Winds of Change

Winds of Change continues the story of Cantha and the Dragon Empire. The storyline follows the newly formed Ministry of Purity's attempts to eradicate the Afflicted. This is the third major installment in Guild Wars Beyond, which serves to bridge the storyline between Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2.

WARNING! Initiating the Winds of Change storyline by completing the first quest, Cleansing Bukdek Byway, will irreversibly change the enemy spawns in most explorable areas of Kaineng City, as well as a few areas on Shing Jea Island. See the Notes and warning below for details.

Requirements

For a character to access the Winds of Change content (including dialogues, quests, and spawns), the player's account must include the Factions campaign, and the character must have finished the Factions storyline by completing the Imperial Sanctum mission, either NM or HM.

New allies

The Ministry of Purity

The Ministry was formed to protect the people of Kaineng City and finally destroy Shiro's Afflicted creations shortly after the end of the Factions campaign. The Ministry of Purity is attempting to clean up all the leftover Afflicted from Shiro Tagachi's brief return to power.

Quests

The "(HM)" after each quest links to that quest's hard mode version, which becomes available after completing both the normal mode version of the quest and the hard mode version of the quest's prerequisite.

Primary

• Initiate Zei Ri
  • Cleansing Bukdek Byway (HM)
  • Cleansing Shadow's Passage (HM)
  • Cleansing Shenzun Tunnels (HM)
  • Cleansing the Undercity (HM)
  • Cleansing the Sunjiang District (HM)
  • Cleansing Pongmei Valley (HM)
  • Rescue at Minister Cho's Estate (HM)
• Initiate Tsuriai
  • Cleansing Haiju Lagoon (HM)
  • Cleansing Zen Daijun (HM)
• Initiate Zei Ri
  • Cleansing Rhea's Crater (HM)
  • Cleansing the Silent Surf (HM)
  • Cleansing Morostav Trail (HM)
• Xan Hei
  • Intercepting the Am Fah (HM)
  • Tracking the Corruption (HM)
  • Architect of Corruption (HM)
  • The Gangs of Kaineng (HM)
  • What Waits in Shadow (HM)

• Herald of Purity
  • A Chance Encounter (HM)
• Guardsman Qua Lin
  • A Favor Returned (HM)
  • Deadly Cargo (HM)
  • Trading Blows (HM)
  • Ever Closer to the Edge (HM)
  • Violence in the Streets (HM)
• Miku
  • The Rescue Attempt (HM)
• Guardsman Qua Lin
  • Warning the Angchu (HM)
• Soar Honorclaw
  • Free Birds (HM)
  • Honorable Combat (HM)
  • A Treaty's a Treaty (HM)

Optional

The Imperial Dragon Guard is also doing some cleanup, but of a more beastly nature. At the same time, Courier Falken has arrived with a message from Queen Salma.

• Lei Jeng
  • Cantha Courier Crisis (HM)
  • Light My Fire (HM)
  • When Kappa Attack (HM)
  • Family Matters (HM)

New items

Trophies

• Ministerial Commendation: Awarded for completing quests for the Ministry of Purity. 15 can be traded for a Weapon of Purity from Iza Yoi.

Notes and warning

• The progression through time causes irreversible changes to Cantha. In particular, the Afflicted that formerly populated the "cleansed" areas (cf. the area-specific quests given by Inititate Zei Ri and Initiate Tsuriai) will no longer appear.
  • On Shing Jea Island (in Minister Cho's Estate, Haiju Lagoon, and Zen Daijun) they are replaced by large groups of high-level Scavengers.
  • In Kaineng City they are replaced by high-level Am Fah or Jade Brotherhood. The 8 Afflicted bosses are replaced with equivalent human bosses at or near the same location (see table below).
  • In the Echovald Forest and the Jade Sea there are no replacements, the Afflicted are simply gone.
• WARNING! Many players find the new enemies to be significantly more difficult, with the Scavengers even more so due to the limited party size on Shing Jea. Characters working on the Vanquisher or Cartographer titles should avoid Winds of Change until they have completed these areas.
  • It is possible to access the pre-Winds of Change version of an area by partying with a character who has not yet started the storyline, unless you have the "cleansing" quest active for that specific area.

Boss replacements

Area	Skill	Original	New
Pongmei Valley	Weapon of Quickening	The Afflicted Hakaru	Uris Tong of Ash
Shadow's Passage	Enraged Smash	The Afflicted Ako	Tuila the Club
Shenzun Tunnels	Stolen Speed	The Afflicted Li Yun	Rai Zhon the Manipulator
Shenzun Tunnels	Mind Burn	The Afflicted Kam	Xi Lin of the Flames
Sunjiang District	Broad Head Arrow	The Afflicted Huan	Zu Jin the Quick
Sunjiang District	Shadow Form	The Afflicted Soon Kim	Fah Yu the Shadow's Eye
The Undercity	Ray of Judgment	The Afflicted Miju	Ming the Judgment
The Undercity	Order of Apostasy	The Afflicted Huan	En Fa the Awakened

Boss non-replacements:

• Ritualist's Construct in Morostav Trail does not appear, and has no replacement. Soul Twisting can still be captured from Defiant Ancient Sseer in Raisu Palace (explorable).
• Assassin's Construct in Silent Surf still appears as normal. This is probably because the only other locations to capture Temple Strike are from random spawns during missions.

External links

• Winds of Change at GuildWars.com

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