31 sausio, 2023
Canthan Phoenix Wings Backpack and Glider Combo
Phoenixes have been the beloved pets of Canthan royalty for centuries. With Empress Ihn visiting Divinity’s Reach soon, demand for phoenix-themed attire has taken off. You wouldn’t believe how hard it was to get this many feathers…
This package will permanently unlock a new glider and backpack skin in your account wardrobe.
Black Lion Chest Update
Inside each chest, you’re guaranteed to find two redeemable Black Lion Statuettes and two common items. You also have a chance to find something rarer in the fifth slot, including exclusive items, glyphs, and skins from the Shimmering Aurora Weapon Collection and Magical Weapon Collection.
Black Lion Exclusive: Devil-Rending Cape
Any half-decent hero knows that there’s nothing cooler—or hotter—than a river of flame cascading all around you. This item will permanently unlock a new backpack skin in your account wardrobe and is exclusively available as an uncommon find inside Black Lion Chests.
Black Lion Claim Ticket Update: Reflective Koi Weapons
Black Lion Weapons Specialists are offering this brand-new set of weapon skins for one Black Lion Claim Ticket each! Black Lion Claim Tickets can be found inside Black Lion Chests or purchased using Black Lion Statuettes.
Discounts
For the next two weeks, we’re offering discounts on the following items:
Salvage-o-Matics
The Copper-Fed, Silver-Fed, and Runecrafter’s Salvage-o-Matics are 20% off! These items function like salvage kits purchased from vendors but have unlimited uses.
Equipment Template Expansions
Each character can unlock up to six additional equipment template tabs, which you can use to store equipment layouts suited for a variety of combat encounters. Get yours at 20% off for a limited time!
Build Template Expansions
Each character can unlock up to five additional build template tabs, which you can use to store and swap between your favorite skill and trait combinations. Grab them at 40% off for the next two weeks.
Shared Inventory Slots
Every character on your account can access the items stored in these slots, so they’re perfect for carrying food, boosters, salvage kits, gathering tools, and more! You can unlock up to twenty-five shared inventory slots through the Gem Store. Now available at 20% off the regular price.
Seasonal Swap
Starting this Friday, the following items will be available in the Gem Store at a 20% discount:
Dwayna’s Throne
Inquest Overseer Chair
Pirate Captain’s Chair
Skyscale Chair
Available Now in the Gem Store!
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30 sausio, 2023
A new balance update is on its way! Join us this Friday, February 3 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-8) on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel for a look at the February 14 profession balance update preview.
Skills and Balance Team Lead Cal “cmc” Cohen and Associate Game Designer Roy “Roy” Marks will be on stream to guide you through all you need to know about the upcoming profession changes. Following the stream, we’ll post the full balance preview notes on our official forums.
Stay tuned and keep your weapons at the ready!
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27 sausio, 2023
Hi, World vs. World community,
I’m Cecil Armstrong, WvW Team Lead and Producer, and I’m joined by Senior Game Designer Floyd Grubb. We’re here today to share a preview of some WvW changes coming in the January 31 update and the months following it.
Before we dig in, we wanted to remind the community of our current team priorities:
Address player population balance issues through the World Restructuring and Alliances features.
Make WvW more rewarding to play with a focus on active participation.
Refine and iterate on core WvW systems like scoring, siege, upgrades, etc.
While World Restructuring and Alliances are still our primary focus, we were able to carve out some time in our schedule to make progress toward the second and third priorities on our list.
January 31 WvW Update Preview
In addition to improved rewards, this update includes changes that are designed to encourage direct player vs. player conflict in fights over objectives while taking care to not take the fun (or the teeth) out of objective defense. We’ll be keeping a close eye on these changes—both the player feedback and quantitative data—and will make follow-up adjustments as needed.
New Weekly Achievements
We’re adding a set of weekly achievements that reward players for active and positive contribution to World vs. World—for example, capturing objectives, taking down dolyaks, and defeating enemy players. Completing these achievements each week will reward players with 8 gold and up to 35 additional WvW Skirmish Claim Tickets (a ~10% increase in max weekly tickets). The weekly gold reward will only require completion of six out of seven of the achievements to give players flexibility in how they complete the weekly meta-achievement. These achievements will reset every Monday at 11:30 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-8).
Siege
On the siege side of things, we’re making flame rams and ballistae more durable. The duration and range on the flame ram’s Iron Will skill are both also being increased to help relieve pressure on assaulters, while the range on the ballista’s Reinforcing Shot is being increased to improve its ability to destroy siege weapons on objectives. We’d like to see the warclaw used a bit more frequently in objective assaults, so we’re doubling the damage that its Chain Pull inflicts on gates.
