[Crimson]

On April 28th, Guild Wars officially becomes four years old, and this year the presents are coming early. Starting 23rd, we'll kick off our birthday celebration! We'll have all the popular birthday festivities going, including Birthday Cupcakes, the Shing Jea Boardwalk, and fourth year miniatures. Besides what you expect to see, we're unveiling a plethora of exciting new content in April.

Storage Upgrades

    * Equipment Packs in assorted sizes, designed solely to hold weapons and armor.
    * Every character will get a fifth slot for an Equipment Pack.
    * More purchasable Xunlai Storage panes (tabs).

Each storage pane is $9.99 USD / 8,99 € from the in-game store or the NCsoft Store. You can buy up to four of them for a single account.

Lastly, to celebrate our anniversary, we have a limited-time offer where you can get a FREE pane of Xunlai Storage. Our upcoming promotion will be the ONLY way to get this special pane; it is extra, which means you can't buy it later. Keep an eye on the website and we'll explain how you can get this bonus storage.

Länk: Instruktioner för hur man låser upp sitt gratis storage!

The Zaishen Menagerie

In a beautiful, lush new explorable area in the Battle Isles, the Zaishen Order runs a tight business breeding and training all the common and prestige pets from around the world for their clientele. There are a few ways you can start your own collection in the Menagerie. Bring any pet with you or your Heroes to the Tamer in the Menagerie Grounds. The Tamer will check your pet's evolution and unlock that tier and any lower tiers. Adding charmed pets to the Menagerie is absolutely free. You can also use Balthazar Faction or pay with Zaishen Coins and gold to have the Zaishen Order unlock and train evolutions of pets for you. This way, you've got several choices for unlocking all your pets.

Pet Unlock Pack

If you're looking for yet another possibility, you may purchase the new Pet Unlock Pack for $9.99 USD / 8.99 € from the in-game store or the NCsoft Store, which will unlock all the common pets in the Menagerie.

Zaishen Challenge Quests

Many are familiar with the Zaishen Challenge in the Battle Isles, and soon the Zaishen will extend their Challenge in the form of new quests. There will be three different types of Zaishen Challenge Quests: Mission, Bounty, and PvP.

    * Mission quests send you to replay storyline missions from each campaign.
    * Bounty quests dispatch you to kill boss monsters in dungeons, veteran missions, and explorable areas.
    * PvP quests challenge you to win battles in various PvP types.

Each day, a new quest of each type is available in the Great Temple of Balthazar. You can complete these Zaishen Challenge Quests any time you wish; however, you can only have three in your quest log at once. The most comprehensive strategy is to finish challenge quests the day you get them, so you free up space in your quest log for the next day's batch. Check back daily to take on the new Zaishen Challenge Quest experience, whether in relaxed solo runs or paired up with a friend or larger group for co-op play.

[guest1645]

Jag vet, jag upprepar mig själv...
 

[E-doT]

...is now live!

Saxat från http://guildwars.incgamers.com/showthread.php?t=488127 men ja, det finns förstås här också http://www.guildwars.com/community/events/contentupdates/4thanniversary/default.php

Update - Thursday, April 23
Fourth Anniversary Update: Major Content and Feature Additions

Our goal for the Fourth Anniversary Update is to deepen and enhance replayability of the game with a variety of features aimed at satisfying the full spectrum of Guild Wars players. For example, we wanted to give new purpose and rewards to existing content, so we added a new system of cycling Zaishen Challenge Quests and the Traveler to encourage players to experience the different types of available content in a whole new light. We've also designed an elaborate unlocking system for every pet in the game, making it possible for you to accumulate unlocked pets and swap them out for different builds and gameplay types. As the demand on inventory space increases with all the new content being added to the game since our last storage update, we have increased your storage potential with the creation of Equipment Packs and additional Xunlai Storage panes available in the In-Game and NCsoft Stores. In the same vein, the Hall of Monuments has been made account-based to make the accumulation of titles and other accomplishments more smoothly available to multiple characters on an account. As you play these characters more and more, you might be looking for a way to freshen up their look beyond just getting a new set of armor, so we have added a whole new way to do this with Makeover Credits that have been added to the In-Game and NCsoft Stores. These Credits are redeemable at a [Stylist] NPC who deepens your ability to truly customize a character by allowing you to mix aesthetic features from ALL campaigns, something which is not possible through character creation.

