Guild Wars 2

In episode “Seeds of truth” in “no refuge” instance, food and utility effects don’t have any effect anymore. I was using “Bowl of Seaweed Salad” and “Powerful Potion of Centaur Slaying”. I did not receive any swiftness (after killing plenty centaurs). After testing with different utility effects it also seemed like I did not take/deal 10% less/more damage from/to the centaurs.
I know a few months ago food and utility were working fine (i did some testing to optimize damage in- and output), so i can eliminate the centaurs not being “centaur-enemy-type”.

I will do further research, if this indeed effect more living story instances, the “Caithe-transformed” ones or only “no refuge”.

Question: Is this be intentional?

blue circles displace Spirits so gg for Gorseval

Hey everyone,
When I killed the Vale Guardian for the first time, I felt super happy and lucky to drop the Mini Blue Guardian. Yesterday my raidteam and I defeated it again and guess what I dropped again.? – the same Mini Blue Guardian.
I know I shouldn’t complain, knowing people in my team didn’t get any proper loot what so ever, yet it feels even worse getting a “lucky” but worthless drop.
If only there was a way of exchanging redundant Minis into Magnetite Shards in the mystic forge like we can do with Mini Risen Priests of Balthazar and Obsidian Shards.

LordOtto.2650:

I’ve been trying to beat Vale Guardian many times, 1st phase we did it in 5,00~5,30 minutes (please tell how do you get to 6,30 min…).

There are 2 things you can do to improve your damage/time during phase 1:

-have your tank pull the boss into the corner of the pylon (we started in blue segment) and stay there, so your melee DD´s can do their rotation without having to move(only dodge blue attack).

-don’t attack the boss until it is in position, so the timer wont start early, thus you will save some time before you can dps.

Misguided.5139:

Very cool! I’m curious what change you made that made such a big difference (from a wipe at 1% to winning with over a minute left).

Time hasn’t been an issue for us, the 1% wipe has also been around 1:00 ~ 0:50 left on the timer, but at that point many people have died and the rest couldn’t keep the focus.

To sum up what i understood reading all your answers, there is the statement on the HoT website:
“If you own the expansion, you’ll be able to simply log in to the game to gain free access to upcoming Living World releases!”
But so far no more clarification on whether “free access” implies there will be a way of getting other accessibility besides HoT purchase.

Living story season on the Mordremoth arc will be self-evidently combined with HoT, but the “global” festival updates and different content might(!) be released to core audience.

Linken.6345:

counter question why should they give out new content to people who dont buy the expansion?
You dont continue to favor the game with cash by buying expansion so their development time shouldent be spent to give you content.

And I havent bought it either, so I dont expect content.

Don’t get me wrong, this is just a formal question about the current state of information. I’m not trying to justify any claim on content.

Storywise sure. My concern is more about different content further down the line, like the long awaited return of the SAB or the “re-release” of season 1, if those become also “locked” behind HoT.

Has there been any dev-statement according to this topic?

Question is pretty straight forward. Is every upcoming Patch after the expansion release only for HoT-players or will there be living world updates like season 1 & 2 or SAB for those who just own the core game?