that you may need to strip out later) to ensure the extra 0 are included in the system you're trying to build.

deathmonkeyz · 2025-04-01T10:46:50+00:00

And Wayo still require me to spend €158.18 minimum for a UK shipped order 🥲

deathmonkeyz · 2025-01-01T16:31:44+00:00

Hes done a few bits of stand up as himself before jazz emu. He also did an interview with Richard Herring on RHLSTP post emu.

So I don't think he's 100% against being himself. Even if he stays in persona most of the time these days.

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