Two candidates, war hero Ellen Kiel and Black Lion trader Evon Gnashblade, are trying to secure a trade agreement with the Zephyr Sanctum – but neither of them can seal the deal without your support! The new Cutthroat Politics release has arrived, bringing with it new activities, challenges, and exclusive rewards!
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GW2 Southsun Survival
GW2 Southsun Survival is a mini game introduced with the latest GW2 game update Cutthroat Politics. If you watched the movie or read the book “The Hunger Games”, you will like this mini game as well. Up to 20 players will be dropped into Southsun Cove with only a bow with which to survive. Scavenge for supplies and kill other Survivors to become the last one standing and secure your victory.
How, Where to start?
Talk with Evon Gnashblade inside the Labyrinthine Cliffs area, in order to start this mini game.
General information about Southsun Survival Event
When the event starts you will find limited resources around big bone fire, in Southsun Cove, like arrow, rations, camouflage kit, throwing dagger, alarm trap and more. After 3-5 seconds, you can run and try to collect these rations and face many enemies in close combat, or just run away and try to find rations on other places.
Goal of Southsun Survival is to survive 15 minutes. This is rather difficult due to couple of aggravating circumstances. Your 1 000 health pool for example is depleting constantly, this makes hiding at one spot almost impossible since you should look for rations that can be used for your healing skill. Every resource you use, depletes one of the same resource. You can see their numbers above the skills, to the right from large circle health bubble. Resources are at the open, or hidden inside rations fruit bushes, or supply camps. The creatures of Southsun Cove slowly move in from the beaches, be sure to check the status of a camp before you enter or you may find a deadly serving of karka.
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GW2 Aspect Arena Guide
Once you speak to Ellen Kiel and start Aspect Arena event, jump down and run through Aspect gates to select a Sun, Wind or Lighting skill set. Each Aspect grants you different skills to maneuver and fight. Your aim is to collect Crystals and return them to charge your conduits. Each round lasts 5 minutes, once time’s up, the team with the highest score wins.
Entrance to Aspect Arena
Talk to Captain Ellen Kiel to participate in arena.
Aspect Arena Tips
- After collecting a Crystal, don’t forget to use new skills to increase movement speed.
- Arena is full of secret passages, which can be used for running away or getting the Crystals faster.
- Move carefully, there are many opportunities to get knocked off the area and die.
- You can reequip your skills at your base during the game
GW2 Candidate Trials Challenge
GW2 Candidate Trials Challenge is a special game or event that according to GW2 Developre Steven Waller is an unique challenge, where you provide support to Ellen. During this event you should prevent Aetherblade Pirates from taking a treasure pile from crushed Aetherblade Ship. This is survive challenge, where you need to survive multiple waves of Aetherblade Pirates and prevent special Aetherblade Plunderers with bag icons over their heads, to take over all golds, from treasure piles. Entrance to Candidate Trials Challenge is inside Labyrinthine Cliffs area.
Entrance to Candidate Trail Challenge
Candidate Trials General Information
There are four difficulty levels / tiers of Candidate Trials Challenge. In order to progress further to tier 2, 3 and 4, you need to finish previous challenges. You can repeat the difficulty level you like, as many times as you like. You can solo the Challenge tier one, while you would like to group up with other players for tier three. Steven Waller made a statement that some skilled players can solo the third level. You can fail on this event, if you die, or if Aetherblade Plunderers menage to steal all the treasure.
When you start the event inside Candidate Trials instance, you should be focusing on three tasks. The following tasks can be found under your event information:
- Treasure remaining: 5 000 at tier one (do not let Aetherblade Plunderers to steal all Treasure);
- Time remaining: 5 minutes at tier one(survive during this time, until completing task one);
- Aetherblade Pirates killed: X ( information, bragging note )
Candidate Trials Tips
- When the challenge begins defeat Aetherblade Plunderer first, since they are dedicated gold thieves. There are also Aetherblade Tuskmaster (Confusion, Blind), Aetherblade Swashbuckler (Bleeds), and Aetherblade Thumper (Protective Shield).
- Various weapons have been provided to help players defend the treasure piles in the crash site.
- When attempting Tier IV, consider bringing a highly skilled, coordinated party that works well together in order to deal with all the pirates throw at you!
- In order to complete Gnashbalde: Direct Support, you must complete both Tier I and II in Gnashblade’s Candidate Trials. To complete Kiel: Direct Support, you must complete both Tier I and II in Kiel’s Candidate Trials.
Rewards
Various rewards can be won depending on the completed level difficulty, from regular rewards for a successful event like karma, money, experience points, to support tokens, aetherblade weapons, achievement and more.
GW2 Support Your Candidate
Support Your Candidate event starts on July 23rd. Two candidates Evon Gnashblade and Ellen Kiel are trying to work out a trade agreement with the Zephyr Sanctum in order to help them secure a spot on the Captain’s Council of Lion’s Arch. Use Support Tokens to help out your candidate of choice.
