update May 1st, 2008

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Guild Wars Game Update Notes

Update - Thursday May 1
Guild vs. Guild

The Guild Battle rules which were altered in a previous update will remain in place including:

* Number of archers on Burning and Druid's Isle.
* NPC positioning on Warrior's Isle.
* Wards will continue to not protect Guild Battle NPCs.
* Certain Ritualist skills will continue to not affect or protect Guild Battle NPCs.


Skill Updates

Reverted temporary tournament changes to skills:

Assassin

* Assassin's Remedy: reverted Energy cost back to 5.


Mesmer

* Hex Breaker: reverted skill type back to skill.
* Fragility: reverted Energy cost back to 10.
* Fevered Dreams: reverted recharge back to 10 seconds.
* Chaos Storm: reverted Energy cost back to 15.
* Energy Surge: reverted Energy drained to 3..8; reverted damage per Energy to 12.
* Energy Burn: reverted Energy drained to 3..8; reverted damage per Energy to 12.


Elementalist:

* Blinding Surge: reverted recharge back to 4 seconds; reverted Blindness duration back to 3..8 seconds.
* Ward Against Melee: reverted duration back to 5..20 seconds.
* Lightning Orb: reverted skill back to applying Cracked Armor.
* Glyph of Concentration: reverted number of spells affected back to 2.
* Shockwave: reverted casting time back to .75 seconds.


Monk:

* Aegis: reverted Energy cost back to 10.


Warrior:

* Disarm: reverted time that attack skills are disabled back to 0..5 seconds; reverted recharge back to 12.


Ritualist:

* Flesh of My Flesh: reverted recharge back to 0 seconds.
* Death Pact Signet: reverted activation time back to 3 seconds.
* Ancestors' Rage: reverted casting time back to .25 seconds.
* Splinter Weapon: reverted recharge back to 5 seconds.


Dervish:

* Mystic Sweep: reverted activation time back to .75 seconds.
* Eremite's Attack: reverted activation time back to .75 seconds.


Paragon:

* Song of Restoration: reverted recharge back to 20 seconds.
* Ballad of Restoration: reverted recharge back to 20 seconds.
* Harrier's Toss: reverted activation time back to .5 seconds.


Bug Fixes

* Fixed a bug that caused interrupted attack skills to occasionally deal damage.
* Fixed a bug with skills that convert damage from one type to another, such as Stone Striker and Greater Conflagration. The converted damage was working incorrectly with armor bonuses and penalties.
* Fixed a bug that allowed characters to occasionally Shadow Step while carrying a flag.


Miscellaneous

Created wiki pages for Asian language players to report localization bugs:

* Japanese: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...alization_Bugs
* Korean: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...alization_Bugs
* Traditional Chinese: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...alization_Bugs


The wiki pages for the European localization bug reports are now hosted by the European community team:

* French: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...alization_Bugs
* German: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...alization_Bugs
* Italian: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...alization_Bugs
* Spanish: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...alization_Bugs

Fixed the title.

January 4th... enough said... +1 for me.

EDIT: Fixed already, so I can put something on-topic:

So it's reverted... yay...?

Does that include Winter?

Wait, what, Winter got fixed? *falls off chair*

Took them long enough. >.>

So......what are they gonna do with the reverted skills that needed the buffs and the ones that should've stayed nerfed?

I want my 5en Chaos Storm baaaaaaaaack. :'(

So does this mean [[Stone Striker] and [[Greater Conflagration] "work" like [[Winter]? When does the damage type conversion now occur?

won't change anything for me, so yeh... update like most others - useless

It means that now skills like Winter and such now change the element BEFORE getting checked against AL, at least that what it sounds like.

So they made a decent skill update. Oops, better revert that.

yay! the skills are relived again!

... bye bye chaos storm. It was nice having your swirly goodness on my bar for a little bit.

I can't believe Winter finally got fixed. lol took AGES.

I just don't understand the need for the change and reversion in the first place.

Seriously. I'm not sure if it was worth a skill slot at 5e but it sure isn't at 15e.

agreed, necro powah!

I'll miss some of these....ah well.

Thank you ANet for removing that mostly pants update. Please don't do it again.

Well, we knew that they'd be reverted...now let's see if they continue to rebalance skills or if this is the end.

If I'm reading it right, I'm glad they fixed Winter.

Analyse the results and then make a final decision? Just like the CRM already stated?

undo all button needs an update

Did this update make Tournament Reward points for April GvG/1vs1 predictions available?

Maybe if Anet starts handing out money the community will finally be happy. Holy crap guys, live with it.

Fixed Winter!!! Ebon Hawk damage against Burning Titan goes up from 49 to 70.

*heart attack*

Holy cow... took them long enough.

Just curious... is this the longest established known bug in a skill that has been fixed? Wasn't it broken for like 2 years?

nope
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I knew that Rodgort's Invocation should be doing more than 40 dmg to Titans in Hell's Precipice while Winter was up.

my rits are happy, but gargoyle farming just got cracked again ---ah oh well.

I just want to thank Anet, amidst all the QQ, for following through with their promise, and reverting skills, even if this may upset some.

Staying true to one's word is important for any business venture nowadays.

They never should of made that promise, the balance was pretty good..
I really don't see how the PvE'ers will be happy about this either, 80% of PvE'ers use Ursan..

I think they should make skill changes without saying anything. At least that would stop this weekly "QQ, they changed the skills again!"

what QQ means?

and QFT?

qft = quoted for the win

edit: i'll miss some of these updates, but i'm glad that blinding surge is useful again

ok read closeley how they fixed damage conversion....
they made it work wth armmour bonuses. where as before if you were wearing forstbound armour and winter was up... any damage that was converted(origonaly something else) then converted damage would ignore your frost bound benefits and do the same damage as if you wer wearing dragon scale.

stone striker is the same. geomancer insignias wil now actualy make a difference where as before, it dint work. That is why i was using blessed insignias(well one reason anyway)

QQ = two eyes with tears running out

QFT = Quoted For Truth

QQ = crying (looks like eyes with tears)
QFT = Quoted For Truth

How's that for being too slow?

That's tragic, MSecorsky :P
Either way, I'm glad they kept their promise, but I wouldn't mind seeing it un-reverted.

I say they un-revert it, only to re-revert it again a few days later just to cause havoc. Or maybe change the weekend events to "Enjoy it While You Can" weekends, where "This skill will be overpowered starting on Friday 12PM PST, only to be nerfed to hell and made unusable on Monday at 12AM PST."

Now that's gotta keep things lively.

This update rock ;

may 2th ; i'll revert that xD

It was really nice vs High AL opponents with an Assassin's Promise spam build. <3<3

Yes, I did! It works like it should.