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Update - May 23, 2017[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

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Update - May 22, 2017[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

PvP[edit]

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Update - May 18, 2017[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed a server crash.
  • In the Heart of the Volcano instance, when playing in a party, characters will now correctly be teleported off the barrier if they land in the center or die before hitting the barrier.
  •  Arcane Power.png Arcane Power: The number of stacks this ability applies has been reduced from 5 to 4.
  •  Arcane Lightning.png Arcane Lightning: The duration of burning this ability applies has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.
  •  Epidemic.png Epidemic: Fixed a bug that caused conditions to not transfer on the fifth missile. The missiles fired from this ability will now pierce targets already struck by the skill. Removed the new functionality that caused condition durations to affect newly transferred conditions.
  • Increased the respawn time on several centaur spawns in Lake Doric.

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Update - May 17, 2017[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  •  Skull Grinder.png Skull Grinder: The blast finisher delivered by this attack has been removed, as indicated in the original release note.
  • Infusing Terror Infusing Terror (Reaper Shroud): Updated the skill fact to properly indicate a 20% damage reduction rather than 33%.
  •  Tainted Shackles.png Tainted Shackles: Updated the skill fact to correctly indicate that this skill applies 5 seconds of Revealed when hitting an enemy.
  •  Spear of Justice.png Spear of Justice: Updated the skill fact to correctly indicate that this skill applies 6 seconds of Revealed.
  • Alchemical Tinctures Alchemical Tinctures: This trait now functions with Toss Elixir X.
  • Elemental Surge Arcane Lightning: When used with Arcane Power, this trait now considers the caster of the ability as the source when dealing conditions and will apply them based on the caster's current attunement.

Living World[edit]

  • Heart of the Volcano instance:
    • Chimney barriers now apply significantly less burning to players.
    • Killing the bosses at the same time no longer results in the strange timing or overlap of VO.
    • Fixed an issue in which VO might stall if the instance owner was transformed.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

  •  Hallowed Ground.png Hallowed Ground: May 16th change now present in game "Reduced the cooldown of this skill from 60 seconds to 45 seconds. Reduced the pulse amount from 10 to 8, and replaced the boon-duration increase component with retaliation."
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Update 3 - May 16, 2017[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed an issue that was causing legendary armor to display in combat mode on the Character Select screen.
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing legendary armor from animating in the wardrobe and preview screens.

Skills[edit]

  • Fixed a bug that prevented some traits from correctly applying conditions to world bosses.
  • Fixed a bug in which certain leap finishers would apply conditions for longer than intended.
  •  Epidemic.png Epidemic: Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to affect allies.
  •  Healing Turret.png Healing Turret: Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to display the regeneration radius to enemies.
  • Turrets: Added a 0.5-second recharge delay to detonate-turret skills, when a turret is first placed, in order to prevent accidental detonation.

Late Notes[edit]

Legendary Armor[edit]

  • Medium and light armor now has fully covered asura toes, in and out of combat.
  • Fixed an issue with chest-piece sizing on asura and sylvari females.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed legendary armor to be salvageable.
  • Fixed an issue with light female armor for humans and sylvari in which portions of the back of the chest piece would clip.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the tip of the light-armor skirt to clip with the ground.
  • Fixed a clipping issue with medium armor and charr tails.
  • Fixed an issue in which players who unlocked a different class of armor for Refined Envoy than they did for Experimental would not receive the associated Experimental skins.
  • Fixed an issue with the Bobblehead Tonic and Bobblehead Laboratory when legendary armor is equipped.
  • Fixed an issue in which precursor recipes that became available after the first legendary armor set was obtained would not be account bound.
  • Reduced the distance between the left shoulder piece and the player model on medium armor.
  • Fixed an issue in which darker dyes would appear washed out and harder to see on legendary heavy armor.
  • Fixed recipe text on the pop-ups for Gift of Dedication, Gift of Prowess, and Gift of Prosperity.
  • Fixed an issue in which having multiple chronomancers generating clones simultaneously in an instance would cause a drop in performance.
  • Fixed an issue in which the effect from the legendary hammer Juggernaut was not properly applied to legendary armor.

