Game updates/2026-02-24

February 24, 2026

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Late Notes - February 26, 2026

Late Note

• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused a premade group to get split up during quickplay matchmaking.

Late Notes - February 25, 2026

Late Notes

• If an ascended item is not salvageable for research notes, using the Mystic Forge to swap its attributes will now yield an ascended item that also cannot be salvaged for research notes.
•  Summon Spirits: Fixed an issue that caused this skill to erroneously trigger certain traits.

Update 2 - February 24, 2026

Bug Fix

• Added a leaderboard for the Guardian's Glade raid encounter in challenge mode.

Late Note

• A challenge mode version of the Guardian's Glade raid encounter has been added. This can be activated by using the challenge mote inside the instance before starting the encounter.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• Build: 196,128

Late Notes - February 24, 2026

General

• If a player used a Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock and only unlocked one piece of the Dapper Suit Package, Breezy Swim Pack, Tropical Beach Pack, Gentle Garden Swing Chair Glider Combo, Leather Straps Package, Heretical Scholar's Cape and Hood Combo, or Blissful Skirt and Boots Combo, the rest of the items in the set can now be obtained from Black Lion Exchange Specialists.

Raids

• Fixed an issue that caused some storm effects to persist between attempts in the Guardian's Glade raid encounter.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent crocodilian razortooths from being summoned in the Guardian's Glade raid encounter.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the cursed artifact to reappear after the Guardian's Glade raid encounter had already been completed.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Biting Swarm ability in the Guardian's Glade raid encounter from displaying the intended number of effect stacks corresponding to its damage level.
• Kela, Seneschal of Waves, now defeats any players who try to escape her arena during the Guardian's Glade raid encounter.

Update - February 24, 2026

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Open World

General

• New forms of the thorn sword Caladbolg have awakened. Players who have completed the Knight of the Thorn side story can unlock a short collection to obtain Caladbolg's spear and staff forms by visiting the distant lands of Janthir. Additionally, Ridhais will now offer skin-only unlocks as an alternative to changing Caladbolg's current form.
• Updated the Black Lion Chest preview to better display the exclusive items and the combined drop chance of the categories. A comprehensive list has been added to the Disclosure of Odds page.
• Updated the Vintage Black Lion Weapon Box to include missing weapon sets, and consolidated its preview to improve readability.
• Changed dye validating to skip dye slots that are no longer visible to the player, which previously resulted in "invalid dye selected" warnings.
• Added a Get Equipped Fashion option to cosmetic slots' right-click menu in the Fashion panel for individual cosmetic slots.
• Moved the Get Equipped Fashion option from the Fashion Templates context menu to a button in the Fashion panel.
• Removed the Fashion column in the quick-access menu. (Note: Keyboard shortcuts for Fashion Templates will continue to work.)
• Fixed an issue that prevented wrecked pieces of the Tower of Nightmares from displaying on the Kessex Hills map.

Rewards

• Replaced the Snowdrift Spear icon with the correct art.

Raids

• Boons that have been selected from the golem spawner in the Special Forces Training Area are now applied to the golem every 10 seconds instead of just once.
• A new subcategory in the Raids achievement category has been added for the Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity Guardian's Glade raid encounter.
• Updated the Infallible title to display colored text.
• Raid minis added in the February 3 release are now available from the associated raid vendors.
• Increased the rate at which progress can be earned for the Mount Balrior raid mentor achievements.
• Fixed an issue that affected progression for the new weekly raid achievements.

World vs. World

• Keeps in borderlands maps and the Eternal Battlegrounds spawn keep will now build waypoints as soon as they are controlled by the home team. Keeps will continue to build waypoints at Fortified level only when controlled by an opposing team.
• If you do not own your spawn keep in Eternal Battlegrounds, you will gain +500 attributes while in your spawn's sector until you leave the sector or regain control of your keep.
• Hitting a player with the warclaw's Lance skill will always dismount you even when hitting a player who is not mounted.
• The skirmish supervisor now offers options for converting Emblems of the Conqueror and Emblems of the Avenger to each other.
• Dugan now offers Infinite Utility Primers and Infinite Metabolic Primers as purchase options in exchange for WvW currencies.
• The Improvement and Tactic Pack now offers a choice of improvements or tactics instead of a random result.
• Reduced flame ram health by 20%.
• Reduced trebuchet health by 17%.
• Increased trebuchet supply cost to 60.
• Increased arrow cart supply cost to 30.
• Lowered the damage trebuchets cause to other siege equipment by 25%.
• Poison cows will no longer drain supply from players with Trebuchet Mastery II and above. Instead, players inside the radius of the poison field will receive a new effect called Trebuchet Toxin that inflicts damage over time and reduces incoming healing by 50%. This effect cannot be cleansed.
• Burning Oil Mastery III no longer applies damage resistance to the oil and now only applies it to the player.
• Cannon Mastery I no longer causes basic fire to remove boons and instead grants damage resistance to the player using the cannon.

