https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/5813441

Hopefully one day lemmy will have actual polls, too.

... and this completes a Map ... and you get a Black Lion Chest Key ... and you get really lucky.

When I play Engineer, I usually have exactly one Engineering Kit equipped as a Utility Skill and I basically (want to) use this Kit as my 2nd Weapon Set.

This works pretty well, but has the downside that the Weapon Swap Key only swaps from kit back to weapons but not to the kit (how would it know?) and when I press it (accidentally) while not/no longer in combat it swaps to my other actual weapon set.

So I had the idea to bind the key I'm normally using for weapon swap. i. e. ^ (caret) on my QWERTZ keyboard, to the 3rd utility slot which is where I normally place the kit skill.

Perfect ... Exactly what I wanted for my Engineer:

• The weapon swap key now alternates between current weapon set and kit
• I can no longer accidentally swap to my other weapon set

But since GW2 does not support per-character keybindings, I would need to rebind keys again whenever I play a different (normal) profession.

Hmmm .... What if I (instead of messing with in-game key bindings) add something to my AutoHotkey script (I'm already using for Jump+Dodge) which lets me toggle Kit Mode mappings by using some special key (Numpad0 for example)?

kitMode := false

#If WinActive("ahk_exe Gw2-64.exe")
; Toggle kitMode on Numpad0/NumpadIns 
Numpad0::
NumpadIns::
	kitMode := !kitMode
	Return

#If WinActive("ahk_exe Gw2-64.exe") and kitMode 
; Assuming default mappings on a QWERTZ keyboard
; Map ^ (weapon swap) to 9 (Utility Skill 3)
^::9

When I'm now on my Engineeer, I press Numpad0 once to enable Kit Mode which makes my weapon swap key alternate between current weapon set and kit (3rd utility slot). And when I log a different profession, I press Numpad0 once again to restore the original behavior.

🛠 Mission accomplished 🛠

See https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013762153-Policy-Macros-and-Macro-Use

You may bind dodge and jump to a single key.

Sales Q3 2023

GW2 sales appear to be almost unaffected by the SotO release (2023-08-22) . Not looking good.

Sales Q3 2022 for comparison

EoD release (2022-02-28) was in Q1 2022 and sales didn't significantly increase before Q2 2022. Similar to PoF (2017-09-22) where it also took until the next quarter (Q4 2017) for sales to really pick up (almost 35K million). So maybe there is hope, i. e. how many people did you tell that they should buy SotO after you have played it?

Source: https://kr.ncsoft.com/en/ir/irArchive/earningsRelease.do

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/139721-legendary-weapon-starter-set-2-contains-weapons-which-were-already-in-set-1-intended/

• It contains Weapons which were already in Set 1. i. e. Quip and Bolt.
• I used the new starter kit for bolt and got literally nothing. (maybe a false alarm)

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_Weapon_Starter_Kit%E2%80%94Set_2

~~Choosing the Bolt or Quip starter kits currently results in no items being received. This has been confirmed as a bug. It is suggested that players do not select a kit until this is resolved.~~

... since this will prevent LFG from showing that the Commander's map is full.

Moving yourself (Commander) to a separate subgroup was once used to help others to find the player whose map they should join. But this is no longer needed, since

Commanders and lieutenants are now sorted first in their subsquads following the patch on November 8, 2022.

But since LFG apparently uses Subgroup1 to determine whether a Squad's map is full, keeping this habit does more harm than good.

Yep, I agree, LFG is a mess.

-> Concert for the Ages

... also known as The best Event in the entire Game

One Charr!

E. g. Sandswept Isles

Today I made some progress (5 Tier 3 Rifts) by joining a commander in Amnytas who was using Rare Motivations to track and open Tier 3 Rifts. Then I joined a squad in Sandswept Isles doing the same thing, but I wasn't making any more progress towards the task while the commander (who was using the motivations) apparently did. Though I received Tier 3 Essences from the event itself, i. e. not (only) from weekly reward chests.

Also, Sandswept Isles did not work for the Rift Hunt Vault Daily Task (a day or two ago) and there is a [merged] bug thread on the forums about various Rift Hunt Reward Issues.

With Side-Lace Pants (500 Gems) and possibly Stylish Shoes (400 Gems) for a total of 1400 Gems ≈ 17.50 € ≈ 70% SotO

Preview on Norn

That's the content we want, not hunting stupid demons for months and months. On the other hand ... in RPGs this is the kind of content the community typically provides via mods.

Despite of mixed feedback on the forums it's pretty clear that this (kind of) armor will make ArenaNet a decent chunk of money. Well played!

This is what I hear in my head each time I play the Skywatch Archipelago Meta or rather visit the location of the final event, when it's not currently running.