About targeting: to identify a boss you can also click on the orange boss skull + HP bar on the top-right of the screen, and it selects the corresponding boss! (learned this recently) Loved the video!!
About Black Lion Chest Keys: No, you cannot simply "jump" to the specific story steps on a new character. You have to play through the preceding chapters and steps in both the Personal Story and HoT to get to the ones rewarding the keys. Even in case of LW Season 2, you have to complete the necessary Episode. If your only aim is to get more keys, you are better off doing map completions, which have a 30% chance to give you one as a reward. Also, the core story rewards 3 keys, the third coming from Chapter 6 (The Battle of Claw Island step)
I knew them all. "I'm a guild wars 2 master." One thing to note with the targeting, with illusion bosses like HPA, you can click on their name in the event menu on the right hand side of the screen and it'll take you to the real one each time. That is even quicker than looking for the giveaway tell or cycling
While I didn't learn anything new, this was a great list! Couple of added notes: The party Level number will turn blue and display WvW rank while in WvW maps, even if your party mates aren't there with you. And for Drizzlewood Coast - Some red zones can be fast travelled to in the same way, but they must be currently under attack by the good guys.
Although it is a nice collection of tips, those were hardly any new stuff for me - although I relearned about the @ for emotes just recently. There are other less obvious ones you could add, like - you can move the location of your shared inventory slots from top to bottom by dragging the bag icon - you can reorder you pinned achievements - drawing on your minimap - adjusting the number of items to craft in the crafting panel by click and drag up & down over the number - a lot of little tricks about filters and searches in different windows - targeting a boss through clicking on the health bar displayed in the event panel on the right I learned about some of those from similar videos of laranity.
when using "/emote @" for targeting it will not only display targeted text but your character will also automatically face in the direction of your target when starting the emote animation - that is assuming you and your target arent running around, then it is obviously less effective.
For Drizzlewood Coast, you can click the red territory to drop in if the assault is ongoing in the red territory, which you will not see the NPC icon or message if you just port in to the map.
maximum sympathetic that you are a gamer and also do fitness. it is the best private employment. so you never get bored with two time-consuming hobbies 💪🏼✌🏼
If you have a lot of loot bags, typing ‘o o’ in your inventory after doing a meta event brings up bags you can open making inventory management a little easier.
All cool tips. Playing too long definitely shows.... The creating table hack is especially useful in guild halls that have scribing unlocked as quick bank access. Targeting boss enemies like Amala, click her white health bar in the "orange event" portion of your screen and it'll automatically select the real one or other boss you're fighting.
@@HeroineDark yep, during Deimos. I know the real Saul gets a health bar since he needs to stay alive, but you're right, I can't recall if the clones have health bars. They're at least way easier to spot!
Dayum, not me sitting here thinking 'i will know everything on this list because I'm built like that 😤' then learning the bank is accessible from every crafting station in the first minute or two zzz GGs 🤣💀🤣.. great video brudda and congratz on the channel growth! 😎👌
I'll leave a like and a comment. I knew all of these but this is still pretty good info for newer players and we need more people who new players can watch
Not sure how commonly known this is, but if you’re crafting items for research notes, you can click the button “salvage as crafted” (or something like that, I don’t have the game open at the moment), and it will salvage as they are completed so your inventory doesn’t get filled.
The first one got me. I group with people so rarely that I never realized those numbers display useful information, haha. I've never been able to get a good handle on tab targeting, sometimes it seems like the game makes strange choices for which mob to target. Good video.
For the longest time I had run group content of all kinds and always just thought "what do all those weird numbers mean?" before I finally put the pieces together.!
didnt know about more than half of these, especially the bl key farm! i have 4 toons i just boosted to 80 and never played them again. im definitely farming those bl keys now lol. thanks for the video!
Great stuff! To add to the first two comments the level icon will display wvw and I believe pvp level and you will get black lion keys from doing map comp. Great stuff, I recently found your channel. Do you have an account tour / character showcase ? Would love to see your main characters and what your into in the game.
Thanks! I haven't done any sort of account tour or anything--I mostly just play my main power berserker you'll see in most of my videos. I did show this character and a couple of my alts in my "Learning DPS Rotations" video, if you care to see!
14 seconds in and already learned both tips lol. Just started playing a couple days ago so my information about the game is limited. My brother plays as well he actually just started again he played before any of the dlcs were even out back when the game wasn’t free.seen him click the disperse materials or whatever in inventory and here I was clicking stow away on all my materials one by one. I miss even small stuff like that so the video was definitely helpful for me who isn’t even that observant.
