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hard no for this. I party with friends all the time and do not want a friend to complete something for me. The point of grouping up is to be together and help each other. Not to complete something for someone else in the quickest time. Like it was pointed out earlier. I would be very upset if I was in a group and in the new content someone in my party grabbed the mastery point first,poi, vista or waypoint before me and I would get it. What you suggest is that a person in your group could be on the other side of the map and complete it for me. I do not want that. I have fun finding things and doing things myself or figuring out things alongside my friends. If this was implemented it would only help a small amount of people that are lazy and don’t want to do the content. Like others said, slow down for your friends. You are being severely selfish rushing ahead of them. Be patient and wait for them, don’t use your mounts until they have them. Only use your mount to help your friend or to catch up with them if you lag behind. Everything you suggest is easily fixed by being a good friend and waiting for them. Being on a toon that isn’t level 80. Not using your mounts unless needed. Show your friends how the game was originally played. Only use mounts on PoF maps till your friend gets theirs. In short the easiest way to fix this is to be kind and patient. To have fun with your friends. Don’t be selfish and rush ahead. Who knows you might find something you didn’t know what there is he first time around cause you rushed past it.

> @"Strider Pj.2193" said: > > @"ElijahFitzroy.5762" said: > > > @"Strider Pj.2193" said: > > > > @"ElijahFitzroy.5762" said: > > > > > @"Strider Pj.2193" said: > > > > > > @"medivh.4725" said: > > > > > > Yes Anet, > > > > > > Ascended backpacks really expensive to craft (nearly 100 gold a piece), really hard to make as well. 200 S4 currency and 5000 unbound magic. > > > > > > > > > > Which one costs 100 gold? Almost all of the season 3 and 4 ones are just their currency. > > > > > > > > > > > Could appreciate a simple recipe to reselect stats, so we fret and stress less. And that nothing goes into waste. > > > > > > > > > > The bloodstone ones cost a capacitor to change and reselect. Reckon it to what you want looks wise I guess. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think they are meaning the crafting ones like the burough of mulandru, wings of lyssa and shadow of grenth. > > > > > > Yeah, but I mean, if you want to stay change, it’s cheaper in the long run to do Warbringer.... > > > > True but that’s only if you are on a server that does WvW on your time frame. If you are on a lower tiered server it takes a whole lot longer unfortunately. > > It really doesn’t.., flipping camps, sentries, killing yaks, and taking shrines is a very easy way to keep participation up while not needing people to help. > > Towers are doable, yet hard. I’ve seen solo’s cap keeps but yeah, you can’t plan for it. > > To me, Warbringer is easier in many ways than Warclaw. You can certainly do it in the long run. I myself am on a low tier server and do my WvW dailies but have yet to get the warbringer while I can get the blood stone backpack a lot quicker and with doing daily ascended crafting (it is expensive) you can certainly manage it. I’ll have to take your word for it for making the warbringer though because that is one back pack that I have yet to make.

> @"MokahTGS.7850" said: > So I co-op play with my wife and we mainly do the story bits. I've never felt Ascended gear to be all that needed for anything other than raiding, which I don't do. > > I'd also suggest that you either free up a character slot to play from scratch and play through the story. If you don't have HoT and PoF, I would buy those so you have access to the best content. If you don't have the seasonal content you'll have to buy that too, but it's worth it to keep the story progression and the area meta events. > > Mounts are a thing, you should get them and then work for the other bonus griffon and skyscale. Both good mounts, and not too bad of a grind if you are working together. > > I'm in a guild (MOX) that is a group of like minded people and a casual friendly environment. (https://discord.gg/G9mE6g7) > > Welcome back. > I wouldn’t suggest skipping to PoF to get the mounts. It is a lot easier to learn the mechanics of the game if you play it through systematically. So you know how things work as they were meant to in each area. I’m actually currently playing new characters with one of my friends that actually skipped ahead and got mounts. We are playing them without mounts. It’s a lot more fun and you see a lot more of the game if you play vanilla how it was meant to be played and HoT and eventually PoF. I’m not sure if Mokah meant to imply getting mounts right away or not. I just simply wanted to advise to play the game through as it was originally intended. It makes for a more enjoyable experience.

