#guild wars2

[the-elven-star]

As soon as I saw this crystal design, I realized that I wanted to draw it! The design belongs to @vannahgw2

He is beautiful in any form~

[marmaruuu]

DEAR COMMANDERS

I’ve had an idea for a while that I want to make real with all of your helps if possible! I want us to make an illustration with of our commanders doing mundane things (being simple beings and away from their duties)

Just the idea of a homey and cozy atmosphere with out commanders interacting warms my heart jdndn so lmk if you’re down! (I’m down personally, I just need to deal with some work first!!)

[limikkin]

ArtFight 2026: Lexxzum for Mabaki

I wanted to make my first attack an Asura, as I did not give them enough love last year. And I love the characters from @mabaki so here he is: Lexxzum!

Also, I wanted to create some sort of "Trading Cards" for this year, but I will absolutely also offer the raw version:

[tokoriart]

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[khorren]

Whats your favorite part of guild wars 2?

I got burnt out by the long fetch quests and stuff in living world season 1 and 2 content but would love to keep going.

Is it worth it to continue? What should I look forward to?

Gosh, this is a big question, and there's not one thing I could call my favourite. Long response ahead, buckle up!

Overall, I think it's just that this game ticks a lot of boxes for me. The things I like are great. The things I don't enjoy, whether a type of content, or a decision made by the higher ups those are things I can look over, because the good stuff is still there. But the stuff I don't enjoy, or don't think I care for I can still be dragged in to with friend support. Eg: I don't do raids unless one specific friend drags me into them at 3am on a Saturday. And I'm very very rarely awake at this hour. They're very fun! I don't touch them otherwise.

Similarly, I dislike PvP in pretty much any format in most games. I *adore* World vs World in GW2, and can even drag myself into a pvp match, even ranked pvp if the motivation (usually something pretty) is there.

So a bit of a history lesson here.

Season 1 and 2 were still very experimental on how they were delivering content. When GW2 first came out they were taking a "we're not gonna do expansions, but we'll still give you content" stance. Season 1 was originally fortnightly updates where *something* in the world changed. You had 2 weeks to play it, and poof, it was gone, the story moved on. Sometimes it was little things, some quaggans had some new dialogue, you fixed some roadsigns. Other times it was a full mission. This was great for active players, but *really* terrible for someone who couldn't get to the computer that fortnight, or just got into the game.

Season 2 came along and some of it was still "if you're not here, you miss it" and maps grew over time, but they made things episodic so you could replay the story, and more importantly, come to the story late. The world would still be changed to the present, so you couldn't see how it looked in the past. Shoutout to my boy Drooburt just wanting a drink from the little inn in Prosperity!

It wasn't until 2022 they started bringing back Season 1 as replayable content. And for the majority of the player base this was new content. They had to cut some corners, the whole Southsun arc was gone. They retconned bits of story, as they were primarly retelling story related to Scarlet, as that's what mattered to people who went from core to s2 (along with the "who are these people calling me boss?". This is an example of one of the decisions made by higher-ups I don't like. My boy Canach was done dirty :|

End history lesson.

Anyway! So yeah, s1 and s2 are kind of.... there. They're suuuuper important for the whole rest of the story, but compared with later content they're definitely a bit lackluster.

After this point, a lot of the story just takes place in the world, so (for me) it's easier to engage, easier to be attentive to, easier to absorb yourself in the world. Story has always taken place out in the world: listening to npcs as an event finishes and seeing if it goes off to another event, but HoT onwards this is even bigger and more impactful. In HoT there's multiple event chains on each map for you to follow along with, get some story, get nicely rewarded as well as the main "green star" story. The game pushes you to do these as npcs are yelling out for your help, or you just get swept up following the little orange symbols.

Season 3, Path of Fire, and Season 4 are all some great storytelling. A lot of people will put s4 at peak story. But that whole era of content you really get into the feel of how big the world is, what's at stake, yadda yadda.