Profession Skills

Elementalist

•  Burning Speed: Reduced the damage coefficient from 2.0 to 1.7 in WvW only.
•  Ring of Fire: Reduced the damage coefficient from 1.2 to 1.0 in WvW only.
•  Convergence: Reduced the damage coefficient from 1.35 to 1.1 in WvW only.
•  Blazing Barrage: Reduced the damage coefficient from 1.2 to 1.1 in WvW only.
•  Meteor: Reduced the damage coefficient from 1.35 to 1.2 in WvW only.
•  Fulgor: Reduced the damage coefficient per hit from 0.3 to 0.25 in WvW only.
•  Derecho: Reduced the damage coefficient from 1.8 to 1.6 in WvW only.
•  Fissure: Reduced the damage coefficient from 1.35 to 1.2 in WvW only.
•  Haboob: Fixed an issue that caused this skill to deal more damage than intended in WvW. Reduced the damage coefficient from 1.5 to 1.4 in WvW only.
•  Ether Renewal: Increased the cooldown from 15 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only.
•  Rock Solid: Reduced the stability duration from 3 seconds to 1 second while specializing in Earth Attunement in PvP only.

Catalyst

•  Relentless Fire: Reduced the damage increase from 15% to 10% in WvW only.
•  Empowering Auras: Reduced the damage increase per stack from 2% to 1% in WvW only.

Evoker

•  Calcify: Reduced the daze duration from 1 second to 0.25 seconds and the base barrier from 951 to 495 in PvP only.
•  Enhanced Potency: Reduced the protection condition damage reduction from 25% to 10% in PvP only.
•  Familiar's Prowess: Reduced the damage reduction from 10% to 5% in PvP only.
•  Spirit's Succor: Reduced the healing power coefficient from 0.2875 to 0.1 in PvP only.

Engineer

•  Napalm: Reduced the damage coefficient per hit from 0.28 to 0.24 in WvW only.
•  Acid Bomb: Reduced the damage coefficient per hit from 0.85 to 0.7 in WvW only.

Guardian

•  Fiery Wrath: Reduced the damage increase from 7% to 5%.
•  Symbolic Avenger: Reduced the damage increase per stack from 2% to 1%.
•  Furious Focus: Reduced the damage increase from 10% to 7% in PvP and WvW.

Luminary

•  Resplendent Weaponry: Fixed an issue that caused this trait to apply boons in a smaller radius than intended.

Revenant

Conduit

•  Bolstered Bonds: Reduced the Legendary Assassin Stance bonus from +150 power and +150 ferocity to +75 power and +75 ferocity in PvE only. Reduced the Legendary Demon Stance bonus from +75 condition damage and +150 expertise to +75 condition damage and +75 expertise in PvE only.
•  Release Potential: Assassin: Decreased the damage coefficient from 1.3 to 1.0 in PvE only.
•  Banish Enchantment: Reduced the torment duration from 6 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE only.
•  Unyielding Impact: Reduced the burning, torment, and poison duration from 6 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE only.
•  Twin Moon Sweep: Reduced the bleeding and confusion duration from 4 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE only.

Thief

Antiquary

•  Scoundrel's Luck: This trait now grants Scoundrel's Luck when you use Skritt Swipe instead of on artifact use.

Warrior

• Fixed a graphics error in the targeting decal for Battle Standard, Banner of Strength, and Banner of Discipline.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• Build: 196,063
•  Scoundrel's Luck: No longer has a cooldown in PvP and WvW.
• Guardian's Glade raid encounter:
  • Kela, Seneschal of Waves now moves to the center after spawning if no targets are nearby.
  • Kela's Ambush skill now has a larger AoE telegraph to better align with its true size.
  •  Shredded Armor can no longer be removed when downed.
  • Kela's defiance bar outside of storm phases has been corrected to show   Subdue instead of   Stun.
• The descriptions for the Infinite Utility Primer and the Infinite Metabolic Primer now correctly indicate that they cost 25 Magnetite Shards per use, instead of 50.
• Two new Leather Synthesizers have been added to Stonemist Castle.