Guild Wars 2®

Reduced the number of players required in the beam from five to three.

Now gained every 5% damage taken instead of 3%, reducing the total number of Dancing Sparks generated.

Phase 3 Fluxlance attacks now have an extra half-second of warmup to allow better positioning.

Banners with effects lower than the Guild Heroes Banner (e.g., Karma Banner) have been increased to match its potency.

Reduced the recharge time for banners and feasts when deployed from Guild Storage.

Increased Decima's Defiance by 25%, though breaking it now shortens the Flux Nova channel.

Fixed a bug where players mounted at the start of an encounter would miss out on resource refreshes and cooldown resets.

Fixed an issue that prevented Volcano from creating attacks on certain types of terrain.

Consolidated multiple reward buffs into a single icon to reduce HUD clutter.

Interacting with a lesser banner while under the effect of a Guild Heroes Banner now refreshes the duration if it was lower.

Introduced Winter Mittens armor, a new Plush weapon set, and four new rare drop weapons to the festival.

Added the Plush Fox mini pet and various winter-themed Homestead decorations.

Greer no longer possesses permanent Resolution, making him more susceptible to certain effects.

Fixed a bug that prevented players from joining a party member's homestead via the party menu.

Fixed an issue where collection boxes would fail to gather from all nodes when used rapidly.

Corrected the default size of decorations in the Meditative Garden package; existing decorations may need manual resizing.

Fixed a bug where live match scores were displayed incorrectly in the tournament panel.

Fixed a crash occurring in WvW maps when using specific armor effects (e.g., Nightfury, Winter's Presence) with standard models enabled.

Improved mouse-drag behavior for players using remote machine connections like Windows Remote Desktop.

The (Annual) Raceway Regular achievement now grants additional progress for laps completed within gold-medal time.

Various small bugs within the Mad Realm have been fixed.

A new Mini Pummel Spider has been added to Halloween vendors.

New Halloween decorations added, including Haunted Bell, Antique Bell, Gargoyles, and Warclaw Rental Post.

The Wizard's Vault now includes special objectives for participating in Halloween activities.

The Hooligan's Route vendor now stocks a larger variety of items and recipes for those with excess candy corn.

The (Annual) Halloween Rituals meta-achievement now rewards the Clawing Shadow Plate armor piece.

Lowland Kodan Expertise can now be purchased once per character daily instead of once per account.

More events in and around Festering Basin now grant renown tokens, speeding up progression.

Increased the power coefficient, resulting in higher damage for the skill in WvW.

Reduced the cooldown, allowing the skill to be used more frequently in WvW.

Increased the amount of rift essence awarded when using fine, masterwork, and rare motivations.

Added a slight cooldown to Uncover to prevent adverse effects and instability.

Added a keybinding option for the conjured doorway Mastery skill for better accessibility.

Endurance-refreshing orbs in Salmon Run now also refresh Flop! charges, improving race mobility.

Re-enabled the /PetalThrow emote.

Added Beach Trunks as a reward for completing the (Annual) Four Winds Customs meta-achievement.

Introduced the Sandswept weapon set, obtainable via festival achievements.

Added Zephyrite short bow, torch, and warhorn skins to Blessing of the Four Winds containers.

Added a new Mini Sea Turtle to the festival reward vendors.

Added a new event at Labyrinthine Cliffs involving filling water balloons and sending them via kite basket.

Increased war score awarded for defeating an enemy player.

Reduced supply cost for arrow carts.

Significantly reduced supply cost for trebuchets.

Boosts can now be refreshed up to a maximum of 60 minutes.

Flame ram health reduced by 50%, though they now receive Iron Hide when operated.

Increased the supply cost for guild siege golems.

Removed rocks blocking access to mursaat tokens 19, 31, and 25 in Ember Bay.

Fixed an issue where some legendary armor pieces remained visible during Thief stealth skills.

Alacrity can no longer be applied to players using siege equipment.

AFK timer in open-world maps is now reduced to 5 minutes if the player enters combat.

The lamp objective now requires channeling instead of just standing in the area.

Only the player who channels the lamp now receives the special action skill.

Giant Meteor is now unblockable and targets a specific enemy instead of a location.