The Live Team has been working nonstop to make these new features a reality, and we're incredibly happy to finally reveal everything we've done. Instead of releasing a typical Developer Update article, we're explaining all the exciting new content in a series of detailed gameplay web pages. You can find the links to those pages in the update notes below, as well as a summary of each updated game feature.

Read on for more information!

Equipment Pack

Each character has been given a 5th bag slot reserved for the Equipment Pack. These new bags will save you oodles of storage space and give you a way to keep your weapons and armor divided from your other loot. These bags:

* Hold only weapons and armor.
* Come in four sizes:
   o 5-slot bags are available in Pre-Searing Ascalon in exchange for a treat for Professor Yakkington, for a nominal fee of gold at various merchants across all campaigns, or for Zaishen Coins at a new Zaishen Rewards NPC in Great Temple of Balthazar.
   o 10, 15, and 20-slot bags are available in exchange for Zaishen Coins at a Zaishen Rewards NPC in Great Temple of Balthazar.

See the gameplay article for more details.

Xunlai Storage

To provide you with access to even more storage space, Xunlai Storage Panes are now available for purchase in the In-Game Store and the NCsoft Store.

* Xunlai Storage Panes each add an additional 20 slots of storage space to your Xunlai Chest. These panes can be used by any character on your account that has access to your storage chest.
* You can now purchase up to 4 additional panes of storage from the In-Game Store and the NCsoft Store.

See the Storage FAQ for more details.

Zaishen Challenge Quests

Every day, we challenge you with different objectives from all over the world, running the gamut from missions to bounties to PvP. Each day, these quests have you play in a specific area for each of the three formats. We believe this will encourage players to group up with those in the area attempting to complete this common goal of getting rewarded for that day's Challenge Quest. Zaishen Challenge Quests have a variety of rewards, including the new Zaishen Coins, a new form of currency taken by Zaishen Rewards NPCs.

* Pick up your Zaishen Challenge Quests in the Great Temple of Balthazar.
* Your Quest Log can only hold three of each type of Zaishen Challenge Quests.
* Three quest types are offered each day:
   o Mission completion. Finish storyline missions for the Zaishen.
   o Bounties. Hunt down and kill evil bosses from around the world!
   o Combat. Battle it out in different arenas and triumph over other players.
* Each quest has one Base Objective, which is required to complete the quest and rewards you with experience, gold, faction, title points, and Zaishen Coins. Quests may also have one or more optional Bonus Objectives, which reward extra Zaishen Coins.

* Zaishen Coins:
   o Come in copper, silver, and gold denominations.
   o Are only awarded for completing Zaishen Challenge Quests.
   o Are not tradeable to other players, but can be passed to other characters on your account through the Xunlai Storage Vault.
   o Can be used to buy items like the Equipment Packs from Zaishen Rewards NPCs in the Great Temple of Balthazar.
   o Can be used to unlock pets for your Zaishen Menagerie collection.

See the gameplay article for more details about Zaishen Challenge Quests and Coins.

Zaishen Menagerie

Arcane Mages of the Zaishen Order have been hard at work on the island of the Heroes' Ascent volcano. Terraforming magics learned from the hedge wizards of Vabbi have allowed the Zaishen to create a sanctuary and breeding ground for many of the charmable animals from around the world. They fund the sanctuary and their study of these animals by allowing adventurers to build their own collection of charmable animals to be cared for in the Menagerie Grounds. By unlocking a pet for your collection, you will then be able to recharm that tier of animal any time you wish by visiting the Zaishen Menagerie Grounds. As part of this service, the Zaishen Trainers have developed evolutions of certain rare animals that have never been seen in the wild, and they've even recovered a small amount of extremely rare Moss Spider eggs to be trained as a charmable pet for the first time. The Moss Spider is best known for being native to Ascalon before the Searing, and until now was believed to be extinct.

