Guild Wars 2 – February 27, 2024 Update Highlights

The Realm of Dreams

Heitor's barrier has finally fallen, and Peitha's army prepares to march further into the heart of Nayos. But what dangers await beyond the veil, and how much attrition can her forces survive? Peitha and the wayfinder will need new allies to bolster their ranks if they hope to bring the war to Eparch's gates. But who will they be able to convince to step out from the shadow of the Midnight King?

Release Highlights

• New story chapters that take players deeper into the mysterious Inner Nayos have been added.
• A new region of the Inner Nayos explorable zone, Nyedra Surrounds, is now accessible.
• The Wizard's Vault has been updated with a new rotation of exciting rewards, including three new armor pieces. The Wizard's Vault has also received a number of quality-of-life improvements to address player feedback.
• A new weapon proficiency has been added for each profession.
  • Elementalist: Pistol (main hand)
  • Mesmer: Rifle
  • Necromancer: Sword (main and off hand)
  • Engineer: Short Bow
  • Ranger: Mace (main and off hand)
  • Thief: Axe (main hand)
  • Guardian: Pistol (main and off hand)
  • Warrior: Staff
  • Revenant: Scepter (main hand)
• The first tiers of the legendary Obsidian armor sets are available to craft for all armor weight classes. A second tier will be added as an optional upgrade in the next major update to Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure.
• The legendary relic is now available to craft. More information about the legendary relic can be found here.
• Two new final bosses, the Dreadwing and the Hell Sister, have been added to Convergences. These two will cycle on a weekly cadence with Sorrow and the Demon Knight as the possible final encounters of a Convergence.
• A challenge mode option has been added to the Temple of Febe Strike Mission.
• The sky-chak striker has been added as a ranger pet.

World Polish

General

• Added new achievements for binding legendary runes and legendary sigils to the player's Legendary Armory.
  • Players with existing legendary runes and sigils can visit Lion's Arch or the Wizard's Tower to update their progress.
• Reduced the rank of training golems in the Special Forces Training Area from legendary to elite. Their attributes and performance are unchanged.
• Reduced the rank of the conjured weapons during the Conjured Amalgamate encounter from champion to elite. Their attributes and performance are unchanged.
• Reduced the rank of the Target Golem - Heavy training NPCs in the Heart of the Mists from champion to elite. Their attributes and performance are unchanged.
• A sky-chak infestation has been reported in Skywatch Archipelago.
  • A new ranger pet, the sky-chak striker, can be tamed after discovering its location.
• Meta-achievements now display progress bars in the list of sub-achievements to better track completion goals.
• Adjusted the Oneiros-Spun armor shader to optimize performance.
• Removed non-essential character equipment panel notifications, such as prompts to apply upgrades to empty slots, for characters below level 80.

Amnytas

• Reduced the number of silver map meta-event progress chests awarded during the Defense of Amnytas meta-event and adjusted rewards to compensate.

Inner Nayos: Heitor's Territory

• Added ley-looms and an updraft generator to Heitor's Territory in Inner Nayos.
• Inner Nayos faction provisioners now provide five provisioner tokens in exchange for Consecrated Saryx weapons instead of for Stormforged weapons.

Wizard's Vault

The Wizard's Vault's inventory has been updated for the new season! Last season's unique rewards are now available in the Legacy Rewards shop.

New special objectives for the season have been added, and more will appear over the course of the season, including special objectives associated with bonus events and festivals.

Additionally, a number of daily and weekly objectives have been updated. New options have been added to some objectives so they can be completed in multiple ways. Some objectives have been shelved for the time being. The intent of these changes is to improve the overall feel of the objective selection, reduce friction with required times for global-timer events, and reduce the number of expansion-only objectives that caused players to have different weekly objective lists.

Daily Objectives

• Retired activity participation from the daily objective rotation.
• Retired minidungeon completion from the daily objective rotation.
• Updated the ordering of some daily objectives to increase day-to-day selection variety.

Weekly Objectives

• Objectives to defeat 100 of a specific enemy type have had an additional enemy type added.
• Objectives to defeat a specific world boss now additionally award partial progress when events that occur in the same map that the world boss appears in are completed.
• Objectives to complete a specific meta-event now additionally award partial progress for any event in the same map, as well as partial progress from events in one alternate region in core Tyria.
• The Complete 7 Rift Hunts objective now additionally awards progress for any group event, with extra progress for group event rift hunts.
• Objectives to complete 3 bounty missions in a specific map now additionally award progress from any group event, with extra progress from group event bounties. The event requirements for these objectives have been raised from 3 to 5.
• Retired the Complete 3 Group Events, Complete the Highest Gear Jumping Puzzle, and Complete the Wind through the Walls Jumping Puzzle objectives from the weekly objective rotation.
• The Complete Meta Event: The Jade Crisis objective has been updated to require Gyala Delve's final meta-event, "Destroy the ravenous wanderer," as its main objective.
• Updated the ordering of some weekly objectives to increase week-to-week selection variety.