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[News]

January 28

The sky falls and the ground shakes in the lands of the north. Charr and norn refugees crawl from the wreckage of their homes in the Wayfarer Foothills and Diessa Plateau, struggling to find shelter in the south. The call goes out for volunteers to assist the victims in this time of need, when earth and sky seem to have become the enemy…

Flame and Frost: Prelude is the prologue to a multi-stage narrative that will bring big changes to Guild Wars 2 in the months to come.


New Features

Temple of the Silent Storm Week

From January 28—February 4 the regular eight-team/three-round paid tournaments will be replaced by two-team/single-round paid tournaments in the Temple of the Silent Storm map. After the week is over, we’ll add Temple of the Silent Storm to the regular rotation of both free and paid tournaments.


Improved Achievement System

We’re adding a new rotation of daily achievements to add variety and encourage you to explore the open world. You’ll get different achievements every day of the week and a new achievement tracker in the UI to make it easier to track your progress.


New Achievement Laurels

You’ll earn these brand-new laurels as a reward for daily and monthly achievements!
Redeem these laurels for rewards like the new Ascended gear and Infusions!


Guesting

With the new guesting system, you can play with friends on other worlds in the same region (North America, Europe) without changing your homeworld. Guesting is free, but going forward there will be a gem fee for transferring home worlds, so make sure you’re on the home world you want to permanently play on before 28 January!


New Utility Infusions and Ascended Amulets

We’re adding a wide range of new gear that can be purchased with the new laurels.
With 5 new Utility Infusions and 30 Ascended Amulets to choose from, there’s something for every style of player.


More Upgrades and Improvements

We’re making a ton of other improvements to the game this month, such as enhanced performance in WvW, adjustments to side-kicking balancing, and UI improvements, which will be detailed in our release notes.


New Items in the Gem Store



It’s a new year, which means all-new items and a redesigned favorite in the Gem Store!
From Baby Quaggan Backpacks to Riding Brooms to the revamped Box o’ Fun, you’ll find it all in the Gem Store!

see: https://www.guildwar...s/january-2013/

[Direwulff]

Oh ... baby quaggan backpacks... why do i want one of them .  Especially on my asura

[LiveSpartan235]

Baby Quaggan backpack take my money now!

[UltraEM]

I'd better tell my IRL friends to get back to Ehmry before they need to pay gems! xD Then again, I can just guest them.

[Drake Erif]

Revamped box of fun. Whaaaaat so excited <br />

[Heylo]

i also saw in an interview (will link at the end) that they're adding back in previewing different armor types. Thank goodness. I hated having to make a character of that exact type to see if I liked the armor.

http://www.zam.com/s...615&storypage=2

[Forvic]

Goof to know. Thanks!

[Uloii]

Ohh   I'm soo going to get a Baby Quaggan backbackto match my toy daggers and slingshot.   Might change to pink too.  

I want people to lay on the floor thinking "Did I just get owned by a Pink Asura with toy daggers and a baby quaggan backback"?

[Uloii]

https://forum-en.gui...January-28-2013

[Uloii]

Looks like the bitching has already started on the forums.  To be honest I'm not thrilled with the idea of being forced to craft stuff.  Although it looks like its 10 seconds of work since refining counts as crafting.  

Also maybe we should start posting ideas to get dailies done quick.   I'm not a big PvE guy so I like to get get it done.

So my tips for today's dailies (Which I stole from the GW forums cause I'm still at work) are


1 Crafting, just refine some ore or wood that you probably already have.
2. If you are a warrior, just go to where people are already killing stuff and use the F1 ability on the bow.  (combo finisher)

[Uloii]

Looks like they removed the combo one cause it was broken.

[Grav]

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Siege is no longer usable while inside a WvW jumping puzzle.

WTF.

[Silverdrake]

Is anyone else having disconnection issues? I almost never crashed before this, but had multiple disconnections with loss of progress yesterday. Same with my party members.

The new dailies are interesting. I did the crafting super fast just making seasonings for some food. The combo one didn't seem to be working. After the day rolled over, I found dodging on my Guardian tedious, but will switch to my Thief today to get that one done. I think it'll take me longer to get the daily, but I hope it encourages more players to do events.

[Direwulff]

I didn't get to play last night.  I forgot about the patch and didn't realize it would take that long to update on the high speed connection I have.  Can't wait to check things out today after work.

[Heylo]

Silverdrake, on 29 January 2013 - 09:50 AM, said:

Is anyone else having disconnection issues? I almost never crashed before this, but had multiple disconnections with loss of progress yesterday. Same with my party members.

I was getting very annoyed with this. I disconnected so many times while attempting to take advantage of the drop in t6 mat prices. I was like, buy ALL THE THINGS! wait, disconnected??? okay..NOW buy ALL THE-what?!
Snype got to see the brunt of it.

I also forgot about the no waypointing thing until I was doing HotW Path 2 with a PuG and got to the double Quaggan boss...that was a fun experience.

[Uloii]

Well I hope u aren't buying the T6's with the hope the price goes back up.   I have a feeling this is a one way trip.   Sooner or later everyone will have an amulet so once you have that then you have nothing to spend it on besides this stuff.

Also at low levels this would be the best way to make money.   Unidentified Dye (10), Heavy Crafting Bag Heavy Crafting Bag or maybe one of the gear packs.

To be honest I think they are trying to get us to buy more than one account to farm this crap out.   And it will work, I'm not going to buy another account, but for sure I'm thinking of playing a RL friend's account that quit.

[Heylo]

Uloii, on 29 January 2013 - 01:22 PM, said:

Well I hope u aren't buying the T6's with the hope the price goes back up.   I have a feeling this is a one way trip.   Sooner or later everyone will have an amulet so once you have that then you have nothing to spend it on besides this stuff.

I am currently working towards two legendaries..sooooo.....I need everything I can get. I've spent my 2 laurels on heavy mat bags just to see what you get. I'll probably stop buying them until after I get my amulets because 3 items just isn't worth a laurel atm. Especially when there's an endless kitty tonic lurking at the 75 laurel mark.

[Uloii]

Are you kidding?  They aren't going to give you endless kitty's for a mere 75 laurels.   Thats 100!  75 will get you Chauncey von Snuffles III however.  

[Heylo]

Uloii, on 29 January 2013 - 02:25 PM, said:

Are you kidding?  They aren't going to give you endless kitty's for a mere 75 laurels.   Thats 100!  75 will get you Chauncey von Snuffles III however.  

well drat...I just remembered it being months of dailies. My guild is having a race to see who can get Chauncey first. I'm not going to win...stupid taking vacations.

[Silverdrake]

No crashes yesterday.

What did you think of the activity in Wayfarer Hills? I was underwhelmed. It was like, "Hey guys, I found another corpse - yay!"