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Hi, everyone, Welcome to the preview for the October 8 balance update! We're only a few weeks past the release of Janthir Wilds, so this update will be a bit smaller as we continue to watch and evaluate the impact of the new spears and relics. As always, the goal of previewing these changes is to gather your feedback before the live release. We'll be following the conversation and making further adjustments as needed. Thanks, Cal "cmc" Cohen Skills and Balance Lead General The Celestial attribute combination has been exceptionally powerful in WvW since the addition of concentration and expertise, and it's something that we've been monitoring for some time. With this update, we're introducing the tech to adjust equipment's attribute distribution and the amount of attributes it provides on a per game–mode basis. The first use of this will be to remove both concentration and expertise from equipment with Celestial attributes in WvW only, to bring it back in line with other attributes. We'll be keeping an eye on how the tech performs and whether it needs any final touches, but, assuming everything goes well, it's something that we may use going forward to tune other attribute combinations in WvW specifically. Celestial equipment will no longer grant concentration or expertise while in a WvW map. Revealed: Increased the duration in WvW to match PvP. Elementalist The June balance update included a few tune-ups to the elementalist's dagger skills in competitive modes with the goal of making them more viable picks. These changes didn't quite have the impact that we were hoping for, so we've made additional improvements to the dagger skills for this update. We've also bumped up the damage on a handful of spear skills in WvW and made a few smaller improvements for support-focused tempest and quickness-based catalyst builds. Burning Speed: Reduced the cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP and WvW. Convergence: Increased the power coefficient from 1.2 to 1.35 in PvP and WvW. Updraft: Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW. Ring of Earth: Increased the secondary-strike power coefficient from 1.1 to 1.25 in PvP and WvW. Churning Earth: Increased the power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.6 in PvP and WvW. Frozen Burst: Reduced the cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP and WvW. Cleansing Wave: Reduced the cooldown from 25 to 20 in PvP and WvW. Increased the base healing to 2,222 in all game modes. Blazing Barrage: Increased the power coefficient from 0.9 to 1.05 in WvW only. Meteor: Increased the power coefficient from 1.2 to 1.35 in WvW only. Fissure: Increased the power coefficient from 1.0 to 1.15 in WvW only. Haboob: Increased the power coefficient from1.33 to 1.5 in WvW only. Tempest "Wash the Pain Away!": This skill now removes a condition from allies on every pulse. Rebound: This skill now grants stability instead of fury. Weaver Elemental Refreshment: This trait no longer applies barrier to allies. Increased the barrier from 523 to 1,003 in PvE only. Bolstered Elements: This trait now triggers Lesser Stone Resonance when you use an elite skill instead of at a health threshold. Reduced the internal cooldown from 70 seconds to 30 seconds. Increased the protection duration from 2.5 seconds to 3 seconds. Woven Stride: Reduced the internal cooldown from 5 seconds to 3 seconds. Catalyst Invigorating Air: This skill now also grants 25 endurance when used. Spectacular Sphere: Increased the quickness duration from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds in PvE only. Increased the might stacks from 5 to 8 in PvE only. Sphere Specialist: Increased the boon duration increase from 100% to 150% in PvE only. This trait now also allows the catalyst to gain energy while a jade sphere is deployed. Engineer Quickness-based scrapper is another boon-providing support build that we felt could use a bit more might generation, so we've added it to the trigger on Kinetic Accelerators. Flamethrower also gets a big upgrade with Smoke Vent becoming a stun break, which gives the kit a much-needed defensive tool. Blunderbuss: Increased the minimum power coefficient from 0.87 to 1.1 in PvP only. Energizing Slam: Increased the base barrier from 196 to 516 and the barrier scaling from 0.2 to 0.5 in PvP and WvW. Healing Mist: Reduced the cooldown from 28 seconds to 25 seconds. Utility Goggles: This skill now applies protection in addition to its previous effects. Regenerating Mist: Reduced the cooldown from 21 seconds to 18 seconds. Smoke Vent: This skill now breaks stun. Increased the cooldown from 15 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW. Elixir X: Reduced the cooldown from 85 seconds to 75 seconds in PvP and WvW. Energy Amplifier: This trait now grants power in addition to its previous effects. Scrapper Kinetic Accelerators: This trait now applies might in addition to quickness in PvE only. Holosmith Crystal Configuration: Eclipse: This trait now only applies barrier on Corona Burst's first hit. Increased the barrier on hit from 991 to 2,256 in PvE and from 748 to 1,804 in PvP and WvW. The barrier on hit is reduced for each hit beyond the first. Guardian In this update, we've made improvements to a number of underutilized guardian skills and traits to make them more viable options, including additional healing on Symbol of Faith, an update to Honorable Staff that makes Empower also grant endurance to affected allies, and additional ammunition for "Hold the Line!" Symbol of