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- Guild Wars 2 is a gigantic game with tons of different features.. that aren't always explained properly. Here are some features you ACTUALLY didn't know about. Hopefully.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:48 Clicking healthbars in event UI
1:30 /emotelist
1:41 Achievement filters
1:56 Snap ground target keybinds
2:35 Currency location
2:43 Minstrel novelty trick
3:21 Reordering watch list
3:49 Obsidian Sanctum teleport
4:21 I am Evon Gnashblade
4:59 Hide squad broadcast UI
5:39 Right click chests
5:53 Right click skills
6:02 Map completion mouseover
6:23 Siege turtle teleport
6:40 Hide commander tag
6:52 Portal scroll from bank
7:14 Map drawing
7:24 /time
7:28 -maploadinfo
7:46 TP favorites
8:05 Getting rid of white stars
8:55 Outro - เกม
Phew... thank god that on screen text is there, I wouldn't have known who i was watching ;)
I had no idea about clicking the target bar to target them... that may well make SEVERAL meta's so much easier.
As a person who plays with lag and lowest visual settings where the boss often doesn't render or simply moves around too much, can confirm that its super helpful! One of my fav details that Lara pointed out!
I learned this from that one sniper boss with with clones on drizzle wood coast
It's really useful for bosses that make clones like Amala in the Twilight Oasis fractal. Immediately targets the actual boss
You probably didn't know that because its not working for all events, but they are using it more in expansion.
NOW you tell me! 😀
0:48
Someone mentioned this and said it's useful in the Twilight Oasis fractal as it allows you to select the right Amara and ping her to your squad. Been doing it ever since.
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well for amara i was just tabbing to see legendary icon on target and ping
And YOU just blew my mind with that!
here are 2 more good things for your list of good 2 know things.
1: when you sell something on TP, you can hold the mouse over the "Total Price amount" and you get a small popup that tells you the Actual profit after listings fee and tax ..
2: if you hold down Shift and hold down Left mouse on your minimap, you will get some combat icons that you can guide your squad with.
Yeah, the seocnd is highly useful in the 5v5 PvP matches.
Have to admit, I was skeptical at first, but you genuinely blew my mind with the Evon Gnashblade mode and the reordering of the watched achievements! Another great video, keep them coming!
Same! I NEVER knew about those features and been playing for over 6 years. Recording watch list is huge, as I usually keep long term achievements tagged, but also tag my targeted daily achievements each day. Sucks when the one I’m working on gets buried
Great list! Here's another:
All skills that require a target (or mention one) will show a subtle red bar under the skill icon. The red bar means your target is "out of range" or "too far away" for that skill to hit them. Click an ally/enemy to target them. If you walk close enough to the target, the bar will go away. When you know to look for it, you'll notice many of your skills have red bars that appear and dissappear as you run around enemies.
I've seen those bars SO MANY TIMES and NEVER realized it! WTH. Thank you so much!
I was wondering what those red bars meant. Thanks for that!
actually every skill with a range has that :)
You can also call target with the health bar, if you have bosses with illusory copies and need to find the right one, just CTRL + Click the healthbar and you'll put a nice red target over that tricksy fractal mesmer boss head or the proper shadow clone to go slap.
That is actually great. Thanks !
1:41
After all this time, I never thought to click on the gear and check out the achievement filters, thanks Lara! This is gonna make MP/title collecting somewhat easier
IIRC the achievement filter has only been added "recently" (I think around PoF?) so don't feel bad if you didn't know that
The siege turtle teleport also works with the jade bot personal waypoints! So you can teleport a friend to hard to reach places like hero points, vistas, etc.
only time it does not work with passenger is if you place the waypoint at a location where mounts are barred like a jumping puzzle, you arrive less mount and passenger . but its super useful helping someone outside mesmer portal range who does not have a skyscale.
work also multi chair like tee and noodle :D
The PvP lobby can also work for taking you back to your same location on a map. Very useful if you don't have a level 60+ toon on your account to get into WvW. Also you can get tier 3-4 mats with laurels which aren't available with WvW laurel venders. And if you are worried about losing Pip participation, Obsidian Sanctum does count against you.
Also if you want to do a mystic forge and return to your location, you can often access them on your home WvW map.
