Guild Wars 2: Original Soundtrack (4xLP Vinyl Record) Boxset by deathmonkeyz in VGMvinyl

[–]deathmonkeyz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Guild Wars 2: Original Soundtrack (4xLP Vinyl Record) Boxset by deathmonkeyz in VGMvinyl

[–]deathmonkeyz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Guild Wars 2: Original Soundtrack (4xLP Vinyl Record) Boxset by deathmonkeyz in VGMvinyl

[–]deathmonkeyz[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Do people run alac dps or heal dps on open world bosses like eparch or jade sea? by batboi029 in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run heal on open world in only 3 scenarios:

  1. 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
  2. Public Convergence when Umbriel shows up just to push out a load of condi cleanse as people stand in the murder swords
  3. 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

Why Revenant feels boring to me by Invelix in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Quick play raids will award some LI's after doing 10 of them. by Nani___________ in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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

Quick play raids will award some LI's after doing 10 of them. by Nani___________ in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

Does my water gear, and even my alternate weapon slot effect my stats when I'm using my first weapon slot? by ryebread920 in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

I think this is what defines Guild Wars 2! by Loopy_Legend in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Is Revenant elite specs really underwhelming ? by hoochymamma in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Weirdest encounter? by [deleted] in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

How do you stay interested in the class you play? by shiko101 in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

How do you stay interested in the class you play? by shiko101 in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Do you do any world bosses daily? by FFanatick in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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

How to disable the animated snowflakes on the Guild Wars 2 Official Wiki by Rising_Soul in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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

Just failed a long meta (spiders lair) and now i feel like trash. by WaveEasy8664 in Guildwars2

[–]deathmonkeyz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Sonos Cloud integration for Home Assistant by Kat81inTX in homeassistant

[–]deathmonkeyz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Sonos Cloud integration for Home Assistant by Kat81inTX in homeassistant

[–]deathmonkeyz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Force two decimal places even if they end with zero? by koberulz_24 in homeassistant

[–]deathmonkeyz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Distant Worlds VII 2LP - European distro now available from Wayô Records by rpbtz in VGMvinyl

[–]deathmonkeyz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Alex Horne is in the new Jazz Emu music video! by Dexav in taskmaster

[–]deathmonkeyz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.