🤔 I noticed that there aren't many Sylvari castaways on Castora and with that information I can conclude most of them are being mistaken for driftwood by the magic surrounding the continent and just float back home

If I have to guess the Gnashblade "birthday" event will probably start next Tuesday and run for a whole week and there's going to be more to it than last year

You can buy the Homestead Racetrack Start Bundle from the race vendor which automatically adds 5 of each race track decorations to your homestead storage (holographic are excluded) It's only 25 tokens cheaper than crafting these yourself but you save a lot of gold on other required materials

The Black Lion Trading Company in Lion's Arch recently got updated (it has a lot more NPC's) and they sealed the unused Asura gate behind a metal door

Today's post is up thatshaman.com/post/2025/11...

"So we recently had our demonic 9 feet tall Peitha and the -I can probably fix her- Bog Queen... We need to design a new sexy red flag for the #GuildWars2 Visions of Eternity expansion that players will absolutely fall for!" Anet: "Say no more!"

Gildwar Tree confirmed! Randomly stumbled into this Anet dev (looks like they're currently streaming for extra life)

Several people asked me about exporting the new API map tiles to "fix the wiki" Like I said before I've stopped working on these so we'll just have to wait.

Some more #GuildWars2 homestead module fun: - I have a homestead template with a tiny little house in it - I have another template with just 3 pillars - With just a few lines of code it makes copies of the house at the pillars creating a cozy little neighborhood!

I don't think the disguise spell Ludo puts on players at the start of VoE's story so you can infiltrate an Asuran lab is really going to work for my character... "It's the commander!!" "Don't be silly the commander has yellow eyes"

What's better than a homestead home? Having both of them on the same map! Download: thatshaman.com/homesteads/c...

Hi #GuildWars2 👋

Tiny house is tiny

I've managed to rebuild after sinking my previous homestead but I had to go smaller... I now have a #GuildWars2 homestead for ants and you can too! thatshaman.com/homesteads/d...

More #GuildWars2 homestead template fun. I don't think my insurance is going to cover this 😅

I'm working on some modules that will make it easier for developers to create online homestead tools. After some math I can now move and rotate entire builds to anywhere I want!

Unlike the previous homestead you don't need to unlock the masteries to increase your building space in the new one

I've updated my post to contain links to things like mini pets, emotes etc but also items you can't obtain yet (like the full Seaside Scholar set) I'm not going to list every new armor and weapon set but basically they've converted all (non-gemstore) staffs to spears thatshaman.com/post/2025/11...

Conclusion: the upgraded skimmer is extremely fast! Just shaved off several seconds in two adventures without breaking a sweat

I could use a portal to Castora in the new homestead now that I've completed the story

Lesson learned: this achievement is going to take a lot longer than I expected because these treasure chests can trigger diminishing returns meaning they will no longer spawn if you open too many of them a day

I.... am.... experiencing........ a.... slight... bit... of..... lag

The dancing crab on the character select screen is actually a glorious low poly 3D model 😁

Crunching a lot of numbers on the XML format and I'm starting to get to know its quirks and limitations. For example objects can only be rotated with increments of roughly 1.4 degrees, scaling is done with increments of 4.4% and the position is limited to single digit units.

This is what happens when you load the new homestead into the old homestead with an altered XML file. Other than some floating trees it actually looks pretty good!

What kind of nonsense is this? For some reason buying writs with renown tokens now also requires map currency defeating the entire purpose of them These tokens were a great way in JW to complete hearts by "just doing stuff" but now they're basically trash items clogging up my inventory

Where SotO made it possible to have pockets of water on land, #GuildWars2 VoE introduced new technology to have pockets of air underneath the water level! For example this smaller cave is be located at 2,600 units below the surface. And there are even larger caves that are located far deeper.

You can find "friends" if you dive too deep down the cave inside the new homestead

Unless I'm missing something completely obvious my skimmer mastery isn't unlocking ☹️ (was hoping the patch from a few minutes ago would fix it but alas)

I can't play the new expansion. I'm stuck on character select listening to the epic new theme tune being mesmerized by the little dancing crab in the distance

I haven't tried the expansion yet too busy messing with the homestead XML format 😅. I present to you the "I'm rich you know!" homestead (will cost over 400,000 gold to load): thatshaman.com/homesteads/I...

VoE is here and these are the gemstore items, full post will be on a later date thatshaman.com/post/2025/10...

Less than a day left for #GuildWars2 Visions of Eternity! Keep in mind that like with previous expansion launches I will only post gemstore items tomorrow and a full post will come at a later date thatshaman.com/tools/voe

✅ Boosters and food are prepared ✅ Cleaned my inventory ✅ Loaded up as much astral acclaim as I could I think I'm ready for tomorrow!

Here's the new #GuildWars2 shadow map resolutions compared to the current settings. In short medium will have the same resolution as the current ultra settings and ultra will have 500% more detail than before.

It's finally here! They've been working on this for quite some time (first hints showed up in the client around march 2024) and it looks fantastic!

There is a spooky Asura in the Mad King's Labyrinth who controls the Glitches. #art #GuildWars2

Happy 10th anniversary #GuildWars2 Heart of Thorns! 🥳 Here's a fun fact to celebrate: there are actually four different modrem designs for turned Sylvari in the client! They all use different kinds of bark textures and as far as I know you only get to see the guard and overseer models in the top row

There's absolutely no way Rytlock willingly travels to Castora with us. He probably tried to find the nearest Charrbucks, got lost somewhere in the mists (again) and pops out of a portal where we've crashed Sayida ship

All hail the pineapple choya! Told you that place is cursed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh9L...

It has pineapple choya so I don't think it being cursed is up for debate 🍍

To give you an idea on how large the current known part of Castora is I've placed some zone outlines on it #GuildWars2

And before I forget, if the expansion releases at patch time (which it usually does) it will launch an hour earlier than usual in Europe because of daylight saving time shenanigans. My countdown page does compensate for that.

Oh Skritt #GuildWars2 VoE is next week. thatshaman.com/tools/voe/

Okay that's quite a fun read up 😁 to put it in basic terms: - If you swapped an engineer morph skill while it was still on cooldown it would accidentally remove it from the server - If another player then tried to use the same skill the server would crash because it would be gone C++ pointers ❤️

I needed to draw long gorrik so bad

😑 "this is AI slop!!"... I didn't spend minutes making an abomination of two ripped models in blender for it to be called AI slop... it is hand crafted slop! get your facts together!

Brawns, Brain, Beetles. He is the pinnacle of Asura. #GuildWars2 #VisionsOfEternity www.youtube.com/shorts/PF2E2...