After receiving introduction mail don’t forget to collect Support Tokens from the mail. Support Tokens can be acquired from slain mobs; in dungeons; by participating in Candidate Trials, Southsun Survival and Aspect Arena; and in World vs. World. They can also be purchased from the vendor Shady Quill:
- 1 Support token 14 silver
- 10 Support tokens 1 gold
When you get the tokens put them in your candidate’s Support basket (in the center of Zephyr Sanctum) and you’ll get a Representation Buttons which are consumable. When you activate the button (double click), a floating token will appear over your left shoulder, and while you are doing the content, you will get a credit for that particular candidate. Support baskets for Gnashblade and Kiel have been set up near the Zephyrites’ water supply on the Zephyr Sanctum in the Labyrinthine Cliffs. The Zephyrites will stop accepting Support Tokens on August 5 at 11AM PST in order to start counting them up. Be sure to turn in your Tokens before then
GW2 Developer Preview: Cutthroat Politics
Matthew Pennebaker and Steven Waller take some time to preview the upcoming Cutthroat Politics content in Guild Wars 2.
Watch live video from guildwars2 on TwitchTV
GW2 Mini Ellen Kiel and Mini Evon Gnashblade
From July 23 to August 5 use your Support Tokens and coins to help out your candidate of choice and complete the Gnashblade Supporter and Kiel Supporter meta achievements to unlock a miniature Evon Gnashblade and Ellen Kiel. Support Tokens can be earned by entering into the Candidate Trials alone or with a group. Test your battle skills by facing off against waves of Aetherblade pirates and earn exclusive rewards during the next two weeks and new GW2 game update Cutthroat Politics.
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- Mini Ellen Kiel miniature
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- Mini Evon Gnashblade miniature
GW2 Cutthroat Politics
Beginning July 23 you’ll experience two weeks of new events, activities, features and rewards in new GW2 Cutthroat Politics game update.
Aetherized Weapon Skins
Patch Notes
GW2 Patch Notes July 23rd Cutthroat Politics
New Events
Support Your Candidate – July 23 to August 5
Use Support Tokens and coins to help out your candidate of choice!
New Activity – Southsun Survival – Begins July 23
Armed with only a bow and whatever supplies you can find, you’ll face off against other players
New PvP Activity – Aspect Arena – Begins July 23
Pick one of the Aspects of Sun, Wind, or Lightning, and face off in teams to collect crystals. Each Aspect will grant you different skills with which to maneuver and fight.
Candidate Trials Challenge – Begins July 23
Enter into the Candidate Trials alone or with a group and test your battle skills by facing off against waves of Aetherblade pirates.
New Rewards
Exclusive New Back Items
Two new exclusive back items, the Desert Rose and Zephyr Rucksack, are available as rare drops from the Southsun Survival and Aspect Arena activities respectively. Thanks gw2hub for the screenshots
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- Desert Rose
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- Zephyr Rucksack
Mini Ellen Kiel and Mini Evon Gnashblade
Complete the Gnashblade Supporter and Kiel Supporter meta achievements to unlock a miniature Evon Gnashblade and Ellen Kiel of your very own!
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- Mini Ellen Kiel miniature
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- Mini Evon Gnashblade miniature
New World vs. World Ability Line – Catapult Mastery
This month’s World vs. World ability line addition is Catapult Mastery! Invest points in Catapult Mastery to increase damage done to walls, extra damage against other siege, increase your attack radius, and unlock a new, powerful skill.
GW2 Patch Notes July 9th Bazaar of the Four Winds
The Bazaar of the Four Winds is gathering; merchants are converging from all corners of Tyria to sell their wares. It’s not just shady characters and risky trades—the mystical, flying Zephyr Sanctum has landed, bringing passengers and their magical quartz crystals and amazing movement skills to savvy traders and daring adventurers alike! What a joy it will be to experience the thrill of the trade—and the race.
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GW2 New Account Achievement Rewards
According to Matt Wuerffel, one of the game designers at ArenaNet, Guild Wars 2 team has prepared several changes to the achievements system.
New Rewards
In the upcoming release, a reward structure will be added to achievement points. As you complete achievements and increase your achievement score, you’ll unlock new, exclusive rewards for your account. Don’t worry – the system is retroactive! Every point that you’ve earned while adventuring across Tyria will count towards exciting rewards, including:
- Exclusive armor and weapon skin unlocks – including Radiant armor, Hellfire armor, and the Zenith weapon set.
- Permanent account bonuses—permanent boosts to Magic Find, experience from kills, karma gain, and more. Earn achievement points on any character and get rewards for all of your characters.
- Currencies – gold, gems, karma, and laurels.
- PvP Rewards—skins and glory boosters.
- WvW Rewards—use Badges of Honor and siege blueprints to help push your server to victory.
- Utility Items—Instant Repair Canisters, Revive Orbs, powerful boosters, and more.
- Unique Titles—show off your dedication to your fellow players.
New User Interface
In addition to the new reward structure, we’ve revamped the achievements panel UI to make it easier than ever to dig into the achievements system. There are some big changes:
- Summary page—This page gives you quick access to all of the achievement skins you’ve unlocked, achievements you’ve recently completed, and your account bonuses.
- Details page—Use this page to drill down into individual achievements to find detailed objectives, point breakdowns, and other useful information like suggested locations and potential rewards.
- Watch list—Track up to 20 specific achievements in the Watch List panel and display the top six in the HUD.
- Category grouping—Achievement categories are now organized into groups to allow faster navigation and easier access to the information you want.