April 29th Update Craziness

Horace Slughorn

Horace Slughorn

Wilds Pathfinder

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I believe this update included several changes to the health point and health regen levels of certain foes in elite areas. For example, the foes in FoW now seem to have MEGA HP, i.e. Word of Healing heals less than 1/10th of a shadow monk's bar. Was this intended?

Please share any other changes ya'll have noticed.

Mini Vizu

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2010

Anet with your latest update to fix the failed update, this problem still exists... Enemies have 100000 hp still.

Black Metal

Black Metal

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I'm vanquishing arborstone right now. Everything seems normal, but i haven't hit any bosses yet.

edit: killed a boss, he was normal, and dropped his green (in a full h&h party), could just be luck

omens

omens

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2006

Yeah mobs in fow have at least 2x as much hp now as they used to.
Rip manlyway fowsc

Ariovist Lynxkind

Ariovist Lynxkind

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There were some description screw ups as well, which were fixed in the 2nd update. Just wonder if someone accidentally put the wrong update live and the one that went up was the one with the skill update

QueenofDeath

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Join Date: Jul 2009

Great way to stop solo farming and speed clearing. Give mobs 100000000hp's and make it take a longgggggggggggg time to kill them. )

Emily Diehl

Emily Diehl

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Heya guys! The team is looking into this right now. Thanks for your patience!

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Originally Posted by QueenofDeath View Post
Great way to stop solo farming and speed clearing. Give mobs 100000000hp's and make it take a longgggggggggggg time to kill them. )
Yeah, they definitely hit the gym, huh?

Horace Slughorn

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Thanks Emily for such a speedy response! Kind of glad to hear this was not intended, though I might be willing to fight through them for a new end-boss

Ryane

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Mad

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No dude keep it!! its funny as heck! :P This will make all the speed clear cry babies quit lol..

Adult

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Originally Posted by Horace Slughorn View Post
Thanks Emily for such a speedy response! Kind of glad to hear this was not intended, though I might be willing to fight through them for a new end-boss
THIS! Still hopin for a fow end boss/new minis ala Dhuum in UW!

Emily Diehl

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EGADS, WE'VE CRANKED THEM UP TO 11!

Fix is coming shortly on this! Sorry again for the craziness

StormDragonZ

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It's alright, Bubbles can handle them all.

Just make sure not to set it back down to 2. Thanks in advance. :P

Emily Diehl

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Alrighty...everyone in these areas has been returned to their normal difficulties. Thanks for the reports, and apologies again for the confusion!

Horace Slughorn

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Lovely, thanks

Ryane

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Mad

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you finally make an elite area elite... for 4 mins...

Missing HB

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Anna

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What's fun is UW is very hard to be honest for random teams ( and even for non SC teams ). People keep complaining , and those othertell them : haha yo ufail , or just go play SC .
Now there was a little bug , all those Scer 's complain and are like : omg omg how am i going to get ectos now ( over 6 threads , with many answers atm ) .

Black Metal

Black Metal

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so now that that's over, what was the actual update? It was quite a few files........how about update notes?

Popeye1906

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The live crew strike again!!!!

niek2004

niek2004

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Afk in Gh.

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I noticed quite some skills beeing changed......

Zahr Dalsk

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Canada

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Originally Posted by Emily Diehl View Post
Yeah, they definitely hit the gym, huh?
Thanks, the mental image of a bunch of shadow army soldiers lifting weights was hilarious ^_^

Mesmers Are Bad

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Quote:
Originally Posted by niek2004 View Post
I noticed quite some skills beeing changed......
Care to elaborate?

-Makai-

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DH

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Originally Posted by Black Metal View Post
so now that that's over, what was the actual update? It was quite a few files........how about update notes?
They added some War in Kryta stuff, but portions of the Mesmer update hitched a ride.

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Originally Posted by niek2004 View Post
I noticed quite some skills beeing changed......
I was going to say, I'm surprised so few people have mentioned the unintended skill leak. As a courtesy to the TK, I'd rather not reveal anything that hasn't been posted on preview notes.

Shayne Hawke

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Originally Posted by Sante_Kelm View Post
I was going to say, I'm surprised so few people have mentioned the unintended skill leak. As a courtesy to the TK, I'd rather not reveal anything that hasn't been posted on preview notes.
Thank you. There are some among us who have discussed the update with others during the leak because it wasn't recognizable right away that the update was just a fluke and not at all intentional. I'm also surprised, and pleased, to see a lack of leaking detail-wise.

