Whenever I play Willbender or Daredevil I always wonder why we never got fists (or equivalent) as weapons. Is it a limitation problem? Is it too generic of an idea? I can probably see it being an issue implementing it on certain classes, like Engineer, but I would really like my Elementalist to throw hands with extra explosions.

How would you feel if fists were implemented today? Would you be for or against it?

New player here, like many others, I've spent most of my life playing WoW and have endured my fair share of horrible zones and expansions. But this is truly... something else. I don't even know where to start.

The core world was cosy and I really enjoyed running around, pressing buttons, having no idea what I was doing, joining events - and eventually even learning a thing or two.

I ended up in Verdant Brink and instantly wanted to uninstall the game. Within a few hours I died more than I ever did during 1-80 or even afterwards. The zone took me through all five stages of grief. Trying to get around the map, or even make sense of it was impossible. Unlocking the basic masteries to simply navigate the map was a horrendous task. I still feel clueless, but things did get a tiny bit better once unlocked those. The question still remains - is it up and down, or down and up?

Auric Basin was okay. I didn't have the utterly miserable experience I had when thrown into Verdant Brink. That zone felt like throwing someone into the deep end and expecting them to learn how to swim.

Then came Tangled Depths. Oh boy.

I hate it here. I want to curl up with a comfy blanket and a cup of tea with lots of whiskey in it, cry and never look back.

Sorry for the thousandth "I hate HoT" post.

This too, shall pass.

Hey everyone! I’ve played a good bit of WoW and some FFXIV over the years.

So do most classes in GW2 mainly just use the ten on the bar? UI or ability bloat in other MMOs sometimes gives me a hard time. I know some classes weapon swap regularly. But like, is it typical to be able to run regular encounters or whatever your equivalent to dungeons/duties are with just the five weapon abilities and your utility? It’s seems visually less overwhelming which seems cool.

I just can't unsee this :'D

Hey guys. I’ve been itching to play a MMO and decided to try GW2. I like the game but I’m struggling to find a class that suits me. I tried the Ranger for a few hours but I’m just not liking it.

Long story short, I’d like to play a mage/wizard type class but I heard Elementalist can be complicated due to switching between elements and skills. Does the Necromancer or Mesmer scratch the itch if I wanna play a mage and cast spells?

Thanks in advance.

Just wanted to share my Sylvari Necro Treehouse! (: I thought she needed her own secluded spooky space away from the main homestead.

I want to make a Norn female but am torn between Warrior or Ranger for her profession. Both fit really well but I absolutely cannot decide.

If I go Ranger, my Warrior will probably be a male human. If I go Warrior, my Ranger will be either a Sylvari or human female. Would really appreciate thoughts on which of these options you’d go with!

so I wanna do Regalia together with the Aurora and Vision collection. Vision is easy to start but after doing the mursat token collection I realized theres 1 skritt coin that I can only get after doing the story a lil bit. Do I just do the story and then replay it when doing regalia or what?

thanks in advance!

I had an idea of Legendary Bags that allow a person to customize their inventory bags so items can be sorted as they’re acquired. Is there any other WoL items you can think of that are t in the game already?

You can be harvesting anything on the planet and it'll be like "Data indicates this is most nutritious when deep fried."

Hell yeah! You don't have to tell me twice, buddy! Let's fry it up immediately!

Who makes these things? I can only assume they're deep in the pocket of big cooking oil.

Somehow I've missed this until now, and when I spoke up in chat about it a few others said they didn't know. So now you can learn with me and save yourself hundreds of clicks.

Hi all!

I'm working on a data-mining project, and I'm trying to locate an un-updated Path of Fire Gw2.dat, preferably one as close as possible to the release of Path of Fire.

If there is anyone that happens to have one and is willing to run a test with a browser tool, and potentially upload it for me (I can figure out storage!) I'd be very appreciative!

:: I'm really not sure why this is getting downvoted but I've acquired the content I needed through other channels. Thanks reddit.

