Game updates/December 2020

December 2020 updates
Wednesday, 16 December 2020 Tuesday, 15 December 2020 Tuesday, 1 December 2020
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Update - December 16, 2020

Bug Fix

• Fixed a bug in which the Black Lion Statuette Merchant offered two Fused Molten Logging Axes instead of one Fused Molten Logging Axe and one Fused Molten Sickle.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

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Update - December 15, 2020

Wintersday

Come join us in celebrating Wintersday—Toymaker Tixx has made his annual visit to Divinity's Reach to spread seasonal cheer and festivity! Bring the cheer of Wintersday to the distant north in the Secret Lair of the Snowmen, complete daily achievements to earn fanciful holiday weapons, save Wintersday for the orphans around Divinity's Reach by giving them wrapped gifts, and test your snow-throwing skills against other players in Snowball Mayhem. You can also experience the joy of jumping in Winter Wonderland, defend against waves of toys in Toypocalypse, and help keep Tixx's airship, the Infinirarium, in order! Keep an eye out for Wintersday Gifts appearing all around Tyria, too.

• The Wintersday annual meta-achievement, Wintersday Traditions, has been updated with a new armor reward: the Festive Winter Hood! Keep your head warm while enjoying the wintry fun. Last year's meta-achievement reward, the Festive Sweater, can now be purchased from festival rewards vendors.
• A new weapon set upgrade is now available! If you have added Wrapped weapons to your wardrobe by completing Wintersday daily achievements, speak with the festival rewards Charity Corp Seraph in Divinity's Reach to trade your precious Snow Diamonds for cheerful Sparkling Wrapped weaponry!
• Wintersday toymakers have completed their line of Candy Cane weaponry. The full Candy Cane weapon set is now available as a rare prize from Wintersday Gifts, and the minty Wintergreen variant is available from the final chest in the Secret Lair of the Snowmen.
• New winter-themed guild decorations have been added.
• A number of festival-related bugs have been fixed to ensure a happy holiday for all heroes.Wintersday will be active until January 5 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-8). See you in Divinity's Reach!

Living World

• Fixed a bug in which the final boss music would not play in the Metrica Province Dragon Response Mission.

General

• Added local and nonlocal versions to the sound effect for leveling up. Players will continue to hear their own level-up sound the same as before, but the sound of another player leveling up will be much quieter.

Structured Player vs. Player

The antihealing effect used in overtime in Team Deathmatch maps has been adjusted slightly in preparation for future mini-seasons:

• Any active barrier is now removed when overtime begins.
• Any barrier applied during overtime is now instantly removed.
• Illusion of Life and the self-revive component of the Glyph of Renewal (Fire) no longer revive players during overtime.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store

New Items and Promotions

• For a limited time, the new Shimmering Aurora Weapon Collection is available from Black Lion Weapons Specialists for 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket per weapon. Tickets can be found in Black Lion Chests. Keys are available in the Utility category of the Gem Store for 125 gems each.
• The Customer Appreciation Package, with one Black Lion Chest and one Black Lion Chest Key, returns for the anniversary at no cost for one week only. Limit one per account. This is not available to players with Play for Free accounts.
• The new Plush Griffon Skin is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 1,600 gems.
• For a limited time, the Wintersday Wreath Backpack is available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 300 gems, a savings of 40%.
• For a limited time, the Snowflake Gobbler Pack is available in the Utility category of the Gem Store for 400 gems.
• For a limited time, the Season 1 Memory Box—Flame and Festivals and Season 1 Memory Box—Scarlet vs. Lion's Arch are available in the Utility category of the Gem Store for 200 gems each.

Black Lion Chest

• The Black Lion Chest has been updated to the Shimmering Aurora Chest and can be previewed for a full list of its contents.
  • The Evon Gnashblade Wintersday Gift returns as the guaranteed item for the duration of the Shimmering Aurora Chest.
  • The new Shimmering Aurora Cape and Glider Combo and the Plush Griffon Skin are available as uncommon drops for the duration of this chest.
  • The Vermilion Blaze Greatsword Skin remains in the chest as an uncommon drop for the duration of this chest.
  • The Daydreamer's and Winter's Weapon Collections are available for the duration of this chest.
  • Unused versions of the Glyph of Bounty and Glyph of the Scavenger are available as rare drops for the duration of this chest.
• The items available in exchange for Black Lion Statuettes have been updated. Black Lion Statuettes are redeemable by using the statuette itself or by redeeming one at any of the Black Lion Chest Merchants located in every major city.
  • The exclusive Thunderhorse Staff Skin, Watchwork Wings Package, Infinirarium Glider, and Mini Cozy Wintersday Mounts Pack are currently available.
  • The bonus collection has been updated to a selection of weapon skins including but not limited to the Chain-Whip Sword Skin, the Amethyst Aegis, and the Storm Bow.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

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Update 2 - December 1, 2020

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a server crash.
• Fixed a crash when selecting traits in the Hero panel.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

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Late Notes - December 1, 2020

General

• Changed the chests rewarded at the end of Dragon Response Missions to allow them to be looted via the AoE Loot on Interact and Autoloot options.
• When the boss of a Dragon Response Mission is defeated, all defeated players in the map will now be revived.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Wild Flame tornadoes created by the Destroyer of the Great Bridge's Burning Call skill to launch players into the stratosphere.
• Failing a time limit challenge in Dragon Response Missions no longer forces players to exit the mission.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the strength of bosses in Dragon Response Missions to scale based on players in the map rather than players in the event area.