Living World[edit]

  • Reenabled problematic fertile soils.
  • Fixed a server crash related to the Wayfarer’s Henge collection.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]
  • Fixed an issue with single-use Captain’s Airship Passes that caused certain friendly characters in Gendarran Fields to turn hostile.
  • Fixed an issue in which off-hand weapons would appear incorrectly when previewing armor with the Wielded box checked.

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Update 2 - May 16, 2017[edit]

Bug Fix[edit]

  • Fixed a server crash that occurred at the end of ranked PvP matches.

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Update - May 16, 2017[edit]

Living World[edit]

General[edit]

  • Newly created accounts must wait 72 hours before gems-to-gold transactions can be completed on the currency exchange.

Raids[edit]

Items[edit]

Profession Skills[edit]

In this update, you'll see some changes aimed at normalizing how certain types of skills work. Skills that tether players together now apply Revealed to provide a stronger window of opportunity to players who can successfully land them. Skills and traits that previously granted pulsing stability now grant a block of stability up front in order better allow for counterplay through boon removal. Finally, we are increasing the casting time of many skills that apply effects like daze or stun in order to give the player on the receiving end of these skills time to react and defend.

General[edit]

Consumables[edit]

The line of foods that provided bonus damage while moving has been dominating consumable use for all power-based builds. In addition to being significantly more powerful than other foods designed to boost power damage, the "wiggle" strategy to maintain uptime on its effect has a negative impact on the health of the game (and its players). For these reasons, food that increases outgoing damage while moving has had its efficacy reduced by 50%. This affects the following items and their respective feasts:

General Continued[edit]

Elementalist[edit]

In this iteration, there have been a couple of reworks for less-used utility skills and a couple of general quality-of-life changes. In PvP, we'll be looking to slow down the elementalist's defensive capability so that it has a few more openings for opponents to pressure them.

  •  Obsidian Flesh.png Obsidian Flesh: The duration of this ability has been reduced from 4 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
  •  "Wash the Pain Away!".png "Wash the Pain Away!": The cooldown of this ability has been increased from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
  •  "Rebound!".png Rebound: The base healing of this ability has been increased by 33%.
  •  Glyph of Elemental Power.png Glyph of Elemental Power: Reduced recharge to 25 seconds. Now gives 5 charges instead of using a 5-second cooldown interval. Decreased duration to 25 seconds. Reduced burning duration to 1 stack for 3 seconds. Changed crippled condition to 1 stack of bleeding for 6 seconds. Changed weakness condition to 4 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds.
  •  Arcane Power.png Arcane Power: The effects of this skill now apply to up to 4 other nearby allies within a range of 240. In addition to its previous effects, each stack of this effect now gives 75 ferocity at level 80.
  •  Drake's Breath.png Drake's Breath: Increased burn duration to 4 seconds and increased damage by 14% in PvE only.
  • Gale Song Gale Song: The cooldown of this trait has been increased from 40 seconds to 60 seconds in PvP only.
  • Elemental Shielding Elemental Shielding: The duration of protection this trait applies has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
  • One with Fire Smothering Auras: Now applies 1 stack of might for all other auras besides Flame Aura.

Engineer[edit]

Most of the time, engineers were taking turret skills and never deploying the turret because the Tool Belt skill was too important to be overridden by the detonate turret skill. In this update we are moving the detonate skill to be the flip-over for the turret itself so that the Tool Belt skill is always available even if you deploy the turret. Because many of the overcharge skills weren't very tactical and much easier to just press on cooldown, we've changed these skills to automatically activate the moment the turret is placed instead. Since this means a turret can only be overcharged once per deployment, we've reduced the recharge of a few turrets to compensate.

