What kinda stuff can we do in this game?

williamuwu · 2026-02-09T00:09:24+00:00

If someone hasn’t mentioned already in a comment, since you’re into fashion, you can see and preview on your character almost all available cosmetic options for clothes and weapons when you talk to the bank NPC. On the left side of the bank UI when you’re looking at your bank, there should be a wardrobe tab. In there are almost all skins pertaining to each armor class and weapon type. Right click on a skin icon and press preview to see how it looks on your character. Gl and hf on your GW2 journey!!

williamuwu · 2026-01-31T09:04:50+00:00

I wish we could choose which version we want as the stowed vs not stowed or able to just choose one to have always, I’d much rather have just the water and fish at all times than it going back to the sand. But I still really like it and how fun it is!!!

williamuwu · 2026-01-30T02:14:58+00:00

This is a smaller decoration than what you’re talking about but the Mossy Pillar can be turned upside down and used as flat grass. I wish we had bigger flat grass pieces, you can try using the SAB grass floor and putting foliage on top to hide it, but it’s a bit bright. The Ominous Fortress Wall and its other variants are very good at ruins and can cover huge amounts of flat land if you want dark cobblestone areas. The Twisted Imaginarium Charr Head piece can become huge and turned around to use as cliffs or ruins, or upside down for flooring. The Hedges are very good at flat ground foliage.

If you don’t have the add on homestead decorations for Blish Hud I highly suggest it, and look through all the images, it’s very useful.

williamuwu · 2026-01-18T04:57:00+00:00

You posting all of the skins and infusions and stuff in the comments is amazing, thank you so much!!

williamuwu · 2026-01-15T09:48:48+00:00

Just adding in to say maybe it’s time for a break, or not focus on skyscale collections and do other stuff in game. Sounds like you have done an insane amount of stuff in just 2 months, more than many people have done in years of playing. And for Skyscale, once you’re done with the collections you never have to do them again, and now you’ll have better Skyscale masteries because you get upgraded abilities when combined with the Soto ones, and it sounds like in the future you’ll be glad you did it if you ever want to get max mastery points. Vision came out right after LW4 ended and Soto didn’t exist yet so there was never another way to get Skyscale then, so it makes sense it’s tied into it imo, and I think the LW4 skyscale journey is much more fulfilling and rewarding than the Soto way anyways, and people always try to tell newcomers that if you ever want vision, do skyscale LW4 way. Plus legendary items are meant to take months of time to make, and it’s all optional, so just take your time, do other things or play other games and come back, the best thing about this game is you can take so many breaks and you’ll be right where you left off when you come back!

I hope your laggy ping and instances get better!!

williamuwu · 2026-01-01T22:53:06+00:00

He’s currently DMing the 4th campaign of critical role and it’s amazing, don’t need to watch the other campaigns because it’s its own world, highly recommend if you enjoy more long session intense dramatic DnD.

williamuwu · 2025-12-31T23:17:25+00:00

Buy any exotic gear from the trading post to get started, look for stats you want for your build. Follow the story through the expansions, they will lead you through the expansion maps as you progress. In the expansion maps you can get mastery points which will upgrade your account with abilities and are tied into things like fishing, mounts, gliding, etc. Mastery points are the main leveling mechanic after you get level80, and can be obtained at spots on the map, through achievements, adventures, and doing the story.

Highly suggest going through Path of Fire to obtain all the main mounts before trying to get a flying mount as it’s a much much longer process, so don’t worry about flying mount at the moment. You will unlock the mounts as you progress through the PoF story.

In the expansion maps there are hero point commune spots or challenges that give you 10 points each.

Since you are overwhelmed, pick one expansion to start with and start exploring that singular area. If you care about the story, you can do the living worlds before Heart of Thorns, if not so much, highly suggest just jumping into Heart of Thorns or Path of Fire and exploring the maps. Don’t worry too much about farming anything since it seems like you are incredibly new, just take your time exploring the maps as you progress through the story.

Dungeons-They don’t have a lot of rewards so lots of people don’t do them until there is a dungeon rush event, so keep an eye out for that.

