User:Endrosz/2013 August

Update - August 27, 2013

First Birthday Gift

• Fixed a bug that prevented some player characters from receiving their First Birthday Gift. This should also give a birthday gift to all characters that are over a year old, including those that have already received one.

Update - August 6, 2013

Living World

Queen's Jubilee

The Queen's Gauntlet

• Face increasingly difficult challenges in single combat against a variety of unique bosses.
• Take a risk with special gambit conditions to earn even more prestigious rewards.

Exotic Drop

• The Watchwork Portal Device is a one-time use consumable that allows players to create a portal between two points. It cannot be used in conjunction with the mesmer's portal.

Currency Wallet

• All players now have a new currency wallet that can be found in the Hero panel. All currencies on a character are transferred to the player's currency wallet when they log in with that character. Players will need to log in with all of their characters to get all of their currency transferred.
• All currencies are now account bound.

Improved Effects Culling

• In the open world, dungeons, PvP, and WvW, the new effects-culling system will slowly start reducing the detail of each effect in order to increase combat visibility when many effect types are overlapping.

Structured Player vs. Player

• • Added a Solo Arena. Only individual players may queue for the Solo Arena; players will also have a separate ranking and leaderboard from the existing Team Arena.
• PvP games can now be joined from any location in the game, including outside of the Mists.
• Leaving PvP will send players back to their last non-instance location.
• Leaving rated arena games will punish players with a Dishonorable debuff. Each stack of dishonor lasts for 72 hours. If a player has the maximum amount of dishonor (5 stacks), they will be prevented from joining rated games.
• Players in an arena game cannot switch characters after the game has started.
• Added a Finisher tab to the Hero panel. Use the Finisher tab to choose and activate a finisher.
• Finishers may now be unlocked either permanently or on a limited, per-use basis.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store

New Items and Promotions

• The Royal Pass (2 weeks) gives you admittance to the Royal Terrace, the queen's own shopping area in Divinity's Reach, with easy access to crafting, merchants, banks, entertainment, and more. Each pass is good for two weeks and available in the Consumables category for 300 gems each.
• Players can now purchase permanent finishing moves usable in PvP, WvW, and select content throughout the game. Change the finisher at any time after purchasing Cow, Whump the Giant, Thornroot, and/or Spectre finishers in the Upgrades category.