Guild vs. Guild
Warrior's Isle: Adjusted the location of NPCs in red base.
Druid's Isle: Removed two archers from both bases.
Burning Isle: Removed two archers from both bases.
Updated Automated Tournament map rotations.
Skill Updates
Assassin
Assassin's Remedy: increased Energy cost to 10.
Mesmer
Hex Breaker: changed skill type back to stance.
Fragility: decreased Energy cost to 5.
Fevered Dreams: decreased recharge to 8 seconds.
Chaos Storm: decreased Energy cost to 5.
Energy Surge: increased Energy drained to 1..10; decreased damage per Energy to 9.
Energy Burn: increased Energy drained to 1..10; decreased damage per Energy to 9.
Necromancer
Dark Pact: increased damage to 10..70.
Elementalist
Blinding Surge: decreased recharge to 3 seconds; decreased Blindness duration to 1..5 seconds.
Ward Against Melee: decreased duration to 1..18 seconds; no longer protects Guild Battle NPCs.
Lightning Orb: this skill no longer applies Cracked Armor.
Glyph of Concentration: decreased number of spells affected to 1.
Shockwave: increased casting time to 1 second.
Ward Against Harm: no longer protects Guild Battle NPCs.
Ward Against Elements: no longer protects Guild Battle NPCs.
Monk
Aegis: increased Energy cost to 15.
Warrior
Disarm: decreased time that attack skills are disabled to 0..3 seconds; increased recharge to 20.
Ritualist
Flesh of My Flesh: increased recharge to 10 seconds.
Death Pact Signet: increased activation time to 4 seconds.
Ancestors' Rage: increased casting time to 1 second.
Splinter Weapon: increased recharge to 8 seconds.
Recuperation: no longer affects Guild Battle NPCs.
Life: no longer affects Guild Battle NPCs.
Pure Was Li Ming: no longer affects Guild Battle NPCs.
Displacement: no longer protects Guild Battle NPCs.
Shelter: no longer protects Guild Battle NPCs.
Dervish
Mystic Sweep: increased activation time to 1 second.
Eremite's Attack: increased activation time to 1 second.
Paragon
Song of Restoration: increased recharge to 30 seconds.
Ballad of Restoration: increased recharge to 30 seconds.
Harrier's Toss: increased activation time to 1 second.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that caused Ritualist Spirits to stop attacking if their caster has moved outside of compass range.
Fixed lighting issues with the Demonic Aegis, Draconic Aegis, Draconic Scythe, Dryad Bow, and the Eaglecrest Axe.
Fixed a bug that caused the Paragon skill "Never Surrender!" to affect non-party allies.
Fixed a bug that caused the Monk skill Healer's Boon to improperly affect skills on occasion.
Miscellaneous
Implemented UI for trial accounts which displays the time remaining on the trial.
Guildwiki Notes
Fixed a mistake with the concise description of Burning Speed.
The Guild Wars online store in character selection screen has changed its icon.
-Some of these are pretty deccent and expected. Lightening orb was too powerful with cracked armor. Anybody have screenshots of the "new" design a weapon items now that they have had their lighting changed?
Game Updates - Thursday April 17, 2008
HawkofStorms