Six years ago, the MMORPG Guild Wars 2 introduced a new skill level for professions. At that time, six of the eight crafting professions were raised to level 500. Now in 2019, coinciding with the seventh birthday, one of the missing professions is catching up.
Which profession will be expanded? Until now, only the professions that actively craft armor or weapons can be raised to level 500. With the upcoming update, chefs will also have their skill level increased and bring new buff food.
With this, ArenaNet fulfills another part of their announced roadmap for new features. Additionally, this is the first major expansion for professions since 2013. Since then, there have only been sporadic new recipes.
When will the update for chefs be released? Next Tuesday, August 27, a patch is expected to release that will implement the expansion for the profession.
The new recipes could become very interesting, as the right buff food plays an important role in group content such as raids or fractals, even though they are currently being neglected from the players’ perspective.
Ascended Buff Food also enhances Gold and Karma
What is the new buff food like? According to the blog post, the new ascended foods are supposed to increase a primary and a secondary attribute. At the same time, the buff food has an active or passive effect.
This results in three enhancements for the new buff food, while previous foods contained two attributes or one attribute and one effect.
The old buff food mostly passively increased experience gain. The new food, on the other hand, directly enhances all of the following secondary attributes:
- Experience points
- Karma
- Magic find
- Gold find
- World experience points
How does the path to skill level 500 work? First, you need a chef at level 400, the previous maximum level. Then you will level him up to level 425 using existing recipes after the patch is released.
Starting at 425, the sous chef Seimur Ochsenknochen will give you various new tasks and recipes that should then raise the chef’s level to 500.
In time for the birthday, there are gifts
What else is happening? In the coming days, players who have started with Guild Wars 2 at the head start will receive their seventh birthday gift.
In addition to the already known rewards from previous years, there will be a new chair that has also been directly presented in an image.
All players whose first character is seven years old will receive this chair.
Additionally, on August 30, there will be a major announcement event for Guild Wars 2. We have already speculated about what new features might be presented there:
