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August 19, 2025

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Update 2 - August 19, 2025

Hotfix

• Preparations have been made for the elite specialization beta event on August 20.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• Build: 186,081

Update - August 19, 2025

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Visions of Eternity Elite Specialization Beta Event

The elite specialization beta event begins on Wednesday! The event runs from August 20 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) until August 27 at 10:00 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7). Every Guild Wars 2 account in good standing, including Play for Free accounts, will automatically get character slots marked "Beta" when the beta event begins. Clicking on one of these slots will allow you to create a character using any of the nine Guild Wars 2 professions.

General

• All missing English-language voice-over in Janthir Wilds has been added. The full list of affected characters and content can be found here: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/159794-update-on-english-language-vo-in-guild-wars-2/
• Fixed a client crash that occurred when the WvW objective claiming UI was open while the objective was claimed or unclaimed.
• Per-day purchase limit popups now persist between game sessions after confirming that they should not be shown again. The per-day limit will not ask you again that day, and the per-week limit will not ask you again that week.
• Fixed an issue that caused interactable icon areas on the compass to be offset when reward progress was pinned.
• Conjured doorways can now be summoned in the following lounges: Armistice Bastion, Mistlock Sanctuary, Noble's Folly, and Thousand Seas Pavilion. The conjured doorway in those lounges will only be visible to the doorway's owner and members of their party.

Open World

General

• Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented players from using spears when the Kodan Spear Training Mastery was complete. If the Mastery has been trained but the achievement is not unlocked, visiting Lowland Shore will unlock the achievement.

Items

• The contents of the Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock, Guaranteed Armor Unlock, and Guaranteed Weapon Unlock have been updated.
•  Wizard's Portal Tome: The option to travel to the Crown Pavilion no longer requires players to be in the Labyrinthine Cliffs.
•  Wizard's Portal Tome: Fixed an issue that caused players to travel to a new instance of the Labyrinthine Cliffs while already in the map.
•  Wizard's Portal Tome: Fixed an issue that caused players to teleport to the wrong location when travelling to the egg chamber in Tarir.

World vs. World

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Looking for Group tool from working with World Restructuring.
• Fixed an issue that caused dredge mercenaries in Eternal Battlegrounds to teleport back to their start location if distracted while running to a camp.
• Removed map markers from trebuchets to remove clutter from the map and keep siege equipment consistent.
• Updated the ability sort order so that similar abilities are now grouped together.
• Updated War Score to be visually consistent across more UI elements.
• Moved the Obsidian Sanctum map label so it does not overlap with the Eternal Battlegrounds objectives.
• Currencies provided by skirmish reward boxes will now be automatically consumed on purchase.

Profession Skills

General

• The responsiveness of player-controlled allies, such as ranger pets and mechanist jade mechs, has been improved. Player-initiated pet abilities will now interrupt pet-initiated pet abilities and be cast immediately. Player-initiated pet abilities cannot be interrupted by other player-initiated pet abilities. Both player-initiated and pet-initiated pet abilities can still be interrupted via the Return to Me command.
•  Relic of Mistburn: Reduced the additional critical strike chance from 10% to 5% in WvW and PvP.

Elementalist

•  Stone Heart: Reduced the duration on entering from 4 seconds to 2.5 seconds in PvP only.

Mesmer

•  Bountiful Disillusionment: This trait now grants regeneration instead of stability with profession skill 4 and stability instead of resistance with profession skill 5.

Mirage

•  Imaginary Axes: Reduced the player torment duration from 6 seconds to 3.5 seconds and increased the clone torment duration from 3.5 seconds to 6 seconds in PvE only.
•  Nomad's Endurance: Reduced the strike-damage bonus from 10% to 5% in PvP only.
•  Phantom Pain: Reduced the strike-damage bonus per stack from 3% to 2.5% in PvP only.
•  Dune Cloak: Reduced the shatter recharge reduction from 2 seconds to 1 second in PvE and from 1.5 seconds to 0.5 seconds in PvP only. Increased the required clones from 2 to 3 in PvE only.

Necromancer

•  Mark of Blood: Reduced the regeneration duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP only.
•  Lesser Mark of Blood: Reduced the regeneration duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
•  Transfusion: This trait now creates a Lesser Chilblains instead of a full-strength Chilblains. Reduced the protection applied by Chilblains from 3 seconds to 2 seconds, reduced the number of conditions removed by Putrid Mark from 3 to 2, and lowered the stability applied by Reaper's Mark from 3 stacks for 4 seconds to 1 stack for 3 seconds in PvP only.
•  Lesser Chilblains: Reduced the power coefficient from 0.55 to 0.25, reduced the chill duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds, reduced the poison duration from 8 seconds to 4 seconds, reduced the base healing from 822 to 662, and reduced the healing power scaling from 0.5 to 0.3 in PvP only.

Scourge

•  Sand Cascade: Increased the cooldown from 12 seconds to 18 seconds in PvP only.
•  Garish Pillar: Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
•  Sandstorm Shroud: Increased the cooldown from 30 seconds to 35 seconds in PvP only. This skill no longer applies protection in PvP.

Ranger

•  Long Range Shot: Increased the minimum power coefficient from 1.1 to 1.33 and the maximum power coefficient from 1.25 to 1.5 in PvE only.
•  Rapid Fire: Reduced the cooldown from 10 seconds to 8 seconds and increased the power coefficient per hit from 0.45 to 0.6 in PvE only.

Revenant

•  Roiling Mists: Reduced the critical strike damage healing from 10% to 5% in PvP only.

Herald

•  Chaotic Release: Increased the cooldown from 35 seconds to 45 seconds in PvP only.
•  True Nature (Dragon): Reduced the number of conditions removed from 3 to 2 in PvP only.
•  Elevated Compassion: Fixed an issue that could cause this trait to activate while below the upkeep threshold.

Renegade

•  Icerazor's Ire: Reduced the power coefficient per hit from 0.8 to 0.67 in PvP only.
•  Soulcleave's Summit: Reduced the healing from using another Legendary Renegade skill from 1,439 to 1,199 in PvP only.
•  All for One: Reduced the protection duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
•  Vindication: Reduced the healing from outgoing damage per stack from 2% to 1% in PvP only.

Warrior

Bladesworn

•  Overcharged Cartridges: Reduced the supercharged cartridge damage bonus from 25% to 20% in PvE only.
•  Lush Forest: Reduced the cooldown reduction from 1 second to 0.75 seconds in PvE only.

Public API

• Revenant legends now have the correct names in character build data.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• Build: 186,019
• Black Lion Outfit Voucher, Black Lion Weapons Voucher, Black Lion Chair Voucher and Black Lion Backpack and Glider Voucher have been updated with new unlocks.
• A typo in the Jackdaw Pirate Patch's description has been corrected.
• Several wallet currencies that are obtained as bundles but were previously shown as individual drops (such as Festival Tokens, Rift essences, Pact Crowbars, Exalted Keys, Vials of Chak Acid, and Ancient Coins) are now bundled in the reward UI.
• Three new achievement were added for replaying the content that was previously missing voice-over:
  • Bava Nisos: An Audible Voyage — Complete the A Titanic Voyage meta-event with added voice-over. (3)
  • Absolution: Janthir Wilds: Absolution—Audio Cover — Play through every chapter of Janthir Wilds: Absolution with voice-over added. (3)
  • Repentance: Janthir Wilds: Repentance—Audio Cover — Play through every chapter of Janthir Wilds: Repentance with voice-over added. (3)