Update July 17th

Kelson

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

Quote:
Update - Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Party Search

*Whenever a party enters Party Search, an automatic message will now broadcast to players in that party’s current district. For example, if Flamingo Avenger sets “glf monk” as the party’s description in the Party Search panel, “Flamingo Avenger: Party Search – glf monk” will appear in the Chat panel of players in the same district as Flamingo Avenger.

* Whenever a party leader broadcasts “glf,” “lfg,” lfp,” “wtb,” “wts,” or “wtt” in All chat, that party will now be entered into Party Search automatically with that chat message used as the party's description.

User Interface

* The Trade panel now displays the name as well as the icon of trade items present in the trade cart, and a warning message now displays when the person you are trading with changes the offer.
* The Party panel now automatically resizes vertically to match the contents of the panel.
* The Party panel now maintains the same position it was placed in while in outposts and missions.
* The Party panel join frame has been moved to the bottom of the panel.
* Allies and pets are now listed in collapsible groups in the Party panel while in a mission.

Domain of Anguish

To balance the Domain of Anguish appropriately for a wider variety of players, the difficulty of this realm has been adjusted. Some of the changes apply only to Normal mode.

* In Normal mode only, all world effects outside of the final battle have been removed.
* In Normal mode only, damage output has been reduced for a variety of monsters.
* The size of several monster groups found in the beginning areas of the City of Torqua and the Foundry of Failed Creations have been reduced.
* The Enraged ability possessed by creatures in the Domain of Anguish has been adjusted. This ability now gives the caster +50% damage when below 70% Health, and an additional +50% damage when below 30% Health.
* Fixed a bug that occasionally caused Mallyx to stop reacting in combat.

Bug Fixes

* Fixed a bug in the Nightfall mission the Grand Court of Sebelkeh that caused rifts to erroneously display blue bars when being recaptured by the Blasphemy.
* Fixed a bug that prevented the Factions quest "A Formal Introduction" from loading if players had quests from the Dragon Festival in their Quest Logs.

Miscellaneous

* The Tyrian World Map has been enlarged and adjusted in preparation for Guild Wars: Eye of the North.
* Improved the system for throttling chat spam.
* The Sunspear Rebirth Signet is now sorted under Sunspear skills in the Skills and Attributes panel.
* The Lightbringer’s Gaze and the Lightbringer’s Signet are now sorted under Lightbringer skills in the Skills and Attributes panel.
* Additional behavioral modifications have been made to the Luxon Warriors in Fort Aspenwood.
* Master Architect Gunther no longer runs in front of Fort Aspenwood's green gate.
Pulled from the wiki. Discuss.

bunnys are ebil

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

W/Mo

1.9k files to dl when entering kaineng x.x i like that luxon war fix though

explodemyheart

explodemyheart

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Indiana

Gui1d War스 P01ic트 [Pr으]

Mo/

Quote:
* The Party panel now automatically resizes vertically to match the contents of the panel.
* The Party panel now maintains the same position it was placed in while in outposts and missions.
YES. FINALLY.

Nomme Moon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

Either the update is downloading slow due to the recent lag or my internet has decided now is a good time to slow down to 17 kb/s...

william1975

william1975

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Dragons of Torment (DOA)

Me/

I went into my first HvH daily tournament today and got through the 5th round with 3 wins and 2 losses. when I left that round to my surprise there was a message sayign the game had been updated and i should reload.

I asked in local if i needed to, and someone said no so i waited for the round to ask me to join when to my surprise it woudl ot let me, so i logged out the game, and went to boot it up. It took 3 minutes to download and instal the update, and now 17 minutes later I am loading up the hero battle isle,

I imagine that I have forfieted the final two rounds of this tournament and wasted a tournament token

What idiot at Anet decided the best tiem to make us update was in the middle of a daily tournament, whoever it was should be fired coz nothing else in this game has pissed me off as much as this has.

I've wasted an hour and a half now doing a tournament i didnt get to finish and therefore have no pleasure in doing it at all becuase they stupidly decide that i need this update right now, and not when the tournament ends.

prism2525

prism2525

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Among dead bodies.

