If you are a passionate explorer who believes that every secret in Gw2 should be discovered, then, this video is for you. This unlisted achievement “Speedy Reader” is hidden in Ebonhawk in The Fields of Ruin.
Source: Wooden Potatoes
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How to preview item in GW2 with chat code
According to the latest Guild Wars 2 Reddit posts, if you have the chat code of an item you can link it in the game chat box and then preview it. I believe that the main idea of this invention will be preview of the items in Trade Post, which is not possible at this moment.
If you are not sure how to do this follow the steps below:
- If you have an item in your inventory type /wiki and Shift+Click the item and press enter. This action will open a new browser window linking to the GW2 wiki.
- Copy the text code from the search box and paste it in the game chat box, then simply press enter. It will give you the chat link of the item. If you share the chat code with other players, they will be able to preview the item even if they don’t have it in their inventories.
Ranger Pets Guide
Ranger Pet takes an active role in combat by providing damage or interactive skills for the player. During the character creation, each race offers three different pets, from which a ranger can choose one starting pet. Pet’s type determines which environments the pet is able to fight in: aquatic (underwater), terrestrial (land) and amphibious (can fight both on land and underwater). Rangers have two terrestrial and two aquatic pet slots. Amphibious pets can occupy either terrestrial or aquatic slots.
Each pet belongs to a species and each species belongs to a family which determines common skills and its general attributes. Each family has 3 common skills which are automatically used by the pet. Its species determines a pet’s unique skill.
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Guild Wars 2 Siege Weapons
There are two types of Siege weapons: Offensive and Defensive Weapons. Siege weapons can only be used by the team that created them. When you equip it, it will change the first five skills on your skill bar. The opponents can attack, damage / destroy the structures. If the weapon is destroyed you can rebuild it.
Guild Wars 2 Mini Pets
Mini-pets or Miniatures are downsized versions of NPC models. These pets can follow you during your adventures but they do not fight or provide any additional storage. Currently, the Mini-pets are companions that look cute and provide entertainment. Miniatures have your character’s guild tag appended to their name while active.
Mini-pets can be obtained in several ways:
- Purchase as Minis Pack from the Gem Store for 300 Gems
- Purchase in auction house
- Create in the Mystic Forge
- Pre-purchase reward
- Hall of Monuments rewards
A Minis Pack contains 3 randomly selected miniatures: 2 common and 1 uncommon pet.
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Guild Wars 2 World vs World Guide
While we are preparing for the Second Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend, I believe that most of you are planning strategies for World vs. World battles. If you didn’t have a chance to participate in the previous Beta Weekend these tactics will help you to keep pace with other players.
Choose your own music in Guild Wars 2
It’s actually in and working, but the feature wasn’t publicly documented. Here’s how it currently works:
Under [Your Name]\Documents\Guild Wars Gw2Dev folder, you’ll see that GW2 creates a Music folder next to the Screens folder (where screenshots go). All you need to do to get your external music collection playing in the game is to create a playlist of the appropriate name and type in this folder.
Supported playlist formats are .wpl, .m3u, .pls, .asx, and .wax.
Supported audio types are everything FMOD supports by default, which includes .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .wav. aiff, and a bunch of old-school music formats, like .mid or .it files.
There are eight specific playlists the game recognizes, and these are designated simply by the playlist’s file name. They are:
- Ambient
- Battle
- Underwater
- City
- Crafting
- BossBattle
- NightTime
- MainMenu
Hopefully these are somewhat self-explanatory in terms of when you might expect to hear them play.
So, for example, if you create a playlist called Ambient.m3u, anything in that playlist will be heard instead of the standard in-game ambient music (the general music you hear when running around in the world).
Each internal playlist can designate a primary and secondary playlist to look for. Most of the playlists will fall back to Ambient if they do not exist. This means that if you’d like to simply replace the majority of the music in the game, you can just create an Ambient playlist, or maybe just Ambient and Battle.
However, if you really want to customize your playlist in detail, you can create the more specialized playlists such as NightTime or Crafting.
The easiest (and at the moment, the only) way to test this is with a MainMenu playlist, since that will replace the music at the login screen.
Source: Jim Boer, Guild Wars 2 Developer
Guild Wars 2 Map with Level Range
A Guru’s community member carralpha made a handy Guild Wars 2 map with zone’s level range. The map isn’t finished yet but we think it will be extremely helpful for all of the Guild Wars 2 community members during the next Beta Weekends.
Click here for our Interactive maps filled with data hand picked by our editors (so, no spam points from random strangers), and screenshots to better demonstrate where each POI, vista, Waypoint or Boss fight is and how to get to it if you get stuck.
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Guild Wars 2 Leveling Tips
During the GW2 Beta Weekend Event I have noticed that many people talk about leveling problems usually their next personal story is several levels above their current level. I have noticed that trying to level up by killing the creatures is worthless since the amount of xp you gain is insignificant. So, what is the best thing to do?
- Do the personal story, you will gain xp and armor.
- Do the heart quests.
- While you are finishing the heart quests try to explore and you will find new dynamic events.
- Find event chain that finishes and starts quickly and then do it repeatedly (like the centaur event chain in kessex hills)
- Exploring also gives you decent XP especially while you are trying to find waypoints and Undiscovered Point of Interest (you can find them on the map).
- Skill point challenges give the same exp as heart quests of the same level
- Try to use AoE weapons and pull as many enemies as you can. Pull one mob and while you dps it run to next one and aoe both down. (thanks ninoffmaniak)
- Try to finish Daily Achievements.
- Don’t forget you get gems so you can get experience boosts. The boost isn’t much, considering that monster kill xp is fairly small compared to event xp, but its still a boost. (thanks Stealth107)
- If you don’t know where to go next, look for a scout. He is marked as spyglass on the map. Scouts will reveal hidden dynamic events and hearts.
- Use the Asura Gate, fast travel to far away locations, to visit the other races areas. You can finish their hearts and events. The Asura gate is marked as purple tornado on the map.
- Crafting will give you decent amount of xp.
- Guild Wars 2 Map with level range can be found here
If you think we missed something, please feel free to share it with us in the comment section bellow.
Guild Wars 2 Guides: Crafting System
The crafting system is divided into specific crafting professions called disciplines. Each discipline has 400 skill points.
There are eight crafting disciplines:
- Weaponsmiths craft daggers, hammers, greatswords, maces, shields, sigils, spears and swords.
- Huntsmen craft harpoon guns, longbows, shortbows, pistols, rifles, torches, warhorns and sigils.
- Artificers craft scepters, tridents, staffs, foci, sigils and potions.
- Armorsmiths craft Heavy armor, inventory boxes and runes.
- Leatherworkers craft Medium armor, Inventory packs and runes.
- Tailors craft Light armor, inventory bags, and runes.
- Jewelers craft Ring, Amulets, earings, you can also transmogrify gemstones into higher levels.
- Cooking can prepare food which characters can eat for temporary combat buffs.