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You forgot to mention that any node that gives ascended materials also has a chance to give a chest of ascended equipment

I still can't understand why after over 10 years, there are no deathmatch arenas like in GW1

Due to the update a few days ago (up to 3) parry spam is now a means to regenerate armor.. Perfect parry on minoris enemies (swarming little guys) now regenerates a segment of armor.. Not only are you thinning the horde quickly, you're also getting armor back! That means you no longer need to min-max your melee damage to be strong enough to make a tzaangar vulnerable to a gunstrike, yet also weak enough to not insta-kill a hormagaunt to regenerate armor.. I will also add that Stim Packs (medkits) now also recover contested (white) health on top of missing health.. If you get slapped around by a brutal combo and are near death with about 5% health left and a full bar of contested (white) health and then use a stim pack, then you pop up back to full health instantly! Stim Packs still heal the same amount of missing health since launch, but now have the added functionality of recovering all contested health upon use.. If you are unfamiliar to the term "contested health", contested health is white and slowly starts to drain after about 2 seconds after taking damage.. You can get some back (turn it red) by dealing damage, but only up to the amount of white in your health bar..

we are at a point in history where i give every "I Wish I Knew THIS Before" video a downvote no matter of the topic ... its enough rly ...

im around 150 hours in the game atm, and i wish i knew how impactful knowing the combos your weapon have is. Like the chainsword has some of the best combos in the game, easily lets you keep up with enemies dodging and just catch right up so they cant keep shooting u.

Hey! I crafted the wrong bed in the story instance too! Haha, but luckily I had enough to actually make the proper bed that same instance

What did YOU think of the Push beta? Overall looking forward to it, or wishing Arena Net would choose another path?

Personally when I played Revenant, I never had many options for power builds, it was always just hammer or greatsword, yet Condi gets all the stuff necessary for being optimal... Never liked condi, too pricey for someone like me who doesn't have legendary gear

Wait um how is this the case with verifiably less content than PoF, less fun, fewer maps and half done story that is to be released later. PoF did fully released mounts and all this with full story. We as consumers always have valid criticisms about what was given to us on **release** especially considering anets history. This was a disappointment and a huge thing left out from your video.

Guild Wars meets Northrend with spears. I still see more players in Arborstone / Eye of the North / HOT metas. Lets see how the expansion rolls out, but its looking very Soto right now

Are there any general gameplay tips you wish you knew sooner that I didn't cover here?

The skyscale is great as an x button mount. It's a versitile mount. You use it to transition into griffon and if you are on land you either use the beetle or the warclaw. The Griffon is easily the king of mounts but is alsobetter when used as a transition mount. The two are meant to compliment the other.

You can get a blood bound spear with 10 provisioner tokens and have a universal leveling weapon for any newer toons you decide to make

I log into my Vindicator fairly often and the beginning of this video was killing me. It's definitely the adhd spec. I'm starting to add more celestial gear for better healing when I swap to Saint Viktor. Should be a lot of fun in metas and WvW.

I'm going through the game in order of release and I just got the Griffon. I'm not sure when I'll get the Skyscale but I'm thinking of starting SoTO on another character before I start EoD and go through them at the same time? I don't know but I love the griffon. I'm kind of sad the Skyscale exists because I'm not a huge fan of actual flying mounts. I'm one of those idiots that enjoys a more connected traversal.

the problem about open world content being too hard for future players is already happening. path of fire is mostly just deserted and it's almost impossible to do most of the content by yourself, making it also almost impossible to get the griffon mount. yes right now it's populated cause of the return to path of fire event but you seriously cannot expect players to wait months for another rerun.

Man, staff is awesome! I'm playting Warrior support in pve and pvp and it's a blast :3

Good vid, felt like you hit most of if not every point that people had contingencies about. We will have to see how these updates shape and change the expac. Overall I grinded the absolute crap out of JW and had lots of fun taking out the champion bosses in the open world. Reminded me a lot of bounties from POF which are still some of my favorite content to do.

