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Well in that case, someone do this with me asap so I can see this
You can do it yourself, and you should because Trahearne literally begs you to kill him and you press F to do it!!
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May 9, 2024 22:27
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Quality thread title.
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Jul 20, 2016 19:48
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https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/an-interview-with-queen-jennah/
Sure this is nice but if we could maybe hear about actual game and mode changes that would be more interesting.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:27
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Honestly feels like every fractal released is longer than the previous longest fractal.
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Jul 25, 2016 18:19
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https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/757693328251056128
Confirmed, Ley Line Gliding required to play Season 3 Living Story.
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Jul 25, 2016 23:23
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Have they said if Season 3 will be like S2 with regards to having it be added to your quest log and then you can play whenever? I have like no mastery points and only have updrafts trained.
It will function exactly like that, supposedly. The only requirement to play and complete them is owning Heart of Thorns. You can still unlock the episodes if you don't own HoT, so long as you log in during the episode's release window.
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Jul 25, 2016 23:36
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New hair style choices in makeover kits and home instance nodes for iron ore, hard wood, and flax.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:16
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Added new right-click options on salvage kits to quickly salvage all items of the following qualities:
Rare quality
Masterwork and lower quality
Fine and lower quality
Holy poo poo.
quote:Molten Furnace
The “Explore the caverns with Rox and Braham” event should now progress more swiftly, with much less time spent waiting on the drill in the tunnel.
God drat, finally.
MacBook Air Gamer fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Jul 26, 2016
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Jul 26, 2016 18:19
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I wanna see screenshots of the new zone!!!
it's very red
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Jul 26, 2016 21:24
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wait can I combine 4 minor sigils of the same type to create a major sigil of that type in the mystic forge??
Nope, it's complete RNG, no matter what type the sigils are. Putting in 4 minor sigils of any type can either give you back a random minor sigil or a random major sigil. Putting in 4 major sigils can either give you back a random major sigil or a random superior sigil.
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Aug 2, 2016 16:44
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New 1% area, now in Verdant Brink of all places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omb7i9E6hDA
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Aug 2, 2016 18:20
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The (superior) 1% passes for Royal Terrace and Captain's Airship are on sale for 800 gems each. Leave Arus alone in his stinky jungle den.
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Aug 22, 2016 18:02
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Where is the airship, and can you jump off and glide?
Gendarran Fields and yes.
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Aug 22, 2016 18:13
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There's a new activity!!
quote:[08/23/2016 – August 23 Release Notes
New Activity: Basket Brawl
Citizens of Tyria! The Captain’s Council is happy to announce Tyria’s newest and greatest sport, basket brawl! The council has sponsored a public court for all to use for the next two weeks. Speak to Morris Podaulff, our first appointed commissioner of basket brawl, in the Grand Piazza to try it today!
World Polish
Cursed Shore
Fixed a bug that caused the corrupted statues of the gods to fire at the wrong times and display the wrong effects.
Straits of Devastation
Fixed a bug that caused the content guide to direct players to an unexplored map sector when all map sectors were already explored.
Fixed a bug that caused the corrupted statues of the gods to fire at the wrong times and display the wrong effects.
Tangled Depths
Moved the locations where some chak sappers appear to keep them out of the walls in the chak tunnels.
General
Flame Legion Effigy: Fixed a bug that cause this creature’s portrait to cover its target information.
Dragon’s Stand: Fixed a bug that caused the zone name to be displayed twice on the map.
Fixed a bug that prevented hungry cats from meowing at players.
Tremors are coming from the north.
Raids
Stronghold of the Faithful
Keep Construct
Added a ring effect to the death explosion of projections to help clarify their radii.
Fixate applied by projections now has a longer duration and will resolve itself better to prevent target swapping. Stealth and similar effects, as well as being downed, will continue to remove Fixate.
Fixate applied by projections now lasts 5 minutes, up from 90 seconds.
Xera
Removed erroneous collision on the center tower that caused players to get stuck inside if they missed the ley line.
Players will have their gliders disengaged if they somehow manage to jettison their way into the stratosphere.
Structured Player vs. Player
General
Updated the Wall of Champions.
Updated the Revenge of the Capricorn map layout.
In the red and blue bases, removed the house in the center to increase visibility while in spawn.
