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New Build in 10 Mins
Update Notes here: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-August-12-2014

August 12 Content Release Notes

LIVING WORLD
The Dragon’s Reach, Part 2
As Taimi works to save waypoints and world leaders converge on the Grove for the historic summit with the Pale Tree, the shadow of Mordremoth looms over all. Will Taimi’s waypoint device work? Will world leaders work together to face the growing dragon threat? Or will they all be reminded that no one is safe from the dragon’s reach?

Achievements
After completing The Dragon’s Reach, Part 2, showcase your tactical mastery as a hero of Tyria by completing challenging, episode-related achievements.

Rewards
  • Players who completed their Mysterious Vine and received a Cultivated Seed may now create new exotic and ascended back items and a plant that feeds on Bloodstone Dust.
  • The Monkey King tonic and a new miniature now have a chance of dropping from new bosses throughout Dry Top.
  • Players can now earn higher discounts from Zephyrite Merchants.
  • The new Arid Region reward track is now available in PvP.

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
World Polish

  • Dredgehaunt Cliffs:
    • Added a boss icon for the “Kill the dredge sniper terrorizing the locals” event.
    • Added a boss icon for the “Kill the ancient barracuda aggravating the fish of Wyrmblood Lake” event.
    • Added a boss icon for the “Protect Explorer Harlow while he finds the Dragon’s Eye” event.
    • Added a boss icon for the “Kill the veteran dragon shaman to save the Priory team” event.
    • Added a boss icon for the “Protect Scholar Dane while she closes the portal” event.
    • Added a boss icon for the “Defeat the giant imp” event.
  • Gendarran Fields:
    • Added a defend icon for the “Help Tholaun rescue Miss Mipp” event.
  • Queensdale:
    • Added a boss icon for the “Kill the huge spider in Eda’s Orchard” event.
  • Straits of Devastation:
    • Fixed the icon for the “Use the Pact weapons to kill the Risen giant guarding the area near the temple of Balthazar” event.
  • Bloodtide Coast:
    • Added a boss icon for the “Kill Covington’s quartermaster” event.

Personal Story
  • Fixed the markers in the “Confront Kudu” story step of the “Free Rein” chapter in the asura personal story.
  • Redesigned the audio for the “The Battle of Claw Island” chapter.

Profession Skills
Elementalist
  • Lightning Cage:
    • Fixed a bug that blocked damage from this skill.

Guardian
  • Scepter Power:
    • Updated the damage skill facts for scepter skills to properly scale with this trait.

Warrior
  • Inspiring Banners:
    • Changed the range increase skill fact to radius increase for clarity.
  • Reckless Dodge:
    • Fixed a bug that prevented the damage from this trait from being attributed to Reckless Dodge in the combat log.

World vs. World
  • Updated the Commander’s Compendium inventory item to be account bound.
  • Vitality gained via the Applied Fortitude effect is no longer bolstered on lower level characters.

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions

  • New Chaos weapon skins are available for the next four weeks from Black Lion Weapons Specialists for the introductory price of one Black Lion Weapon Ticket. Black Lion Weapon Tickets can be found in Black Lion Chests.
  • The price of Ley Line weapon skins has increased to 5 tickets.
  • A Mini Mordrem Leyleecher is now available in the Toys category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
  • Utility Primers are now available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 150 gems each or 25 for 2625 gems.
  • The Wreath of Cooperation skin is now available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 400 gems.
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Kos Luftar said:
Hope update is broken cuz I'm at an interview and won't get to play for awhile.
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Literally no one can ever have fun unless you do, right?
 
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shysaursoft

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Katoki said:
Anyone ever tweet at these people to be less entitled? Or does it not have the same effect when it comes from a player?
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I know that if a person or player tells such people to stop acting like brats, you get accused of being a white knight, or an anet apologist, or a blind fanboy... you get the idea. You simply cannot reason with peolpe who as so sociopathic, they literally think their own personal needs and desired are more important than anything else.
 
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Retro

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Ooooh shit, those new skins are pretty cool. I might have to buy some;
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
good luck and godspeed Kos!

Sounds like there are some pretty substantial additions to Dry Top from this. I realized I didn't really spend much time there in the last two weeks, so that is quite enticing.

Those Chaos weapons have my Guardian drooling. Hadn't really decided for much on him besides a scepter and torch so this could be a rough release in terms of coin in my pocket XD
 
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Hawkian

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Katoki said:
I don't mean for them to do it. If he can tweet that at them, I'm sure someone could tell him to be less entitled right?

Also, chaos skins sound interesting.
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"I'm sure it doesn't" = have the same effect when a player does it
"nor would it be a good idea for a dev" = thus there is no ending the cycle

edit: Whoa what the hell just happened
 
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Queen of Hunting

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who wants to kill me :D just made 400g on chaos skins.

was saying in chat earlier how i brought 20 chests and had 5 tickets from them in total. just sold some chaos skins :D
 
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Shanlei91

Sonic handles my blue balls
I'm not familiar yet with how being able to "still do previous episodes" works. Can I still make the Mysterious Vine or is some content still expired going into the next episode?
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Kanik said:
I'm not familiar yet with how being able to "still do previous episodes" works. Can I still make the Mysterious Vine or is some content still expired going into the next episode?
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You can still make it; completing the episodes themselves gives you the requisite exclusive ingredients- the rest is mats from crafting/TP, plus a bit of a scavenger hunt.
 
