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Guild Wars 2 - Sylvari's Sylvan hound gets a new model in episode 3!

Sylvari's Sylvan hound gets a new model in episode 3!

Posted: 18 May 2018 02:19 PM PDT

[art] Adult/Ancient Aurene

Posted: 18 May 2018 02:54 PM PDT

[dT] Balance Patch 05/08 - Fractal Meta Changes

Posted: 18 May 2018 08:03 AM PDT

Hi everyone!

We updated our website to reflect the recent balance changes introduced with the 05/08 patch.
I'll discuss the relevant fractal meta changes and our findings below.

Link: https://discretize.eu

General

Let's start with the changes that affected all builds.

  • Empower Allies (Warrior): 150 Power -> 100 Power
  • Pinpoint Distribution (Engineer): 150 Condition Damage -> 100 Condition Damage
  • Assassin's Presence (Revenant): 225 Ferocity -> 150 Ferocity
  • Spotter (Ranger): 150 Precision -> 100 Precision
  • Frost Spirit (Ranger): Previously granted a 75% chance to deal 10% bonus damage on hit, now grants a 100% chance to deal 5% bonus damage. Basically a nerf from 7.5% bonus power DPS to 5%.
  • Sun Spirit (Ranger): Reduced applied burning duration from 3 seconds to 2.5 seconds (Chance now 100% instead of 75% on hit, cooldown still 8 seconds, still 2 stacks applied)

Overall, the nerfs result in a 6-7% DPS loss for power builds and a 3-4% DPS loss for condition builds.

The changes to Spotter also led to new optimal gearsets for builds that require Assassin's items to hit 100% critical chance.
While you can optimize for the presence of Spotter and use Curry Butternut Squash Soup when you don't have a Druid in your party, the main problem remains that you need different gearsets for fractals and raids due to the precision gained from the Infinite Mist Omnipotion.

Note that we updated our Gear Optimizer to reflect the recent changes, please use it to determine the optimal equipment for your personal agony resistance level.

Mesmer

  • Continuum Split (Chronomancer Special Skill): Cooldown increased from 90 seconds to 105 seconds
  • Signet of the Ether (Healing Skill): Cooldown reduced from 35 seconds to 30 second
  • Compounding Power (Trait, Illusions): Bonus damage reduced from 3% to 2% per stack (max. 10%)
  • Restorative Illusions (Trait, Inspiration): Worse base healing, better scaling with Healing Power

Support Chronomancer received a small nerf in form of the Continuum Split cooldown increase. The most annoying consequence for fractals is that you won't have CS ready for the defiance bar at Ensolyss with 66% health, not even for the second one if you're too fast.
Apart from that, nothing really changed in terms of boon uptime - you just have to make sure not to waste internal SoIs.

With the changes to Tempest Defense (Elementalist Air Trait) you will want to run the Boon/Chaos variant 99% of the time to feed your hungry Arcane Weavers.
Hybrid Chronomancer remains the meta pick for groups with no Arcane Weavers and a Druid.

Healing Variant

We added a healing variant to the Boon Chronomancer guide, as more and more people are trying out the triple DPS team composition now - more on that later.
As the Chaos variant really doesn't do much DPS with offensive gear either, you can think about swapping when your party has trouble with those wonderful random instabilities.

DPS Chronomancer

The DPS Chronomancer received a 5% damage nerf with the changes to Compounding Power. The buffs to Signet of the Ether and Continuum Shift result in a bit smoother rotation, as you just fit in four Phantasms-Signet-Combos in between the CS phases.
Overall the build is still a decent pick in fractals with all the usual mesmer utilities, tons of CC and high Vulnerability output.

Guides:

Warrior

  • Crushing Blow (Mace 4): Now applies 15 stacks Vulnerability for 6 seconds (instead of 10 stacks for 10 seconds) plus 25% increased damage
  • Tremor (Mace 5): Knockdown duration increase from 2 seconds to 3 seconds

With the changes to Empower Allies, the question arose whether its still worth to run Tactics instead of Discipline as a Banner Warrior.
The short answer is yes - as long as your party is running a power-focused composition, it is about ~3-4k additional group DPS in fractals.

