Game updates/2020-04-28

April 28, 2020

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Update 2 - April 28, 2020

Bug Fix

• Fixed a client crash that could occur when players equipped Maguuma's Treads along with certain other pieces of armor.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• Build: 103,585

Late Notes - April 28, 2020

Items

• Fixed a bug that caused the Glitched Adventure Mace to be too glitched and not animate its chain.

Profession Skills

Elementalist

•  Tornado: Increased cooldown from 60 seconds to 90 seconds in PvP only.
•  Lightning Rod: Reduced power coefficient from 1.2 to 0.95 in PvP and WvW.

Engineer

•  Mortar Shot: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.85 in PvP only.
•  Poison Gas Shell: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
•  Endothermic Shell: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
•  Flash Shell: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
•  Hard Light Arena: Increased cooldown from 30 seconds to 50 seconds in PvP only.
•  Emergency Elixir: Increased cooldown from 60 seconds to 100 seconds in PvP only.
•  Transmute: Increased cooldown from 60 seconds to 100 seconds in PvP only.
•  Bomb (Bomb Kit Skill 1): Reduced power coefficient from 1.2 to 0.85 in WvW only.

Guardian

•  Permeating Wrath: Reduced burning duration from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds in WvW only.

Necromancer

•  Death Shroud: Increased the life force lost per second from 3% to 4% in PvP only.
•  Ritual of Life: Reduced the revive pulse from 4% to 1% in PvP and WvW.
•  Fear of Death: Reduced life force gained from 15% to 7% in PvP only.
•  Unholy Sanctuary: Increased cooldown from 30 seconds to 120 seconds in PvP only.

Ranger

•  Maul: Increased cooldown from 6 seconds to 8 seconds in PvP only.
•  Swoop: Increased cooldown from 15 seconds to 18 seconds in PvP only.
•  Counterattack: Increased cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
•  Hilt Bash: Increased cooldown from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
•  Attack of Opportunity: Reduced damage bonus from 50% to 25% in PvP and WvW.
•  Furious Pounce (Tiger): Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.75 in PvP only.
•  Kick (Rock Gazelle): Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.31 to 0.2325 in PvP only.
•  Charge (Rock Gazelle): Reduced power coefficient from 0.825 to 0.733 in PvP only.

Thief

•  Choking Gas: Increased initiative cost from 6 to 7 in PvP only.

Structured Player vs. Player

• Knight Amulet has been removed from the PvP Build panel.
• Cavalier Amulet has been removed from the PvP Build panel.
• Barbarian Amulet has been removed from the PvP Build panel.
• Paladin Amulet: Reduced toughness and vitality from 500 to 400.

Update - April 28, 2020

World Polish

• Fixed a rare bug that could prevent players from being awarded Prophet Shards when completing the Forging Steel mission for the first time in a day.
• Build Template loading has been disabled in Super Adventure Box to prevent players from regaining class features by switching templates.

General

• The "Salvage All Masterwork and Lower" right-click option in salvage kits will no longer be highlighted as an available option for players who don't have any masterwork gear, as all gear below masterwork is fully covered by the "Salvage All Fine and Lower" option.
• The "Sell Junk" option in vendor windows will now be grayed out for players who do not have any junk items to sell.

Profession Skills

Engineer

•  Jump Shot: This skill no longer ignores the immobile condition.
•  No Scope: Fixed a bug in which this trait would grant might when triggered.

Thief

•  Vault: This skill no longer ignores the immobile condition.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store

New Items and Promotions

• The new Eve's Prophecies Outfit is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 700 gems.
• The new Draconic Wings Backpack and Glider Combo is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 700 gems.
• The new Eve's Prophecies Appearance Package is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 2,000 gems. It contains the new Eve's Prophecies Outfit and Draconic Wings Backpack and Glider Combo, as well as 1 Mythic Weapon Choice and 1 Total Makeover Kit.
• To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Guild Wars® franchise, the new Prince Rurik's Vanguard Cape from Guild Wars Prophecies is available to all accounts for free in the Style category of the Gem Store.
• To welcome returning players back to Tyria, the prologue episode of the Icebrood Saga, "Bound by Blood," is available for free for all accounts via the Gem Store. This will be available for 7 days.
• For a limited time, the Rival Skies Package is on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 750 gems, a savings of 25%.
• The Chaos Gloves return to the Style category of the Gem Store and are available for 500 gems.

Bug Fixes

• An adjustment has been made to the timing of Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlocks so that they sync up with the release of festival items. Festival meta rewards will now join the unlock with the first update following the next year's festival. The unlocking of full festival weapon sets will also be delayed until after they can be fully unlocked through festival gameplay.
• Fixed an issue that caused visual effects on the rear saddle of certain roller beetle skins to no longer change from blue to red as the mount's speed increased.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• Build: 103,554