Fire Attunement.9835

Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I heard from someone about this today. It's been a weird bug to sort out but they're working on it.

> @"Firebeard.1746" said:

> Will we need to keep any of them to craft the final dragon slayer weapons

I checked on this for you and can confirm that you do not need to keep these weapons to craft any future weapons or weapon sets.

> @"rrusse.7058" said:

> While I am on the same page as @"Tony.8659" , the main concern here is why isn't Arenanet drawing more attention to the current update?

>

I want to touch on this note quickly to say that you're absolutely right. That's on us, and you're going to start seeing communication about these faction updates on our channels in all of our supported languages.

# Late Notes: February 23, 2021

# 02/23/2021—Late Notes

## Profession Skills

### Necromancer

- Death Nova: Reduced the power coefficient of the Poison Nova explosion from 0.75 to 0.6 in PvP only.

- Putrid Explosion: Reduced the power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.8 in PvP only.

# 02/23/2021—February 23 Release Notes

## Living World

- Fixed a bug in the Eyes for Ears achievement in which progress was not granted when using the special action skill on certain listening devices.

## Items

- Fixed a bug that prevented Diviner's crafted exotic trinkets from being tradable.

- The Frost Legion Spoils Box now offers the Frost Legion Corrupt Materials Box instead of the Dominion Crystal Materials Box.

- Season 4 Currency Boxes now stack.

## Profession Skills

### Elementalist

- Stone Resonance and Lesser Stone Resonance: Reduced base barrier pulse from 1,069 to 535 in PvP only.

### Engineer

- Impact Savant: Reduced damage to barrier conversion from 15% to 10% in PvP only.

- Flash Shell: Reduced blindness duration from 5 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only. Increased cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.

- Bulwark Gyro: Reduced base barrier pulse from 726 to 508 in PvP only.

- Soothing Detonation: Fixed a bug in which this trait would incorrectly trigger if a tool-belt skill was interrupted.

- Detection Pulse: Fixed a bug in which this skill would reveal enemies with aegis. Fixed a bug in which this skill would not reveal downed enemies.

### Guardian

- Dragon's Maw: Fixed a bug in which the trap would be created at the incorrect location if the guardian moved during the arming time.

### Necromancer

- Lich Form: Fixed a bug in which this skill would go on full cooldown if interrupted after a certain point during the casting time.

### Ranger

- Counterattack Kick: Reduced knockback distance from 300 to 100 in PvP only.

- Glyph of the Tides: Increased cooldown from 20 seconds to 35 seconds in PvP only.

### Revenant

- Vindication: Reduced might duration from 3 seconds to 1 second in PvP only.

- Heroic Command: Reduced might stacks granted per stack of Kalla's Fervor from 2 to 1 in PvP only.

### Warrior

- Full Counter: Reduced daze duration from 2 seconds to 1 second in PvP only.

- Call of Valor: Reduced base barrier from 2,580 to 2,064 in PvP only. Reduced heal scaling from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.

- Vigorous Shouts: Reduced heal scaling from 0.64 to 0.5 in PvP only.

- Banner Skills: Fixed a bug in which a banner could be picked up multiple times, resulting in a larger cooldown reduction than intended.

## Structured Player vs. Player

- Rune of Speed: Reduced the movement speed bonus while under the effect of swiftness from 66% to 50%.

- Rune of Resistance: Increased internal cooldown from 20 seconds to 45 seconds.

## BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE

### New Items and Promotions

- The new Lunar Maned Skyscale Skin is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 1,600 gems.

- The new Ravensoul Dagger Skin is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 600 gems.

- For a limited time, the Raven Helm and Raven Mantle are available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 400 gems each.

- For a limited time, the Raven's Spirit Glider is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.

### Black Lion Chest

- The Black Lion Chest has been updated to the Seven Reapers Chest and can be previewed for a full list of its contents.

- The Fine Black Lion Dye Canister—Blue returns as the guaranteed item for the duration of the Seven Reapers Chest.

- The new Seven Reapers Pauldrons and Lunar Maned Skyscale Skin are available as uncommon drops for the duration of this chest.

- The Wandering Cloud Chair and Glider Combo returns as an uncommon drop for the duration of this chest.

- The Plasma Weapon Collection and Fused Weapon Collection are available for the duration of this chest.

- Unused versions of the Glyph of Reaping and Glyph of the Timekeeper are available as rare drops for the duration of this chest.

- The items available in exchange for Black Lion Statuettes have been updated. Black Lion Statuettes are redeemable by using the statuette itself or by redeeming one at any of the Black Lion Chest Merchants located in every major city.

