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09/26/2023—September 26 Release Notes World Polish Reduced the amount of healing twisted mender enemies applied to their allies. It is now a flat value rather than a percentage of the target's maximum health. Fixed an issue that could cause a mismatch between the Priority Strike rotation and related achievements at the Eye of the North asura gate during certain time frames. Fixed an issue that prevented players from joining party members who entered a home instance or Sun's Refuge via the asura gate in the Eye of the North. Fixed an issue that could cause meta-event entries in the Eye of the North to be available for a longer period than expected. Zizel and Galrath the Undying have been promoted to legendary rank. Fixed an issue that caused the Kaineng Blackout meta-event in New Kaineng City to occasionally stall while players were capturing the breaker boxes. Kryptis rifts have been reported in additional locations. Ember Bay, Frostgorge Sound, Iron Marches, Seitung Province, and Verdant Brink have been added to the Kryptis rift weekly rotation pool. Additional achievements have been added for the new rift hunting locations. Skywatch Archipelago Increased the duration of active checkpoints for the Rise and Shrine achievement. The junior archivist's position in Wizard's Ascent is now marked on the map. Fixed an issue that caused chest icons to persist on the compass after the chests were opened. Fixed an issue that could cause players using bellows to retain their bundles after completing the "Gather essence of awe around Droknar's Light" event. Fixed an issue that could prevent players from obtaining the special action skill to cleanse corruption at the end of the Unlocking the Wizard's Tower meta-event. The Wizard's Tower Added a fishing hole at the Wizard's Respite point of interest. Fixed an issue that caused the targets in the Skyscale Target Practice adventure to disappear too early for players who began the adventure shortly before it became unavailable. Amnytas Adjusted the location of the Spellcrafting Workshop's starlight lantern to be closer to the point of interest. Fixed an issue that caused the Museum of Curiosities: Main Gallery's starlight lantern to be positioned inside a wall. Fixed an issue that caused chest icons to persist on the compass after the chests were opened. Updated Dagda's astral projection visual effects during the finale of the Defense of Amnytas meta-event. Reduced the movement speed of the Nova Launch skill in Amnytas to fix an issue that caused players to clip through walls. Fixed an issue that caused the "Escort Zizel and the concoctions to the greenhouse" event to fail before the final concoction dropped. Fixed an issue that caused some ambient dialogue to continue playing during the Defense of Amnytas meta-event. Coconut's level has been corrected. Fixed an issue that allowed players to kill cats in the Bastion of Knowledge. Fixed an issue that caused the player to become stuck in action camera mode during the "Help Livia escort the relics by shooting at Kryptis from the magic platforms" event. General Wurm enemies below champion rank now correctly drop the item needed to progress the Skyscale Medicine Masker achievement. Skywatch Archipelago "Protector of" achievement objective text has been updated to match the respective events. Additionally, if an event is part of an event chain, it will be listed as part of the objective. Amyntas The hint text for the Fantastic Flying Foxes achievement has been updated. Fractals Silent Surf Fixed an issue that caused all party members to be defeated when engaging the first boss in challenge mode. Sunqua Peak Fixed an issue that could cause the final boss to get stuck repeating an animation during the first phase of the encounter. Shattered Observatory Fixed an issue that could cause Artsariiv to be interrupted by damage after phase transitions at 66% and 33% health in challenge mode. Personal Story Fixed an issue that blocked sylvari players from completing the Hearts and Minds story step in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns if they disconnected from the game or re-entered the instance after the Mordremoth fight. Updated the requirements for progressing the Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure Fractal Push story achievement. Rather than successfully completing the final stage of the meta-event in Skywatch Archipelago, progress will be awarded for participating in any of the meta-events. Fixed an issue that prevented Second Hunter Kamilla from skipping certain dialogue steps for players who had