If you missed our 24-hour Extra Life livestream, we’re airing some highlights on the next episode of Guild Chat! Watch the ArenaNet devs do wacky stuff to reach donation milestones, answer game development questions, tease two new PvP maps, show off cool concept art, and talk about what Extra Life means to them.

Guild Chat will air on Friday, November 9 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-8).

We’ve partnered up with players to showcase their creative Guild Wars 2-inspired content on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel. Read on for this week’s scheduled programming!

The Guild Wars 2 Art Show (by Marius Bota)(English)
Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8)
Marius Bota is back with a brand new piece of artwork. You can also find all the previously created artworks on the Guild Wars 2 Art Show Flickr Album.

Guildnews Podcast (by Sputti) (German)
Watch live at Guildnews.
10:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-8)
The week in review with the Guildnews crew.

ArenaNet Livestream: Let’s Play Guild Wars 2 World vs World (English)
2:30 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-8)
Join the World vs. World development team in the Mists for their weekly stream.

ArenaNet Livestream: Let’s Play PvP with Jebro (English)
Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8)
Explore everything new in PvP with members of the Guild Wars 2 development team—and special guest Jebro.

The Amateur Raiding Party (by MightyTeapot) (English)
Watch live at MightyTeapot.
9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-8)
Day one of a new, two-day raiding tournament organized by MightyTeapot!

The Amateur Raiding Party (by MightyTeapot) (English)
Watch live at MightyTeapot.
9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-8)
Day two! Don’t miss the grand finale of MightyTeapot’s raiding tournament.

If you need help converting times into your own time zone, you can use this tool. Thanks for watching!

Starting on November 26, pair up for a week of extra tournaments in structured Player vs. Player! We’re giving away 4,200 gems per region, for a total of 8,400—each player on a winning 2v2 team will receive 1000 gems for first place, 700 gems for second place, and 400 gems for third and fourth place.

Date and Time: November 26 to December 1

Details:

• Daily 2v2 tournaments, four times per day (offset from regular 5v5 tournaments).
• Saturday, December 1st—Main event! Final 2v2 tournament.

Rewards:

• Take advantage of extra opportunities to grab tournament rewards.
• First through fourth-place winners in the final tournament will receive gems.
• Win the final tournament, and you and your BFF can earn the “Duo of Destiny” title. It’s better than friendship bracelets!

We’ve partnered up with players to showcase their creative Guild Wars 2-inspired content on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel. Read on for this week’s scheduled programming!

The Guild Wars 2 Art Show (by Marius Bota)(English)
Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8)
REBROADCAST: Marius Bota brings the unique spark of ley line energy to life. You can also find all the previously created artworks on the Guild Wars 2 Art Show Flickr Album.

Guildnews Podcast (by Sputti) (German)
Watch live at Guildnews.
10:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-8)
The week in review with the Guildnews crew.

ArenaNet Livestream: Let’s Play Guild Wars 2 World vs World (English)
2:30 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-8)
Join the World vs. World development team in the Mists for their weekly stream.

The Annual 2018 Charity Stream (by GuildMag) (English)
Watch live at GuildMag.
6:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-8)
GuildMag is supporting World Child Cancer in their 2018 charity stream.

If you need help converting times into your own time zone, you can use this tool. Thanks for watching!

PvP League Season 14 begins on November 13! Leaderboard titles are back, and duo-queue remains an option for all ranks. The season will end on January 7, 2019.

Runes and sigils are becoming salvageable. That’s right, no more minor runes and sigils clogging up your bag space!

When runes and sigils are salvaged, they’ll yield a new material called a lucent mote. You’ll also have a chance to salvage rarer materials: symbols from sigils, and charms from runes. Lucent motes can be refined by all crafting disciplines and—along with symbols and charms—used in recipes to create sigils and runes.

The chance to extract runes and sigils from a salvaged item using a salvaging kit will change to a chance to salvage runes and sigils. You’ll still be able to obtain runes and sigils directly through new Mystic Forge recipes that make use of the salvaged materials.

Black Lion Salvage Kits will retain their current functionality with a 100% chance to extract upgrades from salvaging gear. Additionally, the price of Upgrade Extractors will be adjusted from one for 250 gems to three for 250 gems, ten for 700 gems, and twenty-five for 1500 gems.

Many recipes now use the new rune and sigil salvage materials rather than their previous basic crafting materials. We’re also adding several recipes for runes that could previously only be obtained by salvaging them from gear. Numerous recipes will be available from crafting trainers, but you can discover others as rare drops or rewards throughout Tyria.

Runes and sigils can be strong augmentations to builds, but some have been less useful. With this update, the majority of runes and sigils in Tyria have changed in some fashion—some subtly, some dramatically—with the goal of creating more meaningful choices from a bunch of interesting options.