  •  Med Pack Drop.png Med Pack Drop: This skill will now remove all (14) conditions for up to 5 allies upon impact.
  •  Bulwark Gyro.png Bulwark Gyro: The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
  •  Purge Gyro.png Purge Gyro: The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
  • Turrets: Turrets no longer need to be overcharged. Summoning a turret will automatically overcharge it once.
  • Detonate Turret: This skill has been moved off of the Tool Belt skill. It is now the flip skill for the associated turret.
  •  Thumper Turret.png Thumper Turret: Reduced recharge to 40 seconds. Overcharge attack now launches foes straight up instead of out of the turret's attack range.
  •  Healing Turret.png Healing Turret: Fixed a bug that caused this turret to show a water combo field when none was present.
  •  Flame Turret.png Flame Turret: Reduced recharge to 20 seconds.
  •  Rocket Turret.png Rocket Turret: Reduced recharge to 40 seconds.
  •  Detection Pulse.png Detection Pulse (Scrapper): Fixed a bug that caused the effect from this skill to incorrectly reflect its radius.
  • Bunker Down Bunker Down: The cooldown of this trait has been increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
  • Protection Injection Protection Injection: The cooldown of this trait has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.

Guardian[edit]

Quite a few signets have languished for the Guardian for some time, so we took this opportunity to give them a bit more oomph and rework some of their actives.

  •  True Shot.png True Shot: The recharge of this skill has been increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW.
  •  Wings of Resolve.png Wings of Resolve: Base healing of this skill has been reduced by 24% in PvP only.
  •  Smite Condition.png Smite Condition: Damage when the guardian is affected by conditions has been reduced by 21% in PvP only.
  •  Test of Faith.png Test of Faith: Damage of this skill has been reduced by 10% in PvP only.
  •  Shield of Courage.png Shield of Courage: Decreased active duration of this skill from 4 seconds to 3 seconds. The cooldown has been decreased from 75 seconds to 60 seconds.
  •  Spear of Justice.png Spear of Justice: This skill now applies 6 seconds of Revealed on the initial impact.
  •  "Save Yourselves!".png "Save Yourselves!": This skill now grants 1.5 seconds of resistance, in addition to the other boons applied.
  •  Renewed Focus.png Renewed Focus: The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 90 seconds to 105 seconds in PvP only.
  •  Signet of Mercy.png Signet of Mercy: Reduced the casting time of this skill from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
  •  Wall of Reflection.png Wall of Reflection: Reduced the cooldown of this skill from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
  •  Hallowed Ground.png Hallowed Ground: Reduced the cooldown of this skill from 60 seconds to 45 seconds. Reduced the pulse amount from 10 to 8, and replaced the boon-duration increase component with retaliation.
  •  Signet of Courage.png Signet of Courage: Reduced the cooldown of this skill from 120 seconds to 90 seconds. Reduced the casting time of this ability from 3.25 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
  •  Signet of Judgment.png Signet of Judgment: Passive now also reduces condition damage by 10%. Reduced radius from 600 to 300. Active no longer inflicts weakness and instead applies 2 stacks of burning for 3 seconds.
  • Hunter's Determination Hunter's Determination: The cooldown of this trait has been increased from 60 seconds to 75 seconds in PvP only.

Mesmer[edit]

In this update, we're rolling out new attacks for more phantasm skills and looking at enhancements to power-based shatter builds, which have fallen out of favor recently.