Learned a lot and love your videos. Thanks Lara 😍
most of them i didn't know, but i give you an additional hint for the first feature about clicking the event HP bar. You can do this for bosses like Amala in the fractals during the opening phase with all her clones to find the real one
That is incredibly helpful thank you!
I finally started playing gw2 and I'm so glad it's at the same time Lara is finally making more guides n stuff
btw the emotelist is SUPER useful for someone like me who came from FFXIV and relied on the emote menu
The hover to find what you’re missing on a map thing, realized the other day that, if you are in one zone, but curious about what is left in another zone, zoom into the other zone map and hover over the stuff on the left side and it will show you what you are missing. I always assumed it only worked on the map for the zone you’re in!
It does that with hero points but not the rest
@@kydatyvegrybatokeanvisoko2420 ah. gotcha.
Another amazing video! I did not know the minstrel thing, would have sold it otherwise I think... And I learned the other stuff in years of playing, knowing that up front would have been amazing ^.^
I really like those more regular videos!
(The Laranity arrow is interesting, who else would be sitting there? We now for certain it wont be Silverdiscs skeleton^^)
Gey noob
One random tip from me: if you play gw2 in another language as English. Holding right shift will put every on screen text of your game into English. Helps a lot if you play international.
I have a couple of tips to share as well!
First off, something a surprising number of ranger players don't know (even higher mastery players), you can name your pets in the pet menu above your hotbar! Same place you swap out your pets, you can name each one. (Mechanist engineers, you too can change your mech's name, I believe by right clicking on your mech's icon. I think it says how to change their name on their tooltip, in case I'm slightly wrong on that front).
And for newer rangers that weren't aware, you find and tame new pets by finding specific "Juvenile" versions of creatures in very specific places throughout the maps.
On that note: you can type "/wiki " in the ingame chat, and it'll automatically bring up the official wiki page for the thing! (So for rangers looking for pet locations, I recommend typing "/wiki pet locations" into chat, brings up the page quick and easy)
And one final fun fact: The "Not So Secret" JP in Gendarran Fields, has a real devious trick it doesn't tell you on the path to the diving goggles (the diving goggles being a part of the "Dive Master" achievement for a free core tyria mastery point, so it's been the downfall of many, this tricky bit of the JP)
On the path to the diving goggles, you have to launch across two spinny platforms in a row, that shoot you across each other.
The thing is, usually the first one launches you far over the second, and you fall to your death, and have to climb alllllllll the way back up again.
But APPARENTLY, as a kind veteran recently taught me, the platforms launch you half of the distance if you jump on them AS they're spinning, rather than BEFORE they start spinning.
This is something you are REQUIRED to know about these platforms if you want to get across them successfully, but the game does NOTHING to tell you this.
So, the first platform you jump on AS it's spinning, landing you safely on the edge of the second platform. On the second platform, you have to jump on it BEFORE it spins, or else you don't make the distance.
Also, those platforms autotarget onto enemies patrolling the blimp below, and have a tendency to launch you in their direction, all the way to your death. So... also turn off autotargeting when going into that jumping puzzle.
I've built up a good amount of hate for that wreched JP, but now I might just give it a go again :)
@@TheBjornwilly I have an extra tip that might help! The wiki page gives instructions on how to skip the starting section of the JP where you have to board the airship and jump from pillar to pillar underneath it.
If you're playing a class with some sort of targetable shadowstep/teleport ability, there's a way to skip that part entirely! I suggest ye check the wiki page for the JP to see the specifics
@@kaburii9807 I think I love you :) Thanks
mind blown. I never passed those spinning platforms as I never knew this! (I still completed the jp thanks to a nice mesmer.) Now I'm tempted to try again...
Also if you have a springer mount there's a shortcut (if it still works) to skip the whole first part of the jumping puzzle past airship and pillars. You can find vids on yt.
@@moirapereira7673 The same veteran that taught me the spinning platform trick taught me the springer trick too!
And it should be noted that if you happened to have a skyscale, those can fly (by some means I didn't personally experience but saw someone else do ingame) alllllllll the way onto the platform with the diving goggles, bypassing the entirety of the JP
the snap ground target keybind is gonna be really useful for me. thank you!
