It would be a great mistake if you are still thinking that you cannot change your character appearance. In the Black Lion Trading Company, under the Services tab, there are two new items: Self-Style Hair Kit and Total Makeover Kit.
With the Self-Style Hair Kit you can modify your appearance settings for hair style, hair color, horns and facial hair. The kit is consumed on accepting a new appearance.
With the Total Makeover Kit you can modify your appearance settings for height, physique, skin color, markings, face, hair, gender. Race and profession will remain the same. The kit is consumed on accepting a new appearance.
The prices are great: 250 Gems for Self-Style Hair Kit, and 350 Gems for Total Makeover Kit. In the video below you can see the new kits in action.
Tell us is your character perfect or you want to change something?
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GW2 Black Friday Weekend Sale
This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, during the Black Friday Weekend, three different items will be on sale in the Gem Store. The items are on sale for limited-time – each sale lasts only 24 hours.
Black Friday Sale for Sunday- The following items are on sale:
- Black Lion Trader Express: 60% off
Buy 5 for 80 Gems
No sale on any amount lower than that - Karma Booster: 40% off
Buy 1 for 45 Gems
Buy 5 for 165 Gems - Mystic Forge Stone: 30% off
Buy 5 for 175 Gems
Buy 10 for 315 Gems
Black Friday Sale for Saturday – The following items are on sale:
- Evon Gnashblade’s Box o’ Fun: 70% off
Buy 1 for 75 Gems
Buy 5 for 300 Gems - Experience Booster: 30% off
Buy 1 for 105 Gems
Buy 5 for 385 Gems - Revive Orb: 60% off
Buy 1 for 100 Gems
Buy 5 for 360 Gems
Black Friday Sale for FRIDAY – The following items are on sale:
- Black Lion Keys: 50% off
Buy 25 for 1560 Gems.
No sale on any amount lower than that - Black Lion Merchant Express: 60% off
Buy 5 for 50 gems.
No sale on any amount lower than that - Fine Transmutation Stones: 40% off
Buy 5 for 120 gems
Buy 10 for 215 gems
Buy 25 for 480 gems
Source: Guild Wars Official Site
Rewards for those disconnect at the end of GW2 Lost Shores Event
Martin Kerstein, ArenaNet’s Head of Global Community, posted on the official GW2 forum the following explanation:
We have a team looking into disconnection problems that prevented some people from receiving their event rewards.
We will implement a solution so that people who participated will get their rewards, but this takes work on our end, so it will not happen today.
Keep an eye on our forums and social media channels, we will let you know once we have the solution in place.
Thank you, and we apologize that you were unable to claim your rewards.
Source GW2 forum
GW2 The Lost Shores Event Phase 3
The third phase The Final Push has begun. Head to the South West part of the Southsun Cove map and then make your way to Karka Hive POI (Bakestone Cavern).
The event starts with [Group Event] Protect the Lionguard demolition squad.
Once the NPCs set the explosives return to camp. The new event Maneuver the ancient karka back towards its nesting grounds will start. You should hit the trees to navigate karka forward, don’t try to kill ancient karka.
The Loot at the End of the Karka Event:
- Ancient Karka Shell Box (20 slot bag)
- Ancient Karka Shell (exotic accessory)
- +25 power/prec/tough/vit +3% crit/mf +25 healing power/condition damage
- 2 random exotics
- The Lover
The Lost Shores Phase 2
The steps you need to finish if you want to participate in the Phase 2:
Here are the Phase 1 steps that you need to make sure you completed before Phase 2 starts:
Talk to Inspector Ellen Kiel in the Grand Piazza of Lion’s Arch
Examine the wreckage on the shore in Lion’s Arch west of Sanctum Harbor waypoint
Return to Kiel with the soggy bag
Talk to Consortium Subdirector Blingg at the new Consortium Gift Shop point of interest, northwest of Fort Marriner in Lion’s Arch
*Receive the map fragment. *
The subsequent steps of Phase 1 can be finished after Phase 2
Defeat Noll and his bodyguards (this is currently bugged and we’ll push a fix for that later)
Find Canach in Garenhoff
Defeat Canach (this NPC is currently on a timer)
Return to Kiel for your reward.
Other dynamic events are not required for completing Phase 1….
The Lost Shores Event
The Lost Shores Event phase 1 begins with [Group event] Deal with invading karka and collect samples for research Assistant Bardus, on Friday, November 16, 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT). The event will start as a conflict with the Karka race. During this event all players will be scaled up to level 80. Once the event starts the players will be able to fight karka and find a method to defeat them. Karka are protected by armored plates that make them impenetrable to normal attacks.
