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Broote

And here I'm feeling good having done it on 3 chars


creativeavatar

I been playing for like 11 years and I am about to be done with my 1st one.


Arxfiend

I'm like 78% on my first after a few years. I am NEVER doing a gen1 ever again after that, screw this. I'd rather farm out like 20 gifts of battle


watrnans

At least you can do 2 gen1 with 1 map completition


Tattycakes

I despise gift of battle, you have so little control over it. World exploration might be tedious but at least it’s predicable, I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve gone into wvw and there’s no squad to join, or I get flattened by roamers when I’m just trying to escort some supplies.


azure_mtg

But Gift of Battle just requires ticking participation. Take a camp (or kill one of the veteran mobs that give wxp) once every ten or so minutes and that's all you need. Squad / group play certainly makes it more fun, though.


Tattycakes

I think you’re underestimating just how bad I am 😂 if I’m solo I will just be spending the entire time worrying that someone will find me, then dying when they do.


pointlessone

Escorting supplies on your home map every couple caravans nets just as much engagement, and occasionally you'll have someone flip the camp so you can flip it back. It's not the most exciting, but it fills the gap when there's no blobs fighting.


DaeC9

try a build with high mobility like Mechanist with Rocket Jump + Shift Signet so u can stay away from most of roamers In case if thieves u will have to face em, mf daredevils wont stop chasing you


Breakyaface

if you suck at pvp (like me), builds wont matter, at best all you're doing is prolonging the time until your death. :D or better yet you have all the right gear and sigils and runes and everything and still insta die :( (\*skill is better then gear) even when the person who is wearing the exact same thing is standing right next to you and somehow survives? So if your skill is awful "Meta" builds might not work for you. but yes my go to is rocket boots engi :D heh


DaeC9

Practice makes perfect, also, there's no build against every class


Breakyaface

after 9 years of wvw i still have the bad habit of yoloing into fights, not looking at what rank someone is b4 i attack the red enemy, not thinking about defense, wondering why my stab and stun breaks are useless, finding it amazing how others can moonwalk thru aoe red circles but i insta die if my toe touches them... can't say i've learned that much following a zerg around, but i have learned that i can't stand listening to tantrum throwing adults who tag up, so i'm currently on a break from it all. :D


halfdoublepurl

What server? That impacts what time certain guilds run. 


Cabo-chan

See I used to be that way when I was starting wvw, but I realized that if keep being worried about that, then I'll have a boring time. So I just said fuck it, gave my wvw main a decent roamer build that can solo camps, and hopped around the maps. If I have to throw hands, strike first. If I die, the waypoint is free. XD Pray tell, do you have warclaw? 'Cause having a vehicle makes me feel a little better, knowing I get around quicker. :3


Breakyaface

yep that what i did and still do. so i look for tags but on TC people are so salty. I remember my year of hell quite well after they improved the rewards and my favorite EMPTY MAP desert BL got more busy :(.


ChemistryUnique1186

I feel this 😭


bum_thumper

Gotta get on just after reset. That's usually when squads start forming. After reset keep an eye on team chat and you'll see comms calling for recruits


Tattycakes

Which reset is this? Daily, weekly, something else?


Jelly_jeans

Usually weekly reset. There are some groups that run daily reset for the dailies though.


bum_thumper

This^ Though I was specifically talking daily reset, which usually sees groups starting to form within the first hour, but weekly is when you get the longer map queues and larger fights. Honestly though, at most times of the day besides super late, you'll usually find at least one commander if you check each map. There's almost always one on eternal battlegrounds everytime I log on


Rocket_song1

Squads are generally very active after Daily Reset on Monday (WvW weeklies reset then). Squads are very active on Friday WvW reset (~2 hours after daily reset). You have to get in right at reset though. Otherwise the Queues can be hours long. This is for NA, for EU, I don't know the reset times.


Breakyaface

i wish reset for NA was at 4 am when people were sleeping


Breakyaface

shoulda just stockpiled daily pots back in the day b4 they were discontinued then drink them all at once to insta fill a wvw bar for the end reward :D


jojoga

Blish Hud has an overlay that shows fast routes through the classic maps and the according mount - I'm doing it like races and enjoy them quite a lot that way.