We’ve aimed to remove randomness in general so you can better evaluate and depend on an item’s benefits. Dubious advantages like gaining aegis when you’re struck can actually encourage you to get hit. This feels odd, and is even worse when getting hit isn’t guaranteed to give you that benefit. So, we’re getting rid of the vast majority of “when struck” upgrades and all of their unpredictability.

Below you’ll find a few examples of runes and sigils that are getting tuned up, tuned down, shifted laterally, or reworked entirely to offer you greater variety and choice.

Rune of Dwayna will hone in on solidifying its support role while also providing a nice boost to your own survivability. As described earlier, the chance to gain regeneration when you’re struck is disappearing.
Old:
(1): +25 Healing
(2): +10% Regeneration Duration
(3): +50 Healing
(4): 25% chance to gain regeneration for 10 seconds when struck. (Cooldown: 45 Seconds)
(5): +100 Healing
(6): +20% Regeneration Duration; after you use a healing skill, you and nearby allies gain regeneration for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 10 Seconds)

New:
(1): +25 Healing
(2): +10% Regeneration Duration
(3): +50 Healing
(4): +20% Regeneration Duration
(5): +100 Healing
(6): +10% Maximum Health; regeneration you apply is 20% more effective.

The new Rune of the Ogre now summons a stalwart rock-dog ally upon entering combat instead of granting you a chance to summon one when struck. If you’re still in combat when the cooldown is over, your rock dog will be automatically resummoned.

Old:
(1): +25 Power
(2): +35 Ferocity
(3): +50 Power
(4): 25% chance to summon a rock dog when struck. (Cooldown: 90 Seconds)
(5): +100 Power
(6): +4% Damage

New:
(1): +25 Power
(2): +35 Ferocity
(3): +50 Power
(4): +65 Ferocity
(5): +100 Power
(6): +4% Damage; summon a rock dog while in combat. (Cooldown: 60 Seconds)

The new scholar rune parts with half of its damage modifier while you’re healthy, but gains a significant dose of ferocity, giving you a more reliable damage increase at the cost of highly conditional damage.

Old:
(1): +25 Power
(2): +35 Ferocity
(3): +50 Power
(4): +65 Ferocity
(5): +100 Power
(6): Increase damage by 10% when health is above 90%.

New:
(1): +25 Power
(2): +35 Ferocity
(3): +50 Power
(4): +65 Ferocity
(5): +100 Power
(6): +125 Ferocity; increase damage by 5% while your health is above 90%.

The new Sigil of Vision takes the core concept of the Sigil of Intelligence and pushes it a little further. Three critical strikes can be meaningful, but they’re often consumed immediately. By switching to a duration of time, more impactful choices can be made about whether to invest in your precision and critical strike chances or to rely on windows of opportunity.

Old (Sigil of Intelligence): The next three attacks have a 100% chance to critically strike after swapping to this weapon in combat. (Cooldown: 9 Seconds)
New (Sigil of Vision): Critically strike an enemy for 3 seconds after swapping to this weapon in combat. (Cooldown: 9 Seconds)

Celerity will change from granting you quickness at a potentially awkward and unpredictable time to granting quickness when you decide to disable a foe, creating a chance to capitalize on the enhancement.

Old: Gain 1 charge after killing a foe, and gain 5 charges after killing an enemy player. At 25 charges, gain quickness for 5 seconds. (All stacks are lost when in a downed state.)
New: Gain quickness for 5 seconds after disabling a foe. (Cooldown: 20 Seconds)

Concentration has been impacting boon-granting professions for some time. While it has enabled a few very strong builds, it also makes the Sigil of Concentration mandatory in high-end PvE content, without any way to replace it. So, we’re adding a couple of utility options that will help with this while tuning the sigil to a reasonable level.

Old: Applying a boon increases its duration by 33% for 7 seconds after swapping to this weapon in combat. (Cooldown: 9 Seconds)
New: +10% Boon Duration

We’ve been working on this project for a long time, and we are looking forward to sharing it with you.
—The Guild Wars 2 Systems Team