When you're new, there's SO many tips to make your life easier you'll learn. As I mentioned in the video there's already lots of other videos out there, so I was really trying to find things not covered elsewhere. But off the top of my head... -Once you have more access to more maps and it's easy to get around, doing three "Daily" tasks (in your Hero > Achievement panel) will get you an easy 2g per day. -You can Shift+Click an item, skill, status, etc to "ping" it in chat, which will allow other players to mouse-over, or even preview equipment on their own character. You can also combine this with the /wiki command, so you can type /wiki, then ping an item, and the wiki will take you straight to the page for it. -If you haven't yet, pick up some higher capacity bags from the Trading Post. 15 slot bags are cheap. You also get a free 24-slot bag for subscribing to the GW2 Newsletter in your Arenanet account profile. -The "Sell Junk" button on Merchants will sell anything with a dark gray name, which is stuff that's really only meant to be merchant feed anyway. -If you're out and about and run out of gathering tools, click the WvW button on your toolbar, then go to Obsidian Sanctum. Easy access to merchant, bank, etc. Then to leave, open the WvW panel, and click the button in the bottom right, and it will take you back to the *exact* spot you were before. -You automatically have the starting zone for all races unlocked, which are right outside of their respective racial cities. Lion's Arch also has portals to each city. If you don't have access to Lion's Arch, you can enter the PvP lobby, and there's a portal to Lion's Arch there. -If you open up the map, and are fairly zoomed in, you can mouse over the icons in the top-left (for Vista, Point of Interest, etc), and if they've been revealed, they'll sparkle on your map to show you where they are. Hope this helps and welcome to Tyria!
@@avoxtr thank you so much and they were all helpful, especially the gathering tools one because I’m always like oh look ore im gonna go smack it. Bam pops up no gathering tool equipped and I’m just like 🥲 I was literally sitting here telling myself two seconds ago okay when I finish this I’ll go here and get tools just to end up forgetting to get the tools, then I’ll still continue to get distracted by all the things I can gather and I’m like omg why did I froget the damn tools I want to chop the tree. Yeah “sell junk” sells just trophies right? Which as far as I know don’t have any other purpose that I’ve seen because I don’t see the option to ever sell them on the market and you can’t store them for crafting materials either.
Yeah Sell Junk only sells items that have virtually no value outside of being merchant feed. You'll see a lot of trophies are given purely for the sake of selling to merchants too, like those from Fractal Encryptions!
You probably heard this one too many times but I just have to say it. You are literally a real life Norn who discovered RUclips and decided to forge his legend by making videos 🤣💖
I wasn't aware of the specifics where to get more keys as well, although I knew that there is more than just the level 10 one. Just kept casually going through the story with my alts.
Look up Black Lion Key on the Wiki, and there's actually a section that shows which story chapters reward them! I found some of them require you to progress the story enough to reach them, others let you jump straight in.
Only downside is it doesn't work on the "Meta Events" chests where they have to report how complete they were. But still, it helps for pretty much any other chest!
I'll give it a shot myself next patch! I've left it on in the past and even double checked the wiki + official forums when writing the script for this. So if nothing else, I know it's *supposed* to work as described. Wouldn't surprise me if it's broken or has other parameters it's looking at right now though
you have stretch marks on your biceps just like me, this happened to me from my experience with steroids when the muscle grew excessively but quickly :)
By default you can have two. You can have up to four active with the gem store item "Additional Crafting License," which of course isn't free, so that's the real advantage to swapping them out for the small fee in-game
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About targeting: to identify a boss you can also click on the orange boss skull + HP bar on the top-right of the screen, and it selects the corresponding boss! (learned this recently)
Loved the video!!
i didn't know this absolute beast of a man was playing GW2
About Black Lion Chest Keys:
No, you cannot simply "jump" to the specific story steps on a new character. You have to play through the preceding chapters and steps in both the Personal Story and HoT to get to the ones rewarding the keys. Even in case of LW Season 2, you have to complete the necessary Episode. If your only aim is to get more keys, you are better off doing map completions, which have a 30% chance to give you one as a reward.
Also, the core story rewards 3 keys, the third coming from Chapter 6 (The Battle of Claw Island step)
A commonly missed tip ... you can organise the Achievement list in the panel
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
and filter it!
I knew them all. "I'm a guild wars 2 master." One thing to note with the targeting, with illusion bosses like HPA, you can click on their name in the event menu on the right hand side of the screen and it'll take you to the real one each time. That is even quicker than looking for the giveaway tell or cycling
2:48 other addition: you can just click the boss bar in the top right quest box or however you want to call it. It will select the real boss directly.