Vengeance: Reduced the cooldown from 12 seconds to 8 seconds in PvP only. Blazing Edge: Reduced the cooldown from 18 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP only. Symbol of Faith: This skill now heals allies on impact. Reduced the casting time. Shield of Wrath: Reduced the cooldown from 35 seconds to 30 seconds. Cleansing Flame: This skill now removes 2 conditions from the player when activated. "Hold the Line!": Increased the ammunition from 1 to 2. Signet of Judgment: This skill now applies protection in addition to its previous effects. Signet of Courage: This skill now breaks stun for the user and nearby allies when activated. Protector's Restoration: Reduced the internal cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only. Honorable Staff: This skill no longer grants additional concentration while wielding a staff and now causes Empower to grant endurance to allies. Writ of Persistence: Increased the healing from 64 to 107 in PvP and WvW. Dragonhunter Hunter's Fortification: This trait no longer grants damage reduction and now heals when you block an attack in addition to removing a condition. Willbender Heel Crack: Increased the ammunition from 1 to 2 in PvE only. Mesmer Ether Barrage is a skill that can vary significantly in effectiveness depending on which randomly chosen condition it applies with each strike. We wanted the skill to be more consistent, and going forward it will always inflict the same amount of torment and confusion every time the skill is used. We've also made some improvements to off-hand sword and axe in competitive modes and tuned up some other underperforming skills and traits. Axes of Symmetry: Reduced the cooldown from 12 seconds to 10 seconds in PvP and WvW. Lingering Thoughts: Increased the torment duration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW Phantasmal Swordsman: Reduced the cooldown from 20 seconds to 18 seconds in PvP and WvW. Increased the initial phantasm hit damage from 0.35 to 0.5 and the flurry damage coefficient per hit from 0.1 to 0.12 in PvP and WvW. Mirror: Increased the base healing from 4,299 to 5,195. Phantasmal Disenchanter: Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only. Mass Invisibility: Reduced the cooldown from 60 seconds to 50 seconds in PvP only. Furious Interruption: Reduced the internal cooldown from 3 seconds to 1 second. Increased the quickness duration from 3 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE and from 2 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP and WvW. Mirage Ether Barrage: The conditions inflicted by this skill are no longer random. This skill will apply 3 stacks of torment and 2 stacks of confusion per use. Increased the torment and confusion durations from 2 seconds to 3 seconds. Mirage Advance: This skill now dazes enemies that it strikes. Necromancer Transfusion has been a longtime pain point in WvW, but it has also been an exceptionally powerful tool for scourge in all game modes. Its ability to easily revive allies who are downed while out of position is something that we've been keeping an eye on for a while, and we see it as being too powerful. We still like Transfusion's ability to help revive allies, but we're removing the teleportation component to make it less of a guarantee. We've also tuned up the damage on axe in PvE and made some improvements to the core death shroud in all game modes. Reaper and harbinger both get some defensive updates that are primarily focused on slightly improving their survivability in PvP. Isolate: Reduced the cooldown from 18 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP only. Extirpate: This skill no longer inflicts Extirpation and instead inflicts weakness. Rending Claws: Increased the damage coefficient per hit from 0.6 to 0.7 in PvE only. Ghastly Claws: Increased the power coefficient per hit from 0.5 to 0.575 in PvE only. Unholy Feast: Increased the power coefficient from 2.0 to 2.5 in PvE only. Unholy Burst: Increased the power coefficient from 1.0 to 1.5 in PvE only. Consume Conditions: Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds. Signet of the Locust: Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only. Plague Signet: Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW. Dark Pursuit: This skill no longer increases the cooldown of Dark Path. Life Transfer: Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds. Increased the bleeding duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds. Tainted Shackles: Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds. Overflowing Thirst: Increased the life force per strike from 1% to 1.5%. Unholy Martyr: Increased the life force per condition removed from 3% to 7% in PvP only. Transfusion: This trait no longer teleports downed allies to the user. This trait no longer increases the cooldown of Garish Pillar in WvW. Reaper Soul Eater: The healing from this trait can now heal the player while they are using Reaper Shroud. Healing while in shroud has reduced effectiveness in PvE. Blighter's Boon: Increased the base healing from 103 to 133. Harbinger Blight: Reduced the health percentage decrease from 1.5% to 1% in PvP only. Ranger Ranger is currently in a good spot in all game modes, so this update includes a few smaller changes to underused skills and traits to make them more competitive options. Guard: Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds. Increased the might duration from 5 seconds to 10 seconds. Soulbeast Moa Stance: Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only. Maul (Feline): Increased the power