Fire Attunement.9835

Hi all, I've been looking into this and want to let you know that we've found a fix for this and it's coming to you soon!

Thanks for sharing the information we asked for! Our friendly neighborhood platform team has let me know that everything should be working correctly now–you helped us identify an issue with several support services that became unresponsive. We are working with our AWS reps to understand the root cause and try to prevent this from happening in the future.

Thank you all again for the feedback on this bug, it's been really helpful! I'm glad everything is back where it belongs but we want to dig into the underlying cause a bit more. Can some of you who were affected share your guild name? We will not do anything to your guild or your guild hall, this will just give us some more specifics to look at.

Hi again all! I have a question for those of you affected: Can you pinpoint the time frame this happened? The more accurate the better–if any of you can say with certainty "The guild hall was fine at x time and then at y time it was broken" that would be really helpful! ETA: Please include your time zone if you give a specific time.

I'm looking into this for you all, thank you for flagging it!

🎵🎵 Bash the dragon, smash the dragon... 🎵🎵

Bug Fix: Fixed a client crash.

Bug Fixes: Fixed an issue that prevented certain bright-colored dyes from applying correctly on the Royal Anubis Jackal Skin. Fixed an issue that prevented the Return to Caithe's Reconnaissance Squad achievement from completing when players replayed the Caithe's Reconnaissance Squad story instance.

Thank you for your patience while we addressed this issue. The content has been re-enabled.

Bug Fix: Fixed a server crash.

On it! We are aware of the issue and working on a fix.

Thanks for that note, I gave Customer Support a heads up to be sure they know that's related.

The Key of Ahdashim raid and “Enemy of my Enemy” story instance have been temporarily disabled so that we can address an issue. We’ll re-enable this content after the issue has been corrected.

Hello, I've been looking into this for you to see if I can figure out what's going on. Customer Support has let me know that you're all clear on our side, and we're working with Digital River to get you all sorted out. Thank you for reaching out to support for this, and we're sorry it's taking so long.

This issue has been resolved. Thank you for your patience, and go Llocate some Llamas!

06/08/2021—Late Notes Living World Fixed a bug that prevented the Legacy of the Llama Locator achievement from progressing if players had previously completed other llama-locating achievements.

06/08/2021—June 8 Release Notes Profession Skills In this update, we are focusing on remaining skill tuning and bug fixes as a follow up to the May 11 balance update. We wanted to give special attention to small quality-of-life issues experienced by several professions. To that end, we are making changes such as increasing the maximum duration of the swiftness boon to 60 seconds, and allowing multiple applications of superspeed to stack duration. Quality-of-life fixes to individual professions include proper source tracking for the firebrand’s Ashes of the Just skill, and a fix to the movement behavior of the thief's Death Blossom dagger skill so that it no longer sends you far past the intended target if you are under the effect of swiftness or superspeed. With regard to WvW, we are making targeted changes to two pain points: the overperforming engineer trait Purity of Purpose, and the druid skill Glyph of Unity. We’ve long seen Purity of Purpose be the dominating support trait for large group play in WvW, with its ability to quickly and continually stack all boons in an area. In this update, Purity of Purpose has an internal cooldown of 2 seconds per affected target. This means it can be triggered on the same target again every other second, such as on alternating pulses of Cleansing Field, but not in shorter intervals. Glyph of Unity has recently been used in large battles to cause spikes of damage totaling in the hundreds of thousands in a matter of seconds, especially in conjunction with Signet of Stone to provide invulnerability while doing so. This ability to cause dozens of attacks per second (limited only by how many hits are striking the druid) to up to five targets has no effective counter in large group combat, except to keep distance from a druid in the first place. We didn't think this was great! In this update, Glyph of Unity now has an internal cooldown of 0.25 seconds per activation, so it can deliver a maximum of four attacks per second to linked enemies. General Superspeed: Multiple applications of this effect will now stack duration, up to a maximum duration of 10 seconds. Swiftness: Maximum duration has been increased from 30 seconds to 60 seconds. Mastery Skills Channeled Agony: This skill no longer applies the damaging Spectral Agony condition. Strike damage doubled. Torment stacks applied on hit increased from 3 to 5. Elementalist Signet of Fire: The number of applied burning stacks on activation has been reduced from 4 to 2, and the duration of applied burning has been increased from 6 seconds to 10 seconds in all game modes. Engineer Alchemy Purity of Purpose: This trait now has an internal cooldown of 2 seconds per target. Guardian Firebrand Ashes of the Just: This skill now properly attributes its damage to the source for each stack of the effect. Mesmer Mirage Chaos Vortex: When cast by a clone, the duration of the applied confusion condition has been reduced from 8 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE only. Ranger Short Bow Poison Volley: Poison duration has been increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds when striking from in front of the target, and from 6 seconds to 7 seconds when striking from behind the target. This change applies in all game modes. Crippling Shot: The duration of bleeding applied by the pet's next three attacks is increased from 12 seconds to 15 seconds in all game modes. Druid Glyph of Unity: This skill now has a 0.25-second internal cooldown per target. Revenant Legendary Demon Stance Embrace the Darkness: Reduced the duration of applied torment from 5.5 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only. Devastation Destructive Impulses: Bonus damage for having an off-hand weapon equipped has been reduced from 5% to 2.5% in PvE only. Thief Dagger Death Blossom: This skill no longer moves the player farther if they are under the effects of swiftness or superspeed. Daredevil Lotus Training: Condition damage bonus has been increased from 10% to 15% in PvE. This now matches the current bonus on this trait in PvP and WvW. Deadeye Malicious Sneak Attack: This skill now only applies one stack of torment, with a duration equal to twice your malice, in all game modes. BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE New Items and Promotions Episodes 5 and 6 of Living World Season 2 are free for a limited time as part of the Living World Return. The new Pharaoh's Package is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 2,400 gems. This package contains the Pharaoh's Regalia Outfit, the Royal Anubis Jackal Skin, a Total Makeover Kit, 5 Black Lion Statuettes, and 5 Elonian Landscape Dye Kits. The new Royal Anubis Jackal Skin is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 1,600 gems. The new Pharaoh's Regalia Outfit is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 700 gems. For a limited time, the Ice Reaver Cape, Herald of Aurene Cape, and Abyss Stalker Cape are available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 400 gems each, a savings of 20%. For a limited time, the Season 1 Memory Box—Flame and Festivals and Season 1 Memory Box—Scarlet vs. Lion's Arch are available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 160 gems each, a savings of 20%.