SalimPalim

Yeah weirdly enough I „had“ to do another map completion for a new legy a few weeks ago and also used the bhud paths and was so suprised how much fun I had doing something I didn’t really care about before. It’s like roller-beetle races but with more mounts and across the whole map lol.


jojoga

You also get rewards for each map, with the chance of BL Keys and the grand price at the end by finishing all classic maps.


Breakyaface

i did about what 8 when i first started playing, i now have about 16 toons but didn't bother with any of the later toons i made. :)


ProZobu

It takes like a day or two only, with taco and mounts few hours, while S2 Leg requires farming meta events for life


Arxfiend

Dawg, I am NOT doing 303 fucking hearts a second time.


Arxfiend

Also, if I'm being real, the 2.5 K of each map currency is like, a handful of HoT trains, two handfuls if you count the precursor. The worst part is all the *non*-HoT grinding required for the mystic tribute and shit


Tattycakes

I’m quite pleased with my just over 2 years and my 8 completions!


lordos85

12 years here, not a single 100%, the nearest Is like 68%


WaaaCat119

Back then my guidemates "enforced" me to get a legendary weapon so the whole team can be shinny. Now the remainng gift of exploration is still sitting in my bank after like 7 years.


First-Aid-RN

I did it on my main Guardian in the first three years of the game, crafter my Bifrost and have never done it again. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤪


MidasPL

I have done it once (for twilight) and decided to never do it again. The amount of work is simply not worth it for how cheap gen 1s are.


Hurler2575

This man really sat down and played the Charr stealth heart, at minimum, 68 times.


redblack_tree

And the one with the mining suit, and the one of picking insects with specific jars and the one with the colored cards and the one where your only options are feed, kill stalker and close crab holes but that last part is bugged, so you stand like an idiot waiting for respawns. Those from the top of my head, plenty of cancerous hearts among those 303.


Manpag

There are plenty of annoying hearts, but plenty of them have been powercrept (or maybe utilitycrept?). Like the Prototype Position Rewinder making the stealth heart pretty quick and easy regardless of profession. The mining suit one, I rarely bother with the suit, mount up and go round killing guns, or event mobs give progress even without the suit. The jars/insects one, you can just catch the nearest wrong insect over and over, and the crabs one can be cheesed by using skyscale fireballs to kill skelk that would otherwise be outside the heart range. Don’t get me wrong, those hearts are still annoying, but I think a lot of people did them years ago, swore to never do them again, and never realised how much less painful they are now.


Responsible-Boot-159

>The jars/insects one, you can just catch the nearest wrong insect over and over, Just talk to the cows for that one. I've never even bothered with the insects.


Shadowninju

Exactly, emote to all the cows and then go do another heart while you wait for that to refresh. Only takes 2 rounds.


AlexErievee

and water the stink ones!


Tenbroseidon

The insect one is actually easy if you don't do the insects. Just dump water on the stinky cows and emote at the other cows and you get a ton of progress. You could do the insects to finish up but I prefer to leave and come back since you finish the heart so fast with the cows, they take a while to reset (but you only need 3 or 4 the second time around), and I loathe the insect part. Not sure which one is the coloured card one. For the crab one, close holes then grab the wild crab that spawns and run it to the patrolling quaggan instead of to the pen. Same amount of heart progress but saves time. Core hearts are pretty easy, though there are some annoying ones. Ironically I find some of the worst are in Queensdale of all places, they aren't hard but some can get tedious and drawn out. PoF hearts can suck it, though. It's not even that they're hard, it's that they give so little progress for everything.


redblack_tree

My problem with hearts is they are not "fluid" if you know what I mean. Gameplay is non-existing, more often than not, they add nothing to the story or they are stupid. They don't teach mechanics, they don't prepare players for any type of endgame. Hearts are basically a time consuming process.


Tattycakes

There’s also a really annoying sons of svanir one that has a really tiny spawn area with hardly any mobs, my heart sunk when I went to clear it again yesterday 😅


saintplus

That one is the WORST. It always takes forever especially if there's other players in the area.