During the next few days special events will trigger three phases of the Lost Shores event which will culminate in a one-time only event chain that will run multiple hours with a finale of defeating the Ancient Karka. Players will receive a special reward at the event completion.
Young karkas can be easily defeated but Veteran Young Karkas do high damage and can also knock you down. There is also a Veteran Karka Egg Layer with dozens of karka hatchlings around.
Once you complete the [Group event] Deal with invading karka and collect samples for research Assistant Bardus talk to Ellen in the Grand Piazza. After that follow commanders to the Mystic Forge. Talk to NPC Miyani and ask her about karka creature than buy Donation Packaging.
Your next events are:
- Investigation by Inspector Ellen Kiel
- Investigation by Miyani – More information and our thanks
- Additional Karka Attacks
In-game GW2 shirt code giveaway
UPDATE: We have just been notified by NCSoft that these codes are for EUROPEAN accounts only. This means that only EU players will be able to apply them to their accounts. Since this completely changes the ruleset and makes quite a bit of applications void, we decided to stop this giveaway. We will be distributing the keys among the people that already applied and are eligible (from the EU) and we will start another giveaway shortly that will have rewards for NA players as well. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused, but we had no idea there were any region restrictions imposed on these codes.
Back in August we organized our very first Guild Wars 2 giveaway giving away 4 codes that unlock an in-game item obtainable only through fansite giveaways and during special events. We promised, back then, that we will be doing another giveaway with more codes available. It is time to make that promise come true! We are giving away 30 codes that will unlock a special in-game shirt with the Guild Wars 2 logo (as seen on the picture above). Giveaway will last for 7 days and you can enter by liking our (newly established) Guild Wars 2 Facebook page or by following our account on Twitter or (if you do not have accounts on these two social networks) leave a comment in the comment section bellow. Feel free to spread the word about this giveaway and while you are here check out our:
GW2 Fractals of the Mists Dungeon Details and Video
Fractals of the Mists is a high-end dungeon. It’s built of an array of mini-dungeons named fractals. Each fractal is built as a distinct, separate experience with themes, mechanics, and art specific to that fractal. Fractals of the Mists is a five men dungeon accessible to all players (your party can be any level), but it will be very challenging to low levels players.
You access the Fractals of the Mists in Lion’s Arch by entering a new asura gate (you can find location on the screenshots below).
Once you enter the portal you’ll be taken to the Mistlock Observatory, and faced with a set of three randomly chosen destinations. Every other round before you return to the Observatory you’ll be faced with a bonus “boss fractal”. To make Fractals of the Mist even more challenging, every time you re-visit the hub, the dungeon scales up in difficulty and becomes more rewarding.
With the Fractals of the Mists, ArenaNet will introduce the first Ascended items and Infusions.
Source: GW2 Official page
GW2 Ascended Gear
With the November update – The Lost Shores, ArenaNet will introduce the first Ascended items. This new rarity type falls between Exotic and Legendary items with slightly higher stats than Exotics. There are two ways to acquire Ascended items:
- Through the new dungeon Fractals of the Mists (Ascended Rings)
- Through special Mystic Forge recipes (Ascended items worn on the back )
The stats and functionality normally added to gear through upgrade components are actually built into Ascended items. Instead of upgrade slots, Ascended gear has Infusion slots, and rarer versions of the items also come with additional Agony Resistance built into them.
Infusion Upgrade Component
Infusions are a new type of Upgrade Component that will be introduced with Ascended Gear. They can be slotted into special Infusion slots on the gear and can be acquired in the Mystic Forge. Their purpose is to build resistance against Agony damage – a new monster condition. This condition ticks percentages of player health away and can’t be cleansed by normal means. The players will face Agony damage in the Fractals of the Mists dungeon for the first time.
There are multiple types of Infusions and Infusion slots. In November, we’ll introduce Offensive, Defensive, and Omni Infusions of Fine rarity from new Mystic Forge recipes. Infusion upgrade types must be paired with their like slot, with the exception of the rare and versatile Omni Infusions which can be slotted into any type of Infusion slot.
Source: Guild Wars 2 official page
GW2 Lost Shores content sneak peek
Massively, MMORPG, Curse and GW2 Hub posted interviews with ArenaNet developers about upcoming GW2 expansion the Lost Shores. In short terms, here’s what you can expect:
- Schedule
- Thursday, November 15, 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) – Free trial period begins, update build is released
- Friday, November 16, 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT) – One-time Lost Shores event begins
- Sunday, November 18, 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT) – Final event stage begins
- Monday, November 19, 07:00 CET (06:00 GMT) – One-time event and free trial weekend ends
Find out more about upcoming GW2 expansion the Lost Shores »