God, I love the silly things the GW2 marketing team does sometimes.

Yes queen! Give us nothing!

tl;dr - New encounters being mostly unchanged is a feature, not a bug. The intent of this change is to reign DPS in and start on the path towards de-creeping old encounters. That will require more tuning than just a single update can reasonably handle, so I'm sure there will be more.

My personal impressions so far are that they pretty much aced the enemy HP nerfs. My statics still kill everything in about the same times as before; the 10% nerf on most bosses is pretty much perfect. The only real complaint I have is that Whispering Shadow really did not need an extra nerf. ⏬

The point of the big nerf is to get newer content more in line with older content. With this change, most newer bosses still take about as long to kill, but older stuff doesn't get melted quite as fast. They also gave some specific tuning to a few encounters that really needed it. ⏬

You could really see that in effect with the VoE world bosses. They took *forever* to beat, in large part because they were balanced around a benchmark only 1% of the playerbase actually hits. ⏬

Back in HoT, players were doing 20k DPS. By EoD, encounters were balanced on the assumption you're doing 30k. Now in JaWi and VoE, we've been getting things balanced on the assumption you're doing 40. This has made new bosses feel increasingly bloated, since most people don't hit those numbers. ⏬

Well, the game is horizontally progressed, so *everything* is always relevant. To say that "every relevant encounter" was nerfed is just fundamentally incorrect.

Powercreep in GW2 hasn't just been new builds getting stronger—it's also been new bosses being balanced around the new benchmarks. (Cont)

hey, just so you know, if i ever stop talking mid sentence and seem to zone out before coming back seeming confused, it's because my soul was temporarily dr mario. yeah it's a common problem for a lot of autistic people

And before anyone says it, no, you cannot help propagate harmful misinformation and expect not to be criticized for it just because you caption it with “don’t take this seriously”.

That’s a lame cop-out, and it is not to be respected.

There are real people everywhere who think that US productions have limited rollout in other countries out of ill intent and not because of the very obvious logistical challenges a global release represents. #tadc

I love when serious sites do fun gags like this that don’t distract from the actual info. Everything needs a little whimsy

Found a months old sketch and added colour. My timing is impeccable
now I'm wondering if I should sketch Deimos to complete the trio.. (I hate drawing hands though)
#gw2 #guildwars2 #cerus

Let's Review — My Winter 2026 Anime Another season brings with it another round of new anime, and you know I've been keeping up with a handful of them. Just as I did last seaso...

It's article time again! Today I reviewed all the anime I watched this winter 2026 season. There's quite a few good shows in here—and quite a few not-very-good ones, too.

Give it a look!

#blog #blogging #anime #review #oc #writingcommunity

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of GW2's New Raid Updates YouTube video by SSCaide

It's been months since I last posted to my YouTube channel, but I want to get back into it a bit, get a few vids up and see if I can get monetized.

I just uploaded a video version of my recent article. Give it a look!

#gw2 #guildwars2 #mmorpg #gaming

Tried it a second time and got .0047. Fun!

Neat. I could make out the differences in blues and reds pretty easily, even at the end. I struggled the most with pinks and purples.

The Updated Raids System is Great; Let's Make it Better — Guild Wars 2 This quarter,  Guild Wars 2  received a major overhaul to its raids system. Raids and strikes were combined into one gamemode with shared ...

Been a while, but I've got a new article up about Guild Wars 2. This time around, I've reviewed the recent changes to the game's raiding systems—the good, the not as good, and the quickplay. Give it a look!

mythic-anorak.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

#GuildWars2 #GW2 #gaming #MMORPG #blog

My childhood unironically

I wonder if this episode is finally going to expand on Bubble’s role in the circus? Caine is running the place, then there are the humans, and Caine has a cast of NPCs to do things for him. Bubble is just kinda… there. Clearly important, but unclear how…

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Stupid stuff I like to do in #GuildWars2

I have a dedicated character named Peîtha which I solely use to port people to the end of jumping puzzles and the like.

Usually I will wear the Kryptis Lord tonic on her but if you do a /inspect you'll get to see the real horrors that lie within.

What does one even do to make this much gold this quickly?

Stick figure comic of "gamer_gary12" standing in front of a tank and shooting it with a pistol before being instantly killed by the tank. gamer_gary12 makes a thread on the KillingOfWar3 subreddit asking "Literally wtf am I supposed to do in this situation" with a clip of what happened. The thread has 2.6k upvotes and 269 comments (nice). The final panel is the Killing of War 3 patch notes nerfing the tank and buffing the pistol.

Whenever I think of live service gaming and balancing, I think of this comic

What the hell happens in Sly Cooper??

We gotta be so loud and annoying about this I swear to god

#mythosseries

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

After years of work, the first chapter of my slice-of-life, gag manga Go! Go! Gris! is now available! ✨

Read it for free here: gogogris.com/read/chapter-1
Or check out some pages below 👇

(1/6)

Thank you, Greg

Just realized I said “yesterday” twice, kill me now.