already received the one-time gift of an uncommon Kryptis motivation. Adjusted players' downed behavior in the Treachery story step in Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure to prevent issues during the cinematic. Profession Skills The goal of these changes is to address a number of builds that are overperforming in PvE. We'll keep a close eye on the impact of these changes and may make additional tuning adjustments as needed to bring any overperforming builds back in line before the next regular balance update. General Relic of Akeem: Reduced torment and confusion stacks from 3 to 2 in PvE only. Relic of Fireworks: Reduced the damage bonus from 10% to 7% in PvE and WvW. Relic of Mabon: Fixed an issue that caused this relic to affect might stacks applied by the user instead of might stacks applied to the user. Reduced the internal cooldown from 3 seconds to 2 seconds. Elementalist Wildfire: Reduced power coefficient from 0.66 to 0.44 in PvE only. Elements of Rage: Reduced the damage bonus from 10% to 7% in PvE only. Weaver's Prowess: Reduced the damage bonus from 10% to 5% in PvE only. Empowering Auras: Reduced the damage bonus per stack from 3% to 2% in PvE only. Deploy Jade Sphere: Reduced power coefficient from 0.4 to 0.35 in PvE only. Engineer Poison Dart Volley: Reduced poison duration from 9 seconds to 7 seconds in PvE only. Blowtorch: Reduced burning stacks from 4 to 3 in PvE only. Corona Burst: Reduced burning duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE only. Photon Blitz: Reduced burning duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvE only. Mesmer Jagged Mind: Reduced bleeding duration from 5 seconds to 4.5 seconds in PvE only. Necromancer Devouring Darkness: Reduced torment duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only. Dhuumfire: Reduced burning duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds when the scourge elite specialization is equipped in PvE only. Sadistic Searing: Reduced burning from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 1 stack for 4 seconds in PvE only. Demonic Lore: Reduced burning duration from 3 seconds to 1 second in PvE only. Desert Shroud: Reduced torment duration from 10 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only. Sandstorm Shroud: Reduced torment duration from 10 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only. Voracious Arc: Reduced torment duration from 10 seconds to 7 seconds in PvE only. Ranger Furious Strength: Reduced the damage bonus from 15% to 10% in PvE only. Neurotoxin Burst: Reduced bleeding stacks from 3 to 2 in PvE only. Reduced poison stacks from 5 to 2 in PvE only. Revenant Mist Swing: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.7 in PvE only. Mist Slash: Reduced power coefficient from 1.1 to 0.8 in PvE only. Arcing Mists: Reduced power coefficient from 1.3 to 1.2 in PvE only. Mists Unleashed: Reduced power coefficient from 2.0 to 1.6 in PvE only. Bloodbane Path: Reduced bleeding duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvE only. Sevenshot: Reduced torment duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only. Elemental Blast: Reduced burning from 3 stacks for 5 seconds to 2 stacks for 4 seconds in PvE only. Leviathan Strength: Increased damage bonus from 10% to 15% in PvE only. Forerunner of Death: Increased damage bonus from 15% to 25% in PvE only. Thief Malicious Shadowsquall: Reduced bonus poison duration per stack of malice from 25% to 20% in PvE only. Twilight Combo: Reduced poison and torment duration from 8 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only. Strength of Shadows: Reduced torment damage bonus from 25% to 20% in PvE only. Warrior Fan of Fire: Reduced burning duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE only. Flaming Flurry: Reduced burning duration from 5 seconds to 2.5 seconds in PvE only. Scorched Earth: Reduced burning duration from 4 seconds to 2.5 seconds in PvE only. Flames of War: Fixed an issue that caused this skill's pulses to inflict an additional stack of burning for 1 second in PvE. Blood Reaction: Increased the power to condition damage conversion from 10% to 15% in PvE only. World vs. World A new merchant has been added to Eternal Battlegrounds, Desert Borderlands, Alpine Borderlands, and Armistice Bastion. This merchant sells exotic equipment with selectable attributes in exchange for gold and badges of honor. The armorsmith, weaponsmith, and karma equipment merchants in WvW maps have been removed. Improvements and Updates Fixed an issue that caused duplicate daily WvW objectives to occasionally be displayed in the Wizard's Vault.