I'm sure there are some people who are going to remember what they saw and use it in discussion until the actual update goes live without actually listing descriptions or numbers, but I don't really feel like that's an issue.

aefghuys

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Originally Posted by niek2004 View Post
I noticed quite some skills beeing changed......
like what? i gave it a quick over and didnt notice anything, havent had too much time though. if changes REALLY occurred what were they?

BrettM

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Originally Posted by Sante_Kelm View Post
They added some War in Kryta stuff
Where? I've been all over the place, multiple times, this morning and have had no new encounters, seen no new Inquisitor activity, and found absolutely nothing going on in Scoundrel's Rise.

??iljo

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Originally Posted by aefghuys View Post
like what? i gave it a quick over and didnt notice anything, havent had too much time though. if changes REALLY occurred what were they?
mesmer skills,migraine, burden..etc

aefghuys

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Missouri

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Originally Posted by Šiljo View Post
mesmer skills,migraine, burden..etc
it all appears the same to me...migraine is the same and the mes skills havent changed...are the above posters just looking for attention?

DRGN

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Originally Posted by aefghuys View Post
it all appears the same to me...migraine is the same and the mes skills havent changed...are the above posters just looking for attention?
They were changed on ACCIDENT and then fixed. That's the entire point.

BrettM

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Originally Posted by aefghuys View Post
it all appears the same to me...migraine is the same and the mes skills havent changed...are the above posters just looking for attention?
No. The changes were not supposed to be made at this time and they were quickly reverted. Please read the update notes before accusing people of making things up to get attention.

Mercury Angel

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Originally Posted by aefghuys View Post
it all appears the same to me...migraine is the same and the mes skills havent changed...are the above posters just looking for attention?
The first update on the 29th accidentally included the skill descriptions for potential changes in the mesmer update. The second updated reverted them.

Most of them were exactly as described in the preview. Some, such as the signet changes, were leaked at least 4 days ago when someone broke NDA on the wiki. That content is still up.

For that matter, there's still a summary of all the changes that were leaked in the update on the official wiki.

-Makai-

-Makai-

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Originally Posted by BrettM View Post
Where? I've been all over the place, multiple times, this morning and have had no new encounters, seen no new Inquisitor activity, and found absolutely nothing going on in Scoundrel's Rise.
Earlier this morning, while feather farming, I happened upon a group near the portal to Nebo Terrace from North Kryta Province. The spawn seems to be pretty random, as I mapped in and out about six times before encountering them.

AmbientMelody

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This update could be very good, if it wasn't reverted

Grow some balls, Anet!

I beg of you!

niek2004

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Screenies from Priest of Balthazar, While they were doing 5 updates in 20 minutes.








Cant imagine that this is leaking since I got these screenshots from the live server.

Also there might have been more, just thought I was screenshotting bugs when I took them, since the descriptions are all fkt up.

Horace Slughorn

Horace Slughorn

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Ty Niek2004 for those screen shots. Some very interesting new descriptions there. That's what I intended this thread for though, to document the state of the game during that brief time. It is meant to be descriptive - about what actually happened; and not prescriptive - about what should happen in your ideal world.

Chronos the Defiler

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the fact that those skill updates you are viewing are from an area in PVP MODE!

This makes me thinks the live team has not the slightest fsking clue how to balance things...if those were for just PvE, then it is understandable.

I HOPE this is just a mistake they made when they accidentally implemented the skills.

-Makai-

-Makai-

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WA

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Isn't there a Guru rule against posting leaked content? Or does that only apply to the PvP forums?

Zahr Dalsk

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Canada

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chronos the Defiler View Post
the fact that those skill updates you are viewing are from an area in PVP MODE!
At first I thought they'd finally fixed the bug that makes a guild hall count as a pvp area but then I saw nope, the icon's still there.

Deviant Angel

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Originally Posted by Sante_Kelm View Post
Isn't there a Guru rule against posting leaked content? Or does that only apply to the PvP forums?
The stuff being discussed was on the live server and anybody could have seen it. Anet made a mistake. What are they going to do? Brainwash us and pretend it never happened?

Besides, they said there was a chance that we would see another preview before the update.

It would be a leak if the information and screenshots were taken from the dev server.

FoxBat

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People seeing stuff on live didn't sign an NDA, they did nothing wrong.

niek2004

niek2004

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I did sign the NDA since im in TK, but this stuff was on the live server.

I didn't do anything wrong.