Guild Wars 2’s skill balancing update is live with weapon swap, dynamic HUD, and… capes

The latest Guild Wars 2 patch is officially upon us. As we noted yesterday, players players can expect multiple quality-of-life tweaks to specific skills in this balance-oriented update, including revive skills and fixes for the build template system, but the highlight feature is definitely out-of-combat weapon-swap for Elementalists and Engineers. Yay! We spy a few other notables:

“Dynamic HUD has been added to the game! Dynamic HUD gives players the ability to show or hide parts of the UI while in or out of combat. The UI can also be set to always be hidden. A new section within the General Options tab of the Options panel has been added to control Dynamic HUD. Components of the UI have been grouped into related sections. Several presets are available for players to choose from, or players can individually control the behavior of each section.”

And… capes! Sure, why not, we’ll take ’em!

“Capes have been added to the game as a new type of back item skin. The first cape, the Basic Guild Cape, is available from Guild Commendation Traders.”

There’s no Wintersday this week; we’re anticipating it’ll drop next week in two weeks.

Finally, some good news following the departures of so very many devs from ArenaNet this year: They’ve just hired a new artist. Lookit her gorgeous work! And as Reddit notes, ya don’t hire artists when you’re headed to maintenance mode.

Wrap Yourself in an Emblazoned Cape https://t.co/K2nsNDuOES pic.twitter.com/mS5427Ktqv

— Guild Wars 2 (@GuildWars2) December 3, 2019