April BWE Changes

Sausaletus Rex

Sausaletus Rex

Death From Above

Join Date: Dec 2004

That time of the month again, when the NDA lifts and all the recent alterations to the game become fair game for updates. The following is far from comprehensive, but at least it's a starting point.

If you've found any changes not listed or have more details on them, post them below, please.

Worlds: When you first logon or create an account you'll select your "world" or the group of servers you'll be playing on. There are 3 at the moment "American", "European", and "International". No, this isn't the beginning of a shard system, you'll be limited to traveling to districts from your world or to "international" districts which every world can travel to. You'll also be matched up against teams from other worlds in PvP combat, especially in GvG or the Tombs. It's mostly in place to both improve people's connections as well as for the "Worlds at War" - where each world can receive a bonus by doing something. You can switch your world through account options but you can only do it 5 times.

GUI: The GUI's been tweaked again. Nothing as major as the last time but there are some noticable differences. The biggest I've made note of is that the options for a quest when you talk to an NPC are a lot bigger and much more clear. Also, the screens for character creation, especially PvP character creation are different (Oh, and you can dye your PvP armor now. Nothing like pwning in style).

Personal Storage: There's now a "Vault Keeper" at most outposts. This Vault Keeper is a way for you to exchange goods between your characters. There's a one-time fee of 50G to "unlock" the Vault for each of your characters before they can have access to it. If you make a new character you'll have to pay 50G from your first character to access the Vault to store an item and then another 50G for your other character to retrieve it. It's a one-time fee, apparently, so you only need to pay it once per character not every time you use the Vault or every other week or so. You can store any items you want there although there are a limited number of slots (anyone know how many exactly? Or if you can upgrade it?). You cannot store, and therefore trade, gold through the Vault.

The New Area: It's revealed to be on the far bottom left corner of the map. It's a rocky and volcanic land full of blackened stone and lava (which inflicts On Fire and Crippled conditions when you walk in it). There's PvP and PvE content there now. For PvP there's a new Arena, random-matchup type area called "The Crag". It's a CTF or relic-running map where you'll need to take a relic from the enemy's side and return it to yours. Seems to be 6v6 from what I've seen althoguh I'm not certain. For PvE, it's the unveling of, at least part, of the Worlds at War system. The maps aren't immediately reachable but when someone from your "world" manages to defend or capture the Hall of Hereos in the Tombs at the Temple of the Ages, a Ghostly Hero will appear for a brief time (About 2 minutes, I think) and if you talk to him and pay him 1000 gold you'll be able to travel to a PvE zone (unsure of the name). It's reportedly a very tough place full of high-level monsters. There's a problem though in that you don't have much time to talk to the Hero so you pretty much end up sitting around waiting for the winner of the latest Hall match to be announced and then scramble.


Fame: Fame sticks or the staves that indicated your fame rank, are now gone Fame appears to be account based (this is confirmed, thanks).

Winning the Hall: There's a global shout declaring who's won the last match in the Hall of Heroes as well as the world that team comes from, presumably for WaW content reasons. Nice for bragging rights, too. When you win in the hall, your chest now holds a rare, high-level item (Thanks, Xma) as well as the celestial sigil. Unconfirmed - There appears to be a bug with morale bonuses carrying over from map to map in the Tombs. Namely, that they don't, especially the morale bonuses from Warden hunting on the first map.

Chat: New chat features have been added. There's now a trade chat channel. Also, the text you enter into your chat window is color coded based on the chat channel you're talking in. Chat filters have been added to screen the following: All, Team, Guild, Trade, and Emotes.

Pets: Pet AI seems markedly improved. When pets die there's no longer a DP (Pets have DP, their masters used to get DP when a pet died) instead your skills are locked for 3~5 seconds. Also, pets can be renamed with the command /namepet {name} or /petname {name}.

Quests: A few of the quests in Pre-Searing got shuffled around a bit. Mostly just changes in dialog. The interface for quests is now a bit more friendly with big buttons with graphical icons representing things like "Yes" or "No" and "Reward" although there are still some remnants of the old dialog boxes to be found. The biggest change I noticed is that the Secondary Profession quest moved from being given by Haversdan, the NPC who appears after finishing your test, to Master Armin Saberlin (who you might remember from Mission 2's sidequest) who's right besides Sir Tydus. Past Post-Searing several quests giving skill rewards are now beginning to crop up.

