Game updates/June 2016

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Update - June 30, 2016[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed a server crash.
  • Fixed a bug in the PvP map Battle of Champion's Dusk in which games would not end after five minutes of overtime.

Additional late notes[edit]

The fixes related to these notes are already on live:

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the "Have Materials" filter in the crafting UI from updating the list of valid recipes after crafting items.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the visual effects from legendary equipment to sometimes disappear after players performed certain actions with the "Effect LOD" graphics option enabled.
  • Fixed a bug in which achievements would not always sort alphabetically.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

  • Build: 63,845

Update - June 29, 2016[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed a bug that caused the client to crash when players interacted with material storage or the guild bank while having shared inventory slots placed at the bottom of the inventory.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the client to crash when players dragged bags onto the locked bag slot from the inventory.
  • Fixed additional client crashes.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

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Update 2 - June 28, 2016[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed a server crash.
  • Fixed a client crash.
  • WvW bonuses will no longer apply to Stronghold of the Faithful.
  • Fixed an issue in which player-summoned minions caused red projectiles in the Xera encounter to be destroyed prematurely.

06/28/16 – Late Notes[edit]

Raids[edit]

  • The Xera Backpieces and Besieger Rings from Stronghold of the Faithful can now be infused in the Mystic Forge.
  • Corrected the name of the Healer's White Mantle Gladius.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Deconstructed and Down, Down, Downed achievements from being awarded.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the ley lines in the Xera boss encounter from turning on correctly if a player entered them too early.

World Polish[edit]

Structured Player vs. Player[edit]

  • Added a new reward track that contains Tribal, Stalwart, and Apostle armor skins.
  • Added a default PvP build for revenants.
  • Custom arenas now have a maximum capacity of 25 players. The maximum team size is still 10 players.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store[edit]

  • The White Mantle Glider is now available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 400 gems.
  • The White Mantle Outfit is now available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 700 gems.

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed a bug that prevented some crafting materials from appearing in search results in the Trading Post.
  • Fixed a bug in the Sell Items tab of the Trading Post that displayed the item a player last sold if their inventory was empty.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

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Update - June 28, 2016[edit]

World Polish[edit]

General[edit]

Raids[edit]

  • Salvation Pass
    • Reduced Volatile Poison damage from 1,000 to 750 damage per tick.
    • Slothasor no longer immediately chains into the Halitosis or Tantrum skills after using Spore Release.
    • Players will now receive a pop-up message when they have the Corruption effect in the Matthias Gabrel encounter.

Items[edit]

World vs. World[edit]

General[edit]

  • Added a new reward track that contains Tribal, Stalwart, and Apostle armor skins.
  • Removed crafting stations and crafting vendors from WvW maps.
  • War score earned from dolyak caravan kills has been reduced from 3 to 1.
  • War score earned from dolyak caravan deliveries has been reduced from 3 to 1.
  • Dolyak caravans that have two delivery destinations now award score at each destination rather than only the final destination.
  • Mortar—Fire Incendiary Shells: Increased the number of stacks of burning applied from 1 to 3.
  • Flame Ram—Flame Blast: Increased the number of stacks of burning applied from 1 to 3.

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • The WvW tick timer will no longer drift and is now always based on an absolute time.
    • Removed one (rare) cause of hanging after ticks.
    • Weekly round endings will occur at more reliable times.

Desert Borderlands[edit]

  • Changed the jump platforms at the Air Keep so that they launch players similarly to how jump mushrooms work in the jungle maps.
    • Removed some of the jump platforms, since the new jump platforms launch players further.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store[edit]

New Items and Promotions[edit]

  • Added a new White Mantle Appearance Pack. This pack contains 1 White Mantle Outfit, 1 White Mantle Glider, 1 Immortal Weapon Choice, 1 Total Makeover Kit, and 5 Black Lion Chest Keys. It's available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 2,000 gems.
  • A new Focused Solar Logging Tool is available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 1,000 gems.
  • For the next week, we're taking 15% off the Cosmic Mining Tool.

