February's update

Jensy

Jensy

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2007

Phoenix, Arizona

Blinkie Ponie Armie [bpa]

N/Mo

I wouldn't even really be expecting an update this weekend, if the CNY decorations weren't still up.

That said, I still don't, really. My guess is that it'll be on the 12th, but I suppose we'll see!

Aussie Boy

Aussie Boy

Alcoholic

Join Date: Mar 2007

Australia

W/

Well one thing I hope they add to the Feb update is add a collector in ALL areas
or change a collector to also be a Merchant.
It just breaks my heart leaving rubbish and litter on the ground it spoils
the countryside and lands it also could damage the environment.
Or just give us the extra storage bags this febuary to cart or stuffs out and leave the environment
clean and the way it was meant to be minus a few of the inhabitants of cause. :P

illidan009

illidan009

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2008

Volterra, Italy

A/

I want to see PS buffed up to 100dmg, 2 cd and 10 second cripple

Not really, just don't nerf shadowform anymore...I still want to see yellow numbers every once in a while I decide to farm on my sin...

warrior running

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2008

The Cape Is A Lie[Trim]

W/E

Let's just hope there useful

The Lost Explorer

The Lost Explorer

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2007

[AvA]

Rt/

i want to see
CoP nerfed
SF Nerfed for good
More Storage
Account Wide HoM
And a chest refresh, across all the campigains

Neo Nugget

Neo Nugget

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

I think they should add a new mini campaign, you know, something to spice up the game. New tonics/items/weapons just don't do it for me.

Another SF would be great

....please?

And I know something like this wouldn't happen until summer-ish.
I expect them to add the RP for this month on the second Thursday, but I wouldn't mind them on the 5th >.>

Lishy

Lishy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

I want Izzy to "accidentally" screw up making a Cry of Pain nerf and cause it to do over 9000 damage

Oh, and to re-enable stealing monster skills with [simple thievery]

daze

daze

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2008

In my own mind

The Dragon Exchange

E/

Im praying for a [cry of pain] nerf that way we can start hearing some real crying on these message boards.

Jensy

Jensy

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2007

Phoenix, Arizona

Blinkie Ponie Armie [bpa]

N/Mo

...

You people are crazy.

April is the next major build *g*

pumpkin pie

pumpkin pie

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

behind you

bumble bee

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Arching Healer View Post
a skill to remove wepon spells from the target
New content, wait till april.
If weapon spells can be remove then players will want a skill to remove wards and wells and umbrella for meteor showers and something to remove aoe effects without players having to get out of the spot :P

stop whining

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

It's going to be the typical update: zaishen keys, map rotations, new tonic, skill 'balance', and maybe a couple of bug fixes/miscellaneous updates.

Oh, and rawr/zero/whatever other guilds are going to be punished.



Quote:
Originally Posted by pumpkin pie View Post
If weapon spells can be remove then players will want a skill to remove wards and wells and umbrella for meteor showers and something to remove aoe effects without players having to get out of the spot :P

stop whining
I'm sorry, but can you please point out the whining in the post you quoted? It seems that I've missed it.

Krill

Krill

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

America

I know we're not suppose to post screens from "that forum" but I have it on good word this is the next update...

Apok Omen

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Commence Aggro [BaMf]

Mo/E

What I expect/kinda want"


*New AT Rotations
*New Tonic
*Predictions Rewards
*Some way to prevent draws in ATs/GvGs
*Hero reconfiguration (hopefully just remove them from HA and be done with it)
*rawr/zero "punishment"

Assassin:

Mark of Insecurity: Scale the effect: 6%...90% shortened duration of enchants/stances.

Necro:

Lingering Curse: decrease health debenefits from 33% to 25% (MAYBE add one extra pip of degen...MAYBE)

Rend Enchantments: 10e 1sec 25r (and/or make it a hex that removes one enchant every 4 seconds for 3...15 seconds)

Monk:

Amity: 5e 1sec 20r For 1...18 seconds, target foe and nearby foes cannot be affected by weapon spells. (Insert end clause here)

*Fix rare crash bug
*Treasure chest restart
*etc.....