We're aware of an issue preventing players from completing the new Living World Return achievement "Legacy of the Llama Locator" if they have already completed the original Legendary Llama Locator achievements. This issue will be resolved in a build next week. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Bug Fixes: Fixed an issue in which combat teams in the Mists Arena were not using standard character models. Fixed an issue in which combat teams in the Mists Arena were not allied with themselves.

05/11/2021—Late Notes World vs. World Edge of the Mists Manual team selection has been added to the Mists Arena. Players can choose between two different combat teams, a spectator team, or a flying spectator transform by interacting with flags on the edge of the arena. Only the players on the combat teams are able to enter the arena. Upon entering the Mists Arena, players will be automatically placed on the spectator team. Leaving the Mists Arena will revert players back to their original WvW team.

We're working on fixing an issue preventing lower level players from receiving an in-game mail containing Living World Return story unlock tokens. If you haven't received your tokens, you can still unlock the episodes for free by visiting the Story Journal tab in your Hero panel. Select the Living World Season 2 category and purchase this week's spotlight episodes for 0 gems. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Bug Fix: Fixed an issue that caused the mesmer’s Signet of the Ether to behave incorrectly.

05/25/2021—May 25 Release Notes Living World Return to the Living World Story A special series of events focusing on previous Living World story chapters is beginning this week, with the spotlight on the first two episodes of Season 2, "Gates of Maguuma" and "Entanglement"! Check them out to earn special bonus rewards for playing those episodes' stories and maps through new achievements. Completing multiple sets of event achievements across the Living World story will progress the Seasons of the Dragons meta-achievement, with some legendary rewards available! Next week we'll move on to Episodes 3 and 4 of Season 2. Taimi and Gorrik are setting up a lab in the Eye of the North. If you've completed Episode 5 of The Icebrood Saga, check in with them for the latest information. For the duration of each episode's special event, that episode will be free to purchase in the Gem Store and an instant unlock will be directly mailed to you. The meta-achievement Seasons of the Dragons has been added to the Current Events achievement category. If you miss a week or need to wait to experience the story, don't worry—the achievements are permanent. Look for achievements from previous weeks in the Side Stories category in the Achievements tab in your Hero panel. See you in Dry Top! General Achievements related to the portal invasions in Central Tyria have been moved from the Current Events category to their own new category, Portal Panic. The Survey on Subjects of Importance 2 achievement has been moved from the Current Events category to the Roller Beetle Racing category. · Updated map completion rewards for all expansion maps to be consistent with current design standards. Map completion in all level-80 zones now requires the character to be level 80 to earn maximum-level rewards. Fixed an issue that allowed the Destroyer of the Crystal Fields to be stunned when entering the battlefield, causing it to stall before fighting back. Fixed an issue that could cause the final battle of the Fireheart Rise Dragon Response Mission to stall if Braham's health bar was depleted during certain sections of the fight. Raids Bastion of the Penitent: Fixed a bug in which Samarog would inconsistently pull spears across the room throughout the fight. Mythwright Gambit: Fixed a bug in which certain mechanics would fail to initiate in phases 3 and 4 of the Twin Largos encounter. Profession Skills General In this update, we're performing some follow-up tuning to several professions in order to address balance concerns we've seen from the previous update. This is an ongoing process; we're eagerly watching as the community theorycrafts new builds and tries them in content, and we're gathering data on play rates of various elite specializations and builds within those specializations as they're played in different content types. We'll continue making future adjustments as necessary to ensure that every profession is represented with viable builds for each game mode. Engineer We've loved seeing the scrapper quickness builds that the community has put together so far. In this follow-up tuning update, we're increasing the base quickness applied by Kinetic Accelerators so that aspiring quick scrappers will have more flexibility in their choice of utility skills. Scrapper Kinetic Accelerators: Increased duration of applied quickness from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds in all game modes. Guardian We're watching how the recent changes to guardian traits have impacted play, and we're pleased with how the recent tuning to the firebrand's burst damage has worked out. To help ease the lost burst potential, we're adding a (very minor) amount of additional condition damage into Power of the Virtuous. Virtues Power of the Virtuous: This trait now increases condition damage by 13% of your vitality in all game modes, up from 10%. Mesmer We're excited by how enthusiastic everyone is for the staff-wielding mirage. With the recent improvements