April Fools

fake beta keys linking to a rick roll youtube video in your emails

This is Guild Wars!

They'll be way classier than that!

I can't believe this is the first time I'm seeing that. God, I love their sense of humor. After years of UO with bards practicing everywhere, that feels oddly nostalgic.

Im asking for the same thing again this year ^_^
I want the Broodmother and her horde of raptors to invade our outposts intermittently and kill us all. On death you should drop your weapon (not your actual weapon, just a sort of 'drop copy') which she can then loot.

The cries of horror at first before people checked their inventory to see their weapon still there would be most amusing as would being repeadtly farmed by raptors.

Last years quest was a reference to Terminator 1, this year the quest shall reference T2: Judgement Day!

Honestly, my favorite AFD events were the 1st one due to the surprise factor with the "sex change", the year of the Gwendolls cuz I spent half the day in Marhan's Grotto entertaining Linsey Murdock (Live Team Dev at the time) while she was working, and last years due to the change of event with a new quest. Look forward to seeing what they do tomorrow!

Holy crap, how is this the first time I'm seeing or hearing about this? That's pretty amazing.

I thought it then, and still think it know: I would enjoy playing as a minstrel, traveling the land and amazing people with my awesome lute playing abilities. Sadly, the "You Spoony Bard" comments would likely get the better of me and force me to hang up my lute...

I think it would be great if they did a joke flux for pvp, I would certainly do some pvp just for the lols. Given the information on wiki though, I'm expecting a Terminator 2 spoof is inevitable.

Come with me if you want to live!

And now all my excitement for tomorrow is completely gone lol
Another quest with fps modern stuff reference phoey... if I liked fps, modern warfare kinda games I would not play gw...

Yeah, because the only proper way to do an april fool's joke is to have a visual gimmick that gets old 5 minutes into it, or even makes the entire game completely unpalatable for a day.

Or just any nearby boss at random intervals during he day.

I hope that all Player character change appearence into Classes and races from GW2 while in town.

this!!!! xD man i would so love to turn into one of those races xD

the flux right now is ...! i wonder if its a place holder or if they are just giving us no flux for april fools. it's also early which is odd.

Quoting myself for April Fools truth.

Well it's nice to see the return of the Terminator plot, as well as Bane's current place holder.

Anyone know what time whatever they're going to do will actually start? Are we talking like 5 hours from now (Midnight Pacific)? or in the morning...? Any idea?

I'd assume midnight PST, which by my clock is in 17 minutes + 4 hours.

Shayne, would u mind bringing my post up as a topic post as an update to the forums of whats released?.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/G.O.L...%28disguise%29
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedb...dates/20120329

clear as day - another quest much like the commando

o.o well boo if its going to be another solo title grinding quest. xD i was hoping for something like the sex change day or turn into a gw2 race thing xD

looks like you can repeat the original quest and do the new one

Confirmed, original plus a new one. Moahawk is lv0 now. >:O

Hehe, Terminator 2 abound. Quotes, and it morphs!

Notes are up

Update - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Profession Updates

Assassin

Daggers are now ranged weapons.
Shadow Step skills can now be used only when standing in a shaded area.
Shadow Form: added the following functionality: "Deletes all characters on your account when Shadow Form ends."
New skill: One Last Breath: "When striking a foe with arms wide open, this skill knocks target foe back by six feet."

Dervish

Onslaught: decreased attack and movement speed bonuses to 10%.
Onslaught (PvP): increased attack and movement speed bonuses to 33%.

Elementalist

Elementalists have been renamed to "Sorcerers."
Removed the Fire Magic attribute.
All magic damage is now based on rank in the Friendship attribute.
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Magnetic Aura: How does it work?
Thunderclap: changed skill type to shout. Renamed to "Thunder, Thunder, Thunderclap! HOOOOOOOO!"

Mesmer

Male Canthan Mesmers have 20 additional attribute points.
Mesmer skills now scale with the flamboyance of your armor.

Monk

Monks can now wear heavy armor.
New skill: Salma's Hospitality: "Any doors or gates barring the enemy from reaching you are opened."

Necromancer

Minions have formed a union; you now pay 1 gold per second per animated minion.
Life Siphon: removed Health degeneration and regeneration; now affects your and target foe's maximum Health.

Paragon

No changes.

Ranger

Added the secondary attribute "Bee Mastery;" Rangers may only use this attribute in pre-Searing.
Activated traps now cause the player character to shout, "You've activated my trap!"
Due to regional laws regarding the treatment of endangered species, panda pets are now invincible.
Charm Animal: added the functionality to charm other players' minipets.

Ritualist

Dragon Empire Rage is now available to players who purchased the Bonus Mission Pack.
Spirits are now mobile.
New skill: Bald was Togo: "While you hold Togo's ashes, foes striking you are blinded, but your voice sounds funny."

Summoner

New profession: Summoner; only seven players at a time are able to play as Summoners.

Warrior

Warriors can now equip spears as an off-hand weapon.
Added new shouts: "Objection!" "Take that!" and "Hold it!"
Healing Signet: now only recharges if you get a morale boost.
"None Shall Pass!": added the following functionality: "You and target enemy fall...through fire and water."
"Watch Yourself!": renamed to "Check Yourself!"; added the following functionality: "All allies lose the Wrecked condition."

