Guild Wars 2

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• p]Today, we've opened the doors to our brand-new [url="https://discord.gg/guildwars"]Official [i]Guild Wars[/i]® Community Discord server[/url], and you're invited! Whether you've been with us since [i]Guild Wars[/i]® [i]Prophecies[/i]™ launched back in 2005 or you started playing [i]Guild Wars 2[/i
• The [i]Guild Wars 2[/i] community has always had the [url="https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/"]official forums[/url] as a place to chat and meet other players. And while that's not going anywhere, with [i]Guild Wars[/i]® [i]Reforged[/i] [url="https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-reforged-laun
• We're in awe of their incredible talent and can't wait to see their whimsical art lighting up our Discord server. And we have plans to add more emojis as time goes on as well!
• Our Discord server has various channels for both our games and a community category for all Tyrians to share. Whether you're looking for a guild or a deep discussion about lore, our Discord server has something for everyone. So come talk to us and your fellow players in the community, share your scr

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Our new map for this release is Eternity's Garden, a place of worship and innovation utilized by the seers thousands of years ago to forge great weapons and amplify the creatures of the island—and themselves. Though long abandoned, the deep forests and temples still hum with life. Castora's defenses

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• The adventure of [i]Guild Wars 2®: Visions of Eternity™[/i] continues today! Delve deeper into the island of Castora and experience both its beauty and its increasing perils. In the second of three major updates to our latest expansion, "The Only Way" introduces five new chapters continuing the expa
• The launch story for [i]Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity[/i] began with an investigation into a series of secretive Inquest voyages out of Lion's Arch. Skip down to the next section if you want to avoid story spoilers.
• In your pursuit of the Inquest, you and your allies sailed to the island of Castora—a place of great danger and intrigue, where magic and history seep from the soil. While tracing the Inquest's movements, you gained new allies in the village of Hullgarden and a deeper understanding of your enemies'
• Eternity's Garden features a dense, treacherous jungle where the flora is as deadly as the fauna! It's a mystical environment enhanced with ancient seer security measures, and surprisingly, not all of them are immediately hostile. While exploring the new map, players will discover seer culture, lear
• Two new legendary accessories are now available for crafting. Stella Radians is a new legendary PvE accessory that illuminates your character with a celestial halo. Strife Unending is a new legendary WvW accessory; its visual effects scale up in combat as you kill enemies and resets when you are def

⚖️ Balance Changes

• *][b]July 14–21:[/b] Dungeon Rush Event[/*]
• *][b]July 21–28:[/b] WvW Rush Event[/*]
• *][b]July 28–August 4:[/b] World Boss Rush Event[/*]

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• p]One more week! Our second major release for [i]Guild Wars 2[/i]®[i]: Visions of Eternity[/i]™ launches on May 12, and with it comes new story chapters, a new map and meta-event, two legendary accessories, Mastery updates, a refresh to the Wizard's Vault, and scads of other rewards and achievements

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• It's time for the most pixelated party in [i]Guild Wars 2®[/i], the Super Adventure Festival! Moto has once again opened the doors to his virtual world, inviting players to jump, battle, and collect a treasure trove of new and returning rewards. Moto has also opened a new (partially submerged) test
• /p][p]We'll be partying up with some of our partners to play Super Adventure Festival. Tune into our [url="https://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2"]Twitch channel[/url] at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) on April 17 to join the fun!
• Enjoy the festival and good luck testing World 3's Test Zone 2 for Moto![/p]

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• Happy gaming, and we'll see you in Tyria!

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• Tyrians, rejoice! Our yearly Black Lion Trading Company's March sales have begun! Many discounts are awaiting you, so buckle up and take a gander at our selection. During our sales, we're adding bundles that will upgrade your account with valuable items. But that's not all! Some cherished items are
• b]The Fashionista's Package[/b] is now available for 800 gems from [b]February 24 until March 10.[/b]

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• h1]Schedule Change[/h1]
• Currently, new teams are created during the first week of each month; however, for this test, we'll be moving team creation a week earlier, starting on February 27. This means you'll need to have the correct guild selected for team creation before lockout on Monday, February 23. This test will run f
• h1]Quality-of-Life Updates[/h1]
• We're also planning to make some quality-of-life updates to a few WvW systems alongside this test, including allowing waypoints in your home borderland and Eternal Battleground spawn keeps without needing to upgrade and a change to help cut down on players being stuck in their spawn keep versus over

⚖️ Balance Changes

• The Competitive team is excited to talk about an upcoming event we'll be running during the month of March! As we've talked about in the past, one of our priorities is to align player goals when it comes to winning and make winning feel important to teams. On the road to reaching this goal, we've ma
• Happy gaming! We'll see you in the Mists!