In the red and blue bases, adjusted the respawn radius and location to be consistent on both sides.
Added a wall to block visibility in the blue base’s side exit, making it consistent with the red base’s side exit.
On the path from the blue base to the bazaar, removed the beached ship and replaced it with a ramp.
On the path from the red base to center of the map, removed the wall drop-off and replaced it with a ramp.
At the center point, made the jump to get up to the ledge more consistent for both sides.
Players can leave matches during the 15-second team party phase if they do not opt in to joining a party.
World vs. World
General
There are now mixed borderlands!
The red borderlands are now always the Desert borderlands, and the green and blue borderlands are now always the Alpine borderlands.
Added green and orange commander tags.
Fixed a bug in which guild golem blueprints would not refund players the blueprint correctly.
Shortened the leash range on WvW keep lords.
Desert
Added a new hay bale to the southeast side of the Desert borderlands.
The following changes have been made to the Desert borderlands since it was last in the game. These changes have appeared in previous release notes.
Camps: Reduced the number of base guards from 4 to 3.
Camps: Base guards are now a combination of both scouts and guards.
Camps: Guards have been moved inside the capture circle.
Southeast Camp: Fixed a bug in which the guards weren’t sharing hate properly.
North Camp: The capture point’s size has been increased, and it is now rectangular.
Fixed a bug with the teleporter on the dunes above the Fire Keep.
Fixed a bug with automatic blessing at the east Earth Shrine.
Fixed a bug with a jump pad on the north side of the Air Keep.
Fixed a bug with a floating mortar in the Air Keep.
Changed the jump platforms at the Air Keep so that they launch players similarly to how jump mushrooms work in the jungle maps.
Removed some of the jump platforms since the new jump platforms launch players farther.
BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions
For a limited time only, the Peacock Scepter is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 600 gems.
A new Mini Garm is available in the Toys category of the Gem Store for 350 gems.
A new Bloodstone weapon set is available from Black Lion Weapons Specialists for the limited-time price of 1 complete Black Lion Claim Ticket from a Black Lion Chest. Keys are available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 125 gems each.
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Aug 23, 2016 17:47
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Would it be feasible for a small guild (4-5 people) to get a guild hall, especially if only one of the people own the expansion?
Anyone who wants to enter the guild hall zone must have the expansion. A small group is actually preferred when taking the guild hall because the claiming event supposedly scales ridiculously high with large groups.
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Aug 29, 2016 17:25
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The Current Events NPC moved again yesterday, and her next destination is Bloodtide Coast.
Maybe she'll go so far south we wind up back in Cantha!!
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Sep 2, 2016 03:02
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-Episode 2 of Season 3 coming September 20th
-Next new zone is in Ring of Fire Islands complete with NEW HEARTS!
-New PvP Conquest map
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/11142/Guild-Wars-2-Episode-2-Drops-September-20th-Takes-Us-Back-to-the-Ring-of-Fire.html
quote:During PAX West 2016, our first appointment of the show was with none other than ArenaNet for Guild Wars 2’s new Living World Episode. We saw none other than Nellie Hughes (renowned for her work on City of Heroes once upon a moon), and Elisabeth Claire to chat about the new episode and how players will be making their return to a zone we haven’t seen since the Prophecies Campaign of Guild Wars 1.
The Ember Bay, set in the Ring of Fire Islands, is the new zone coming with Episode 2, and players would be wise right now to train up their Ley Line Gliding Mastery in order to rove quickly about the pretty large map (that’s the top tier of the Gliding Mastery). That said, if you’ve still got work to do there, don’t fret. Ancient Magic’s 2nd Tier will now have Thermal Propulsion which just costs 3 Mastery XP and allows you to basically be shot around from point to point across Ember Bay. Think of it like Nuhoch Wallows, but more explosive.
The map itself is an absolute work of art. Josh Foreman’s deft hands are all over the place, and yes that means there’s a new Josh Jumping Puzzle right at the heart of the Mursaat Fortress. So keep that in mind. Like any volcanic fantasy place, there are rivers of lava pouring into steamy wakes of ocean water, large craggy rock formations, but also some of the most breathtaking sunrises and sunsets I’ve seen in GW2 because of the smoke and stark contrast between fire and water. The map’s not the same as Prophecies of course. Mordremoth, Zhaitan, and hundreds of years have passed and changed the area.
