Update - December 9, 2010

Skill Balances

For more information on these changes, please see the Developer Updates page.

Assassin

* Assault Enchantments: increased recharge to 8 seconds.
* Fox Fangs: split for PvP; retains original functionality.
* Fox Fangs (PvP): increased recharge to 6 seconds.
* Shadow Walk: removed existing restriction on enchantments; added the following functionality: "Your stances and enchantments are disabled for 10 seconds."
* Wild Strike: split for PvP; retains original functionality.
* Wild Strike(PvP): increased recharge to 6 seconds.

Elementalist

* Chain Lightning: decreased recharge to 6 seconds.
* Freezing Gust: decreased duration to 1...5 seconds; increased recharge to 7 seconds.
* Invoke Lightning: decreased activation time to 1 second; decreased recharge to 8 seconds.

Monk

* Aegis (PvP): removed existing failure effect for spells; added the following functionality: "Target other party member cannot be the target of hostile spells."
* Draw Conditions: increased recharge to 4 seconds.
* Healing Burst: increased target healing to 10...160.
* Patient Spirit: added the following functionality: "No effect if ends early."

Necromancer

* Angorodon's Gaze: changed attribute to Soul Reaping; increased Energy gain to 5...15; increased Health stealing to 10...50.
* Foul Feast: decreased Energy gain to 0...2 per condition; decreased recharge to 4; added the following functionality: "This skill recharges twice as fast if you remove Disease from your target."
* Strip Enchantment: decreased number of enchantments removed to 0...2; increased recharge to 20 seconds.

Ranger

* Crippling Shot: increased recharge to 4 seconds; increased Cripple duration to 1...11 seconds.
* Melandru's Shot: decreased recharge to 10 seconds.

Ritualist

* Weapon of Shadow: added the following functionality: "The next 0...3 times that ally hits with an attack, his target is Blinded for 5 seconds."

NPC Updates

* Fuu Rin [Assassin Henchman] no longer uses Fox Fangs; she now use Fox Fangs (PvP).

Bug Fixes

* Fixed a text bug where Cracked Armor was omitted from the skill description for Mend Condition.
* Fixed a text bug where Cracked Armor was omitted from the skill description for Purge Conditions.

strip enchant only removes 1 enchanment at 8 blood
2 at 12 blood magic

draw condi 4 sec recharge if thats new

gasp....the update is from the future!?!?!

(today is the 9th, not the 12th)

also, people being immature on wiki and editing back and forth with fake hero updates

wow this is it. had a rather long load just for those changes. and is it just me or is all they did was move the necro skill? seems the same to me.

......r..............e...............a..........d. ..........

once again no Derv changes

by this I mean positive changes

Melshot has 10 second recharge

xD you read. i said seem. as in im not sure. and with this being the only place that isnt being messed with, i only know of what has been posted here.

Anyone check if anything for HotN has been added?

Invoke Lightning: 1 sec casttime

Draw Conditions: 4 sec recharge

Foul Feast: halfs recharge time if it draws Disease.

Very immature person posted wall of text saying "F*** ANET" over and over
and keeps adding it everytime I removed it -.-
and just noticed that under the Hearts of the North update they put "FAIL FAIL FAIL"...etc.

EDIT: nvm, appears Sirius Bsns' post was removed

Assault Enchantments - 8 second recharge

Not one to complain, but you would at least think Anet would put the update on the site once they make it live. Would be a lot more helpful than having to guess what was fixed/nerfed/added/etc.

I can confirm Foul Feast's change.

Otherwise, I'm not finding anything else for Necromancer.

Silly to say that it recharges in half that time if Disease has been removed. Is 2 seconds that big of a difference?

I'm not insane for clicking refresh over and over to see if they add it, am I?

They haven't even put the 24/11 one on their own site.

Foul Feast recharge was also shortened to 4. (It was 5.)

Somebody is having a ragegasm all over wiki

You are not the only one XD

Chain Lightning reduced to 6 second recharge. Hmm with the invoke lightning change, I smell airspike.

Is it just me.. But Since this Update... Ive had Guild Wars Set its Game Options Back to Stock, {Graphics Etc} Then it Crashed During update and screen went crazy.. and now the Updates 30,000 odd Files? Just Wondering if all you had the same size update?

Here you go bros: http://www.guildwars.com/gameplay/de...g_balances.php

I still don't understand why Anet can't release the notes with the updates. It's always a scavenger hunt and wiki vandal fest until someone over there decides to post it long after the update has gone live.

How long can it possibly take to post some text that should have been typed up before the update? Do they decide to write up the notes as soon as a new build is released or something?

Yo Anet! I'm pretty good at doing stuff like typing up information and posting it to the interwebs. I even proofread! Just saying.

It's usually a good bit later than the update, I guess they don't have a system to do both at once.

From guildwars.com (YAY)

Healing burst seems really powerful now... why even bother with WoH anymore?

No longer will I have to fear Strip Enchantment on my immortal MM in FA... yay!

Ahhh dammit! I liked Patient Spirit the way it was!

remember when they promised to release update notes in advance. well at least anet forgot.

I'm surprised nothing got changed for Paragon.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention us PvE people shouldn't care about this update too much:

I love when they ignore less popular classes...

hmms. how many times is it now they changed aegis? lols that poor skill keeps being changed. xD and now patient spirit is changed their went a good spike heal.

edit: my bad saw the above post when this one finally loaded in. its all for pvp. still think its silly they changed aegis yet again. xD

Why can't anet do like D2 updates: after you apply the patch the little pop up window tells you what was updated? If you don't care, click skip. Stops a lot of the nonsense and waiting. They already know what was updated, it's not that hard. Or put a link for login screen at minimum.

weapon of shadow is pretty beast atm

FC doesn't affect <2s non-mes spells.

was hopeful they would wrap this wedding crap up so we can move on to anticipating better things.. that half done content is almost a month old.

Wasn't expecting these changes, but I'm glad they happened. Sparks enough of my interest to log back in for a few days.

Shadow form untouched.......disappointing!

Patient spirit... Hi healing burst