GW2 Upcoming Items from August 9 Patch

Dulfy 74 Comments Aug 9, 2016

A list and gallery of upcoming items from August 9 patch. Chat codes taken from that_shaman’s thread.

Contents

1 Weapons
2 Anniversary Packs
3 Dyes

Weapons

[&CvUaAAA=] Staff

[&Cu4aAAA=] Longbow

Anniversary Packs

Anniversary Backpack and Mail Carrier Pack
Double-click to choose an exclusive city-themed backpack and receive an anniversary mail carrier.

Divinity’s Reach Rucksack – [&CvIaAAA=]

Hoelbrak Mountain Pack – [&CuwaAAA=]

Rata Sum Apparatus – [&CuoaAAA=]

Grove Hydria – [&CvYaAAA=]

Black Citadel Engine – [&Cu8aAAA=]

Dyes

These are the new Bloodstone Dyes in the gemstore for 125 gems each, 5 for 500 gems or 25 for 2500 gems.

Devu

The Rata Sum backpiece. Yes please.
- Knight_ldr
  
  Agreed! The others are lackluster or have better themed backpacks already, like the plant one for example.
  
  I have Mawdrey that is much cooler looking and has some story to it.
  - Tahmoh
    
    Yeah i agree, also where’s the lions arch backpack for those who consider themselves a resident of that city rather than the home cities?
    - Da Po
      
      I, too, would love a gorgeous lion head backpiece~
    - snowgim
      
      That would be cool. And while I spend most of my time in LA, I actually consider Ebonhawke to be my adopted home. Ebonhawke backpack plz?
      Well, I can dream…
      - Tahmoh
        
        ebonhawke needs some love too i agree…maybe one day they will do something in that area that will finally help ebonhawke become the awesome community hub it deserves to be.
  - Alot
    
    Yeah, you’ll probably have to take a starter city backpack for the next 5 years – with the lion backpack appearing 6 years from now -.-
    - Guest
      
      Do we know how they are acquired yet? Newish player here.
      - Braghez
        
        Probably they will be given out for the 4th anniversary, but your character need to have 4 years to reclaim them. That said you will be able to get them too, but in 4 years unluckily. The rewards are set for certain “age milestones”.
    - Ares Zax
      
      It might not be that onerous. It’s possible it’s contained in the 4th year Birthday Gifts and every single character who hits 4 years old gets to pick one.
      - Alot
        
        If you still applying optimism to Anet hand-outs, you probably not near your 4th year with them yet -.-
        
        Ares Zax
        
        Been here since launch actually. 😉 And still, you never know. I would never have expected the 3rd year birthday gifts to include free gemstore dyes, some of which could fetch prices of several hundred gold. (True, you couldn’t sell the dyes, but it meant that players who wanted them no longer had to spend huge amounts of money to get them or gamble with BL Keys.)
        
        Alot
        
        Fair enough.
        
        Nate M
        
        That was really cool, I have to admit. But it was also a calculated move on Anet’s part to destabilize certain market values (namely the blacklight as well as electro blue and pink dye prices). Generally, Anet doesn’t want players to accumulate too much gold (without buying gems to do so, of course). That’s why they introduced so many gold sinks to the game around the time of the HoT release.
Jose Heredia Hernandez

Those are legendaries?
- Tachi
  
  I seem to remember there being something about them not wanting to focus on new legendaries for a bit after the tiger bow. Those are skins from Guild Wars, and I’m guessing they’ll be gem store items.
- Braghez
  
  Think not. I mean, the longbow could be, but a 2nd staff would be pointless. Probably just skins that will be aviable in the future.
Johnsue Rivera

Guild Wars 1 Stormbow Longbow, YES PLZ!!!
- Romain Casanova
  
  It’s a cash shop skin?
  - Johnsue Rivera
    
    Probably will be a gemstore skin. Doesn’t look like it’s part of a black lion set.
Z.DRAG0N

this bow better have good particle effects its gonna be lame if it just shoots standard arrows
Alot

The Divinity’s Reach Rucksack, for spotting those who haven’t figured out what’s going on after 4 consecutive years -.-
Romain Casanova

How do we get the LongBow? Is it just a cash shop skin?
- Michael Hansen
  
  It may just be a model that appeared in the game files, which might not be linked up to a known in-game item yet. Sometimes these things sit around in the client for a long time before Arenanet does anything with them. For example, either Nevermore or it’s precursor was datamined way back in 2013, and we just didn’t know what it would eventually be.
  - Romain Casanova
    
    Oh.. Iwas instantely going to buy it
Brian Duchateau

omg stormbow!!!!! 😀
Suan

More GW1 skins, always welcome. Even for gems.