For those who played Episode 1, you’ll remember the cliffhanger that ended everything. With Primordus risen, bad stuff is happening once again in Tyria. It’s like these guys can’t catch a break with the dragons. Taimi, of course, is the one who wandered off to see what’s up, and so we (the newly coined Dragon’s Watch) are on our way to make sure she doesn’t get in too much trouble.
I think most folks will be happy to hear that the Heart quests from GW2 make a return in Ember Bay. In fact, they’re actually repeatable daily and have plenty of rewards tied to doing them that Nellie and Elisabeth weren’t quite to share. There are new consumables as well – a Skritt Contract that allows you to summon a skritt merchant to hawk your wears, and a weapon skin set that drops in-game only, not available in the Gem store. There are brand new armor pieces to be earned from Achievements too: a new shoulder and a new set of gloves.
Elisabeth and Nellie showed off a few of the Hearts via the demo video we were treated to: one of which is a Fire Sloth that’s wanted as an attraction at for a Circus Group. Thing is, she’s kind of enraged a lot, and you have to feed her and distract her before she eats her young. Another one at the Mursaat Temple Ruins pays homage to the Mursaat, but it’s a memory of what was there before. Another still involves the affectionately named Smooshatron. An asuran researcher is trying to get some data (as they always are) and you must help the Smooshatron fight off a massive fire worm in order to do so.
There are a whole lot of Skritt in Ember Bay too, including a big set of Skritt Pirates lead by the Pirate Queen Hughes (no relation to Nellie). You’ll have to help them create defenses, fend off attacks, and calm down the Pirate Queen by tossing Skritt Juice at her… which may or may not be akin to rum. There are new bosses too, including the Molten Dominator. If you beat him, you’ll unlock special updrafts that can get you to special areas otherwise closed off. It’s a very packed new zone with a slew of new things for players to discover, and it’ll all be here in roughly two weeks on September 20th.
Along with Ember Bay and the continuation of the story, the 9/20 update will be bringing the first new conquest style map in a good while – The Eternal Coliseum. It’s the same 5v5 combat PVP fans have come to know and love, with 3 capture points being vied for while players also try to capture the Sword of Reaping or the Shield of Life. These two items either finish downed players for you or give a bunch of health and shielding as well as one revive should you fall while under its spell. The Pro League World Championships will be held at the ESL in Burbank California on September 17th. Three teams from the EU and three from the NA will be representing, and while you’re watching live on the GW2 twitch, the first footage of the Eternal Coliseum will be broadcast as well. MacBook Air Gamer fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Sep 6, 2016
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Sep 6, 2016 17:06
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Probably gonna make a TV show that details the origin of Scarlet Briar.
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Sep 7, 2016 20:03
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBS9yhc9ISA
Also the Revive Orb is getting retooled with this patch.
quote:*Revive Sickness has been updated to be more in line with other forms of revival. The orb will return you to 50% of your health pool instead of previous 1 health point. You no longer are crippled but are locked in combat state for 60 seconds and cannot use another orb while under Revive Sickness.
*When defeated, if you have an orb in inventory, you will receive a UI option to ‘Consume a Revive Orb’ alongside the usual “Return to Waypoint” option.
*We’ve replaced the Ghostly Caretaker with an orb vortex that circles above your body and fills in for the 10 seconds it takes for the revival to complete.
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Sep 15, 2016 18:17
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that reddit post posted:Legendary Armor isn't even close to being ready.
This is the only believable part of that whole "leak".
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Oct 3, 2016 21:22
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All you really miss out on by not raiding is exclusive weapon/armor skins and minis. It's also necessary for making Legendary Armor but since that's not coming out anytime soon you can not worry about that.
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Oct 6, 2016 17:48
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quote:A message from the Skills Team:
Greetings, Tyrians!
We are here today to talk about some of the build-thematic changes that will be coming with the next balance iteration. Depending on your chosen profession and your role in combat, these changes may require some stat-swapping on your gear. We feel that giving a bit of a “heads-up” is appropriate.