Hello all, I alerted the people who were looking into the problem last week so they can look into why it's happening again for some of you. I'm sorry you're running into it!

Now that Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure is available to play, we'll be archiving this forum in one week and moving all active conversations about the live game to the General Discussion forum so you can keep chatting. Starting today, all new discussions about SotO content should go in the main subforums. Thank you!

Bug Fixes: Fixed a graphic issue with the water in Snowden Drifts. Corrected the astral acclaim awarded for the "Earn 1 reward from a PvP Reward Track" Wizard’s Vault daily objective to 10 from 25. Fixed an issue that caused guild hall upgrade icons to not display properly.

Well that was uh, exciting. Sorry about the hiccup there, everyone, and thank you for being patient!

Yikes! We're looking into this now.

Read on for our latest update!

Bug Fixes: Fixed an issue that prevented the "Complete Meta Event: Dragon Stand" Wizard's Vault weekly objective from completing properly in some instances. Fixed an issue that caused the "Complete the Cosmic Observatory Strike Mission in Normal or Challenge Mode" Wizard's Vault special objective to mark itself as redeemed rather than completed when players finished the strike. Fixed an interaction that caused the "Convince Zaishen deserters not to return to the Forged stronghold" event chain in Skyward Marches to occasionally stall.

Hey all, first I want to apologize for the slow reply on this. I've been out of office for a bit but am back now and reviewing a lot of things! 🙂 One of our designers reached out to me today to let me know that the team has been aware of this bug and are working on a fix. I'll keep you posted as I am able, but for now I wanted to pass along the info I do have.

Bug Fixes: Fixed an issue that could prevent the Going the Extra Mile achievement from being properly awarded. Fixed an issue that prevented guardians under level 80 from using the axe auto-attack chain. Fixed an issue that prevented interactions with relevant objects from granting progress toward the Tower Snoop achievement.

9/12/2023–Skritt! Black Lion Stolen Goods Recovery Event There’s been a break-in at the Black Lion vaults! A band of skritt-led thieves absconded with some of the trading company’s goods, and Evon Gnashblade wants them brought to justice. At the very least, he wants some of the goods removed from their possession to teach them that vault-robbing is not a worthwhile pastime. Report to the vaults near the Trader’s Forum in Lion’s Arch to learn more.

😞 I'm sorry about that! We've got a fix for it incoming very soon, though.

I just checked in on this--we are aware and working on a fix.

@MickeyMouse.3590, have you checked on any third party programs? As noted in the post I linked below: "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. "

09/12/2023—Late Notes World Polish Amnytas Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented special action skills from being available during non-meta-events in the Bastion of the Celestial. Fixed an issue that prevented vertical tentacles from displaying the correct portrait during the Defense of Amnytas meta-event. Fixed an issue that prevented the Kryptis visual environment effect from covering the entire map during the meta-event finale in Amnytas. Fixed an issue that prevented the Sea of Clouds point of interest from unlocking properly in Amnytas. Wizard's Tower Fixed an issue that prevented some collection entries from displaying the correct icons for the Comrades in Arms collection. Fixed an issue that prevented players who told Hortensia that they weren't ready to start the memorial during the Comrades in Arms collection from activating it on their current map instance. General Fixed an issue that prevented some profession-specific abilities from being counted for Wizard's Vault dodge objectives. Fixed an issue that caused the "Complete Meta-Event: The Gang War of Echovald" Wizard's Vault weekly objective to complete after finishing certain other meta-events. Fixed an issue that prevented the "Defeat 1 Legendary-Rank Enemy" Wizard's Vault weekly objective from completing correctly for all players in some instances. Increased the number of daily objectives in the Wizard's Vault from 4 to 5. The number of objectives required to obtain the daily Wizard's Vault meta-reward remains unchanged. Added four additional special objectives to the Wizard's Vault. Added experience to progress chest rewards for the meta-event The Defense of Amnytas. Added experience to successful meta-event reward chests for: Skywatch Archipelago—Unlocking the Wizard's Tower Amnytas—The Defense of Amnytas Seitung Province—Aetherblade Assault New Kaineng City—Kaineng Blackout The Echovald Wilds—The Gang War of Echovald Dragon's End—The Battle for the Jade Sea Gyala Delve—The Jade Crisis and "Destroy the ravenous wanderer" Added an Exchange tab to Rojan the Penitent to allow players to exchange Mystic Runestones for Icy Runestones. Added an Exchange tab to Miyani, Mystic Forge Attendants, and Mystic Forge Keepers to allow players to exchange Icy Runestones for Mystic Runestones. The Scholar of Secrets Mastery is required to use this exchange. Fixed an issue that prevented succulent crabs from being picked up in the Crab Toss activity. Items Feast of Truffle Steak: Fixed an issue that caused the nourishment effect to last for 30 minutes. The nourishment effect now correctly lasts for 60 minutes. Tequatl's Hoard containers can now be stacked. Piles of Regurgitated Armor can now be stacked. Profession Skills Ranger Untamed Neurotoxin Burst: Reduced the bleeding and poison stacks from 3 to 2 and the duration of each from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP only. Solar Brilliance: Reduced the base heal per pulse from 298 to 170 in PvP only.

^This 🙂 I'm back as of today and catching up on things. I just checked in on this and unfortunately it's not corrected yet. We are continuing to reach out to Amazon to try to get it fixed--I'm sorry that it's taking so long.

