Soo Won dress that I definitely didn't spend 4 hours making. I'll actually sew the dang thing eventually.

I'm not angry, just disappointed.

Look details: https://uaot.art/fashion-gallery/posts/1471

(Heralds if you're salivating at the clip, remember to swap to damage buffs and kill the boss when they show up, don't be a drag man)

I'm going as Revan from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic... or as close as I can get to him, anyway.

The Mad King graces our fair Tyria again so it's time to induct the newbies into the time-honored tradition of farming the Labyrinth!

An Intro: Lab Farms are big groups running laps around Mad King's Labyrinth tagging mobs and opening doors for sweet sweet Trick-or-Treat Bags. Many sell them unopened on the TP for folks looking to gamba for the many many possible lesser jackpots. To this fact, here's a few things to keep in mind for joining your own!

1. This is NOT a place to max out your dps: Trains can get VERY large, and there's only so many hits a mob can take before it dies. Most Lab builds use Minstrel Gear for the explicit purpose of sharing the loot to all in the group. So DON'T melt the baddies, poke them with a million others until they are poked to death!

2. Following from the above, you also want to prioritize tagging enemies over focusing any single mob down. There's a million and a half guides for every profession online, but you'll generally want to avoid melee builds as they tend to have lower enemy uptime than ranged.

3. If there's a comm on your map running a farm, check their Squad Message or LFG post to verify the kind they're running. Some run All Doors, including the boss doors. Some run only Greens and Steve. Regardless, if there's a comm on your map, please don't open doors they're running! It just makes the whole experience less for everyone included. If you don't want to run with a comm, there's generally going to be an open map that you should be able to find relatively easily.

4. Comms, post your Farming Style in the squad message so folk can see it when they mouse over your tag! It just makes it easier for all involved, but MOST Comms running lab are super chill anyway, so there's not a lot to post about!

And that's all I can recall off the top of my head! If y'all can think of anything else please comment!

Did you guys know that if you put a custom parrot skin on the mail courier, the animation still works even underwater, and there are even little air bubbles trailing behind the bird? That’s a totally optional level of detail, but honestly, that’s exactly the kind of thing I love this game for.

New Expansion Bundles and Living World Acquisition

To make it easier for new and returning players to access the full Guild Wars 2 story, Living World seasons are now included with the base game or select expansions and are no longer available for individual purchase.

• Living World Season 2 is now free as part of the base Guild Wars 2 game. Like Living World Season 1, all players with a level-80 character will now have access to season 2.

• Living World seasons 3 and 4 are now included in the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns and Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire™® bundle. For players who already own these expansions, any missing episodes from Living World seasons 3 and 4 will be automatically unlocked.

• Living World Season 5, The Icebrood Saga, is now included with the Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons® expansion. For players who already own this expansion, any missing episodes from Living World Season 5 will be automatically unlocked.

• Players who purchased any Living World content after September 12, 2026 (including the Guild Wars 2 Elder Dragon Saga—Complete Collection), will automatically receive a gem credit equal to the value of the Living World content on their accounts. If you do not receive your Guild Wars 2 Starter Pack items or Living World gem credit by October 15, please contact our Support team at support@arena.net.

New expansion bundles are now available, and the Guild Wars 2 Starter Pack has been updated:

• The updated Elder Dragon Saga bundle contains Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, and Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons along with Living World seasons 3, 4, and 5. Plus, up to 2 Shared Inventory Slots and Level-80 Boosts*.

• We've added the new Astral Ward Saga bundle that contains Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure®, Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds™, and our latest expansion, Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity™. Plus, up to 3 Shared Inventory Slots and Level-80 Boosts*.

• The updated Guild Wars 2 Complete Collection has it all! This bundle boasts six Guild Wars 2 expansions, Living World seasons 3, 4, and 5, and up to 5 Shared Inventory Slots and Level-80 Boosts*. Buying this bundle unlocks all the paid story content from the 14 years that Guild Wars 2 has been running.

• The Guild Wars 2 Starter Pack has been updated and now includes the following additional items: Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic, 5 Teleport to Friend consumables, and 2 Black Lion Chest Keys. Players who have previously purchased the Guild Wars 2 Starter Pack will automatically receive these additional items via in-game mail.

• The Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns and Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire bundle and each expansion comes with one Shared Inventory Slot and Level-80 Boost. If you purchase a bundle containing expansions you already own, you will only receive these items associated with the new expansions that are added to your account.

I made this huge haunted maze for people to explore during the Halloween event :) There's a scavenger hunt inside and those who complete it get a prize!

Here's the build timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9iZo-qkd1Y
And a full list of all the materials used.

congrats to Dailyguessrs [WRDL] for the kill.

but anet, really ? race to world's first, with a signup page, just for it to be over in less than half an hour ?

people took time off work for this lol.

how did they fumble the balance so bad.

The truth, undeniable and eternal, waits for you to embrace it.

A race that was expected to last for days ended up only running for minutes. Dailyguessrs [WRDL] brought two weeks of practice into fruition and defeated the Legendary Vloxx in no less than 23 minutes! An incredible feat from a group of very talented NA gamers.