> @"Strider Pj.2193" said: > > @"ElijahFitzroy.5762" said: > > > @"Strider Pj.2193" said: > > > > @"medivh.4725" said: > > > > Yes Anet, > > > > Ascended backpacks really expensive to craft (nearly 100 gold a piece), really hard to make as well. 200 S4 currency and 5000 unbound magic. > > > > > > Which one costs 100 gold? Almost all of the season 3 and 4 ones are just their currency. > > > > > > > Could appreciate a simple recipe to reselect stats, so we fret and stress less. And that nothing goes into waste. > > > > > > The bloodstone ones cost a capacitor to change and reselect. Reckon it to what you want looks wise I guess. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think they are meaning the crafting ones like the burough of mulandru, wings of lyssa and shadow of grenth. > > Yeah, but I mean, if you want to stay change, it’s cheaper in the long run to do Warbringer.... True but that’s only if you are on a server that does WvW on your time frame. If you are on a lower tiered server it takes a whole lot longer unfortunately.

> @"Shahadien.4750" said: > My wife and I are trying to get back into this game, because we enjoy playing MMO's together, and this is still considered one of the best. I still remember the mechanics of playing my characters, but I am completely lost in the game world. I've been nose-to-the-grindstone in my career for the past four years, and finally have a bit of time to enjoy playing again, but I genuinely don't even know where to start in picking back up. I have two full ascended chars, with 7 other partially ascended.....don't even know if that still means anything. > > Any help would be very kind! My biggest hope through this post would be to find some folks to mob around with, but even just links to any form of post mordremoth guide would be helpful! Like Strider suggested, I would have both you and your wife to start out on new characters. Play through the personal story. That will get you up to 80 and it will bring you through many of the vanilla maps. Then once you are done that and get some exotic gear for each of you and you have a better handle on your base classes. Then start into living world season 2. Go through that, it will get you to some new maps as well as introducing you to heavier CCs that aren’t in vanilla. Then once you are done that you can start into heart of thorns (the first expansion). Just a warning it is tough in there but it has some wonderful maps and mechanics. This way you can level up your masteries too. Having gliding is a wonderful thing. Once you are done HoT you can play with your build. Try out the Elite specializations as you go through HoT. Once you finish HoT go to living world season 3, then you will go into Path of Fire (second expansion) work through that, play with the elites and masteries. Once you are don PoF. You should be able to know what kind of build you want to run. (You can easily continue with exotic gear, but could certainly start working on crafting ascended. Know that ascended is only needed for fractals and raids, which are 5-10 people content) Then finally go on to living world season 4 and finally living world season 5 (ice brood saga) which will catch you up to everyone else. If you have any questions feel free to message me.

> @"Strider Pj.2193" said: > > @"medivh.4725" said: > > Yes Anet, > > Ascended backpacks really expensive to craft (nearly 100 gold a piece), really hard to make as well. 200 S4 currency and 5000 unbound magic. > > Which one costs 100 gold? Almost all of the season 3 and 4 ones are just their currency. > > > Could appreciate a simple recipe to reselect stats, so we fret and stress less. And that nothing goes into waste. > > The bloodstone ones cost a capacitor to change and reselect. Reckon it to what you want looks wise I guess. > > > > I think they are meaning the crafting ones like the burough of mulandru, wings of lyssa and shadow of grenth.

Sadly there isn’t a way to change ascended back pieces except for the LW3 items and only specific ones. As pointed out above they are more of a accessory and aren’t able to be changed via the mystic toilet. Admittedly I would really like that to be an option but sadly it isn’t available at the moment.

You have some interesting ideas here, when I was reading through it though it reminds me a lot of the PvP lobby. It would probably be simpler to just direct them there to practice against the training golems and the various professions. I would suggest maybe having this at level 70 or even 80. A more through explanation of what the stats are would be nice and what they are used for. The biggest issue is that this game tries to stay away from the holy trinity so there is no straight way to tell someone how to make a build since there are hundreds of thousands of options for builds. Unfortunately ANet I don’t believe will put more effort into making the new player experience different. The best thing for any new player is to have a guild or friends to help them along and to play the game. It might take a bit but we all learn what to use in different situations.