The Republic of Sky Pirates

E/

GW:EN map?? O.o

Gotta see.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomme Moon
Either the update is downloading slow due to the recent lag or my internet has decided now is a good time to slow down to 17 kb/s...
HINT: maybe loads of ppl are downloading it right now?

Diddy bow

Diddy bow

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

Jawsome!!!!!!!!!!!

looking for one :p

A/D

Whirlwind attack got pimped

Silly Warrior

Silly Warrior

Hold it!

Join Date: Jul 2006

In your local courthouse.

The Arctic Marauders [TAM] (elite PvE, PM)

Hey, tell me about it.

I was in Hall of Heros when it happened!

Lag city. Gahh!

DeBron

DeBron

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2006

MD

It's definitely the update, jumping between 10 KB/s and 70 KB/s.

thor hammerbane

thor hammerbane

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Dark Side of the Moon

Fat Kids Are Hard To Kid[nap]

This is taking a long ass time to dl..cant wait to see map

GloryFox

GloryFox

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Good ol' USA, where everyone else wants to be

Now Plays World of Warcraft on Whisperwind

DoA was changed only 9 months too late. It's left too much of a bad taste in people's mouth like sea water in Lemon Juice, yeah people will drink it but it's in no way refreshing.

Traveller

Traveller

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Finland

League of Extraordinary Explorers [LOST] (my one man guild)

Me/

Well I don't get how this is supposed to work? If you type WTB/WTS in trade chat and the message is too long for Party search box, your message is cut in half! I could only write "WTB Koosun's fire staff or Rago" and the rest was cut off. How the heck are you supposed to write longer trade announcements than that?

ca_aok

ca_aok

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Xen of Onslaught

E/Me

Quote:
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused Mallyx to stop reacting in combat.
This is my only complaint about the update. Yes it's stupid. But that bug is the only known way to kill Mallyx, as most DoAers know. After the first attempt at fixing this bug the number of Mallyx kills dropped DRASTICALLY because it only worked maybe 1/3 tries. Honestly, there is no way for the average party to kill him. Perhaps with a specific gimmick build that concentrates solely on killing him, but such a group would have problems getting through the mobs preceeding him.

I say if you're going to get rid of the bug, nerf him. Make him hard, yet possible to kill with a regular team.

Mr. Fahrenheit

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Broadway

D/

Check out the Tyrian Map:

Diddy bow

Diddy bow

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

Jawsome!!!!!!!!!!!

looking for one :p

A/D

Calling your build is a bit diffrent too ^^, to bad i cant go to american districts yet .

Aerian_Skybane

Aerian_Skybane

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

House of Caeruleous [HoC]

R/E

Looks like a great update, I have been using the Party Window since it came out now it will get some real use . Its a nice touch you can easily type it in All and it will auto bump it to the PW, that is a really nice feature, makes it quicker and easier to adapt. Seems like the lines will be getting longer too according to:

* The Party panel now automatically resizes vertically to match the contents of the panel.
* The Party panel now maintains the same position it was placed in while in outposts and missions.

But DAMN, ive got 24k files to go through! Thats with -image but damn, I thought maybe I broke GW! Def those files, if they havent started preloading GWEN, that HAS to be the map, since they would need to completely rebuild it and keep it attached to former progress for each person. It would be that big. Regardless, DAMN, large update.

Nomme Moon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by prism2525
HINT: maybe loads of ppl are downloading it right now?
HINT: I never get download speeds this slow on any update of any size, thanks.

Jumping Is Uselss

Jumping Is Uselss

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

-... . .... .. -. -.. / -.-- --- ..-

Did Anet mess up or something, because they are giving us the option to go to Euro dists if you are from American dists, but not letting us connect?

JeniM

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2007

W/E

No more difference maps for GMC
Speaking of which has anyones GMC gone down? i would check mine but i got 0-2KB/s (not complaining just saying)

Channel_V93

Channel_V93

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Stop Stealing [agro]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jumping Is Uselss
Did Anet mess up or something, because they are giving us access to Euro dists if you are from American dists?
Long awaited fix of Favor?

liner

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

R/Mo

i get disconnected when trying to hop from .eu to .am servers.