Banner Warrior

Below is a short overview of the current Banner Warrior build options:

Enemy Boons Traits EA Weapons 1 Weapons 2 CC Damage Vulnerability
#1 Yes Disc/Spb No Dagger/Axe Axe/Dagger 250 93% Medium-High
#2 Yes Tact/Spb Yes Dagger/Axe Greatsword 250 81% Medium
#3 No Disc/Tact Yes Axe/Axe Mace/Mace 940 84% Medium-Very High
#4 No Disc/Tact Yes Axe/Axe Greatsword 150 86% High
#5 No Disc/Spb No Mace/Axe Axe/Dagger 350 100% Medium-High
#6 No Tact/Spb Yes Axe/Axe Greatsword 150 82% High

With enemy boons present (-> Mistlock Instability: No Pain, No Gain), you will want to run the Spellbreaker/Tactics Dagger+Axe/Greatsword variant (#2) with EA.
Without, the Base Warrior variant with a secondary Mace/Mace set (#3) shines with massive CC, EA and high damage.

DPS Spellbreaker

The DPS Spellbreaker build is now the best DPS build for small hitboxes, making it an excellent choice for damage dealers in fractals. It has access to high CC with mainhand Mace, Kick and Bull's Charge.
Warrior is in a very good position now, nearly all Trait lines can be played with competitive but not overpowered DPS numbers.

Guides:

Elementalist

  • Meteor Shower (Fire, Staff 5): Initial damage increased by 23%, damage will now decline by 10% for each subsequent hit with a minimum equal to 10% of the initial impacts damage (the diminishing return is separate per target)
  • Tempest Defense (Trait, Air): Reduced the damage increase from 20% to 10% against disabled foes
  • Glyph of Storms (Skill, Utility): Recharge time of storms is now based on player's attunement

The nerf to Tempest Defense hit Air Weavers hard, making Arcane the better choice in nearly all scenarios now.
Even without a Chaos Chronomancer you can give yourself quite some Vigor and Protection to strengthen Arcane's trait Bountiful Power - Air is only worth considering in fights with a near 100% broken defiance bar like Ensolyss.

The Meteor Shower change led to some speculations about canceling it being better than finishing the cast or taking three conjured weapons, in reality nothing changes at all.
Taking a third weapon stays niche for fights like MAMA, you might want to think about swapping Lightning Hammer with Icebow though if you have three Weavers and can't make use of the second weapon charge (e.g. Ensolyss).

Guides:

Ranger

  • Healing of all Celestial Avatar skills reduced by 30-40%
  • Grace of the Land (Trait, Druid): Increased the duration of might granted by this trait from 8 seconds to 12 seconds, decreased the stacks granted from 3 to 2
  • Healing Spring (Healing Skill): Conditions removed per tick increased from 1 to 2
  • Call of the Wild (Warhorn 5): Reduced the durations of fury, swiftness and might granted from 15 seconds to 10 seconds. Might stacks granted increased from 3 to 6
  • Lightning Assault (Wyvern Pet Special): Can't hit more than one time on the same target anymore

Druid's healing output was overpowered before the patch, now it is more in line with other healing builds.
In condition-heavy scenarios (-> Mistlock Instability: Afflicted) Healing Spring is even better now, especially if combined with Trapper's Expertise.

The changes to Spotter and the offensive spirits had a much higher impact, as it cripples your group's damage output even further if you insist on running a Druid instead of a third DPS character.
Nonetheless Boon Druid is still the best choice if you desperately need a dedicated healer in your group.

The changes to Might generation are a small buff for Fractal content, as the slower ramp-up time is compensated by pre-stacking there.
Combined with the buff to Call of the Wild, Power Druid should have no problems keeping up Might - it just doesn't heal much anymore :-)

Keep in mind that the fix to the Wyvern pet is a huge hit to your defiance bar damage, for the moment Iboga (meme) and Rock Gazelle (CC) are the best pet options.
Jacaranda (Vulnerability) and Black/Pink Moa (CC) are the second best choices once Iboga is fixed.

Guides:

Other professions

Power Holosmith received minuscule rifle cooldown reductions, it's still a good alternative DPS for fractals due to high CC, very high Vulnerability output and multiple Stealth options.

Power Dragonhunter received buffs for Greatsword 3 and 5 but its damage remains behind other options. Core guardian has less utility and relies too heavily on Unscathed Contender, which is difficult to maintain in fractals.

The changes to Deadeye didn't do anything, while it's easier to generate Malice now, the problems with missing burst and general scaling still exist. Thief remains an awkward, below average DPS build.