Just remember it will also work for non-combat aoe's. Like when you deploy a siege weapon. I've had many a flame ram end up in a gate I was targeting
I've been playing since launch, and more than half of these were new to me!
Thanks for the tips! Especially the event UI targeting will be super handy. 😁
I knew several of these, specifically clicking event healthbars, snap ground target, right clicking chests and skills, map completion mouseovers, siege turtle teleport, hiding the commander tag, and map drawing. Everything else was a complete surprise, and some of those seem very useful. Thanks for the info!
The obsidian sanctum thing is super useful! I'll definitely be sharing that around. As for my contribution, something I learned from a griffon flying guild is that if you're on your springer and you press dismount right at before the bar empties for the charged jump, you'll be flung into the air without your springer, letting you glide or mount your griffon at the apex, with or without bond of faith. More of a bug or exploit than hidden feature but it's useful nonetheless
Which can now even be further enhanced by using the jade bot lvl 1 2 or 3 glide boost. So first do bunny trick then glide use glide boost then mount griffon/skyscale
The map completion mouseover tip is huge! I've always opened up the map filters and rapidly check/uncheck whichever filter has the POIs. Then I might be able to see the last POI blinking at me.
this saved most of the HoT maps....
Something i learned very early on w/ ground targeted skills is that you can press the skill key twice and it'll fire off wherever your mouse is. I found this waaay faster and more efficient than pressing the hotkey to aim then clicking with my mouse to fire off the skill. Makes it a lot easier to lead those skills against moving targets. Never needed to enable snapping thanks to this.
There is a dropdown option to just fire it right away when you press the hotkey once. The option is next to the Ground Targetting option. Set it to Fast Cast Ground Targetting.
@@Nemecyst_ You can chose between upon release (If you eve want to see the ground target for some reason you can hold the skill with Option fast and to immediately fire upon press with instant. Unless playing something like any form of grenade throwing engi, fast is usually the more comfortable one.
Okay, I definitely learnt a lot of these for the first time today. I really enjoy watching all your videos, so more content AND new facts about GW2 was a double win for me this time!
I gotta say, I've been playing for 8 years now and the ones I didn't know were the Evon Gnashblade trick and that you can rearrange your watch list...
My first crafted (and sold) legendary was Minstrel, so I can confirm. Also, you can craft (and sell) Eternity and unlock the skin for Twilight and Sunrise this same way.
Tip for keyfarmers: You can skip the tutorial . At level 2, a waypoint unlocks on your map, taking it will skip the tutorial. Easily obtainable if you have tomes of knowledge (golem banker for certain accounts or shared slot)
I don't know if that's still actual as I don't keyfarm anymore, but I was using my home instance wp stone, then used the alternative exit of the home instance.
You end up in your home town. Exiting to the 1-15 map will then trigger the "tutorial completed" and give you enough xp for lvl 2.
Another thing: if you go for the chapter 4 (and 6) story instance key, the home wp stone comes in handy in chapter 3, when you have those pesky "return to your home instance to meet with the order representative", just to have them send you to a location that were next to where you were.
If you use the stone, the orders will be here in your home instance, allowing you to advance your story. Using the stone again (or using the regular exit) will then port you back where you were, usually close to your next objective
will try it today)
@@mareksroka5629 Yes it still works as well
You only get lvl 2 after the tutorial. So for new accounts this doesnt work. Also i dont think i will spend tomes just to skip a 3 min intro.
New accounts wont be keyfarming. Also several legacy ones have golem bankers. This is still a useful tip to people. People literally have stacks of tomes . Those minutes are worth skipping
You did a great job I learnt at least 3 tricks ty Lara. That right click losing target, I've always wondered why I lose focus Sorted now ty.
also for #1 if you scroll over the event health bar it will also highlight the area on the minimap where they are located if you arent there yet similar to how map completion highlight works knew most didnt know the minstrels one though thats neat
A few things you mentioned I didn't know but I will use them from now on. You made things so much easier. 😄
The thing about the turtle and having someone on board to teleport to and unlock waypoints for them, also works for the teatime chair. Also, it's for waypoints in your current zone only, so you can't teleport bringing your buddy along outside of that zone. But you can do this zone for zone of course.
I thought this one (for both the turtle and chair) where changed to no longer work for someone who does not have the WP unlocked... they won't pay the fee, but they need the wp to be available already...
