unmelting jade waves
the relentless solstice rays
can't kill the dragon

• Preparations have been made for this year's Dragon Festival.

• Fixed a bug that caused portions of the female Paragon's double-braid hairstyle to be translucent.

• Druid's Isle: corrected line-of-sight discrepancies that gave an unfair positional advantage, allowing the red Guild Lord and Bodyguard to be attacked from a close-by ledge.
• Isle of Meditation: corrected spacing discrepancies by moving the blue Bodyguard out of nearby range of the Guild Lord.

Success against Aily the Innocent lends much hope to the people of Kryta, but it comes with the realization of how much difficulty remains. With each battle, the Shining Blade and its allies face tougher foes and see the war edge ever closer to the seat of power. Princess Salma asks that everyone remain vigilant and resolute, as the worst is surely yet to come.

For more information on these changes, please see the Developer Updates page.

• Adjusted the location of the Guild Lord and some NPCs in the following guild halls:

• Druid's Isle
• Frozen Isle
• Imperial Isle
• Isle of Jade
• Isle of Meditation

Introduction:

Howdy! My name is Ben Miller, Game Designer on Guild Wars 2. While Eric and Colin have been busy writing blog posts and interviews, we’ve been working on a little system called traits. There has been some speculation and questions about traits on the forums. What are traits? How do you collect them? Does Colin Johanson secretly run a moa ranch in eastern Washington as a front for the Order of Whispers? I’m going to answer two of those three questions right now and leave the third open for future elaboration. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to complete steps of the quest A Little Help From Above out of order.