I'm totally going to just do this from now on, haha. Thanks!
Oh that’s a good one. I didn’t know that. Super helpful 😊
Ooohh!! That’s going to be very useful in the Joko fractal during the lyssa sequence!!
While I didn't learn anything new, this was a great list!
Couple of added notes:
The party Level number will turn blue and display WvW rank while in WvW maps, even if your party mates aren't there with you.
And for Drizzlewood Coast - Some red zones can be fast travelled to in the same way, but they must be currently under attack by the good guys.
Glad you enjoyed it either way, and thanks!
Although it is a nice collection of tips, those were hardly any new stuff for me - although I relearned about the @ for emotes just recently.
There are other less obvious ones you could add, like
- you can move the location of your shared inventory slots from top to bottom by dragging the bag icon
- you can reorder you pinned achievements
- drawing on your minimap
- adjusting the number of items to craft in the crafting panel by click and drag up & down over the number
- a lot of little tricks about filters and searches in different windows
- targeting a boss through clicking on the health bar displayed in the event panel on the right
I learned about some of those from similar videos of laranity.
I saw the video go up and I was like, "I'll be impressed if there is one thing." Got me on the content streaming setting.
Mission accomplished!
Nice video, all these years playing and I didn't know about the little event Heart icon, or targeting emotes. Thanks for the tips.
when using "/emote @" for targeting it will not only display targeted text but your character will also automatically face in the direction of your target when starting the emote animation - that is assuming you and your target arent running around, then it is obviously less effective.
For Drizzlewood Coast, you can click the red territory to drop in if the assault is ongoing in the red territory, which you will not see the NPC icon or message if you just port in to the map.
Hey. You forgot Battle of claw island story at level 60 gives a lion key. Is once per character so can be farmed.
maximum sympathetic that you are a gamer and also do fitness. it is the best private employment. so you never get bored with two time-consuming hobbies 💪🏼✌🏼
Both really rewarding hobbies that are easy to let turn into addictions if you're not careful 😂
@@avoxtr gaming supports regeneration and fitness gives an XP boost. if you also have a good job you are in the endgame
If you have a lot of loot bags, typing ‘o o’ in your inventory after doing a meta event brings up bags you can open making inventory management a little easier.
All cool tips. Playing too long definitely shows....
The creating table hack is especially useful in guild halls that have scribing unlocked as quick bank access.
Targeting boss enemies like Amala, click her white health bar in the "orange event" portion of your screen and it'll automatically select the real one or other boss you're fighting.
Someone else mentioned clicking the health bar, which I knew of, but I never thought about for clones. Will have to try it on Saul too!
@@avoxtr Saul, as in raid wing 4? The hundreds of times I've done that fight i now can't remember if a health bar appears for him.
@@HeroineDark yep, during Deimos. I know the real Saul gets a health bar since he needs to stay alive, but you're right, I can't recall if the clones have health bars. They're at least way easier to spot!
The party window will also show the wvw rank instead, while being on a wvw map. Also, you can hover the heart to see the progress % of that member.
i play on 1080p resolution, so the heart progress percentage is really useful to me :P
Dayum, not me sitting here thinking 'i will know everything on this list because I'm built like that 😤' then learning the bank is accessible from every crafting station in the first minute or two zzz GGs 🤣💀🤣.. great video brudda and congratz on the channel growth! 😎👌
Haha thanks and glad I was able to show you something new!!
I've never expected to learn this much from a guy build like a norn, thanks!
Fighting norn stereotypes!
I'll leave a like and a comment. I knew all of these but this is still pretty good info for newer players and we need more people who new players can watch
Thanks, and glad you still enjoyed it!
THanks, very helpful with the targeting, previous and the lvl indicaters of party members...cheers
Didn't know about the launch pad in Lion's Arch. Very handy!
I didn't know some of these, thank you!!! And your zoomie griffon is SO cute!
Thank you!! 😊
5:28 'so, did I win the bet?' yes, I forgot we can get further BLK from Living World s2 and HoT Ch. 3
Miss your stuff man =(
I'm working on a new series, not dead yet!
@@avoxtr good to hear it man
Very informative sir. Been playing for a while and a bunch of these are new to me.
Glad you liked it, thanks!
Not sure how commonly known this is, but if you’re crafting items for research notes, you can click the button “salvage as crafted” (or something like that, I don’t have the game open at the moment), and it will salvage as they are completed so your inventory doesn’t get filled.