There were quite a few I had no idea about. I have been playing gw2 since beta, and am a gw1 player from start as well! Great job! I even added it to my video help channel for my guild's discord!
This is amazing, first time a features video actually had many that I did not know about thank you so much!!!
Reordering the watch list and filtering the achievements list, I had no idea of those to features. A lot has become easier to me now, trying to catch up with all the achievements.
Thank you, Laranity!
Awesome list . I knew only 3 of them . emotes , drawing on the map and map completion. After 10 years still learning the game . Thank you for sharing this great list of actual in game impact play for me. Keep on being amazing .
OHMYGODH, I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT INGAME EMOTE LIST WAAAY TOO LONG! Thank you
Great stuff! I learned several new tips and tricks! I just go to the PVP area when I need to bank/TP/sell items. It also sends you back to where you were. Thanks for the video!
Thank you for this very useful list. Some i knew already, some i forgot, but some were new to me^^
Great video! Learned something new with the first tip you shared. TY
Always more to learn! Thanks for the tips!
I knew a bunch near the end, but nearly half of the stuff was new info! Super cool and useful video :D
Well done gethering those neat tricks. I think I knew just three of those, after flippin' 10 years of this! Love the event targeting click, the "I am Evon Gnashblade" TP and the achievement filter!
This was really good info! Thanks!
I love this! I've been playing gw1 many years and gw2 since launch and there are at least 4 things on this list I didn't know.
This all are really useful ! Thanks for that !
Oh wow, I didn't know that there where quite a few things that I didn't know about. :D Especially the one where you can filter achievements would have been so nice to know, while I still did my mastery completion.
What a great video! 🥰❤
Super helpful! I only knew about 15% of these tricks! Thanks!
I’m going to have to rewatch this video while I can write down the several tips I didn’t know about! Thank you for this!
cool vid didnt know about the evon gnashblade one.
also the teatime chair can also work as a teleport taxi like the siege turtle tip you mentioned.
PVP lobby also has bank, TP, laurel and karma merchants plus others. Click to leave the lobby and be teleported back to where you were. All for free! There is a Lion’s Arch portal if you need to get back to Tyria. I use the PVP lobby multiple times to use the facilities.
great video did not know a lot of these, thanks!
There were several that I didn't know about! Thank you! Eye opening!
Thank you for the guide!
Very good job
Thank you for the info
clicking the healthbar in the event was something i did on accident a long time ago then quickly forgot about and didn't recall until you mentioned it. i somehow never noticed the achievement filter, always did things the hard way, lol. i definitely never knew about the I Am Evon Gnashblade trick. i didn't know about right clicking skills, did that the hard way too. i didn't know about the portal scroll trick, but i never had to since i keep them in shared slots. thank you for making this video, you are smart, beautiful, and kind
Ty the auction house one and the wallet one really help, the first thing i learned when i started playing gw2 about 2 months ago was the click the HP Bar to target a mob cuz i was doing that fraktal where the boss splits into clones and ppl told me to use that to find the real one :D
I didn't know a handful of these, thanks so much! 💜🍃
Didn't know about most of these and I've had the game installed (although not super active) for 10 years. Loved the WvW teleport thingy!!
I've been playing since launch. I didn't know any of the obscure ones and only a few of the more common ones. Thank you very much.
I did know a lot of these (found them out by accident/curiosity bc I lag a lot and can't see things on the actual screen half the time lmao) BUT! I didn't know about the achievement filters! So you definitely succeeded in your challenge for me! :D
Super helpful to know esp since I've been trying to track down titles recently! Thanks Lara!!❤
So helpful for my game play. Thankyou
I only knew of 5 of the things you mentioned , the rest i didn't and i shall be using them from now on so thank you for sharing 😊😀
You got me with the gnashblade trick, been playing since launch too!
I learned a lot, even though I’ve played since launch! The trading post one was mind-blowing. Thank you.
Sometimes I like to start a toon just for the fun of leveling it to 80. I always come across something I missed with a previous toon and I've been playing GW2 for years. It is insane the amount of care and work that has gone into the game.
It's also why boosting takes away all the chance of learning things you missed or doing things differently. People pretend they are omnipotent with MMOs when in reality they are fallible like everyone else.
