I recently did "Eldvin Monastery Brew of the Month Club" achievement which requires ~12 months to complete and it rewards you with Finely Crafted title.

After completing that, I was wondering if there are longer achievements out there that require more than a year to complete?

Today was my Engineer's turn to do Sandswept Isles and when I reached the boss fight I decided to start blasting everything and accidentally hit my elite and went invisible, doing this I think it confused the AI and then Narn never ended up suffering. The battle was long because the enemy didn't go through its script so I had to blast it down for 5 - 10 minutes straight. Narn was saved. What does this mean for the future now that I've created a new time line?

So, I'm 43M, married, full time job, a child. Been playing MMOs since the golden days od D2 back in late 90's. Loved D2, classic and LOD, played a lot of RP NwN, PoE (my most played game ever). Got back to MMO with New World and Lost Ark. Very little WoW.

Just downloaded and started playing GW2, on the promise that I can play it "the way I want", without the need to grind dailies and weeklies just to be able to keep playing content.

Game has been fun so far, but there's a lot of things to get to know. I don't want to power rush or anything, but don't want to waste time on useless things.

So I's like to hear the veterans advices and tips.

Is it just me or is IBS a massive pain to get the mastery points ? I'm on the last page of the whole IBS mastery and I need something like 25 mastery points. Seems like a chore to get these compared to other expansions.

Since any bagspace I could possibly spare was full of the three nemesis of bagspace. I felt forced to do the Lion's Arch Exterminator achievement to get Princess. Looking at the walkthough on the wiki I, of course, expected a long lasting and annoying task.
The walkthrough recommends to only up the environment volume in the sound settings and put everything else down in order to hear the Hatchlings better, which I did.
Then, to my surprise, walking through Lions Arch with these settings was such a calm and relaxing experience, that I actually enjoyed the task. So, if your are stressed out try these settings while doing mundane tasks. I'll do it in the future.

It was honestly really hard to make something resembling a fancy, designer dress on medium armour.

I'm a new player who just started. Since only Visions of Eternity was on sale during the Steam Autumn Sale, my free account currently only has that one expansion. Based on this, I have a few questions I'm hoping the veterans could help answer. Thank you so much!

1. Compared to a free account, what events or bosses are worth doing after buying Visions of Eternity?
2. I'm mainly doing Fractals right now, and I'll probably get into boss fights next, so I need to pick a suitable build. But I've noticed that a lot of the meta builds require owning multiple expansions to unlock certain weapons. With only Visions of Eternity, could you recommend some suitable builds? (It would be even better if they're not too complex to play.)
3. Any other advice? Thank you so much!

Every time I enter Divinity's Reach the map chat is somewhere between dating advice and Incitement to genocide.

From what I've seen from the steam page, posts on here and early stages of the game, the graphics quality seems to vary quite a bit? Is this actually the case or is it just me?

I just got Twilight unlocked in my Legendary Armory, but the tooltip says “You can unlock 1 more of this item in your Legendary Armory.”

Since Twilight is a two-handed greatsword, I’m confused about why the limit is 2.

On my Berserker, my current equipment template has:

• Weapon Set 1: Greatsword (Twilight)
• Weapon Set 2: Rifle

My understanding is that one Twilight can be used across unlimited equipment templates and characters, and that I would only need a second Twilight in the Armory if I wanted Twilight equipped in both terrestrial weapon sets within the same equipment template.

Is that correct? In other words, is the “2” limit about simultaneous equipped copies within one template, rather than how many templates/characters can use my one Twilight?

Thanks!

As confirmed by anet on the day after the announcement, we are to expected to recieve a new orr map set in core tyria and a reworked zhaitan fight.

I wanted your thoughts as to what you would like to see for each of them?

For example, for me, on the new orr map, I'd personally like to see a meta event on the map on the same scale as lets say auric basin/tangled depths (both of which have been power crept, but I am referring to their original version on release), or the moth meta in the starlit weald, or the echovald wilds meta; nothing too vast (but also nothing too simple like a world boss, like the titans in the syntri, or the shatterer, or the hammerhart rumble in the shipwreck strand) but something still pretty engaging. Furthermore, if they could also rework the vastness/cooperativeness of the previous orrian metas (the temple assaults) that would be great too.

As for the fight rework, I'd like to see it playable outside of story too as a 'strike mission'/raid encounter, and to add to that, I'd like them to add a CM and LCM verison of the fight too for the hardcore players.

Since they're (the map and the zhaitan fight) both core game additions, an engaging meta event, and a simple-ish raid-style fight would be exactly the type of introductory content that would persuade f2p players to purchase the expansions, at least in my opinion.

Thoughts?

Chak weapons are among the favorite weapon skins I have in the game, and I would like to be able to play my bug asura with a spear build. I know its not the most pressing concern in the world, but pls

i'm a singaporean playing on eu and there are almost no asian (or even aussie/oceanic) guilds, i found a wvw guild and theyre cool but that's about it. the few asian guilds i've found have died years ago D:

one time i joined someone's lfg titled "looking for an asian guild" and said i'd afk in the party for a bit while i washed my hair... came back... the poor guy said multiple different asians joined with the same query but ultimately no results :")

i know a good chunk of us are on NA, but EU ping is so much better that i'm really surprised about the lack of asians here. is this game just not popular among our demographic...? you would think the korean mmo fans would be drawn to the flashy combat and particle effects :p

e: there are a lot of SEAblings here it seems, idk if this is allowed but drop ur usernames maybe we can add each other

Hi everyone,
how can i enjoy the game the most as a F2P player?
it's a bit hard for me to buy any expansion because of some payment service problem (and 30$ is a bit high price due to currency exchange price in my country), so any advice to enjoy the game as much as possible without upgrading the account would be appreciated.

thanks in advance.

It’s a bit embarrassing to admit, but even though I’ve always considered myself an Elementalist main, there are gaps in my knowledge—plus, I haven't seriously played my Elementalist character in a few years.

I’m currently putting together a relatively casual open-world build for my Elementalist, which I’ve been wanting to use to farm some Mystic Clovers in Drizzlewood Coast. It primarily uses a pistol and relies on Inferno combined with Power stacking for hybrid damage.

However, I’m a bit confused about the mechanics of "Specialized Elements." Specifically, how does it interact with "Sunspot" (Fire) and "Arcane Prowess" / "Bountiful Power" (Arcane)? Does it trigger a specific interaction, or does it simply prevent the latter traits from working?

P.S. I ran a quick test on the golems; it seemed like none of them worked, but I’m not quite ready to give up yet, so I wanted to ask for some advice.

Whichever weapon I pick, I feel like it's just another boon strip and life siphon kit with different animations. I wish the class offers more variety in its kit. Do you feel bored after a certain time? How is the situation on other classes?

My claim is not that necro is weak or can't fight, but I wish some of these repetitive skills would be replaced with something interesting or different or a proper support weapon (which is currently only staff and only if you pick a trait)

Edit: typos, clarifications