And 99% of the links have been updated now as well! Some ancient posts might have a broken images and links to albums won't be updated

The preview images on my site have all been moved from imgur so people stuck in the UK can browse my site again. Next up is to update all links on the pages themselves thatshaman.com

The next patch is expected next week so that's probably when Halloween will also start (or at least add the new items) in #GuildWars2 to prevent it from overlapping with #VisionsOfEternity thatshaman.com/tools/countd...

Important Public Service Announcement for #GuildWars2 Visions of Eternity! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhx...

Got the legendary gloves on a second account (more on that later) that had only done a single fractal before Took 41 quick join fractals including the weeklies and most side achievements Only got molten Boss once at the very end and Kinfall, Deepstone and Snowblind waaay more often

Technically looks great but these aren't for me. I hope other people will enjoy new styles to the fullest 🙂

"DO YOU WANT TO SAVE!?" mspaint asked calmly

✅ Celestial gloves

%$RFG!FVDSvsdfcvsW 😡

Tip: the fastest way to complete this achievement is by NOT representing a guild

I wonder how many people actually tried to reclaim this famous windows XP code 😬

The butter knife spear from the #GuildWars2 cookbook also functions as a giant BBQ spatula

I've done roughly 20 quick play fractals now and 12 of them were Cliffside and the other 47 were Molten Furnace Jokes aside it feels like they could maybe randomize these a tad better 😅

Absolutely useless #GuildWars2 fun fact of the day: if you interact with a crafting station while you're mounted its name will change to something completely different

dance 🤔

Looking at the hidden time gated steps of the "Working together" achievement it really looks like it's really just going to be "complete fractals get legendary gloves" no strings or massive grind attached

A "bug" I noticed while doing the quick play fractals on my F2P account is that it doesn't progress your fractal level when you complete higher scale fractals (probably because there's technically no level set?)

The achievement tab no longer shows all mastery icons if they don't fit on a line and will show a white mastery icon instead

Today they added more stuff involving updated lighting and shadows. And something called awesome points 😎

Today's post is up thatshaman.com/post/2025/09...

It looks like that after 8 years they finally fixed the #GuildWars2 API tiles. This means I will no longer be publishing these in the future unless things go wrong again. It was a really fun project to work on but also took a lot of time and effort to maintain. wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API:Til...

Looks like the final homestead XML format stayed exactly the same! Looks like the ID's do not match up with the decoration ID's on the API but this can also be because they were running it on a dev client

Pack your hammock and prepare for where seaside serenity meets heroic flair! 🏝️ Comosus Isle homesteads arrive with Visions of Eternity. Catch the Twitch tour this Friday at 12 PM PT over on twitch.tv/GuildWars2

Step 1: Write a custom homestead XML file with 250 golden sinks in it Step 2: Wait for the first person to be able to fully load it Step 3: Ponder the meaning of life Step 4: Do the same for a Guild Hall and repeat

Looks like the XML format is confirmed now!

apply permafrost to make your eyes bleed

There's a weird bug where it appears you have gold or items to pick up from the trading post but can't claim them after playing on a beta character The game somehow gets really confused between the beta snapshot and your live account. The only way to fix this is to log out and log back.

13! 🥳 #GuildWars2

How to play the beta - come up with a silly character name - get disconnected - change gear and traits to whatever you're familiar with - get disconnected - randomize your wardrobe for a horrible look - try the skills and feel absolutely lost - repeat process for next profession - get disconnected

Before they deactivated the evoker familiar I tried running it with the "lock yourself into a single attunement" trait and the best rotation I found in the limited playtime was SPAM ALL THE BUTTONS AND MASH F5

Lesson learned, entering your homestead with a beta character either crashes your client or kicks you to your previous map

they fixed it 🥳

😅 yeah, looks like this is actually the case, guess we'll have to wait an hour longer

Fun fact the "conjured doorway" is called "magical door" internally in the client

Wait.. I think they might have messed up the start time of the beta event? According to the forum it should start at 9:00 a.m. PT (which is the same as patch time) but the BETA buttons are hard coded to activate at 10:00 a.m. (an hour later) Maybe they can manually overrule this server side 😅

Was worth a shot, looks like the "create beta character" button is hard coded to magically appear tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (1 hour after patch time)

At first glance the door appears to have dye channels

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Today's post is up 🚪 thatshaman.com/post/2025/08...

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I hope the Skimmer attack skills in #VisionsOfEternity aren't going to turn into Skyscale fireball 2.0.. that skill was cool on paper, got technically implemented correct but only gets used to leech events to hell and beyond now a day (the game would be better without it if you ask me)

To give you an idea how much harder it will get by locking yourself into a single attunement: there's only two weapon skills that deal an itty bitty amount of CC damage when you're locked into fire Downstate rotation actually gives you more..

"Elementalist will be much easier to play by locking yourself into a single attunement so you have less skills to worry about.. right?" I'm absolutely looking forward to the insanity.

Anyone need winning lottery numbers!? This week I somehow made quite a bit of gold finishing the Tarrktun achievement so I bought 3 stacks of supply crates because I wanted some of those new skins.. it dropped a dragonvoid infusion... I'm probably getting banned tomorrow to balance things out

Hooray! It took 3 weeks but at least one of the new #GuildWars2 gifs got approved by tenor!... Just 20 more left...

🤔 curious statue in the background of the new Elite Specialization video

People were worried about my #GuildWars2 Evoker leak video being a fabrication. So I asked Google's AI to put things right about me once and for all!