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I cannot wrap my head around this. People keep telling me there are condi fights and there are power fights when I am doing my fractals. I just play power the entire time and usually have no issues. But some players get upset for some reason, and when I ask the difference, they will tell me, "conditions continue while the boss is moving" or "conditions continue while mechanics happen" but when those moments happen and I can't attack, they just catch up to my already higher DPS. The only exception I have been able to see is that power builds might have abilities that require attacking, but they buff your attacks instead of being an attack itself (think nightmare weapon), and if a boss goes immune during that or you can't hit it, then they will time out and you lose the dps. Is that really the only exceptions? Am I misunderstanding?

• Fixed an issue in which some projectiles would incorrectly collide with terrain and fail to hit their target. In particular, this impacted the Liadri encounter in the Queen's Gauntlet.
• Fixed an issue that could cause certain agents, such as the prairie dogs in Jahai Bluffs, to remain in-map after their associated player left.

I've been looking up the ascended weapon drop chances from World Bosses and everywhere just says "it's so low it's not worth considering". Considering I never really even bother with world bosses unless it's a weekly and have killed maybe 3 in the last 2 months... how lucky actually am I?

(Yes, this is a bit of a humble brag, I'm super hyped because my first ascended weapon from the wizard's tower is for a build I haven't been using and this is my second ascended weapon ever since I'm basically new. I took the staff, it looks awesome, though I changed the stats on it to my new build and it looks even awesomer now.)

Hey everyone,

I’m thinking about hosting a Choya survival race in one of the most dangerous areas of Guild Wars 2.

Everyone runs as a Choya

No mounts

No attacking enemies

If you die, you’re out

Last Choya alive wins

Winner gets a prize

I’m still working out the exact route, date, and prize, but I wanted to see if people would actually be interested first.

This would be on NA, with an EU version possible later.

Would anyone be down for this?

We've gotten a bit lenient lately with some questionable posts and links to vibecoded sites and AI assisted posts. That leniency is ending and we are going back to strictly following our rule of a total ban on all Generative AI content.

This includes content from things like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and any other similar GenAI chatbots, assistants or other apps.

Any links to AI generated (vibecoded) sites and any posts that admit to using GenAI will be removed. As before we are not going to be testing every single post or anything like that but if you admit to it or there is evidence proving you used GenAI the post will be removed.

Hey everyone! Returning player after many years away and needed some clarification. I played at launch for a while and had a warrior at lvl 80 with the finished main story. I had purchased Heart of Thorns expansion before I stopped playing but I never actually started that story quest line before leaving. I know that people recommend doing HP trains to farm hero points for the elite specializations because I’ve heard each hero point challenge gives more hero points in the expansion zones, or is that only for the later expansions? Is it recommended/required that I unlock all the fast travel waypoints first in those new zones before joining a train or no? Just looking for advice. Thanks all!!

I’ve been watching some videos on drizzlewood lately and I’ve been curious to join in on the meta, but I haven’t seen any activity in LFG for the last few days

Maybe I’m just missing, do people still run it?

Not sure if this was shared yet, but it went live yesterday (August 17) as an update. It's not much but it's nice to have the open communication:

"Hello everyone,

It’s hard to believe it’s already been two months since we shared our plans for the future of Guild Wars 2 and launched the Community Quality of Life Initiative! Since then, you’ve made more than 13,000 posts across the quality-of-life forums. The response has been exactly what we were hoping for when we opened this process up to the community.

Guild Wars 2 is a huge game, and people experience it in incredibly different ways. Some of the feedback has confirmed things we were already thinking about internally, while other suggestions have pointed us toward things we probably wouldn't have identified on our own. We’ve also learned that everyone’s main profession needs buffs and every other profession needs nerfs. (I’m kidding. Mostly.) That range of perspectives is exactly why we wanted to bring all of you into this conversation in the first place.

We obviously won’t be able to tackle everything that’s been suggested, but the feedback you’re sharing is already giving us a much clearer picture of what matters to players across the game.

Right now, the team’s focus is on delivering the conclusion to Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity. “Code of Creation” arrives on September 15, and once we have that release behind us, we’ll be able to turn more of our attention to the quality-of-life initiative.

We’ll have more to share about our plans later this year. In the meantime, please keep the ideas coming. Don't worry if you’re joining the conversation late; you haven’t missed your chance to weigh in. We’ll be working our way chronologically through different eras of Guild Wars 2, so there will be plenty of opportunities to share your perspective along the way.

Thanks again for being part of this, and we’ll see you in “Code of Creation” next month.

-Josh"

I’m trying to find a good meaner open world build so far o tried staff/staff mirage but found it a bit boring and slow. I’m currently on troubadour but I feel so squishy using my current build and I don’t have enough gold or hero points to keep running around and trying builds so, I wonder what is a good Mesmer open world build with good survivability and damage. The only specs I haven’t tried is virtuoso and chronomancer (I do see a lot of virtuosos running around)

Hello, I need help on making a support build for ranger. All of the builds I've seen so far dont use a longbow and thats what I want to use. Unfortunately I don't know enough about build crafting to know what builds dont suffer from a weapon swap and ones that do. Also I dont have VOE so I can't use galeshot.

Hello Guild Wars community, 

We’d like to inform everyone that on November 18, 2026, we will end support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 for Guild Wars® Reforged and Guild Wars 2®.

We’ve maintained support for these operating systems for as long as we could, but it’s become increasingly difficult to sustain since Microsoft no longer provides regular security updates or technical support for them.  Continuing to support them also limits our ability to update the game’s technology, improve performance, and maintain compatibility with current hardware and services. 