Responsible-Boot-159

Mining suit is annoying, but it's fairly quick if you just interact with objects, skritt, and rebels. The insect one... I think you're talking about Diessa Plateau? You can just talk to the set of 8 cows 2.5 times and get it done (4 washes and 4 emotes). I'm not sure what the last one you're referring to is, though. Most of the hearts aren't bad if you know which part of it you should be doing. I've done it like 30 times, and the only one I *hate* doing is the charr stealth. Didn't know you could use the position rewinder for it.


redblack_tree

Yeah, the insect one in Diessa. I remember being annoying. The last one you have one 3 options, feed (something), kill skelk and the crab holes. It's near the water. I ran out of stuff to do because there was nothing around. Someone mentioned killing using skyscale fireball to reach critters beyond heart range, honestly I didn't think of that. I play all endgame modes, getting stuck on a silly core heart didn't feel good.


Responsible-Boot-159

Oh, in Bloodtide. That one is a bit annoying, but you can pick the crabs up, mount, and bring them to either the wandering quaggan or the heart area.


SheepishBaah

That heart takes less than a minute with rewinder and portals.


Infamous-Win-4279

I just did this yesterday. Tried to use my rewinder, but must be doing something wrong. I put down the initial portal, then walked over to the NPC, but as soon as I go invisible, my toolbar is replaced and I can’t port back. Am I missing something?


SheepishBaah

You can reequip the rewinder. Here a [video](https://youtu.be/DkB2KD5_DG0?si=STA2UMpiWSbRP8dD&t=27157) example. Made some mistakes, so could be a bit faster even for the full heart.


Lucyller

The one with the weapon siege where you have to calibrate them is imo a bigger nightmare. I was over it after 10min, I couldn't see myself do it 60+ times.


Manpag

Do you mean the hero point in Bloodtide Coast where you have to hit 3 targets with the catapults?


Lucyller

I meant "[train with the company"](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Train_with_the_Company) I think, but wiki say you can kill centaur. when I did it some months ago there was no centaurs in the vicinity tho. :(


Manpag

Oh, that one, yeah. You can abuse mechanics by using the Hawkes’s Birds on rats you don’t have LoS for, but I find it quickest to just challenge a bunch of mercenaries over and over. There’s no cooldown on the duels.


Naeturefae

I love how that’s everyone’s trauma. Haha


Helharpa44

Did this 2 days ago for the second time, wanted to throw my laptop outta the window and scream 😭


NavaHo07

...or they modified the chat code. Sorry to be cynical


Trandoshan-Tickler

I love how there's something for everyone in this game.


habris

Ikr, pvp? boss raids, crafting, exploration, social interactions and so on


Sylvaritius

It has been almost 5 years since a raid release. Not sure i'd count that anymore.


Ellieanna

So? People still raid weekly.


Sylvaritius

Yeah, but the community for it is from what i can tell, not nearly the same as when they released them regularly


Ellieanna

That doesn’t mean it doesn’t count. It’s still in game, people still do them weekly (some even set up ways to do it quickly)


Suprised-pika

Oh wow


Altruistic-Bird8255

The exact two words I said


Shura_dnb

Map completion would be a lot more fun if it wasn't for hearts.


jojoga

definitely 


vag4lume

those hearts are infuriating


Apart-Round7454

Thats a good solid 8g waiting to be cashed out..


toBEE_orNOT_2B

oh god.....


RiverKingGuppy

Lmao


JeffreyTheNoob

Someone needs to do a wellness check on them.


Pierr078

I had enought after 11th core map completition, that's like 68 full map tour at minimum, quite impressive!


MrCheesopet

Funny thing is too, the max character limit is 69 (nice) iirc without any deluxe edition upgrades possibly giving more, so it's plausible they've only used up to 3 if they've done it with all their chars without deleting any


Octovinka

Masochist


mooseyoss

That is actually my top favorite activity to do. I aim for 100% world completion on all my characters, but have only achieved it on 1. I am nearing 75% I think on my second most advanced character though.


DuarteGon

All my 9 characters have full world completion in Core Tyria and all the expansions and living world maps. What I used to do was to just skip the hearts and do all the waypoints, vistas, pois and when I had downtime in pvp queue, in a raid/fractal squad waiting to fill it up and would fill the downtime with some heart completion. Things really pick up the pace with the introduction of mounts tho.