Armor
Still gathering all the data, especially the crafting information but the following armors are available on a PvP character. Quick impressions: Gladiator armor is markedly superior to the other Warrior choices, especially if you can get absorbtion runes. Monks have a choice between +5 against elemental damage, -4 energy for +physical, and +6 energy. Which one do you think you should take? Elementalist armor is a roll of the die for which elemental protection you like. Rangers get to play that crapshoot, too, or go for better energy - take the energy. Necromancers still have the best caster armor with a base 70 weak only against holy. Mesmers have a choice between more armor when they cast and more energy - take the energy.

WARRIOR

+Dragon
AL: 85+10physical

Gladiator
AL: 80+20physical
En: +7 (+3 Chest +2 Legs +1 Hands/Feet

Knight's
AL: 80+10physical Reduced damage

Platemail
AL: 80+20physical

Stoneskin Gauntlets
Lengthens knockdown time
AL: 75+20physical


RANGER

+Rawhide
AL: 70+30elemental
En: +12/+1 (+8 Chest +2 Legs +1 Hands/Feet)

Frostbound
AL: 70+30elemental+15Cold
En: +5/1

Studded Leather
AL: 70+30elemental+15Lightning
En: +5/1

Drakescale:
AL: 70+30elemental+15fire
En: +5/1

NECROMANCER

+Bonelace
AL: 60+15piercing
En: +10/+2

Tormentor's
AL: 70 Reduce prot. from holy
En: +10/+2

Scars
AL: 60
En: +17/+2

Pagan Chest
AL: 55
En: +5

Bloodstained Boots
Faster corpse exploiting spells
AL: 60
En: 0/+1


MONK

+Ascetic Tattoos
AL: 60
En: +16/+2 (+8 Chest +6 Hands +1 Legs/Hands)

Wanderer's
AL: 60+5elemental
En: +10/+2

Judge's
AL: 60+10physical
En: +6/+2 (+4 Chest/Hands -1 Legs/Feet)

MESMER

+Enchanter's
AL: 60
En: +17/+2 (+8 Chest +2 Legs +6 Hands +1 Feet)

Virtuoso's
AL: 60+15while casting
En: +10/+2

Rogue's
AL: 60
En: +6/+2 (+4 Chest/Glove -1 Hands/Feet)

ELEMENTALIST

+Aeromancer
AL: 60+15Lightning
EN: +10/+2

Geomancer
AL: 60+15Earth
EN: +10/+2

Pyromancer
AL: 60+15Fire
EN: +10/+2

Hyrdomancer
AL: 60+15Water
EN: +10/+2

Elementalist Robes (Chest)
AL: 60
EN: +5/0

Skills
Losts of things to go through, and none of it is in our skills database yet but I'll post it here for now. I'm still mulling over it all but some general impressions: Ranger damage - trap and bow, and Water damage both went down. Malaise got turned from a nice skill to nearly useless, Blood Renewal's still useless. Rezsig looks better and better. The vast majority of pet shouts are no longer. And a moment of silence for our dear, departed friend, the Unnatural Signet.

GENERAL

Resurrection Signet: 3 cast. Formerly 5.

WARRIOR

AXE

Cleave: +10~22 damage. Formerly 1~16.

Cyclone Axe: +4~10 damage. Formerly 1~6.

(Penetrating Attack under Axe, why not Disrupting Chop or Counter Blow under Hammer?)

HAMMER

Earth Shaker: Wording change. (50% failure chance with...)

Staggering Blow: 6 adrenaline. Formerly 5 en with 30 second recharge.


STRENGTH

I Will Survive!: 5 energy, health regen for each condition. Formerly 10 en and each injury.

I WIll Avenge You!: 45 recharge. Formerly 60 seconds.

Defy Pain: Skill. Formerly Shout.

Endure Pain: 5 energy. Formerly 10 en.

Flourish: 1 cast. Formerly instant/next attack.

TACTICS

Defensive Stance: +24 armor (For 10 seconds, you have +24 armor and you have...). Formerly no additional armor.

Desperation Blow: +10~34 damage. Formerly +5~29

Gladiator's Defense: 5 energy. Formerly 10.

Thril of Victory: Moved to Tactics. +10~34. Formerly bugged.

MISCELLANEOUS

Skull Crack: Moved to Unlinked.

Wild Blow: Cannot be blocked or evaded (target ends. This attack...)

---------

RANGER

BEASTMASTERY

All Pet Shouts or "Calls of" are gone except for Call of Haste and Call of Protection.

Ferocious Strike: +13~25 damage 3~9 energy. Formerly +5~17 and 1~8.

Tiger's Fury: 10 recharge. Formerly 5 seconds.