What this means for you after November 18:

• Guild Wars Reforged and Guild Wars 2 will likely no longer function fully or launch successfully on unsupported Windows versions.
• Our Customer Support team will be unable to assist with technical issues originating on these operating systems.
• Future game updates will no longer be tested on Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1.

If you’re currently playing either game on Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1, we strongly recommend upgrading to a supported operating system (Windows 10 or 11) before November 18, 2026 to ensure you can continue your access to our games.

We understand that upgrading an operating system can be a significant change, which is why we’re sharing this notice well in advance. Thank you for your understanding as we continue to improve the Guild Wars experience for everyone.

EDIT: RESOLVED & VERIFIED! (The 120+ Map Cap is Officially Back)

Final Update: We have officially verified the fix! Our 0100 UTC run with [BUTR] tonight successfully staged in Bloodtide Coast with 121 active squad members on a single AWS instance:

• Defense (Pink): 8 players
• Cobalt (Blue): 32 players
• Crimson (Red): 33 players
• Amber (Orange): 48 players

The instance held beautifully with absolutely no premature overflow queues. The original high-capacity AWS server profiles are officially back online.

A huge thank you to Anet-BogOtter (Richie) and the ArenaNet server engineering team for jumping on this so quickly, investigating the backend templates, and rolling out the fix in under three hours.

Also, thank you to this subreddit for upvoting the thread and helping us get the visibility we needed to bypass the front-line ticketing loop. This was a textbook example of constructive, data-driven coordination between players and developers.

See you all on the maps!

###### ORIGINAL POST BELOW ######

Hey everyone,

I’m writing this on behalf of the active open-world Triple Trouble community (I command and organize runs with BUTR, WHAM, and NOPE). Since early August, our daily coordination teams across the global scheduled runs (0100, 0400, 0800, 1230, 1700, and 2000 UTC) have been hitting a massive, unannounced roadblock.

We have noticed a major, consistent reduction in Core Tyria map capacities — specifically in Bloodtide Coast — that is quietly strangling coordinated open-world PvE.

The Timeline of the Cap Reduction

• Pre-July 28 (WvW Rush): Bloodtide Coast comfortably held 120 to 150 players before triggering hard queues.
• July 28 – August 4 (World Boss Rush): The capacity suddenly plummeted.
• Post-August 4 (Current): The World Boss Rush event ended weeks ago, but the restricted limits have never been reverted.

The Math & Evidence (Consistently Hitting a 100-Player Hard Cap)

Through meticulous tracking of our multi-squad runs and queuing behavior, we have documented the following:

• The Soft-Cap: Once a Bloodtide Coast instance reaches 60–70 players, the game prematurely triggers a soft-cap. It stops routing random zoning players to this instance and instead starts spawning empty overflow maps.
• The Hard-Cap (The 100-Player Ceiling): When we attempt to "taxi" our remaining squad members in via the "Join in..." squad function, we hit a hard wall. Our commanders have documented that the moment active squad members on the map reach 75 to 80 players, anyone else trying to enter is hit with an immediate "Map is full" error or queue.
• The Dilution Factor: When you account for an estimated 15 to 20 non-participating players naturally on the map (casual levelers, resource gatherers, AFK players), this mathematically confirms that the absolute hard cap is now locked at exactly 100 players (a 33% reduction from the historical ~150 limits).

I have posted screenshot proof of our squad layouts and the resulting map queue blocks in our official forum thread here: 👉 https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/175724-has-the-maximum-number-of-players-in-core-tyria-been-reduced/ (my account there is davebb.1063)

Why This Breaks the Triple Trouble Gameplay Loop

Unlike normal world bosses, Triple Trouble is mechanically unforgiving and does not scale down:

1. Strict Coordination Floor: The Amber Wurm requires a minimum of 20 players executing mechanics flawlessly (eating harpoons, coordinating debuffs). There is zero room for error or AFK dilution.
2. The Staging Grind: Because the hard-cap is so low (100 players), casual map occupants dilute the active roster. This leaves us with barely enough active slots to divide among three separate heads (Amber, Cobalt, Crimson).
3. The Idle Wait Penalty: To bypass this, we are currently forcing players to arrive and sit idle on the map 30 to 45 minutes before spawn just to secure a slot. If they arrive at the normal 15-minute mark, they are permanently locked out in a queue.

The Infrastructure Hypothesis: AWS Server Profiles

By using the in-game /ip command, we’ve verified that these dynamic map instances are hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) virtual machines.

During high-traffic events like the World Boss Rush, developers typically deploy a temporary, restricted AWS server profile to limit map capacities. This distributes the massive player influx across more virtual machine shards to prevent localized CPU lag.

Our hypothesis is that ArenaNet simply forgot to re-apply the default, high-capacity AWS instance profiles to Core Tyria zones after the World Boss Rush ended. The server orchestrator is still spinning up "Event-capped" shards.

A Polite Request to ANet QA / Systems Engineering

We've tried submitting standard support tickets, but front-line GMs have understandably closed them as "gameplay feedback" because they are trained to use boilerplate macros for anything containing "map capacity" keywords.

We are hoping to bring visibility to this so that a community manager or developer lurking here can flag this to the QA or Systems team. Could you please double-check if the Core Tyria AWS server templates simply need to be reset to their default, pre-event population profiles?

• Are any other commanders noticing premature map queues or smaller instance limits during other large metas (like Tequatl) since early August? Let's get some visibility on this!

I'am not playing for a one year. What should i do in daily basis? Focusing one character which is reaper. I have all dlcs. Just completed pof, hot and voe. Already got all mounts instead of griffon. But im curious about what should i do daily