I did not know that about all the other sources for keys, thanks for the info!🎉
Awesome info! Thank you!
The first one got me. I group with people so rarely that I never realized those numbers display useful information, haha. I've never been able to get a good handle on tab targeting, sometimes it seems like the game makes strange choices for which mob to target. Good video.
For the longest time I had run group content of all kinds and always just thought "what do all those weird numbers mean?" before I finally put the pieces together.!
Did not know about the launch pad next to the bank, very cool
Tips I haven't seen in other videos! I didn't know any of these. I didn't even know there was a jumping pad in Lions Arch
I didn't know that about story mission keys. Thanks!
theres also a free key from stories level 40 and 60 missions for each character.
didnt know about more than half of these, especially the bl key farm! i have 4 toons i just boosted to 80 and never played them again.
im definitely farming those bl keys now lol. thanks for the video!
I didn't know that first one about the numbers. I normally see the achievement numbers and never thought much about it.
Great stuff! To add to the first two comments the level icon will display wvw and I believe pvp level and you will get black lion keys from doing map comp.
Great stuff, I recently found your channel. Do you have an account tour / character showcase ? Would love to see your main characters and what your into in the game.
Thanks! I haven't done any sort of account tour or anything--I mostly just play my main power berserker you'll see in most of my videos. I did show this character and a couple of my alts in my "Learning DPS Rotations" video, if you care to see!
I actually learned a few things I didn't know. Awesome vid! Thank you.
I was so confident at the start and then was hit by knowledge I was unaware of xD
I've been playing since closed beta and I learned something in your first tip. I did not know party members' heart progress showed there.
your tip #6 is epic bro
/wiki et
the trading post teleporte in lions arch got me
14 seconds in and already learned both tips lol. Just started playing a couple days ago so my information about the game is limited. My brother plays as well he actually just started again he played before any of the dlcs were even out back when the game wasn’t free.seen him click the disperse materials or whatever in inventory and here I was clicking stow away on all my materials one by one. I miss even small stuff like that so the video was definitely helpful for me who isn’t even that observant.
When you're new, there's SO many tips to make your life easier you'll learn. As I mentioned in the video there's already lots of other videos out there, so I was really trying to find things not covered elsewhere. But off the top of my head...
-Once you have more access to more maps and it's easy to get around, doing three "Daily" tasks (in your Hero > Achievement panel) will get you an easy 2g per day.
-You can Shift+Click an item, skill, status, etc to "ping" it in chat, which will allow other players to mouse-over, or even preview equipment on their own character. You can also combine this with the /wiki command, so you can type /wiki, then ping an item, and the wiki will take you straight to the page for it.
-If you haven't yet, pick up some higher capacity bags from the Trading Post. 15 slot bags are cheap. You also get a free 24-slot bag for subscribing to the GW2 Newsletter in your Arenanet account profile.
-The "Sell Junk" button on Merchants will sell anything with a dark gray name, which is stuff that's really only meant to be merchant feed anyway.
-If you're out and about and run out of gathering tools, click the WvW button on your toolbar, then go to Obsidian Sanctum. Easy access to merchant, bank, etc. Then to leave, open the WvW panel, and click the button in the bottom right, and it will take you back to the *exact* spot you were before.
-You automatically have the starting zone for all races unlocked, which are right outside of their respective racial cities. Lion's Arch also has portals to each city. If you don't have access to Lion's Arch, you can enter the PvP lobby, and there's a portal to Lion's Arch there.
-If you open up the map, and are fairly zoomed in, you can mouse over the icons in the top-left (for Vista, Point of Interest, etc), and if they've been revealed, they'll sparkle on your map to show you where they are.
Hope this helps and welcome to Tyria!
@@avoxtr thank you so much and they were all helpful, especially the gathering tools one because I’m always like oh look ore im gonna go smack it. Bam pops up no gathering tool equipped and I’m just like 🥲 I was literally sitting here telling myself two seconds ago okay when I finish this I’ll go here and get tools just to end up forgetting to get the tools, then I’ll still continue to get distracted by all the things I can gather and I’m like omg why did I froget the damn tools I want to chop the tree.
Yeah “sell junk” sells just trophies right? Which as far as I know don’t have any other purpose that I’ve seen because I don’t see the option to ever sell them on the market and you can’t store them for crafting materials either.
Yeah Sell Junk only sells items that have virtually no value outside of being merchant feed. You'll see a lot of trophies are given purely for the sake of selling to merchants too, like those from Fractal Encryptions!
