July 2 game update

Dragon Festival 2008

* Decorated Shing Jea Monastery and Kaineng Center in preparation for the Dragon Festival.
* Beginning at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT) on Thursday, July 3, 2008, the Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, and Rollerbeetle Racing will be opened for the duration of the weekend.
* Captain Rujiyo will be gathering adventurers in Shing Jea Monastery for special festival missions at various times throughout the day on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
* For the final events on Sunday July 6, Emperor Kisu will visit Shing Jea Monastery every two hours, with the first event starting at 2:00 AM Pacific (-7 GMT) and the last event starting at 11:59 PM Pacific (-7 GMT).
* Imperial Supply Master Kagno will appear in Shing Jea Monastery as the event comes to a close at 11:59 AM Pacific (-7 GMT) on Monday, July 7. He will remain there for one week to exchange 250 Victory Tokens for the new mask in case anyone misses the exchange with Emperor Kisu.
* For the full mission and event schedule, please see the Dragon Festival 2008 event page.

For discussion on the Shadow Form or Underworld changes please see this thread: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10304383

Bug Fixes

* Fixed a bug that caused the Elementalist skill Steam to deal fire damage instead of cold damage for its conditional damage.
* Fixed a bug that caused Sunspear Rebirth Signet to aggro mobs near the target.
* Fixed a bug that caused the Ranger skill Conflagration to affect spears.

Miscellaneous

* Added dialogue to the Xunai Tournament Agent to remind players to register their account.
* Changed Guardsman Zingpah’s dialogue in Kaineng Center to reduce confusion.
* Improved Hero AI to use skills such as Conjure Flame and Ebon Dust Aura based on their weapon’s current damage type when effects changing the damage (such as Winter or Staggering Force) are active.
* Improved Hero AI for the Assassin skill Shattering Assault. Heroes will now use this skill if the target is not enchanted.
* Improved Hero response to a player manually ordering them to use a skill. Heroes should now respond faster to orders.
* Improved Hero AI for the Dervish skill Pious Assault. Heroes will now use this skill even if they are not enchanted.
* Improved Hero AI for the Assassin skill Disrupting Dagger. Heroes will now use this skill to interrupt spellcasting enemies rather than use it frequently against non-casting targets.
* Improved Hero AI for the Dervish skill Conviction. Heroes will now use this skill even if they are not enchanted.
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So the hero AI for Shattering Assault got fixed, but why is the skill still bugged? ._.

Allriiiiiiight! I'm not updating. I'm staying logged in to farm more
Someone in my guild bought a full stack of ectos from the trader

Sad to see no HoM update to make this a little better.

Well, all A/E will now probably go A/Me because degen isn't damage, and use some kind of cover enchantment against Signet of Disenchantment so UW farming still lives.

and erm, when is this happening? o.o

no reward points makes me sad

Check your calendar

I was GOING to say this doesn't affect me but i forgot that MoR is a hex spell....Looks like I need a new build. OR just go farm somewhere else....the latter sounds better to me.

Im not being told to restart teh game. And in an hour it'll be july the third. so erm when are these effects going to be taking place

unless its a live update, and i aint coming out of observe to find out >.>

disregard all that

Good update, no HoM update is slightly sad. Also, no July Tonic?

That's not going to work so well if those guys spawn in 3s, 6s, and 9s.

You might try Ignorance or something, but the problem is you need them sufficiently balled first, typically you'll be dead by then.

Basically, it's going to depend on how well you can avoid killing the cursed phantoms in the first place. Probably doable, but this will yield less ectos/time.

ANet fixed their mistake. This is a good sign.

ANet dunt care bout PvPers, dey only care about teh PvE!

Meh just stick with Aatxes, Dead collector/threshers, Terrorwebs, and do any of the old mobs in chaos plains that you can if your build doesn't hex. If not there are still all the other ones I just mentioned. Not too bad really.

I love you Izzy <3

--grabs a cold pasta salad*, gets ready to watch the QQ--

* popcorn is boring =[

That's all I had to read to know I'll be there this weekend.

Only my Elementalist heroes seem to act as they normally would, but every other hero class have finally listened to me now.

Happy days are here again.

According to Regina, the reward points,July Tonic and everything else usually featured in the thursday updates will be next week instead due to the Dragon Festival.

The Dragon Festival page has made it clear there would be a new mask (Grasp Mask) for a week.

yay dragon festival

OMG, HOLY CRAP!!!!!

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they fixed ss rebirth signet

See Regina's post here:

That only took about a year...

Anyway, about 3 1/2 hours till Rollerbeetle Racing. I'm definitely getting Uber Micro Skillz this weekend.

omg a mask????

nice update for the festival....not sure I like the changes to the uw....never had a sin so never did that stuff---but, ah well, they added those nightmares ages ago to get rid of the 55-ers, so why not?

can someone tell me if the 'Winter' skill still bugged ? or did they fixed it ?

I think it was fixed awhile ago in a previous update iirc. Might be wrong though.

Winter was fixed like 3 months ago (finally... its only been broken since it first existed).

OMG!1
One additional day of the afk-fest!??!?
*faints*

Heck - *double faints*


Best ... news ... ever!11

Well... there goes all my money on festival tickets.