May 24th Update has arrived

Update - Thursday May 24

Automated Tournaments
Players can now speak with Tolkano [Tournament] to spend their Tournament Reward Points on various armor and weapon skins.
The Automated Tournament clock now changes appearance when it is time to join the current round.

Item Updates


Armor Insignias and Bonuses
Players can now obtain armor insignias from all campaigns. Profession-restricted insignias will only drop in campaigns in which characters of that profession can be created.
Crafted armor in Prophecies and Factions now supports insignias. The insignia bonuses are meant to replace the previous inherent armor bonuses and require several additional changes:
From this point onward, armor pieces newly crafted in these campaigns will not have inherent bonuses. The crafting costs of these armor pieces have been reduced accordingly.
All existing level 20 armor from these campaigns now have insignias in place of their inherent bonuses. Please note that the bonuses on these armor sets have not been altered. The only change is that these bonuses now come from insignias.
All existing lower-level armor pieces from these campaigns now support insignias but have had their inherent bonuses removed.
Numerous armor sets have been renamed to avoid redundancy with insignia names.
Lower-level collector armor pieces from Prophecies and Factions now support insignias. Level 20 collector armor does not.

Ascended Armor Changes and Additions
The following changes were made to Ascended armor sets:
The armor sets crafted in Droknar's Forge have been divided between the two armorers in a more organized fashion.
Several Ascended armor sets have been renamed to avoid naming conflicts with the corresponding level 20 armor sets.
A new "Labyrinthine" tattoo set has been added for Monks at Marhan's Grotto.
In Prophecies, Mesmer, Monk, Necromancer, Ranger, and Warrior headgear may now be crafted with a variety of attribute bonus options.
Existing Lieutenant's Helms crafted in Prophecies now have a +1 Tactics bonus in addition to a Lieutenant's Insignia.

Miscellaneous Item Changes
The Icy Dragon Sword is now considered a rare item. This change also means that it is now exempt from loot scaling.
To help prevent trade scams, "The Heart of Ice" Prophecies quest item no longer shares icon art with sapphires.


Elite Mission Updates


Urgoz's Warren
Defeating Urgoz now spawns a chest that each player will be able to interact with individually. This chest will grant each player either one inscribable rare item or one of Urgoz's unique items, as well as two chunks of amber.
Players who open this chest while in Hard Mode will receive two item drops and four chunks of amber.
Urgoz no longer drops his unique items himself.

The Deep
Defeating Kanaxai now spawns a chest that each player will be able to interact with individually. This chest will grant each player either one inscribable rare item or one of Kanaxai's unique items, as well as two chunks of jadeite.
Players who open this chest while in Hard Mode will receive two item drops and four chunks of jadeite.
Kanaxai no longer drops his unique items himself.

The Underworld and Fissure of Woe
Passage scrolls now have a chance of dropping from monsters slain in the Underworld and the Fissure of Woe so that players have a chance to earn free passage back to these areas.

Help Panel

Players can now access a Help panel by pressing F10 on their keyboard or by typing /help. This new panel contains links to the official Guild Wars Wiki, where players can both obtain and contribute information about their current quests, skills, locations, and guilds.
The /help emote has changed to /helpme. /help is now used to open the Help panel.
Typing /wiki into the Chat panel opens the front page of the wiki, while typing /wiki followed by a word or phrase searches the entire wiki for that content. (Please note that there is only an English language wiki available at this time.)

Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that caused some items to appear temporarily as white boxes in the Inventory panel.
Fixed a bug in Old Ascalon that prevented some players from vanquishing the map while in Hard Mode.
Fixed a line-of-sight bug that allowed a variety of exploits in the Dark Chambers Hall of Heroes map.

Miscellaneous
Made preparations for the GvG Double Reward Weekend event.
Bow descriptions have been updated to include bow type.
The Observer mode game list now remembers which categories have been collapsed. The automatic selection feature now only chooses from expanded categories.

Version that wont make your eyes bleed here...

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A new "Labyrinthine" tattoo set has been added for Monks at Marhan's Grotto.

*runs to buy*

I love you anet, My FoW isnt crap now :P

Nice job Anet!

