Guild Wars – Canthan New Year 2012 – Join us!

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February 2, 2012

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The Canthan New Year celebrations for the Year of the Dragon go live today (2nd February 8pm) and last until 8pm Monday 7th February. (All times UTC) The Shing Jea Boardwalk will be open for those of you who are working on your Lucky and Unlucky titles to stand on the rings, or have a go on the Dragon’s Nest, Rollerbeetle Racing or Dragon Arena. There are also a number of quests to complete for Lunar Tokens which can be exchanged for Lunar Gifts – will yours contain a Miniature Celestial Dragon?

The Finale to the event will take place on Sunday, starting at 8am and taking place every 3 hours in Shing Jea Monastery. During the event, chefs are tasked with creating food for the celestial of honour. Thanks to the efforts of Ethea, Laz and Moe,  we have enough ingredients to cater for 6 of the 9 finales. The table below will be filled in with the district we are hosting as we get closer to the finale events. Hop in game to the relevant district to get your free goodies!

Edit: There are currently not enough districts for everyone who wishes to host a finale to host a finale. As a result, we’ll be gathering in the districts below for the various events and providing support to the hosts where required. If new districts become available through the day, we’ll move to host our own.

Time (UTC) Server District
8:01 International 7
11:01 International 10
14:01 International 13
17:01 International 15
20:01 International 15
23:01 International 15
02:01 -- --
05:01 -- --
08:01 -- --

For more details on Canthan New Year, please see Guild Wars Wiki.  Hope to see you in game!

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The Canthan New Year is nearly here!

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January 28, 2012

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The Year of the Dragon is upon us! Hop over to the Canthan New Year’s Festival web page and take in of all the fantastic stuff we have planned for this year. The festivities begin on Thursday, February 2nd and wrap up on Monday, February 6th.

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Guild Wars Update – Thursday, January 26, 2012

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January 26, 2012

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Festival Update

  • Made preparations for the Canthan New Year Festival.

 

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Heroes Of Newerth – Patch 2.5.8

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January 25, 2012

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In celebration of the Lunar New Year HoN will be adding special limited edition Pharaoh Alt Avatar - Golden Emperor! He will only be available from 12:00 AM EST 1/27/2012 through 8:00 02/03/2012! Also in celebration of the Year of the Dragon you will find a new Year of the Dragon Icon available for purchase!

General Changes

  • Fixed an issue causing some users in large clans to suffer periodic hitches.
  • Creeps sounds tweaked and generally lowered in volume
  • host_timescale gets reset when disconnecting from a practice game
  • You can no longer spectate or mentor someone who is already spectating or mentoring

Kongor

  •  Gold received for getting the last hit on Kongor normalized from 300-400 to 350

Towers

  •  Gold received for getting the last hit on Towers normalized from 452-470,502-520,552-570,602-620 to 460,510,560,610

Structure Gold (Meatball/Huts)

  • Gold received for getting the last hit on a Structure normalized from 102-120 to 110

There are also a large number of item and hero changes, and bugfixes. For a full list, see the official forums.

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Guild Wars Update – Monday, January 23, 2012

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January 23, 2012

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Skills

Assassin

  • Fox Fangs (PvP): reduced bonus damage to 10…25.
  • Leaping Mantis Sting: reduced bonus damage to 5…15.

Dervish

  • Crippling Victory: increased adrenaline cost to 6; removed Cripple from AoE component.
  • Onslaught (PvP): removed 25% movement-speed increase.
  • Twin Moon Sweep (PvP): reduced damage by 25%.
  • Wearying Strike: increase adrenaline cost to 6.

Elementalist

  • Blinding Flash: increased recharge to 8 seconds.
  • Glyph of Sacrifice: added the following functionality: “Ends prematurely if you use a non-spell skill.”
  • Obsidian Flame (PvP): split for PvP; reduced damage to 22…92.

Monk

  • Shield Guardian: reduced cost to 5 Energy; increased casting time to 1.5 seconds.
  • Spirit Bond: reduced healing threshold to 50 damage; reduced healing to 30…90.
  • Spirit Bond (PvP): reduced healing threshold to 50 damage; reduced healing to 30…90.

Paragon

  • Wild Throw: added the following functionality: “All of your non-spear attack skills are disabled for 3 seconds.”

Ranger

  • Melandru’s Shot: reduced recharge to 8 seconds.

Warrior

  • Enraged Smash (PvP): split for PvP; increased recharge to 10 seconds.
  • Yeti Smash: removed 1 second activation; reduced adrenaline cost to 6.

 

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ArenaNet Blog Post – Welcome to the Year of the Dragon

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January 23, 2012

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Welcome to the Year of the Dragon!

Today is Lunar New Year’s Day, and according to the Asian zodiac system, the first day of the Year of the Dragon. It’s an auspicious omen for all of us at ArenaNet, as we get ready to make this our own Year of the Dragon.

According to tradition, the dragon embodies passion, independence, and ambition. We think it’s a perfect analogy for what we’re trying to accomplish with Guild Wars 2. We’re a company full of MMO and RPG fans, and we’ve set out to fundamentally rethink how you deliver an RPG experience online. So this year, the Year of the Dragon, let’s usher out old thinking – the tired old quest model, stiff repetitive combat, and monthly fees – and usher in the new.

Guild Wars 2 has captured the imagination of gamers and media all over the world with its action-oriented combat, its living world full of dynamic events, its highly personalized role-playing experience, and the handcrafted artistry that suffuses every element of the game. Last year, thousands of you joined us at shows and events all over the world to try Guild Wars 2 for yourself. This year, you’ll finally be able to immerse yourself in the vast, diverse world of Tyria.

We recently finished our first closed beta test, and we’re now ready to hold progressively larger events. In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to participate. And of course, this all leads to the release of Guild Wars 2 later this year.

So stay tuned to our official Guild Wars 2 website, our Facebook page, and this blog for more information about how to participate in an upcoming beta event.

It’s been an incredible adventure over the past five years, working with our community and our team of dedicated artists, designers, and programmers to realize this vision. This year, the seeds of that work come to fruition. We can’t wait to play the game with you.

So welcome to the Year of the Dragon – the year of Guild Wars 2.

-Mike O’Brien
ArenaNet Founder and President

 

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