Game updates/June 2021

June 2021 updates
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 Tuesday, 29 June 2021 Thursday, 24 June 2021 Wednesday, 23 June 2021 Tuesday, 22 June 2021 Friday, 11 June 2021 Wednesday, 9 June 2021 Tuesday, 8 June 2021
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Update - June 30, 2021

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from completing the Return to Research in Rata Novus achievement through the Living World Replay version of the "Out of the Shadows" episode.
• Fixed an issue that prevented some participating players from receiving credit for completing the Hablion's Revenge and Unbound Guardian's Revenge achievements.

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Update - June 29, 2021

Bug Fix:

• Fixed an issue that blocked progress in the "The End" story mission of the "War Eternal" episode.

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Update - June 24, 2021

Bug Fix:

• Fixed an issue that could cause stowed weapons to appear out of position when the Holographic Dragon Gloves (heavy) were equipped.

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Update - June 23, 2021

Bug Fix:

• Fixed a server crash.

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Late Notes - June 22, 2021

Bug Fix

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the Refill button only partially refilled the Mystic Forge.

Update - June 22, 2021

Dragon Bash Festival

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It's time for Dragon Bash! It wouldn't be a proper celebration without your attendance. Join me in Hoelbrak for another moot for the ages! There will be tests of strength, racing, food, song, and—most importantly—ale. I'll see you there. Unless, of course, you don't enjoy fun.

— Knut Whitebear

• Join the celebration in Hoelbrak! Celebrate Tyria's resistance against the Elder Dragons while engaging in a variety of festive games:
• Dragon Arena: Show off your dragon-fighting prowess against lifelike holograms in the Dragon Arena, or tackle a more difficult gauntlet in Dragon Arena Survival.
• Hologram Stampede: The fighting continues in the Hologram Stampede, a map-wide scramble to clear the Hoelbrak countryside of deadly enemies.
• Piñata Bashing: Master the tradition of destroying dragon piñatas in the Piñata Bashing adventure.
• Dragon Bash Rally: Speed around Hoelbrak in a new mounted race, the Dragon Bash Rally.
• Moa Race: Tigg's famous racing moas return in a Moa Race event. Put your zhaitaffy on the line and cheer on the winner!
• The festival meta-achievement, (Annual) Dragon Bash Feats, has been updated with a new reward, the Holographic Dragon Gloves. Last year's reward, the Holographic Dragon Shoulder, can now be purchased from the Dragon Bash Merchant.
• Three new weapons are now available as rare drops from dragon coffer. They can also be purchased from Sparking Stone, a new Dragon Bash weapons vendor in Hoelbrak.
• New rewards have been added to the Dragon Bash Vendor, including two miniatures and a new ascended accessory.
• New Dragon Bash–themed guild decorations have been added.
• Adventurers who have finished The Icebrood Saga can now meet some of their allies in Hoelbrak during Dragon Bash.
• The party rages for three weeks, from June 22 until July 13 at noon Pacific Time. Get bashing!

Festive Fixes

• Daily limits on zhaitaffy from smashing dragon piñatas in Hoelbrak have been relaxed. Adventurers will now receive a small amount of zhaitaffy after breaking their first 35 piñatas in a day, tracked by a new daily achievement, Daily Bonus Rewards: Piñata Smashing.
• Updated creature scaling in the Hologram Stampede to adjust more effectively when large groups join up at a hologram generator.
• Updated textures on the projector component of the Dragon Hologram Generator guild-hall decoration to improve visibility in dimmer environments.
• Certain nonfestival ambient characters in Hoelbrak have been moved and adjusted to make their dialogue less repetitious.

General

• Updated Taimi and Gorrik's scenes in the Eye of the North following the end of The Icebrood Saga to add voice acting.

Profession Skills

General

• Fixed an issue that prevented torment skill facts from being completely displayed.

Necromancer

•  Scourge: Fixed a bug that caused the user interface to display the wrong color when players dismounted.

Ranger

• Fixed a bug that caused the primary pet to activate when switching maps, even if the secondary pet was previously active but was stowed or merged.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store

New Items and Promotions

• The new Pyre Horns Helm Skin is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
• For a limited time, the Pyre Gloves are available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 400 gems, a savings of 20%.
• For a limited time, the Pet Skyscale Whistle and Skyscale Squadron Glider are available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 640 and 400 gems respectively, a savings of 20%.
• For a limited time, the Zhaitaffy Gobbler Pack is available on sale in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 320 gems, a savings of 20%.
• To celebrate Dragon Bash, the Dragon's Fortune Fireworks are free for a limited time. Dragon's Fortune Fireworks are available in the Toys category of the Gem Store, limited to one per account.

Black Lion Chest

• The Black Lion Chest has been updated to the Arcane Chest and can be previewed for a full list of its contents.
• The Gnashblade Dragon Coffer returns as the guaranteed item for the duration of the Arcane Chest.
• The new Arcane Battlestaff Skin is available as an uncommon drop for the duration of this chest.
• The Starborn Cape returns as an uncommon drop for the duration of this chest.
• The Dominator and Crimson Lion weapon collections are available for the duration of this chest.
• Unused versions of the Glyph of the Leatherworker and Glyph of the Tailor 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 Wandering Cloud Chair and Glider Combo, Golden Talon Longbow, Dreamwalker Wings Backpack and Glider Combo, Mini Exo-Suit Mounts Pack, and Hydra Staff are currently available.
• The two bonus collections have been updated to a selection of dye kits and outfits.