  •  Tides of Time.png Tides of Time: The casting time of this skill has been increased from 0.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds.
  •  Well of Precognition.png Well of Precognition: The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 0.75 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
  •  Continuum Split.png Continuum Split: The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 90 seconds to 105 seconds in PvP only.
  •  Phantasmal Berserker.png Phantasmal Berserker: This skill now fires a boomerang projectile that inflicts 3 stacks of vulnerability for 3 seconds in addition to summoning a phantasm.
  •  Phantasmal Swordsman.png Phantasmal Swordsman: This skill now performs a sword strike in front of the player when summoning the phantasm. If the sword strike hits, you and all Swordsmen currently summoned gain 8 might for 10 seconds.
  •  Phantasmal Warden.png Phantasmal Warden: This skill now throws an illusionary axe at the target, which immobilizes for 2 seconds in addition to summoning a phantasm.
  •  Phantasmal Rogue.png Phantasmal Rogue: This skill now performs an attack that applies 1 stack of confusion and 5 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds in addition to summoning a phantasm.
  •  Phantasmal Whaler.png Illusionary Whaler: This skill now fires Siren's Call projectiles at 3 nearby foes in addition to summoning a phantasm.
  •  Phantasmal Mariner.png Illusionary Mariner: This skill now performs an Evasive Strike in addition to summoning a phantasm.
  •  Mind Wrack.png Mind Wrack: Increased damage of 2 illusion shatter by 3% per strike. Increased damage of 3 illusion shatter by 4% per strike.
  •  Cry of Frustration.png Cry of Frustration: Increased damage by 15%.
  • Mental Anguish Mental Anguish: Increased bonus damage to 25% base (50% vs. Inactive) in PvE only.
  • Master of Fragmentation Master of Fragmentation: Critical-hit chance bonus for Mind Wrack raised to 25%.
  • Illusionary Reversion Illusionary Reversion: Increased required illusions shattered to 3.
  • Bountiful Disillusionment Bountiful Disillusionment: Increased might stacks to 5. Increased vigor duration to 8. Increased fury duration to 10.

Necromancer[edit]

Our biggest focus in this iteration for necromancers was that of Epidemic, in that its impact is too instant in most PvP scenarios, as well as its heavy toll on our servers. Secondarily, we've long felt that the Plague elite was lackluster and was in need of a rework. In addition to a variety of weapon-based quality-of-life changes, we're excited to see how the skill changes fare over time.

  •  "Rise!".png "Rise!": The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 40 seconds to 60 seconds in PvP only.
  •  Tainted Shackles.png Tainted Shackles: This skill will now apply 5 seconds of Revealed to enemies the first time it successfully hits.
  •  Infusing Terror.png Infusing Terror (Reaper Shroud): This skill no longer pulses stability but instead grants 3 stacks for 6 seconds upon activating it. The active form of this skill now reduces incoming physical and condition damage by 20% for its duration.
  •  Plaguelands.png Plague (Elite): This skill has been reworked and has been renamed to Plaguelands.
  •  Plaguelands.png Plaguelands: This skill creates a 240-radius corrupted area at the necromancer's initial location for 10 seconds. After 1 second, it pulses damage and conditions in that area for 9 seconds. Each pulse applies a new condition, and each pulse applies all conditions from every pulse before it. Conditions applied (in order) are: bleeding, poison, torment, vulnerability, cripple, weakness, blind, chill, and burning. Recharge is set to 120 seconds.
  •  Epidemic.png Epidemic: This ability now fires slow-arcing projectiles from its initial target to up to 5 targets in range. Foes hit by the projectiles gain all conditions from the original Epidemic target. Projectile strikes are unblockable but cannot critically hit. Increased radius to 900.
  •  Rending Claws.png Rending Claws: Applies twice as much vulnerability while your target is below 50% health.
  •  Ghastly Claws.png Ghastly Claws: This skill now deals 1% more damage per stack of vulnerability on the target.
  •  Unholy Feast.png Unholy Feast: This skill no longer applies retaliation. It now invokes a secondary AoE strike against foes below 25% health. Fixed skill-fact bugs that showed range instead of radius and did not display the correct number of boons converted.
  •  Life Siphon.png Life Siphon: Gains 20% increased healing if cast while you are bleeding. Deals 20% more damage to bleeding foes.
  •  Dark Pact.png Dark Pact: Increased damage by 20%. Now inflicts 2 stacks of bleeding on you for 10 seconds.
  • Spiteful Spirit Spiteful Spirit: Updated this trait to clarify that it is no longer casting Unholy Feast.
  • Chilling Victory Chilling Victory: The cooldown of this trait has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds in PvP only.
  • Plague Sending Plague Sending: The cooldown of this trait has been increased from 30 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP only.
  • Chilling Nova Chilling Nova: The damage of this trait has been reduced by 33% in PvP only.

Ranger[edit]

Condition rangers have been pretty potent largely on the strength of torch skills and Quick Draw. We'd like to preserve the tactical play of Quick Draw, so we're nicking bits of burn duration from torch skills at this time. While we're at it, we've taken the opportunity to revisit a few older weapon traits for short bow, axe, and sword to grant them a bit more synergy with the core weapon skill function.

