A list and gallery of upcoming items from August 9 patch. Chat codes taken from that_shaman’s thread.
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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.
74 replies on “GW2 Upcoming Items from August 9 Patch”
The Rata Sum backpiece. Yes please.
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.
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?
I, too, would love a gorgeous lion head backpiece~
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…
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.
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 -.-
Do we know how they are acquired yet? Newish player here.
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”.
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.
If you still applying optimism to Anet hand-outs, you probably not near your 4th year with them yet -.-
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.)
Fair enough.
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.
Those are legendaries?
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.
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.
Guild Wars 1 Stormbow Longbow, YES PLZ!!!
It’s a cash shop skin?
Probably will be a gemstore skin. Doesn’t look like it’s part of a black lion set.
this bow better have good particle effects its gonna be lame if it just shoots standard arrows
The Divinity’s Reach Rucksack, for spotting those who haven’t figured out what’s going on after 4 consecutive years -.-
How do we get the LongBow? Is it just a cash shop skin?
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.
Oh.. Iwas instantely going to buy it
omg stormbow!!!!! 😀
More GW1 skins, always welcome. Even for gems.
P.S. Stormbow boys!!
Those weapon skins look better then fully finished legendaries. Dunno if that’s funny or sad.
Loving the staff and hoelbrak mountain pack
Oh my. That longbow looks pretty awesome, and some of the backpack skins look cool too
awesome staff, too bad staff ele was fucked up last patch
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
Really? I was going to buy HoT and go hard on structured PvP..
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.
people who say PvP is lame are probably de noobz lel.
Pvp sucks, hardly no 1 does it anymore
Apparently lots of people play pvp.
you’re lame
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.
Wow 2 actually cool weapon skins! what did we do to deserve this?
Miss GW1 when my ele could used all weapons, swords, longbows, even hammers 🙂
I miss my Assassin luxon armor, longbow, throwing spear and scythe. c.c
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.
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.
Yeah, I have The Ascension. D:
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.
Boring…very boring…
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.
That’s the Envoy Staff from gw1!
didn’t know that blood (-stone) is that purple! Serious only 2 of those colors deserve to be in that dye kit
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’
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!
I hope they’ll add matching pants 🙂
Oh c’mon! ;D
but they don’t make pants unless there’s a costume attached. 🙁
Grove backpack is the most useful since it’ll kill mosquitoes.
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.
Staff is from GW1, its connected to White mantle I suppose.
The staff is called “the envoy staff” while our legendary armors are called “envoy armor”. Wonder if the armor will look similar?
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Emissary_Heleyne
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Envoy
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Envoy_Staff
I guess that the bow is The storm bow from GW1, right?
Although I understand your thought, they are still quite different
I thought it would be Anet new take on it. Any infos on how to obtain it?
UPCOMING ITEM
Means we don’t know shit about it yet.
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
Well, the Rafflesia doesn’t have a sack…
It looks more like a pitcher plant.
where is the bow? its aug 11th now…
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.
craftable? i wish i shared your optimism
it may turn out to be a future drop like the “blademaster” stuff
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.
Why would u need 25 dyes when there are only 6 of them?
Because you MAY get one of those 6 new dyes… More often than not you don’t.