Guides:

Team Compositions

With the nerfs to offensive group buffs you will want to reduce the amount of support characters in your party as much as possible.

The optimal offensive team composition remains Boon Chronomancer, Base Banner Warrior and triple Arcane Weaver.
This setup ensures 25x Might, Banners, EA and 9-12 boons on average with access to high CC and reflects.

Vulnerability is only an issue in longer fights, if your Warrior is too lazy to watch out for missing stacks (and use Counterblow/Crushing Blow accordingly) you are free to run a DPS Chronomancer, Holosmith or Dragonhunter instead of the third Weaver for more consistency.
The same applies if you are having trouble with defiance bar damage (e.g. if the Warrior has to run Spellbreaker for boon removal).

If you prefer a more defensive group setup, the Chronomancer can swap to a healing variant providing strong burst heals, frequent condition cleanses and Regeneration.
Keep in mind that fast resurrecting and rallying is the highest priority in all group content.

Should the healing still not be enough for you, the Boon Druid comes to rescue. A Power Druid can remove conditions at the same speed but struggles to heal up a full party.

Website

We are happy to announce the conversion to static HTML pages with this release. We are now using Gatsby to create blazing-fast pages out of our React components.
This leads to a much faster, lightweight and SEO-friendly website. Just take a look at those amazing lazy-loading fractal images :-)

A big thanks goes to /u/DxCx66 for all the coding help, especially for the Markdown renderer and the awesome pre-fetching of Gw2 API components.
This also means that clients don't have to send requests to the GW2 API for skill data anymore - and if the API goes down, everything still works!

We also added Disqus to our guides which enables everyone to comment and discuss each page. We are excited for you feedback!
As always, make sure to hit CTRL + F5 to force reload if any problems occur.

Thanks to everyone supporting and contributing to our community! I've set up a Patreon page if you want to give something back.
Our Discord server is also open to anyone willing to participate in our discussions.

See you in daily fractals!

Edit: Thanks for the gold kind stranger :)

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[Art] Guild portrait for Ethereal Fist

Posted: 18 May 2018 06:45 AM PDT

Living World Season 3 Complete Pack is currently discounted by 36% from normal 20%

Posted: 18 May 2018 04:47 AM PDT

Didn't know they discounted these, but got mine yesterday.

Especially important if you have none (768 gems instead of 960) or 3 episodes already (384 gems instead of 480)

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Some new figurines my wife made

Posted: 18 May 2018 04:39 PM PDT

Hello everyone,been a while since my wife has made some figurines but since she is back at it again,she would appreciate some constructive criticism about her new work :)

https://imgur.com/a/Qiba7VM

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[Parody] Achievements...

Posted: 18 May 2018 05:49 AM PDT

PSA Mistlock Sanctuary Passkey is back in the Gem store

Posted: 18 May 2018 09:39 AM PDT

Same with the Royal Terrace Pass, the Noble's Folly Pass and the Lava Lounge pass. All sold at the full price of 1000 gems.

Edit: Captain's Airship Pass is also available.

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Iboga pug against W4

Posted: 18 May 2018 01:57 PM PDT

Hi everyone o/ After a (sadly failed) dhuum cm approach recently we decided to try out a full druid cairn for fun. We looked for a Chrono and rest druids and put all in the same subgroup so everyone got a little bit of buffs. As it turned out we filled via lfg in minutes and did a whole W4 with only druids Ibogas as dps. Cairn MO and Samarog were Oneshots but Deimos was hard since we initially tried to handkite with two druid healing each other. Btw we got to 36% with that but we made some mistakes and so we opted for a real handkiter later on. I can not speak for the majority of druids since they were Pugs but my build was Beastmastery Naturmagick Druid to let the Iboga shine :) We coordinated the spirits and had only a few take gotl while most ran lingering light. I started out on Full Harrier but on a frustrating enrage at 6% on Deimos some opted for condi Gear and shortbow to supplement Condis for the Ibogas ofc :)

Here are the logs:

9 Druids one Chaos-Chrono:

Cairn

Mursat

Samarog

8 Druids (some condi) one Chaos-Chrono one Herold hk:

Deimos

PoV: Druid/crowbur.4507

A huge thanks to all participants. Final Screenshot I hope you enjoyed this and maybe we can come up with some other cool off meta class stacking strats :)

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How are u even supposed to reach this PoI

Posted: 18 May 2018 04:36 PM PDT

Meta Griefing

Posted: 18 May 2018 12:01 AM PDT

After every Chak Gerent and Octovine there's a person or people that try and screw over others after the meta. They place merchants, feasts, and other interactables on the chests at the end of each meta. It's gotten to the point where it's happening at every time slot now.

