Hats off to Guild Wars 2 for having the most hilarious patch notes Iâve seen in a long while.
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Since the day we began work on Guild Wars 2, we had a single dream guiding us: to allow the player to jump over small fences. But if we had to pick a close second, it was to add chairs and maybe let players sit in them. In that distant past, the technology wasnât ready for our visionâwhen GW2 released, the land of Tyria had chairs, and it had sitting, but players were unable to gracefully combine the two. Over time, stopgaps were implemented, like sitting as a chair and riding mounts (referred to in the engine code as ânonstationary chairsâ), but the dream of a complete chair experience remained in the realm of speculative science fiction.
Weâre overjoyed to announce that, for the second time in Guild Wars history, players can sit in chairs across the continent. That raid throne is more like one chair in multiple places, though, which is awesome, but now weâre talking about **over 1,400 chairs ** spread across 6 cities, 5 home instances and 1 raid lobby. Plus, some of those chairs are benches, which are like two chairs for the price of one!
The future of chair sitting is brightâweâre working hard to investigate chair sittability for other zones, figure out the bar booths built entirely out of nonchair objects, and support more chair models. Get in the game and see the future happening now! You paid for the whole seatâtoday you can finally use it.
Lionâs Arch: Added sittability to 188 chairs. This is the site of the First Sittable Chair, from which all others deriveâthe King of Chairs. Itâs a secret which one it is.
Rata Sum: Added sittability to 28 chairs. Realistically, the asura could already sit on most objects comfortably; itâs one of their many racial advantages.
Applied Development Lab: Added sittability to 7 chairs, for when you need a break from lab work harvesting resources.
Black Citadel: Added sittability to 153 chairs. Not only are there a lot of quality chairs here, many of them include miniaturized Iron Legion coal furnaces for heating. A truly first-class chair experience for the discriminating legionnaire.
Heroâs Canton: Added sittability to 106 chairs. We wrote âadded sittability to 106 charrsâ five times before we got it right, but that would be pretty cool too.
Divinityâs Reach: Added sittability to 292 chairs, and 90% of them are hidden inside random buildings. We spent countless hellish hours finding new chairs hidden away in third-story corners of secluded houses. We opened someoneâs house up to passing tourists as well because it has a lot of nice chairs.
Salma District: Added sittability to 79 chairs. You can finally sit at the bar! Weâve been anticipating this since launch day.
Hoelbrak: The undisputed capital of sittable furniture clocks in with a record-shattering 547 chairs. Legends say that one day, a mighty Norn will sit in every chair in Hoelbrak and then lead their people to victory against Jormag.
Hunterâs Hearth: Added sittability to 10 chairs. But listen, if youâre looking for some chair time after a long hunt, just step out the doors and into chair central of Tyria.
The Grove: Added sittability to 43 chairs. It might seem kind of sad after that Hoelbrak number, but perhaps the sylvari simply prefer sitting on the groundâitâs good enough for the Pale Tree, after all.
Dreamerâs Terrace: Added sittability to 5 chairs. OK, now itâs actually sad.
Lionâs Arch Aerodrome: Added sittability to 1 chair. We donât expect that all players will be able to sit in this highly exclusive, challenging non-group chair content, but that is the price of prestige.
Added an incredible new collection quest achievement spanning the world of Tyria to sit in every currently available chair type. Finally, a reason to visit Hoelbrak.
You can do more than sit in chairsâyou can gesture while sitting in chairs! You canât /sit while you sit, but a carefully curated handful of the gameâs emotes are available while sitting in a chair.
Currently available emotes: Wave, Cheer, Shrug, Crossarms, Laugh, and Thanks (youâre welcome)
But wait, thereâs more chairs! Your Guild Hall chairs are also receiving the seating treatment, with the following chairs now sittable:
Basic Chair, Fancy Chair, Highback Chair, Guild Chair, Fancy Armchair, Plush Armchair, Elonian Wood Chair, Throne, Pew, Guild Bench, Plush Sofa, Haunted Loveseat
ArenaNet is not liable for injury, death, entombment in solid rock, or similar gruesome fates that may result from unsafely placed chairs.
Fixed a bug that caused âsittabilityâ to not be a real word according to the spell checker. If you complain about it now, youâre incorrect, sorry.
While weâre at it, we donât want to hear anyone griping about the exact chair counts per map. If we see posts tomorrow like âI counted every chair in Hoelbrak and ArenaNet was off by one, gg,â itâs going to send us into a deep depression.