P.S. Stormbow boys!!
nadrian3k

Those weapon skins look better then fully finished legendaries. Dunno if that’s funny or sad.
Korey Garabed

Loving the staff and hoelbrak mountain pack
S

Oh my. That longbow looks pretty awesome, and some of the backpack skins look cool too
Henry Chavez

awesome staff, too bad staff ele was fucked up last patch
gw2 get gud again

why cant they make skins like these more often, except better back pieces… gw2 has changed so much its not even fun anymore pvp is lame now too
- Romain Casanova
  
  Really? I was going to buy HoT and go hard on structured PvP..
  - Braghez
    
    People say PvP is lame because they don’t like the meta or whatsoever :v but in the end PvP didn’t change much from beginning, just switched from a “full dps” setup to a more varied one with bunkers, supports and so on.
    - pvp ez
      
      people who say PvP is lame are probably de noobz lel.
  - GW2 pvp sucks
    
    Pvp sucks, hardly no 1 does it anymore
    - Romain Casanova
      
      Apparently lots of people play pvp.
- gw2 is gud
  
  you’re lame
RKC

I hoped the backpiece are per character than account when we recieved the mail. I am torn between Asura and Charr at the moment althought Char kinda look like the machined Shield.
Damonwex

Wow 2 actually cool weapon skins! what did we do to deserve this?
Qnrad

Miss GW1 when my ele could used all weapons, swords, longbows, even hammers 🙂
- Taiwan Wolf
  
  I miss my Assassin luxon armor, longbow, throwing spear and scythe. c.c
  - Qnrad
    
    Yes Luxon’s armors, Kurzick’s were good too…good old days….
    - ?????
      
      I kind of wish they bring back all the Luxon and Kurzick armor sets as Outfits considering Anet is going for all the Outfit sale stuff now.
Diggity

Chances are if you played for 4 years you got your hands on much better looking back items. These should be rewards for the 1st birthday. The cake gun was awesome though.
- Taiwan Wolf
  
  Yeah, I have The Ascension. D:
  - Diggity
    
    I have the Ascension, the Grenth and Lyssa backs, the Exalted back and the Dynamic Tempered one. No way I am using any of the above.
Chalupar

Boring…very boring…
Feanor

That bow… For the first time I actually wish my ele could use bow. The staff and backpieces do not appeal to me. Dyes are lovely.
Raizel

That’s the Envoy Staff from gw1!
Nitrobacter

didn’t know that blood (-stone) is that purple! Serious only 2 of those colors deserve to be in that dye kit
- Kuma
  
  yeh i see what you mean. only 2 of them are actually red and if they wanted to use purple they could have atleast used the same color as jade constructs have. but it looks like those dyes shimmer a bit which is neat. they might have had the idea of ‘dye mixed with bloodstone dust’
Alastor999

Rata Sum backpack looks the best imo, although the Black Citadel one ain’t bad either. Grove and Hoelbrak are ok depending on how your toon looks. The Divinity’s Reach one is hideous… like wtf were they thinking? The only way that would look good on a toon is if you modeled your toon to look like a cockney hobo from the 1920’s!
- Qnrad
  
  I hope they’ll add matching pants 🙂
  - Raven
    
    Oh c’mon! ;D
  - Taiwan Wolf
    
    but they don’t make pants unless there’s a costume attached. 🙁
- Taiwan Wolf
  
  Grove backpack is the most useful since it’ll kill mosquitoes.
  - Alastor999
    
    I’m going to be very disappointed then if I walk into the Maguuma with it and it DOESN’T one shot devour these things.
Dinosaur

Staff is from GW1, its connected to White mantle I suppose.
- Alot
  
  The staff is called “the envoy staff” while our legendary armors are called “envoy armor”. Wonder if the armor will look similar?
- nopikam
  
  https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Emissary_Heleyne
  
  https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Envoy
  
  https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Envoy_Staff
GGnoRE

I guess that the bow is The storm bow from GW1, right?
- EyesOfGehenna .
  
  Although I understand your thought, they are still quite different
  - GGnoRE
    
    I thought it would be Anet new take on it. Any infos on how to obtain it?
    - Constellations
      
      UPCOMING ITEM
      Means we don’t know shit about it yet.
Lotus

I love the look of that Sylvari backpack! Looks like one of those stinky flowers though? Those flowers that have a deep sack are stinky in real life usually I think lol
- Sage Wren
  
  Well, the Rafflesia doesn’t have a sack…
  
  It looks more like a pitcher plant.
Stormbow ranger121

where is the bow? its aug 11th now…
- gg
  
  Why would you expect it on aug 11th? It is most likely coming on a Tuesday in the form of a gemstore item or a craftable recipe.
  - Shaggy
    
    craftable? i wish i shared your optimism
    - shortorder
      
      it may turn out to be a future drop like the “blademaster” stuff
    - gg
      
      To be honest I am not sure if I prefer a gemstore item or a 250 Charged Lodestones + 250 Amalgamated Gemstones + 250 Spiritwood Planks + 250 Runes of the Druid craftable item.
Czan

Why would u need 25 dyes when there are only 6 of them?
- Neo_Genesis
  
  Because you MAY get one of those 6 new dyes… More often than not you don’t.

GW2 Upcoming Items from August 9 Patch

Weapons

Anniversary Packs

Dyes

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