@Yve.2045, I'm sorry that happened--can you send a ticket to our Customer Support team?

09/12/2023—September 12 Release Notes Fractal Rush The Fractal Rush bonus event is underway this week! To promote Tyria's hottest historical-simulation getaway, your friends at the Consortium are sweetening the deal with extra loot and achievements for just one week. You'll find Fractal Rush trophies in your favorite fractals' final reward chests at any difficulty level; these will automatically progress the Fractal Rush Champion achievement. Complete Fractal Rush Champion tiers to earn various useful items and currencies for your fractal journey! To get started, speak with Assistant Subdirector Rannu in Lion's Arch to learn more about the event. Fractal Rush will be available for one week and end on September 19. World Polish Skywatch Archipelago Added more traversal options between western Skyward Marches and Shattered Atoll, Droknar's Light, and Jade Mech Habitation Zone 03. The timer duration before players are removed from the area after completing the Unlocking the Wizard's Tower meta-event has been increased from five minutes to ten minutes to allow more time for listening to optional conversations, reading books, and looting chests. Fixed an issue that allowed Alchemist Briella to enter a conversation from an unintended location. Fixed an issue that caused Alchemist Briella's dialogue to be displayed throughout the entire map. Amnytas Fixed an issue that caused bundles of concoctions to fall on the floor if the player was already holding a bundle while mounted during the "Escort Zizel and the concoctions to the greenhouse" event in Amnytas. Fixed an issue that caused the Sticky Concoction special action skill to display the wrong skill facts for applied conditions in Amnytas. Updated the icon for the Reinforced Armor effect to better represent the mechanic's overall functionality and help distinguish it from other enhancements. Fixed an issue that caused some informative dialogue lines to repeat frequently during Amnytas events that require players to defeat tentacles and close rifts. Fixed an issue that prevented the boss's name from displaying properly in the "Defeat the avatar before it steals the relics" event. Fixed an issue that could cause possessed researchers in the "Exorcise the possessed researchers" event to be killed by damage in excess of their health threshold. Fixed an issue that prevented Kryptis turrets from awarding participation during the "Help Livia escort the relics by shooting at Kryptis from the magic platforms" event. Fixed some visual issues in the "Prepare for the Kryptis assault on the gates" event. Fixed an issue that caused Head Cartographer Pavish to spawn twice. Fixed an issue that caused Peitha to repeat dialogue lines during the "Fight off the Kryptis ambush" event. General Updated an Extra Life pet to display the correct species model. Gortho, Son of Mailk, will now offer to sell the player bird whistles for skyscale collection progress if none of his related events are active in Iron Marches. Improved enemy placements in Skywatch Archipelago, Wizard's Tower, and Amnytas. Added one new achievement to Skywatch Archipelago. Fixed an issue that prevented Dadga's initial dialogue from playing for the Sorrow's Lost collection. Added new conversations to Dadga in the Wizard's Tower. Added new hints for the Sorrow's Lost collection. General New Expand All and Collapse All recipe group options have been added to the Search Filters menu in the crafting interface. Fixed crashes related to the improved crafting functionality and re-enabled the following changes: The crafting interface has been revamped to better serve its intended purpose as a library of crafting recipes. The category menu now includes an All Professions category, which is selected by default and will display all the recipes currently available to your character, regardless of their active crafting discipline. Selecting one of the nine disciplines from the menu will filter the results to only display recipes from that discipline. Selecting one of the nine disciplines from the menu will filter the results to only display recipes from that discipline. The menu will show which disciplines are currently active. Two new options are available from the menu that appears when right-clicking any material that can be used in a crafting recipe. The Open Crafting Preview with Item option will open the Crafting tab in your Hero panel. The Open Crafting Station with Item option is available when you are near a crafting station, and it will open the station's crafting interface. Both options will display recipes that require the item. For example, when right-clicking mithril ingots in your inventory and selecting one of the new options, the available crafting recipes will be automatically filtered to those requiring mithril ingots as an ingredient. The options will not display crafting recipes that are unavailable at your current crafting level or that you have not learned. Dungeons Added a universal access point for dungeons in Lion's Arch outside the Aerodrome, and moved the dungeon weapon and armor vendors to a location nearby. Personal Story Fixed an issue in the "From the Ashes" story instance in Living World Season 4 that caused the Deadeye Priestess to become stuck in an invulnerable state when attacked with especially high amounts of burst damage. Fixed several issues in the "Prisoners of the Dragon" story instance in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns: Fixed an issue that prevented Rytlock from moving or following the player, blocking story progress. Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the other key story characters from following the player. Fixed an issue that allowed players other than the instance owner to advance the story without the instance owner present. Fixed an issue that prevented several of the Mordrem cell prisoners from appearing. Fixed pathing behavior that caused Beigarth the Smith to abruptly teleport back to his starting location or prevented him from moving to his intended destination if the player completed certain objectives out of order. Added nine new achievements for the Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure story: A Shadow in the Night: Sneak through the camp without being caught. Written Ward: Find and read the Astral Ward communiques. Astral Gofer: Complete the optional tasks for your allies. Tower Snoop: Find and read all of the confidential literature hidden throughout the Wizard's Tower. Asthenes Acrobatics: Defeat the chapter boss without being downed. Compassion for a Friend: Use /sit next to Zojja to comfort her in her time of need. Going the Extra Mile: Complete a tier 3 hunt in Amnytas instead of a tier 2 hunt. Manifestation Mayhem: Defeat Isgarren's manifestations without being downed. Emotional Fortitude: Defeat all of the embodiments of the chapter boss. Items Updated the individual legendary starter kit icons to more accurately depict their corresponding legendary weapons. Updated the generic legendary starter kit selection box icon. Gifts of Fortune can no longer be salvaged to recover base materials. Profession Skills General Relic of the Afflicted: Reduced the damage coefficient from 1 to 0.3 in WvW only. Reduced the number of stacks of bleeding and poison from 2 to 1 in WvW only. Relic of Antitoxin: Increased the internal cooldown from 5 seconds to 10 seconds. Guardian Firebrand Overwhelming Celerity: Fixed an issue that prevented quickness from being displayed in the skill fact in PvE. Mesmer Axes of Symmetry: Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from functioning properly with axe-shield clones. Ranger Serpent Strike: Reduced the damage coefficient from 1.5 to 1.2 in PvP and WvW. Soulbeast Maul (Porcine): Reduced the damage coefficient per strike from 1.1 to 0.775 in PvP and WvW. Prelude Lash: This skill no longer immobilizes in PvP only. One Wolf Pack: Increased the strike interval from 0.25 seconds to 0.5 seconds in PvP only. Reduced the damage coefficient from 0.63 to 0.5 in PvP only. Warrior Fast Hands: Fixed an issue that prevented this trait from interacting properly with Relic of the Warrior in PvP. Breaching Strike: Fixed an issue that caused this skill to use PvE values in WvW when activated by a spellbreaker.