Update - December 1, 2020

Living World

• Fixed an issue that caused objective markers to appear outside of the target map when players were in a different map during some sections of the Champions—Chapter 1: Truce story.

General

• Added a checkbox to the General Options tab of the Options panel to disable the Compact button in the Inventory panel.
• Added additional map currencies to the bottom of the Inventory panel on many maps.

Items

• Rune of the Golemancer: Adjusted the health of the summoned golem to be more in line with other rune summons.

Profession Skills

Elementalist

•  Convergence: Updated the tooltip description of this skill for greater accuracy and to include the delay duration before the skill lands.
•  Tempestuous Aria: This trait no longer increases the maximum number of targets of shout skills.
• Shout Skills: Increased the maximum number of targets from 5 to 10 in PvE only.

Engineer

•  Bomb (Bomb Kit Skill 1): Reduced power coefficient from 0.85 to 0.7 in WvW only.
•  Freeze Grenade: Reduced power coefficient per grenade from 0.375 to 0.2 in PvP only.
•  Poison Grenade: Reduced power coefficient per grenade from 0.375 to 0.2 in PvP only. Reduced poison stacks per grenade from 3 to 1 in PvP only.
•  Grenade Barrage: Reduced power coefficient per grenade from 0.4 to 0.3 in PvP only.
•  Lesser Grenade Barrage: Reduced power coefficient per grenade from 0.3 to 0.2 in PvP only.
•  Explosive Entrance: Reduced power coefficient from 1.25 to 0.9 in PvP only.

Guardian

•  Holy Strike: Reduced power coefficient from 1.25 to 0.91 in WvW only.
•  Symbol of Swiftness: Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.4 to 0.3 in WvW only.
•  Symbol of Punishment: Reduced symbol power coefficient per strike from 0.45 to 0.33 in WvW only.
•  Sword of Justice: Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.72 to 0.54 in WvW only.
•  Zealous Scepter: Reduced might duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in WvW only.
•  Test of Faith: Reduced passthrough strike power coefficient from 2.8 to 2.52 in WvW only.

Necromancer

•  Well of Darkness: Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.8 to 0.45 in WvW only.
•  Well of Corruption: Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.45 to 0.35 in WvW only.

Revenant

•  Draconic Echo: This trait no longer increases the maximum number of targets of passive facet skills.
• Facet Passive Skills: Increased the maximum number of targets from 5 to 10 in PvE only.
•  Inspiring Reinforcement: Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.0 in WvW only. Reduced stability duration from 3 seconds to 1 second in PvP only. Increased cooldown from 10 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP only.
•  Incensed Response: Reduced might from 5 stacks for 8 seconds to 2 stacks for 4 seconds in WvW only.
•  Coalescence of Ruin: Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.15 in WvW only. Reduced cooldown from 10 seconds to 8 seconds in WvW only.
•  Phase Smash: Reduced power coefficient from 1.36 to 1.2 in WvW only.
•  All for One: Reduced protection duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
•  Breakrazor's Bastion: Reduced base heal from 4,529 to 3,397 in PvP only.
•  Soulcleave's Summit: Reduced healing from life stealing from 328 to 262 in PvP only.
•  Steadfast Rejuvenation: Reduced base heal from 40 to 33 in PvP only.

Thief

•  Infiltrator's Arrow: Increased initiative cost from 6 to 8 in PvP and WvW.
•  Signet of Agility: Reduced endurance granted from 50 to 25 in PvP only.
•  Essence Sap: Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 0.75 in PvP only.
•  Consume Plasma: Boon durations have been adjusted in PvP and WvW to the following values:
  •  Stability and  Resistance: 1 second
  •  Quickness: 1.5 seconds
  •  Aegis,  Alacrity, and  Protection: 2 seconds
  •  Regeneration,  Retaliation, and  Vigor: 5 seconds
  •  Fury,  Might, and  Swiftness: 10 seconds

Warrior

•  Winds of Disenchantment: This skill is no longer channeled. Instead it drops a stationary spell area that lasts for 5 seconds with a 1-second pulse interval.
•  Break Enchantments: Reduced the numbers of boons removed from 4 to 2 in WvW only. Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 15 seconds in WvW only. Increased power coefficient from 0.1 to 0.5 in WvW only.
•  Roaring Reveille: This trait no longer increases the maximum number of targets of warhorn skills.
• Warhorn Skills: Increased the maximum number of targets from 5 to 10 in PvE only.
•  Vigorous Shouts: Reduced healing coefficient from 1.0 to 0.64 in PvP only.
•  "To the Limit!": Reduced base heal from 7,735 to 6,575 in PvP only. Reduced endurance granted from 100 to 50 in PvP only.
•  Might Makes Right: Increased base heal from 64 to 85 in PvP and WvW.

Structured Player vs. Player

• Removed the Celestial Amulet from the PvP Build panel.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store

New Items and Promotions

• The new Herald of Aurene Outfit is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 700 gems.
• The new Herald of Aurene Appearance Package is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 2,000 gems.
• The new Herald of Aurene Cape is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
• The new Aurene Dye Kit containing six exclusive colors is now available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store at a price of 1 dye for 125 gems, 5 for 500 gems, and 25 for 2,500 gems.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

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• The "Champions" Looking For Group subcategory has been updated to form parties instead of squads in order to facilitate Dragon Response Missions.