#GW2 Janthir Wilds

[ginger-commander-is-tired]

Me trying to make it look like a screenshot.

Mildly spoilers for the Janthir Wilds story update below?

To fight Titans, your character finds out you can defeat them only with storm gone as they get weaker.

At some point in the story, right before a fight characters comment on how storm is about to come so it's better to rush quickly.

To make things more dramatic I like to think that Michael had to intervene and use his elemental powers to delay the storm as much as he could. Otherwise the plan would fail.

It was draining his strength quite a lot - after all, he was literally trying to manipulate weather - something what only bloodstone fueled elementalist could do like Matthias!

Good there were 2 Wizards on his side to help during the actual encounter.

After that - Michael crashed and slept for days.

[douradart]

Diplomacy has been going well It is not the first time she's done this

[mabaki]

Lowland Shore is a really beautiful map 🌌

Caira belongs to @floral-necromaniac

[dualumina]

So the letter you get when FIRST starting the Janthir expansion actually says different things, and is sent by different people, depending on what race you're playing on.

Below is every version of the letter for every race, in no particular order:

Sylvari

Asura

Norn

Human

Charr

BONUS!

Thanks to @/brightwingedbat for catching the fact that Charr have two letters, depending on if you're Ash Legion (seen above) or not (seen below)

[ratasum]

Real talk I am LOVING the marketing they're doing for this expac it's so fun. This is genuinely so cute.

[commander-frostfang]

i love this game

[lilacfulgur]

WIP obviously, but I'm quite happy with how it looks already... if only it wasn't so expensive

[cindermetalheadgw2]

Lowland kodan: sorry, no magic allowed in the wilds

Warclaws: :3

Lowland kodan: ok we will make an exception because they look very polite

[blufox3542]

Ok I’m seeing a lot of (very deserved) love for Lowland Shore, which is definitely a great map, but I feel like there isn’t a lot of talk about Janthir Syntri.

Which like, I understand that there’s not as much to do there compared to Lowland Shore. There isn’t as much variety with its events and the Hearts aren’t as fun to complete.

But by god, did they nail the atmosphere.

Janthir has always been an ominous place. We knew of its connection to the Mursaat and the bloody history of the White Mantle. Even just looking at it on the map, both in GW2 and all the other at back in GW Prophecies, it’s looked unsettling and dangerous.

And when we get to actually go to Janthir Syntri, it feels unsettling. The black sand shores, the constant rain, the bloodstone warping the terrain.

But it’s also gorgeous. Theres still life there. Dangerous life, but grass and trees grow, and wildlife thrives.

And back to the bloodstone, it’s eerie yet somewhat beautiful. It’s insane to see shattered pieces of bloodstone merging with the local flora!

And the northeastern shore littered with bones… AH!

It’s just a lovely map.

[just-norn-things]

Okay, I was slightly worried that going from a Manor to a mine would be really tough for poor Lady Wisteria Whiskington, so...

I had to. She deserves it.

[missbadafker]

I just visited Whiskerbrew's homestead and was left in awe. They built a challenging jumping puzzle in this Alice in Wonderland feeling forest that takes you through the treetops along treehouses and it even features a plushy scavenger hunt. If you see their LFG up in EU I would definitely suggest seeing for yourself :)

[champion-of-aurene]

LOOK AT THEM!!!!

They are soooo cute, such absolute kbity :3 They are like lynxes with the face and the giant ears and paws but they ALSO have giant tails too! Fantastic 10/10 kitty design

[mistfallengw2]

Thought I'd do a friendly reminder to, well, remind people to stock up on basic mats for the Homestead crafting feature.

Most importantly, do NOT refine them into planks, ingots and so on unless you need them for something, because as far as we've seen in the stream, the crafting Refined Homestead Wood requires logs!

Even with the weekly limits, the first few weeks will probably see TP prices skewed upwards for all those mats, and they're already higher than before the JW announcement. If you can, make sure you have enough to comfortably craft for a few weeks, because we don't know the upper limit yet nor how long it'd take to reach, so even such a stockpile might go fast anyway.

This is also valid for people who are not interested but will want to craft something else that requires large quantities of basic mats.

And if your stacks are full, stash 'em in your bank or in an alt's inventory!

[lackluster-plays]

Oh noo, Stoic Alder :( I dontk now what haeppened. Oh no

[dumb-dumb-mander]

I'm far from being good at decorating, and I'm holding back from crafting everything (what if there is something I REALLY want later and I used it all to craft shit ?) but I still managed to do a (functional) stairs ! ✨

Now my problem is that I started it the wrong way and as this is for now, you cannot select more than one object so I would need to redo everything and I have NO courage for that gjkerbg

Did you know rugs had collision ?

It's really cool because then you can use it as floor >:D

I don't want to sleep in a bed, so I made my little nest of pillows in a corner héhé

I don't know what I'll do with the second floor, but I'm pretty happy kgjerng

[ratasum]

Preview of land spears on Necromancer, Guardian, and Ranger, from this tweet!