* The Zaishen Menagerie is an outpost, located in the Battle Isles next to Heroes' Ascent. Speak with Gate Guard Hirvela to enter the Menagerie Grounds.
* All characters on your account share a Menagerie collection.
* Unlock seven different tiers of level and evolution for every charmable animal in the game.
* Unlock a pet by bringing your charmed animals to Emryd the Tamer, or visit Helena [Zaishen Keeper] to unlock them with Balthazar Faction or Zaishen Coins.
* Only charmable animals from campaigns you own are unlockable via the Zaishen Keeper.
* The menagerie is your own area--only you and your Heroes can enter.
* Once you've unlocked a pet, you'll see charmable level 5 versions of that pet roaming the grounds. Higher-level versions and special evolutions of your pets are also available from Wynn [Zaishen Training Captain].
* Purchase an unlock pack from our In-Game Store or the NCsoft Store. The unlock pack adds the non-prestige pets from all campaigns to your collection.

See the gameplay article for more details.

Nicholas The Traveler

The rumors aren't true, Nicholas Sandford survived the Searing! He may look a little aged since the last time you saw him, but Nicholas and his trusty companion, Professor Yakkington, are finally coming out of hiding. Having dropped his last name in favor of the moniker "the Traveler," Nicholas has mourned in seclusion over the loss of his family, friends, and beloved Mary Malone long enough. He has traveled the globe, gathering up a hefty supply of exotic and unique new items to put in his Gift of the Traveler, which he trades for materials, trophies, and other items he desires. Each week, Nicholas and the Professor will change location to a different explorable area in Tyria, Cantha, or Elona. In each location he will want something different for one of his Gifts. He is out there in the world right now; do you have the stamina to find him?

* The Traveler changes location at the end of each weekend.
* Each account can get up to 5 Gifts of the Traveler each week.
* The Traveler gives his Gifts in exchange for the items he desires that week. The item he seeks will change depending on his location in the world.
* Gifts of the Traveler hold many new and exclusive items, but you'll just have to open one to see what they are.

See the gameplay article for more details.

Hall of Monuments: Now Account-Wide

Our previously announced plans for the Hall of Monuments to be an account-wide feature have come to fruition, and then some!

* Switch between your Character and Account views by speaking with Kimmes the Historian in the Hall of Monuments.
* Added the ability to specify the displayed achievements for each monument.
* Added the ability to replay the cinematic view of a monument.

Accomplishments will automatically be added to your account the next time you log in with any character that has a displayed an achievement in the Hall of Monuments.

See the gameplay article for more details.

New Character Customizations

The ability to change a character's look once created is a luxury we've never had. Now you will not only be able to freshen up the look of a character you have been staring at for years, but you'll actually be able to mix and match aesthetic features from all campaigns, giving you a multitude of new combinations that aren't available during character creation! To prepare for this new feature, we've had to reorganize the way characters' appearance data is stored. As such, the first time you view your characters at the character selection screen, they won't look the way you remember them. Never fear! To update your character selection screen's display, you need only log in on each character, and they will be viewed correctly from here on out.

* Preview your new look! Speak with Anatomical Engineer Llye [Stylist] in the Great Temple of Balthazar to check out all the options for redoing your character.
* The Stylist allows you to mix and match aesthetic features from different campaigns, creating hundreds of combinations which are not available at character creation.
* Change your character's hair style, hair color, face, skin color, and/or body scale with Makeover Credits, or all of those plus gender with Extreme Makeover Credits, at the Stylist.
* Buy your Makeover Credits and Extreme Makeover Credits at the In-Game Store and the NCsoft Store. Makeover Credits are sold in packs of 5, and Extreme Makeover Credits are sold individually.
* Each Makeover Credit allows you to change one character's hair style, hair color, face, skin color, and/or body scale.
* Each Extreme Makeover Credit allows you to change one character's gender, as well as the Makeover options of hair style, hair color, face, skin color, and/or body scale.
* Character Name Changes are now available at the In-Game Store and the NCsoft Store.

See the gameplay article for more details.

Bug Fixes

* Fixed description for Piercing Trap so it no longer refers to Cracked Armor as "Cracked Armored".
* Fixed description for Weapon of Warding [PvE] so it no longer inaccurately states that the skill ends if target ally attacks.
* Fixed a bug that allowed players to bypass the 5 Gift account limit per day from Nicholas Sandford in Pre-Searing.
* Fixed a bug which caused Red Iris Flowers to drop in Pre-Searing Ascalon with much less frequency than originally intended.


