Game updates/2025-07-01

July 1, 2025

Update - July 1, 2025

Profession Skills

Elementalist

•  Frozen Ground: Increased the cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.

Tempest

•  Elemental Bastion: Reduced the healing power scaling from 0.7 to 0.6 in PvP only.

Mesmer

•  Dune Cloak: Reduced the cooldown reduction from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvE only.
•  Phantom Pain: Reduced the condition damage increase from 6.25% to 5% in PvE only.
•  Split Surge: Secondary beams from this skill no longer deal damage to enemies between the user and the target.

Necromancer

•  Alchemic Vigor: Reduced the healing per second from 13 to 10 in PvP only.
•  Transfusion: Reduced the base healing from 404 to 280, reduced the vigor duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds, and reduced the Chilblains healing from 1,302 to 822 in PvP only.

Ranger

•  Bumble (Juvenile Janthiri Bee): Reduced the knockdown duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
•  Bumble (Soulbeast): This skill no longer evades.
•  Griffon Stance: Increased the cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
•  Spiritual Reprieve: Reduced the base healing from 3,600 to 2,400 in PvP only.

Relics

•  Relic of Bloodstone: Reduced the damage coefficient from 5.0 to 3.0 and reduced the damage multiplier from 15% to 10% in PvE only.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

•  Transfusion Fixed the stability skill fact in the description listing the wrong duration.
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