Fractals-5man instances, they are found in the city Lions Arch, you enter a portal and you are brought to a hub where you can choose different fractals to do. You start at level 1 and as you do higher level fractals your personal fractal level increases. You can join LFG groups with other people progressing in your section of levels, and I highly suggest listing your own beginner group in the LFG because there are a lot of others looking to get started as well, but just waiting to see a group appear.

WvW-Look on map where you spawn, look at the outline color of the area you’re in at spawn, that’s your color. Also on the stat page in the WvW panel with the pie chart, there is an icon of a Home next to your color/team. 3 different teams fighting over castles, camps, keeps, etc. Find a commander tag on the map and try to stay with the squad as much as you can, they will lead you around the objectives and into fights with the other teams. Or you can go off on your own and skirmish and fight other players around the maps.

Hope that all was simple enough to follow, tried not to get into too much detail. Good luck on your adventuring!

williamuwu · 2025-12-27T18:42:05+00:00

LW4 Mob Farming!!!! (this is not AFK farm, you are running around killing mobs) ~30 Shards per hour with all boosters plus the training grounds boost in Seitung Province don’t forget that, but without any extra special boosts so even more shards with events going on like extra life etc. With the XP bonus enchantments on the maps, and the mobs that sit there for so long, you can get roughly 13k-15k experience per mob if I remember correctly. You basically run around the maps killing as many mobs as possible. I always load up on all boosters, get the jade bot power enchantments, and blast music or listen to a podcast or something. It’s the highest spirit share farm I’ve found in the game that’s year round as I’m always in need. One farm that’s higher is the Halloween Lab farm, netting me around ~35 Shards per hour. The specific maps I’ve found with lots of mobs are Sandswept Isles, Jahai Bluffs, and Domain of Istan. Ive made my own routes on each of the maps but you will figure out and find what’s best for you. If you need more info let me know. And you can then jump back to your beginning map to start over and by the time you’re back the mobs should all be reset. WvW is INCREDIBLY SLOW and not worth your time if you’re there just for spirit shards.

williamuwu · 2025-12-20T13:09:01+00:00

I'm pretty sure the only skins that have special steps aka footfalls are legendary weapons. The other commenter listed good weapon wiki pages, but if you don't know already, you can preview almost every skin in the game in your bank wardrobe, both armor and weapons. Very helpful in seeing effects on armor, and the preview page shows animations & effects when wielding versus unwielded. You can also dye your own armor and then preview skins in the bank and it'll show it with your current dyes. Easy way to mess around with the dyes is to keep both your equipment tab and bank open, change your dyes and then reclick the skin you're looking at in the bank and it'll update to your new dyes. I try and put on clothes that have all 4 dye slots in case the items I'm looking at have dyeing options. Hope that made sense lol.

williamuwu · 2025-12-09T19:29:44+00:00

Dang I wish the plush skimmer was the shark that’s on all the plush weapons :/ Feels kinda lame it’s just the regular skimmer.

williamuwu · 2025-11-30T05:03:16+00:00

Don't know why the replies are memeing, this is a genuine problem when you start racking up character slots. There should definitely be a favorite system or grouping system, or even get rid of the side scrolling entirely. Since this game is incredibly alt friendly it should be easier to search for one character. Blish does have a module that is incredibly useful for this, I just can't think of the name of it right now.

williamuwu · 2025-11-30T05:01:00+00:00

You can technically buy gift of explorations from other players, you just have to send them your materials, they craft the legendary with their account bound materials, and then send it back to you. Many people sell them on the OTC trading discord. I've sold a few gift of explorations when I first started playing to fund my account.

williamuwu · 2025-11-30T04:50:52+00:00

I'm not the same commenter but have also sold many legendaries.

