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The new Lantern weapon set is now available! You'll receive your choice of a weapon by progressing the (Annual) Lunar New Year Customs meta-achievement, as well as the (Weekly) Lunar Festivities achievement.
The Fortunate weapon set is now available from the weekly Lunar New Year vendors.
Lucky envelope rewards have been updated with new items for the Year of the Snake, including a new backpack to celebrate the Year of the Snake in style.
A new mini, the long-awaited Mini Snake, has been added to the festival reward vendors.
Deft Lahar is visiting Divinity's Reach for the festival and has a variety of homestead recipes for your favorite Lunar New Year decorations.
New guild decorations have been added to commemorate the Year of the Snake:
The offseason Lunar New Year vendor in Hooligan's Route now stocks a greater amount of Lunar New Year items to enjoy throughout the new year, including the recipes for homestead decorations.
The area to light each firecracker during Firecracker Lighting adventures has been adjusted to more accurately reflect the firecracker's position and reliably detect players.
Attempting to pick up a second bundle while already carrying one during Boar's and Rat's challenges will now cancel the attempt rather than consuming the second bundle.
Fixed an animation issue with the Monkey's Firework skill and shortened its cooldown.
The Ox's March skill now pulls enemies toward the player in addition to its current effects.
Extended the Ram's Advance dash to better match its marker and increased its damage to targets.
The Snake Tunnel skill no longer requires a path, enabling teleportation up to the terraces. It now also grants superspeed after use.
Fixed an issue that allowed the Bloodstone Boogie emote's sound to overlap.
Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes
Spreading Ice: A typo was corrected in this skill's description.
Build: 173,767
Late Notes - January 14, 2025
Necromancer
Fixed an issue that prevented the scythe visual effect from being properly displayed if it was stowed while in Reaper Shroud.
Update - January 14, 2025
General
Fixed a terrain issue in Lowland Shore that prevented some wisps in the Tales of the Lowland Wisps collection from reaching their destination, blocking progress.
Fixed an issue in Lowland Shore that prevented some wisps in the Tales of the Lowland Wisps collection from being interacted with when their objective was unlocked but still incomplete, blocking progress.
Dragon Response Missions
Dragon Response missions have been updated in preparation for the Return to Icebrood Sagabonus event. These changes allow the preparation phase objective to scale properly for group size; the number of objectives to clear the phase for a group of five players will be slightly reduced from the previous state, while the number for solo players will be greatly reduced.
Removed the five-minute timer for the preparation phase events and replaced it with a progress objective that fills as players participate in the event's subobjectives. Progress is still gained if the individual subobjective has been completed. Morale boosts can still be gained if the three subobjectives are completed; the requirements for these objectives do not scale and have been significantly lowered.
Fixed various pathing issues that could leave characters in awkward positions.
Cleaned up a number of marker display issues and inaccurate skill text for events.
Fixed a number of small NPC issues to improve event performance.
Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes
The Tiny Royal Crown Helm Skin and its associated skins were renamed to Tiny Royal Crown Skin and Tiny Royal Crown respectively.