One of the most notable changes being made is to the healing values of the Druid as a primary healer. Base values for the Celestial Avatar heals will be reduced, while the healing power contribution will be enhanced significantly. The reasoning for these changes is that while we are excited about the Druid being an incredibly strong healer, we would also like to see that role as one of many choices in your attribute build.
Similarly, there will be changes in boon duration and boon application for a few professions. For the Revenant, we’ll be looking at reducing Naturalistic Resonance’s base boon duration. For Mesmer, we’re looking at making Signet of Inspiration’s boon sharing functionality a bit more controlled, giving each shared boon a fixed duration. To help compensate for these general reductions, we’ll be increasing both damage and a few different baseline boon durations.
As this update rolls out we will continue to monitor the effectiveness of these changes, along with the remainder of the balance updates, and will make additional adjustments and tweaks as necessary. Thanks very much for your time!
-The Skills Team
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Balance-Changes-Upcoming
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Oct 13, 2016 22:25
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Edit: Never mind, my friend is just a dope.
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Nov 16, 2016 01:10
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Patch notes are up!
quote:12/13/2016 – December 13 Release Notes
Wintersday 2016
Come join us in celebrating Wintersday! Complete daily achievements to earn fanciful new holiday weapons; save Wintersday by giving wrapped gifts to the orphans spread around Divinity’s Reach; test your skills against other players in Snowball Mayhem; experience the joy of jumping in Winter Wonderland; defend against waves of toys in Toypocalypse; or help keep Tixx’s airship, the Infinirarium, in order! You will also see Wintersday events appearing all around Tyria.
The Wintersday meta-achievement is earned by completing daily Wintersday achievements and can be repeated to collect more gifts.
Achievements for the Winter’s Presence collection have returned with saved progress from Wintersday 2015.
Parts of Divinity’s Reach and the Heart of the Mists have been decorated.
Earn personalized Wintersday gifts by completing achievements, or buy them from the guild trader.
Tradeable Wintersday gifts now have a chance to drop all over Tyria.
World Polish
Fixed a bug that caused Wintersday ornaments to continue dropping from some chests after players had already completed the “For the Children!” achievement.
Fixed a bug that could cause present boxes in the Winter Wonderland activity to prematurely explode.
Fixed a bug that could cause snowflake platforms to not melt in Winter Wonderland.
Fixed a bug that could cause players to keep their normal skill bar during Winter Wonderland.
Fixed a bug that allowed guardians to benefit from Virtue of Courage’s aegis boon during Winter Wonderland.
Fixed a bug that could cause players to be unable to start playing a part in the Wintersday Bell Choir if a player leaves the activity while playing that part.
Fixed a bug that caused some skritt to not progress the “Wintersday Skritt Hit” achievement when pestered with snowballs.
Increased the amount that players are healed by when standing near the central pillar in Toypocalypse.
Living World
Bug Fixes
The Endless Kodan Tonic now has a 5-second cooldown and cannot be used while in combat.
Winterberry home instance nodes now use the winterberry map icon.
Winterberries now have a Consume All option.
Reduced the unbound magic acquired from gathering and consuming winterberries.
Mesmer clone-creating skills now create clones while under the effect of Endless Kodan Tonics.
Continued attacks by the Shining Blade and their allies have lowered the health of some bandit bosses on bandit supply lines in Kryta.
Players who have completed the Living World Episode 3 storyline may now skip directly to the boss at the end of the Frozen Out instance by interacting with the Brazier of Heroic Deeds, which is located near the beginning of the instance.
Fixed a bug that prevented players who are working on Eureka or Shooshadoo from unlocking the Legendary Inscription recipe. This recipe has also been added to Hobbs’s inventory for those who missed it.
Items
Fixed issues causing clipping on the sylvari female Scallywag armor set.
Fractals
Nightmare
Added a checkpoint after the maze section.
Fixed an issue that allowed res rushing for Siax and Ensolyss.
Fixed an issue that allowed the first boss to be skipped.
Fixed an issue that allowed the maze capture points to be captured from below.
Fixed an issue in which Ensolyss could have his defiance bar active at the final 15% phase.
Swampland
Fixed a bug in which the oakhearts would not get the exposed effect when broken.
Dropping a wisp in Bloomhunger’s final 25% phase no longer resets all wisps.