Speaking about stat lines, the most confusing stat to craft/buy would be Harrier/Mordant. It's not that the mats are hard to find particularly, it's just that if you dug around by searching for "harrier" stats, you would not find a tooltip on metabattle or anywhere, really telling you that what you actually want are Mordant inscriptions to stat change stuff.

something about pdps staff daredevil and cdps scepter/dagger makes my wrist hurt after switching from scrapper/holo engi. can't figure out what it is and it's very annoying as im thoroughly enjoying thief gameplay and animations :/

melee thief ping reliant, range much better especially for ping reaching 250+

I love the game but JW is straight up boring, I just do other things

New player: I've got raptor, warclaw (thx to recent update), springer, and just got skimmer last night. Personally, I love dragons, but having spent a lot of time on a rental griffon in the four winds festival... I really enjoyed the movement and sounds of the griffon. You saying that I can mount a skyscale to save myself from respawn... That might be the thing that pushes me in that direction first.

Great video, I am so casual despite having a 11 old ACC, I have so much to play. I am grateful ^_^ I am wrapping up End of Dragon and Thinking should I jump into Jw or continue on my path to Soto.

I don't get the hype around Janthir it's easily the worst expansion so far. Most player's are afk at the arena, I have yet to even use a spear because it's very lackluster imho. I play with six other people and we all agreed this story is abysmal but whats new really. The raid is coming soon so those twelve people will be happy hopefully. The open world content has practically no one doing any of them because arena durhur and the crazy amount of health they have given to every mob. The warclaw is cool and really nice but still has bugs in it like the endurance regeneration just straight up will not work and sniffing will lock your animation until done looking really buggy. Masteries are alot longer to get and overall more annoying due to only way to grind xp is arena. They have added alot of nice small events but like i have said multiple times no one is doing them because arena. This is easily the worst expansion I have experienced in guild wars 2. Also side note push is great because now I get to spend less time in games to get my daily because they are over so fast most just afk and get free daily.

An important thing that people miss in these videos because they have no knowledge of just how important this thing is is that the narrative set by JW seems to be continuing all the way through the expansion cycle.JW ends with the Titans escaping, this will organically lead into the Convergence/raid because people will really want to rectify this. From there the natural progression of the story would be to find out who TF made these new Titans. This will again naturally lead us to the next map on a type of treasure hunt. The design of the next map will be informed by this narrative line, just like Lowland Shore's design is heavily affected by the narrative that the Kodans have settled there for the time and Janthir Sentri's design is affected by the narrative of it being a hostile yet beautiful place. Even the distance placement of our homestead makes sense in the narrative as it's said to have been owned by Stoic Alder's family for generations and the Lowland Kodans only settle in one place for about 100 years and then they move. At some point in the past, the Homestead was surrounded by a Kodan village that has since moved to a different place. People see the story as having nothing to do with everything else. That's only correct if they see the story as a separate thing. If you see the story as part of the narrative then it forms everything. You can see an example of this with SotO as it was two different narratives and as a result, the Skywatch and Amnytas narrative had nothing to do with the Nayos narrative and the Nayos map became unfocused due to this as it was essentially a whole new expansion placed in the middle of an already existing one.

Just started 3 days ago haha

When I first tried this spec in the beta, It was a power build and it just felt like a janky Dragon Hunter since it used the same weapons. Then recently a friend told me to bench one with him.. And since we've got 270ms, we won't be hitting bench.. But could regulary hit 40k on the golem. (I took a few things out such as F2 and Gun 5 full charge sometimes) and while that's great, the utilities in the open world are amazing Litany of wrath makes you basically unstopable for 6 seconds.. There's a ton of stun breaks and stab/cc .. And a ton of quick movement. Its now my open world and raiding toon haha

You're a fan of gamemode specific visual elements, but how about the one that JW took away from us? (the Warclaw)

HOT before nerfs was the best expansion, the masterys were meaningful, the game was hard, specializations, the story was rushed AF but still the best expansion.

