Game updates/February 2016

February 2016 updates
Wednesday, 24 February 2016 Tuesday, 23 February 2016 Tuesday, 16 February 2016 Thursday, 11 February 2016 Wednesday, 10 February 2016 Tuesday, 9 February 2016
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Update - February 24, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Removed two amulets from PvP, the Vigilant Amulet and Crusader Amulet.
• Fixed a client crash.
• Fixed a server crash.
• Fixed a bug in which the player's position would not save correctly when players transitioned between map versions or logged out.
• Fixed a bug that prevented LFG descriptions from being updated on initial posting.
• Fixed a bug that caused the LFG search bar to overlap the Refresh button.

Late Notes

World Polish

Southsun Cove

• The "Reclaim the settlement by burning out the karka nests" event now broadcasts correctly to the area indicated by the world map event circle.

Fireheart Rise

• Fixed a bug that blocked progress in the "Defeat Scaldmaw of the Flame Legion to gain the help of the grawl" event.

Dry Top

• Rare boss events have had their spawn cycle updated.
  • Five minutes into each dust storm, one of the rare bosses will spawn with a map-wide marker.
  • The five bosses spawn one at a time in a set, repeating the rotation of Sol Eater, Sand Savage, Bloodscale, Grit, and Dune Soarer.

Profession Skills

Ranger

•   Spike Barrage (Bristleback Pet F2 skill): Reduced the damage of this skill by 25%.

Necromancer—Reaper

•  Deathly Chill: Reduced the condition damage multiplier for this trait by 15%.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

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Update - February 23, 2016

Balance, Bug-Fixing, Polish

World Polish

• Iron Marches
  • Fixed a bug that caused the "Protect Sentinel Whiptail while he finds and tames a siege devourer" event to stall.

Graphics

• Fixed an issue in which light adaptation stopped working when the player started or stopped swimming.
• Fixed an issue in which certain norn male hair accessories lost their color settings.

Personal Story

• Fixed a bug in "The Dredge Hideout" story step that prevented Agent Ifwyn from completing the "Speak to the order reps" objective.

Items

• Runes and Sigils: Fixed a bug that caused some rune and armor activations to fail when airborne or underwater.
• Meteorlogicus III—Grawl Devotion: Fixed a bug that would cause the "Escort the Order of Whispers team to the grawl camp" event to stall.
• Nevermore IV—Bring the Ancient Dwarven Texts to Rest: Fixed a bug that allowed this collectible to be collected before completing "Ancient Dwarven Texts."
• Nevermore: Fixed an issue that would cause Scholar Mossi to attempt to take more obsidian than she needed.

Profession Skills

General

Elementalist

•   Flame Burst: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to go on interrupt recharge if it was attempted on an enemy outside the max range of the skill.
•   Cyclone: Removed the erroneous unblockable skill fact.
•   Water Globe: Removed the unblockable skill fact from this ability, as this is a skill fact that's normally reserved for abilities with attacks. Added a water-combo skill fact.

Engineer

•  Final Salvo: Updated skill facts to remove stability from gyro self-destruct skills.
•   Thunderclap: Updated the area-of-effect rings to show combo rings to allies and red rings to enemies.

Guardian

•   Shield of Courage: Fixed a bug that prevented aegis from refreshing when it was stolen by a thief using the Bountiful Theft trait.
•   Symbol of Energy: Updated this ability to display a red ring to enemies rather than a combo ring.
•  Hunter's Determination: Updated the initial aegis application to last the full 8 seconds as indicated in the skill fact.

Ranger

•  Wilting Strike: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from functioning with Heart of Thorns pets.
•  Companion's Might: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from functioning with Heart of Thorns pets.
•  Primal Echoes: Fixed a bug in the skill fact that indicated an incorrect duration when using the Moment of Clarity trait.
• Astral force is now cleared at the beginning of a PvP match.

Revenant

•   Elemental Blast: Updated this skill to properly display its red circle to enemies.
•   Energy Expulsion: Updated this skill to create an extra energy fragment when using the Natural Abundance trait.
•  Soothing Bastion: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from properly extending boon durations.
•   Embrace the Darkness: This skill will now deliver an attack instead of piercing all defenses. The skill remains unblockable and will ignore blindness, but it will no longer pierce evasion.
•  Diabolic Inferno: This skill will now deliver an attack instead of piercing all defenses. The skill remains unblockable and will ignore blindness, but it will no longer pierce evasion.

Thief

•   Impairing Daggers: Fixed a bug that prevented this ability from functioning as a projectile finisher.
•   Pistol Whip: Fixed a bug that caused this ability to display incorrect damage values in PvP. The initial strike of this ability has been combined between PvP and PvE (dealing the PvE damage values) and will no longer deal increased damage to crippled enemies.

Warrior

•   Brutal Shot: Fixed a bug that prevented the roll-back portion of this skill from functioning if the player was in midair. Fixed a bug that prevented the audio of this ability from playing.