  •  Lunar Impact.png Lunar Impact: The amount this skill scales with healing power has been reduced by 20% in PvP only.
  •  "We Heal As One!".png "We Heal as One!": Shared regeneration duration has been reduced from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
  •  "Strength of the Pack!".png "Strength of the Pack!": This skill has been reworked and no longer pulses boons on the ranger. When cast, this skill will now apply 10 stacks of stability for 8 seconds, along with 12 seconds of fury and 12 seconds of swiftness.
  •  Smoke Assault.png Smoke Assault: The damage of this skill has been reduced by 15%.
  •  Bonfire.png Bonfire: The duration of burning applied by this skill has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
  •  Throw Torch.png Throw Torch: The duration of burning applied by this skill has been reduced from 6 seconds to 5 seconds.
  •  Crippling Shot.png Crippling Shot: This trait now immobilizes if you are beside your target, in addition to when you are behind your target.
  •  Poison Volley.png Poison Volley: This trait now has increased effect if you are beside your target, in addition to when you are behind your target.
  •  Troll Unguent.png Troll Unguent: Reduced total duration of this effect from 10 seconds to 8 seconds. Increased healing per second by 25%. Reduced casting time from 1 second to 0.75 seconds.
  • Resounding Timbre Resounding Timbre: Regeneration duration of this trait has been reduced from 10 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP only.
  • Ancient Seeds Ancient Seeds: The cooldown of this trait has been increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only.
  • Evasive Purity Evasive Purity: This trait now removes one damaging condition and one non-damaging condition.
  • Honed Axes Honed Axes: This trait now grants a ferocity bonus whether axe is in the main hand or the off hand.
  • Light on Your Feet Light on Your Feet: This trait now enhances flanking/behind aspects for short bow skills.
  • Refined Toxins Refined Toxins: Reduced the effective cooldown from 10 seconds to 5 seconds. Reduced the required health threshold from 90% to 75%.
  • Strider's Defense Strider's Defense: This trait no longer has a chance to destroy projectiles on melee attack. It has gained new functionality: when you evade an attack, gain quickness for 3 seconds.

Revenant[edit]

Some of the core trait lines of revenant have been lacking in either synergy or uniqueness. In particular, the Mallyx legend and the associated corruption trait line aren't up to snuff. Further exacerbating this, there's a lack of synergy from other trait lines. As a result, we've reworked and tuned up some of the traits in the invocation and corruption lines to offer more to condition-centric revenants. Additionally, we've selected a few places to make small effects on condition-applying skills. Lastly, we're also reworking the Ventari Tablet's energy expulsion to give it a stronger place in large group support.

  •  Misery Swipe.png Misery Swipe: Torment duration has been increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
  •  Anguish Swipe.png Anguish Swipe: Torment duration has been increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
  •  Manifest Toxin.png Manifest Toxin: The number of poison stacks applied has been increased from 1 to 2.
  •  Echoing Eruption.png Echoing Eruption: This skill is no longer able to multistrike targets. Torment duration has been increased from 6 seconds to 10 seconds. Torment stacks applied have been increased from 3 to 5. This skill will no longer automatically track the revenant's target and will instead fire the skill forward.
  •  Frigid Blitz.png Frigid Blitz: This skill now applies the slow condition for 2 seconds in addition to its other effects. The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
  •  Temporal Rift.png Temporal Rift: In addition to its current effects, this skill now applies 3 stacks of confusion for 8 seconds to enemies that are currently using a skill when struck by it.
  •  Energy Expulsion.png Energy Expulsion: Reduced cost to 10 energy. This skill now consumes all remaining energy when cast and removes a condition from up to 5 nearby allies for every 10 energy consumed (including the casting cost).
  •  Call to Anguish.png Call to Anguish: Removed one of the two strikes on initial casting.
  • Ferocious Aggression Ferocious Aggression: This trait now additionally increases condition damage inflicted while under the effects of fury.
  • Incensed Response Incensed Response: This trait now grants might when you gain fury.
  • Fierce Infusion Fierce Infusion: Reduced the effective cooldown from 20 seconds to 10 seconds, and reduced the duration of fury granted from 8 seconds to 5 seconds.
  • Invigorating Flow Invigorating Flow: Renamed to Rapid Flow. Now grants swiftness in addition to healing when using an energy skill.
  • Venom Enhancement Venom Enhancement: Reduced the effective cooldown from 20 seconds to 10 seconds.
  • Opportune Extraction Opportune Extraction: This trait now steals a boon once every 10 seconds per target when you apply torment to a target with at least 4 stacks of torment.
  • Yearning Empowerment Yearning Empowerment: Reduced duration increase from 33% to 20%. Torment damage is now increased by 20%.
  • Frigid Precision Frigid Precision: This trait has been replaced by Abyssal Chill. Abyssal Chill causes you to inflict torment when you chill a foe.
  • Maniacal Persistence Maniacal Persistence: This trait no longer increases your critical-hit chance. It now lashes out torment at nearby enemies when you gain resistance.
  • Diabolic Inferno Diabolic Inferno: Reduced the effective cooldown on this trait from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.

