Guild Wars 2

Can someone tell me how these things work, please:

If I have a recipe for, let’s say a jeweler and I will unlock it with another character who is an armor smith.. I assume the other character, who is a jeweler gets this recipe unlocked automatically?? I hope!

What exactly is a boon in GW2 (for food that gives you bonuses when you’re under an effect of a boon) How do I know I’m under an effect of a boon?

Who can invite new people to a guild? Lately I was asked by 2 people to invite them to my guild. They thought just because I represent one, I can add them. I’m a quite not much active guild member, so I guess I need to have a special status to do that?

I’m a loner and I don’t have any friends to do Fractals (for Legendaries). So, what is the best way for a loner to find people for Fractals/Dungeons? LFG seems not that good. It can take forever…

I’ve been playing this game for quite long time but some stuff is still confusing, I hope my questions aren’t too silly .

If I have a recipe for, let’s say a jeweler and I will unlock it with another character who is an armor smith.. I assume the other character, who is a jeweler gets this recipe unlocked automatically??

no, your armorsmith will get the recipe, but not your jeweler. recipes are character unlocks, so they only unlock for the character who used it.

What exactly is a boon in GW2 (for food that gives you bonuses when you’re under an effect of a boon) How do I know I’m under an effect of a boon?

list of boons in the game: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Boon#List_of_boons
they appear on your skillbar above your heal skill etc.

not sure about your other questions, but hopefully someone else will come in and help.

Guild invites require invite permissions which is rank set by the guild leader.

Other than LFG, guilds would be the best place to find ppl to run fractals with. Usually, if you are in a guild you just need to ask if anybody wants to run them. Depending on the guild you can usually find a number of ppl willing to help out. There are guilds who have a focus on this type of content. Check or post in Looking For..forum

Boon
A boon is a temporary positive effect on your character. They are indicated by an orange arrow above your skills pointing upwards. In Opposition there are conditions, negative effects indicated by a red arrow pointing down.

Recipes
Recipes are unlocked per character. So the character who is supposed to know the recipe, in this case your jeweler, has to use the recipe item.

Guild Invitations
Who can and cannot invite players to a guild is determined by the permission System. Within your guild you have a rank. The “Leader” rank always has all permissions and full control. Your rank is shown next to your name in the Guild Window. To see all ranks and permissions of your guild you can click on the “Ranks” Tab of the Guild Window (the lowest one) there is a permission for inviting players. If it is set you can invite. If you see it necessary to invite players ask your guild leader or a member of a high enough rank for assistance.

To find people for fractals or dungeons you can either search a guild that is dedicated to that content and runs them on a regular basis or you can setup a "Looking for… " thread in the dungeon forum.

Good luck.

Thank you. I haven’t logged in for a while but I appreciate the answers. Oh kitten with the recipes! Ah well…… lost some of them! :/

I have more questions!

1. I GOT STUCK in the Dragon Stand story. while fighting with giant Canach! How do you kill him if the real Canach is not always able to revive me (if I fall into one of the red circles) My armor just gets more damaged. Should I just keep on smuggling repair kits to my character or what?? It’s kittened how the mechanism of this fight goes…Should I find more people to do this? Or should I advance the elite specialization to maximum before that fight?

2. If I have a character with the “HoT” advancement bar, and I don’t have any points to advance them AND I get XP points while fighting in the “old GW2” maps… where do my XP points go if the bar cannot advance since I don’t have “big” points to unlock my progress? Is it just an illusion I’m advancing then??

thank you!

just thought I’d reply to your thread again to let you know that recipes got changed not long ago, now they are account unlocks. this means you can consume them on anyone now and they will unlock for all of your characters. thought you’d want to know

Also chiming in on the recipe change, just login on every character to unlock any unique recipes (not discovered ones, just ones from recipe sheets) onto all of your characters.

Thanks for the additional updates!

Aaand, does anyone know replies to my new questions 2 posts higher?

I don’t know the Canach fight well enough to grant assistance. In general thogh it is always helpful to break his CC Bar as soon as possible. All the fights in HoT Personal Story are a bit of a grindfest when taken on Solo. If you can find someone to help you you will definately have a better time.

On 2: HoT Masteries and Central Tyria Masteries are separate and XP gained in either will only count to the active one respectively. If you fill a mastery level any XP gained beyond will be split evenly between all unfinished masteries you have left in the respective area. If you have ALL open masteries of your area filled, but not unlocked by spending mastery points, any XP you gain in that area is voided. Once you have all masteries UNLOCKED your bar will fill again, granting you a spirit shard every time you fill it.