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• The Maguuma weapon skins collection has been introduced.
• Instances of "Pinata" have been renamed to "Piñata".
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Update - June 11, 2021

Bug Fix:

• Fixed a client crash.

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Update - June 09, 2021

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that prevented certain bright-colored dyes from applying correctly on the Royal Anubis Jackal Skin.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Return to Caithe's Reconnaissance Squad achievement from completing when players replayed the Caithe's Reconnaissance Squad story instance.

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Update 2 - June 08, 2021

Bug Fix:

• Fixed a server crash.

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Late Notes - June 08, 2021

Living World

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Legacy of the Llama Locator achievement from progressing if players had previously completed other llama-locating achievements.

Update - June 08, 2021

Profession Skills

In this update, we are focusing on remaining skill tuning and bug fixes as a follow up to the May 11 balance update. We wanted to give special attention to small quality-of-life issues experienced by several professions. To that end, we are making changes such as increasing the maximum duration of the swiftness boon to 60 seconds, and allowing multiple applications of superspeed to stack duration.

Quality-of-life fixes to individual professions include proper source tracking for the firebrand’s Ashes of the Just skill, and a fix to the movement behavior of the thief's Death Blossom dagger skill so that it no longer sends you far past the intended target if you are under the effect of swiftness or superspeed.

With regard to WvW, we are making targeted changes to two pain points: the overperforming engineer trait Purity of Purpose, and the druid skill Glyph of Unity. We’ve long seen Purity of Purpose be the dominating support trait for large group play in WvW, with its ability to quickly and continually stack all boons in an area. In this update, Purity of Purpose has an internal cooldown of 2 seconds per affected target. This means it can be triggered on the same target again every other second, such as on alternating pulses of Cleansing Field, but not in shorter intervals.

Glyph of Unity has recently been used in large battles to cause spikes of damage totaling in the hundreds of thousands in a matter of seconds, especially in conjunction with Signet of Stone to provide invulnerability while doing so. This ability to cause dozens of attacks per second (limited only by how many hits are striking the druid) to up to five targets has no effective counter in large group combat, except to keep distance from a druid in the first place. We didn't think this was great! In this update, Glyph of Unity now has an internal cooldown of 0.25 seconds per activation, so it can deliver a maximum of four attacks per second to linked enemies.

General

•  Superspeed: Multiple applications of this effect will now stack duration, up to a maximum duration of 10 seconds.
•  Swiftness: Maximum duration has been increased from 30 seconds to 60 seconds.

Mastery Skills

•  Channeled Agony: This skill no longer applies the damaging Spectral Agony condition. Strike damage doubled. Torment stacks applied on hit increased from 3 to 5.

Elementalist

•  Signet of Fire: The number of applied burning stacks on activation has been reduced from 4 to 2, and the duration of applied burning has been increased from 6 seconds to 10 seconds in all game modes.

Engineer

Alchemy

•  Purity of Purpose: This trait now has an internal cooldown of 2 seconds per target.

Guardian

Firebrand

•  Ashes of the Just: This skill now properly attributes its damage to the source for each stack of the effect.

Mesmer

Mirage

•  Chaos Vortex: When cast by a clone, the duration of the applied confusion condition has been reduced from 8 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE only.

Ranger

Short Bow

•  Poison Volley: Poison duration has been increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds when striking from in front of the target, and from 6 seconds to 7 seconds when striking from behind the target. This change applies in all game modes.
•  Crippling Shot: The duration of bleeding applied by the pet's next three attacks is increased from 12 seconds to 15 seconds in all game modes.

Druid

•  Glyph of Unity: This skill now has a 0.25-second internal cooldown per target.

Revenant

Legendary Demon Stance

•  Embrace the Darkness: Reduced the duration of applied torment from 5.5 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only.

Devastation

•  Destructive Impulses: Bonus damage for having an off-hand weapon equipped has been reduced from 5% to 2.5% in PvE only.

Thief

Dagger

•  Death Blossom: This skill no longer moves the player farther if they are under the effects of swiftness or superspeed.

Daredevil

•  Lotus Training: Condition damage bonus has been increased from 10% to 15% in PvE. This now matches the current bonus on this trait in PvP and WvW.

Deadeye

•  Malicious Sneak Attack: This skill now only applies one stack of torment, with a duration equal to twice your malice, in all game modes.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store

New Items and Promotions

• Episodes 5 and 6 of Living World Season 2 are free for a limited time as part of the Living World Return.
• The new Pharaoh's Package is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 2,400 gems.
• This package contains the Pharaoh's Regalia Outfit, the Royal Anubis Jackal Skin, a Total Makeover Kit, 5 Black Lion Statuettes, and 5 Elonian Landscape Dye Kits.
• The new Royal Anubis Jackal Skin is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 1,600 gems.
• The new Pharaoh's Regalia Outfit is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 700 gems.
• For a limited time, the Ice Reaver Cape, Herald of Aurene Cape, and Abyss Stalker Cape are available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 400 gems each, a savings of 20%.
• For a limited time, the Season 1 Memory Box—Flame and Festivals and Season 1 Memory Box—Scarlet vs. Lion's Arch are available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 160 gems each, a savings of 20%.

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