Update Friday, June 22nd

Update - Friday June 22
Alliance Battles

To encourage active players in Alliance Battles, we have adjusted the faction rewards, increasing the rewards for winning teams and decreasing the rewards for losing teams. The new rewards are as follows:

* During the battle, players will now earn 1 faction point and 10 Balthazar faction per kill.
* After the battle, players will now earn 1 faction point for each point scored by their team. Players on the winning team will be awarded a further bonus of 1,000 faction points.


Competitive Missions

To encourage active players in Competitive Missions, we have adjusted faction rewards, increasing the rewards for winning teams and decreasing the rewards for losing teams. The new rewards are as follows:

Jade Quarry

* After the mission, players will now earn 20 faction points for each jade slab collected by their team. Players on the winning team will be awarded a further bonus of 750 faction points.


Fort Aspenwood

After the mission, players will now receive the following rewards:

* Kurzick players will receive a faction point reward of two times the final completion percentage of the Vengeance of the Gods.
* Luxon players will receive 40 faction points for each unique gate destroyed during the mission.
* Players on the winning team will be awarded a further bonus of 600 faction points.


Auto Targeting

* Added the ability to toggle Auto Targeting. To enable and disable this feature, players can use the "Auto-target foes when there's no chosen target" checkbox in the General Options panel (F11).
* Auto Targeting will no longer select an item that is reserved for another player.


Miscellaneous

* Made preparations for the Monthly Automated Tournament Playoff Event.

*crosses fingers for a buff to the PvE Ranger skills*

oh great... i think i can smell that eternal aura nerf *sniffs* no wait my popcorn is burning brb

Searing flames - reduced damage to 5-20.
Barrage now fires 6 arrows at one target and doesn't remove preparations.
Deleted the Assassin class.
W/Mo's can maintain mending for free.
Axes now do damage.

j/k, lol

Update - Friday June 22

Alliance Battles

To encourage active players in Alliance Battles, we have adjusted the faction rewards, increasing the rewards for winning teams and decreasing the rewards for losing teams. The new rewards are as follows:

During the battle, players will now earn 1 faction point and 10 Balthazar faction per kill.
After the battle, players will now earn 1 faction point for each point scored by their team. Players on the winning team will be awarded a further bonus of 1,000 faction points.

Competitive Missions

To encourage active players in Competitive Missions, we have adjusted faction rewards, increasing the rewards for winning teams and decreasing the rewards for losing teams. The new rewards are as follows:

Jade Quarry
After the mission, players will now earn 20 faction points for each jade slab collected by their team. Players on the winning team will be awarded a further bonus of 750 faction points.

Fort Aspenwood

After the mission, players will now receive the following rewards:

Kurzick players will receive a faction point reward of two times the final completion percentage of the Vengeance of the Gods.
Luxon players will receive 40 faction points for each unique gate destroyed during the mission.
Players on the winning team will be awarded a further bonus of 600 faction points.

Auto Targeting

Added the ability to toggle Auto Targeting. To enable and disable this feature, players can use the "Auto-target foes when there's no chosen target" checkbox in the General Options panel (F11).
Auto Targeting will no longer select an item that is reserved for another player.

Miscellaneous
Made preparations for the Monthly Automated Tournament Playoff Event.

So the leechers are still there?

of course they are -_-

WOW to think when i saw "New build of GW is avail...." i rolled my eyes and thought WHAT THE NERFED NOW

But thanks Anet looks like a great update

Death to auto targetting

Let's hope the Quarry gets popular, and cool beans on the attempted leech nerfing. We'll see how it plays out.

Lol, i was using Necrosis earlier, accidently clicked onto an ally first. There are 5 targets around us. It picked the ONLY 1 that wasn't Hexed or Conditioned. Its such a pathetic system.

nice update, this ab thing is intresting, i hope it's not the final version

ArenaNet, as said, failed miserably at making a counter to leechers, since they don't care about how great the rewards are.

The updated faction won't do anything; FFF is still more efficient, and the grind for the Kurzick/Luxon skills is still way too much. But that's an issue for aother thread...

But why would ArenaNet tamper with Fort Aspenwood faction when it is so horrendously bugged, imbalanced, and easy to exploit?

Atleast ArenaNet appears to be listening to the community, though...

To sum up this update:

DO NOT AB UNLESS YOU HAVE MAP ADVANTAGE

That's arenanet's words, not mine.

Sorry ANET this is a sad excuse for helping with gaining faction TITLES FOR SKILLS. This still does not account for the total faction people have been gaining for the last year that should be counted towards PvE skills.

Everybody please press "H" In game and tell us how much Faction did you gain "WASTE" over the last year that does not count towards an Allegiance rank Title.

1,234,400 Faction earned and not counted towards a town gone to waste.

SORRY ANET THIS DOES NOT "FIX" THE ISSUE.

I play AB and Aspenwood for fun, profit is minimal, and turning in faction for town ownership is stupid, always was and always will be.

gj on update maybe those places wont take forever to get into
can see future on next skill update
Me: are you changing the necro skills
anet: maybe
Me: do i get a cookie
Anet: no you get a back hand the sig now has 60 recharge and does -20 damage

Everytime I see that there is a new update I try to get the most out of the builds that are still viable, since it may be totally useless when next I log on.


This update does nothing to deter leechers, for the people who are praising Anet for listening to our concerns this week. What it will do, as it's been stated, is increase wait times for teams with the map in their favor because if the map is not in your favor, it's even less worthwhile to play with the decreased rewards. It will take leechers a little more time to gain faction (unless of course, they just switch to whichever side has map favor), but it doesn't deter them.

I don't AB because I hate standing around for hours lfg. But I kinda like the FA and JQ changes. Thanks Anet. It won't solve the leecher problem but the extra bonus for winning is nice. I'm sorry if I sound sarcastic. I'm actualy not trying to be. It's just the simple truth. The only way I see that can solve leeching is basicaly to render it useless. Reporting can lead to bad things, especialy against players that take this game way to seriously. Adjusting the rules in the game itself is the key here in my opinion. Anyway good update. I was glad not to see any skill nerfs....

As far as FA goes, i like the update. More points for winning is cool.

However, to be honest, it does not stop leechers. They get 100-160 points for winning, which isnt much, but the fact is that they dont waste their time at all, so even 160 is better than nothing. Let's say you're browsing websites, reading forums, chatting on MSN... all it takes is 1 mouse click for Enter Mission to earn 100+ Faction. And then you can go back to chats and browsing. It still pays off.

I don't know.. im sure this will discourage _some_ leechers, but how many i've no idea.

As usual you are full of joy and not complaining...

I think the update is a step in the right direction. At least we get more faction now for a win, nothing to complain about there. Sure it still takes a long time to get higher kurzick/luxon titles, but the skills are still usable even at low ranks, although I was hoping for a few of the pve skills to be buffed.