> @"Bellbirds.1679" said: > One of the biggest draw for me in terms of the first Guild Wars games was how even the prestigious items in the game were still in line with the medieval aesthetic. Rare weapons did not glow, they were just well ornamented and appeared well maintained. Rare armor was detailed and appeared crafted with immense skill. Anything glowy was few and far between, with only I think one weapon set and a pair of gloves. > > GW2 started off fairly similar, with muted but interesting armour design, and any glow or effects on armour or weaponry were fairly tame and in line with what NPCs were wearing (example: CoF armor which includes some flame effects which have been previously built up to by Flame Legion shamans also possessing similar effects.) It was generally sensible, and spoke more of a lore friendly magical 'infusion' through Flame magics or ghost magics and again, these were prestigious skins and were few and far between. Dyes were generally toned down also, with some brighter dyes which made sense for ornamental cloth pieces on armor/light armored characters where brightly coloured cloth made sense. > > However, over the years, we have had far too many flashy prestige symbols added. The once rare fractal capacitor backpieces turned into huge obnoxious wings, infusions allow players to turn their charactes in glowing balls of light with snowflakes falling all around, you can't take two steps in DR before bumping into a human female in hotshorts with cat ears and angel wings. GW2 now looks like every other MMO on the market. > > GW2 is an MMORPG, and at launch, the RPG part was comparatively pronounced, with the muted aesthetic, somewhat customised personal story, and the personality system. Now, I can't enter any major cities or explore areas at any medium-traffic time without being pulled from my immersion and hence my enjoyment of the game within half an hour. > > I play the game to explore the world, to suspend my disbelief, to care about the lore and the story and take it at least somewhat seriously for the duration of my playtime. During the past few years, that has become outright impossible, unless I play very late at night when other plays are scarce (which I do enjoy, however I would like to not be so restricted?) > > Now, do I think this should be removed? No! Of course not! The people who make their characters this way obviously enjoy it to some extent, and it would be cruel to both takeaway what was once given and to do it to please another part of the playerbase. Instead, I would like an option to customise one's expereince, perhaps in gardes of severity, with grade 1 hiding only backpacks, grade 2 hiding infusions and special effects on armor and weaponry, grade 3 hiding neon hair colours and particularly vibrant dyes, grade 4 hiding mount skins , and so on and so on, allowing a player to choose an experience that suits their tastes. If a person finds flashy armor and infusions and weapons annoying and unapealling they won't be awed by them anyway, and those who will will not choose to turn them off, so players who use them as prestige symbols will not be affected by such an option. > > I don't know how possible this would be, but consiering how the aesthetics of the game used to be a major draw and now GW2 looks like 99% of MMOs on the market, and I think it would be a smart choice on Anets part to bring back that part of the games individuality. I think you might be thinking of Guild Wars with rose tinted glasses on. I have played both games. Both games have their non esthetic items. Look at the rainment of the lich. It is available in guild wars, it has wings, hooved feet and characters with no face and glowing evil eyes. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Raiment_of_the_Lich You can get that item in GW2 as an outfit but it’s an item that originally existed in GW1. So saying angel wings are out of place in GW2 is a moot point considering there are races with manta ray wings (largos) and large cow-cats stomping around. I agree for those that do not wish to see these items there should be an option to turn off infusions, back pieces and spell effects on other players. I am one of those people that would like to turn off infusions. But please do not say that the items they have added in to GW2 since after the start are out of place. I’m sure GW1 would have had tons of shiny items too if it could have handled the load.

> @"Aavataris.5720" said: > > @"ElijahFitzroy.5762" said: > > 1) That is why it is necessary that they be PvP ZONES and not the entire map. > > 2) PvP is an optional and extra, but aimed at finally materializing the GUILD wars, in a way that does not interfere with the rest. > > 3) Yes, it takes up more instance space, which would be minimal. No more than what each instance of the new game modes occupies. > In addition, it is not a PvP + PvE, it is mainly a PvE of increased difficulty and in cooperative survival mode and with areas focused on clan warfare. > > 4) with you I could be "civilized". With the previous 2 who immediately commented on something negative and / or inventory things just to tear down the idea, I will not be "civilized". > > Thank you for your comment and indeed try to dialogue, do not seek to be negative One thing I would like to point out that many people misinterpret. “Guild wars” the actual wars happened before even the original guild wars game story happened. Guild wars doesn’t happen in the games. So please read into the lore before you say that there needs to be “guild wars” in guild wars 2. I’m not seeking to be negative. I’m simply giving my opinion. Sadly your idea is not to my tastes. If perhaps it was a suggestion for WvW. Then I would be happy to add things but bringing PvP and PvE together is not my forte. Even if it’s an “option” I don’t particularly like the idea of someone poking me to fight while I’m fighting hard/raid level bosses.