Why is Arenanet allowing this with their systems? I know it's an oversight, and they wouldn't condone it, but they're allowing it and not giving us any option to do anything. I try and tell the frustrated players on the maps to just double click the chests, but why should they have to? I don't understand why there simply isn't a priority list for interactables where nodes, and chests are always first.

And if you think this is a big deal over losing one chest, you haven't seen what's happening. On Auric Basin it's slightly better, but maybe worse since they're targeting a much better chest. However, on Tangled Depths they're doing every chest since there's not as many. The other thing happening in TD that at least is avoidable is a mesmer putting a portal on the first chest that kills you if you don't deploy your glider. Now if you still think this isn't a problem I'll remind you that there's an interactable that starts a cutscene, and just by calling attention to any of this might cause a huge surge in the people doing it. That's not what I want, but it's unavoidable when talking about issues like these.

https://i.imgur.com/5dZth75.jpg

Arenanet please fix this mess!

Link to the same thing on the guildwars2 website. https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/40459/meta-griefing#latest

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Zalambur is such a good scam artist, Canach lost money at a game that doesn't even exist.

Posted: 18 May 2018 01:19 AM PDT

At the end of the Blazing the Trail story step, Zalambur says "Stay away from the high-stakes roulette: it's rigged" to which Canach replies "I knew it" in an annoyed tone, suggesting he's already lost money. However, if you look around the casino, there's card games, dice games, and a pair of gladiator choyas, but no roulette.

The house always wins.

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Who needs to farm Istan, when you can farm QUEENSDALE?

Posted: 18 May 2018 07:24 PM PDT

HoT HP train guide for GW2TacO

Posted: 18 May 2018 05:57 AM PDT

Hello, after returning to GW2 I was struggling with navigating in HoT maps, did few stories, some HP trains and metas, but still didn't know how to get around. This was super irritating when I wanted to unlock new elite spec for another character. That's why I've created HoT HP train guides for TacO (VB, AB, TD).

You can get it here: bitbucket: Czokalapik's marker packs for GW2 Taco

Readme contains marks explanations and 2d versions of trails, you can also check 2d maps here: VB, AB, TD. Some (not that many, like 3-4) trails use shortcuts and you have to use Springer (and place Portal for other members of the group), but I was trying to keep most routes "vanila" so they will be accessible by players without mounts and without most HoT masteries, although some are so irritating to get by normal route I simply HAD to use shortcut ;]

I've tried to optimize all the routes so it will be easy to navigate the map, but if you have a suggestion, or there are some missing markers/trails, please tell me.

PS: No plans for Dragon's Stand for now, since it's heavily meta dependant. I'll think about PoF tho, but all HPs there are easily found and soloable. So.... maybe ;]

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Please share your best GW2Hook presets!

Posted: 18 May 2018 11:01 AM PDT

Hey guys!

I just returned to gw2 and started using gw2hook, what an amazing software.

Could you share your best preset(s) and some screenshots maybe? I like realistic ones, and my PC is beast so optimization is not an issue hehe. I've looked at other threads but most are very outdated, there must be some new, stunning presets out there!

Thanks a bunch :)

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[Tyrian Tarot] We've Hit $100,000 & Unlocked The Official ArenaNet Concept Artworks! (Thank you!)

Posted: 17 May 2018 06:52 PM PDT

Crown pavilion - call @Activities Team

Posted: 18 May 2018 09:58 AM PDT

I just watched the video

"Guild Wars 2 - Behind the Scenes with the Current Activities Team" (it´s intressting to watch if you like that stuff).

Anyway one out of the 3? dev´s in the Activity team said something: https://youtu.be/4Y4RWDxhZEo?t=7m42s

"Our approaches for refreshing festivals generally is couched in trying to give players what they really asked for. We are constantly checking out the forum and reddit to see what people are interested in. "

So let´s do this reddit, let´s remind them that we loved the Crown pavilion and want it back! Please give us a Boss blitz and Queen's Gauntlet this year!

Share your memories and wishes and tell them why you would like to have it back.

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Where we dropping boys?

Posted: 18 May 2018 12:38 AM PDT

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