Game Update Notes: April 15, 2025

04/15/2025—April 15 Release Notes Note to users of third-party programs: The game may not launch or work properly after we release a new build if you use a third-party program, due to possible incompatibilities. ArenaNet cannot offer support if a third-party modification breaks, interferes with, or prevents you from playing Guild Wars or Guild Wars 2. Our policy regarding third-party programs can be found here. Super Adventure Festival Moto's world-renowned Super Adventure Box returns again! Explore two worlds (and one test zone) of excitement, peril, and educational entertainment to earn holographic weapons and a variety of loot. Travelers can visit the Super Adventure Box in Rata Sum—temporary portals have been placed in each major city to facilitate easy travel to the scenic hub of asuran culture! Complete the Super Adventure Festival's meta-achievement, (Annual) Super Adventure Box Nostalgia, to earn the new Powered Boots armor! Last year's reward, the Powered Shoulders, is now available from the Super Adventure Box traders. Newcomers interested in beginning their super adventure should seek out Moto's latest systems test, the Super Ooze Kitchen! Accessed from any of Tyria's level 1–15 maps, the Super Ooze Kitchen is a small bonus event where you'll face the box's deadly ooze enemies, including a brand-new super yellow ooze. Willing testers will be rewarded with baubles and even starter items for their adventure, including the Slingshot and Bombs weapons, plus the new Mini Super Yellow Ooze! The new Super Rainbow Cloud weapon set is now available! You'll receive your choice of a weapon by progressing the Super Adventure Box Nostalgia meta-achievement, and you can earn additional choices through weekly Super Adventure Festival achievements. New weapons have been added to the Retro-Forged series! You can purchase these weapons directly from a festival vendor or find them as rare drops in Super Loot Bags. New Super Adventure Box-themed guild decorations have been added! Turn your hall into the auspicious hilltop getaway of your dreams Super Pagoda Arch Super Pagoda Deck Super Pagoda Door Super Pagoda Floor Super Pagoda Pond Super Pagoda Roof Super Pagoda Long Roof Super Pagoda Wall Special objectives are available in the Wizard's Vault to earn extra astral acclaim as you enjoy the festival. Vendors will now sell extra copies of Moto's Unstable Bauble Infusions to players who have earned the necessary achievement to unlock their first copy. A number of Super Adventure Box-related bugs have been fixed to ensure a safe education for all heroes. Festivities begin on April 15 and continue until May 6 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7). Open World General Repaired the name and icon of the Mini Super Blue Ooze. Fixed an issue that prevented the Angler Sense skill from being used while piloting skiffs. Raids Added additional time to the event timer when Godscream Ura's armor is shattered at 1% health during Ura's legendary challenge mode encounter in Raid: Mount Balrior. World vs. World Replaced the Recruit Patrol upgrade for all objectives with a static guard group to protect the objective. Additionally, a trading post merchant will become available in keeps and Stonemist Castle at this upgrade level. This change is part of an ongoing investigation into performance issues. Profession Skills Below are additions and changes to the balance preview notes we previously shared. The changes below supersede the preview notes. In response to feedback, some changes were not implemented. Those unimplemented changes are noted as, "This skill is unchanged." You can see the original balance notes shared here. General Relic of Thorns: Reduced the condition damage bonus per stack from 50 to 30 in PvE only. Sigils that stack on kill can no longer be stacked with the death of an ally. Elementalist Molten End: This skill is unchanged. Rain of Blows: This skill is unchanged. Crashing Font: This skill is unchanged. Cleansing Typhoon: Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds. This skill's damage is unchanged. Shock Blast: This skill is unchanged. Ground Pound: This skill is unchanged. Aquamancer's Training: Reduced the outgoing healing modifier from 20% to 15% in PvP only. Tempest Elemental Bastion: Reduced the healing-power scaling from 0.8 to 0.7 in PvP only. Engineer Magnet: This skill now plays an additional sound effect on its target. Guardian Helio Rush: Reduced the maximum ammunition from 2 to 1 in PvP only. Symbol of Luminance: Increased the cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only. Mesmer Imaginary Inversion: Increased the cooldown from 15 seconds to 18 seconds, reduced the base healing from 1,610 to 900, and reduced the empowered healing from 2,890 to 2,000 in PvP only. Mental Collapse: This skill now only stuns with the first impact when empowered. Increased the cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only. · Singularity Shot: Increased the cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only. Time Warp: Reduced the duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only. Illusionary Defense: Reduced the base protection duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only. Virtuoso Phantasmal Blades: This trait is unchanged. Necromancer Spectral Grasp: This skill is unchanged. Ranger Falcon's Stoop: Reduced the power coefficient from 1.25 to 1.15 in PvP only. Owl's Flight: Reduced the power coefficient from 1.65 to 1.5 in PvP only. Warclaw's Engage: Reduced the power coefficient from 1.4 to 1.3 in PvP only. Predator's Ambush: Reduced the power coefficient from 1.4 to 1.3 in PvP only. Untamed Ravager's Abandon: This skill now requires line of sight to strike an enemy. Reduced the power coefficient from 1.0625 to 0.8 in PvP only. Forest's Fortification: Reduced the damage reduction from 50% to 33% in PvP only. Revenant Abyssal Blitz: This skill no longer inflicts weakness and slowed in WvW and PvP. Reduced the power coefficient from 0.67 to 0.25 in PvP only. Abyssal Blot: Reduced the poison duration from 6 seconds to 5 seconds and reduced the power coefficient per strike from 0.225 to 0.1875 in PvP only. Vindicator Forerunner of Death: Increased the power coefficient of Death Drop from 3.75 to 4.2 in PvE only. Thief Harrowing Storm: Fixed an issue that could cause this skill to have a longer range than intended. Warrior Valiant Leap: Increased the cooldown from 8 seconds to 10 seconds in PvP only. Defiant Roar: Reduced the initial base healing from 1,000 to 680 and healing-power scaling from 0.7 to 0.5. Reduced the block's additional base healing from 310 to 234 and the healing-power scaling from 0.15 to 0.1 in PvP only. Path to Victory: Reduced the healing-power scaling from 1.33/1.67/2.0 to 0.6/0.9/1.2 in PvP only. Vigorous Shouts: Reduced the base healing from 1,000 to 808 and reduced the healing power modifier from 1.15 to 0.9 in PvP only. Bladesworn Blooming Fire: Fixed an issue that could cause this skill to miss its target.

Late Notes: The Café Console homestead decoration will now sell the rest of the café decoration set year round in exchange for karma. The Café Console homestead decoration now offers access to its Employee Perks vendor tab year round.