If you absolutely hate #WvW in #GuildWars2 but need a Gift of Battle, the rush (still going on for a few days) is probably the best you can do to shorten your suffering.

If you love WvW, you're already in there farming. If you love WvW but generally can't be arsed to do it because it sucks you in and the next you know it's 4:38 in the morning on a monday and you need to get some sleep before work, you probably should have done it this weekend but also: do it.

It takes like 3~4 hours to land 3 GoBs (1 from actually fill up the reward track, +2 from filling the rush achievements which give you two entire track worth of points).

Use a Birthday Booster, guild hall innkeeper potion. Maybe a few other things for shits and giggles (Item Booster also nice to have on).

And then you'll never have to look at the damn thing again for what feels like 8 months when the rush next comes back.

(Edit: imagine catching a typo before hitting send)

Morning Folks. Since I did not post yesterday, you get a combo topic as I discuss how cursed trying to play #MonsterHunterWilds with @Ammosart and @SitaDulip appears to be.

I also talk a bit about my recent #WVW adventures in #GuildWars2 and starting fumbling up the tech tree in #DuneAwakening.

Wilds is Cursed
https://aggronaut.com/2025/06/06/wilds-is-cursed/

#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #Gaming #Games #Dune #MonsterHunter #GW2

Wilds is Cursed - Tales of the Aggronaut

Attempting to play Monster Hunter Wilds with friends, Guild Wars 2 WvW Adventures, and Dune Awakening early tech tree fumbling.

Tales of the Aggronaut

Morning Folks. After a week where I just could not figure out what game I wanted to play... I finally landed on #GuildWars2 over the weekend and had a lot of fun catching up. I got to the new zone, tamed a cute bee pet, and then started working on my next legendary farming, on a world exploration, and a gift of battle.

Tyria Fits Perfectly
https://aggronaut.com/2025/05/12/tyria-fits-perfectly/

#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #Games #Gaming #GW2 #WVW #JanthirWilds #Exploration #Ranger

Tyria Fits Perfectly - Tales of the Aggronaut

After flailing about and bouncing from various games I land over the weekend in Guild Wars 2, catching the story up, and taming a cute Bee.

Tales of the Aggronaut
Y'know... I really like how the Mistwalker's Infusion looks with the charr jedi fashion I did for my guardian, however...
It looks like shit when you look at the toon from the back, since back pieces like the cape from this hood set aren't affected by infusions' effects. Only way around it, from what I can tell, is to go with a white dye scheme with some glowing effects built into the dyes, like the celestial and permafrost dyes.
The other downside to running this infusion is that it makes you an even bigger target in WvW groups, especially when you're playing a large charr running as a support firebrand. I swear that running in a less flashy fashion gets me picked off less often... lol

#guildwars2 #gw2 #charr #jedi #wvw
Took a bit over a year to work my way through the platinum ranks for GW2's WvW mode, but... I got there! Mithril now! Woo...

#guildwars2 #gw2 #wvw #gw2wvw
Chillin' in the desert borderlands for WvW in Guild Wars 2.
Seriously love this skin for the warclaw!
Will get plenty of use out of it next expansion, evidently. Heh!

#guildwars2 #gw2 #charr #warclaw #wvw

Fort Aspenwood dies as it lived: wishing Radik a happy birthday.

good bye forever, FA. it has been a privilege to fight with you on the fields of honour for the last eleven years. 🫡

#GuildWars2 #WvW

I should choose my WvW guild.

Thing is, I rarely play WvW (usually when there's some kind of special event going on), although I can get lost in it quite well if the stars are right.

I'm from Vabbi. I barely know my own server's regulars, bar a few people like Marysienka and their guild [AC]. I sometimes join their Alpine rounds, but that's it. Thing with Vabbi is that it barely escaped getting disbanded during the Big WvW Drought and ended up being the underdog all the time with Desolation, Gunnar's Hold, Piken Square being the main server we'd get teamed up with. GH (if my memory serves well) had some absolute garbage toxic community at the time, and thankfully Bombing Here Bombing There [Ez] / [TT] is no more. Years later we're in a strange situation where Vabbi is often the main name and in the last shake-up it stood alone against the other servers on the tier. As such it'd even make sense to keep the community there and for me to join them, they're functional.

During WR betas I ended up on Reaper's Corridor with some (but not all) of my main PvE guild, [TGA], who are normally Piken Square, and a few others who lead some mean offensives on EBG. One of the commanders that stands out is Zorn Des Miko. Had great fun there all two or three beta seasons. But Miko is TeamSpeak XD

[TGA] has had some unfortunate developments, in part that it's not actually a WvW guild but some of the leadership treats it as such (there are/were some small groups, including another mostly Piken guild [blub]. If we had alliances of any kind, we could have joined forces with [blub], but that's not happening. The sixth guild slot is happening.

Another thing with the guild's WvW activities is that it's (as far az European time is concerned) a morning crew, so I don't see them much even when I'm on the same server as them.

A prominent commander on the morning crew wanted to make a WvW guild in the sixth slot to aggregate both [TGA] and [blub] and other morning crew followers who want to stay together, but this was shot down as being too disruptive and potentially deadly to the otherwise mostly inactive but social guild that is [TGA]. Which it could be, splitting people's attention between two guilds where one is kinda just idling around for chat and guild hall benefits. But at the same time it's also full and like 95% of the people never set foot in WvW, so there's also no point focusing on WvW (while being unable to accommodate outsiders who want to WvW with our crew).

Gandara and another server on EU made their own "server guild" for the sixth slot that comprises various active WvW players/guilds of the server. This is practically a form of "poor man's Alliances". I heard that it has some issues with guild leaders not really wanting to give up that role to other guild leaders and such; but that rumour came from the person who acted just like that elsewhere, so... grains of salt, though believable.

And then I'm also active in the also mostly inactive but social guild [CAH] and they too have some WvW presence (in fact some are Piken too), but I've never really played together with any of them.

So that's where we are. Maybe I should talk to Miko and see if there's a spot without any obligations as I'm planning to remain an open world PvE main.

#GuildWars2 #WvW #GW2EU

And for our final match: FA vs Mag vs. BP

#WvW

good action on EB today in FA's penultimate match

SoR and Darkhaven have both engaged in a protracted siege of our keep

we've got a maniple of SILK + PuGs and Qi fighting back

#WvW