Update - Thursday, March 11, 2010

Update - Thursday, March 11, 2010

Creature Skill Bars

Creature skill bars affected by the February 25th update have been updated.


Elementalist Skills

Glimmering Mark

• Charged Blackness now uses Lightning Surge instead of Glimmering Mark.

Obsidian Flesh

• Bizzr Ironshell now also uses Icy Prism.
• Harn Coldstone still uses Obsidian Flesh, but now uses Rust instead of Conjure Frost, and also uses Glyph of Lesser Energy and Shard Storm.
• Mantis Stormcaller now also uses Icy Prism.
• Shekoss the Stony now also uses Ebon Hawk.
• Whyk Steelshell now also uses Lava Arrows.

Necromancer Skills

Barbed Signet

• Mandragor Imp (Level 3) now uses Blood of the Aggressor instead of Barbed Signet.

Jaundiced Gaze

• Afflicted Necromancer (Level 14) now uses Blood Drinker instead of Jaundiced Gaze.
• Fungal Wallow now uses Vampiric Gaze instead of Jaundiced Gaze.
• Rot Foulbelly now uses Vampiric Gaze instead of Jaundiced Gaze.
• Rot Wallow now uses Vampiric Gaze instead of Jaundiced Gaze.

Ritualist Skills

Renewing Surge

• Lieutenant Kayin now uses Spirit Boon Strike instead of Renewing Surge.

Warrior Skills

Dwarven Battle Stance

• Boulder Elemental now uses Crude Swing in normal and Hard modes.
• Boulder Elemental (Hard mode) now uses Warrior's Endurance instead of Dwarven Battle Stance.
• Dwarven Ghost now uses Warrior's Endurance instead of Dwarven Battle Stance.
• Hulking Stone Elemental now uses Crude Swing in normal and Hard modes.
• Hulking Stone Elemental (Hard mode) now uses Warrior's Endurance instead of Dwarven Battle Stance.
• Krak Flamewhip (Warrior) now uses Devastating Hammer instead of Dwarven Battle Stance.
• Summit Beastmaster (Hard mode) now uses Devastating Hammer instead of Dwarven Battle Stance.
• Summit Giant Herder now uses Devastating Hammer instead of Dwarven Battle Stance.

Fierce Blow

• Sunreach Warmaker now also uses Staggering Blow.

Overbearing Smash

• Berserking Minotaur now uses Auspicious Blow instead of Overbearing Smash.
• Malfunctioning Enduring Golem now uses Irresistible Blow instead of Overbearing Smash.
• TPS Regulator Golem now uses Auspicious Blow instead of Overbearing Smash.

Renewing Smash

Deldrimor Dwarves (Eye of the North)

• Dwarven Soldier now uses Staggering Blow instead of Renewing Smash.
• King Jalis Ironhammer now uses Crude Swing instead of Renewing Smash.
• Orozar Highstone now uses Irresistible Blow instead of Renewing Smash.
• Transformed Soldier now uses Staggering Blow instead of Renewing Smash.
• Ural Highstone now uses Irresistible Blow instead of Renewing Smash.

Stone Summit Dwarves (Eye of the North)

• Marln Steelfist now uses Staggering Blow instead of Renewing Smash.
• Stone Summit Crusher now uses Staggering Blow instead of Renewing Smash.
• Stone Summit Pounder now uses Mighty Blow instead of Renewing Smash.
• Taskmaster Durgon now uses Staggering Blow instead of Renewing Smash.

Shove

• Sickened Guard (Ranger) in Hard mode now uses Quick Shot instead of Shove.

Yeti Smash

• The AI now uses Yeti Smash more intelligently.
• Abyssal (Domain of Anguish) now uses Overbearing Smash instead of Yeti Smash.
• Arrahhsh Mountainclub (Jade Sea) now also uses Staggering Blow.
• Crystal Ettin now uses Crude Swing instead of Yeti Smash.
• Devona (Factions) still uses Yeti Smash, but now uses Staggering Blow instead of Mighty Blow.
• Eldritch Ettin now uses Crude Swing instead of Yeti Smash.
• First Inscribed now also uses Belly Smash.
• Paranoia Ettin now uses Crude Swing instead of Yeti Smash.
• Yeti (Jade Sea) now also uses Staggering Blow.

Additional Skill Bar Updates

• Ilidus of the Empty Palm no longer uses Black Lotus Strike or Shadow Refuge, and now uses Fox Fangs, Golden Lotus Strike, and Nine Tails Strike instead.
• Luxon Assassin now uses Fox Fangs instead of Black Lotus Strike.
• Senkai, Lord of the 1,000 Daggers Guild now also uses Enduring Toxin, Fox Fangs, and Repeating Strike.
• Shreader Sharptongue now also uses Fox Fangs and Mantis Touch.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented Soul Twisting from refreshing the number of remaining Binding Rituals when it was reapplied.
• Fixed a bug that caused Urgoz to apply Binding Chains for 30 seconds.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to Shadow Step past portals in Slavers' Exile.
• Fixed a bug that awarded completion of the Admiral Kantoh Zaishen Bounty quest for killing the Acolyte of Balthazar.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedb...dates/20100311

http://www.guildwars.com/support/gam...es/default.php

They forgot to fix the bug that allowed Seeping Wound to exist.

Devona (Factions) still uses Yeti Smash

I lolled at this

We'll they admitted shadow stepping in slaver portals were possibel (again or is it still)

Ah, you beat my thread. Well, at least mine looks better

omg they had all this time do to this stuff but not to tell us what this weekend is or add it to login screen? lols. and double lols at the slavers bug fix! xD

well the glich for duncon is fixed

Monsters take priority over mesmers/dervishes/rangers in pve.

Bout time. And Soul Twisting Fix.

Donno how I feel about the actual update though. Seems like they just replaced powerful skills with less powerful ones on mobs :/

*Fixed a bug that caused Urgoz to apply Binding Chains for 30 seconds


about time.....

Was Urgoz using the new version of Binding Chains with a 30 sec duration?

Well, they were more in need of a buff then Me/R/D.

RIP duncan SC. at least we got to have fun with it for 1 day. I wonder how long the secret had been kept before the screenshot...

Ah, so that's how the Duncan exploit worked...

I see that nothing was done to address Afflicted Assassins still casting Shadow Form only when they're on the lowest of health.

I heard that the Duncan exploit worked by shadow stepping with Heart of shadow through the portal to Justiciar Thommis. If done right you could land in the blackness beyond the protal without mapping in then run around the outside to Duncan.

I'm waiting for a monster to log into Guru to gripe about their skill nerf.

My next class will be a monster.

They should fix that and some casting times applied to some skills like Icy Veins. AI still wont use them when they should .

So....they fixed Soul Twisting, but left Smiter's Boon bugged?

That's a little weird.

Seriously, they fixed the duncan glitch

First draft was just copy+paste. I did some formatting after.

It looks like 55 N/Mo Halcyon Job farm is nerfed, unless the build is revised. Off the top of my head, Dwarven Stability or "I Am Unstoppable!" and moderate healing or regen should do. Anti-KD takes care of their attack chain fix, and Insidious Parasite alone should handle the moderate degen from the boss.