Structured Player vs. Player

General

• Reward track progress that extends past the end of the current track wraps into the next available track.
• Added standard enemy models for the revenant profession.
• Added a revenant sparring partner to the combat training area in the Heart of the Mists.
• Updated matchmaking to prevent a full party from facing a team of individual players.
• Updated matchmaking to lower the average queue times.
• Fixed an issue with the trebuchet on the Battle of Khylo map that didn't inform players when a trebuchet was targeting their location.

PvP Leagues

• The PvP Leagues term "points" has been replaced with "pips."
• All match victories now only result in a one-pip gain.
• All match defeats now only result in a one-pip loss.
• Added a postmatch pip breakdown that explains how and why players gain or lose pips in each match.
• Added a win-streak mechanic that awards players with an extra pip for each subsequent win after 3 consecutive wins.
• Added a comeback mechanic that awards players with an extra pip on their next win after losing 3 (or more) consecutive matches.
• Changed the size of Amber division tiers from 5 pips to 3 pips each.
• Changed the number of tiers in Amber division from 3 to 5.
• Changed the size of Emerald division tiers from 5 pips to 4 pips each.

Daily Achievement Adjustment

• Daily PvP Capture and Daily PvP Defender have been removed from the daily rotation.
• Daily Top Stats and Daily PvP Matches Played in Unranked or Ranked Arena have been added to the daily rotation.

World vs. World

General

• The score tick countdown timer in the top-middle of the screen is no longer 1 minute ahead in WvW maps.

Eternal Battlegrounds

• The asura gates leading to other WvW maps now function properly again.
• Lowlands Keep: Removed the hostile drakes that sometimes caused the keep to become contested.
• Stonemist Castle: Shifted a mortar on the outer southern walls off a breakable wall so it would not be floating in the air when the wall beneath it was destroyed.
• Klovan Gully: The blue team "Defend Klovan Gully" event no longer displays an erroneous 0/1 event objective.
• Langor Gulch: The green team "Defend Langor Gulch" event no longer displays an erroneous 0/1 event objective.

Guild

• Griffon Fountain and Lion Fountain guild hall decorations now have collision.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store

New Items and Promotions

• A new Electromagnetic-Descender Glider is now available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 400 gems.
• A new Crystal Savant Outfit is now available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 700 gems.
• Belinda's Greatsword Skin has returned to the Gem Store for a limited time. It's available for purchase in the Style category for 600 gems.

Improvements

• The Captain's Airship Pass and Royal Terrace Pass can now be used from the PvP lobby, WvW, dungeons, and raids. Using these passes will cause you to lose your progress in those instances.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• A search box has been added to the Looking For Group tool.
• Hovering the cursor over reward tracks in the PvP panel now displays a tooltip showing the intermediate rewards of each tier.
• Lady Derwena's daily spawn cycle has been fixed and her vendor icon displays correctly at most locations.
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Update - February 16, 2016

Bug Fixes

Revenant

•   Chilling Isolation: Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to fire more projectiles than intended.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

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Update - February 11, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed additional bugs that caused mesmer illusions to inherit transformations from their owner.
• Fixed an issue in PvP in which elements of the targeting UI displayed incorrect colors.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

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Update - February 10, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could cause some mesmer illusions to inherit transformations from their owner.
• Fixed a display bug with WvW objectives when examining them from a different map.
• Ghosts in the cemetery section of the Spirit Woods will now correctly disappear when the event is complete.

Late Notes

WvW

• Fixed an issue in which some squad object markers wouldn't be removed when the object was no longer visible.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

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Update 2 - February 9, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a sound issue in which the Wings of Love glider repeated harps too often.

Late Notes

The Shatterer

• Fixed a bug that caused the Shatterer to react as though he was not broken if his defiance bar was completed in the last 3 seconds of the break phase.
• Fixed a scaling issue with the Shatterer's defiance bar that caused it to become excessively difficult at higher scales.
• Increased the Shatterer's health slightly to compensate for reduced defiance bar scaling.
• Increased the Pulsating Crystal Node's health slightly to allow more players to damage it before it is destroyed, allowing them to gain credit for the Crystal Healing Denier achievement.
• Decreased the scaling on the Pulsating Crystal Node's defiance bar slightly to compensate for the higher health.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the Shatterer's Branded minions to inconsistently give credit to the Branded Bane achievement. Note that non-event Branded minions still do not count toward this achievement, only Branded minions summoned by the Shatterer.
• Fixed a bug that would cause players to be launched without the bomb bundle if they rapidly pressed the F Interact key.

Adventures

• Fixed a bug that prevented adventure achievements from being awarded if the reward chest was opened while in PvP or the PvP lobby.
• Players who have been affected by this bug can now re-earn credit toward achievements by earning silver or gold in the affected adventure.
• A Fungus Among Us: Fixed an issue that could cause the Cap Launch skill to abort if a movement key was being pressed simultaneously.

Professions

• Elementalist
  •   Fresh Air: Fixed a bug that allowed this trait to trigger the ferocity bonus when a transform was removed.

