26 rugsėjo, 2023
Astral Manticore Skyscale Mounts Pack
Powerful wings will take you to old and new horizons alike; feel the strength of the abominable manticore! This package includes three new looks for your skyscale mount: the Astral Ward Manticore Skyscale Skin, Skywatch Manticore Skyscale Skin, and Luminous Manticore Skyscale Skin.
What’s in Stock
We’re refreshing our seasonal selection of backpack and glider combos with a 20% discount starting this Friday. Some of the incredible discounted items include the Cute Demon Wings Backpack and Glider Combo, Stained Glass Wings Backpack and Glider Combo, Legion Jetpack Backpack Glider Combo, and Eternal Mandala Backpack and Glider Combo. Check the Gem Store for many other discounted backpack and glider combos!
Returning This Week
Are you looking for extra convenience for all of your characters? Shared Inventory Slots are 20% off until October 9. Don’t miss out!
Available Now in the Gem Store!
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19 rugsėjo, 2023
Dark Tyrant Appearance Package
Sometimes it’s fun to be the villain—or at least dress like one! Inspire fear as you exude an aura of malevolence with the Dark Tyrant Appearance Package. This package includes the Dark Tyrant Outfit, Dark Tyrant Axe Skin, Dark Tyrant Sword Skin, 5 Darkest Abyss Dye Kits, and a Total Makeover Kit. These dastardly items are available individually as well.
What’s in Stock
We’re refreshing our seasonal selection of minis with a 20% discount starting this Friday. A selection of the diminutive discounted items includes the Mini Outlaw Puppy, Mini Shrine Guardian, and Mini Super Trio series. Check out the mini section in the Gem Store to complete your collection while these discounts are active!
Returning This Week
Looking for more storage to hold all that precious loot? Bank Tab Expansions are 20% off until October 2. This deal also applies to permanent lounge passes, so you can choose your favorite environment to run all your errands in!
Don’t forget—there are other discounts still going on as well! Storage Expanders, Recharging Teleport to Friend, Black Lion Hunters Contracts, Black Lion Industry Contracts, Season 3 Expedition Contracts, Season 4 Expedition Contracts, End of Dragons Expedition Contracts, and Black Lion Garden Plot Deeds are 20% off until September 25.
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14 rugsėjo, 2023
Greetings, Tyrians,
On August 28, we celebrated the 11th anniversary of Guild Wars 2‘s launch. Eleven years! And while any anniversary is cause for celebration, this year’s anniversary was made even more special by the launch of Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure™, our fourth expansion. It’s truly a privilege to be able to continue supporting Guild Wars 2 into its 11th year and beyond, and the strong support of our community makes that possible.
Not only did we launch Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure on August 22, but we also transitioned to a new approach for releasing expansion content that will help ensure we can deliver game updates more consistently, for more areas of the game. So far, things are going even better than expected. In fact, so many people turned up to play SotO on launch day that we had to quickly spin up more game servers than we’d anticipated needing to accommodate the influx of players!
The dust from the release has mostly settled, but we’re still focused on addressing lingering issues from the launch build and triaging feedback. We’ll have one more bug-fix build scheduled for September 26, then we’ll be turning our full attention to the next major quarterly release…which as of today is less than two months away.
But what happens between each major quarterly update?
The Space Between
As outlined in our August 22 launch blog, each of our annual expansions will be broken down into four major releases. In addition to the story, systems updates, and other content added in those four releases, each one will introduce a fresh set of Wizard’s Vault rewards and objectives. In the months between each update, we’ll release a profession balance update and a festival (or two, depending on the time of year) and run bonus events. We might also make updates to the core game (i.e., content not related to the latest expansion) in this period, but that may not always be the case.
We’ve run week-long bonus events before, and we’re excited for them to make a return in the periods between expansion updates. We’ll be updating some of our existing bonus events to reduce the amount of manual developer effort required to run them, which will make it easier to deploy them more regularly. We’re also carving out some dev time to add entirely new bonus events to the rotation in the future, with the goal of having bonus events occur much more regularly. If you have a cool idea for a bonus event—whether it’s focused on PvE, PvP, or WvW—please drop a comment on our forums.
The Fractal Rush bonus event is running right now and will be available through this coming Tuesday, September 19. During this time, complete Fractals of the Mists to progress bonus achievements and earn rewards. As a reminder, bonus event information is displayed in the in-game UI on the right-hand side of your screen, so you’ll always know when one is running.
World vs. World Restructuring and Alliances
Since 2021, the WvW team has spent most of their time working on the World Restructuring system, a WvW infrastructure overhaul intended to produce fairer and more engaging matchups for WvW. It’s a complicated system, which you can learn more about here.
Up until recently, we have been considering the Alliance management UI a required part of shipping the World Restructuring system, which means that players are not currently getting much value from all of the work we have already put in. Many of the backend functions for balance and matchmaking already work at the WvW guild level. It’s extremely valuable for us to get consistent live data from players about how it’s working for them, so getting that system permanently online is now our first priority.
