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I'm catching up on this thread and wanted to take a moment to thank you all for sharing your thoughts on this topic! This was an interesting discussion to read as a player, and it's also always helpful to hear about what you enjoy/like/want more of in this context.

Well, you just have a few more days to wait! 😄 And that's great to hear about the music--I'll pass that on!

Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure - The Realm of Dreams launches next week, and with it, Tier 1 Obsidian Armor – which can be crafted with materials from open-world gameplay. Legendary-Armor-EN.mp4

I'm going to go ahead and wrap this up with a confirmation that no, we are not sneaking a new playable race in--that was just a charr. I mean not JUST a charr, I don't mean to imply that charr are irrelevant. Look, please just don't send a charr after me, okay?

We're all very excited for next week's game update and have been reading your feedback to the previews we've been sharing! Based on some of that feedback, we've made adjustments to the charr's heavy Obsidian Legendary armor set to cover the claws and more of the neck, as seen in the screenshot below. We've also got a video preview coming for you soon for one more look at the first tier of Obsidian Legendary armor as we count down the last few days until The Realm of Dreams!

We discovered an error that prevented a notification from appearing in the game launcher when we last updated the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 EULAs. We've corrected this, and when the February 27 Guild Wars 2 game update goes live next week, players will see a notification about the changes to the EULA. In addition to letting you know about that ahead of time, we want to give you a summary of the three changes: The agreements are now between end users and ArenaNet and no longer apply to NCSOFT titles. The User Agreement prohibits players from putting Guild Wars/Guild Wars 2 content into generative AI tools. We updated the Privacy Shield section of the Privacy Policy. You can find the updated EULA here.

There's something here about "When pigs fly". 😄 More seriously, we've all been watching peoples' responses and it's great to see that the range of new items coming to the Wizard's Vault next week appeal to so many people! (Yes, including the cat chair 😸)

Two new formidable kryptis bosses are ready to rumble come Feb. 27th, when Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure - The Realm of Dreams launches. Gather your allies and forge new alliances to face them in upcoming Convergences. Convergence-Boss-EN.mp4

I've been reviewing this thread and writing up a summary for the studio and just got to this post. 😄 I think that I super appreciate the constructive posts throughout this thread--as with all threads that I summarize and pass along, it helps me share useful feedback and trends with the rest of the studio.

The Realm of Dreams is just a few sleeps away and with it comes a refresh of Wizard’s Vault rewards--including the Solar Astrolabe weapon set, Leaf glider, cat tree chair, and the first part of the Skysage's Armor set. WV-Refresh-EN.mp4

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I'm not gonna spoil everything for next week but I can confirm that we are retiring Activities from the daily objective rotation with next Tuesday's game update.

April 16 is the correct date. The news post had a typo--we've published a fix and a few of us MIGHT be sitting here hitting F5 every three seconds waiting for it to go live. 😄 @Krydle.7418 and @Pifil.5193, what browsers are you using? We're not able to reproduce the issue on our end.

Our new studio update is available now! Learn about the second major update to Guild Wars 2®: Secrets of the Obscure™, "The Realm of Dreams," coming February 27. This update brings new story chapters, legendary relics, expanded weapon proficiencies, the first tier of Obsidian legendary armor, new Wizard's Vault rewards, and more. Read on to learn more about what's coming to Guild Wars 2 on February 27 and beyond!

Hi, everyone, Welcome to the preview for the March 19 balance update! As always, the goal of previewing these changes is to gather your feedback before the live release. We'll be following the conversation and making further adjustments as needed. Thanks, Cal "cmc" Cohen Skills and Balance Lead General Relic of Fireworks: Fixed an issue that could prevent some projectile skills from triggering this relic's effect. Elementalist This release includes some updates to arcane skills. Arcane Blast and Arcane Wave have a bit too much overlap with each other, and we wanted to give Arcane Wave a more unique identity by adding a movement component. We've also reworked and renamed the Elemental Surge trait, giving it some more powerful bonuses to individual skills instead of all of them inflicting bonus conditions. Water Trident: Increased the power coefficient from 1.0 to 1.25 in PvP and WvW. Updraft: Fixed an issue that caused this skill to disp... Read more

Every week I send a summary list of all new suggestions and requests from that thread to the rest of the studio, so it definitely gets read and heard.

Part of what I do is keep an eye on conversations and feedback throughout the forum and pass it on to the rest of the studio. Even if a suggestion isn't workable exactly as presented, most of them* help contribute to the overall picture of the game and the community. What's working well, what are people finding frustrating, what are players asking for more of, what things are more polarizing than usual? At their core, suggestions are usually about a potential opportunity to address something in one of those categories, so even if a suggestion isn't feasible, a lot of the time there's still information to be had! *We're probably definitely not gonna delete a whole profession.

Your timing is spectacular! Here you go! This is the expanded weapon proficiencies preview and the livestream info, and I've created a thread to discuss the changes here.

Our design team has been hard at work on expanded weapon proficiencies since the beta event back in November. Combat Designer Taylor Brooks has an overview of your feedback from that event and the changes we're making to the weapons here. For more details and a preview of the March balance update, watch our Twitch livestream this Friday, February 16, at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-8)!