coefficient per hit from 0.2 to 0.7. Spiritual Reprieve: This skill now cleanses 2 damaging conditions in addition to its previous effects. Second Skin: Increased the damage reduction from 20% to 25% in PvP only. Untamed Nature's Binding: This skill now inflicts defiance damage on defiant enemies when used. Reduced the cooldown from 35 seconds to 25 seconds in PvE only. Revenant We've focused on improving the viability of some underperforming revenant builds in competitive modes with damage improvements to herald and main-hand sword, defensive improvements to Legendary Renegade Stance, and an increase to the outgoing healing bonuses in the Salvation trait line for potential support builds in PvP. Chilling Isolation: Increased the power coefficient from 0.5 to 0.7 in PvP and WvW. Notoriety: Increased the might stacks from 1 to 2 in PvP and WvW. Resolute Evasion: Increased the resolution duration from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds. This trait now also grants a small strike damage reduction for 2.5 seconds after dodging. Invoking Harmony: Increased the outgoing healing bonus from 10% to 15% in PvP only. Serene Rejuvenation: Increased the outgoing healing bonus from 15% to 20% in PvP only. Herald Shining Aspects: Increased the healing from 533 to 640. Forceful Persistence: Increased the damage bonus from 13% to 15% in PvP and WvW. Increased the facet damage bonus from 3% to 4% in PvP and WvW. Renegade Breakrazor's Bastion: Increased the base barrier when enhanced from 1,480 to 1,960. Soulcleave's Summit: Increased the healing when using a Legendary Renegade skill from 929 to 1,199. Increased the life siphon healing from 392 to 489 in PvP only. Thief This update includes a couple of significant quality-of-life improvements for the thief's staff and scepter weapons. First, Weakening Charge will no longer have a movement component, meaning that players are free to move during its casting time. We've also changed Shadow Sap into a ground-targeted skill to give scepter-wielding thieves a way to support their team without needing to target allies. Our goal with these changes is to improve the fluidity of the weapons and make them more enjoyable to play. We've also updated Helmet Breaker to only be usable a single time before flipping back to Debilitating Arc, giving more access to the defensive evade. This is part of a set of changes targeted at improving staff's usability in competitive modes. Shadow Sap: This skill is now ground targeted and will fire a projectile at the target location. When the missile lands, it will strike enemies and grant barrier, might, and protection to allies. The strike no longer inflicts weakness on enemies. Orchestrated Assault: Reduced the damage increase from 33% to 7% in WvW and PvP. Harrowing Storm: Reduced the torment duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in WvW and PvP. Debilitating Arc: Reduced the initiative cost from 5 to 4 in PvP and WvW. Helmet Breaker: This skill can no longer be used multiple times in a row. Increased the power coefficient from 0.6 to 1.1 in PvP and WvW only. Reduced the initiative cost from 3 to 2 in PvP and WvW. Dust Strike: Increased the power coefficient per hit from 0.2 to 0.35 in PvP and WvW. Weakening Charge: This skill is now named Weakening Whirl. This skill no longer moves the player. Cluster Bomb: Increased the power coefficient from 1.45 to 2.25 in PvE only. Shadow Refuge: Reduced the cooldown from 48 seconds to 40 in PvP and WvW. Reduced the stealth duration per pulse from 3 to 2.5 seconds in PvP and WvW. Increased the healing from 1,775 to 2,851. Even the Odds: Increased the vulnerability stacks from 5 to 10. Sundering Shade: Increased the vulnerability stacks from 5 to 10. Hidden Killer: Increased the duration from 2 seconds to 4 seconds. Specter Well of Sorrow: This skill now pulses conditions in a specific order. It will pulse torment, bleeding, torment, poison, and then torment. Warrior Similar to the upcoming change to Kinetic Accelerators for quickness-based scrappers, Heat the Soul will now also grant might to allies to give quickness-based berserkers better might coverage. We've also made some improvements to off-hand dagger and rifle and tuned up a number of underperforming skills and traits. Volley: Increased the power coefficient per strike from 0.75 to 0.8 in PvE only. Explosive Shell: Increased the power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.6 in PvE only. Rifle Butt: Reduced the cooldown from 20 seconds to 15 seconds in PvE only. Tremor: This skill now recharges Crushing Blow if it strikes an enemy. Wastrel's Ruin: This skill now always inflicts its bonuses against defiant enemies. Increased the maximum number of targets from 1 to 2. Bladestorm: Increased the barrier per hit from 289 to 445. Kick: This skill now deals bonus defiance-bar damage. Dolyak Signet: The passive effect of this skill now grants reduced incoming damage instead of toughness. Signet of Stamina: Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only. "To the Limit!": Increased the endurance gain from 50 to 100 in PvE and from 65 to 100 in PvP. Rampage: Reduced the cooldown from 90 seconds to 60 seconds in PvE only. Burst Precision: Increased the bonus ferocity from 150 to 250. Martial Cadence: Increased the number of conditions removed from 1 to 2 in PvE and PvP. Berserker Heat the Soul: This trait now applies might to allies in addition to its previous effects. Spellbreaker Sun and Moon Style: This trait now heals for a percentage of all strike damage instead of only critical hit damage.