Improvements[edit]

  • The Shared Inventory Slots can now be dragged to either the beginning or the end of the inventory. An additional Embed Shared Bag option in the inventory Options menu allows players to keep Shared Inventory Slots on their own row or have them embedded into the bag-slot grid view.

Bug Fixes[edit]

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

  • The Experience bar for under-80 characters in WvW has been replaced by the WXP bar.
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Update - June 20, 2016[edit]

Bug Fix[edit]

  • Fixed an issue in which the nameplates of players would move erratically when character models were culled.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

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Update - June 16, 2016[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed an issue that caused the timer to reset inappropriately in the I Can Outrun a…Warg achievement.
  • Disabled the movement delay of the spectator's follow camera while investigating unintended behavior.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

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Update - June 15, 2016[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed a server crash.
  • Fixed an issue in which Xera's islands would not reset properly if the event failed at a particular moment.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Breach event in the Silverwastes to not give all of its rewards.
  • Fixed an issue with Keep Construct in which projections would occasionally attack the wrong target.
  • Fixed an issue with Keep Construct in which killing projections would not successfully remove the stacks of its shield effect.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

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Update 2 - June 14, 2016[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Added objective text to the Long Arm of the Light II achievement.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented a Bandit Executioner from leaving its event area.
  • Updated the glow texture for the Keep Construct.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Evasive Maneuver achievement from being awarded upon completing the requirements.
  • The Black Lion Weapons Specialist in the Black Lion vaults now sells Cavalier weapons for the price of 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket, matching the price of all other vendors.
  • Fixed a bug that applied incorrect area-of-effect damage in the Keep Construct fight.
  • Increased points per player kill (PPK) in WvW from 1 point to 2 points per kill.
  • Removed PvP League badges from nameplates in WvW.
  • Fixed a server crash.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

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Update - June 14, 2016[edit]

Raids[edit]

  • The victory at Salvation Pass revealed the terrible truth of the White Mantle's return. Take the fight to the enemy and strike at their heart, deep in the Maguuma Jungle, where unknown dangers and powerful enemies lurk. All is not as it seems in the Stronghold of the Faithful, where the White Mantle's innermost secrets and dark magic fester. It's a race against time to stop the plans in motion in this high-stakes, white-knuckle conclusion to the Forsaken Thicket raid.
  • Thanks!
    Some members of the following guilds had access to the raid at some stage in development. We'd like to thank them for their time and feedback.
    • [ATT] Attuned
    • [DD] Dragons Descent
    • [EG] Ethereal Guardians
    • [KING] Immortal Kingdom
    • [NA] The Sickest Guild
    • [RAID] Immortal Raiders
    • [RtG] Rise to Glory
    • [SC] Snow Crows
  • Spirit Woods
    • Adjusted Gorseval's AI to improve its willingness to follow the player with the highest toughness.
    • Fixed a bug that prevented Gorseval's Rampage pattern from properly resetting in some situations.
  • Salvation Pass
    • A ley-line gliding path will now appear after clearing all of the raid bosses, leading players to Stronghold of the Faithful.
    • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the cage cinematic to trigger during the Matthias Gabrel encounter.

Structured Player vs. Player[edit]

World vs. World[edit]