Reading your idea, from my interpretation of it. You basically want to change every map in the game into a T4 fractal or a Raid. (1-5 man). First issue I have with this is how can you have multiple groups of 5 in these suggested variations of vanilla maps. When comparing them to fractals you have to remember that they are supposed to be instanced content. With your ideas for PvP in them it would be more like a wvw map with groups being in factions. To the PvP I’d say a hard no. ANet has said multiple times they have wvw and PvP for that. They do not want open PvP in the PvE maps and many people in GW2 agree with that. Of course there are people that would also like to have PvP zones or versions of PvE zones with PvP. I am a person that does not want pvp in PvE unless it is WvW. Your basic idea would just be a hard mode PvE map with PvP thrown in. I would have to say no to this. Especially since each instance of an alternate map would take up more space on the servers for the few people that want to play hard mode. Also please try and be civil. We are simply stating our opinions on what you have presented and it would be helpful if you explained some of your ideas more so that those that are commenting will know more of what you are trying to put forward. And my apologies if I have misinterpreted your initial post. If you could explain some more it would be helpful.

They have this already. Play multiple characters, you choose various paths depending on your race and choices. You eventually help most of the races you listed there except Kodan and largos. Kodan have been in the game you can learn more from the dungeon Honour of the waves, bitter frost frontier and bjora marches. Largos are a mysterious race to everyone. They more than likely will be explored once we meet Bubbles (Selbbub) aka DSD.

I chose higher than hot because frankly I enjoyed HoT when it first came out. It’s way more watered down now and is easy now because of mounts. I like having a challenge and I find having an expansion that is more vertical and harder not just mob difficulty but actually trying to find your way around. Though I love mounts...they have sadly taken away from the ability to enjoy the beauty of this game.

> @"Troilet.9435" said: > Fighting feels like your just managing the amount of time you're getting stunned and knocked down. I die constantly because I'm always on the ground, or stunned. I'm really trying to like this game, but it's brutally unfun right now.... Is there a trick to not being perpetually knocked down and stunned? Would be nice if we knew what your situation is, if you have played from 1-80 or you boosted your toon. What areas you are playing in and such because as pointed out before each area has different kinds of CCs and attacks from different mobs. Unfortunately, this sounds a lot like you possibly used a booster and went straight to 80. Making that boost was one of the worst ideas ANet had ,simply because it throws too many new people straight into hard content without knowing the mechanics of your class and the creatures you fight against. If you used a boost. I’d recommend that you start another toon and work from level 1-80. That way you will familiarize yourself with what each ability does, learn to dodge and what can block large attacks and clear conditions off of your toon. If you are still having problems please reply here so we aren’t guessing in the dark. We are generally a friendly and helpful community and we’d like to help if we can.

> @"Bastrii.3047" said: > > @"Sylvyn.4750" said: > > Boonbeast Ranger is kinda fun...absorb the pet to get special skills and boons (I use owl), use a warhorn for more boons as well as from some of your utilities, swap to longbow for pew pew... > > Not quite the point of this thread; I understand there are other classes, but I'd like to talk more in-depth about possible changes to Dragonhunter Guardian. It has so much potential in its unlock, but it's wasted. Hello Bastrii, Unfortunately the first thing you did was compare GW2 to other MMOs like WoW. This game is specifically meant to not be like those games. Secondly, unfortunately GW2 is very unbalanced like others have mentioned before me. To get to the root of the problem you are trying to make dragon hunter something it is not. It is nothing even close to a healing build. Support yes but healing no. Another thing to keep in mind is that no build is going to be dps/healer and be able to kill things in one shot. Dps can but you give up the healing for that power and vice versa. The other thing to keep in mind is where you are using this build/class. Open world PvE, raid/fractal PvE, WvW and PvP. There are different builds for all playing platforms but remember a mixed build won’t work in anywhere but open world PvE and you have to realize that by having a mixed build you are basically making a survivability build. One in which you can kill things but it will take longer to do so. I am a main ranger but I have played all content and classes. The dragon hunter in my experience is strictly survival or dps. It really isn’t meant to be a healer. If you are looking for healing then look to druid, firebrand,tempest and scourge. If you want heals for guardian then I would go firebrand since there is major healing but do not expect it to be dps if you go the healing route. You can certainly make it a happy medium but remember it will take longer to kill things. ANet I highly doubt will change the dragon hunter to be what you want since it’s other elite specialization covers healing. While vanilla guardian covers boon support/dps and dragon hunter used to cover dps. I understand wanting everything in the esthetics of the build you like but when something else in that same class covers healing it is unlikely they will change it to make two elite specializations to cover the exact same use. The best thing for you to ask would be to free the weapons from elite specializations and allow vanilla, and elite specializations to use the elite specialization weapons. Then you could create a guardian with long bow or a firebrand with long bow and have it closer to the healing ranged attack you want. If you want help finding another class or finding a decent survival build or any build feel free to message me and I’ll give you some pointers and links to builds. All I ask is you don’t give up on the game and try some other classes or builds and to keep your mind open to the different possibilities even if they might not hit every note you want but might be able to come close.