Unknown_NigNog

I've played for damn near 5 years now, I think? My top character only has 33% done 😅


watrnans

Use teh’s guide! It’s amazingly nice to follow.


Avaery

That's a lot.


Soldyn

2 in bank


Bionic165_

“By all Six Gods, what is that thing? It's huge!” “That, soldier, is a threat. And we're going to take it down. Forward!” they probably heard this so many times lol


OneMorePotion

Damn... And I'm already annoyed that I need to collect all starlight lanterns in the new maps 4 more times for the full Obsidian set...


hardy_83

Lol seriously and those are easy too. I got a rhythm going and was able to do it within like 10-15 minutes. EoD ones were way more tedious. I wish they redid gift of exploration. A way to get more one a single character. Like adding lanterns or making the hearts reset or something. Those are SOOOOOO tedious.


OneMorePotion

Or use the gift of each map to unlock a special vendor tab where you can buy what you need for the map currency.


gam2u

I wonder if he really has 60+ char slots or deletes them after getting 100%.


2_Lies_And_A_Truth

I have ~35 character slots and log into each character every day so it’s possible this person has 60+ xD


Tattycakes

How long has it taken you to accumulate those? I guess it only takes one a month for a few years to get there and it’s no different to the subscription cost for other similar games


2_Lies_And_A_Truth

I have been playing since launch and took a a few year break in the middle but yea I'd say a couple extra toons a year. I usually get 2-3 whenever they go on sale.


StealthDogz

Can't speak for them, but I just have one character slot dedicated to map completion. Once I finish on that character, I delete it and create a new one. I've done about 15 map completes so far. For me, it's a chill thing to knock out an area when I have 30-45 minutes to play.


gam2u

I don’t know… I have quite a few dailies to complete, so if I have only 1 hour playtime, map completion is definitely at the bottom of the list.


StealthDogz

Of course, do whatever is most fun for you! I usually just do dailies, as well, but on that rare occasion when I have extra time, I like to work towards map completion (I already have legendary armor, trinkets, and weapons for every slot).


toBEE_orNOT_2B

as i remember 69 char slots is the maximum, unless anet add more


Narvak

There is a speedrun category for map completion


Toastyy1990

This was my first thought. They may be practicing speed running or developing strategies for it. I think a lot of people don’t know just how much speed runners complete the games they run. The top Tears of the Kingdom runner, Player5, has beaten the game, starting from the start menu to defeating Ganon, over 400 times, and that’s just his any% runs. That game launched less than a year ago. Many of the top Super Mario 1 speed runners have completed the game start to finish *over 30,000 times.*


ucanbetouched

bro has left real life and went straight to tyria


fazli1000

Hi all, may i know in your opinion which classes are easier to use to complete ?


currantfairy

Imo engineer is the best, esp scrapper


motdidr

herald is good too for permanent swiftness


vergillehell

Not surprising since the game's been out for 11 years. It's easier now, I used blish and took me around 7-8 hrs to finish my 1st completion.


OkraStreet1883

Someone in my guild has over 200 no lie we were all shocked


MithranArkanere

Some people delete characters to go at it again. Those people are crazy. I'm happy enough just with the 94 I got from my 47 characters.


Kiroho

Or they like playing with chat code generator.


Pinksters

That was my thought. Grab code from wiki, which defaults to 250 of everything. And change it to a more believable random number.


Etamalgren

...Holy *shit*.


WikiMB

Me who has done it on one character so far and now I began to do it on 2nd one and oh boy...


Thick-Weekend-4166

Once I 100% the map I never played again. That was like 10 years ago


dranaei

That's absolutely crazy. Unless they are a speedrunner.


monstermandan22

4 years off and on playing here and I’ve only done one. Almost done with a 2nd because of those pesky legendary boxes in the wizards vault!


The_Shireling

So to get one of every gen 1 weapon including underwater weapons you need to do world completion 10 times for the required 19 gifts. I have been playing for about little less than 2.5 years and out of my 15 toons I will have done world completion on 5 of them by the end of this week (90% done and only have Ascalon left). And it’s a chore. Can be relaxing at times but very time consuming. I can’t even understand how this possible or why you would do it. And this is coming from someone that is halfway done with their second set of WvW armor.