  • The Reward Track and Participation systems are officially out of beta testing!
  • Added the Gift of Battle Item reward track and removed the vendors that previously sold gifts of battle.
  • Daily achievement chests now award Potions of WvW Rewards instead of Experience Boosters.
  • The Outnumbered effect now also grants 50% increased participation gain.
  • Added a new guild hall upgrade to the war room that unlocks a new potion at the tavern that increases WvW reward-track gain.
  • A new reward track has been added that awards the WvW Hero's weapon skins.
  • The Heart of Maguuma WvW reward track now includes Chak weapons, Auric weapons, Plated weapons, Bladed armor, and Leystone armor as an option in the Mordremoth Cache.
  • The Silverwastes WvW reward track Carapace Armor Box now contains all pieces of Carapace armor instead of just the gloves.
  • The Provisions Master now has a sixth pip that allows players to buy Heart of Thorns recipes, sigils, and runes from the Heroics Notary vendor for proofs of heroics and gold.
  • The Max Supply +5 upgrade is now the first Guild Objective Aura upgrade guilds unlock.
  • The Magic Find +20% upgrade is now the last Guild Objective Aura guilds unlock.
  • Updated the Outnumbered effect to no longer list that it grants bonus experience, as experience gain is disabled in WvW.
  • Shield Generator— Force Dome.png Force Dome: Stability duration has been reduced from 9 seconds to 6 seconds.
  • Fixed a bug in which trebuchet conditions were allowed to scale based on player stats.
  • The WvW tick timer has been reduced from 15 minutes to 5 minutes.
    • Objective Points per Tick (PPT) has been rebalanced to support the faster ticks.
      • Camps—2 points
      • Towers—4 points
      • Keeps—8 points
      • Castle—12 points
      • This results in slightly more total war score earned from objectives.
    • Reward-track points awarded for participation have also been rebalanced to support faster ticks.
      • Tier 1—25 points
      • Tier 2—60 points
      • Tier 3—95 points
      • Tier 4—125 points
      • Tier 5—160 points
      • Tier 6—195 points
      • This results in slightly more reward-track points earned.

Eternal Battlegrounds[edit]

  • Klovan Gully: Fixed a display bug in which the blue "Defend Klovan Gully" event would list an additional event objective.

Alpine Borderlands[edit]

  • Fixed a bug that prevented hero challenges from displaying or functioning correctly.
  • Tower Northeast: Fixed a bug that prevented the tower lord's health from scaling properly.

Desert Borderlands[edit]

  • Fixed a bug with the teleporter on the dunes above the Fire Keep.
  • Fixed a bug with automatic blessing at the east Earth Shrine.
  • Fixed a bug with a jump pad on the north side of the Air Keep.
  • Fixed a bug with a floating mortar in the Air Keep.

Obsidian Sanctum[edit]

  • Fixed a bug in which players were no longer given immunity while standing at their starting location.

General[edit]

  • Fixed a bug that would cause Mai Trin to teleport to walls.
  • Fixed an issue in which, once selected, the guild music themes "The Music of the Barren Heights" and "The Music of the Golden Chambers" did not play upon reentry to the guild hall. Once a guild in Lost Precipice has selected the theme "The Music of the Barren Heights," the song will now consistently play first upon entry to the guild hall and then cycle through the songs belonging to its theme set. Once a guild in Gilded Hollow has selected the theme "The Music of the Golden Chambers," the song will now consistently play upon first entry to the guild hall and then cycle through the songs belonging to its theme set.
  • Added Amalgamated Gemstones as a choice on the Verdant Brink, Auric Basin, Tangled Depths, and Dragon's Stand: Hero's Choice Chests.
  • Unrest is spreading in Kryta.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store[edit]

New Items and Promotions[edit]

  • A new Phoenix Glider is available for a very limited time in the Style category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
  • The Heroes Dye Pack includes one of each of the following dye kits: Taimi's, Glint's, Lion's Arch Survivors, Lion's Arch Rebuild, and Lion's Arch Commemorative. This can be found in the Style category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
  • The new Privateer weapon set is now available at Black Lion Weapons Specialists for 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket. Unlike previous weapon sets, these are account bound and cannot be traded once purchased.
  • Crystallized Magic no longer drops from Black Lion Chests. Contracts have returned to normal drop rates.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

Update - June 6, 2016[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

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Update - June 2, 2016[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • The "Defeat the Inquest to prevent them from capturing the Ley-Energy Coalescence" event will now create player-specific versions of the ley-energy items to reduce competition.
  • Fixed a bug that caused multiple gliders to trigger the wrong sound effect under several circumstances.
  • Fixed a bug with the flute instrument that prevented successive presses on a given note key from playing the note for that key, even if subsequent notes would be an entire octave apart from the initial key press.
  • Fixed a bug with musical instruments that caused a short delay for the audio script to play notes when players switched to a new octave.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

