Game Update Notes: November 9, 2021

11/09/2021—November 9 Release Notes

World Polish

  • Events during Dragonstorm have been updated to not award participation to inactive players.
  • Increased the minimum participation required to receive the end rewards from Dragonstorm.
  • Reduced the health scaling of nonchampion enemies per player above 1 in Dragon Response Missions.
  • In Forging Steel, throwing metal scraps to the tank when it is near full health will now give it a temporary speed boost.
  • In Forging Steel, the defiance bar strength per player of the Ancient Forgeman has been slightly reduced.

General

  •  When equipped, the visual effects of the legendary trinkets Transcendence, Vision, and Aurora can now be toggled via a checkbox in the Equipment tab of the Hero panel.

Items

  • Fixed an issue with the physics and lighting on The Crossing staff.

World vs. World

  • Addressed an exploit that allowed siege weapons to be placed within the red-team spawn location in Eternal Battlegrounds.
  • Addressed an exploit that allowed siege weapons to be placed within the home world spawn in Alpine Borderlands.
  • Increased the number of pips earned for match placement from 3/4/5 to 4/5/6.
  • Added a new pip bonus for new players of WvW rank 1–149.
  • Increased the number of pips given per WvW rank by 1.
  • Removed the Outnumbered pip bonus effect.
  • Removed the WvW participation grace time granted from repairing.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue in which players who had already looted each of the chests in the Darkrime Delves story mission could not complete the new Treasure Hunter: Darkrime Delves achievement. The hidden chests in Darkrime Delves have been reset for all players. This will not affect existing progress in related achievements.
  • Fixed a client crash.
  • Fixed a bug that caused health scaling and related effects to be removed from enemy champions after their first defeat in Dragonstorm.