Bug Fixes: Fixed a client crash that occurred when entering someone's homestead. Fixed an issue that caused the Mortal Contest effect to reduce more healing than intended in the Push PvP mode.

09/10/2024—September 10 Release Notes Note to users of third-party programs: The game may not launch or work properly after we release a new build if you use a third-party program, due to possible incompatibilities. ArenaNet cannot offer support if a third-party modification breaks, interferes with, or prevents you from playing Guild Wars or Guild Wars 2. Our policy regarding third-party programs can be found here. World Polish Adjusted health and scaling for the Mushroom King during the "Subdue the Mushroom King" event in Lowland Shore. Fixed an issue that caused Distant Thunder to appear sooner than intended in the Star-Crossed Lovers collection. The endurance cost of the "Dash!" skill in the Salmon Run race events and adventures has been reduced to grant additional dashes in Lowland Shore. Added an additional 15 seconds to the gold medal times for the Lowland Shore Salmon Run adventures. The time needed has increased from 1 minute and 30 seconds to 1 minute and 45 seconds for the Moon Camp Covert adventure and from 2 minutes and 30 seconds to 2 minutes and 45 seconds for the Harvest Shore adventure. Made some general improvements to salmon cannon functionality for the Harvest Shore Salmon Run event and adventure in Lowland Shore. Fixed an issue that could cause the collection NPC marker to appear above player characters' heads in Lowland Shore. Fixed an issue that caused the heat-tracking bar from the Denning Forge renown heart activity to persist if a player left the forge before using the bellows. Added additional creatures around Forager's Hunt that grant renown when killed. General Updated the error message that appears when players who have not unlocked the Heart of the Obscure Research Mastery line attempt to interact with content that requires it. For content within Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds maps, the text now directs players to unlock the Heart of the Obscure via the Janthir Wilds story, instead of through Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure. The Wizard's Vault objectives for participating in rift events now refer to them as rift hunts rather than Kryptis rifts. Fixed an issue that caused champion warclaws to improperly try to perform valravn attacks after their defiance bar was broken. Reduced the health and defiance bars of Eparch, the Consumed King in the Into the Spider's Lair meta-event. Fixed an issue that prevented the effect indicating which glyph is equipped to a homestead collection box from displaying a proper name. Fixed an issue that prevented ground targeted skills from working when trying to summon a conjured doorway in an invalid location. The handiwork workbench in Hearth's Glow can now only be accessed by the homestead owner to prevent an issue that caused decoration crafting to consume the guest's materials but create the decoration for the homestead's owner. Fixed an issue that prevented accounts that have only been upgraded with Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds from being granted access to the raptor mount. Fixed an issue that prevented some infusions' visual effects from stacking when switching maps. Fixed an issue that allowed players to summon the warclaw mount in unintended combat scenarios. Lowland Shore Increased the event-cycling time following completion of the "Defeat the rotling before it razes the area" event. Fixed an issue with the event UI for the "Escort Winding Kant as he looks for his lost spear" event. Fixed an issue that caused creatures in the "Defeat the rotlings to save the Astral Ward scout" event to scale improperly. Fixed an issue that prevented some players from interacting with bowls in the "Keep the troll party from getting out of hand" events. Fixed animation issues that occurred when using cheer skills while sitting in the Sleuth Brawlfields stands. The "Pet" interaction text for many of the animals in Lowland Shore is now properly the verb rather than the noun in non-English languages. Fixed an issue that prevented the All the Queen's Men achievement from displaying numbers correctly. Fixed an issue that prevented markers in the "Destroy the pollutants, and cover yourself in rot and get examined by the ward" event from being removed. Fixed an issue that prevented the rot effect from being removed from all players upon completing the "Destroy the pollutants, and cover yourself in rot and get examined by the ward" event. Fixed an issue that prevented the Bog Queen from vanishing after the "Defeat the Bog Queen before she floods the area with maggots" event failed. Fixed an issue that caused the Bog Queen's name to vanish from the UI during the "Defeat the Bog Queen before she floods the area with maggots" event. Fixed an issue that prevented the energy beams from vanishing after the maggot-squishing phase concluded during the "Defeat the Bog Queen before she floods the area with maggots" event. Lowered the scaling for the maggot-squishing phases during the "Defeat the Bog Queen before she floods the area with maggots" event. Fixed a server crash that could occur during the "Defend the kodan from the bog bodies while they gather peat" event. Warclaws and warclaw cubs at the Journeykin Outpost now play an animation when petted by players completing renown heart activities. Fixed an issue that caused warclaw scat at the Journeykin Outpost to float. Fixed an issue that prevented hiding titanspawn from respawning in Coursing Upland. Fixed an issue that caused a conversation in Roaring Falls to loop on itself. Fixed an issue that caused corrupted ice shard bundles for the Star-Crossed Lovers achievement to have an incorrect respawn time. Fixed an issue that prevented multiple players from turning in warclaw cubs simultaneously during the "Get warclaw cubs back in their pens before they eat the cabbages" event. Fixed an issue that prevented the post-completion UI timer from appearing during the "Get warclaw cubs back in their pens before they eat the cabbages" event. Fixed an issue that caused only eleven out of twelve kodan cubs to be available during the Lowland Shore: Hide and Seek adventure. Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the fish transformation from being removed from players who had not completed the Salmon Run race event. Fixed an issue that prevented the scoreboard from updating with the latest completion time for the Lowland Shore: Hide and Seek adventure. The endurance-refreshing orbs in the Salmon Run race events and adventures now also refresh the player's Flop! charges. Fixed an issue that prevented rangers from summoning their pets after completing the Salmon Run races or adventures. Fixed an issue that prevented a wisp from crossing the stream while completing the "Search below the lake near the shore that's home to drakes" hint in the Tales of the Lowland Wisps collection. Fixed an issue that caused the Autumn's Vale renown heart NPC, Shading Willow, to take a shaderock salamander when players chose the option to turn in a mohawk bream. Fixed an issue that allowed the Savant of Dance achievement to be awarded early during the "Dance among the kodan" event. Fixed an issue that prevented some players who unlocked the Cryptid Chase collection from earning progress on other characters. Janthir Syntri Fixed an issue that caused a fishing node in Janthir Syntri to spawn outside the map boundaries. Fixed an issue that caused resource nodes in Janthir Syntri to spawn outside the map boundaries. Fixed an issue that sometimes caused bloodstone elementals in Janthir Syntri to revert to their default pose when killed. Fixed lurking and unlurking animation issues that affected several of the ghost animals in the "Assist Ekto's paranormal research" event. Fixed an issue that caused the failure announcements for the "Stop Greer from draining the bloodstone" and "Stop Decima from draining the bloodstone" events to play twice. Added an announcement to the "Stop Greer from draining the bloodstone" event to clarify that Greer's titanspawn must be eliminated to expose his defiance bar. Updated Greer and Decima's warclaw checkpoints to indicate the next checkpoint in the sequence. Reduced the radius of Greer and Decima's warclaw checkpoints to more closely match their visual effect. Slightly increased the spacing of Greer and Decima's warclaw checkpoints to reduce overlap. Fixed an issue that prevented warclaw checkpoints from recognizing the player if they were standing in one when first using Chain Pull on a titan. Fixed an issue that caused interactive plants in the "Help the kodan gather foraged plants and animal meat" events to remain interactive after the required amount had been turned in. The map portal to Lowland Shore now correctly displays its name. It is no longer possible to trigger the concerned researcher's conversation again after their dialogue completes in the "Rescue the storm chaser" event. Fixed an issue that prevented the Don't Drop That achievement from requiring participation in the "Collect and turn in debris from the shore and enemies" event. Fixed an issue that allowed players to leave and reenter the "Collect and turn in debris from the shore and enemies" event radius to regain eligibility for the Don't Drop That achievement. Fixed an issue that could cause the expedition members' combat behavior to stall the "Follow Guiding Star and their team on the expedition" event. The Firewatch achievement now indicates which events still need to be completed. Boss cameras have been standardized across several events. Fixed an issue that caused dialogue heard when approaching any of the "Help the kodan gather foraged plants and animal meat" events to repeat excessively. Fixed an issue that prevented the boss enemy in the "Follow Guiding Star and their team on the expedition" event from despawning correctly. Fixed an issue that prevented some enemies in the "Clear Rising Bloom's garden of Mistburned flowers" event from being aggressive toward players. Fixed an issue that prevented animals in the "Help the kodan gather foraged plants and animal meat" events from consistently dropping meat when defeated. Fixed an issue that caused some enemies in the "Help Gleaning Copse clean up rotting plants and clear out rotting enemies" events to display incorrect lurking animations. Fixed an issue that caused Curious Remedy's dialogue during the "Collect affected flora samples for Curious Remedy's research" event to come from the wrong location. Disabling a mursaat relic mine no longer awards double progress toward the Hero of the Woods achievement. Rising Bloom no longer retains the Poetic Justice achievement eligibility notice after the "Clear Rising Bloom's garden of Mistburned flowers" event ends. Fixed an issue that prevented "Clear the Infestation of Greer Grubs" events from granting renown heart progress on completion. More events in and around Festering Basin in Janthir Syntri now grant renown tokens. General Added a keybinding option for the conjured doorway Mastery skill. The Lowland Kodan Expertise effect can now be purchased once per character each day rather than being limited to once each day per account. PvE Warclaw Uncover: Added a slight cooldown between uses to prevent some adverse effects. Fixed an issue that caused skill 3 to flash endlessly. Homesteads Fixed an issue that caused several glyphs to grant fewer bonuses than expected when applied to the harvesting collection box. Updated the handiworker