Specialization Calculator

As you might have seen in WP's elementalist video a few days ago I've been working on a trait builder that mimics the upcoming in game version of it. To keep things short:

• All traits have been written down by /u/dulfy and are based on last week's ready up stream
• The elementalist tooltips have extra flavor thanks to /u/WoodenPotatoes helping out
• Revenant traits are based on what we know of from the stress test
• You can share builds by copying the URL and changing your traits will automatically update the link
• More flavor will be added to the tooltips the coming week(s)

If you have any suggestions, complaints or other messages just leave them below!

Link

• Guild Wars 2 Specialization Calculator

Update

• URLs no longer fill your browser history on HTML5 capable browsers
• URLs are now human readable (old links will work for a while but will be removed in the future)
• Fixed a bug with wilderness survival not fitting inside the box

Upcoming features from the April 28 update

These are the new items from the April 28th update

Fortunes Vale, the map that went missing

This one is long overdue, but with the second anniversary of this mysterious map showing up in the DAT only to disappear just a few weeks later it would be a great moment to talk about it. You can find information about events, a higher resolution map and 10 minutes of audio on my site. I'll try to update the wiki page later, but to give you a tldr:

• Fortunes Vale appeared to be set up for 3 competing teams. Each team escorted a single NPC through its story:
  • Lionguard Tirzah, a human female on a scouting mission
  • Horvath the Horrible, a norn male looking for glory
  • Skymaster Loew, a male Asura, doing science stuff
• On the map you would find several biomes, each with unique events and enemies. Including:
  • Skritt
  • Tree Bandits
  • Ogres
  • Karka
  • Dredge
  • "Crazed"
  • Elementals

The data

• All events, images and audio files
• Fortunes Vale
• Lobby
• Audio Playlist (9:43)

Upcoming features from the Stronghold Beta

Stuff, enjoy.

Rata Sum is migrating

I was working on my Historical Guide and suddenly figured out why Rata Sum got an updated version in the beta / stress test patch. They moved the entire map about 10% to the South.

• Side by side, old vs new
• Old and new map blended together

Updated Verdant Brink map with Waypoints and POI's

 I've just updated the Verdant Brink map showing all waypoints and points of interest with the version found on the API.

SAB related content

Now that April fool's is over I feel like I can post this model (found in the beta patch) without getting your hopes up for SAB returning on this specific day.

To keep this post short and to the point: as mentioned many times before by Anet SAB will return one day and it looks like they're working on new stuff as well.

• Gaint bug creature side
• Giant bug creature side 2
• Gaint bug creature bottom