GENERAL UPDATES

• Added Mad King Chests to the Mystic Forge. These chests always have Halloween items such as candy corn, Halloween crafting materials, and Halloween tonics There’s a rare chance they may also have Halloween skins for weapons and shoulders.
• Added a Mystic Forge recipe to create Mad King Chests: 1 Piece of Candy Corn, 6 Mystery Tonics, 1 Boost (of any kind), and another Boost (of any kind).
• Tactician Footi will now properly build her cannon after being resurrected in Cursed Shore.
• Removed all hidden trick-or-treat bag nodes from Lion’s Arch.
• Halloween-themed PVP items now salvage into the correct materials.

HOLIDAY
Happy Halloween! Let the trick-or-treating begin. The “Mad Kings” have dusted off their costumes and are taking to the stage, telling their jokes to make the children laugh. It’s a lighthearted holiday, and only children truly believe that the spirit of Mad King Thorn once appeared in Tyria. No one has actually reported seeing him in over two centuries. These days, he’s nothing more than a tale told to make children squeal and behave.
But, paranormal activity in Tyria is on the rise, and Durmand Priory scholars have taken notice. They’re not sure what’s going on, but they aim to find out! Something’s not right.
From October 22 through November 1, Tyria is under the shadow of the Mad King. The weeklong event will unfold in four acts, each introducing new content to explore and experience, including decorations for Tyria and the Mists, minigames, Halloween-specific dynamic events, holiday crafting recipes, and mind-blowing jumping puzzles.
Join us on October 31 (midday, Pacific Time), when we’ll celebrate the holiday pinnacle with a bang!
This is the premiere holiday release for Guild Wars 2, and we’re blasting out of the gate! Visit Lion’s Arch to begin digging into the Halloween content.

General

• Fixed a recently introduced issue that could cause some players to getting stuck in loading screens primarily during PVP matches
• Fixed a recently introduced issue that could cause some players to not see other characters models
• Restored Asuran head sizes to the size selected during character creation
• Fixed a bug with the Asuran character creation head size slider

General

• Fixed bugs for various stuck events and skill challenges.
• Fixed bugs for various map areas that allowed players to get outside of the playable space.
• Fixed a bug in dungeon speed-clearing code. Players should no longer experience reward reductions without triggering the speed-clearing debuff.
• Fixed a bug that was automatically killing players as they entered Sharkmaw Caverns in Lion’s Arch.
• Fixed an exploit in renown regions that allowed players to quickly complete them by interacting with objects while their inventory was full.
• Fixed a bug that caused charr characters to enter a state where any fall resulted in a long falling yell.
• Fixed a bug that caused older characters to have their monthly achievement reset upon completion before the current month ended.
• Fixed the conversion on all items that were changed from soulbound to account bound to actually be account bound now.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing certain music from playing.
• Fixed an issue with the loot table for undead grubs.
• Fixed a camera bug which occasionally caused the camera to get too close to the player’s backside.
• Updated the Barrel and Green Plant environmental weapons to disappear after lying on the ground for a set time. This will prevent map issues caused by hundreds of these bundles idling on the ground.
• Updated Rune of the Adventurer and Sigil of Energy to each grant 25% endurance when activated.
• Updated map completion rewards for Plains of Ashford and all World-versus-World maps to match the map level/content.
• Added an appropriate error message for players when trying to accept too many guild invites.
• Armor that is currently equipped can no longer be transmuted.
• Keg Brawl has received some updates:
  • Lob: This skill is now ground-targeted.
  • Throw: This skill now has the range of the old Lob but with a casting time.
• Master Weaponsmiths now sell their goods for coin instead of karma, as was originally intended.
• Miss Mipp at Almuten Mansion now sells Curry Buns instead of directly selling outdated buffs.
• Surfacing while downed underwater no longer grants invulnerability. This change was made to stop players from exploiting the surface of the water to maintain permanent invulnerability.
• The Trading Post will properly refresh when using item context menus from your inventory.
• Transmuted cultural armor now prevents opposing races from equipping it.
• Valkyrie armor boxes will now properly contain a coat instead of two helms when crafted.

General
• Fixes to LOD on numerous objects in the world.
• Fixes to maps to prevent players from moving outside of the playable area.
• Fixed a bug that made pet footsteps excessively loud, especially in water.
• Fixed a bug with assists not working in keg brawl.
• Fixed numerous blocked events.
• Updated text and functionality when purchasing bank slots.
• Fixed loud sounds on portals to the Underworld in Godslost Swamp.
• Fixed several bugs that were preventing some skill challenges from resetting properly.
• All recipe items are now account bound. Many were previously soulbound.
• Updated Superior Rune of the Ogre Rock Dog so that it doesn’t summon when the player is underwater.
• Updated Sigil of Demon Summoning so that it doesn’t summon when the player is underwater.
• Summoned rock dogs and fleshreavers die when they enter water.
• Removed the lone 1 copper from city map completion rewards.
• Removed Mystic Forge recipes that were being used to reduce surplus supplies.
• Enemies in tutorial areas will no long drop loot. Instead, an award of 72 copper has been added to the rewards for completing the tutorial. This is to dissuade players from lingering in tutorial instances to farm the creatures in them.
• Obsidian Shards are now account bound.
• Box of Berserker’s Draconian Armor and Box of Rampager’s Draconian Armor now reward the proper items.
• Fixed various crash bugs.
• Added the rank 30-39 wolf finishing move.
• Fixed recipes for the Mystic Artifact, Mystic Barricade, and Mystic Trident.
• Fixed visible map completion percentage errors and the achievement not completing.
• Applied 10-second cooldown to Bowl of Saffron-scented Poultry Soup buff. This was done to keep elementalists from spamming condition removal with Signet of Restoration.

Here are the patch notes for today’s game update:

General

• Fixed missing female voice over lines that were not playing during some story cinematic sequences
• Fixed an issue where NPCs would stop moving and result in some events from being blocked
• Fixed a Mac client crash and added better crash reporting support

General

• Asuran players will now aim toward their targets when using a rifle.
• Fixed various broken events and skill challenges.
• Fixed various locations that allowed players to move outside the map.
• Fixed various locations on maps where players could become stuck.
• Discovery crafting may now use items directly from a player’s bank.
• Fixed bugs in the Exploration achievement so players can now receive 100% map completion.
• Added a system to limit the experience and gold that players can receive from speed-farming dungeons.

Story

• Fixed bugs in “A Different Dream,” “A Fragile Peace,” “Dredging Up the Past,” "Forging the Pact,” “Pastkeeper,” “Ships of the Line,” “Stealing Secrets,” “The Priory Assailed,” and “The Source of Orr.”
• Reduced the overall difficulty in “Dead of Winter.”

World-versus-World

• Retaliation: This boon no longer reflects damage received from siege weapons.
• The Experimental Rifle is no longer usable in World-versus-World.

Professions

Warrior

• Smoldering Arrow: This skill’s casting time has been reduced.

Mesmer

• The Prestige: This skill now requires full recharge if it’s interrupted at any time.

Thief

• Descent of Shadows: This trait’s effect can now only trigger once every 8 seconds.

Engineer

• Rocket Boots: This skill is no longer usable underwater. This is a temporary change until we can figure out why players can launch themselves into the sky using this skill.
• Detonate Mine Field: This skill is no longer a blast finisher.