to Chaos traits, the torment condition's performance in PvE, and the changes to the staff skills themselves, staff is currently overperforming as a boon support weapon. We'd like to keep axe-and-torch as the DPS build, and ease the performance of the mirage's staff down into a competitive support build, which means lowering its overall damage output (and confusion uptime). Mantras Mantra of Recovery: This skill will once again properly activate the trait Mender's Purity, and it will now activate Mender's Purity when used in midair. Mantra of Concentration: This skill will now properly break stuns when activated. Staff Winds of Chaos: When cast by a clone, the durations of applied torment and confusion have been reduced from 5 seconds to 2 seconds in all game modes. Mirage Chaos Vortex: Reduced alacrity applied to nearby allies from 3 seconds to 2.5 seconds in PvE only. Necromancer Scourge Demonic Lore: Reduced torment damage bonus from 33% to 25% in PvE only. Ranger The reduction in the previous update to soulbeasts' damage via "Sic Em!" cut their overall damage output below the level we'd like to see from a competitive power DPS specialization. To that end, we're giving soulbeasts back a significant DPS effect in PvE content by increasing the power of the Furious Strength trait. Soulbeast Furious Strength: Increased bonus strike damage from 10% to 15% in PvE only. Revenant Revenants have access to more damage reduction from traits than other professions, and combinations of these can be especially potent. We're making some adjustments here to bring the revenant more in line with our general trait design for damage reduction and combat sustainability. With the recent addition of the Resolution boon, Righteous Rebel also has allowed revenants to stack an extremely high resistance to condition damage. Given that revenants have strong access to the Resolution boon, we have also reevaluated the high degree of condition damage resistance provided by Righteous Rebel. A slight reduction to damage from the Devastation specialization is also being made to help preserve competitiveness and the diversity of options between Devastation and Invocation. Corruption Demonic Resistance: Reduced strike damage taken from 33% to 20% in PvE only. Devastation Battle Scars: Base healing reduced by one third in PvE only. Unsuspecting Strikes: Reduced bonus strike damage from 25% to 20% in PvE only. Retribution Determined Resolution: Reduced strike damage taken from 15% to 10% in all game modes. Renegade Soulcleave's Summit: Increased healing by 50% in all game modes. Righteous Rebel: Reduced incoming condition damage reduction per stack of Kalla's Fervor from 7% to 4% in all game modes. Thief Deadeye's performance is especially strong in PvE as a condition-damage role. At the moment, specific pistol skills are overperforming due to recent improvements to condition damage in thief traits. We're excited to see deadeye get more play, and we'll make tuning adjustments as necessary in future updates to ensure that both it and daredevil have strong damage builds available with a variety of weapons. Pistol Shadow Strike: Reduced applied torment from 4 stacks to 2 stacks in PvE only. This now matches the number of stacks currently in PvP and WvW. Repeater: Increased initiative cost from 2 to 3. Reduced duration of applied bleeding from 4 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE only. Sneak Attack: Reduced applied bleeding duration from 6 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only. This now matches the duration in PvP and WvW. Deadeye Malicious Sneak Attack: Reduced applied bleeding duration from 6 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only. BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE New Items and Promotions Living World Season 2 Episodes 1 and 2 are FREE for a limited time as part of the Return to the Living World Story event. The new Mossback Skimmer Skin is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 1,600 gems. For a limited time, the Floral Glider, Vine-Touched Destroyer Glider Combo, and Tanglewood Backpack and Glider Combo are available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 300, 525, and 525 gems respectively, a savings of 25%. Black Lion Chest The Black Lion Chest has been updated to the Starborn Chest and can be previewed for a full list of its contents. The Battle-Hardened Kit returns as the guaranteed item for the duration of the Starborn Chest. The new Starborn Cape and Mossback Skimmer Skin are available as uncommon drops for the duration of this chest. The Seraph Wings Backpack and Glider Combo returns as an uncommon drop for the duration of this chest. The Defiant Glass and Zodiac weapon collections are available for the duration of this chest. Unused versions of the Glyph of Flight and Glyph of Industry are available as rare drops for the duration of this chest. The items available in exchange for Black Lion Statuettes have been updated. Black Lion Statuettes are redeemable by using the statuette itself or redeeming one at any of the Black Lion Chest Merchants located in every major city. The exclusive Tempest Gaze Helm Skin, Fire-Breathing Package, Dragon Fireworks Package, Kasmeer's Regalia Cape, and Starborn Outfit are currently available. The two bonus collections have been updated to a selection of back-item skins and weapon skins.

Read on for all the news about what's coming in game this week!

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