- The exclusive Vermilion Throne, Celestial Compass Skin, Celestial Axe Skin, and Wild Magic Backpack Glider Combo are currently available.

- The bonus collection has been updated to a selection of armor skin sets including, but not limited to, the Zodiac Light Armor Skin, Krytan Medium Armor Skin, and Flamewrath Heavy Armor Skin.

I got curious about what kind of information we had handy that might answer this question, so I turned to Linsey Murdock, one of our lead designers and the person who worked on food and recipes for GW2 launch back in 2012. She checked out this thread, was excited to share some of the basics with you, and passed this on to me for you all.

From Linsey:

Ok so, I personally designed all the food recipes for launch and there are a few principals that I went by and a process I used to do so, some of which has carried forward through all of the development on cooking since launch.

RULE NUMBER ONE

We do NOT eat the sentient creatures of Tyria. There is no charr steak, no grawl chops, hylek legs, centaur loins, harpy wings, tengu drumsticks, or quaggan blubber in any cooking recipes. There might be something named for a creature like Ettin Stew, but it is not MADE out of Ettins. Now, a discerning person might say excuse me, what about choya spines? Well, that is a story. Choya were originally NOT a sentient creature and the rewards team planned to have them pretty heavily in cooking recipes for Path of Fire. Cactus is good eats. BUT THEN, we found out that the choya had VILLAGES and DANCED in circles. To me, that indicated a society and took them out of the running for food. However, it had already been built and accounted for in the economy balance and we didn’t have time to redo all that work. So we renamed everything to use “Choya Spines” which are the needles they shed. We decided this would be OK because we decided that harvesting those spines would not harm the choya. It’s like fingernails. They regrow. A little flimsy, but it let us sleep at night.

RULE NUMBER TWO

No gross food. No Monster Mystery Meat Stew. Ideally, it should all be REAL recipes distilled down to their simplified Tyrian analog. We have had some exceptions to this rule sneak past me. I am but one woman. I was not able to stem the tide of candy corn brittle.

RULE NUMBER THREE

Avoid single use base ingredients as much as possible. I really tried to make sure that if I was going to include a particular vegetable or herb or what have you, that it would be used in multiple recipes.

RULE NUMBER FOUR

Avoid made up ingredients. I made a fundamental decision to use real world vegetables, fruits, and herbs without renaming them into Tyrian versions. I did this because I wanted to take advantage of players real world knowledge of food to help train them on how to make food in GW2. Again, a few exceptions snuck past me like Winterberries, and one exception I personally made affordance for, which is Omnomberries… because it amused me. Fun fact, the icon for Omnomberries looks like a Mangosteen, which is a tropical fruit I got to try on a trip to Hawaii once!

Them's the rules. Now the process.

Every single recipe in the launch game is based on a REAL recipe. You can make this stuff at home.* Again, I wanted to let players rely on real world cooking knowledge to help them discover food recipes. Admittedly, the launch game cooking recipes are largely to my personal taste. There are lots of recipes in there that are my personal favorites, friends/family favorites, or classic western favorites. There is even more than one family recipe in there. I also wanted there to be a lot of simple obvious recipes. Like, meat and bread should make a burger. Add cheese and you have a cheese burger. For the less obvious recipes, I used the same kind of process that I use when I want to cook a recipe I have never made before. I search the internet for at least a dozen versions of the recipe I have in mind and look for the elements that seem to be the common core elements of the recipe. If one home cook likes to put some kind of weird, out of left field ingredient in a pretty normal recipe which makes their version unique, I did not include such things. If ten out of twelve recipes use lemon juice, but one uses vinegar, and one is all about lime, I’m using lemon juice. Common denominators here, people.

So that is mostly it. There were some other bits of madness, like how certain types of buffs were related to certain types of food. Like pies are healing, spicy things relate to conditions, and magic find is found on other sweets. This is less important to the question and more important, is not a rule because once a pile of other designers that weren’t me started making recipes, my madness fell apart and there aren’t as clear delineations of what buffs go on which types of foods.

_*Note from F.A.: Linsey is correct! A lot of GW2 players have done exactly this. Check out [Pixelated Provisions](https://pixelatedprovisions.com/category/guild-wars-2/) and [Terrible Trio Creations](https://terribletriocreations.tumblr.com/menu) if you want some GW2 recipes to try for yourself._

Thank you for calling this out, @"Gildana.8529" . I let the team know about this and they're going to get it taken care of.

Thanks for the heads up. I passed that on and it's getting taken care of.

[The fix is going out right now](https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/comment/1412375/#Comment_1412375). The WvW walls should be back in place after you grab the update!

