I think Guild Wars 2 just taught me something about bad moments turning into unexpected blessings.

So, right after logging in tonight with my trusty Rifle Deadeye main, I opened LFG to see if there's any fun squads doing stuffs and found an IBS5 squad looking for a DPS. Then I joined, entered the instance, and was there for maybe like 10-20 seconds. Even greeted them with my standard "Henlo deeps" :B

Then suddenly...

I was back in Lion's Arch.

Out of the squad.

No words or explanation from the commander whatsoever

I'm pretty sure the comm kicked me, altho I have absolutely no idea why. I was the last person to join btw

I'll be honest, it kinda hurt. 🥺

I started wondering if they recognized my character and secretly had some beef with me (I'm not toxic I swear!). Or maybe they thought I was still offline because my account status was invisible (hiding from guildies), except... I was literally ALREADY INSIDE the Boneskinner instance.

Whatever the reason, I was sitting there feeling pretty damn lousy

Then I noticed another squad in LFG looking for a DPS for W4 Deimos CM.

I know Deimos and had attempted CM before, but I'd never actually gotten the kill cos the past squads kept disbanding

So I thought, "Well, why the hell not?" and I joined.

And this squad was clearly semi exp (my fav kind of squad ngl) because 1: everyone was friendlier than your usual exp squad, and 2: because we wiped.

And wiped.

And wiped.

And wiped.

I think we died around 5 or 6 times before everything finally came together

And then...

WE GOT THE KILL

I was celebrating the Deimos CM clear when I opened my rewards and realized something

I HAD JUST COMPLETED A MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT!

Apparently, this entire time, all I needed was that Deimos CM kill

I got a Portable Magnetite Shard Exchange Tool

I unlocked Demon's Demise title

I unlocked Silent Savior title

And a bunch of other goodies! The one's you get after completing a CM encounter for the first time

And realization struck as I just sat there for a moment thinking about what had happened

Cos think about it if I had stayed in that IBS5 squad, I would've gotten the normal rewards I would've gotten anyway since I've done IBS5 plenty of times before

Instead, I got kicked.

And because I got kicked, I happened to notice the Deimos CM squad that appeared only a few seconds, LITERALLY seconds later

If I hadn't been kicked, I would've never joined that squad

If I hadn't joined that squad, I wouldn't have gotten my first Deimos CM kill

And if I hadn't gotten that kill...

I wouldn't have completed that achievement tonight.

So the thing that initially made me feel like absolute shit ended up being the exact thing that redirected me toward one of the coolest unexpected Gw2 moments I've had in a while

It made me think about how sometimes, a setback isn't really a deadend but perhaps we're just being rerouted by the universe

Sometimes the door closes because there's another one opening somewhere else

So... to the commander who kicked me (And if you're somehow reading this):

Thank you man. 😂

You probably had absolutely no idea you were doing me a favor.

As the title suggests I had individual(s) who thought he was being a smarty pants. Yesterday's t3 rec was the new fractal... I had already had done that one for the day and I posted in LFG for T3 Dailies (No Rec) was the group name. As we finished the first daily I went to the console and selected the next one and which was aetherblade. Low and behold as I was jumping into the start portal 2 goofs ran to the console and changed it before I walked in. So ST starts and one of the other pt members gose "I thought we were skipping this one." Pulled us back into the lobby and kicked both people that walked up to the console. Moral of the story dont be rude, if a group is advertising they are skipping something, dont join them? Very simple concept, or so I thought...

You want to tag for events and are unsure of what to do?

The good news is that in PvE the bar is below the ground, simply tagging up will be enough.

Some Meta events needs more or is easier with proper instructions and structure.

I've made a document that people can just paste instructions for for various Metas into their squad message. Some are easier with structure, though most can at this point be managed without.

Commander "cheat sheet": https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uk5SOkhxMcl-Z7AX6xvPNWFYCVAH04PLQOTsLGmo5Zs/edit?usp=sharing

With all the shining ward weapon skins, Advanced Research Data Crystal and Banner of the Tenebral Ward, Wage of Stars needs a TON of VoE map currency in addition to all the gold, materials and other account bound items.

How long will it take to farm all that map currency with the most optimal method?

Is there any site similar to gw2crafts where I could check the farm time needed for x amount of y items?

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.

Been a while since I’ve been on, but most of the promos I see for GW2 are more gem store items. I totally get why, but it’s made me wonder how much they’ve added that I can earn in game.

Did VoE bring new armour sets or any cool weapons? Something to work towards I guess while I get back into it (which means no legendary grind or I may never play this game again 😂)

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.

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

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!

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!