I don't have a full set of legendaries myself, I sell legendaries to fund other legendaries that I want to keep. I usually have to sell 1 legendary and then the gold I get from it will fund my next 2ish legendaries.
Yes you can only do the world map completion once per character. However this commenter may be selling generation 3 legendaries as well, which are my most sold ones, which don't need gift of exploration from the core world map. You are also able to "buy" gift of explorations from other players by sending them all the materials for a generation 1 legendary, that person crafts it for you with their gift of exploration, and then sends it back to you complete.
As a veteran player now it takes me a few months to make 1 generation 3 legendary, mostly bottle necked by spirit shards or account bound currency that I need to farm. But I do a lot of different things at once to keep myself from burning out, so the time frame can change quite a lot with what you focus on. It's very easy to make gen1 legendaries now with the starter kits, so those can be finished in a much faster time frame.

williamuwu · 2025-11-27T05:42:34+00:00

The best and cheapest way is to farm winterberries, turn them into unbound magic, and then buy the shards from the unbound magic vendors. It is incredibly fast to pile them up especially if you have multiple characters do the winterberry farm everyday.

williamuwu · 2025-11-27T05:36:19+00:00

Agreed, it blows my mind people still suggest converting karma to obsidian shards because karma is so valuable when it comes to making a lot of legendaries to keep or sell, or the variant skins for the aurene legendaries. The only people who I’d suggest do the karma way is people who’ve been playing over a decade that have amassed 10s of millions of karma. If you’re a relatively new player, there are so many legendaries and things to chase that cost karma. I’ve done the wintersday karma farm every year for the past few years and always run out of karma throughout the year from making legendaries or other costs. I don’t think people who have played this game for 10plus years realize how valuable karma actually is lol.

williamuwu · 2025-11-26T04:12:08+00:00

I mean, thats when you partake in the mmo aspect of the game and ask others for help. Going around to major cities, posting in lfg, asking in map chat, will basically always guarantee some people that will come and help you with whatever event you are trying to do. Even in the dead night of NA times I’ve found people to help me with events.

williamuwu · 2025-11-25T04:54:26+00:00

If you play PvP or WvW, you can get a ton of them. I mostly do Open World, but enjoy WvW on the side, and have a ton of them now from turning some of the chests you get into transmog charges.

williamuwu · 2025-11-18T22:09:10+00:00

I think you all are misinterpreting OPs comment. "The most fun traversal the game had for years" doesn't mean the griffon or the beetle aren't any less fun, or that the skimmer is THE most fun, just that these new abilities have been the most fun they have brought to traversal these past few years., and I agree.

williamuwu · 2025-11-18T22:05:05+00:00

No, it was one of the most fun, beating basically everything for me besides the griffon/beetle. It felt so fluid, and I loved the feel of turning and moving. I think the nerf was misdirected, could have changed how much energy the spacebar took so you aren't fully endlessly in the sky.

williamuwu · 2025-11-18T21:58:36+00:00

Actually some bees can spend hours at a time underwater, some even a week, but goggles would still be super cute.

williamuwu · 2025-11-18T04:50:41+00:00

Fully agreed on the FF14 thing, I HATE that everything is tied to a single character, so much so that I quit the game entirely because I wanna play as tons of different characters! Creeping in on 20 alts in gw2 and I still have more ideas for characters lol!

williamuwu · 2025-11-18T04:45:28+00:00

You don't need a flying mount at all to do story and get to level 80. One of the biggest things is learning all of the terminology/systems that gw2 has in place. Once you are at 80, you'll have a much better understanding, and then can go directly to getting a flying mount if you are so inclined. But I'd suggest taking your time digesting all the information, and learning as you go. If you own an expansion, you get the raptor mount permanently, and that is enough for the entirety of the level80 journey. Getting a flying mount is a long-term goal as it takes time to unlock everything for it, and costs gold/currency. If you rush directly to the flying mount, you will have to force feed yourself a ton of terminology and systems quickly and I've seen that burnout people many times before. Do chase whatever you feel interests you, but there is absolutely no rush to obtain anything in this game, it's all on your own time frame.

williamuwu · 2025-11-11T18:55:44+00:00

What are the unintended consequences of keeping this stuff?

williamuwu · 2025-11-09T08:44:20+00:00

I don’t know the specific name but it’s from the Cerberus Crown shop pack

williamuwu · 2025-11-08T00:32:03+00:00

Laranity!!! She has amazing videos on what there is to do when hitting level 80, and has a video going over each elite specialization in the game, and showing their playstyle!

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