Gaile has recently talked about a lot of juicy lore in the game manual, btw...
I also just explored the entire presearing Northern Wall area with Aelrik of AB and got some screenies for those who haven't seen it much.
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6 (cool color change once you get close to a Charr flame altar) 7 8 9 (sunglasses on! :s)
10 11
Maybe you haven't seen the new item modifier coloring by the way...
mods1 mods2
Hmm... I'm thinking of any special "new stuff" in this BWE but can't come to think of much...
They have some PvP char creation UI changes though... And they also added new hair (and skin) colors, as has been mentioned before:
UI1 UI2 UI3
(hey, women are the fairer sex... lol)
A change in the UI itself is the new gender symbol.
You asked for ranger skill info. I assume the new skills you mean are those in the new "Pet Attack" class. Here they are, I think it's all. All these have Beast Mastery as the attribute they depend on. I'll list how much each increase their "green" attribute per point in Beast Mastery next to the links.
Bestial Pounce
5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
Brutal Strike
same as above, for both dmg's
Disrupting Lunge
1 base dmg, 10 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. less than +1 dmg / point
Scavenger Strike
1st value: 5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
2nd value: 1 base dmg, 12 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. tiny bit less than +1 dmg/point
Predator's Pounce
1st value: 5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
2nd value: 5 base health, 41 health with 12 BM, i.e. +3 health / point
Melandru's Assault
5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
Maiming Strike
1st value: 5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
2nd value: 3 sec cripple, 13 with 12 BM, i.e. less than +1 dmg / point
Ferocious Strike
1st value: 5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
2nd value: 1 energy, 8 with 12 BM, i.e. less than +1 dmg / point
Feral Lunge
1st value: 5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
2nd value: 3 sec base bleeding, 21 sec with 12 BM
You can of course find mana cost and recast times in the images themselves. "base dmg" (for example) is the damage with 0 in Beast Mastery. Some of those screenies were taken with 1 point in BM so don't get confused by that. All these skills and their increasing amounts were simply checked in the PvP Char Creator with "unlock all skills" checked and playing with the attribute points.
Finally, please note I may not keep those screenshots on my web account for too long. Grab what you need!
OK, now I'm going to bed, hehe...
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