Upcoming changes and features

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Warning: This page contains information about Guild Wars games, features and updates which are still in development. Any information on this page may be subject to change upon release. This information is sourced from ArenaNet's in-game talks, forum posts from ArenaNet staff or from Developer Updates. Any given time estimations are also based off of these sources.

Automated changes

Every day at 07:00 UTC (11:00 PM PST).

• Nicholas Sandford's requested item changes.
• The Codex changes.

Every day at 16:00 UTC (8:00 AM PST).

• New daily Zaishen Challenge Quests.

Every Monday at 15:00 UTC (7:00 AM PST).

• Nicholas the Traveler's location and requested item changes.

Every Friday at 19:00 UTC (11:00 AM PST).

• New weekend event begins.

Every Sunday at 07:59 UTC (11:59 PM PST).

• The weekend event ends.

On the first day of each month.

• Monthly tonic rotation.

At the beginning of special weekend events.

• Festival decorations are added.

Monthly maintenance update

The monthly maintenance update is usually scheduled for the 1st or 2nd Thursday of each month (source) and includes:

• Xunlai Tournament House rewards (unavailable until bug in Xunlai Tournament House code is fixed, source, source)
• Changing map rotations for Automated Tournaments
• Tweaks to AI, bug fixes
• Skill balance changes (every 2 months)
  • The next major skill update "will include big changes to Shadow Form and may also include changes to other prominent farming skills." (source)

Content update

Additional content updates (separate from the monthly maintenance updates) occur every three to four months (source). The next update may offer:

• GvG tiebreaker (source)
• New schedule for Automated Tournaments (source)
• Bug fixes for Fort Aspenwood and Jade Quarry (source)
• New Hall of Heroes map (source)

Other features

• Guild Wars Live Test Krewe (source)
• More information about the Guild Wars book(s) later this year (source).
• More information about Guild Wars 2 races and lore later this year. Additional info about Guild Wars 2 gameplay being released early next year.(source)
• Wintersday 2009

Upcoming releases

• Guild Wars 2 beta (due date is somewhere close to game's release/TBA) (source)
• Guild Wars 2 (TBA) (source)