With the reprioritizing, we will not be opening the Alliances system to beta testing this year. We will refocus on delivering an always-on version of World Restructuring to players as soon as possible. From there we want to evaluate the new player experience, collect your feature requests, and monitor live data to allow us to make World Restructuring the best system that it can be.
One major priority in the perpetually active version of World Restructuring is growing and tuning the various criteria we use for matchmaking to create our WvW teams. Our goal here is to build a system with enjoyable experiences across a variety of player types so matchups feel as rewarding as possible.
We don’t have a timeline to share now, but we’ll keep you updated.
Until Next Time
We’ll share the dates for other bonus events as they draw near. The in-game Halloween festivities will run from October 17 to November 7. Sometime around then you can also expect to hear about the next major update for Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure.
On a closing note, for a few years now, we have been—and will continue to be—a hybrid office, with many of our employees working entirely from home. There’s a lot we love about that, but we also really like having the opportunity to get together in person to learn and work together. A significant number of our studio employees will be doing just that next week, so we’ll be a little quieter here on our official channels as we take advantage of that time.
We’ll see you in Tyria!
The Guild Wars 2 Team
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12 rugsėjo, 2023
Amnytas Feathered Raptor Mounts Pack
These beautiful raptors can’t fly, but their long feathers protect them from the elements high above Tyria. This package includes three new looks for your raptor mount: the Sky Runner Feathered Raptor Skin, Island Sprinter Feathered Raptor Skin, and Charged Feathered Raptor Skin.
“/Readbook” Emote Tome
Are you researching rifts alongside the Astral Ward’s scholars or lost in the latest Snargle Goldclaw novel? You’ll look dignified and studious either way! This item unlocks the /readbook emote for all of your characters to use in the game.
Black Lion Chest Update: Sentient Construct
Inside each chest, you’re guaranteed to find a redeemable Black Lion Statuette, a Mini Gray Skyscale Hatchling, and two common items. You also have a chance to find something rarer in the fifth slot, including special items, glyphs, and skins from the Maguuma Weapon Collection and the White Tiger Weapon Collection.
Black Lion Claim Ticket Update: Vinelord Edgebloom Weapon Collection
These roses have a whole arsenal of weapons, and here they are! The sinister and seductive skins are available for one Black Lion Claim Ticket each.
What’s in Stock
We’re refreshing our seasonal selection of outfits with a 20% discount starting this Friday. Some of the incredible discounted items include the Mage Knight Outfit, Mist Stranger Outfit, Adventurous Cat Outfit, Balthazar’s Regalia Outfit, and many more!
Returning This Week
In addition to the “/Readbook” Emote Tome mentioned earlier, we have also permanently returned some other emotes to the Gem Store. Express yourself with the “/Hiss” Emote Tome and “/Serve” Emote Tome today!
Storage Expanders, Recharging Teleport to Friend, Black Lion Hunters Contracts, Black Lion Industry Contracts, Season 3 Expedition Contracts, Season 4 Expedition Contracts, End of Dragons Expedition Contracts, and Black Lion Garden Plot Deeds are 20% off until September 25.
Don’t forget to pick up additional Shared Inventory Slots for all your characters to use! The 20% discount ends on September 19.
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5 rugsėjo, 2023
Sorcerer’s Cape Backpack and Glider Combo
Be the talk of the Astral Ward as you float around the Wizard’s Tower with the Sorcerer’s Cape Backpack and Glider Combo. This package includes both the Sorcerer’s Cape Backpack and a matching magical glider that billows with arcane energy as you drift between the islands of Skywatch Archipelago.
Secrets of the Obscure Launch Supply Drop: Final Week
There’s just one week left to get four shipments of fantastic Black Lion goods delivered straight to your mailbox.
What’s in Stock
Many popular items are currently discounted in celebration of Guild Wars 2‘s recent 11th anniversary. Black Lion Chest Keys, Shared Inventory Slots, Transmutation Charges, Total Makeover Kits, Self-Style Hair Kits, and Name Change Contracts are all 20% off. Individual griffon and skyscale mount skins are 25% off, and many of our infinite gathering tools are also discounted. Most of these deals end on September 11, so take advantage of them before they disappear!
Free Black Lion Chest Key and Revive Orb
If you haven’t picked up your free Black Lion Chest Key and Revive Orb from the Gem Store, do it today! This offer will only be available until September 11.
Returning This Week
We’re refreshing our seasonal selection of armor skins with a 20% discount starting this Friday. Some of the amazing discounted items include the Dusk and Dawn Shoulders Skin, Pyre Gloves Skin, Pyre Horns Helm Skin, Enchanted Dragon Crown Package, Shatterspark Gloves Skin, Shatterspark Shoulders Skin, and many more!
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