General

In preparation for the launch of Guild Wars 2, all professions have been given access to the Healing Prayers attribute.

Quest Changes

Added a Hard Mode version of "Forming a Party" in Shing Jea Monastery.
Decreased difficulty of "Rally the Recruits (Tutorial)" in Island of Shehkah.
New quest: "Annihilator 2: Searing Day" in Embark Beach.
New quest: "Defending the Ascalon Settlement...Again" in Ascalon Settlement.
All quests now contain Afflicted spawns.

Miscellaneous

Fissure of Woe, the Underworld, and Chahbek Village are now PvP zones.
Changed the name of White Crabs in the Tarnished Coast and the Depths of Tyria to "Some Kind of Cave Demon."
Henchmen Kihm, Lina, and Mhenlo now use Smiting Monk skills.
Hero Keiran Thackeray's profession has been changed to Ritualist.
The intermediate cinematic for "Ice Caves of Sorrow" has been altered so that Saidra now strikes the Mursaat first. (This was always our true vision for the scene, and can now be realized with current technology.)
All loading screens have been replaced with Mhenloading screens.

Bug Fixes

Kurzick Duelists now properly send defeated foes to the Shadow Realm.
To prevent "red resign," Luxons can no longer use the /resign command.
Decreased the effects of the Lucky Aura during the Xun Rao encounter.

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As a fan of Phoenix Wright, I like this
Added new shouts: "Objection!" "Take that!" and "Hold it!"

I don't think they did. They recycled an existing one and plopped a golem in.

Or did they? I'm doubting myself now.

- Gwen is now an Elementalist Hero. Whenever she gets mad in combat, her skill bar changes to all Meteor Shower spells at 24 Fire Magic.
- Any foes Lv5 or under now drop Ectoplasm. The rate it can drop is doubled for each campaign you have bought.
- Added new symbols for guild capes: Corn Stalk, Yakkington Smiling, Happy Face With an Eyepatch & Ice Cube.
- Heroes can now use PvE-only skills. After all, do you use them in PvP?
- You may now create a character with GM as the first two letters. After six seconds, Dhuum asks you to change your name or he'll kick a puppy. If he kicks a puppy, your name is automatically changed to "I Let Dhuum Kick A Puppy".
- Panaku [Cutthroat Henchman] has been renamed to Panaku [Useless Henchman].
- In all cutscenes featuring Prince Rurik, his voice actor has been changed to Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 2.
- The Master's Reward for Imperial Sanctum now requires to wait 20 minutes before dealing the finishing blow to Shiro Tagachi.
- Beast Mastery & Wilderness Survival has been merged into one attribute: Animal Care. Also, whenever your pet dies, you suffer a 1% Death Penalty for being careless and a bad owner.

Seriously, ANet, I like the silliness, but yeah, let me write them next year. :P

INVINCIBLE PANDA!!!! Wooot!! (and they rename them all oink?)
gotta love the silliness of these sometimes.

anyone found the wurm queen yet?

Update - Sunday, April 1, 2012

I did find an NPC ally lvl19 with my character name and Class.
He sais somthing like Flare is the best skill ever.
Oh, I found him and Prince Rurik just outside the main gate into Ascalon City

Cant seem to enter Ascalon City through the portal gate (while being a Golem)

Hmm, Map Travel to an Ascalon outpost seems to kicks u out of the quest.

What's wrong with you dagrdagaz? You are in an instanced quest zone, just follow the marker, it's a pre-set quest.

And since you travelled back in time that guy with your name is, you know, you are from the past...

Edit: This new quest is again amazing, I enjoyed it quite a lot this is not as much content as it was past year, but still awesome, thanks

'Paragon
No changes.'
Made my day

What!? How can they do this! GW1 is dead! I am never playing again! ;-)
hmmm.. can't think of anything else people shout out when an update happens.

I like the idea of double throwing daggers on the assassin.

"charm other players' minipets."
Sold my good man, now how much for the soul?

It's quite a lot of content if you scour the map for all the dialogues and the 4 hidden-or-not-so-hidden bosses - the rewards should certainly please anyone complaining about a certain picnic quest...

I rate the quest 10/10 - thank you, Anet.

4 hidden bosses? tell me more please

Wow apparently I rushed through it too fast and didn't look around. But I'm doing it on some more characters to read the silly dialogues.

I still would love to see a baton and riot shield as quest rewards.

I like the quest but I don't want to see any of the riot stuff persisting in the game. It bothers me even just a little for this single day. I'd rather they had taken some kind of magical or more primitive theme. I certainly don't want to see riot gear running around in other parts of the game.

I got a pink dye from a random devourer.

And it seems trade-able, will try it later

oww, i cant take it...... quote to "All quests now contain Afflicted spawns."

if they set those afflicted free it will be the end of all of us, NOOOOOOOO
(sry i know, bad joke)

spirits being mobile would really be fun

btw, did they change paragons, or is that no joke?

and wars with spear as offhand? if it would act like a weapon, it'd be a disaster
just imagine how slow attacking would be
swords attack faster than spears

would be funny if they would add a spear skin focus to GW after this, lol