Summary: Chris and Celeste are reunited, finally, to talk about Twilight Assault and the October 15th skill balance preview. Listen now: What We Did This Week Celeste: lots of levelling of my mesmer, now 70 and into Orr 400-440 huntsman cost me 30 gold (on my mes) 120-400 tailor cost me 6 gold (on my necro) CoE explorable paths Twilight Assault path almost completed found out I have a lot more play time when I’m not working Chris: WuvWuv World vs. World WvWvW PvP in a large scale, multi world setting. The PvP other than sPvP Report from Lion’s Arch Twilight Patch Notes https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/release-notes-for-twilight-assault/ Twilight Assault - Twilight Assault path is awarding extra deadly blooms, empyreal fragments while this update is active complete the new path to get the slickpack, back-slot item complete all the achievements for TAA(twilight arbor aetherpath) to get a miniature Clockheart new TAA achievement category as a permanent addition Above and Beyond achievement (Note: Completion of this achievement will not automatically complete the individual contributing achievements for the entire party) Balance - Reward update for Tequatl, more meaningful for completion, gold and rare drops for the daily Teq reward have been increased, increase drop rate of sunless weapons adjusted sylvari body patterns to prevent graphical anomalies Idle players will be ejected from hylek turrets during Taquito people who stay behind to kill the fingers will get credit in the battery events Experimental Rifle Bundle no longer usable in dungeons http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experimental_rifle Heart of the mists: “A quaggan has been hired to fill the vacant position left by the abrupt departure of the previous ticket merchant.” PvP: “Achievements: Increased the achievement point value of the profession-specific game winning achievements by 15 each.” “Consumable WXP items have been added to player loot bags in WvW, in values up to 25,000 WXP. These items are account bound.” “WXP boosters no longer affect WXP consumable items.” “A consumable item that grants 5,000 WXP is now available from the laurel vendor in WvW.” “World rank bonus chests are now account bound.” “Fixed an issue where recent purchase history was not populating after buying items in the Gem Store.” BLTC Permanent Mad King Finisher for 700 gems Permanent Scarecrow Finisher 500 gems. Instant Trait Reset item for 70 gems (5 for 300). Reset your trait points when not in combat. Not for sPvP. New exclusive hairstyles have been added to Total Makeover Kits and Self-Style Hair Kits. 3 per race and gender, 30 total https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151761141374209.1073741834.114036714208&type=1 Minis 3-pack set 1 will stop being for sale in the gem store after October 14. They will come back for special sales or will be available on the trading post and MF. BL Chest: Rare chance for Mini Holo Scarlet, Mini Caithe, and Minis 3-pack Set 2; Removed Black Lion Mining, Logging, and Harvesting sickle from the chest. WvW Season 1 delayed until October 18th https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-vs-world-season-1-begins-october-18/ both NA and EU will be split into 3 leagues “In the case of North America, the top six worlds will comprise the gold league and will battle each other in a clash of titans over a seven week period. The silver and bronze leagues will be made up of nine worlds each and will function exactly the same as the European leagues.” Oct 15th skill rebalance preview https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/October-15th-balance-skills-updates-preview trait tooltips and how they pertain to skills
