Celeste and Allona return from their foray into Arah last week to a teaser image and a wee patch. Sadly, a day early for the BIGNEWS™ from ArenaNet, but more time for us to calm down to go over that next show!  ~fans to help calm down~

Allona

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• Arah Path 3 streamed for your pleasure … or pain … depending on how bad you though we were.
  
• CoF Path 2
  
• Ran with WoD in Eternal Battlegrounds, I was useless and confused the whole time.
  
• Chef to 400 (finally!) and also Master Crafter
  
• Cleared out my bank … did a damn fine job if I do say so myself
  
• Spent a lovely, and terrifying, evening with Key and Hunter getting the master sky crystals … with a bunch of lag-based death.
  
• Got the meta for Festival, did not get the meta for the Spring tourney
  
• Bought the Ancestral outfit. Love it.
  
• Marathoned JPs for the June monthly!
  
• Watched “I know that voice†saw a ton of GW2 voice actors.
  

Celeste

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• 3 hour long Arah Path 3
  
• 7k chest, 90%MF
  
• Gift of Battle
  
• Gold Boss Blitz & Gauntlet to Tier 3 (Can’t seem to beat subject 7 atm)
  
• Keyfarming
  

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https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready/

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• July 1st
  
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  • Festival of the Four Winds continues until this date
    
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    • Allona: I am super happy that they’ve given us this info.
      
    
    
    
  
  
  

http://thepaletree.net/2014/05/29/living-world-season-2/

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• Searching to find the portal
  
• Looks like the connection will be in Toxal Bog (which is still in Brisban Wildlands like most people had speculated)
  
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  • Allona: Oooh … nice job, Dak!
    
  
  
  

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-June-03-2014/

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• Removed some lifetime PvP achievements from the Nearly Completed list so that other achievements can appear in the rotation.
  
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  • Allona: I need to be able to hide the dang diving goggles cheevo that’s sitting there taunting me.
    
  
  
  
• Liadri will now regenerate health during the first phase of the encounter.
  
• Boom-Boom Baines’s Healing Turret no longer spawns once the bronze tier of the Boss Blitz has been reached.
  
• The champions in the Boss Blitz have grown weary of fighting players for extended durations. Once the bronze tier of the Boss Blitz has been achieved, they will begin taking increased damage and deal reduced damage.
  
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  • Allona: This and the previous point are fantastic updates to these events. There really is no point to further punish players in the instances that – for whatever reason – were not able to achieve gold or silver.
    
  
  
  
• The drop rate for Chaos of Lyssa has been increased.
  
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  • Allona: I should probably head in to the gauntlet at some point …
    
  
  
  
• Rata Sum: Asura gate map marker tooltips now list their respective gate destinations.
  
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  • Allona: Super happy about this …
    
  • Celeste: FINALLY.
    
  
  
  
• The Favor of the Festival description now explains that it can be crafted by combining a Favor of the Bazaar and a Favor of the Pavilion.
  
• WvW: Due to fierce financial competition, one of the armor and weapons merchants in each staging area has declared bankruptcy and moved on. Their goods have been claimed by the remaining merchants.
  
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  • Celeste: LOL
    
  
  
  
• WvW: The player-count requirement for breakout events has been lowered from 10 to 5
  
• BLTP: The Additional Crafting License is now available in the Gem Store. This license allows players to have up to three active crafting professions on all characters on their account for the low price of 800 gems in the Upgrades category.
  
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  • Allona: This isn’t something I’m interested in, but newer players who don’t have crafting professions maxed out yet could find it very useful.
    
  
  
  
• BLTP: The Mystical Dragon Finisher is now available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 800 gems.
  
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  • Allona: The Mushu from Mulan comments on reddit made my day.
    
  
  
  
• BLTP: For the next two weeks, every Black Lion Chest will include an additional reward: Boost Enchantment Powder.
  
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  • One armor, strength, speed, or rejuvenation booster can be converted to an Enchanted Combat Booster. This booster allows the player to choose from an armor, strength, speed, or rejuvenation buff.
    
  • One experience, gathering, crafting, or magic find booster (or two karma boosters) can be converted to an Enchanted Reward Booster. This booster allows the player to choose from an experience, gathering, crafting, magic find, or karma buff.
    
  
  
  
• Black Lion Chests have been rebalanced, given a new icon, and given an entirely new UI to clarify unlocking and rewards.
  
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  • For two weeks, every chest includes an additional guaranteed Boost Enchantment Powder.
    
  • New additions to the chests include:
    
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    • Boost Enchantment Powder (x4)—Uncommon
      
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      • Celeste: I totally got like 10 of these from 3 chests.
        