crafting level unlocked at each tier of the Homesteading Mastery to match the Mastery descriptions. This change will retroactively affect players who have already unlocked Homesteading Mastery tiers. Unlockable rooms and decoratable zones will now use the proper Homesteading Mastery levels. Decorating Fixed an issue that prevented placed decorations from being edited when the Instant ground targeting mode setting was enabled. Convergences Reduced the damage and bleeding stacks of Umbriel's Rending Storm. Reduced Umbriel's maximum health. Personal Story Fixed an issue in the norn version of the Prologue: The Tyrian Alliance story chapter that could prevent the map marker indicating Skarti's location in Hoelbrak from being displayed properly. Relocated the Shining Blade guard who directs players to speak to Countess Anise during the human version of the Prologue: The Tyrian Alliance story chapter farther from the Queen's Throne Room instance entrance to avoid confusion. Fixed a rendering issue that affected interactive books in the Unknown Territory story instance and Lowland Shore. The doors in Moon Camp Covert in the Unknown Territory story chapter instance now have visible names to identify them as interactive objects. Fixed an issue in the Unknown Territory story chapter that caused the captured warclaw's rope lead to become improperly detached if the player transformed. Corrected text in the Unknown Territory story chapter that swapped the names of the Bonfire Lodge and Journeykin Pens points of interest. Fixed an issue in the Unknown Territory story chapter that prevented dogs from being petted. Fixed an issue in the Diplomacy and Discovery story chapter that could cause Malice to interrupt her own dialogue. Fixed an issue in the Home Sweet Home story chapter that allowed destructible objects in the first story instance to be damaged prior to being tasked with cleaning up the homestead, which could stall the instance. Corrected text in the Home Sweet Home story chapter that used outdated terminology in a hint directing players to a particular area of the crafting tab. Extended the instance boundaries of all story steps that take place in the homestead environment to allow players to reach the portals to other maps, preventing them from becoming stuck in the instance. Fixed an issue in the Strangers among Lands story chapter that prevented Councillor Ludo and asura players from having an appropriate view from their podiums during the Tyrian Alliance emergency meeting instance. Fixed an issue in the Strangers among Lands story chapter that prevented certain conversation options with Livia in the Tyrian Alliance emergency meeting instance from being logged in the chat box. Fixed an issue in the Strangers among Lands story chapter that caused the optional step to speak to Tyrian Alliance delegates in the emergency meeting instance to complete before everyone could be spoken to. Added an occasional pop-up hint to the Storm Clouds over Janthir story chapter to inform players who drop the bow bundle used during the "Index Sickly Wildlife Health in Slithering Outskirts" step where to get a new one. Corrected text in the Storm Clouds over Janthir story chapter to reflect the correct map sector Poised Arrow can be found in. Corrected text in the Storm Clouds over Janthir story chapter that directs players to talk to Arid Esker and referred to Storm Research Camp in Janthir Syntri by an outdated name. Fixed an issue in the Against the Wall story chapter that caused Poised Arrow to become stuck inside collision boundaries. Fixed an issue in the Against the Wall story chapter that caused a warclaw race checkpoint to reappear during subsequent uses of Chain Pull on the boss. Added additional failsafe measures in the Against the Wall story chapter to prevent the bosses from being killed prematurely and blocking progression. Added an achievement eligibility effect for the Electrical Interference achievement when the player is in the story instance. Fixed an issue that caused eligibility for the Seed Savvy achievement to be removed by manually dropping the seed bundle rather than upon taking damage. Fixed an issue that prevented conductive mineral deposits from displaying story markers in the Storm Clouds over Janthir story chapter. Items Increased the amount of rift essence awarded when using fine, masterwork, and rare motivations. Adjusted the Bearkin War Helm's default dyes. Updated the name of the Janthir Wilds: Hero's Choice Chest to Janthir Syntri: Hero's Choice Chest. Zotturrikk in Hooligan's Route in Lion's Arch now sells unique rewards from previous bonus events. These items may be offered again as achievement rewards in the future, but we cannot guarantee that the associated bonus events will occur again or that these rewards will be offered when and if they do. New items will be added to Zotturrikk's inventory once a sufficient amount of time has passed since their associated event. Updated Mini Mr. Ribbington's item icon to properly display his hat. Fixed an issue that caused the Heat Core Infusion to display incorrect values for its power and agony resistance attributes. Reduced the rarity of the Falling Star Quest License from legendary to ascended to match the rewards it grants. The Falling Star spear and Meteor-Wielder's Glove acquired from the Falling Star Quest License now have selectable attributes. The birthday vendor in Lion's Arch will now reward players who have celebrated their 10th birthday in Guild Wars 2 with the Dragon Decade Spear Skin, which has the same appearance as the Dragon Decade Staff Skin. The birthday vendor in Lion's Arch will now reward players who have celebrated their 5th birthday in Guild Wars 2 with the Luminous Partisan Spear Skin, which has the same appearance as the Luminous Pillar Staff