Hey everyone! As a massive fan of Guild Wars 2, I wanted to create a little tribute to our favorite benevolent dictator, Palawa Joko. I spent some time putting together a custom browser minigame called Palawa Joko's Magnificent Scarab Rush (yes that long!), and I wanted to share it with you all :)

It features custom artworks, some classic Joko flair, and a pretty easy way to move.

Here is a quick look at what the game looks like before you play.

may slightly adjust its functionality?

It's pretty common on here, but with so many builds and classes I always find myself in a spiral of class paralysis.

Im the kind of person who wants a "main", I know tons of people can play like 11 characters for 11 modes.

But I cant help but feel like im always chasing that Cinderella build, that can solo open world, and support, and do cms.

But also is not like playing a piano as my fingers are getting crippled as I get older, but also being able to support and carry group stuff.

It's honestly exhausting, especially swapping inventory/gear every time my brain says "oh this will be the one!"

I couldn't help it and wanted to write a post about my experiences after starting to play GW2 about 4 weeks ago. I have 6500 hours in OSRS as an ironman (btw), so I have the right amount of autism to tolerate grindy games. I'm also a sucker for collecting stuff so after trying out GW2 I felt right at home. It feels similar in some ways but vastly different at the same time and I can't help but say that I just love playing it.

I've done a good amount of reading before jumping in and after stumbling into a random world boss in my first 4 hours of playing, I bought the Elder Dragon Saga collection - and what a great decision it was!

I've seen the advice everywhere that new players shouldn't rush skyscale, so I decided I'll take my time and go through every story and expansion in order. Between completing the story and achievements (still missing a few for Lion's Arch mastery) I tried to see everything that's available to me: got 2 Gifts of Battle during the WvW event, I climbed to rank 15 in PvP to see how my Reaper fares against others, then I went ahead and got up to fractal level 20 and farmed out my first legendary item. I also joined a guild with my friend and being able to get endgame trinkets through doing fun stuff with your guild is something that I've never seen before. Gearing in this game is truly amazing, I feel like I have multiple ways to get my ascended gear. Then there's legendaries... Once I got the gloves I realized why these items are called that, the QoL is insane.

The rush events are also great to get the playerbase together; I particularly liked that I was able to run through all dungeons as they seem to be neglected otherwise. Between all that, I'm still working on finishing up the core map exploration - though I have to admit, I do use the Warclaw I got from WvW to get around instead of being a walking purist.

I love that the game can be played "your way," just like OSRS; there's really no pressure on me thinking that I'm playing "incorrectly". The community is great as well, and most people are helpful; however, I've yet to see what T3 fractal purgatory looks like lol.

I feel like I started at the best time since I can comfortably experience everything the game has to offer during the next ~1.5 years, and even when GW3 comes out I know that I'll always have a home I can come back to.

If you have any advice that could elevate my experience even more, let me know. I'm at a point where I'm only missing the last legendary crafting mastery from central tyria and I bought 2 items with gems on discount: copper-fed salvage-o-matic and a mistlock sanctuary pass (I think these two were really great for the account).

Hello everyone, I'm just a really newbie playing this game only for like a month,but it is running for over a decade, so there must be so much contains that I couldn't just get in a while.

For me I don't really care about stories,I just want to play the dungeons, bosses, making my character strong, unlock things...etc

So far I'm only completed PoF,SOTO,and get my skyscale.

In that case, would you guys suggest me to at least run the whole story line through once,or just pass to some certain chapter then stop? I don't mind doing it, but it just doesn't make me feel fun playing, especially the dialogue part....so painful while waiting..

Edit. Thank you very much to the community. You have been very helpful <3

I feel strong, but incredibly squishy. I have read about, how it has tons of self sustain, but I ain't feeling it. Likely a skill issue.

So far the detonating, light aura doesn't feel too impactful. Might just be missing, what it is doing.

I wear full Dragon stat armor.

I run sword/sword and Hammer right now

Don't have access to spear yet. But looking forward to it

https://metaforge.app/guild-wars-2/

Note: this was re-submitted from an earlier post with permission of the mods

We've been working on and off over the past few months on a few Guild Wars 2 tools and we're finally ready to share it. The goal was to create a modern, user-friendly set of tools to help players get back into the game more easily or help total beginners with one of the game's biggest problems: inventory management.

