Skill Update For 4/21/2011

Update - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Skill Changes

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

Dervish

* Aura of Thorns (PvP): split for PvP; increased Energy cost to 10.
* Avatar skills: increased recharge to 20 seconds.
* Avatar of Balthazar: decreased Burning duration to 3 seconds.
* Dust Cloak (PvP): split for PvP; increased recharge to 10 seconds.
* Harrier's Grasp: decreased Cripple duration to 2...9 seconds.
* Lyssa's Haste (PvP): split for PvP; increased recharge to 25 seconds.


Elementalist

* Blinding Flash: decreased Energy cost to 10.
* Grasping Earth: increased Energy cost to 10; decreased duration to 5...20 seconds.


Mesmer

* Fragility (PvP): increased recharge to 8 seconds.


Monk

* Divine Healing: decreased recharge to 12 seconds.
* Heaven's Delight: decreased recharge to 12 seconds.

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Yeah, that's it.

hmms none of the skills i use or use on heros. xD and here i thought it was only for the weekend thing. xD

and another build released shortly after this one.
I wonder what the 2nd one is.

A little less Dervish abuse, and Blinding Flash is now massively strong. I've been using it and overusing it in my Invole-chain Lightning build, with no energy problems at all. Glad I don't use melee characters anymore for RA.

*facepalm at b-flash buff*

Now we'll see eles able to spam both bsurge and bflash on recharge. And then dervishes are still hella strong.

Tbh it doesn't change much, triple dervish still will be dominating.

More melee hate because dervishes are too powerful. Which means, warriors and sins will cry more. In RA, at least, which is where I play. I see everyone running Bflash now.

Thing is, it won't even affect dervishes much. They have excellent ways to remove conditions from themselves.

mindshock spike got buffed!

Hmm, how so?

Bflash -> 5e soon?

because b flash 10e instead of 15e

These papercut nerfs won't do anything to GvG.

WTF? Honestly, why b-flash?!

More powah creep to da people!

Update #2 - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Anniversary Preparations

* Elite Xunlai Bakery Agents have begun preparations for the anniversary celebration, set to start April 28th.

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ELITE Xunlai Bakery Agents, wow.

A who and a what now

I guess they need the Elite Xunlai Bakery Agents to bake all those cupcakes. Must be quite a chore.

They were the ones abusing Avatar skills, specifically Balthazar, which triggered the skill changes.

why the RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO do they make blinding easier...b surge is OP...last time they increased recharge yet increased blind making it powerful.er and now blinding flash is 10e...jesus...we have enough idiots without condition removal

pretty uneventful update but then again, I wasn't expecting much. Hopefully, in May we can get that paragon skill update that was supposed to follow the Dervish overhaul.

I was like
...fine
...fine
....ok, good
...fine

.....Eeeeeh, did I read that right? They buffed B-flash? H'what? That's like....changing frenzy or something at this point; the skill's been unchanged (as far as I remember) since the beginning.