.defekt

.defekt

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ex Talionis [Law], Schindlers Fist [ouch]

you people complaining about heroes in HA/GVG do realise that if they actually do remove the use of heroes (which they wont) then the amount of people playing ha/gvg will drop a shitload, right? PvP has a small enough player-base, why decrease it even more?

Reflect

Reflect

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2007

Varna,Bulgaria

Glob Of Ectospasm [GoE]

W/

-new tonic
-Prediction rewards
-rawr/zero "punishment"
-AT rotaions
-Fixed rare crash bug

-nerf
-nerf
-nerf
-nerf
-overpower
-nerf

-random bug fixed

pumpkin pie

pumpkin pie

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

behind you

bumble bee

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Arkantos View Post
I'm sorry, but can you please point out the whining in the post you quoted? It seems that I've missed it.
The quotes in bold dear Arkantos, wanting a skill to remove weapon spells seem to me is a very big whine IMHO. sorry, i should have quote the OP. :P

lustnlood

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2008

Me/

tbh i dont think te player base would decrease. i talk to many ppl and this is the situation:

it is not the wep spells that are apain but it is that a hero is using them... do you know that they put a wep spell on even before you spike? they calculate through the specific use of skills and the warriors' targets. something like that

removing heroes from ha would benefit everyone, or at least the people who can actually play again. im a balanced player. i refuse to play PSway. and many people think the same way but then succumb to the fact that f a good team plays psway[not cos of ps but cos of the hero] they will never move out of the halls. you yourself said that top 400 guilds use heroes. so here is my question to you all:

would it make you comfortable to lose to a team even though you have good positioning, good tactics, good healing and perfect spiking just because norgu used a wow or a woh and automatically removed the 110-150 gmd of the war from the spikes?

and secondly YES weapon spells do win games. a kill on a spike can shatter a team. do you have any idea what a wow on the prot could do if the rest are ressing the healer... the pd cant get all the resses. Just yesterday i was in a team and that damned wep of shadow won them the game.. it is not about positioning anymore or pure skill because even r6 can overwhelm a r9 balanced due to the massive ammount of defence PSway has and the incredible ammount of pressure the team can dump on the opponents.

balanced simply cant handle the pressure and its a shame because gw was a game which i was proud to say relied on pure skill and not that of alternative means. its a damn shame. [btw this is making my point not QQing]

alen

alen

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

Slovenia

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gwmaster View Post
the update is fairly easy to guess.

February 6
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*Updated the Zaishen Chest drops to replace the Ugly Tonic with a new tonic for the month of February. More information on Zaishen Rewards can be found here*link*.

*Updated Automated Tournament map rotations.

Skill Updates
------------
*buff
*buff
*buff
*nerf
*Added a new overpowered proffession to the game
*buff

*Fixed rare crashes

Xunlai Tournament Agents now offer prizes for the January tournament go waste those Zkeys!
Now that sounds more like something Izzy would do :P

FireFox

FireFox

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Texas

We Wear Sombreros [文文文], Ugly Ducklings [ugly]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vale Todo View Post
Did you ever lose a game where you actually though " if only I had a weapon spell removing skill my guild would had won "?
Yes... but no one really cares

ele pl

ele pl

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by arienrhode View Post
I know we're not suppose to post screens from "that forum" but I have it on good word this is the next update...

At first, i really thought you gonna post something from **that** forum, but then i opened, and had a really great laugh, thx

But srsly, any member of **that** forum has nothing to say about upcoming skill 'balance'?

Amnel Ithtirsol

Amnel Ithtirsol

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

AU

League Of The Fallen

Mo/

Some Dervish PvE buffs could be nice....

[Vow of Silence]
Elite Enchantment Spell. For 5...9...10 seconds, you cannot be the target of Spells, and you cannot cast Spells.

changed to:

Elite Enchantment Spell. For 5...9...10 seconds, you cannot be the target of Enemy Spells.