• Engineer
  •   Applied Force: Updated the trait icon to better reflect its theme.

• Ranger
  •   "Protect Me!": This ability now allows capture-point progress to allies affected by the skill.

• Revenant
  •   Precision Strike: Fixed a bug that caused this ability to not target downed enemies.
  •   Vengeful Hammers: Fixed a bug that allowed the revenant to have a hammer out permanently.

General

• Fixed a bug that could cause saved account details, language choice, and UI scale to be reset on client start-up.
• Updated the Ugly Wool Glider to no longer repeat the deployment sound effects while inside an updraft.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the meowing sound effects from triggering for the following miniatures: "Mini Professor Mew," "Mini Mister Mittens," "Mini Baron von Scrufflebutt," "Mini Snuggles," and "Mini Old Tom."
• Searching for the Truth: Fixed an issue in this story step that could prevent Clement Forktail from appearing.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

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Update - February 9, 2016

Balance, Bug-Fixing, Polish

World Polish

• Plains of Ashford
  • The Battle for Ascalon City meta-event's cycle time has been reduced to cycle every 20 – 30 minutes.

General

• Added an option to the Options panel to move the Compact option found in the Inventory panel to the bottom of the drop-down menu.
• Changed some map bonus rewards to provide a more straightforward method of acquiring many types of cloth and leather crafting materials. Maps that previously awarded Jute Scraps, Wool Scraps, Cotton Scraps, Linen Scraps, Rawhide Leather Sections, Thin Leather Sections, Coarse Leather Sections, or Rugged Leather Sections as infrequent rewards now award these materials as their primary rewards.
• Crab Toss has been temporarily replaced with Keg Brawl in the daily activity rotation.

Raids

• Spirit Vale
  • Adrenal Mushrooms have been added near rally points.

Personal Story

• Fixed an issue that prevented the incinerator golem from appearing in the "A Sparkling Rescue" story step.
• Fixed an issue that prevented troll salve from being usable after defeating the trolls guarding it in the "Awakening" story step.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Clement Forktail from appearing in the "Searching for the Truth" story step.

Items

• Mastery vendors now sell obsidian shards for the correct amount of karma.
• Fixed various text bugs on legendary collection collectibles.
• Vale Guardian guild decorations now have collision and can be removed.
• Minstrel III—The Alluring Song of Meat: Fixed a bug that prevented Roj the Rowdy Butcher from teaching his song.
• Minstrel III—Burrisson's Ditty: Fixed a bug that prevented Burrisson the Blue from teaching his song.
• Bifrost III—Jade Maw's Eye Lens: Using the Jade Maw’s Eye Lens now displays an icon while it is active.
• Incineator III—Destructive Substance: Fixed a bug that caused the “Bashing Bauxite Alchemicals” meta-event chain to stall.
• Juggernaut III—Corrupted Ooze: Corruption pools in the “Stop the Risen Priest of Grenth from retaking the Cathedral of Silence” event will now grant this collectible.
• Juggernaut III—Mystic Chromatic Ooze: This item will now be usable after completing the collection. If it was discarded, an extra can be purchased from Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs.
• Legendary Collector: Gain progression in this achievement by collecting new legendary weapons released with Heart of Thorns.
• All gear given during character creation is no longer salvageable.

Profession Skills

Revenant

•   Coalescence of Ruin: Fixed an issue that prevented multiple players from being able to hit the same target simultaneously when using this skill.

Warrior

•   Scorched Earth: Fixed an issue that prevented multiple players from being able to hit the same target simultaneously when using this skill.

World vs. World

• Will no longer display party or guild member map markers for enemies.
• Fixed a text-wrapping bug with the word "Reinforced."

Guild

• The Griffon Fountain guild hall decoration now continuously has water flowing.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store

New Items and Promotions

• Black Lion Chests no longer include a bonus Personalized Homemade Lucky Envelope.
• A new Wings of Love Glider is available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 400 gems.
• A new Soaring weapon skins set is available from the Black Lion Weapons Specialist for the limited-time price of 1 complete Black Lion Claim Ticket from a Black Lion Chest. Keys are available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 125 gems.
• Lovestruck weapons have been returned to the Black Lion Weapons Specialist for a limited time for 2 Black Lion Claim Tickets.
• The Wedding Preparation Package contains a Wedding Attire Outfit, Name Change Contract, Total Makeover Kit, Bouquet of Roses, and 5 Teleport to Friend charges for 1580 gems in the Style category of the Gem Store.
• The Box of Chocolates and Bouquet of Roses are available in the Toys category of the Gem Store for 250 gems.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented unique warhorn-skin sound effects from playing when used with Tempest warhorn skills.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• The Lunar New Year 2016 event has ended.
• The active target indicator above a target's nameplate no longer matches the target's disposition color and is always gold instead.
• The Unbound backpack now animates movement for the wearer.
• The Illuminated Fountain decoration now has proper collision.
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