Guild Wars 2

NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT

• Moved the Player vs. Player guide up into Level 3 Rewards.

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
General

• Fixed a bug that delayed damage from falling.
• Fixed an issue that caused the camera position to snap when it was used with a horizontal or vertical offset.
• Fixed an issue that decreased the size of the loading-screen art.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the field of view from resetting to the specified value when loading a map.
• Fixed bug in which text appeared green in chat bubbles created by player chat.
• Fixed a bug that could result in characters permanently keeping stealth on death.

Items

• Rings of the Sun-God sold by Qoetl in Sparkfly Fen are now rings.
• Plant Dog Transformations now correctly change characters into plant dogs.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the first tier of spear, harpoon gun, and trident recipes from being discoverable.
• Runes of the Adventurer now use the correct icon in PvP.

Profession Skills
Guardian

• Flashing Blade: This ability is no longer able to be used in midair.
• Elite Focus: Updated the facts of this trait to indicate the correct stability duration and interval of application.

Necromancer

• Vampiric Rituals: This trait no longer triggers on siege doors.
• Foot in the Grave: This trait will now allow the necromancer to break stuns when entering death shroud.

Structured Player vs. Player

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Silverwastes Reward Track from being set as the active reward track.
• Fixed a bug in which using /join on a player queued for PvP with a party would remove the party from the queue.

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions

• The Aviator Quaggan Mail Carrier is now available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
• The Mad Scientist’s Harvesting Tool is now available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 1000 gems.

Improvements
Black Lion Chests have received the following updates:

• The drop rate of Black Lion Claim Ticket Scraps has been increased.
• The drop rate of Teleport to Friend items has been increased.
• Toxic Dye Kits, Deathly Dye Kits, Metallurgic Dye Kits, and Taimi’s Dye Kits have been removed.
• The Mini Super Monkey, Mini Super Spider, Mini Super Bee Dog, Mini Super Yeti, Mini Super Raccoon, and Mini Super Banana have been added as rare drops.
• Glint’s Winter Dye Kits, Shadow Dye Kits and Crimson Lion Dye Kits have been added as rare drops.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that prevented some Personal Story steps and dynamic events from progressing.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a server crash.
• Fixed a client crash.
• Resolved missing textures on the plant wurm model’s attack animation.
• Fixed a bug in which the timing on a variety of skills’ animations was incorrectly changed.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug in the explorable mode of Citadel of Flame that could cause Ferrah to become stuck.
• Fixed an issue with the fear condition in which the interrupt functionality would not trigger.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a client crash related to language selection.