[Extend Enchantments]
Lose all enchantments. For 5...17 seconds, enchantments cast upon you last 100% longer. When this enchantment ends, you lose all enchantments on you.

changed to:

For 5...17 seconds, enchantments cast upon you last 100% longer. When this enchantment ends, you lose all enchantments on you.
(i.e. no enchantment loss when recast before end)

Get them dervishes farmin...

lemming

lemming

The Hotshot

Join Date: May 2006

Honolulu

International District [id???]

Quote:
Originally Posted by ele pl View Post
But srsly, any member of **that** forum has nothing to say about upcoming skill 'balance'?
It doesn't suck.

Gwmaster

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Canada/Quebec

N/

[meteor]

change to
----------
(cost) 70e (cast) 15sec (recharge) until next morale boost

Meteor: A meteor falls from the sky striking any non spirit creature on radar range for 300.400.500 fire damage and knockdown. Environmental effect follows after strike (nuclear winter) all non spirit creatures are slowed down by 33%, and on suffer from -2 degen for 60seconds.(causes exhaustion for every 5 second spent casting)


you better have that shelter spirit on..

Sun Fired Blank

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2007

Quote:
It doesn't suck.
It's not amazing either; is it even finished yet, and is it scheduled for 02/05 or 02/12?

Divinus Stella

Divinus Stella

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Wales

Steel Phoenix

the MAT is on the 21st so i expect the balance will happen on the 12th.

I'm guessing it'll be mainly PvP changes, rotation adjustments and a few fixes to the random skill buffs from last time and likely adding another couple of broken skills.

I think the next major PvE update will be in late April, i'm sure i've seen some dev input about their update schedule on wiki.

Reflect

Reflect

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2007

Varna,Bulgaria

Glob Of Ectospasm [GoE]

W/

Shadow Form
cost : 15 nrgy
Casting time; 2 secs
Recahrge: 60 secs
for 5...15 seconds u deal 66% dmg, but cannot be targetet by spells and attacks

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

It's thursday today! Wonder if we'll get our update today or not?

Spaced Invader

Spaced Invader

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Too bad A.Net insists on using some journal-wiki-page as their one and only communication channel...
Yesterday's quote from Linsey's journal page:
Quote:
Speaking of the Monthly Maintenance Build, we also worked today on getting everything ready and over to the staging servers for this build. Unfortunately, some technical issues with those servers prevented us from finishing the testing/bug fixing which is needed before we can push it Live as planned. If the troubles persist for too long into tomorrow we may need to push the build back to Friday so that the proper testing passes can be completed and the content is signed off as ready to publish. These little bumps do crop up on occasion.
Anyway, at least it's coming this week.

MarlinBackna

MarlinBackna

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2007

[TAM]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Arching Healer View Post
a skill to remove wepon spells from the target
New content, wait till april.
Wait, what? Since when (recently now, not in the past) were (a) weapon skills OP enough to deserve a skill and (b) would anyone even take said skill?

lutz

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

Battery Powered Best Friends [Vibe]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sun Fired Blank View Post
It's not amazing either; is it even finished yet, and is it scheduled for 02/05 or 02/12?
It's done, and it doesn't suck too much.

Quote:
Originally Posted by MarlinBackna View Post
Wait, what? Since when (recently now, not in the past) were (a) weapon skills OP enough to deserve a skill and (b) would anyone even take said skill?
Have you opened Guild Wars lately?

Solas

Solas

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ireland

Currently LF Active HA Guild, Glad 2, Comm.3, R2

E/

A /hug emote that gave a hug would be nice.
That said, I'm procrastinating..

newbie_of_doom

newbie_of_doom

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

WTFPRIVACYDUDE

Endangered Feces [DoDo]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zabe View Post
This thursday, xunlai points and punishment for rawr&zero. Nothing else to wait for most likely, Izzy isnt known as to know how to do two things at the same time (read: He can't do both skill updates and punish guilds at the same time).
Can he do skill updates if he wouldn't have to give rawr something that is supposed to be a punishment then, because I never actually noticed that.