Anyway, this change to the party window is horrible. You are literally forced to use it!
1) party window now no longer accepts vertical resizing
2) trade channel now gets flooded with useless "party search" messages (
3) trade-seeking window still wont let you enter a decent sentence, just a very limited number of characters. ((

MrFuzzles

MrFuzzles

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2007

Norway

D/

I couldn't find words to express how much I love the party list changes, so here's a picture of a cute kitten

Free Runner

Free Runner

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2005

GW2G

Knights Of The Sacred Light [KSL]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jumping Is Uselss
Did Anet mess up or something, because they are giving us the option to go to Euro dists if you are from American dists?
Same over on Euro side. The English districts have been renamed to Common and above international is American Districts.

Sid Doog

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

DR (Drunkin Rangers)

E/Me

they are there but i cant get into them, i keep getting error 7

Series

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2006

People piss me off... so much.

Now people are putting "WTS" and "WTB" messages in the MISSION AREA of party search... why must people insist on being jackasses?

Dev121

Dev121

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jumping Is Uselss
Did Anet mess up or something, because they are giving us the option to go to Euro dists if you are from American dists, but not letting us connect?
I hope not but I err=7 when I try to switch. Mixed districts would own but :Fow Scrolls and favour ect useless . Its a good idea to increase the number of players so I hope its intentional , only time will tell.

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

There are no English districts anymore. Only common. Common as muck.

Metal Herc

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

* The Tyrian World Map has been enlarged and adjusted in preparation for Guild Wars: Eye of the North

So does this mean that since I am curently going for Tyrian Master Cartographer, that there will be more stuff? maybe a bit more to be scraped? Or is it ONLY the world map (M key)

Series

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by DeVaNeY121
I hope not but I err=7 when I try to switch. Mixed districts would own but :Fow Scrolls and favour ect useless . Its a good idea to increase the number of players so I hope its intentional , only time will tell.
Maybe europe+america will be combined and all the asian areas will be combined so that no matter what you should in theory have favor half the time

Nomme Moon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Series
Maybe europe+america will be combined and all the asian areas will be combined so that no matter what you should in theory have favor half the time
That wouldn't work, because Korea/Japan/Taiwan rarely have favor. It's always America vs Europe

Nukey

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

Eek! If you set GW to download all available files, there's a buttload of them. Almost 21000... I'm at 3% and 16.1mb downloaded

pedmangler

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

people were yelling about there graphics being messed after the update, i personally did not see any difference with graphics or performance, anyone have issues?

sindex

sindex

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

California

Swords of Night & Day [SWRD]

Well it did not take long for people to find a way to ignore the new Party Search Changes.

Now they either put spaces in-between or enter some other text like *selling.*

DeBron

DeBron

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2006

MD

Anyone else have all their windows moved to weird positions? My mini map now appears in the center of my page and I definitely didn't put it there.

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

I'm at 13.5MB and 1% atm. Are we downloading the majority of GW:EN? >.>

liner

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

R/Mo

id rather see "selling" than "Party Search - WTB"

RSGashapon

RSGashapon

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

Sol 3

R/

The old icon for Whirlwind Attack looked better. I don't see the point in changing it.

countesscorpula

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Gwen Is [EVIL]

N/

Here's an odd observation.

Recently I was having issues with my online store currency being in Euros. After much fighting fussing and feuding (and some help from a certain CR person), I finally got the prices listed in US$. After today's update, they list prices in US$, Euros, and Pounds... Anyone else seeing this?

william1975

william1975

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Dragons of Torment (DOA)

Me/

lol would seem that we are doing something major but then i looked at the update sheet and most of its pointless, though there was some major changed to DOA

twicky_kid

twicky_kid

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quite Vulgar [FUN]

The size of my party window was fitted around my interface. Now it doesn't fit because I can't control the vertical boarder. GG Anet.