> @"VocalThought.9835" said: > > @"ElijahFitzroy.5762" said: > > > @"VocalThought.9835" said: > > > > @"ElijahFitzroy.5762" said: > > > > if you take a look on google and search GW2 cosplay you can see quite a few people that have made characters from other games/movies/cartoons. There is actually a really good Skeletor i've seen recently. Also Beast has been used many times (even I have a version) I've also made; Hawkeye, Jack Torrence (the shinning), She-Ra, He-man, Sarah Sanderson (Hocus pocus), Selene (Underworld) and Aurora (Malificent), just to name a few. > > > > > > > > I do try to match their "powers" in whatever story they are in to a profession that matches them in game or a profession that has the weapons they use, such as my Hawkeye character is a Ranger. Though most of them don't have full loadouts because they are cosplay characters for contests or they were just an idea. Though my Hawkeye is a vanilla ranger build because that is the easiest one to use longbow on. Lets see; > > > > Hawkeye (ranger/vanilla) > > > > Sarah Sanderson ( Necromancer/scourge) > > > > She-ra (1980s) (mesmer/vanilla) > > > > The Beast (Guardian/vanilla) > > > > The Grinch (Mesmer/below 80) > > > > Selene (Engineer/scrapper) (thief would work better but I specifically needed a scrapper at the time) > > > > Jack Torrence (Ranger/Below 80) > > > > Aurora (mesmer/Below 80) > > > > Jack Sparrow (Engineer/vanilla) *he's an asura, quite adorable* > > > > > > > > If you ever need help with character design please feel free to message me. I love making new toons and trying to match them up with the right class and make them look as good as possible in game. Good luck and as I said take a look at google, you might get some cool ideas from others. Another good place to check out is GW2 style (www.gw2style.com) . its a great website where people post their looks. > > > > > > > > > > I always saw The Beast being a Mesmer. > > > > Not for me, picked guardian cause of the blue magic. Pink doesn’t really fit. If it was red or purple it would make more sense. Plus I picked it cause you can used torches on it and there are candelabra torches, plus they can also use focus and there is a mirror focus. > > > > > Mesmers can use Tourchs and Focus, but have pick magic. Mesmers also can wear light armor like Beast does. True, though I use an outfit that looks exactly like the outfit from the dance scene, but for normal armor i managed to find some heavy pieces that look like his clothes at the beginning of the movie. Light armor sadly doesn’t have too many coats for guys in it, especially ones that look good on charr. Unless you were planning to make the human version. Then I’d completely agree.

> @"VocalThought.9835" said: > > @"ElijahFitzroy.5762" said: > > if you take a look on google and search GW2 cosplay you can see quite a few people that have made characters from other games/movies/cartoons. There is actually a really good Skeletor i've seen recently. Also Beast has been used many times (even I have a version) I've also made; Hawkeye, Jack Torrence (the shinning), She-Ra, He-man, Sarah Sanderson (Hocus pocus), Selene (Underworld) and Aurora (Malificent), just to name a few. > > > > I do try to match their "powers" in whatever story they are in to a profession that matches them in game or a profession that has the weapons they use, such as my Hawkeye character is a Ranger. Though most of them don't have full loadouts because they are cosplay characters for contests or they were just an idea. Though my Hawkeye is a vanilla ranger build because that is the easiest one to use longbow on. Lets see; > > Hawkeye (ranger/vanilla) > > Sarah Sanderson ( Necromancer/scourge) > > She-ra (1980s) (mesmer/vanilla) > > The Beast (Guardian/vanilla) > > The Grinch (Mesmer/below 80) > > Selene (Engineer/scrapper) (thief would work better but I specifically needed a scrapper at the time) > > Jack Torrence (Ranger/Below 80) > > Aurora (mesmer/Below 80) > > Jack Sparrow (Engineer/vanilla) *he's an asura, quite adorable* > > > > If you ever need help with character design please feel free to message me. I love making new toons and trying to match them up with the right class and make them look as good as possible in game. Good luck and as I said take a look at google, you might get some cool ideas from others. Another good place to check out is GW2 style (www.gw2style.com) . its a great website where people post their looks. > > > > I always saw The Beast being a Mesmer. Not for me, picked guardian cause of the blue magic. Pink doesn’t really fit. If it was red or purple it would make more sense. Plus I picked it cause you can used torches on it and there are candelabra torches, plus they can also use focus and there is a mirror focus.