Thief[edit]

The Daredevil staff functions as a fairly strong AoE weapon, but core thief lacks good ways to deal with large groups, so in this update we're tuning up the short bow to be a stronger ranged AoE weapon. Additionally, we're making a small change to Unload to make it more effective as a damage tool when you can ensure that your target will stand still. Finally, we're also looking at updates to the Deadly Arts line that emphasize poison use to help establish more defined ways to play based on the traits that you select.

  •  Palm Strike.png Pulmonary Impact: The damage of this effect has been reduced by 15% in PvP only.
  •  Channeled Vigor.png Channeled Vigor: Endurance per tick has been reduced from 20 to 15 in PvP only.
  •  Palm Strike.png Palm Strike: This skill now applies two instances of Pulmonary Impact on a successful hit.
  •  Vault.png Vault: The initiative of this skill has been increased from 5 to 6 in PvP only.
  •  Bola Shot.png Bola Shot: This skill has been unsplit and now applies immobilize for 1.5 seconds in all game modes.
  •  Unload.png Unload: This skill now refunds 2 initiative if all attacks hit.
  •  Trick Shot.png Trick Shot: Increased number of bounces to 3. Now deals 25% increased damage to poisoned foes.
  •  Detonate Cluster.png Detonate Cluster: Increased number of bombs to 4.
  •  Choking Gas.png Choking Gas: Increased damage by 200%. This skill now briefly dazes foes with 5 or more stacks of poison every pulse. The same foe cannot be dazed more than once every second.
  • Potent Poison Potent Poison: In addition to its previous effect, this trait now increases the number of stacks of poison applied by other Deadly Arts traits.
  • Panic Strike Panic Strike: In addition to its previous effect, this trait now causes you to apply 1 stack of poison for 4 seconds to foes that you immobilize.
  • Panic Strike Panic Strike: Immobilize duration has been reduced from 2.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds in PvP only.
  • Trapper's Respite Deadly Ambition: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to display an incorrect poison duration.
  • Bound Bound (PvP Only):The damage of this ability has been reduced by 24% in PvP only.
  • Endurance Thief Endurance Thief: Endurance gained has been reduced from 50 to 25 in PvP only.

Warrior[edit]

For the warrior in this update, we're looking to tone down some overperforming elements and tune up some underperforming ones. Berserker skills such as Arc Divider and Headbutt were providing too much power for their casting time, while Smash Brawler was just providing too much power overall. In terms of effects, we're looking at tuning up axe skills and their synergy with other weapons. The Axe Mastery trait has been changed to be friendlier to builds that don't use axes in both hands, and several axe skills have been tuned up to provide more consistent damage during combat.