I think it’s a much better start than Soto. Lots of exploring nooks and crannies, story , masteries ect. The 2 initial maps are huge compared to the later offerings of Soto. Still not a huge fan of this model ( it feels like living seasons more than expacs to me) but it’s a good improvement.

The PvE builds for thief are so lame. Deadeye should've been a Ranger elite spec. Daredevil is like a martial artist and shouldve been a Warrior spec. Specter is the only cool one that fits the rogue fantasy but god is scepter is awful. Anet should rework Sword on thief to fit PvE and add it to off hand too. Yeah if you are PvE player who like rogue classes, this game is not for you.

Dagger/Dagger Celestial Deadeye built correctly is one of the strongest solo PVE classes; you can solo champions, legendary bounties and even some fractals.

I feel like janthir is pretty good but it still needs better rewards

All of these GW2 youtubers act like millions of people are concurrently playing this game...

JW is mediocre at best. Living World was way better. (every season)

Seeing someone camera face reading prompt is weird...

JW cant hold a candle to PoF. Think of all the stuff PoF added, mounts, new guild hall, elite specs, and much more. JW added... spears and a mix of guild hall and home instance?

TBH, for now, new expansion is nothing more than a one really nice map, with tons of stupid, doubled events and that other empty one with boring bosses. Story was so boring i don't even remember what it was about. I'm sure homesteads are fun for many ppl, not for me though, never needed one, never will invest time with something useless. But expansion is not over yet, so i will wait for more content. Oh, and it was really easy for Anet to beat SOTO as it was terrible.

JW is good but it's the updates that will make or break it, just like SotO. I'm optimistic, though. I think Janthir Syntri was probably scaled back when they decided to shuffle the updates around a bit to not have us on the same map for three updates in a row again. The northwest part of it, the sulfur wastes and bloodstone crater, feel the most unfinished. The story, the warclaw, and homesteads came out great and honestly that would have been good by itself, but we also got a vibrant open world with decent event variety at least on the first map. I'm not worried for players in the future. Sure it won't be as convenient, but it will be possible to complete the achievements with people in map chat, guildies, and LFG.

I dunno man after the end of dragons expansion these last 2 expansions feel like living story seasons more than expansions. Heartless and forgettable. Alos they always had a PVE leg backpack the fractal one. It was literally the first legendary we could get.

Nah, man. How can you say JW is your new fav over PoF?! For me, HoT was the real deal. It was packing with raids, adventures, lots of achievements and so on... I just wish all the expac was full of conttent like it used to be. We should at least be getting 1 raid per expansion. I'm so pissed that EoD/SotO didn't have any...

look i know JW is new and everything but HOW on earth is JW anywhere above PoF? i just don't see it. i feel like my perspective is slightly rare since i'm full leg on every weight/slot including runes sigils so rewards are kind of useless to me but just content wise JW has nothing i care about. i finished the story and masteries in a few days and haven't played since. i want to love it i just don't see it. i still love gw2 but every time i log in there's no content:(

One of my staple characters is a Deadeye with dual pistols as main, and spear as secondary. With some thought put in to build, gear, relics etc you get some terrifying DPS output and amazing mobility.

This is another excellent opening to a new expansion, just like SotO was. That's what I'm worried about. JW has a top tier first map, but so did Icebrood Saga. JW's second map is an amazing setting, but with extremely repetitive, copy-paste events. It has few engaging events compared to the first map. Let's hope that they add more to the second map and the third map is as rich and fun to be in as the first.

Deadeye main here I hope you enjoy your thief journey. It truly is a really fun class to play.

I really really enjoy the aesthetics of the map. It’s nice to have something that’s living and lively for once.

The poor mans WoW is not doing that bad truth be told. Good on poor mans Wow :D