Arrow markers have been added to the minimap during the final 25% phase.
Underground Facility
The turrets in the bomb path of the Underground Facility Fractal now function properly.
Bomb and gun paths will now be randomly chosen, regardless of scale.
Agony
Fixed a bug in which agony healing reduction would compound with multiple stacks.
Fractal Avengers
Fractal avengers will no longer be able to stomp the wrong player.
Fractal avengers will be destroyed instantly when interrupted or after stomping a player.
Fractal avengers will not attempt to stomp again if they are interrupted too early.
Miscellaneous
The Ascended Salvage Tool (1) now has a 100% chance to return upgrades.
Mistlock singularities will now apply the agony to attribute conversions when autoconsuming infinite mist potions.
Mistlock singularities will now apply the mist-potion effects for the correct duration on autoconsume.
Profession Skills
General:
Added a new amulet to the PvP build panel.
Deadshot Amulet: 1050 Precision, 1050 Condition Damage, 560 Vitality, 560 Expertise.
Added a new rune to the PvP build panel.
Rune of the Lynx: 175 power, +100 Condition Damage, +25% Movement Speed.
Elementalist
Arc Lightning: The damage of this ability has been increased by 25% in PvP only.
Arcane Shield: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 60 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP only.
Final Shielding: The cooldown of this trait has been reduced from 75 seconds to 60 seconds. The health threshold for activating Arcane Shield has been increased from 25% to 50%.
Glyph of Elemental Harmony: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only.
Engineer
Blunderbuss: The damage of this ability has been increased by 10% at all range thresholds in PvP only.
Jump Shot: The damage of the initial jump has been reduced by 56%. The damage of the landing has been increased by 28%.
Guardian
Piercing Light: This trait no longer causes traps to daze enemies and will instead inflict slow on enemies for 1.5 seconds on the initial trigger of a trap.
Virtue of Justice: Increased the burning duration of the passive effect from 2 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP only. Increased the active effect’s amount of burning from 1 stack to 3 stacks in PvP only.
Virtue of Resolve: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 45 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only. The healing contribution of this ability has been increased by 87% in PvP only.
Virtue of Courage: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 60 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP only.
Shield of Courage: Fixed a bug that allowed this ability to grant benefits without going on recharge.
Detonate Orb of Light: The healing contribution of this ability has been increased by 67%.
Line of Warding: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
Signet of Courage: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 180 seconds to 120 seconds in PvP only.
Mesmer
Echo of Memory: The cooldown of this ability has been increased from 30 seconds to 35 seconds in PvP only.
Restorative Illusions: The healing contribution of this trait has been increased by 285% in PvP only. The base healing modifiers for this trait have been adjusted as follows:
0 illusions shattered: Base healing modifier reduced by 62% in PvP only.
1 illusion shattered: Base healing modifier reduced by 50% in PvP only.
2 illusions shattered: Base healing modifier reduced by 42% in PvP only.
3 illusions shattered: Base healing modifier reduced by 36% in PvP only.
Revenant
Surge of the Mists: The damage of this ability has been reduced by 50% in PvP only.
Precision Strike: The damage of this ability has been reduced by 33% in PvP only.
Warding Rift: The cooldown of this ability has been increased from 12 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP only.
Debilitating Slam: The cost of this ability has been reduced from 15 energy to 10 energy.
Pain Absorption: This ability now breaks stun.
Thief
Infiltrator’s Strike: The range of this ability has been increased from 600 to 900 in PvP only. Immobilize duration has been increased from 1 second to 1.5 seconds in PvP only.
Shadow Strike: The amount of torment applied by this ability has been increased from 2 stacks to 4 stacks in PvP only.
Structured Player vs. Player
PvP Leagues Rework
Leagues have been reworked in order to facilitate better matchmaking, to give a more accurate indication of an individual’s skill level, and to be more rewarding.
PvP Season 5 begins today, December 13, 2016.
The Greater Call of the Mists bonus will be enabled in PvP until December 20.
For more information on the PvP leagues rework, please read our recent announcement. {{+https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-changes-for-pvp-league-season-5/+}}
Better Matches
Matchmaking will no longer factor in pips when creating matches and will instead focus more heavily on your matchmaking rating. This will increase the pool of eligible players that you can play against, thereby improving match quality and reducing queue times.