Close on [WRDL]s heels were Snow Crows [SC] (no arcdps so no log), killing after 37 minutes and bringing EU on the board. Never Trust a Kill [INT] secured the third spot for NA with a kill after 54 minutes. Catastrophic Raid Shenanigans [CRS] weren't far behind [INT], killing after 1h and 7 minutes and landing on 4th place.

For quite some time there was nothing changing on the board, until Choccie Stack [WaWa] dropped a kill log after 3h 15min, claiming the 5th spot just 24 minutes before Rise [Rise] killed. A Fungus Among Us [Us] brought Vloxx down after 4h 1min, rounding out the top 7 for the stream coverage.

At the moment of this post there's still teams in the race competing, and we're seeing statics and PUG groups on Void Lounge making big progress. Join in and claim your Legendary Conqueror of Vloxx title through Void Lounge discord!

The race was cast by Amaverra in collaboration with Void Lounge.

Disclaimer: While there's a lot of disappointment in the end-game community regarding the state of the Nexus of Eternity Legendary Challenge Mode, the achievement of these teams are not to be diminished. The teams have worked hard, proved themselves against a legendary foe and are to be celebrated.

Thanks!

Didn't have my computer handy, so now you have to deal with my bad handwriting and poorly drawn word bubbles!

Only took us a year for Zhaia :C

Hi,

Before today's patch, this fractal was already quite unpopular. 80-90% of "cm+t4" groups were rather "cm-94 +t4" in EU. It was beyond the usual "didn't learn it yet" that usually happens when a new CM is added.

Yet, in its pre-patch state, I was one of the few who were willing to run it as part of daily runs. I specifically looked for LFGs without "-94" in their description, even if I seriously hoped that it was going to be updated to be faster.

But that was with playing around what you could call oversights maybe even exploits : edge of the arena at 70% and 40%, troubadour skip for the instant-kill mechanic in the same phases, and ritualists killing Stewarts.

What happened today ? One of these important skips was nerfed : you cannot stand at the edge and wait for the blast anymore. You have to do the 70/40% mechanic that's a quite obvious raid mechanic (OK for a raid, no place in 5-man fractals). Encounter designers tried to make up for it by lowering the health of Elementals as well as the damage they deal when they reach the center. Well, that wasn't it.

I beat the fractal tonight after a few tries. The sentiment in the party was unanimous : we wanted to see how it was post-patch, and now none of us wants to run it ever again. The few % of the fractal CM community playing 94 is probably gone for the most part !

This fractal, despite being placed at 94 (in the logical continuation of the new directive : "we understood that you don't wants fractals – even CMs – to be raids), does really feel like a raid turned into a fractal.

IMHO, it requires heavy work. Until this is done, a good emergency measure would be to simply undo this today's change : "Increased the radius size of the elementals' explosions so they affect the entire platform during the Lonely Tyrant encounter. " (in the first bugfix patch that'll probably come in the next hours or tomorrow) so that players can go back and enjoy it a little until the fractal is reworked in more depths.

Here are a few suggestions for future rework :

• halve the HP of everything. The alternative would be the popular demand "give us a portal to last boss and skip all pre-event islands", but it would give us one more just-boss fractal ... I think it's more interesting to keep the entire fractal but decrease its length by severely reducing (halving) everything's hp
• spawn the portals immediately, don't wait for a player to do the quite slow flying game. If needed, add an achievement to succeed all 5 flights (ground to boss platform) so people still try it for fun (just not as a forced daily step)
• Entirely remove the stewarts of galdra. Gone. Disintegrated, vanished, retired. It's de trop. "Fixing" ritualist trick would just remove the fractal from the game even more than it already is. Making it vunlerable to normal damage would just anchor it as a permanent, boring step.
• Entirely replace the 70 and 40% mechanic. I don't see how you could ever make it work, no matter if you nerf elemental's hp and damage again (reminder for the reader : I did beat it with my team in its current state). It's extremely anti-fun. Here is an idea : spawn 4 elite elementals (one per element). Killing each one does something different : earth spawns a protection against Isgaren's big attack (where you can just stand), air spawns a white "throw in the air" aoe, fire grants a permanent 10% damage boost, water extinguishes the spinning firewalls mechanic. All permanent until the next phase. Trick : you can only kill 2, and the other ones are absorbed by boss (air : more air throwing attacks, fire : walls spin faster than you can dodge through at normal endurance rate, earth : bigger void aoes, water : he gets heal skill with a cc bar). When the main boss attack end, you have to be in the air (having killed air) or bubble (having killed earth) but if you're not, you don't insta-die like now (this has no place in fractals) : you're ejected from the arena and have to try and catch updrafts so you come back (worst case you touch the ground and have to fly all the way back up)

For context, I started playing like two or three months ago. I have multiple characters in level 80 with exotic gear, all mounts unlocked, etc. I also own all expansions. I mostly care about open world PvE, at least so far, didn't really try other game modes.

Is there any "can't miss" stuff I should be doing or farming for the best rewards or gold while the festival is up? Like, for example, the daily three keys for the chest in Lion's Arch.

I'm kinda overwhelmed by it all.

Thanks a lot!

I'm trying to build up some Tales of Dungeon diving to buy the exotic amrours but getting a group for them is quite hard. Almost no one seems to be playing them.

Is there a better way to earn these armour sets?

As stated in the title, when i logged in after updating the game, Living world season 2 was unlocked, even though i did not buy it. Is there some kind of promotion i missed?