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Shanlei91

Sonic handles my blue balls
Hawkian said:
You can still make it; completing the episodes themselves gives you the requisite exclusive ingredients- the rest is mats from crafting/TP, plus a bit of a scavenger hunt.
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Gotcha. So is there anything locked away if I don't do it within the time frame? For example, are there world events that by the the next episode's release will be gone due to the nature of the story? Or is it all instanced now?
 
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Sonicbug

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Man.... My hard drive (I think) broke on Saturday night and I have to wait until my imac is back from apple..... Avoiding spoilers is gonna be hard.

I wanna play.... (Withdrawal pains)
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Kanik said:
Gotcha. So is there anything locked away if I don't do it within the time frame? For example, are there world events that by the the next episode's release will be gone due to the nature of the story? Or is it all instanced now?
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Hmm. There are events in the open world that I imagine will be gone at some point in the future due to the story progression, however I think they'll all stick around at least for this release window. Furthermore, some of these events are actually part of the story/quest progression for the third episode, so I imagine they have some sort of way to ensure they are completable permanently... probably little instanced mini-versions once they are removed from the open world. Anyway, you should be able to just follow the story at your leisure, for the time being, and take it at your own pace without missing anything major.

Note: small flavor touches still remain altogether "missable" if you weren't there when it was "live." We met a quaggan begging for gold outside of a Prosperity bar in the first episode, and he was... no longer with us after the second.
 
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shysaursoft

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Kanik said:
Gotcha. So is there anything locked away if I don't do it within the time frame? For example, are there world events that by the the next episode's release will be gone due to the nature of the story? Or is it all instanced now?
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Events tied to the story steps of the Episodes remain, permanently added to the world as additions to the existing dynamic event chains, afaik.

Certain aesthetic trimmings, like the vines grasping waypoints, will change over time - since the world isn't static - but nothing that would hinder replaying past episodes.

EDIT: Beaten like a hawk.
 
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BraXzy

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I can't decide which if any of the new skins to grab. The blindingly shininess of them would suit a Guardian I guess, but it's deciding which weapon I don't have a skin I'm happy with. Who has grabbed one so far?
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Data mining:

[&C9EVAAA=] Belinda's Greatsword (Imbued)
[&C9IVAAA=] Belinda's Greatsword

8)

"This rare salvage tool never runs out of charges. It can break an unlimited number of items down into their base components. 25% chance of rarer materials. 80% chance of recovering upgrades. Costs 1 silver per use."
Steep per-use cost; still want.


Kanik said:
This is the saddest thing I've read today. But thanks for the info!
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I believe you can still, er, see him, if you'd like to pay your respects to Drooburt :'(

Mordremoth does not fuck around >:eek:
 
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BraXzy

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There are a few new achievements added into the Dry Top region. There are another 12 lost coins to find! I'm still missing one from the last 30 D:

Oh and of course,
another Legendary Llama haha!
 
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BraXzy

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Hawk, there is indeed a Birthday Vendor in Lions Arch, situated by the Lion's Court. When I went over all I got was an option to say "I don't need anything at the moment." My character isn't a year old though of course.

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Queen of Hunting

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i saifd that because my account is from headstart i stopped playing, and when i returned last month i deleted everything to start fresh, and i get punnished for that lol
 
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Kos Luftar

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When a director calls in during the interview to talk to manager interviewing you and says that the only thing he has to say is "All I have to say is hire him!" on speaker phone, has to be good news.

Anyway feeling good today.

Can't wait to try out update later today.
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
^Little does Unsuspecting Company X know...

ashley678 said:
i saifd that because my account is from headstart i stopped playing, and when i returned last month i deleted everything to start fresh, and i get punnished for that lol
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awww I feel you there. There's no way around it if you had to delete every character, even though titles are account-wide :(
 
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BraXzy

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Kos Luftar said:
When a director calls in during the interview to talk to manager interviewing you and says that the only thing he has to say is "All I have to say is hire him!" on speaker phone, has to be good news.

Anyway feeling good today.

Can't wait to try out update later today.
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I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but they were talking about Bob who was in before you :(

Kidding, fingers crossed for you buddy!
 
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gamergirl85

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Kos Luftar said:
When a director calls in during the interview to talk to manager interviewing you and says that the only thing he has to say is "All I have to say is hire him!" on speaker phone, has to be good news.

Anyway feeling good today.

Can't wait to try out update later today.
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That's good. Sounds like it went well.
 
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Lunar15

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I like the effects on the chaos skins, but the actual models leave a little to be desired. I'll check them out in game first.
 
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Katoki

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Stuck at work; can only stare at the skins on Dulfy's site. Definitely want the sword and shield though for different characters.
 
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