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<p>Starting tomorrow, Team ArenaNet is streaming for 24 hours to raise funds for <a target="_blank" href="https://childrensmir...rg/">Children’sMiracle Network</a>! Join us on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/">the official <em>Guild&nbsp;Wars&nbsp;2</em> Twitch channel</a>&mdash;and in Tyria&mdash;for a marathon gaming extravaganza from noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on November 2 to noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on November 3. </p>
<p>With the support of our community, we were able to raise a total of ,555 during last year’s Extra Life event. We <a href="https://www.guildwar...18/">previouslyannounced</a> this year’s plan to match community donations dollar for dollar up to that amount, but we’re raising the stakes: now we’ll match community donations up to a total of ,000 USD! With your help, we can reach our goal and donate a total of ,000 to Children’s Miracle Network.</p>
<h3>How You Can Help</h3>
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.extra-li...864">Donate</a>to Extra Life! </li>
<li>Join <a target="_blank" href="http://extra-life.or.../arenanet">TeamArenaNet</a> as an individual, or form a sub team and become part of our Super Team. Play any games you want to help support kids.</li>
<li>Follow our <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/...2">Twitter</a>,<a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2/">Facebook</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/arenanet/">Instagram</a> channels and help us spread the word!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fun and Games</h3>
<p>Every player who logs in to <em>Guild&nbsp;Wars&nbsp;2</em> during the 24-hour livestream event will receive a special title, “The Extra Life.” And from November 2 through November 4, be sure to pick up a free Revive Orb from the Gem Store&mdash;just in case you could use an extra life of your own.</p>
<p>If we reach our ,000 USD goal by the time the event ends, every player who logs in during the 24-hour stream will receive 50k karma, and we’ll kick off a special seven-day boon that rewards players with bonuses to experience points, magic find, WvW reward track progress, and PvP reward track progress. If we blast past that and hit ,000 USD, we’ll also send every player who logs in during the livestream an Endless Interface Crafter Golem Tonic.</p>
<h3>Surprises and Prizes</h3>
<p>Hang out with us on Twitch to watch our team play&mdash;and to see what hijinks they get up to in their quest for support. We’ll have plenty of chat giveaways to make donation milestones special, like merchandise from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forfansb...wars2.html">ForFans By Fans</a>; game codes for <em>Guild&nbsp;Wars&nbsp;2:&nbsp;Heart&nbsp;of&nbsp;Thorns&trade;</em> and <em>Guild&nbsp;Wars&nbsp;2:&nbsp;Path&nbsp;of&nbsp;Fire&trade;</em>; a <em>Guild&nbsp;Wars&nbsp;2:&nbsp;Path&nbsp;of&nbsp;Fire</em> poster signed by some of our amazing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDCvogxNKN3ktKKrr-WOrd8a9dVT0q17f">voice actors</a>, and <em>Guild&nbsp;Wars&nbsp;2</em> memorabilia signed by ArenaNet staff. One lucky adventurer could even receive a legendary kitchen appliance rumored to have left Tyria along with the human gods! </p>
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<h3>Team ArenaNet Extra Life Schedule</h3>
<h4>Friday, November 2</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7)</strong> – Guild Chat kickoff with Rubi Bayer and Clayton Kisko</li>
<li><strong>1:00 p.m.</strong>&mdash;<em>Guild&nbsp;Wars&nbsp;2</em> gameplay with Bobby Stein, and Clayton Kisko</li>
<li><strong>3:00 p.m.</strong>&mdash;Fractals with Ben Phongluangtham, McKenna Berdrow, and Shiloh Roberts</li>
<li><strong>4:00 p.m.</strong>&mdash;Beginner raiding with Nellie Hughes, Chun-Hong Fung, Paul Schwarzwalder, Chelsea Mills, Mackenzie Edlund, Tracey West, Irenio Calmon-Huang, Patrick Munns, and Kyle Mistlin-Rude</li>
<li><strong>5:30 p.m.</strong>&mdash;Dungeons with Nellie Hughes, Kyle Mistlin-Rude, Mackenzie Edlund, Katelyn Malmsten, and Tim Callaway</li>
<li><strong>7:00 p.m.</strong>&mdash;New character speed run with Da-Hee Im, Katelyn Isaacson, Grady Benson, Khan Sweetman, and James Fulop</li>
<li><strong>9:00 p.m.</strong>&mdash;Story and PvP with Hugh Norfolk, Cal Cohen, and Raymond Lukes</li>
<li><strong>11:00 p.m.</strong>&mdash;Open world map meta events with Hann Hopp</li>
</ul>
<h4>Saturday, November 3</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>1:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7)</strong>&mdash;Jumping puzzles with Hann Hopp and Raymond Lukes</li>
<li><strong>3:00 a.m.</strong>&mdash;Original <em>Guild&nbsp;Wars&reg;</em> hard mode exploration with Hann Hopp</li>
<li><strong>6:00 a.m.</strong>&mdash;<em>Guild&nbsp;Wars&nbsp;2</em> Living World with Stephane Lo Presti</li>
<li><strong>8:00 a.m.</strong>&mdash;Original <em>Guild&nbsp;Wars</em> new character gameplay with Nellie Hughes and Melina Norfolk</li>
<li><strong>10:00 a.m.</strong>&mdash;Interview feature with Rubi Bayer and Extra Life</li>
<li><strong>11:00 a.m.</strong>&mdash;Home stretch! <em>Guild&nbsp;Wars&nbsp;2:&nbsp;Path&nbsp;of&nbsp;Fire</em> open world with Rubi Bayer</li>
</ul>
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