Game updates/2026-05-12

May 12, 2026

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Update 2 - May 12, 2026

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented event messaging from being removed if players failed the Shackles of the Ancients meta-event at certain stages.
• Fixed an issue that caused credit tracking for the Unwavering achievement to be removed in certain side rooms in the Temple of Abnegation.
• Fixed an issue that caused player-owned summons and pets to be unable to deal damage to the Avatars of the All Seer.
• Adjusted the positioning of two obscured chests in Eternity's Garden.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when opening the Hero panel.

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Late Notes - May 12, 2026

General

• Added a Custom option for shadows in the Graphics menu. This allows players to fine-tune performance versus quality by changing the shadow resolution and shadow cascade count.
• Fixed an issue that prevented instruments from emitting sounds while playing a note when the character animation ended.
• Juvenile river otters are now available to be tamed by rangers in Eternity's Garden.

Update - May 12, 2026

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Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity—"The Only Way"

In pursuit of the Inquest, the commander and their allies landed on the mysterious island of Castora, where they sought ancient magic and power. Confronting the enemy across coast and forest, they learned that the Inquest had an enigmatic new director, Vloxx. He was on the hunt for Ancora, an ancient seer artifact of untold power.

Winning the race to find the artifact, the commander momentarily had Ancora in their grasp, only for Vloxx and his Inquest to ambush the commander and turn the tables. With Ancora in hand, Vloxx left his principal biomancer, Sebb, to face the commander alone. In the end, Sebb suffered a gruesome death of his own making.

The commander is left with little to show for Sebb's defeat; the mystery of what exactly Director Vloxx intends to do with the potential power granted by Ancora looms over the allies. With the artifact in Vloxx's possession, the enemy has pushed farther into the deep jungles, where the oldest temples lie. When the commander reaches Eternity's Garden, it's a race against time. The team must find a way to track the Inquest through the ancient forests and remnants of the seers' most venerated sites to intercept Vloxx before his inscrutable plans are realized. But unknown threats still linger within the deep stretches of the island, and all eyes are fixed on the commander, their allies, and the Inquest as they reach for triumph.

Fashion Templates

Updates have been made to the Fashion Templates system, including new ways to change individual cosmetics and the ability to add more of your look to templates.

• Mounts, gliders, skiffs, and conjured doorways have all been moved to a new Travel submenu in the Fashion panel. All of these cosmetics can be dyed in the Travel submenu and have been removed from the Dyes submenu.
• Fashion Templates now include mounts, gliders, skiffs, and conjured doorways. These can be edited, saved, copied, and pasted in the Travel submenu in the same way as Wardrobe cosmetics.
• A Current Fashion tab is now available in the Wardrobe and Travel menus, enabling players to change cosmetics and dyes without needing to assign them to a Fashion Template.

Wizard's Vault

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. New unique rewards are now available in the Wizard's Vault shop! Last season's unique rewards are now available in the Legacy Rewards tab.

General

• Updated the quickplay messaging flow when removing a group from the quickplay listing after players have been matched and brought to an instance.
• Fixed an issue that caused additional line-of-sight conditions to fail unexpectedly in some cases. These checks will now apply only when the Snap Ground Target to Current Target setting is enabled.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when players attempted to use the Windows emoji keyboard to insert emojis into chat. Please note that using the Windows emoji keyboard to insert text is not currently supported and will not work.

Open World

General

• Updated the compass map art for Yong Reactor in "Deepest Secrets," the seventh chapter of Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons.
• Adjusted reward rates for magic mirror and obscured chest challenges.
• The positioning of large and medium obscured chests has been slightly randomized.
• Fixed an issue that caused choya to spawn too close to a rift during the "TIER 1: Stop the agitated invaders from entering the rift to draw out the cause" event in Starlit Weald.
• Added missing visual effects to magic mirrors.

Items

• Corrected the Forged-Light Short Bow's icon.

Rewards

• A new legendary accessory, Stella Radians, is available for crafting once Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity owners have met all prerequisite conditions.
• A new legendary accessory, Strife Unending, is now available for purchase from Dugan in WvW after players have completed the Mists Research: Strife Unending achievement. Two copies of this accessory can be obtained.
• The Swiftwing Raptor mount skin can now be acquired as a very rare reward from group events and the meta-event finale in the Eternity's Garden map.
• Six new relics have been added.
• A new sound effect has been added when summoning mounts that have the Enchanted mount skins applied.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Enchanted Warclaw to play default warclaw guttural sound effects.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Retro-Forged Longbow from displaying its unique bowstring and projectiles.
• Added collections with associated title rewards for unlocking soundtrack singles in the Jukebox.
• Additional Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity homestead decoration recipes have been added.

Raids

• Fixed a client crash involving legendary raid leaderboards.

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