Thread 536982184

GalesHOT edition

>Resources and FAQs
https://pastebin.com/ZU4uUREV

>Guilds
https://pastebin.com/zCUYwWF0

>Am poor! What do?
DO THE WIZARD VAULT WEEKLIES
Daily Checklist - https://fast.farming-community.eu/farming/daily
Currencies - https://fast.farming-community.eu/conversions/overview
OW Farming - https://fast.farming-community.eu/open-world/overview
Salvaging - https://fast.farming-community.eu/salvaging/overview
https://gw2efficiency.com/
Alternatively, get a fucking job and swipe.

>My build is absolute shit! What do?
https://gw2mists.com/
https://metabattle.com/
https://snowcrows.com/
https://discretize.eu/
https://guildjen.com/gw2-builds/
https://en.gw2skills.net/

>Events and Gem Store sales
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/events/

>Latest
Legendary Fatfuck backpack
/mu/faggot, Lightbulb and Bowmancer showcase
Skritthusband, Pairofgays and Ritualist showcase
Amalcum, Conduit and Evoker showcase

>Soon™
Visions Of Eternity expac (release in October)
GW3 (never ever)

>Now
Anniversary sale
Visions of Eternity expac Preorder (fugly skimmer included!)
Elite specs open beta

>Latest Patch
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/161386-game-update-notes-august-19-2025/

>Latest news
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/slender-fairy-wings-backpack-and-glider-combo/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/play-new-elite-specializations-in-the-visions-of-eternity-beta-today/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/celebrate-13-years-of-guild-wars-2/

>Speed Relics for Turbogays
https://www.elitepvpers.com/forum/gw2-hacks-bots-cheats-exploits/

>TACOburrito (english) for Linux
https://burrito.orthogonalprojects.com/

>BlishHUD
https://blishhud.com/

Previous Wipe: >>536508809

Bird meta

>Ranger
>Necro
>Mesmer
>Engineer
which one. i am level 1

>>536982759
Necro is the most beginner friendly but just bee urself

>>536982626
tugging on Charr tail meta

>>536982184 (OP)
finally a good op

>>536982184 (OP)
Would if she had more meat on her bones

>>536982759
Engineer

>>536983459
salad or goblin

>>536983580
Why would you play GW2 as anything but Charr...?

>>536983668
I think they smell like wet dog

>>536982759
At level 2 you can go to the pvp lobby and try them out including elite specs from expansions you own. I say test it out there and see which one you like the best. I'm partial to mesmer just because it's got a lot of unique utilities and doesn't really fall into a generic mmo class category, but its not for everyone.

>>536983459
Imagine having to wear that much clothing over fur, think of the smell. No wonder why Charr in gw1 were half naked.

>>536982759
mesmer is hardest but strongest

>>536987642
>think of the smell
don't mind if I do

>>536982759
>>536983459
Difficulty (easiest to hardest)
>levelling
Engi (kits) > ranger > mesmer (need to press shatters) > necro (its easy but slow)
>lvl 80
Mech>reaper>virtuoso>harbinger>scrapper>chrono>untamed
>race
Gnomes are nice but the fashion sucks

i made as f2p
how far should i go before buying an expac

>>536993094
lvl 80
expansion content is max level only, you can refresh your trial mount by leveling up another character to lvl 10

>>536993306
i see
i wanna be a melee god too
which class/spec accomplishes this with a high skill ceiling

>>536993094
f2p is the original core game that was like 60€ with some limit like trading, chat n shit

uncut smegmy norn futacock

>>536983459
eating charr ass

futa mesmer gangbang rape

>>537002449
Hey, I don't tell the thread how YOU spend your time in between metas

GaleGODS how are we feeling on this fine day?

>>536982184 (OP)
When is the last time that ANet made a completely new enemy for an expansion? I don't just mean a new skin, I mean a new skeleton and new set of animations too. Is it seriously pic related from 8 years ago? I'm playing through EoD right now and every single enemy is a re-skin, even the Oni are just ogres cosplaying.

>>537005696
Now that I think about, every jade bot from EoD is a reskin, yeah. I can't remember something completely new from any LWs either. Grim.

>>537005696
You think that's bad? Destiny uses old Halo Elite and Jackal skeletons for some of its alien models.

>>537007052
you can't tell me you ain't humpin smc in a t1 matchup on dwayna's temple...

>>537005696
It's seriously weird how many game studios make a huge number of new models for the launch and maybe first couple years of a game, and then continue to run the game for another ten years making zero or close-to-zero new models. I get that modeling and rigging is expensive, but the dropoff is always like 50 new models at launch, 20 new models in the first few years, and then 0-2 models a year for the next decade.

>>537009387
the titans and kryptis are the most miserable boring rehashes of the nuhoch stompers and floppers, karka, etc. i was hoping there would be an explanation why the nuhoch were turned into kryptis, but it was just reused assets. bummer. they could have at least added a tweest to cover up their overusage of models. shame.

>>537009387
Once you covered majority of your bases, there no real need to invest more in rigging.
That's why there is an initial push to make all possible rigs they need and then reuse them for next 1000 years. Especially because they need to work on a schedule, it is much cheaper and quicker to slap a model on an existing rig or just make it a recolour of an existing npc.