      
      
      
    • Custom Arena Time Token (x5)—Rare
      
    • Royal Terrace Pass (2 weeks)—Uncommon (during the Festival of the Four Winds)
      
    
    
    
  • Scroll of Knowledge and Tome of Knowledge drops have been slightly increased.
    
  • Mystery Tonic drops have been greatly reduced.
    
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    • Allona: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY! Hopefully “greatly reduced†means zero.
      
    
    
    
  • Mini 3-pack (Set 2) drops have been replaced with Mini 3-pack (Set 3) drops.
    
  
  
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from hearing other guardians’ shouts.
  
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  • Celeste: Can we turn this off again?
    
  • Allona: Bwaahahahahahaha!
    
  
  
  
• The listing fee can no longer be avoided by listing an item at a lower price than the highest buy order. Items priced lower than an existing highest buy order will now be sold at the lower price. The player with the highest buy order will receive the item and be refunded any difference in price.
  
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  • This led to people having their listed precursors sell for super low amounts… http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/277j33/anet_finally_fixed_the_trick_in_the_tp_npc_price/
    
  
  
  
• Unlisted Change: Dead people in WvW are now greyed out instead of red on their names https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/wuv/wuv/Best-silent-update-ever/first#post4088158
  
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  • Allona: This is a change that I can see being really good.
    
  
  
  
• A bunch of profession fixes … that’s right, a BUNCH.
  

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/06/03/flameseeker-chronicles-the-strange-case-of-guild-wars-2s-rewar/

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  • An article where massively basically says the only way to make money is to run dungeons. That the only currency you really need in gold. “Gold is like air: You need it, it’s everywhere, and it only calls attention to itself when you’re not getting enough of it.â€
    
  
  

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• “It seems as though it should mean being able to pick what sort of gameplay you’d like to do, rather than being required to pursue a specific activity for the sklorbniks you want. Instead, it ends up placing the highest play value on pure efficiency, and paradoxically GW2′s most efficient farming methods tend to be the most boring. “
  

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• “Jokes about difficult content yielding “two blues and a green” may not accurately reflect the quality of rewards anymore, but even with a Rare or two thrown in it’s still just another glob of ectoplasm or handful of silver from the trading post.â€
  

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• “My greatest wish for GW2′s gem store is that ArenaNet might branch out and offer some really special things, the sort of options players can rarely earn through gameplay even in most subscription-based games: more emotes, a greater range of combat voices, wildly different character customization details, and unique animations.â€
  

https://twitter.com/debonair181/status/469889088296722433

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• You guys should do a podcast for beginners or at least a section in the podcast dedicated to that.
  
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  • Allona: This is a great — and difficult to answer briefly — question. I would love for our listeners to help crowd source this topic! Please give us a hand by posting some answers, tips and tricks to our youtube channel or the GWR web site. One quick tip I can think of off the top of my head is to use the Heart of the Mists — which is the PvP lobby (don’t panic!) — to ease Way Point costs. If you are out and about in the world and want to head back to Lion’s Arch, instead of Way Pointing directly there, which can get pricey, click on the crossed swords in the very top, left menu. If it’s the first time you’ve been there you will be put through a brief tutorial, but every time afterwards you can run straight through the portal to LA.
    
  • Celeste: I’d love to! but I totally forgot about this…. What we can do is add into AaA every week with a really great tip for beginners. Mine this week would have to be to buy 12 slot bags on the trading post. They’re considerably cheaper than the 15, 18, or 20. Getting every slot filled with those rather than the larger ones might be the best way to make sure you’re not spending too much money on just getting yourself kitted out.
    
  • #GW2Tips
    
  
  
  

https://twitter.com/Lykk_/status/473875211285463041

Full stop motion vid by Counter 656, showcasing an MK2 Gundam, Alphonse Elric of Fullmetal Alchemist and Saber from Fate/stay Night (a Japanese eroge visual novel game) vs RYTLOCK BRIMSTONE!

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• 10 days of production and around 1500 pictures
  
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  • Allona: Did Rytlock use flame legion magic?!
    
  • Celeste: THATS WHAT I WAS JUST GONNA SAY!! :o This is probably the only time you will ever see Rytlock smile in a creepy way. To be continued?!
    
  
  
  

http://croiv.tumblr.com/post/87739410874/tell-a-joke

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• It hurt.
  
• A lot.
  

http://koboldart.tumblr.com/post/87816036270/daily-sketch-panda-hug-since-it-is-the-festival

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• Celeste: WHY ARE THERE NO PANDA PETS IN GW2!?!?!
  
• Allona: That Asura feels six feet tall
  

http://citriplays.tumblr.com/post/87791453753

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• Celeste: YES FOR THE SHOW.
  

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