Update - Thursday, July 28, 2011

also,

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Anthem_of_Guidance

???

Don't worry. It didn't quite make it to this update but my sources inform me that it will be the protagonist of the next bi-monthly update. Sorry about the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Sounds most likely. While the designers are doing other work, they're just fixing all the weird lil miscellaneous things that have been around. Hopefully they'll get to more as we go on.

I'd actually support updates that change skills even fro no other reason than to "shake thing sup" and make people rework their (our) builds.

It's not really skill update considering those skills in their category( a.k.a domination , critical, etc...) didn't require any points for their effects...

It's not changing anything, more like bug fixes....

They should move Shadow Form into No Attribute and fix the duration to 10 seconds.

Update doesn't change much, but it's always nice to see a small change when you hit K.

STRONG update, this realy adresses all the problems we facing in pvp.
Ty Anet for making the game BALANCED again.

Lol! My thoughts exactly, but I would add PvE too. Every single problem we ever had is now fixed. No, really now. Was this update really that necessary? Was it such a priority? Nothing else more important to fix than this?? Weird...

More like move shadow form into Critical strikes, make it 1 second + a duration based on Crit strikes rank.
Then if your an assassin prime you get to use it otherwise get lost.

Right...ok then. It probably takes the same amount of effort to just tweak some numbers for rangers in PvE and fix PvP isses.

This forum is how the dev team get their kicks.

pointless random update->check guru for QQ-> ???->profit.

SoC never needed an attribute, finally moving it away from the Command line was more for administration.

Assault Enchantments used to do bonus damage but now it obviously does not.

The others are now free disenchantment options, since their bonus damage or proc effects from the attribute lines were useless. So instead of buffing these, they now made several non-attributed enchantment strips. To do what? I don't know, because that's not the way to tackle Dervishes... Or is it?

It's possible that's the intention, but with the enchant teardown system most dervishes use now, I'm not sure how beneficial it would be to strip them.

Still, pointless update. Those skills were known to be almost no-attribute, moving them seems just a "Let's make skill list a bit more ordinate"....

Surely d-shot should be made No Attribute, too?

Assault enchantment problem in the past was only that you could spam it permanently, but it was dealing no damage, only removing enchants...
Besides, you can maybe remember it, as R/A were using that skill( and they don't have access to critical damage to make more points in it )

This isn't even an update or anything( bug fix i mentionned above) in fact... just making thing look cooler and easier...

The (small) damage that D-shot does is linked to Expertise.

Yes, because that has worked out so well in the past. Not.

The reason song of concentration and hexbreaker's are unlinked is because they are popular in HA and GvG but paragons are the redheaded step child and no one wants to lose functionality by putting points into command or motivation.

The amount of time Anet has had to put into ostracizing a single class is mindboggling. Considering how many anti-shout skills are out there it's even more befuddling.

And this update changes nothing of that.

Really, it's just a fix for bugs and other small stuff. The only (indirect) skill change was the mesmer's one, because it won't be affected by dom sets any longer.