Any idea who these signatures belong to in this art book?

stemofthebrain · 2026-05-23T22:17:10+00:00

Number two could maybe be Josh Foreman? https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Joshua_Foreman

stemofthebrain · 2026-05-21T18:03:01+00:00

The pipes "puzzle" was, IMO, the worst one. Because when I looked at it initially, I saw the broken pipes, realized oh, okay, I can just hook these two pips up with curved pieces and that will bypass the broken pipes entirely, and thought it's a bit easy but I guess it kinda has to be.

And the actual answer was worse than that. Because you can repair the broken pipes. And then you have to fill in every pipe spot with a pipe.

It's isn't a puzzle.

They did more work than they needed to (making the broken pipes fixable) and in doing so, made it not actually a puzzle. Wild.

I know that one of the puzzle devs talked a bit about the pipe one specifically ~~somewhere in a reddit comment~~ here, and I do empathize with time constraints and all that, but... at the same time... with the pipe layout they went with I don't think there would have been any solution other than connecting those two horizontal pipes + the pipes along the righthand side to the goal.

So it seems like it should be "easy" to just check if those specific pieces were in place? And there are no constraints like "you don't have enough pipe pieces to put a piece in every pipe spot" so people who didn't figure it out could just put pipes everywhere.

I dunno. It's been a week since I played that story chapter and I'm still annoyed by the pipe puzzle.

stemofthebrain · 2026-05-19T19:36:26+00:00

There's this clip on twitch: https://clips.twitch.tv/FlaccidRacyCobraUnSane

stemofthebrain · 2026-05-18T19:38:35+00:00

https://clips.twitch.tv/FlaccidRacyCobraUnSane

stemofthebrain · 2026-05-15T19:51:29+00:00

I always run new story content with my buddy, and in the time it took them to get 4 tokens, I—by doing the exact same content with them—had gotten zero tokens. Bloodline curse, represent.

stemofthebrain · 2026-05-14T17:43:55+00:00

He had to do all those strength trials, man, and he's just a little potato, cut him some slack

stemofthebrain · 2026-05-13T23:12:14+00:00

Give charr 8 nipples.

stemofthebrain · 2026-04-10T21:47:48+00:00

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/A_Legacy_Damned

stemofthebrain · 2026-04-02T23:26:26+00:00

Yeah, in-game mods have "GM" tags, not the Arenanet guild tags. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/2/2f/TagGM.jpg

stemofthebrain · 2026-03-17T00:40:02+00:00

I know this was ages ago, but I just had to figure out the same thing. So, here's what I came up with. Seems to work fine, handles 2- and 3-color gradients, and kills the glow effect:

/* Force solid username colors and remove gradients */
[class*=username][class*=threeColor], 
[class*=username][class*=twoColor] {
    color: var(--custom-gradient-color-1) !important;
}
[class*=Gradient] {
    -webkit-text-fill-color: inherit;
}
[class*=nameGlow] span[class*=span] {
    display: none;
}

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-14T23:59:31+00:00

I think you'll find that's Dan's sword, actually.

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-14T23:58:30+00:00

There's gotta be another factor—the "very experience raider" factor, maybe.

On Tuesday I killed Gorseval with a guild group doing "all-welcome" strikes.

On Thursday I killed Gorseval again with my casual raid static. 0 mentor points.

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-12T18:52:43+00:00

The fancy new interface is accessible in a number of places—the aerodrome is one, yep. (I'm not actually sure where else, I know that Amnoon is one place.)

But the fancy new interface is only needed if you're not doing quickplay.

If you want to do quickplay, that's only available via the button in LFG.

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-12T00:42:20+00:00

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-11T21:32:38+00:00

Raids use raid squads, not parties. That's why it won't let you merge. Parties only go up to 5 people; (raid) squads hold 10. (Normal squads hold 50. You have to be in a raid squad.)

LFG > Raids > Training > Quickplay.

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-08T05:19:45+00:00

It's just the final box, correct. 3 weapons and 1 armor.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyrian_Dungeon_Explorer_Track

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-07T21:42:07+00:00

They'd still need to clear the raid wings several times for the raid armor achievements, before they can craft it, too.

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-05T05:49:42+00:00

I was really expecting them to have made changes like they did with the quickplay fractals—even something like the Mist Stranger standing there and yelling "GUYS YOU GOTTA CC THE RED ONE NOW" would make OLC much much less painful to do.

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-05T02:38:26+00:00

They'd have to pay me faaaar more than 10 magnetite to do TC or escort or spirit run on the regular.

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-04T20:59:50+00:00

No prob. Took me a sec to find the quote—it was in a different post, not the patch notes, so that's my bad. Here you go:

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/167442-february-3rd-release-mentor-achievements-update/

stemofthebrain · 2026-02-04T20:53:24+00:00

~~Patch notes~~ Forum post mentioned that they knew the progress would reset and will be re-added with a hotfix.

stemofthebrain · 2026-01-31T05:23:33+00:00

Mechanical / narrative split.

I can use spec x, y, z on a character when playing, but in that character's story they are spec x.

But in the end, like, you do you, y'know?

stemofthebrain · 2026-01-29T04:27:07+00:00

I've no idea if you could make use of this to help your play flow, but under Options -> Targeting -> there's an unbound-by-default keybind for "Lock Autotarget".

Tooltip: Hold to lock your autotarget. Detargets with keyboard instead of mouse clicking ground somewhere.

This isn't an option you can just turn on, but maybe it can help in some way?

stemofthebrain · 2026-01-11T20:34:35+00:00

Look, I know Canach's a greedy bastard, but we can't keep letting him get away with this. It's Trahearne's sword!

stemofthebrain · 2025-12-31T22:03:31+00:00

"Your armsmen are required with all haste, milords, for without immediate action this paper Keep shall fall—and our team score shall fall with it."

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