Skin. Adjusted the description text for the Lowland Shore and Janthir Syntri renown tokens to provide more information on their usage. Fixed the attribute prefix selection and attributes given on the Knotted Rope Ring, Ring of the Crustacean, and Wood Rune Ring. Fixed an issue that caused several raid homestead decoration recipes to be listed for the wrong price. Recipe: Sigil of Demon Slaying no longer drops if the player knows the recipe. Updated items that can be deployed to provide beneficial effects, such as feasts, to display a preview of the effects they provide. Structured Player vs. Player The beta event for the new Push game mode starts today! The beta map will be active during the miniseason that starts today at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) and runs until 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on September 23. The map will also be available in custom arenas. Learn more about the event in this blog post . New tiers of the Path of Victory achievement have been added to the new PvP Champion Series panel. The new tiers award an enumerated version of the "Champion of Champions" title. World vs. World The Mists-Charged Jade ascended trinkets that can be purchased from the skirmish supervisor merchant now have access to all attribute options. Their attribute selection can be reset with a Mist Capacitor. The skirmish supervisor and Permanent Portable Provisioner merchants now offer items in exchange for Canthan Crafting Material Coffers and Desert Crafting Material Coffers. Hero weapons are now available from the skirmish supervisor as a one-time purchase for players who have unlocked the associated skin. Woad armor skins are now available from the skirmish supervisor. Fire Shattering Bolt: Increased the power coefficient from 5.6 to 6.4. Fire Reinforced Shot: Decreased the cooldown from 40 seconds to 32 seconds. Increased the warclaw's Chain Pull skill damage to 1,000. Decreased Chain Pull's cooldown to 1 second. Profession Skills Spear Fixed an issue that prevented the appropriate impact animation from playing when a character lands at high velocity. General Relic of the Stormsinger: Fixed an issue that prevented this relic from working with certain skills. Thief Shattering Assault: Fixed an issue that could prevent this skill from canceling autoattacks when it applied stealth to the player. Engineer Roiling Skies: This skill can now strike downed targets. Amplifying Slice: Fixed an issue that caused this skill to unintentionally evade. Devastator: This skill now evades. Guardian Solar Storm: This skill now displays red warning rings instead of orange when used by an enemy player. Symbol of Luminance: Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented this skill's audio from playing. Helio Rush: Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented this skill from granting the Illuminated effect, even if an enemy was struck. Mesmer Phantasmal Lancer: Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from summoning a phantasm when used on an evading enemy. Echo of Memory: Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from summoning a phantasm when used on an evading enemy. Revenant Abyssal Blot: Updated damage skill facts to be accurate in PvP and WvW. Abyssal Strike: Reduced the torment duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds and the Abyssal Raze cooldown reduction from 1.5 seconds to 1 second in PvE only. Abyssal Force: Reduced the Abyssal Raze cooldown reduction from 10 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only. Abyssal Raze: Reduced the torment duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only. Warrior Heightened Focus: Fixed an issue that prevented this trait from functioning with spear burst skills. Path to Victory: Reduced the attack range from 450 to 240. Valiant leap: Reduced the base heal from 975 to 655 in PvP only. Line Breaker: Reduced the base heal from 1,320 to 840 and the healing power scaling from 1.75 to 1.0 in PvP only. Defiant Roar: Reduced the base heal from 1,320 to 1,000 and the healing power scaling 1.0 to 0.7 in PvP only. Harrier's Toss: Reduced the damage coefficient from 1.2/1.5/1.8 to 1.0/1.25/1.5 based on adrenaline, in WvW only. Maiming Spear: Reduced the cooldown from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in WvW. Reduced the initial hit damage coefficient from 0.9 to 0.8 in WvW only. Spearmarshal's Support: This skill now performs an initial attack. This attack must hit a target for the follow-up attacks to occur. Reduced the damage coefficient from 0.4 to 0.25 in PvP and WvW. Spear Swipe: This skill is no longer unblockable. Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only. Reduced the cooldown refund on successful evasion from 6 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only. Defiant Stance: Reduced the duration from 4 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.

Bug Fixes: Fixed an issue that caused the "Help Gosta Contact the Restless Spirits" event to be active at unintended times. Fixed an issue that prevented the Poetic Justice achievement from being awarded to players more than once per map instance. Fixed an issue that caused the "Clear Rising Bloom's garden of Mistburned flowers" event to stall after successful completion. Fixed an issue that prevented the Full Bloom achievement from being awarded to players more than once per map instance. Fixed an issue that caused the "Defend the kodan base from the Mistburned creatures" event to stall indefinitely. Fixed an issue that prevented players from interacting with paranormal activity in the "Assist Ekto's paranormal research" event. The Shield Trap achievement can now be completed during all of the "Relic hunt!" events. The leaderboard rankings for the View from the Top adventure have been reset.