**Bug Fixes:**

- Fixed an issue that prevented models from rendering in World vs. World.

- Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented the "Rabbit's Challenge: Race to the gates!" event in Celestial Challenge from starting properly.

- Fixed a bug that could prevent the final encounter of the Thunderhead Peaks Dragon Response Mission from starting properly, stalling the mission.

- Fixed a bug that caused unintended hordes of hyenas to appear in the Celestial Challenge meta-event.

Good morning all, we've tracked down the vanishing walls issue and are working on getting a fix implemented and to you as soon as we can.

**Bug Fix:**

- Fixed a client crash.

Hey everyone, sorry about this issue. We've got a fix for this and are getting it out to you as soon as possible.

Thanks for posting this, I've passed it on and we're looking into it.

Okay, it looks like we're all good here. The update is live and we've swatted that brief connectivity issue. Thank you _all _for your patience today!

Sorry about this, everyone. :( We're working on it as fast as we can.

This discussion has been moved.

# 02/02/2021—February 2 Release Notes

## **Lunar New Year**

As another new year dawns on Tyria, join the festivities in Divinity's Reach! The Year of the Ox is upon us, and the Lunar New Year Festival returns with new rewards and refreshed activities. Collect and open lucky envelopes to earn essences of luck, delicious foods, fireworks, valuable items, and a chance to find the new Lucky Ox Lantern backpacks!

- The Lunar New Year annual meta-achievement, Lunar New Year Customs, has been updated with a new reward, the Lunar-Enchanted Gloves! Using a crafted glove set as a base, these gloves have a new shining effect to match your festival weapons. Last year's meta-achievement reward, the Fireworks Spaulders, can now be purchased from the Lunar New Year rewards vendors.

- A new weapon-set upgrade is now available! If you have added Shining Aureate weapons to your wardrobe by completing Lunar New Year daily achievements, speak with the festival rewards vendors in Divinity's Reach to trade your hard-earned Essence of Luck for the luck-infused Fortune-Shining Aureate set. Or if you preferred a more subtle change to your arsenal, you can also now purchase the effect-free Refitted Aureate set from the same vendor.

- The Celestial Challenge activity has been overhauled with updated goals and simplified reward mechanics. Compete in a variety of events to earn Lucky Aura, and use it to open extra treasure chests once the Celestials bestow their gifts!

- Many of the events have been updated and rebalanced, including new special action skills for events that previously lacked one.

- The Lucky Aura effect now allows players to open extra chests during the reward event, rather than improving drop rate of items from the main reward chest.

- The player with the highest contribution to each event will be awarded with an extra Lucky Aura effect.

- The drop chance of Tokens of the Celestial Champion has been reworked to be a guaranteed drop of Tokens of the Celestial Champion Fragments, which can be exchanged for complete tokens. There is a random chance to get additional Fragments that is not affected by Lucky Aura.

- Enemy mobs no longer provide event participation in events that have objectives other than killing enemies.

- A new achievement has been added for participating in each event of the Celestial Challenge.

- A new group of rotating daily achievements has been added to complete events in the game's low-level maps. Visit the place you came from to ring in the new year!

- Lucky Envelope rewards have been updated with new items for the Year of the Ox, including a new backpack to celebrate the Year of the Ox in style.

- Finding you have more good fortune than you know what to do with? Lunar New Year vendors now offer Lucky Red Bags in exchange for your unwanted Essences of Luck.

- A new guild decoration has been added to commemorate the Year of the Ox.

- Festival merchants have been moved across the street to allow enough space for their increased numbers.

- A number of festival-related bugs have been fixed to ensure a happy holiday for all heroes.

Lunar New Year will be active until February 23 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-8). See you in Divinity's Reach!

## Living World

- Fixed a bug that caused the Owl Spirit statue in the Snowden Drifts Dragon Response Mission to have an offset nameplate and not disappear when the mission ended.

- Fixed a bug that prevented enemy kill markers from properly disappearing in the Thunderhead Peaks Dragon Response Mission and Lake Doric Dragon Response Mission.

- Fixed a bug that caused the champion boss of the Snowden Drifts Dragon Response Mission to be interrupted but not stunned when its defiance bar was depleted.

- Increased Myrun's speed in progressing to the champion boss of the Thunderhead Peaks Dragon Response mission after the destroyer enemies are defeated in the second event.

- Fixed a bug that could cause dialogue lines to be repeated or not appear during the champion boss of the Lake Doric Dragon Response Mission.

- Corrected the achievement name Rising Flames to refer to the actual story chapter, Roaring Flames.

- Fixed a bug that caused Destroyer Fissures to spawn on top of each other in the champion boss fight of the Thunderhead Peaks Dragon Response Mission.