if you take a look on google and search GW2 cosplay you can see quite a few people that have made characters from other games/movies/cartoons. There is actually a really good Skeletor i've seen recently. Also Beast has been used many times (even I have a version) I've also made; Hawkeye, Jack Torrence (the shinning), She-Ra, He-man, Sarah Sanderson (Hocus pocus), Selene (Underworld) and Aurora (Malificent), just to name a few. I do try to match their "powers" in whatever story they are in to a profession that matches them in game or a profession that has the weapons they use, such as my Hawkeye character is a Ranger. Though most of them don't have full loadouts because they are cosplay characters for contests or they were just an idea. Though my Hawkeye is a vanilla ranger build because that is the easiest one to use longbow on. Lets see; Hawkeye (ranger/vanilla) Sarah Sanderson ( Necromancer/scourge) She-ra (1980s) (mesmer/vanilla) The Beast (Guardian/vanilla) The Grinch (Mesmer/below 80) Selene (Engineer/scrapper) (thief would work better but I specifically needed a scrapper at the time) Jack Torrence (Ranger/Below 80) Aurora (mesmer/Below 80) Jack Sparrow (Engineer/vanilla) *he's an asura, quite adorable* If you ever need help with character design please feel free to message me. I love making new toons and trying to match them up with the right class and make them look as good as possible in game. Good luck and as I said take a look at google, you might get some cool ideas from others. Another good place to check out is GW2 style (www.gw2style.com) . its a great website where people post their looks.

> @"Veprovina.4876" said: > So i made a revenant a while back, made him a Norn, and i'm now - after getting to the final core story mission - having second thoughts about the race. It kinda doesn't fit for me idk, i'd rather have a Norn Guardian at this point instead and make the revenant a Charr. > > From what i searched, there was talk about some technical limitations in changing races? Is that still the case or is there another reason? > > I mean, at this point, i could delete the character after the main story is done, then redo him as Charr in between that and HoT, level to 80 with tomes etc. , but i'd be forfeiting the main story. Not that it matters at all lol, story is not relevant to generaly gameplay. But still... > > Anyway, just wondering... As the others have said it’s not hard to level characters up and go through the story especially if you aren’t waiting on anyone and of course you can skip to living world season 2 with your new character once you reach 80 but one thing I wanted to bring to light is that if this is your first character you made you won’t want to delete it because of its birthday. It would be easier to create a new character with a new character slot since you’d be restarting anyway and just change a letter or add a letter to the name to make it slightly different. Why I suggest this is because with each bday for your character you get special items and if this is the first toon you made it would be the oldest and I don’t want you to lose out on those gifts since the new toons bday would be on the day you create it. But if this is a fairly new character that you are deleting then you wouldn’t have to worry about that. If I recall correctly they don’t have changing races because of the spaghetti code and the specific race based story choices. They would have to totally remake the main story and I am one of the people that love the original story and cut scenes where we can actually see our characters and would prefer they leave it how it is. Hope this helps :)

Sadly you’ll have to do many jumping puzzles to get the star of gratitude. Each item is in a chest at the end of a jumping puzzle after doing the first bloodstone collection. I was gonna link the dulfy guide but it seems it’s been taken down. I’m sure you can find some on YouTube. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Star_of_Gratitude The grubby packages are the ones that require the jumping puzzles. A lot of them are easy there is just maybe 2 or 3 that are hard. Usually you can find someone to port you with a Mesmer but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a lot easier now. Last time I did the collection was back before HoT Wish you good luck and happy winter’s day. Feel free to message me if you need help.