Guild Wars 2 Info

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Guild Wars 2 Halloween Act 3 Opening and Dungeon Run.

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BLTC back in business

The BLTC is no longer in maintenance.Make sure to check your ingame mailbox and the pickup tab on the BLTC for your items. Also make sure your ingame mailbox is not full.

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Due to community concerns about the effect of free transfers on world versus world,starting on November 1 we are going to change how often players are allowed to transfer worlds. After the update, players will be able to transfer worlds once every 7 days instead of once every 24 hours. We are also actively working on getting the guesting functionality in place. Thank you for your understanding.

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Fixed an issue that prevented haunted doors from properly appearing in Gendarran Fields, Kessex Hills, and Queensdale. The haunted doors on these maps will now remain open for the remainder of the Halloween event to allow players entry into the Mad King’s realm.

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We want to give you a heads up about Phase 4 of the Halloween event. Phase 4 will start at 9:00 AM PDT/16:00 GMT on October 31, and will run until we publish a new build on November 1 (which will be sometime after Noon PDT/19:00 GMT).
Once Phase 4 starts, the Ascent to Madness dungeon will no longer be available – but you will still be able to enter the Mad King’s realm, including the Labyrinth, the Clocktower, Reaper’s Rumble and Lunatic Inquisition.
Also make sure that you will “Attend the Party” in Lion’s Arch once Phase 4 starts, and do not worry: It is a non-stop party, so swing by any time you want!
Happy Halloween.

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Another reason to hate Facebook:
If you’re a fan of Guild Wars 2 on Facebook, you know we use our page to share a wide variety of Guild Wars 2 news and fun: news articles, fan sites, fan art, upcoming events, pictures and news from inside the ArenaNet offices, and more.
You may have heard that Facebook recently changed the way news is shared, and according to new data our updates are seen on the timelines of less than ten percent of our Facebook fans. We don’t want you to miss out, so if you want to be sure you’re receiving everything we send, make the Guild Wars 2 page an interest on your own Facebook page. Facebook has a simple guide on how to do this. This should help you to keep up-to-date on all of our Facebook news. Thanks, and we’ll see you in game!

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With the Halloween event concluding and Halloween in-game content going away, we wanted to let you know that some of these items will still be available in the Gem Store after the Halloween event is over. The following items will remain to give you a little longer to get your hands on them:
All Halloween items will remain in the Gem Store until November 7.
Personalized Trick or Treat Bags will remain in the Gem Store until November 15.
The chance to get rare Halloween-related skins from the Black Lion Chest will remain until November 15.

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Holiday
Halloween has come and gone. You put Mad King Thorn back in his place with as much skill and enthusiasm as we’d hoped. We on the Halloween Team would like to thank you for participating with such gusto. It did our hearts good to know so many of you were enjoying the pumpkins of our labors (so to speak). Thank you!
Unfortunately, Hurricane Sandy has made these past few days very hard for some of our players on the east coast of the United States. We would like to extend our condolences to all those affected by the storm. We recognize that because of power failures and the general situation, many players have been unable to meet Mad King Thorn in Lion’s Arch. One of the fake Mad King Thorn actors has decided to stick around until 11/15 to ensure that those who couldn’t play due to the storms still receive the “Attend the Party” achievement. If you missed the final event, you will be able to speak to him at the Grand Piazza in Lion’s Arch and receive both your achievement and a Halloween hat.

• The Mad King is gone, and he has taken his chest with him. The Mad King Chest can no longer be created.

Paid SPvP Tournaments
In addition to free sPvP tournaments, you can now play in paid sPvP tournaments! You can join them by going to the Heart of the Mists (using the crossed-swords icon in your quick-launch icons) and speak to the Tournament Master. You will need Tournament Tickets to play, which you can get through reward chests or the Gem Store! To see more info on the rewards for paid tournaments, look here.

WvW

• Closed a number of exploits that inappropriately allowed access to keeps.
• Orbs of power have been removed from WvW to address hacking and balance issues. They tended to strengthen teams already in the lead and were irresistible targets for hackers and cheaters, both of which could have an unfortunately large impact on any given WvW game. Orbs or some similar mechanic may return in the future, but only if we’re confident that they won’t create similar issues.

Personal Story

• “The Battle of Fort Trinity”—Fixed a bug that could prevent progress on the “Defend the gate” objective.

Dungeons
Sorrow’s Embrace

• Fergg’s Chain: The Grenadiers found a way back into the ranks. We have now adjusted their numbers to match. Waves have been adjusted to have a more reasonable spawn time.

Caudecus’s Manor

• Story Chain: Fixed an issue that could prevent Separatist guards from spawning properly.

Reminder
On October 22nd, we added new minidungeons, jumping puzzles, and events to several areas.

• Mount Maelstrom—A jumping puzzle has been added.
• Fireheart Rise—A minidungeon has been added.
• Dredgehaunt Cliffs—A minidungeon has been added.
• Various Maps—Modus Sceleris events now appear in several maps.
• There is a skritt burglar on the loose in Tyria! Adventurers that encounter this thieving rodent are encouraged to confiscate whatever loot they can shake out of her.

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We will be taking down the commerce system for maintenance at 7:00 AM PDT (14:00 GMT) on November 2nd for 3 hours. The following systems will be affected by this maintenance:

• Buying gems from the gemstore
• Purchasing from the official website – https://buy.guildwars2.com

Thank you for your understanding.

The Billing Maintenance is running long and is now estimated to end one hour later than previously scheduled. The latest estimated end time for the maintenance is at 11:00 AM PDT (18:00 GMT).
Thanks for your patience.

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Something is stirring in the Sea of Sorrows – and we want to make sure that you are not missing out, so here is a schedule (without spoilers) for you, so you can plan ahead:

• On Friday November 16th at noon PST (20:00 GMT) the weekend will kick off with an Event in Lion’s Arch that you don’t want to miss. This will trigger events in other parts of Tyria as well.
  *On Saturday November 17th at noon PST (20:00 GMT), another phase will kick in.
  Each phase is triggered by a special event, but you will be able to enjoy additional content afterwards even if you cannot make the kick-off time. There is one exception:

The event will culminate in a big Finale on Sunday November 18, make sure you will not miss it. This will be a onetime only event chain that will run multiple hours, and it will kick off at noon PST (20:00 GMT). Again, this will only run once, so make sure you will be there! There will be plenty of content available to enjoy that will remain permanently in the world as a result of the outcome of this event on Sunday.
We will give you more details once we get closer to the event, but wanted to give you an early heads up so you can plan accordingly.

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• Corrected drop rate for Unidentified Dye.

On November 1, we introduced a change that unintentionally increased the drop rate of Unidentified Dye. Today’s game update corrects the drop rate for Unidentified Dye.

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• Raw candy corn nodes will no longer periodically appear in game.

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We want you to experience Guild Wars 2 and Lost Shores with your friends, so on Monday November 12, we will turn on Refer a Friend Free Trial. You will be able to invite up to 3 Friends to play Guild Wars 2 with you for free from November 15-18.
To do so, you need a Guild Wars 2 account in good standing that was created before 23:59 PST (7:59 GMT) on November 6.
We will give you more details once the program goes live, but start thinking about who you want to invite!

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Names reserved from the original Guild Wars have now been released.

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Maintenance work in 60 minutes
We are doing some maintenance work in 60 minutes. This might affect your connectivity.