Got me with the jumping platform in LA
Ok, I didn't know about the trick to find Amala by her "spiky" name plate. Here is my like and my sub o7
Thank you!!
Play since launch.. on and off. I still learnt some things. I gonna sub and like.
Thank you!!
The Aqua Teen allusion made me lol
Haha I knew someone would get it!
You probably heard this one too many times but I just have to say it. You are literally a real life Norn who discovered RUclips and decided to forge his legend by making videos 🤣💖
The norn comments put a big smile on my face, I'm not complaining one bit!
Awesome content!
Thank you!
Nice list! You forgot a BLK in the story though. Battle of Claw Island ALSO gives a key :)
Look up Black Lion Key on the wiki, there's a list of story chapters that give it. I think there's even more, if I recall correctly!
the jumping pad from bank to tp in LA :O
actually you can have up to 4 active crafting disciplines per character. You just need to buy aditional crafting license from gem store
Oh good to know! Can you tell I've never hit that limit? 😂
You taught my old player butt new trick with the downloading in the background and if you ever want to learn how to guardian tank LOL
I am a Guild Wars 2 master, also nice video 👍
yup, learned few new things
awsome learned a few :)
Got me on #6
Didn't know that one.
I have 50+ toons... time to farm those BL Keys. Lol thanks for that tip haha.
I wasn't aware of the specifics where to get more keys as well, although I knew that there is more than just the level 10 one. Just kept casually going through the story with my alts.
Look up Black Lion Key on the Wiki, and there's actually a section that shows which story chapters reward them! I found some of them require you to progress the story enough to reach them, others let you jump straight in.
i didnt knew any of that LMAO thanks for the tips!!
Even better, then I've done my job!
I was certain I wouldn't learn anything new but was quickly humbled. Didn't know the party UI showed party members' "heart progression".
Haha that's the reaction I was going for!
Me: "I'm gonna waste my time"
Literally 5 secs into the video: "You can right click to dismiss thee rewards chest"
Me: WITCHCRAFT 📿
😂 I got one!!
I didn't know abot /wave thing...rest are familiar tho im playing over 5 years now.
I have all of my crafting on one character using that technique as I'm entirely too lazy to switch characters.
i didnt know someone so musculare playing this game xD
There are dozens of us!
didnt know about the right click and it was always so annoying to have to double click on those, the more you know
Only downside is it doesn't work on the "Meta Events" chests where they have to report how complete they were. But still, it helps for pretty much any other chest!
Still a nice convenience in my books!
I didn't even know about the /wiki thing lmaooo
Pro tip, you can type /wiki, then shift+click an item and it'll append the name/chat code, and the wiki will still find it!
Knew all these 😌
Seema the file streaming doesnt work for me. I had it on max and last time there was a patch it always paused. :/
I'll give it a shot myself next patch! I've left it on in the past and even double checked the wiki + official forums when writing the script for this. So if nothing else, I know it's *supposed* to work as described. Wouldn't surprise me if it's broken or has other parameters it's looking at right now though
@@avoxtr thanks
@@avoxtr so in the end it works and anet servers are just slow it seems.
They absolutely are, and part of the problem is that it's downloading thousands of individual files
you have stretch marks on your biceps just like me, this happened to me from my experience with steroids when the muscle grew excessively but quickly :)
I used to be about 120lbs, they showed up pretty much as soon as I started lifting! 🤪
I got them too when I started lifting and I was naddy then.
never really noticed that little renown heart icon on the party frames. seems like I've lost the bet haha!
It's so small and easy to miss!
ye got me
A character can have up to 4 active crafting specializations. You said that a character can only have 2 active crafting specializations.
By default you can have two. You can have up to four active with the gem store item "Additional Crafting License," which of course isn't free, so that's the real advantage to swapping them out for the small fee in-game
You can have more than two crafting profs per char just need to pay gems
Do u have a twtich?
I don't, I'm not sure I'm entertaining enough for streaming! 😂
I actually did learn something new and I hate it. LOL
Muahaha!
yep def did lol
none of this is even close to obscurity. all of this is fairly widely known. btw 3:00 it's faster to just click the boss's name in the event UI
You win the Guild Wars!
@@avoxtr i hope you're joking, because no i don't
I didn’t know some of these. This was a big help for being newer to the game. 😊
@@CJB787 yes, i'm aware that newer players exist and don't know many of these. that's fine, but it doesn't make any of this obscure.
Ok
Not gonna lie, those are pretty basic stuff, tho 2 were obscure I'll admit that (streaming and targeting)
Wtf a buff dude playing gw2?
Cool