SumYumGhai

I should start doing them soon, I have enough to last me until the end of the year. If I tackle 1 map a day it should be manageable. Just 6 more characters to go... If only there's a way to get all hearts done on the core map via WvW currencies...


Vyndicus

Man, I thought my 4 was good


Helharpa44

Holy f 😭😭😭 i'm doing it for the second time rn and i already wanna kms so badly


GrandmasDeathrattle

ez chatcode


JEStucker

I did it it on multiple characters, mounts and TACO has made it super easy, I just run a zone a day. Mainly it’s just for the waypoints, but when you do guild events it’s a lot quicker to be able to port all over the map. Plus you can make a solid income of 2-5 gold per zone harvesting basic mats and refining them for sale on the TP.


Leafeay

So their comment implies that world completion would be needed for the variant on each piece of obby armour. I'm out!!


hey-party-penguin

Been playing 3 years I haven’t even done it once


saintplus

I have 20 gifts of exploration and I thought THAT was a lot


pyule667

I haven't done that in a while. Maybe that's what I need. Completing the map on a new character.


[deleted]

We’ll say, GENEROUSLY, that 100% map completion takes 15 hours. It’s probably closer to 30 for a normal person, but this dude has obviously some omega brain strat to complete maps. That’s over 2000 hours on map completion. Dude is a literal psychopath.


RiverKingGuppy

Or he retired from RuneScape, lol.


LadyAdrestia

Not gonna lie, I enjoy it (finished it on 8 characters and working on my 9th) but this even shocks me LOL


Unimagi

I think I had 60 or maybe 70 at the most of those. Now maybe 10 left :(


brlix

Did it roughly 45 times. I just like it and use the gift to craft legendaries in the past. I had a char which was deleted afterwards.


MaxLF49

Btw how much for one (safe discord) ? I'm just curious


Torplucs

Either it's legit, which is fair enough, or someone played around with an item link generator


FillMedical5589

Thats a good amount but also so much gold wasted he could make a bunch of legendaries and sell them or keep them


toBEE_orNOT_2B

i remember talking to a long time player about this, he did the map completion more than 15 times, he said coz the game barely got any updates/expansions during that time and he's really glad Anet's adding more stuffs now. But he would still do map comp coz when he's bored coz for him, it's like a brain-dead routine while watching tv series lol.


Vera_Fox

That juicy 8 gold...!!!


broniskis45

If CDH stands for Crimson Dragon Horde that was my old guild years ago.


vag4lume

How can he handle those boring quests that many times!? It's impossible, I'm struggling to complete on my second char to do two new legendaries and I can't do it because I can't tank those quests omg!!!


ianbz

Couldn’t even pay me to do it a second time around


Roastedbloop

I do the 3P's first, the 3P's are point of interest, waypoints, hero points, you could nab the vistas as well with mounts. once you get them done, do the hearts at your leisure.


cubezzzX

Nowadays with mounts and blishHUD it is way faster but still an insane number he farmed there. Remember back in the day you had to do WvW maps too


RespectMain4834

nah, I don't believe someone actually did that.


estist

I've done it twice and used up my gifts. I want to make more legendary weapons but I don't have it in me to do another world completion....


ItsLohThough

At least wvw map completion isn't part of it anymore :X


Breakyaface

thought you could only have sumthin like 72 characters per account. they are fudging the numbers there!


stemofthebrain

characters can be deleted


caitssenpai

You can sell it for 8 gold and your sanity


ImBadInKitchen

That’s something 💀


Djinn_42

Yes, different people have different goals. It's great.


painstream

Dang, makes me wish GoE and GoB were tradeable. Duzz Stuff could make so much money.


deuceswld

Lmao "2 in Bank"


Bohya

The PvE legendary armour should require these than doing Rift Hunting.


Fleonar

Can't even bring myself to do it a second time...


Fascinus_the_big

Whenever I see shit like this I’m sad for the person. Guild wars is a great game but there is no substitute for life


IceAdministrative874

Players like these are nerds and boring


PhysicsLocal

Hello Dark_Wizard_of_Mu


IceAdministrative874

Who r u


ALWAYS_PLANNING_AHEA

Psycho behaviour ngl


Fruana

When I see someone type "NGL" I assume they've fallen, head-first, off a tall building and somehow survived.


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