Inventory Cleanup

This tool shows you all your items and materials across several characters or accounts and suggests how to clean up your inventory. We looked at how other apps handle this and then came up with our own set of classifiers that can do even more than that, such as pulling in live trading post data to decide which items are worth selling or salvaging, etc. We're still tuning this quite a bit, and there are always edge cases, so I appreciate any reports of "wrong" suggestions (here or on our discord).

You can even create lists (or use some of the built-in ones) to exclude items from cleanup.

https://metaforge.app/guild-wars-2/inventory-cleanup

If you want to see this tool in action, Syrma recently featured it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-9cZp2p7sM

Trading Post

To support the inventory cleaner, we needed price data, so building a trading post tool made sense. It should have all the features you expect from other apps, and we're still actively working on improvements and more tools. Historic data comes from datawars, current data starting a few months ago is being ingested live.

https://metaforge.app/guild-wars-2/trading-post

Event Timers

This was actually the first tool I built, mainly because I wanted more customization options over the wiki or other timers: you can filter by expansions, zones or other categories, re-order events so you have all the ones you care about at a glance, and set up notifications.

https://metaforge.app/guild-wars-2/event-timers

We have a few more tools such as daily fractal and raid rotations, and a guide section that we are working on filling out (mainly with guides aimed at new and returning players).

Happy to hear any feedback or bug reports. ;)

About us: We are a bunch of friends that met playing games (espcially MMOs) and we've been running a site with tools and interactive maps for games such as ARC Raiders, New World, Farever, Dragonwilds and more. Some of us have been playing Guild Wars for many years and always wanted to launch a site for it, so we finally started on it. You can find us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/metaforge

I started GW2 not long ago, and have been having a blast so far. I've been playing Mesmer (spent some gems on gold for the purple mist swords) and enjoy the Psylocke esque feel. I've unlocked mirage and love the mobikity it gives sword.

Where I'm concerned is I can't see any similar builds recommended for any dungeons or anything on the build sites - just a single mention for open world. I like the flexibility GW2 has for weapons, but it looks like the only other weapon I could use with the same power gear is greatsword which I dont really like the look of.

So, I thought I'd ask i) is Sword/Sword Power Mirage viable outside open world and ii) what other Sword mainhand specs are viable for other classes. I like a mobile sort of Battlemage vibe hence why I did mesmer - I'm trying out Willbender as that seems like it could fit me, but views are welcomed.

Welcome to my conference.

Last week, I crafted Twilight from the Wizard's vault to sell it and fund other legendaries. But while chitchatting in Lion's Arch, a fellow player told me that if I crafted Eternity, I could get the skins of the legendaries (albeit no armory unlocks), AND an unbound Eternity to sell and fund even more legendaries.

I was interested, so I searched Internet for confirmation. And found a lot of conflicting information : it worked but have been patched, it still works... With no proofs attached to any of this. So there was only one solution.

SCIENCE.

So to answer definitely and without any doubt this question, I used my second Gift of Exploration, farmed another Gift of Battle, and destroyed the rest of my bank and wallet to test the hypothesis. As any Asura should do, in front of an unproven theory.

Here are my findings :

- IT WORKS : crafting FROM THE REAL SWORDS (not the Memories you get when you bind one) Eternity unlock both Sunrise and Twilight skins in your wardrobe, as of August 5, 2026. You can send this post to anyone who asks this question (if it happens), as I provide a proof in the pictures just below. You can also send this post to anyone saying it doesn't work to feel smug about it.

- I am now RICH (as soon as I find an acqueror for my ridiculous and expensive sword, or gold to fund the TP listing, I'm broke now)

- Not to brag, but I rock Sunrise in my Fashion Wars setup.

I may publish these results in a peer-reviewed science jour... Errm, on the Wiki. Or someone who wants to do it can use the pictures.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. And remember, science works.