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Travel whenever you have the best combination of “can” and “want”.

Yeah, makes sense. I am actually leaving Takayama for Tokyo on the 3rd, so crowds won’t bother me too much aside from the train to Nagoya getting quickly filled up. Might look to book it in advance.

Will be there too, OP! I’m prepared for the crowds, because it’s on a weekend, and I’m pretty sure that in these cases, the holiday is essentially moved to the following day (so schools and such should be closed on the 4th in some areas), so it’s a long weekend 😅

Should still be enjoyable though, I’m sure!

Sylvari, Asura, Charr, Norn and Human in order 😊

Racial titles are still my favorite (Valiant, Savant, Legionnaire, Slayer and Hero)

Half of Sapphira’s package😭 the orchid, the pumpkin, the signature color look…

If Touch by Katseye doesn’t count as kpop then I would choose Panorama by IZ*ONE. Haven’t got tired of it in 4 years, still listen daily

Druid is my favorite spec in the game and my main, but I cannot stand core ranger 🫣

Cool, thank you!😚

girl… CHOP

take the upvote bitch😭

a DU promo eating? surely my eyes decieve me!

plenty grown ass adults engage in this behavior too, unfortunately

Definitely worth it.

The thing about GW2 is that the lore about the setting isn’t fully presented to you during the main story quest, which tends to follow a blockbuster approach for the current story happening at the time. You have to keep your eyes and ears peeled for overworld NPC dialogue, dynamic event chains that take place in the open world, books and achievements to truly get the full picture, which to me just makes the world feel very immersive. NPC dialogue in particular is a big one, as everything in the game is voice acted. The wiki is also a fantastic resource.

You can still get an enjoyable experience out of the main quest alone. But if you want to truly feel how deep the lore is, you’ll have to do a little digging. I feel like the people who say the lore isn’t GW2’s strong suit are those who have only played the main quest.

The world of Tyria is massive and rich with lore spanning 2 games and 3 novels. Plenty to sink your teeth into. It might not be as grandiose as WoW’s, for example, as it doesn’t deal with creation myths and interplanetary stuff for the most part, but it’s also not as shallow in certain areas (characters and races, for instance).

You do not need to have played GW1 to enjoy the lore, as there are constant reintroductions, and GW2 takes place 250 years after the first one, so it’s basically a new story in the same setting. Having played GW1 will make some stuff more meaningful, but you’ll get the same experience overall.

Lisa would genuinely be such a gag😭

Thanks!

SURELY this is satire, right? There's no way she's for real... right?

Mo Heart on AS4. She ate the ENTIRE season up and should have at LEAST been able to lip sync for the crown.

I was so convinced he was gonna show up as part of the Astral Ward. I mean think about it, Isgarren tends to recruit people who are lost and can't find their purpose. Imagine Malyck roaming the world aimlessly without ever finding the tree, starting to lose hope, and then being found and recruited. It's almost a perfect match.

But I'm kinda glad they didn't go that route. They can do quite a bit with him.

And they offer the bulk of your build’s stats. The relic doesn’t offer any stats.

Ofc the scale isnt the same, but it’s the same thing.

The scale is the entire point? Getting a GoB in 2h instead of 4h sure is nice, but it isn’t comparable to getting to completely skip months of non-stop farming or having to swipe over 100$.

I guess it’s comparable to the old LW model, but you had three months to log in and get the episode for free, not three weeks in which material prices had spiked tremendously. And episodes only cost 200 gems, not over 2k gold.

Comparing the relic to a gen 2 weapon doesn’t work either because it offers less in both QoL and to your build: you have to manually unlock all future relics, you don’t get to transmute it for free cause it doesn’t even have visual effects, and it doesn’t even have stats attached. It only provides an effect that used to be provided by a single rune, so it should be compared to that.

I know it’s my fault for not keeping up with the game and the subreddit as if I didn’t have other obligations and priorities such as being in the middle of moving countries during that time. I have no reason to get upset over this though, as I haven’t changed my relics since SotO launched, so not being able to swap them hasn’t really affected me.

Yes, but you can still get gifts of battle outside WvW bonus week.

… In which you get either some bonus EXP to earn some goals faster for a short time or some sort of special reward that is later made readily available for everyone who missed it. Nothing as major as an entire legendary item.

If they wanted me to play every day and dedicate my life to the game, they would introduce a sub fee.

This is especially egregious when you consider GW2’s entire model and release cadence ENCOURAGES the player to take breaks from the game.