Ram enjoyers, rejoice! We’re fixing a long-standing issue that caused players to be kicked off siege weapons when hit by certain crowd-control abilities, even when under the effects of stability. This bug has become a key part of the WvW meta, resulting in defense strategies like double-stacking catapults behind gates to chain crowd control on flame ram users. All the changes above combined should help improve the success rate of gate assaults, even while they’re being heavily defended.
Objectives
The base maximum supply limit for keeps and Stonemist Castle, as well as the supply limit increases granted from the T1/T3 upgrades, are being reduced. These changes are intended to cut down on the time that objective assaulters spend chipping away at an objective’s supply reserves during wall and gate sieges without directly lowering the active defensive capabilities of the defending team.
To compensate, we’ve increased the health of all supply dolyaks to make them easier to defend, and we increased the amount of supply that each successful delivery gives to Stonemist Castle and keeps. The base maximum supply levels for camps have also been increased, as well as the amount of supply that camps generate every 30 seconds, making them a more reliable supply source.
What’s Next?
All the changes listed above will be live in just a few days, and we have more in the hopper for the first part of this year. We’re currently working on improving rewards for active participation in fights over key objectives, making towers, keeps, and Stonemist Castle bigger player activity hotspots.
On the World Restructuring and Alliances front, we’re still diligently working on bringing those features to life. As we mentioned last year, we’re going to hold off on running additional betas until the Alliances feature is ready for live testing. We’re not ready to commit to a date for the first Alliances beta quite yet, but you’ll get a more comprehensive update on this from us in Q1.
As we mentioned earlier in this post, we’re planning to release iterative WvW changes more frequently this year, like the update coming next Tuesday. There’s a lot of room for addressing low-hanging fruit in WvW systems, but we need to be careful not to disrupt the game mode too much all at once.
Thank you for reading, and we’ll see you in the Mists!
—Floyd Grubb, Cecil Armstrong, and the WvW Team
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24 sausio, 2023
Soul River Hound Hammer Skin
The River of Souls drains the life essence of all living beings who set foot in its stream, and the same applies to people who get smacked in the face with this hammer. Not that it really needed the enchantment to do that, mind you…
This item will permanently unlock a new hammer appearance in your account wardrobe.
Elegant Silk Scarf Skin
Join in on the Lunar New Year celebrations with this beautifully embroidered silk scarf. This item will permanently unlock a new shoulder item appearance in your account wardrobe.
Discounts
For the next two weeks, we’re offering a 20% discount on Bank Tab Expansions. Each Bank Tab Expansion permanently increases the storage capacity of your account’s bank by 30 slots. You can currently have up to 16 additional bank tabs, for a total of 510 slots accessible by any character on your account.
Seasonal Swap
Starting this Friday, look for the following items to be added to the Gem Store at a 20% discount:
Arcane Marksman Rifle
Aspect Master’s Greatsword
Baleful Dragon Pistol Skin
Devil-Rending Axe Skin
Dragon Kama Skin
Eir’s Legacy Longbow
Elegant Fan Focus Skin
Hourglass Staff
Infernal Roar Warhorn Skin
Infused Blades Package
Lord Caudecus’s Pistol Skin
Lord Caudecus’s Sword Skin
Shield of the Goddess
Suntouched Scythe Staff Skin
Wolfheart Shield Skin
Wolfheart Sword Skin
Available Now in the Gem Store!
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17 sausio, 2023
Floating Lantern Skiff Skin
Celebrate in style with a skiff perfect for the Lunar New Year!
This item will permanently unlock a new appearance for your skiff in your account wardrobe.
Magmatic Torch Skin
Feel your veins overflow with magmatic power. And watch your toes, maybe.
This item will permanently unlock a new torch appearance in your account wardrobe.
Discounts
For the next two weeks, we’re offering a 20% discount on the following items:
Storage Expanders
Pick up a Storage Expander to increase the size of your material storage by 250 items per slot.
Recharging Teleport to Friend
Instantly teleport to anyone in your party or squad with this infinite-use device. Just mind the 1-hour cooldown.
Black Lion Contract Boards
Add these contract boards to your home instance for daily deliveries of various crafting materials. These are permanent, account-wide unlocks.
Black Lion Garden Plot Deeds
Add up to two additional garden plots to your home instance. Each plot has four harvesting nodes that you can use to grow plants from seeds and harvest daily.
Seasonal Swap
Starting this Friday, the following items will return to the Gem Store at a 20% discount:
Defiant Glass Backpack Skin
Dread Quiver Backpack
Emblazoned Cape
Glittering Wings Backpack
Herald of Aurene Cape
Rox’s Quiver Set
Sloth Backpack
Tempest Cape
Available Now in the Gem Store!
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