Solo/Duo Queue: Due to the results of a recent community poll, rosters in Season 5 are now limited to a maximum size of 2 in Ranked Arena.
Measuring Skill
Skill rating is a new visible value that represents a player’s skill level for a ranked season. Pips will no longer factor into skill rating or prestige.
Skill rating determines which division a player belongs to. Each division has 3 tiers within it.
Legendary: 1950+ skill rating.
Platinum: 1650 – 1949 skill rating.
Gold: 1350 – 1649 skill rating.
Silver: 1050 – 1349 skill rating.
Bronze: 0 – 1049 skill rating.
Nameplate badges reflect the current skill-rating division.
A new option is available that disables nameplate badges from being displayed to others.
Skill rating will be soft reset at the beginning of each PvP season.
At the beginning of each season, 10 placement matches are required to earn a skill rating and division placement.
Skill rating has no limits on backward progress.
Inactive players will experience skill-rating decay, impacting the division they’re placed in. Decay can be worked off by playing ranked games.
Period of inactivity allowed before decay begins: 3 days.
Skill rating reduction per day: 100.
Maximum skill-rating reduction: 700 (after 7 days).
Decay removed per game played: 100.
At the end of each season, the top 250 players with the best skill ratings in each region will be awarded titles based on their placement. Earning a higher rank title will award all of the lower titles. These titles will persist season to season.
Rank 1: God of PvP.
Rank 2: Legendary Demigod.
Rank 3: Immortal Legend.
Rank 4 – 10: Unyielding Legend.
Rank 11 – 25: Relentless Legend.
Rank 26 – 100: Ruthless Legend.
Rank 101 – 250: Merciless Legend.
Rewards
League pips will now be used exclusively as a mechanism for earning rewards. You will earn varying amounts of reward pips for wins and losses.
Every reward tier has been renamed, recolored, and rebalanced.
Higher tiers now provide better rewards, such as increased amounts of liquid gold.
Tier sizes are now 20 – 30 pips. Later tiers are bigger.
There is no backward progress for reward pips.
Winning a match awards 10 pips.
Losing a match awards 3 pips.
Achieving a top stat (see “Personal Score & Top Stats” below) awards 1 additional pip.
Games played with a Platinum skill rating award 2 additional pips.
Games played with a Legendary skill rating award 4 additional pips.
Tier completion now awards Shards of Glory, Unidentified Dyes, PvP League Tickets, Transmutation Charges, gold, and a new currency called Ascended Shards of Glory.
A new Ascended League Vendor has been added. This vendor has ascended armor, weapons, and trinkets available for purchase using Shards of Glory and Ascended Shards of Glory.
The Ardent Glorious ascended armor set, a variation of the Glorious Hero’s armor set, is now available.
A Mini Black Llama can be purchased from the existing League Vendor using league tickets.
A Shards of Glory Converter can be purchased from the existing League Vendor. The converter will exchange Shards of Glory for a Timeless Bag of Items.
The contents of the bag are similar to the bags received from items such as Princess, Mawdrey II, and the Star of Gratitude.
Item: Tribal Leggings now have the proper icon.
Personal Score & Top Stats
Personal score has been removed from structured PvP games, and stats have been condensed into a more meaningful Top Stat system:
At the end of a game, players who perform well in a particular area will be given the corresponding icon beside their name on the scoreboard, which is visible to all players in that match.
Damage: Total outgoing damage to alive enemy players.
Healing: Total healing given to yourself and allied players.
Kills: Number of player kills and kill assists.
Revives: Number of allied player revives.
Deaths: Number of deaths. (A top stat is not awarded for deaths.)
Defense (Conquest): Number of ticks spent in combat near a friendly captured point.
Offense (Conquest): Number of ticks spent capturing or being in combat near enemy and neutral capture points.
Defense (Stronghold): Total number of mercenaries killed and trebuchets repaired.
Offense (Stronghold): Total number of defenders killed and supply spent.
Overtime
Overtime has been added to Conquest. When both teams have the same score at the time limit or when both teams reach 500 points simultaneously, the game will enter overtime. Overtime ends when one team’s score becomes higher than the other’s, or after 5 minutes have elapsed. In the case of a time-out, the winning team is chosen randomly.