  • Build: 62,525

Update - June 1, 2016[edit]

World Polish[edit]

General[edit]

  • Characters launching to a point using objects like bouncing mushroom or jump pads will now orient to face the direction they're going.
  • White wolf pups will now summon other white wolves rather than normal wolves for aid.
  • Fixed an issue in which the content guide caused periodic frame hitches for some players while in a squad.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Ad Infinitum from being added to the Legendary Collector achievement.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Ascension from being added to the Legendary Collector achievement.
  • The inactivity timer is no longer impacted by autoloot.
  • Added an option called Disable Player Chatter to the Sound Options tab. Enabling this option will disable all player chatter VO, such as boon and condition gain, mantra and shout lines, reward acquisition commentary, and low-endurance notifications.
  • New parties are becoming interested in ley-line energy.

Guilds[edit]

  • Fixed a bug in which mesmer portals allowed players to enter the arena without passing through the various team coordinators. Players attempting to access the arena using portals will be booted out.
  • Fixed a bug in which players outside the arena saw players within the arena as enemies.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Guild Weaponsmith from selling the Guild Speargun.
  • Fixed a bug that locked players in the secret room in the Guild Initiative Headquarters.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented players from interacting with the Assembly Device unless they were standing on top of it.
  • The Aetherium Production Boost items purchased from Akeetha Stonesunder near guild mines now have descriptions.
  • Decorations in the Storage tab of the Guild panel now have descriptions.
  • The Guild Hall Swiftness boon will no longer be applied to players within the arena.

Personal story[edit]

  • Hearts and Minds
    • Changed the way all fights reset to prevent bugs that occur in repeated attempts.
    • Changed the final phase of Canach's encounter to guarantee Canach can always give up his shield and Blighted Canach does not remain determined indefinitely.
    • Blighted Eir now uses a teleport skill to reach Garm to revive him.
    • All blighted bosses are now immune to life-steal effects while vulnerable to the Reality Rift.
    • Canach is no longer affected by the Reality Rift when using it against Blighted Canach.
    • Changed how the final Reality Rift activates to ensure it always activates when ready.
  • Fixed the timing of Trahearne's dialog lines in the "A Light in the Darkness" story step to prevent overlapping in some languages.
  • Removed an incorrect creature description from Inquisitor Dabb in the "Digging Up Answers" story step.

Items[edit]

Profession skills[edit]

Warrior
  • Scorched Earth.png Scorched Earth: Fixed a bug that caused Cleansing Ire to activate more than once.
  • Head Butt.png Head Butt: Fixed a bug that allowed this ability to go on interrupt cooldown after breaking a stun. This ability will now go on full recharge if interrupted.

Structured Player vs. Player[edit]

  • Added a Free Camera view for spectating in PvP Custom Arenas. The default key binding to enter this mode is Ctrl+Shift+F.
  • Added a movement delay to the camera when spectators are following players in PvP Custom Arenas.

World vs. World[edit]

General[edit]

Eternal Battlegrounds[edit]

  • Increased the detection range for towers with the Watchtower upgrade.

Alpine Borderlands[edit]

  • The area around the citadel in Alpine borderlands has had the Siege Deployment Blocked area extended so that siege weapons cannot be placed in areas that all players cannot reach.
  • Northeast Tower: Lowered the detection range of the Watchtower upgrade. This tower's range was larger than that of the other towers.

Edge of the Mists[edit]

  • The missing Overgrowth team Siege Merchant has found his way back to the airship.

Obsidian Sanctum[edit]

  • The spawn locations for the three teams have been moved farther apart. This was done to reduce kill trading and spawn camping.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store[edit]

New Items and Promotions[edit]

Improvements[edit]

  • Players who have an automatic equip effect related to any travel toy will now equip that toy immediately upon landing their glider. Canceling the glider in the air will not activate the travel toy.
  • All musical instruments have undergone audio rework to improve the latency of audio-sample playback.
  • Musical instruments that are tempo locked (Musical Frame Drum, and certain modes of the Musical Lute and Musical Bass Guitar) should now have consistent tempo.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

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