Perhaps this is a sign that weapons from prophecies may be inscribable in the future, unless that task is too massive? Anyway, thanks for the armour update.

Totally did not see the help thing coming.

pretty cool that old armor sets are now inscribable. That'll help.

Was kinda hoping there'd be something about mesmers, soul reaping, loot scaling, addressing anti-farmin HM, but hopefully these aren't too much more down the line

New tatoo?! >:O Pics please?

sweeeett well worth the wait for an update...Good Job Anet...

IDS's are green now, or gold? Can they still be modded? Never understood why the Ice Breaker Hammer was uniqe but the IDS wasn't anyway. A fair update anyway.

KANE

so i don't get the urgoz/deep thing. do you get to choose the item or does it randomly drop for you?

woooo *run to farm UW for scrolls*

Just saw the new monk armor, but she left before I could take screens.

Needless to say, it looks awesome.

I love the new monk armor. Someone bought it and tried to show off, but as usual, everybody crowded and they left.

There was also a stealth nerf to Urgoz's Warren Spirit Ranger Suicide Run. No experience or drops anymore.

This is a wicked update.Good job Anet!

I wonder what weapons can be obtained via Tolkano. Anybody able to shine a light?

I'm a PvE carebear so I can't even see.

PvP Reward system is a MAJOR FAILURE.

American and Korean PvP is dead. I guest they want Eu PvP to die also.

With SC2 announcment - I guess they want Blizzard to make more money :/

Major failure.

I dont believe it, we did Urgoz HM today for 4hrs and we only get the 3 bows and 1 hr after we complete this run this update comes along, i am sad :'( this aint fair.......

Its like the gemstone chests in DoA,each person gets assigned 1 or 2 weapons depending on wether you're in HM or HM.

Holy WOW This looks pretty cool. Post pics of new monk armor, please.

Now I can wear the look of 1.5k Ascalon armor without crap mods.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Monk_armor

By the way, what armor and weapon skins are unlockable?

Not mine.

^ Whoa. Not a big fan of the top and skirt. Some will dig it, though.

I wondered when they'd get around to renaming the Vabbian ele headgear. Admittedly, having a "__mancer ___mancer __ Eye of ___" was kind of amusing...

Unfortunately, I forsee Radiant insignia shooting up in price. Again...

Build template sending has been bugged with this update. It doesn't give you a clickable-link anymore.

Nerfed the Urgoz Ranger run, what a bunch of........... just when ur having fun they throw the hammer down again. Weeeeeee.

KANE

GG reward points a f$&^^% joke ,wasted . If u delete ur pvp char bye bye pve armour on ur pvp char , what lame method. Or is it a bug???

just had a look over the other updates all looks damn sweet to me^^
but i have one question about fow armor, so u can only buy the insignia fow armor now?
tane

it sucks that you have to pay again for skins you already unlocked, WHO THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE GOOD?

damn seriously anet.... seriously

What harm did the Urgoz farming do? Was a nice simple way for the little guy to make some money, not like loads of really high quality stuff dropped there. Not happy

And now anyone after energy armour is gonna have prices prob go up and extra 10-15k soon as radiant prices soar

Or the fact you have to upgrade the weapon/armor individually. So, switch a weapon slot? GG, it'll look different. Isn't the same for armor, but you have to upgrade them FIFTY times, then FIFTY times AGAIN to get the best gear.

Now all FoW armour (old included) is Insignified (real word, honest).

My friend whose mesmer has the +15 (while activating skills) boots will be pleased because that was fixed to be non-global. All the warriors who bought FoW early on will be pleased too.

I havent logged on yet. But i have a question. My glads armour had the bonus or radiant insignias, but now will it show that it has the radiants on it, or will i have to buy the insignias?

I'm wondering the same thing as mesmer, but also this:

my warrior has a tactics helm with an axe rune. would it now be +1 axe plus the axe rune?

Yes. Each armour piece will now be Radiant and you can even salvage the insignia.

with the update when I try to display my skills it isnt a clickable link it just says "My equipped skills are [Natzviar Beritzsha's skills and it shows the code]" but you cant read and see the skills

Too bad I deleted my warrior's Dragon's Armor, the best armor imo.

What PvP skins can you unlock?