Nice list. Definatly didnt know at least one :) Thanks
I've been playing this game off and on for about 7-9 years and i didnt even know HALF of this. Bless you for this information.
Holy crap the map completion tip I did not know! I would pull up the wiki map on my other monitor and compare. This is going to make my map completion so much faster. Also I’m working on Minstrel right now and did not know about the novelty! Awesome video.
just found this channel, thx for the tips, wasnt aware of most of them tbh ^^
"And sometimes the game doesn't always explain to you these features exist" is pretty much the title of ArenaNet's High-Level Game Design Document for Guild Wars 2. (Taken straight from the Design Document for Guild Wars 1)
I *Loved* this video! Thank you so much for making it. I learned something with the very first hint. It doesn't help me much because I often use Action Camera but still I never knew about clicking the boss name and I was in the beta.
Many of the other hints were great too, I never knew about the keybind for Snap Ground Target and that I _will_ be using :)
Also for your next hints video - you can just click on the objective in the upper left and this will do the same thing as mousing over it (causing it to light up)
Excellent video, I'll be sharing this with my friends who play GW2.
Guild Wars 1 was one of the first games I ever used a wiki like site for. Without it you'd be lost finding all those elite skills.
Thanks for all the tips, gave me alot I didn't know
Wow! You not only surprised me with many things I didn't know, but also got me as a subscriber :D
i didn’t know sooo many of these and i’ve been playing gw2 for so many years now! these are so good and helpful!
Playing 6 years so far, never knew about clicking health bars ! Thanks, that will really help a lot, the tab targeting when a boss is surrounded by a ton of adds is awful ...
I didn't know many of these features! Thank you!!
Lara, i've been playing since launch, and i didn't know about a few of these :o thank you for this
Been playing for many years and thank you for teaching me some new things! Awesome video keep it up!
Well, this was my first time here so the title alone intrigued me but then I learned so much that I went ahead and subscribed. About half of those tips were new to me and I'm a 4 year player.
So well done to you. Gold star to you!
You blew me away. I have been playing since launch and most of these were new to me. Great video.
I did not know about dragging to reorder Achievements, that's really helpful! Also I never used the TP Favorites, I should start.
Awesome video! i didn't know about the emote list.
Been playing since release. Didn't know about almost ALL of these. Thanks!
Excellent I only knew 3 of them, you have done a great job here. Thank you,
Awesome video!
Among the 21 tips, I only knew 7 of them ;) I have been playing GW2 since January-2022.
There were many I didn't know! Thank you for the tips.
New to Guild Wars 2 here! WOW tons of information!! Thank you!!
I’ve been playing this game since 2012 and I have watched videos like this before and there were many things in this video I didn’t know!!!!! Nice to arrange watching achievements!!! Nice video!!!!
Awesome Info TY!!
I was literally not aware about any of these features)) Many thanks)
Of all the things in this list, I only knew 2: map completion mouse over and favouriting stuff on the TP.
I have been playing almost non-stop for nearly 8 years now. HOW ARE THERE THIS MANY THINGS I DID NOT KNOW???
I know, same thing here for soon-to-be 10 years. It's one massive game, UI-wise as well.
I didn't know many of these. That first one would have saved me so much assache! Thank you for these ❤️
👌👌 I just started that game two days ago, and this video is therefore very helpful to me. Thank you!
knew about snap ground target - sry tried it while beating the golem xD love this vid, didnt know about all the facts !
Almost all of these I didn't know. I knew about Evon Gnashblade, and about reordering the watch list activities, but only because I just saw them in another video...but that video was only made about 4 months ago, and yours was made 10 months ago from the description. Well done! :)
Thanks for so many usefull Tips!
As a new player to game, these videos really help. Your gw2 lore video was awesome!
I didn't know about a lot of the list. Really glad to learn about the grenade thing, the obsidian base, and the boss healthbar thing.
I prioritized crafting the minstrel because of this video. Got the novelty, sold the legendary and could buy the pretty tree skiff from that gold :) many thanks Lara!
Oh hey someone mentioned your video in AB. And here it is in my recommended. Glorious, thanks!
I'm playing since the launch and I didn't even know the achievement filter ! Thanks for the video ^^
Reordering the Watch List by Drag&Drop is new to me and very helpful.
Thank you!