>>537012647
Yeah, conceptually I get that. I guess it's just weird to me that they're clearly able to do X amount of rigging for the years leading up to and immediately following launch, and then that capability just goes dormant for years and years while they're only doing X/10 that output.
But I guess the people who do rigging are probably also modelers who can make the reskins, or there's often story stuff to animate, so it's not like there are people who only do work for a couple years every decade. It's just strange once you notice it.

>>537009387
It's just like how Fromsoft just keeps reusing the same assets from decades of Dark Souls development for Elden Ring.

>>537009387
>>537013210
its really not, its just a cost saving measure, because you dont want to keep reinventing the wheel, animating is just a tedious task that takes a long time to do, because you have to consider the sheer amount of animations that have to be made and their timings. lets just consider wow for a second because you can see all the animations, each race and gender option players has like 60 animations, the average npc skeleton has 25 animations.

>>537002743
>in between metas
Metas are something you do in between raids though???

Ratchads... we up..

>>537017932
Not me, I'm too busy making friends with mesmers

>>537018671
What's so special about mesmers?

t. concerned mesmer

>>537018805
Best players in the game by a wide margin. Most versatile support players and hard carries in any pve or pvp gamemode.

>>537018805
you damned waldos è_é

>>537018284
Antiquary is so divisive. It is fun to play, but its also pretty bad in competitive. Also a large amount of thief players are too retarded to play it. It could use a little more damage and maybe more artifacts, but that's it.

>>537018805
Only need one of you to get a harem going

redpill me on guardian and its specs

>>537020461
Heavy armor is for insecure queers. Lightchads run this game. Play guardian if you wanna tell everyone you're a gay tranny.

>>537013210
>people who do rigging are probably also modelers who can make the reskins
Actually, rigging is finnicky, often made for specific engines and needs, requires testing and debugging etc, lots of technical knowledge. You do have to be a generalist in 3D and know the basics, sure, but rigging is a bit of different beast. Their implementation can be quite fucked up too, movement and rotations in 3D space are a wacky things. Animators usually can be riggers as well. Modelers often don't know how to make them in any advanced form.
For Obscure credits there are 5 in-house animators, who most likely do the heavy lifting of putting all the shit outsourced companies make in the game. And only 4 technical artists, these guys are wizards and have all kinds of responsibilities on them. Character and creature artists do the models and textures, but not putting those into the game and attaching skeletons.
Rigs and animation in HoT era are really crazy, made by real tryhard nerds. That continued into path of fire, just look at all the mounts. After that they have quelled their ambitions dramatically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKxXq6T3b2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cni0YpNg_c8

>>537020635
what's the diff between light/heavy armor besides the defense stat

>>537020848
that's really it
armor is used to help distinguish between professions a bit

>>537020848
Dated system for outfits. Light has the best options followed by heavy then medium but they're all pigeonholed into a theme, with few pieces not following it unless you buy armorskins.

>>537020665
I'm always a little shocked by how well-animated the Chak are if you stop and pay attention to how they move. Gerent is huge, has a lot of complicated movement in all directions, doesn't use any animation cheats like hovering or charging, and still looks super fluid and grounded in the world.
I don't hate modern GW2 or anything, but it's such a shame that we're not regularly getting the kinds of things that ArenaNet was able to do at their peak.

>>537020665
Bring this nigga back for real. Fire all the voice actors to pay him, I think like 10% of the game's population actually cares about the long winded exposition dumps by the voice actors, the most requested feature at the moment is dialogue skip for fucks sake.

Imagine if they went back to LWS2 style text dialogue, hired a bunch of non-jeet developers and animators and encounter designers, and made the story "the commander jumps into a long fractal to stabilize it" for each mini expansion. Instead we got the team spread across GW2 and the game that'll bury them for good, I wish I was chaim cohen and pitched this idea to my gook overlords instead of gw3. Oh well.

>>537025136
chaim doesn't pitch anything, he's just a nepobaby who got given the job by his rabbi, bobby stein
he coasts on his do nothing job and still somehow manages to make the game worse with each "balance" patch

FHDs dominate charr

FHD on FHD, imho

FHD Mesmers hypnotizing and milking charr, dare I say

FHD ranger yjking her mcharr pet

>>537014754
>>537007227
Elden Ring and Destiny reuse old assets but they also mix those with new assets. That's fine with me, I don't expect anyone to make all new assets for an MMO expansion. But goddamn, a little bit of extra effort to give us a handful of totally new enemies would go a long way. I still play the PoF content even though it isn't very mechanically rewarding, just because the presentation of that expansion is so high quality. I cannot say the same for EoD/SotO/JW.

>login dead game
>queue 1h dead mode
>play a bit
>server kick out
>relog dead
>repeat 5+ times/day
i bet Guold Wers III gonna have bigger maps with more strict people cap (like 12) and longer queues 'cause more istances need too much shekes

>>537040691
Is it just me or do tripfag's webms never load

>>537042268
Works on my machine

>>537042268
you're not the only one.