Of course, story isn't everyone's cup of tea. I see this a lot from people who are like "I just wanna punch monsters in the face in instanced content and just want all my stuff unlocked asap". To which there's loads of instanced content to be doing, and reasons to be doing it repeatedly. It's about finding the right carrot that you wanna chase. And I know telling a new person "Find your carrot" is like... not smart to say. Because you're standing in a whole ass grocery store going "I don't even know WHERE the carrots are, mate!" And this is in relation to "what do I have to look forward to". and this is hard to answer, because it's a mix of "well what are you looking for" but also and more importantly "forget other games, let gw2 show you what it has" Which yeah, that sounds kinda dumb I know. lol.

So for this I would say when you get to a new area, especially in expansion or living world content. Play through the story of that area, then before moving on, take a look at what the new vendors in the zone are, what they sell. Take a look at your achievement panel for the stuff relating to that area. Look for things like masteries, cosmetics, achievement points, titles. Some stuff is not interesting at all, some of it is super interesting but you might not understand *why*. People get excited over spoons in this game, or cats, or a recipe. Which will make a new player go "excuse me? what?"

The community does have a ton of resources on "What to do and why". Mightyteapot has a guide with this name, Laranity has a guide with a similar name, and these are pretty comprehensive, but also miss out a lot. There's just so much.

Over in the GW2 community discord (discord.gg/guildwars2) we have a resources channel with a ton of stuff. We also have a team of suuuuuper helpful people in the questions and new player help channel, and we hold a very strict "no clowning" policy. If you have a good faith question about the game, you'll get a good faith answer in return. We also have a ton of helpful FAQ stuff loaded into our helper bot who does 95% of the heavy lifting on the server. Praise Tybalt bot.

I will say: Join guilds, join communities, join discords. Make other people's to-do lists your to-do lists. If someone says "Hey I need help with X" go along. find out why they're doing X. Learn something new. Look at what people on tumblr are celebrating. Billy just may have made a new legendary weapon. Sure it's pretty, but it's also a practical quality of life thing to have. Ask questions, or go wiki it, go fall down a rabbit hole.

GW2 is a lovely world with lovely characters. From a story point of view, there's some great story to look forward to. From a mechanical point of view, there's lots of new ways to play your characters in your future. Whether that's new elite specialisations, new weapons.

Or if combat isn't your jam, in End of Dragons there's fishing to do! Wont be everyone's cup of tea, but people have spent time looking up the perfect fisherman's cosmetics for when they go out on the waters. Or maybe you want to decorate a house. This will have you doing a whole bunch of content or gathering to get all the materials. Nothing is just a simple endeavour, which is a bad thing or a good thing. You start off with "oh I'll do X today" and suddenly you're doing A B and C instead and maybe next week you'll get around to X?

Oh, and one final thing "What to look forward to". GW2 has some of the best seasonal festivals in an MMO I've seen. We're reaching the tail end of Super Adventure Box, which is one of my favourite festivals in terms of "This is so unique" and "There's a ton of rewards to be had". If you wanted to get everything from it it would take several years. SAB absolutely divides the gw2 community. Some people just..... dont get it. Or are bad at jumping. So get frustrated easily. But if you've got the mindset for it, amazing festival.

I'll leave this as a parting gift.

I do hope some of my mad rambling helped you. Or at least gave you some rabbit holes to go down. Any follow up questions are more than welcome. And thank you for the ask. Talking GW2 and being a bit of a weird historian about it makes my brain light up. So I'm always happy to babble. Have a nice day <3

[beetleboyoart]

Introducing my gw2 character, Rhys Mal an undead sylvari who uses necrotic magic to keep himself alive. In life he was experimented on where foreign organic material was fused with his own, allowing him to be risen as an abomination by Zhaitan's necrotic magic, as well as 'awaken' from the mother trees sweet song.

[projektdyad]

32 Slot Bag Crafting!! If you want to maximize your bag space you will need to learn to craft some 32 slot bags! There are a few you can get from achievements and a few different recipes to unlock as well, but here is the standard one!

[meeeeeeese]

quote from the GW1 wiki page on the time-warped Rytlock you can summon everybody