Miscellaneous

* The Miniature Greased Lightning is now Green Rarity.
* Charm Animal: changed functionality to "Charm target animal. Once charmed, your animal companion will travel with you whenever you have Charm Animal equipped. (Cannot charm animals 4 or more levels higher than you.)"

...och så är det ju gratisstoraget (http://www.guildwars.com/products/extras/storage/free_storage_pane.php):

Free Xunlai Storage Pane—Limited Time Offer

To celebrate the Guild Wars® 4 Year Anniversary, we're giving away a free pane of storage to all Guild Wars players. Here's how you can claim your free pane of storage:

Step 1
Go to the Guild Wars section of the NCsoft Store, select Xunlai Storage Pane and click on the Buy Now button.

Step 2
You will go to the Xunlai Storage Pane information page—click on the Buy Now button again.

Step 3
You will be prompted to log in to your NCsoft account (NOTE: This is different from your Guild Wars account). If you do not already have one, please click the Create Account button and follow the prompts.

Step 4
Once you have logged in, select the Guild Wars account that will receive this upgrade. If you have not already linked your Guild Wars account to your NCsoft Master Account, you will have an option to link your Guild Wars account now.

Step 5
Once you've selected your Guild Wars account, you will see a screen where you can enter a coupon code. Please enter FREESTORAGE and click the Apply Coupon button.

Step 6
You will receive a page confirming that you were charged $0.00 for your storage pane. Please click on the Continue button.

Step 7
Congratulations! You should now have a new pane of Xunlai account storage for your account. If you were logged in to Guild Wars during this process, please make sure you log out and back in for this upgrade to apply.

For more information please read the Frequently Asked Questions (See Below) about this promotion.

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This promotion runs from 12:00AM PDT on April 23, 2009 to 11:59 PM PDT on May 31, 2009.

Man har således ungefär en vecka på sig att fixa till det, och det är väl ingen vågad gissning att NC-store kommer att vara överhettad och seg som sirap så här i början av perioden...

Det är för övrigt ingen vacker syn som möter en på inloggningsskärmen, men hav förtröstan, det ordnar till sig när man loggar på...

Ut å lek med er nu!

EDIT: nu mer är det slutet av maj som gäller för att fixa födelsedagsstorage!

[Formy_C]

lol NCsoft Store går på knäna ^^ 

[Formy_C]

Haha jag kommer inte ens in i GW ^^
Alla med ett konto loggar på samtidigt tydligen 

[Roffo]

Sakta men säkert tar jag mig framåt till gratis storage.......

[Formy_C]

Jag har inte lyckats än..den där jäkla bilden med text kod man skall skriva in får timeout innan det blir klart ^^

[Roffo]

Samma lika här..... Den gick långsamt dit för att sen ta tvärstopp...... 

[Roffo]

At laaaaassssttttt!!!!! Det är så vackert så vackert!!! 

[guest1645]

Yeay! Jag fick extra!
Och jag har gjort en Zaishen-uppgift. Fick i uppdrag att fimpa Molotov Rocktail. Slutade med att jag bestämde mig för att köra Vanquish i hela området. Och efter nästan 2 timmar och 268 dödade grupper vänder lyckan och jag blir fimpad för många gånger av en av de sista charr-grupperna. Suck...
Men jag fick mina 70 Zaishen copper!

[Roffo]

Vad är Zaishen copper?

[guest1645]

Typ kosing du får för att klara en Zaishen Quest. Finns speciella folk som man kan få saker för dessa av. Riktigt kul och bra saker faktiskt. Exempelvis en Large Equipment Bag (med plats för 20 slots istället för 5), eller en eternal Fireworks Crate (så vi kan festa satiken i Guild Hallen), eller en Zaishen summoning stone som tydligen ska kunna generera olika summons (stod bara så i alla fall).
Sedan är questerna lite kul också, ska in nu och ta en boss i Perdition Rock...

[guest1645]

Lite inne på att köpa könsbyte till Windlore också... Lite trött på honom nu...

[Formy_C]

Meh blir inget storage till mig,,tydligen har jag länkat mitt spel till ett nsync konto som sedan länge begravts i teflonminnes högen..surt sa räven. 

[guest1645]

N'Sync, klassiskt...
Trist att du inte får present-storage, jag trodde det var kört för min del med, men en "Forgot password" senare så visade det sig att det var en mail jag faktiskt fortfarande kollar som var relaterad.