Guild Wars 2

just wondering if we have a ETA on the notes for tmrws patch. Im eager to see what Ranger changes they make, ive picked her back up lately and have been having fun

There’s a dev livestream preview on the patch at noon today, maybe they’ll mention it then.
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

Can be several hours ahead or several minutes, or even after release. There is no fixed time of release as far as I know.

The update will hit within the next 24 hours and the official patch notes will be up around then. Probably. Maybe.

Considering that twitch link, I assume it is as 12:00 PM PDT time which equals 21:00 CET time, basically 3.5 hours from the second I made this post.

Just curious, as I only very, very briefly skimmed the preview, are there only going to be balance adjustments in this patch, or will they also be adding new skills/traits in this patch (or is that still tba)? Thanks, guys/gals.

supposedly skills traits and balancing but I guess we’ll know in 2 hours

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Just curious, as I only very, very briefly skimmed the preview, are there only going to be balance adjustments in this patch, or will they also be adding new skills/traits in this patch (or is that still tba)? Thanks, guys/gals.

In the sense “will there be more than 12 choices for each trait line?” almost certainly not. But we’ve already seen that some traits will become permanent/automatic benefits for all members of that class, and mechanically completely new traits (which grab the names of the now defunct option to seize an air of legitimacy) have already been announced.

Nike.2631:

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Just curious, as I only very, very briefly skimmed the preview, are there only going to be balance adjustments in this patch, or will they also be adding new skills/traits in this patch (or is that still tba)? Thanks, guys/gals.

In the sense “will there be more than 12 choices for each trait line?” almost certainly not. But we’ve already seen that some traits will become permanent/automatic benefits for all members of that class, and mechanically completely new traits (which grab the names of the now defunct option to seize an air of legitimacy) have already been announced.

I think his question was are those things coming tomorrow? As far as I understood it tomorrows update is only supposed to be skill balances along with some quality of life changes.

Nike.2631:

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Just curious, as I only very, very briefly skimmed the preview, are there only going to be balance adjustments in this patch, or will they also be adding new skills/traits in this patch (or is that still tba)? Thanks, guys/gals.

In the sense “will there be more than 12 choices for each trait line?” almost certainly not. But we’ve already seen that some traits will become permanent/automatic benefits for all members of that class, and mechanically completely new traits (which grab the names of the now defunct option to seize an air of legitimacy) have already been announced.

Actually I don’t see why you think we won’t get more than 12 traits per line based on this quote.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

We’ll begin regularly adding new skills and traits to the game for each profession to expand your characters and builds! You will be able to earn these new traits and skills by unlocking them.

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These skills and traits will be designed to be balanced with the existing skills/traits we currently have in the game, and will simply compliment and expand the range of abilities and tactics available to each profession.

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The regular addition of skills and traits that you can earn as you play provides us an extremely stable, easily expandable reward system that fits neatly into the pillars of progression and advancement that Guild Wars 2 are all about.

All 3 of those heavily imply that we are supposed to get more skills and traits before the end of the year (assuming the devs are still on track). I was only wondering if they were going to launch with the skill/trait rebalance patch, or instead launch in Nov or Dec sometime.

I’m aware of their intent to add more skills, I just didn’t think it’s coming in this patch . basically I would have expected any advance on that front to be much more highly touted. (and we know that if its not tomorrow, it won’t be until after Season One of WvW… a.k.a. sometime in December if this year.)

Patch notes usually go up the same day of the patch (AKA tomorrow) somewhere between a couple hours before it goes live, to a little time afterwards (in the case of queen’s speech / clockwork chaos, but probably that was to preserve the surprise).