Bug Fixes: The Ornamented Bearkin Claw weapon is no longer account bound on acquire. Fixed an issue that allowed more than one glyph to be applied to a homestead collection box for no additional benefit, causing the excess glyphs to be lost. If you lost a glyph due to this issue, please contact Customer Support. Fixed an issue that prevented glyphs from applying the correct bonuses to homestead collection boxes. Fixed an issue that allowed players to interact with the same cloud multiple times when playing the View from the Top adventure. Fixed incorrect fishing nodes in Hearth's Glow. The handiworker recipe for chandelier homestead decorations now requires lowland honeycombs rather than a lump of beeswax. Fixed an issue that prevented players from progressing in the Tales of the Lowland Wisps collection in Lowland Shore if they interacted with members of the second group of wisps before meeting Valiant Aria in Loch Lucent. Fixed an issue that could block progression in the Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure story chapter Commander without a Cause.

Bug Fixes: Unsuspecting Strike: Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from consuming initiative at the start of its cast. Shattering Assault: This skill now requires its attack to strike a target in order to apply stealth to the thief. Fixed a client crash that could occur when moving the mouse cursor over a spear icon. Fixed an issue that caused Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure Strike Missions to incorrectly reward green prophet shards instead of blue prophet shards. Nikki the Lost now trades blue prophet shards for green prophet shards. Fixed several issues in the Diplomacy and Discovery story steps to find and return the lost warclaw cub. Adjusted the drop rate of the Warclaw Kitten Tonic. Fixed an issue that caused the "Assist Ekto's paranormal research" event in Janthir Syntri to scale inappropriately. Fixed an issue with the White Mantle Portal Device. Fixed a server crash. Fixed an issue that allowed players to jump directly after dodging while riding the warclaw in WvW to gain extra height. The Salvage Pile node in Hearth's Glow is now located in front of the Mine's entrance if it has been unlocked. The Wintersday Gift Tree node is now located next to the Lumber Mill in Hearth's Glow if it has been unlocked. Fixed an issue that prevented the "Help the kodan gather foraged plants and animal meat" events from restarting after a Mists Tide. Relic of Rivers: Fixed an issue that caused this relic to trigger on all instances of Mirage Cloak. Harrier's Toss: Fixed an issue that allowed this skill to trigger burst traits without striking a target. Fixed an issue that prevented events in Harvest Den from progressing the "Earn Distant Thunder's trust by completing events in Harvest Den" step of the Star-Crossed Lovers collection.

Bug Fixes: Fixed a server crash in Hearth's Glow. Fixed an issue that could cause the "Defend the kodan base from the Mistburned creatures" event to stall indefinitely. Fixed an issue that caused Glyphs of Alchemy to convert materials from lowland pine saplings and unique enemy-related mining nodes in Janthir Syntri. Targets in the event "Work together to destroy all targets while mounted on your warclaw" will now properly appear if the event starts with no players nearby Reduced the warclaw's jumping height in WvW. Fixed an issue that prevented jackal mounts from traveling through some sand portals or caused them to emerge from the portals in unexpected directions. Reduced blighted beast area-of-effect attacks to relieve pressure on melee players and work more seamlessly with Greer's mechanics. Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Barbed Vale to walk around the arena instead of executing skills and phase mechanics during the "Prove your mettle to Barbed Vale" event in Lowland Shore. Reduced the number of objectives needed to complete the Janthir Wilds: Act 1 Mastery achievement. Placed a conjured door portal in Hearth's Glow that returns players to Lowland Shore. Fixed an issue that caused Decima to enter additional warclaw phases at 10% health. Fixed an issue that prevented a successful warclaw phase against either titan from completing the other's warclaw phase if both were active at the same time.

Bug Fixes: Fixed several server crashes. Fixed an issue that caused the game to crash when automatically converting currencies. Fixed an issue that caused a Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure vendor to request unusual coins instead of ancient coins. Fixed an issue that prevented some players from seeing conduits summoned by a world boss. Fixed an issue that caused some players' handiworker crafting discipline level to be immediately set to 500. Updated the handiworker crafting level of all players to the appropriate level based on their unlocked Homesteading Mastery tier. Fixed an issue that prevented adventures in the Janthir region from awarding experience on completion. Fixed an issue that caused Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure exploration to continue awarding unusual coins. Fixed an issue that prevented new rifts from spawning properly. Reduced the ursus oblige cost of collection items for the Falling Star: Crafting List achievement.