Thursday, March 20, 2008 Game Update

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Game_updates:March_2008

Update - Thursday, March 20, 2008

Skill Changes

Assassin

Fox's Promise: functionality changed to: For 5..20 seconds, your dagger attacks cannot be blocked. This enchantment ends the next time you fail to hit.

Dervish

Guiding Hands: decreased number of attack skills that cannot be blocked to 0..3.

Mesmer

Enchanter's Conundrum: functionality changed to: For 10 seconds, target foe casts enchantments 100% slower. When this hex is applied, that foe takes 30..120 damage if not under the effects of an enchantment or hex spell.
Hex Breaker: decreased duration to 5..80 seconds.
Mantra of Concentration: decreased duration to 1..38 seconds; increased recharge to 30 seconds.

Necromancer

Angorodon's Gaze: decreased Energy cost to 5; decreased Health stolen to 10..40; decreased Energy gained to 1..9.

Ranger

Power Shot: decreased damage to 5..20.
Precision Shot: decreased damage to 3..18.
Sundering Attack/Penetrating Attack: decreased damage to 3..10; decreased armor penetration to 10%; increased recharge to 4 seconds.

Warrior

Magehunter's Smash: increased adrenaline cost to 8 strikes; updated the animation to match Hammer Bash.
Mokele Smash: decreased adrenaline gained to 2 strikes.

Automated Tournaments

You now lose K value (25 for daily, 50 for monthly) rating if you sign up for a tournament and forfeit the first round.
Tournament Reward points are now based off the number of teams who did not forfeit in the first round.
Bonus tournament reward points are now awarded for playing in every round of a daily tournament: 5 for 1v1 daily tournaments, and 15 for GvG daily tournaments.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that caused the map marker on the reward NPC to not appear when the Clear the Chamber quest completed in the Underworld.

Miscellaneous

Added new text to Kun Shao regarding the Xunlai Tournament House.

only skill nerfs

Does this mean Angorodon's Gaze is viable for spamming again? even though it doesn't steal as much hp?

Overall seems like an okay update.

Bloody nerfs -.-

Lol at AG nerf. gg bspike in gvg
And fox promise.. meh
Dont like the AT 'nerf' tho :/

~Prof.

sigh, my ranger was just getting fun to play again....

rofl this is really updating and nerfing just random stuff
wth with the ranger skills here

anet needs a new key-bored

I should stop wasting my time reading these updates.

/happy at the AT stuff more keys for me ^^

Ouch for sundering attack lol. Man i wish pvp and pve used separate skill lines lol. How wells its not that bad really.

thats not random stuff, its stuff that was being abused in pvp, get a clue.

Thank YOu anet!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love the AT's now!!!!!!

I love the Penetrating/Sundering Attack nerfs, it was indeed overpowered and getting out of hand in the arenas... FAR too much damage.

Here we go again.

I've been playing for 5 months now and the only thing that really bugs me about updates is the fact that you have no point of refference as to what those skills were before. All we are being told is what they are now.

Not everyone knows them all by heart.

No more pew pew/turret ranger then i guess

Wow, all the nerfs for Ranger were kinda stupid-looking.

Good thing I don't use any of those skills.

you and me and many others

Power shot 5-20 should change to wet noodle shot

Ouch, nerf to Angorodon's Gaze... don't mind the decreased energy gain but WTF happened to the damage. Not that I used sundering attack but that's a rather harsh nerf too.