We will re-enable them once the issue is addressed. (We're very sorry, but Infinite Puppies is not a sustainable situation.)

Bug Fixes: Fixed an issue that caused the unlock timer for the A New Look achievement to only progress while spending time in the game. The character that finished A New Friend must log back in to unlock the achievement. Fixed an issue that allowed the Rift Guidance Mastery skill to be used in inappropriate maps. Fixed an issue that caused the "Help Battlemaster Flintfoot prepare new trainees for combat" event to stall during a second playthrough. Fixed a crash that occurred when conversing with Novice Taeya for the Waylit Lantern collection. Fixed an issue that caused Researcher Lezzi to stall and stop moving forward in the "Escort Researcher Lezzi and her new data about Nayos" event. Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Stormy Silvercrest to stall at the start of the "Help the Kestrels search for survivors" event. Fixed an issue that prevented players who had completed the Burden of Choice achievement from progressing a step in the Knowledge of the Elders collection. Fixed an issue that occasionally caused the "Help the Asura researchers reach the source of abnormal energy" event to stall. Fixed an issue that sometimes removed the Nova Launch special action skill before the "The Defense of Amnytas" meta-event was complete. Fixed an animation issue that occurred when using some gliders.

We've got a fix incoming for this later today! Thanks to all of you for being so patient.

I'm here with good news! We have a build coming later today that contains a fix for this issue. I'm really sorry you've all been stuck on this--hang in there just a little longer.

I just came across this thread, I'm sorry I missed it! This was surprising on our end, so some people are looking into it to understand what exactly happened. That said, I apologize that we communicated this was going to happen when it didn't--but thank you all for speaking up so we can investigate.

Bug Fixes: Fixed one of the issues that was involved in causing the “Help the Asura researchers reach the source of abnormal energy” event to stall. Removed the Wizard's Vault objective "Loot the Chest of Grand Valdhertz Riches in the Valdhertz Crypts Minidungeon."