I love how this is unfolding, great direction – give a big thumbs up to the team from me 
Speccing mostly fire is what’s known as a glass cannon build. It’s hard to pull off for an inexperienced player as you have to be extremely good at not taking damage.
You can go tankier with your build (bunker build), here’s a good guide – pay special attention to the early leveling section:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Guide-Mastering-the-D-D-ele-3-29-12
You’ll see that learning to dodge effectively and using all your attunements is key as well as using your combo skills. It’s one of the toughest professions to learn but (imo) one of the funnest once you’ve got the hang of it.
Good luck and don’t hesitate to ask if you have questions!
Everyone is in the new dungeon today – you should give it a whirl! 
Refreshing post, OP. Don’t get too excited for level 80 though, as the game doesn’t change too much. Being lv 80 just opens up all the content the game has to offer, but there’s no traditional “endgame” per se.
…and that’s what I find appealing. Getting to 80 is just a perk, so to speak. Thanks for your reply!
Same here. I raided for years in another game – completely bored to tears with it now and love the open-ended, non-linear, play-how-you-want-to-play world of GW2.
You are just in time! New patch with new content tomorrow
I know this isn’t what you’re looking for but it can be a workaround for identifying inactive players.
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/achievements
If you log in to the leaderboards and filter by your guild, hovering over the achievement points gives you the last date they earned a point.
This only goes back to March 26th however (when the leaderboards were created). If people haven’t earned a point since before then, they won’t show on the list. Since your guild is fairly small, I imagine you could send them an ingame mail to contact you.
Just remember, just because someone hasn’t earned any points doesn’t mean they are not active. Hope that helps!
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Congrats!!!
I can’t see the video yet either, I’ll check back later
They are not soulbound so you can simply sell the stuff you don’t want and use the proceeds to either buy or craft the items you do want. That’s how loot works in this game
Two questions please
1) After the live test will they open it to everyone or will they roll it out in stages?
2) Do they anticipate this will pull people out of WvW?
Killcannon, look up everquest… Look up plane of hate or fear raids, look up any Shadows of luclin raids… Look up Sleepers tomb raids… I could go on, but there is no point. Saying “if theres no party limit” it’s not a raid is silly, this may hold true if your first MMORPG experience is WoW… However games that came long befor WoW had raids that were not instanced.
Iirc, GW1 had both 8 & 12 man dungeons. Since raiding in WoW is mostly 10 man affairs atm, it makes for an interesting discussion “post-WoW” on what exactly constitutes a “raid”.
Does it need to have a certain amount of players? How many?
Does it need to be instanced? Why?
Could it scale to number of participating players? If tuned correctly why not?
As stated, WoW isn’t the only template that the MMO genre should hold itself to. There are more MMOs in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Most likely a 24 hour special for the fan sites. I’m sure it will be all over the official forums tomorrow
True, but how much could it hurt to throw up an official post saying ‘hey, look at what our fan sites are saying’?
That said… QUAGGAN GUILD RUSH!
Because this whole GAME has been built on word of mouth.
And YES to Quaggan Guild Rush! If it’s anything like the crab scuttle one I predict many Quaggan will die that day.
The one thing that does disappoint me is that it seems that community management is rather lacking on the boards. Having devs pop in threads unannounced is pretty awesome, but it wouldn’t hurt to have dedicated CMs waving the pom-poms a little more. I checked the Announcements forum and there wasn’t even a link back to the IGN or Massively articles, I know other game communities where pretty much every favorable article got a link and its own post.
I mean, sure, there’s Twitter and Reddit, but it seems a little self-defeating not to use all the tools at your disposal.
Most likely a 24 hour special for the fan sites. I’m sure it will be all over the official forums tomorrow
I have zero issues with earning gold.
Spending it however is a whoooole ’nother story 
I just play whatever I feel like playing that day and I get drops from everywhere. I hate farming with a bloody passion (think that is the most boring way to play MMOs) and I really enjoy that there are so many ways to make gold in this game.
This is going to be amazing!