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I was literally just looking to see if anyone experienced something similar. I too just had a game crash as the Treasure Hunt Begins countdown timer started. Curious... wonder what is causing it.

P.S. If you haven't done the Skyscale collections, grab 250 extra map currency while you are there to save the suffering later 😋

As I was reading this, I was about to send you a pile of Rose Quartz to help you along. It's probably one of the more painful aspects of the collection requirements so I freely give away when I can. I think I am still slightly traumatized from completing it myself that I aim to help save others LOL 🙂 I am happy you got help from Hannelore.8153! That's so kind.

I totally forgot to mention, you can buy a Karmic Enrichment from a Laurel vendor for 10 Laurels which you can place into an ascended amulet. This will give you a 15% boost in Karma gain. I use one and it does help.

Don't forget - if you don't mind the Silverwastes and RIBA, you can also get obsidian shards from the buried chests (the Dry Top chests also drop them). If you are in a Guild with a POF guild hall the Ore nodes drop them as well. Not guaranteed but I have had good luck with it. Personally, I run WvW when I am in need of Karma but also understand that's not a game mode everyone enjoys.

I just went through my receipts from when I bought the game through Steam in 2019 and I had to buy the Bonus Missions separately. If you have never played the original game, hold off on buying the Bonus Missions as you really need to get through the campaigns etc to appreciate the stories they offer. I have had a lot of fun in the original game and still recommend ppl check it out. Hope this helps!

I was just reading the advertisement for this and it says, "Beginning May 25, we’ll spotlight two episodes of Living World Season 2 each week, in chronological order. Log in during the week to unlock the episodes for free!" Hope this is the answer to at least part of your question https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/return-to-living-world-season-2-story-begins-may-25/

I won't deny, I appreciated her input and perspective a lot. And yes, I do miss her. Change stinks and I have accepted it but one of the key things I have missed is the actual, formal feedback threads for the LW episodes. How the mods filter through all these threads post release is beyond me. However, like I said, times change and we must all keep moving on and encouraging more thoughtful interaction from the Anet team. I'd rather see them here than on Reddit all the time.

OP I feel your pain but I also have to say there's a lot of good advice in this thread. What I can add (and my apologies if this has been mentioned) is that WAY back in the day, PVE players used to have to run WvW in order to achieve full Map Complete (Gift of Exploration). This was removed and the only requirement left was the WvW Gift of Battle reward track. I offer this insight into the history as a way of explaining why you have received the responses you have in this thread. I too mainly run PVE but have actually grown to enjoy WvW. As others have mentioned, the community is not all as toxic as it may appear and even on a "dead server", you really can achieve the GoB quite quickly through the PVE aspects of the game. If I may. I think, one of the key aspects is that WvW players (and I mean those who pretty much only WvW) get tired of GoB players coming in, not listening and generally leaving as soon as their reward track maxes - regardless of what objective etc is being capped at the time. WvW requires people to cap and defend the big objectives. Yes, there is generally some butthead spamming nonsense in map/team chat that most of us either laugh at (for being the butthead who points out stupid things) or put on ignore. Yes, some commanders bark orders but that's because they are trying to move a team of 50 players moving in one direction (I forget the new squad limit atm). It's not personal, it's just needed for success. However, it goes both ways. Over the years, WvW players have been incredibly generous to PVE players who want to learn and get the GoB, Warclaw etc. Participation in this game, whether PVE or WvW is still participation. Consider it from this perspective... how many times have you been in a PVE event in open world only to see a pile of AFK players mooching free rewards off those who are putting in the effort? That's incredibly frustrating! WvW players are no different. So it's not that they are toxic, they simply get frustrated when people refuse to defend an objective or leave in the middle of an important cap simply because they maxed their reward track during the last pip and don't care that they are leaving their server-mates hanging one player short. In most games I find PVP quite toxic but WvW is really a hybrid of PVE and PVP content. With a GH boost, the free banners that generally appear at WP or Keep, plus an XP booster (use Laurels and buy the 30 mins ones if you do not want to buy the ones in the gem store or have none in the bank) you really can get it in no-time. My server suffers from chronic afternoon emptiness and we tend to get bowled over around noon-hour eastern time no matter who we are linked with. Yet, because that time works for me, I run about solo and generally find pugs who are in the same boat just wanting that GoB or, like me wanting to max their pips for the week, so we run about together ungrouped taking camps, shrines and if we have enough of us we take towers. Do we get annihilated a lot by enemy zergs? Yup, but taking a look at the basic builds on meta-battle or gw2mists is really helpful for survival. From experience, I can tell you skill comes later and there are times when the other players are simply just faster than me. :-) Finally, find a WvW oriented guild. Although most of the people in my guild play all game modes, those who main WvW have died A LOT showing me the ropes and have helped me to understand the nuances of the game mode. In fact, the only change to the GoB I would like to see is a way to earn the Gift of Battle (or equivalent) in PVP as well as WvW. There's a whole other community of people who have the same concerns as you but after all this time, I can't see it ever being changed by the devs when it's really not a huge time sink -- especially when they have the WvW XP bonus events on. In the end, I have to agree with those who have commented about being a main WvW players -- the amount of work required for WvW mains to get a legendary is insane compared to PVErs who really just have to complete a reward track. Cheers and good luck.

I was on the same map as you were and was one of the people who responded in map chat indicating that what we were experiencing was totally out of the ordinary. As I mentioned in map chat, I am sorry that your new player experience has been dampened by lag but don't take the lag today as the "normal" for the game. To the Devs: this was on NA servers, Desert Highlands IP 3.219.113.40I ran the Boss Rush for the daily and noticed lag but that is a mass event and always has lag, what we experienced in Desert Highlands was skill/ability lag, chat lag and game stall/pause for 1-2s mid fight.

You can however make things easier if you go in as a party. One person keeps hitting the crystal to keep the planks up, while the other one jumps up. That's how we managed to reach all of the glitches last night (not sure if it was lag or simply me being too slow again, but I couldn't do it solo either). I was able to get all of them but W2Z3, with the second switch out of reach + the timer + my lag it is impossible for me to solo. I am going to see if I can get a switch hitter to come in with me this evening. Glad you got it done!!

Happy to see SAB make its annual return!! My only feedback is to turn up the timer on the jumping planks that mark the path to the glitches in each zone (the ones for unintended coursework). With lag, it makes some of these (e.g. W1Z2 + W2Z3) impossible/next to impossible to achieve

I ran Whisper of Jormag post reset last night (around 11PM eastern) and although we beat it, the daily for Bjora did not update. I am going to assume it is because we entered through EotN rather than through Bjora.

You can go to the Mystic Forge vendor and trade them for Spirit Shards. From there, you can trade the spirit shards for something else. I am glad we have them and now we also have some options to use them alternatively. Plus, you need 100 to craft the PVP Amulet so if you ever wanted to craft that you can use some towards the gift.

It's such a tease to login and see the gift icon ... only to realise there is nothing! :smile: Thank you OP for posting this, I was about to post about it myself.