- Updated the Challenge Mode variant of the Incinerating Shock Wave skill used by the champion boss in the Fields of Ruin Dragon Response Mission. The telegraph for this skill should now match the radius of the initial impact. Additionally, the persistent fire-field effect is now enveloped by a red ring to denote the size of the damage radius. This skill has been updated such that the initial impact will deal significantly more damage. Don't stand in the fire!

## Items

- Wooden Sword consumable items are no longer usable in dungeons or fractals.

## Profession Skills

### Engineer

- A.E.D.: Fixed a bug that prevented the Gadgeteer traited version of this skill from triggering the Speed of Synergy trait.

### Necromancer

- Lich Form: Updated skill description and tooltip to include attribute increases granted while transformed.

- Well of Blood: Fixed a bug that caused the tooltip to display inaccurate healing values.

### Revenant

- Soulcleave's Summit: Fixed a bug that caused the life stealing effect to trigger on some invisible attacks.

## BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE

### New Items and Promotions

- The new Noble Aurochs Jackal Skin is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 1,600 gems.

- For a limited time, the Staff of Fortune Skin is available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 420 gems, a savings of 30%.

- For a limited time, the Celestial Rat Cape is available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 350 gems, a savings of 30%.

- For a limited time, the Celestial Rooster Glider and Flying Boar Glider are available on sale in the Style category of the Gem Store for 350 gems each, a savings of 30%.

- For a limited time, the Ram Balloon and Red Lantern are available in the Toys category of the Gem Store for 250 gems each.

### Black Lion Chest

- The Black Lion Chest has been updated to the Wandering Cloud Chest and can be previewed for a full list of its contents.

- The Evon Gnashblade Lucky Envelope returns as the guaranteed item for the duration of the Wandering Cloud Chest.

- The new Wandering Cloud Chair and Glider Combo and Noble Aurochs Jackal Skin are available as uncommon drops for the duration of this chest.

- The Tempest Gaze Helm Skin returns as an uncommon drop for the duration of this chest.

- The Dragon's Jade and Dwayna's weapon collections are available for the duration of this chest.

- Unused versions of the Glyph of the Crucible and Glyph of Volatility are available as rare drops for the duration of this chest.

- The items available in exchange for Black Lion Statuettes have been updated. Black Lion Statuettes are redeemable by using the statuette itself or by redeeming one at any of the Black Lion Chest Merchants located in every major city.

- The exclusive Dark Matter Cape, Storm Dagger Skin, Desert King Throne, and Searing Chain Gloves are currently available.

- The bonus collection has been updated to a selection of armor skins including but not limited to Foefire Wraps, Toxic Mantle Skin, Scarlet's Spaulders, and Jackal Rune Greaves.

Hi again everyone, we have another update for you! We released an update on December 15 and have been watching the results. Since that update we’ve seen a significant and consistent reduction in server-side lag. Thanks to everyone who helped us by using the in-game reporting system. We’re continuing our work to improve your gameplay performance, so please continue reporting if you experience performance issues.

Thank you, I passed that on as well.

> @"Ashantara.8731" said:

> > @"AysonCurrax.3254" said:

> > The Infusion affect head hair, but does not affect facial hair.

> > Now i look like a statue with a mustache glued to it.

> > 

>

> I have the same issue with my Asura's hair. Looks like some black mat glued to the stone head.

What hairstyle/color is it? Do you happen to have a screenshot?

> @"AysonCurrax.3254" said:

> So it is supposed to look like that then?

It is. It is affecting your mustache, but the changes are minimal against your original color. That said, we are passing this on to more relevant teams to make them aware that this is A Thing That Is Happening.

> @"Elrey.5472" said:

> This is how it looks to me, for months now (spanish version).

> https://imgur.com/a/c8VJxjY

>

> Last firefox builds, no adblockers.

> Please fix it, I'm not the only one facing this issue.

Thank you for the screenshot and details, I passed it on for them to look at. We're sorry that's happening. :(

> @"AysonCurrax.3254" said:

>

> I'll keep an eye out for mustache related patch notes.

No need to wait, we figured it out. Your character's mustache was already dark brown or black, right? The mustache is being changed by the infusion, it's just that the infusion happens to interact with _that_ particular mustache in _that_ particular color in a way that the changes aren't very noticeable. The dev who was looking into the issue shared a few screenshots with me to help illustrate and I've included them below. No hair changes were made between images:




> @"Parasite.5389" said:

> Rumor speaks of a Norn so powerful; his very facial hair can chip the Tooth of Jormag

See this is exactly what we're worried about. You get it.