  •  Shield Bash.png Shield Bash: The initial casting time of this skill has been increased, moving the skill from 0.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds total.
  •  Arc Divider.png Arc Divider: The casting time of this skill has been increased by 0.25 seconds.
  •  Skull Grinder.png Skull Grinder: The damage of this skill has been reduced by 33%. Bleeding has been reduced from 4 stacks for 8 seconds to 3 stacks for 6 seconds. The blast finisher on this skill has been removed. All changes apply to PvP only.
  •  Head Butt.png Head Butt: The casting time of this skill has been increased from 0.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds. Distance traveled has been increased from 300 to 400.
  •  Healing Signet.png Healing Signet: The passive healing from this skill has been reduced by 10% in PvP only.
  •  Endure Pain.png Endure Pain: In PvP only, the cooldown of this skill has been decreased from 60 seconds to 30 seconds, and the active up-time has been decreased from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.
  •  Eviscerate.png Eviscerate: Now grants 5 stacks of might for 5 seconds if it hits.
  •  Decapitate.png Decapitate: Now grants 5 stacks of might for 5 seconds if it hits.
  •  Double Chop.png Double Chop: Increased damage per strike by 7%.
  •  Triple Chop.png Triple Chop: Increased damage per strike by 7%.
  •  Cyclone Axe.png Cyclone Axe: Now grants 2 seconds of fury per hit in addition to its previous effects. Increased vulnerability applied per hit from 2 to 3 stacks. Updated skill fact to show vulnerability applied per hit rather than total vulnerability for both hits.
  •  Throw Axe.png Throw Axe: Increased damage by 27%.
  •  Dual Strike.png Dual Strike: No longer gives fury. Now gives quickness for 1.5 seconds per strike that hits.
  • Defy Pain Defy Pain: Active up-time has been decreased from 4 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
  • Bloody Roar Bloody Roar: Taunt duration has been reduced from 1.5 seconds to 0.5 seconds in PvP only.
  • Smash Brawler Smash Brawler: The cooldown reduction received from this trait has been reduced from 33% to 20%.
  • Eternal Champion Eternal Champion: This trait no longer grants pulsing stability but instead applies 3 stacks for 8 seconds when activating Berserk.
  • Powerful Synergy Powerful Synergy: This trait has been updated to double the effects of all combo finishers.
  • Reckless Dodge Reckless Dodge: Added missing skill fact for unblockable. Increased damage by 20%.
  • Axe Mastery Axe Mastery: Now gives 300 bonus ferocity as long as you have at least one axe equipped.

Structured Player vs. Player[edit]

We have revised the sigils available in PvP. Players who had a sigil that is no longer available will have their money refunded.

On Hit[edit]

On Swap[edit]

  • Sigil of Agility: Gain 5 seconds of swiftness and 2 seconds of quickness when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 18 seconds.)
  • Sigil of Battle: Gain 4 stacks of might for 5 seconds when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9 seconds.)
  • Sigil of Doom: Your next attack after you swap to this weapon while in combat inflicts poison for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 9 seconds.)
  • Sigil of Energy: Gain 25% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9 seconds.)
  • Sigil of Exposure: Your next attack after you swap to this weapon while in combat inflicts 5 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 9 seconds.)
  • Sigil of Stagnation: Cripple nearby foes when swapping to this weapon while in combat for 3 seconds in a 240 radius. (Cooldown: 9 seconds.)
  • Sigil of Intelligence: Your next three attacks after swapping to this weapon while in combat have a 100% critical chance. (Cooldown: 9 seconds.)
  • Sigil of Escape: Remove movement-impairing effects from yourself when swapping to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 18 seconds.)
  • Sigil of Annulment: Your next attack after swapping to this weapon while in combat removes 2 boons from your target. (Cooldown: 18 seconds.)
  • Sigil of Cleansing: Remove 1 condition when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9 seconds.)

On Interrupt[edit]

Passive[edit]

  • PvP default builds have been adjusted in consideration of the sigil rework.

World vs. World[edit]

General[edit]

Black Lion Traiding Company Gem Store[edit]

New Items and Promotions[edit]

Improvements[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

  • Build: 76,706
  • Now players will be warned if they attempt to queue with a character that has an incomplete PvP build.

