Game Update Notes: April 1, 2025

04/01/2025—April 1 Release Notes, April Fools Only (no build) Cozy Café With Janthir getting wilder than ever expected, the commander finds themselves in need of a break. Hope arrives in the form of a long-awaited overseas package that they definitely remember ordering. Could this be the wayfinder's big chance to realize their long-held, heretofore-unmentioned dream? Break out your decorations and construct the slow-life homestead shop of your dreams in the Cozy Café weekly experience—starting now and open for business until April 8. But wait, there's more! For this limited time period, you can also experience fond memories of previous April Fools releases, including Heights of Glory, Future Fashionable, Dog Days, Choya Carnival, Missive from the Sunbeam Throne, and Seats of Power. The Mists have been updated to establish Seats of Power as the official 2018 April Fools release, despite the content going live on March 27, 2018. General Fixed an issue that caused content in the Janthir Isles to have more bear jokes than cat jokes. But only just bearly. Fixed an issue that caused Convergences to become the same over time. Fixed a time-zone issue that caused it to always be Evon Gnashblade's birthday somewhere. Fixed an issue that caused the act of conjuring a homestead doorway while inside the homestead to create a recursive loop, trapping the commander eternally in the stead between steads. Due to game-format changes, Janthir is no longer considered "wild." Its use is now similar to that of other face cards. Updated word-choice variety for interactive item prompts: Speaking to NPCs now offers Talk, Chat, Inquire, and Slide into Holographic Communicator Messages options to give players insight into the initial tone of conversations. Gizmos in the world now include Use, Manipulate, Reuse, Kick, Lever, Finagle, Turn, and Overturn options. Fixed an issue that caused interaction text for various Spider Egg Sac objects to display Use instead of Consume options. The /age command will now prompt veteran player characters to remark that it can't have been that long since they began their adventures, bright-eyed and eager. Items A new item, Essence of Bad Luck, is now available from salvaging certain rare items. Mail that includes advertisements for in-game events can no longer be salvaged or sold to vendors. Deployed feast items can now be eaten by certain hostile creatures, depending on the food type. Players with an excess amount of unfulfilled listings in the Black Lion Trading Post over a year old will be charged a small records-keeping fee per item. Players who have run out of "é" characters to use when searching the homestead decoration menu for their café decorations may use one of the following extras: é é é é é Personal Story Certain Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds story instances have been rewritten as interpretive dance performances. Profession Skills General To provide more tools for setting up your homestead café decor, each profession now has a new Professional Homesteading trait, which is applied automatically. See specific profession sections for details. Being stunned, knocked back, lifted, dazed, or transformed by Signet of Humility will temporarily disable the target's Professional Homesteading trait in PvP only. Reverted an increase to finisher damage from a previous update. Smoke combo fields now additionally put Janthiri bee pets to sleep. Elementalist Professional Homesteading: Geomancer's Landscaping: While attuned to earth, you may add and remove the base terrain as if it was a decoration. Changes may be reverted after switching attunements. Elemental Attunement: Attunements can now be set to automatically swap. Deploy Jade Sphere (Earth): This skill now creates an earth combo field. Engineer Professional Homesteading: Photonic Building Module: You may place holographic copies of decorations you have not crafted. Jade Mech: If multiple mechanists are in a party or squad, up to five jade mechs may now combine to form a single, more powerful jade mech. Aim-Assisted Rocket: This skill may violate the terms of use in PvP only. Please exercise caution while we figure this out. Guardian Patience is now a Virtue. Passive: Your skill cooldowns are increased, but you gain the perspective to realize that it isn't a big deal. Active: When the time is right. Professional Homesteading: Hunter's Decoration: Allows the placement of trophies from big game that the guardian has dragon-hunted over their long career. Glacial Heart: Updated this skill's tooltip to note that your guardian remains kind and warm toward their friends in spite of it all. Mesmer Professional Homesteading: Phantasmal Workforce: Your summoned phantasms will handle homestead decorating for you. Their own tastes will reflect yours. Illusions: If foes perform a successful healing power check, they will no longer take damage from illusionary sources. Psychic Blades : Updated this trait's tooltip to clarify that both you and the blades are psychic. Necromancer Professional Homesteading: Decor Perception: Marks nearby homestead decorations that just aren't working for the overall vibe. The range is increased while in shroud. Minions: Following the popular phantasm updates, you may now name your minions for the duration of their summoning. Ranger Professional Homesteading: Decorative Symbiosis: As you place decorations, your pet will also place decorations or drag small decorations from place to place. Short Bow: This weapon can now be wielded in the off-hand slot. The Juvenile Janthiri Bee pet's fuzziness has been increased by 7%. Revenant Professional Homesteading: Versed in Stoneworking: Allows the addition of engravings and embellishments to certain decorations. Legends: Revenants can now rename their legends if they don't pipe down for a minute and let them finish this story objective in peace. Thief Professional Homesteading: No Quarters: Allows additional decorations to be removed from the base homestead, including all buildings, rooms, and beds. Steal: Removed the added functionality to steal the target's wardrobe style in PvP only. This functionality is now available in all game modes; see the following note. Cosmetic Inspection: Now additionally steals the target's style by emulating their wardrobe selection and dye choices. Warrior Professional Homesteading: Cleaning Ire: Your burst skill now additionally dusts all homestead decoration surfaces within range. Kill Shot: Increased the critical hit-chance improvement when landing shots out of a twirl without using the action camera or when attacking at an improbable distance. While in combat, all professions are warriors, in a sense. We're going to work through the mechanics of this a little bit at a time. Realistically, everyone should have adrenaline, we guess. World vs. World General Added snowman and ice wall siege equipment. Population caps are now based on the total number of players on all maps rather than being calculated per map. Players may now construct and lay siege to homesteads in the Edge of the Mists.