Infinite PvP Rank Progression
PvP Ranks are no longer capped at 80. This number will now increment on both the in-game HUD as well as the character-select screen.
Players will be retroactively awarded rank-ups for every time they’ve repeated rank 80.
Maps
Battle for Champion’s Dusk has been removed from Ranked Arena. Queue preferences will now only affect Unranked Arena.
Skyhammer
This map has been added to Ranked Arena.
Mist Champion Skins
Mist Champion skins can now be purchased from the League Vendor for Shards of Glory.
Guild Teams
Guild teams no longer show a ranked rating as they cannot queue for season games in Ranked Arena.
The guild team leaderboard and banners have been removed from the PvP lobby.
Guild missions can still be completed in Unranked Arena.
World vs. World
General
On Friday’s reset (12/16), skirmish points will change:
1st place will be awarded 2 points.
2nd and 3rd place will be awarded 1 point.
This is a change that we and the players wanted to try. If we aren’t happy with the results, we can change the skirmish score values again.
War score floaters have been added.
When war score is earned via various activities, floaters will now appear above various things to display the amount of points earned for all teams.
When an objective is captured/ticks, the war score will appear above the lord.
When a player is killed, the war score will appear above the player.
When a sentry is captured/ticks, the war score will appear above the capture point.
When a shrine is captured, the war score will appear above the shrine.
When a dolyak is killed or makes it to an objective, the war score will appear above the dolyak.
BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions
The Festive Hat has returned and can be found in the Style category of the Gem Store for 150 gems.
The Wintersday Wreath Backpack has returned and can be found in the Style category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
The Winter Solstice Appearance Pack, containing the Winter Solstice Outfit, a Miniature Snow Flurry Dragon, an Immortal weapon skin, a Total Makeover Kit, and a pack of 5 Glint’s Winter Dye Kits, is available again in the Style category of the Gem Store for 2,000 gems.
Improvements
The Black Lion Chest has been updated to the Wintersday Black Lion Chest and can be previewed for a full list of its contents.
The Large Personalized Wintersday Gift has been added as the new guaranteed seasonal item.
The Infinirarium Glider is available as an uncommon drop for the duration of this seasonal chest.
The Candelabra Staff is available as an uncommon drop for the duration of this seasonal chest.
For a limited time, a new set of Frostforged weapon skins is available from Black Lion Weapons Specialists for 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket. Keys are available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 125 gems each.
Many Merry Minis has been added to the Black Lion Miniature Claim Ticket vendor.
You no longer need to type an item’s full name on time-expired items when destroying them.
Using Gem Store “Time Expired” items will open the Gem Store if that item is available. MacBook Air Gamer fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Dec 13, 2016
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I guess Tarir multi-map lives for another 2 weeks.
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Jan 17, 2017 19:35
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https://twitter.com/Lord_Caudecus
Yes thank you for this vital political satire, arenanet.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:51
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The commands /resign, /qq, /gg, etc., may now be used in fractals.
I love it
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Feb 22, 2017 18:10
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All the order mentors are great, Tybalt is just the cutest one that's all.
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Feb 24, 2017 21:02
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Raids are kinda ok but I'd just rather have more content that didn't require 10 people
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Mar 12, 2017 21:50
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The last time any Anet devs commented on further development of SAB they just said it wasn't being done and was not a priority for the forseeable future, so who the hell knows? I don't have high hopes for World 3 to come out this year though.
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Mar 13, 2017 23:40
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I hope they decide to pull an April Fool's prank this year. I miss the fun stupidity of bobble heads and airplane poses.
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Mar 24, 2017 19:11
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Why do people still willingly watch WoodenPotatoes?
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Apr 22, 2017 23:09
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Episode 5 comes out May 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyjcZF6cGhU
("penultimate" episode so yes, only 6 episodes this season, which seems about accurate. These generally had more work put into them compared to season two, and so 2-3 months after this is july/august which seems an appropriate time to announce the next expansion)
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I watched the Flashpoint trailer and I actually had to google earlier cutscenes cause I didn't recognise the voice saying 'the charade ends here' (still don't) but thought for one terrifying moment that it was Scarlet
It's the sylvari female PC.
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Next expansion title revealed.
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