Update - May 10, 2017[edit]

  • We will be doing a maintenance build today. Although you will see a "new build" notification in the game, no alterations are being made to the game at this time.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

  • Build: 76,491

Update - May 5, 2017[edit]

Bug Fix[edit]

  • Fixed a client crash.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

  • Build: 76,290

Update - May 4, 2017[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed an issue with the positioning of Flames of War while wielded.
  • Fixed an issue with the coloration of Neophyte's Beacon, Liturgy, and Flames of War at certain shader settings.
  • In the Heart of the Volcano instance, downing one of the bosses next to the machine no longer prevents completion of the relevant quest step when you scan it.
  • Additional lighting fixes have been implemented for all 10-Series NVIDIA graphics cards.
  • Fixed an issue in which mercenary prisoner doors remained in an untargetable state.
  • The golem who gives you the password for the People Watching achievement now grants achievement credit in a larger radius.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

  • Build: 76,237

Update - May 3, 2017[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Reduced defiance-bar scaling on destroyer wyverns in Draconis Mons.
  • Fixed an issue in Draconis Mons in which players could not interact with a firestone shard at Ancient Hollow.
  • Fixed an issue with the power of updrafts in the Taimi's Pet Project instance.
  • Fixed an issue in which some player-specific visual effects were visible to all players.
  • Fixed an issue in which vault doors being held open could prevent players from advancing vault quest steps.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

  • Build: 76,179

Update 2 - May 2, 2017[edit]

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed an issue with Oakheart's Essence effects on the hand.
  • Fixed an issue in which scanning one of the boss corpses could sometimes block Taimi from delivering further instructions.
  • The Heart of the Volcano instance will no longer stall in the sequence following the boss fight if a warrior uses Vengeance to rally.
  • The errant remnant of Taimi's machine at the end of the Heart of the Volcano instance has been cleaned up.
  • Fixed a bug in which some video cards had a display issue with lights.

Late Notes[edit]

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

  • Build: 76,112

Update - May 2, 2017[edit]

Living World – Flashpoint[edit]

The White Mantle launched a surprise attack on Divinity's Reach. Betrayed from within and assaulted from without, the city fought a battle on two fronts. Queen Jennah rose to the occasion, revealing just how powerful a mesmer she is, and with a monumental effort on the part of the humans and their allies, the city broke the siege.

Caudecus Beetlestone, once the legate minister, was commanding the White Mantle forces, bringing his plot to take the Krytan throne to its conclusion. He'd been working on it for decades, but his plan was foiled. Loyalists and allies of the queen found him in his mansion. Before he could be taken into custody, however, the snake murdered his own daughter, Demmi, an honorable agent of the Order of Whispers—and a friend to many.

Caudecus's subsequent death was an unsatisfactory revenge for her loss. With their leader dead, the White Mantle forces fell into chaos, and the Seraph and Shining Blade picked off the stragglers with ease. In the wake of the battle, the Divinity's Reach prison bulged with inmates. A search of Caudecus's manor revealed one of Lazarus's aspects—the objects into which he safeguarded portions of his soul.

This discovery brought Lazarus's true identity into question. Who is Lazarus? Marjory continues to shadow him, but does she know what she's getting herself into? That question will have to wait, because Taimi is on the verge of completing her antidragon device. The Elder Dragons grow stronger every day, and thus Tyria becomes ever more chaotic and dangerous. Taimi's device could be the answer that saves the world.

New Legendary Torch: Flames of War[edit]

Raids[edit]

  • Legendary armor is now available in the game. Complete the final step in the collection to receive the Refined Envoy set. Combine that armor with the recipe components in the Mystic Forge to produce the most sought-after armor in the Guild Wars® world.
  • Rune Swapping: A key functional attraction of legendary armor is the ability to swap the stats of the item on the fly. Since runes and infusions are as impactful a choice as the stats on the armor, we have altered the behavior of these items to allow players to swap runes and infusions from legendary armor at will. Ascended armor will not be affected by this change.

Items[edit]

Structured Player vs. Player[edit]

World vs. World[edit]

General[edit]

  • Added the Draconis Mons Reward Track.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store[edit]

New Items and Promotions[edit]

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes[edit]

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