Guild Wars Reporter 178 – Buffalo Wings

Allona is still recovering so Celeste and Ultra soldier on through the patch notes and the pvp meta without her.

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What We Did This Week

Ultra

PvP solo and with team. Did some build testing on warrior
I got the GREATSAW
Lots of Fractals.

Celeste

Finished up collecting the red envelopes and bought a ton of red lanterns for MoCK
Finished Tier 1 of Frenzy (harpoon gun legendary) haven’t been able to craft the first weapon yet though

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Report from Lion’s Arch

Game Update Notes – February 9 2016

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-February-9-2016

In Plains of Ashford – The Battle for Ascalon City meta-event’s cycle time has been reduced to cycle every 20 – 30 minutes.
Added an option to the Options panel to move the Compact option found in the Inventory panel to the bottom of the drop-down menu.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTcsApdPzOk for reference
Changed some map bonus rewards to provide a more straightforward method of acquiring many types of cloth and leather crafting materials. Maps that previously awarded jute scraps, wool scraps, cotton scraps, linen scraps, rawhide leather sections, thin leather sections, coarse leather sections, or rugged leather sections as infrequent rewards now award these materials as their primary rewards.
Crab Toss has been temporarily replaced with Keg Brawl in the daily activity rotation.
Spirit Vale – Adrenal mushrooms have been added near rally points.

some personal story bug fixes

Items

Mastery vendors now sell obsidian shards for the correct amount of karma.
Vale Guardian guild decorations now have collision and can be removed.
fixed a few more bugs with completing the 3rd tier collections for older legendaries
Legendary Collector: Gain progression in this achievement by collecting new legendary weapons released with Heart of Thorns.
All gear given during character creation is no longer salvageable.
- C: nooooooooo my extra copper from making a keyfarm character!

World vs. World

Will no longer display party or guild member map markers for enemies.

Guild

The Griffon Fountain guild hall decoration now continuously has water flowing.

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE

Black Lion Chests no longer include a bonus Personalized Homemade Lucky Envelope.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that prevented unique warhorn-skin sound effects from playing when used with Tempest warhorn skills.

Fixed a sound issue in which the Wings of Love glider repeated harps too often.

Late Notes:

The Shatterer

Fixed a bug that caused the Shatterer to react as though he was not broken if his defiance bar was completed in the last 3 seconds of the break phase.
Fixed a scaling issue with the Shatterer’s defiance bar that caused it to become excessively difficult at higher scales.
Increased the Shatterer’s health slightly to compensate for reduced defiance bar scaling.
Increased the Pulsating Crystal Node’s health slightly to allow more players to damage it before it is destroyed, allowing them to gain credit for the Crystal Healing Denier achievement.
Decreased the scaling on the Pulsating Crystal Node’s defiance bar slightly to compensate for the higher health.
Fixed a bug that would cause the Shatterer’s Branded minions to inconsistently give credit to the Branded Bane achievement. Note that non-event Branded minions still do not count toward this achievement, only Branded minions summoned by the Shatterer.
Fixed a bug that would cause players to be launched without the bomb bundle if they rapidly pressed the F Interact key.

Adventures

Fixed a bug that prevented adventure achievements from being awarded if the reward chest was opened while in PvP or the PvP lobby.
- Players who have been affected by this bug can now re-earn credit toward achievements by earning silver or gold in the affected adventure.
A Fungus Among Us: Fixed an issue that could cause the Cap Launch skill to abort if a movement key was being pressed simultaneously.

General:

Fixed a bug that could cause saved account details, language choice, and UI scale to be reset on client start-up.
Updated the Ugly Wool Glider to no longer repeat the deployment sound effects while inside an updraft.
Fixed a bug that prevented the meowing sound effects from triggering for the following miniatures: “Mini Professor Mew,” “Mini Mister Mittens,” “Mini Baron von Scrufflebutt,” “Mini Snuggles,” and “Mini Old Tom.”

Black Lion Trading Co.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/soaring-weapons-wings-of-love-and-wedding-preparation-package-in-the-gem-store/

Soaring Weapons for 1 Black Lion Ticket Each
Lovestruck Weapons are back for 2 tickets each
Wings of Love Glider – 400 Gems https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/697103412102430720
Wedding Preparation Package – 1560 gems
- Bouquet of Roses toy (250 gems),
- five Teleport to Friend consumables (drop from gifts/bl chests),
- one Total Makeover Kit(350 gems), one Wedding Attire Outfit(1000 gems), and
- one Name Change Contract.(800 gems)”
- Bought separately it would cost in excess of 2400 gems
Bouquet of Roses and Box of Chocolates are also back in the gem store separately for 250 gems each

Surviving the Mists

What’s going on in PvP

We are in the off season – no ranked queues.

is this good? I don’t think so
- Ranked and unranked players intermingled again

Meta:

Necro, DH, and Thief seem to be the strongest classes right now.
- Engi, Ele, and Rev are doing fine
- War doesn’t seem to be very effective yet, Mesmer seems to have lost popularity.
Necro is strong bc of boon strip
DH has traps and high burst + sustain damage
Thief has been buffed up nicely

On metabattle…

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/41b4b7/behind_the_scenes_at_metabattle/

What’s going on in WvW

*a tumbleweed gently rolls across the show notes*

That’s about it.

Previous Challenge: Spar in a private or guild arena

New challenge: 5 pvp matches

Previous Game: Toy Mount

Particle Shift – http://gw2-particle-shift.tumblr.com/post/138482839531/toy-mounts
Larin – My idea for a gem store mount like the carpet is a skritt cart.
I picture a wooden cart. A bit rickety but functional. Harnessed in front would be 2 or 3 skritt kind of like the reindeer on Santa’s sleigh. The driver holds a fishing rod type thing with a golden bauble on the end and it dangles out in front of the skritt. The skritt are chasing and pulling the cart. There would have be lots of skritt babble over the shiny in front of them.
When the cart is stopped the fishing rod is pulled up so the babble is over their head and they are jumping trying to reach it. Turning should have the fishing rod move to the side a bit so have the skritt turn the cart.
Please use your influence to bring this to us as soon as possible. I can not wait to get into Lion’s Arch and see these carts everywhere. :)
Clayton/Kalabajooie (https://twitter.com/Kalabajooie/status/697081071683371008) – Two halves of a coconut! When you bang them together you get a 10% speed boost in towns. Also comes with a Swallow mail carrier.
Romo directed us towards http://www.techtimes.com/articles/132327/20160210/dragon-ball-fan-turns-hoverboard-into-nimbus-cloud-rides-it-around-taipei.htm A cosplayer who converted a “hoverboard” into the nimbus cloud from DragonBall
Kuddles – Instead of a toy, have your toon levitate like Magneto or superman. May require a helmet

Tales of Tyria

MUAHAHAHA! Cellona is invincible!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/44z25l/for_science_we_tried_to_bring_blademaster_cellona/

Birdwing Gliders from That Shaman

http://imgur.com/KU1Esw2

Foostival!

https://youtu.be/MLUv_9NzMiU

“Foostival UK 2016 will take place on 7th May 2016 at Stafford’s Loading Bar 2. We will have lots of surprises in store and more information coming soon. Get ready for ticket sales soon and come enjoy our very own Dead End Bar as you get to meet the rest of the UK community, see special guests and take home all the best loot”

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