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• The new Raids and Wardrobe quarterly update is live today, and the Lunar New Year festival has begun! Read on for highlights of the Raids and Wardrobe update, and catch the full release notes on [url=https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/167374-game-update-notes-february-3-2026/]our forums[/url].
• This release is an example of the ways that player feedback shapes our approach to development. In [url=https://www.guildwars2.com/news/from-the-wilds-to-whats-next/]our retrospective on [i]Guild Wars 2®: Janthir Wilds™[/i][/url], we talked about changing our release plans based on responses to the
• h1]The Raids Feature and a New Raid Encounter[/h1]
• Players can now challenge the new raid encounter, Guardian's Glade, and face off against a truly awe-inspiring crustacean! The challenge mode will become available in three weeks. One of the easiest ways to access the new encounter is through the new raid UI, a core part of our raids update, which a
• h1]Wizard's Vault Improvements[/h1]

🔧 Bug Fixes

• A new Fashion tab within the Hero panel will house wardrobe and gathering tool appearance choices, which means you will no longer find wardrobe or outfit selection in the Equipment tab. In the wardrobe, players can change the appearance of their armor, outfits, backpacks, and weapons.

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• h1]A New Home for Your Wardrobe[/h1]
• h1]Introducing Fashion Templates[/h1]
• Transmutation Charges are used to save a cosmetic skin to a Fashion Template, but Fashion Templates are free to apply. A Fashion Template is first edited (which has no cost), then saved (costing a Transmutation Charge for each piece of equipment to be updated in the template itself), and then can be
• If a Fashion Template includes the appearance of a weapon (or any piece of equipment) that you are not currently wielding, that appearance will not be applied.
• When this goes live, you'll receive an in-game mail with some free Transmutation Charges and a suggestion to check out the system. On each character, you'll have a one-time chance upon first visiting the Fashion panel to save your currently equipped cosmetics to your first Fashion Template without s

⚖️ Balance Changes

• Like Build and Equipment Templates, you'll be able to select Fashion Templates through the quick-access menu on your skill bar and assign a hotkey to them. Hovering over a Fashion Template in the quick-access menu will show a preview of which items and dye choices are associated with that template.
• And, like Build Templates, Fashion Templates will be sharable! You can generate chat- sharable Fashion Template codes that can also be saved if you want to preserve old looks or share fashion tips outside of the game.
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• With a timeless design and crafted from the finest materials, these boots are made to be both stylish and practical for everyday use. Perfect for a walk in the wilderness or to mount up and set out on an adventure. The Classic Leather Boots Skin is now available for 400 gems.

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• h1]The Unification of Raids[/h1]
• Starting with the upcoming release, Strike Missions will be known as raid encounters, and they will be available alongside raid wings in the Looking for Group panel as well as the new raid UI and every raid portal. Through the raid UI, squad leaders will be able to select which encounter to enter, i
• Squad leaders will also be able to move the squad directly between raid maps without first needing to exit a raid before entering a new one, leading to a more seamless experience with fewer loading screens!
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• The Tyrian Alliance's efforts to free Castoran wildlife from Inquest facilities continues. These two augmented creatures are looking for a loving home to recover and flourish! The Inquest Mount Package contains the Inquest Raptor Skin and the Inquest Skimmer Skin and is now available for 1,600 gems.
• Dazzle the masses with a brand-new look. From today until January 27, Transmutation Charges, Total Makeover Kits, Self-Style Hair Kits, and Name Change Contracts are available at a 20% discount.

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• Absolute squishy adorableness is coming back with a cuddly vengeance! The sequel to our original Plush Pals Homestead Package includes new friends with all the cuteness you need for the year. The Plush Pals 2 Homestead Package includes one of each decoration and will unlock crafting recipes for all
• The winter's chill still rages on. Face the freezing wastes with a staff made from pure fire magic—a phoenix's heart beats in this blazing weapon. The Vermilion Staff Skin is a new, exclusive drop from Black Lion Chests.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• list][*]Set the tone for the expansion overall and address player feedback about pacing and participation from [i]Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds™[/i] by beginning the story on an adventurous note and more quickly and frequently inserting the player into the action.[/*]

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• Let's get more technical and talk about how the ships function. In the fog section, the two ships actually move through the water, all while allowing the player to move around and engage freely. The ships are what we call "prop gadget moving platforms." A gadget is the term we use for interactive ob
• However, for anything else that needs to move with the ships—such as NPCs—a little more legwork is required. The moving platform must be specifically referenced on their spawn objects so the game engine knows to spawn them on the ship rather than floating in midair or snapping to the terrain below.
• While moving, the launch pads for jumping between the ships are temporarily disabled, both to reduce bug potential and because the ships need to spread out while traveling. This moves the [i]Martingale[/i] out of the fog bubble, so players who happen to be aboard the [i]Martingale[/i] when it gets t