EXPERTISE

Oath Shot: Expertise 7 or less.

Point Blank Shot: +10~18 damage. Formerly +13~25.

Whirling Defense: 5~10. Formerly 5~17.


MARKSMANSHIP

Determined Shot: +3~15 damage. Formerly +5~17.

Hunter's Shot: +3~13 damage. Formerly +5~17.

Penetrating Attack: +3~15 damage. Formerly +5~17.

Power Shot: +10~18 damage. Formerly +13~25.

Precision Shot: +10~18 damage. Formerly +13~25.

Punishing Shot: +10~18 damage. Formerly +13~25.

Read the Wind: +3~9 damage. Formerly +5~15.

Savage Shot: 13~25 damage. Formerly 10~35. (Mistake: 15 en, 6 recharge - on full listing.)


WILDERNESS SURVIVAL

Barbed Trap: 20~56 damage. Formerly 20~74.

Dryder's Defenses: 75% chance to evade. Formerly 50%.

Flame Trap: 15~27

(Incendiary Arrow's wording is just weird. Shoudl read something like "your arrows interrupt and set your target 'On Fire' for 1~3 seconds.)

Melandru's Resilience: 25 recharge. Formerly 12 seconds.

MISCELLANEOUS

Debilitating Shot: (Not linked to Expertise)

Called, Dual, Quick Shot: (Not linked to Marksmanship)

---------------


NECROMANCER

BLOOD MAGIC

Blood Renewal: Gain 40~160 Health. Formerly 20~132.

Dark Fury: Enchantment Spell. 3/4 cast. Formerly 1 second.

Mark of Subversion: 10 energy. Formerly 25 en.

Strip Enchantment: Gain 30~102 health. Formerly 4~65.

Vampiric Touch: Steal 29~65 health. Formerly 13~62.

Well of Power: Health regeneration of 1~5. Formerly 1~3.

CURSES

Enfeebling Blood: (Sac 17% max health.)

Faintheartedness: 1 cast. Formerly 2 seconds.

Feast of Corruption: 2 cast. Formerly 3 seconds.

Malaise: Ends if target foe's Energy reaches 0. (Health degeneration of 2)

Parasitic Bond: 30~102 health. 5 energy, 1 cast. Formerly 20~94, 10 en, 2 seconds.

Plague Signet: 20 recharge. Formerly 30 seconds.

Weaken Armor: Duration 10~34 seconds -20 armor. Formerly 30 seconds -10~22 armor. (For 10-34 seconds, target foe has an armor penalty of -20 against physical damage.)

DEATH MAGIC

Taste of Death: 3/4 cast, instant recharge. Formerly 1 second and 5 second recharge.

Verata's Aura: 15 energy, 3/4 cast. Formerly 25 energy and 1 second.

Verata's Gaze: 5 energy. Formerly 10 en.

--------------

MONK

DIVINE FAVOR

Divine Boon: Healed for 25~61. Formerly 5~41 health.

Divine Spirit: 1~9 seconds, minimum cost 1 energy. Formerly 1~13, minimum of 3 en.

Peace and Harmony: 45 recharge. Formerly 60 seconds.



PROTECTION PRAYERS

Aegis: 30 recharge. Formerly 45 seconds.

Life Attunement: 14~43% more healing. Formerly 114~143%.

Life Barrier: (Ends below 70~46% health.)

Protective Bond: 10 energy. Formerly 25 en.

Protective Spirit: 3/4 cast. Formerly 1 second.

Rebirth: Skills locked 10~4 seconds. Formerly 20~8.

Shielding Hands: 3/4 cast. Formerly 1 second.

SMITING PRAYERS

Balthazar's Aura: 10~22 damage. Formerly 3~15.

Holy Strike: Additional 10~34 damage. Formerly 10~22.

Shield of Judgement: 5~41 damage. Formerly 4~26.

Signet of Judgement: 15~63 damage. Formerly 4~65.

Smite Hex: 10~70 damage and 1 cast. Formerly 12~54 and 2 seconds.

Symbol of Wrath: 5 energy. Formerly 15 en.

Zealot's Fire: 5~37 damage. Formerly 5~28.

MISCELLANEOUS

Essence Bond: "target ally".

Martyr: "all conditions" not "all negative conditions".

Purge Conditions: Move to unlinked.


------------

MESMER


DOMINATION MAGIC

Arcane Thievery: 1 cast. Formerly 2 seconds.

Mind Wrack: 40~75 damage. Formerly 20~94.

Shatter Delusions: 15~63 damage. Formerly 8~34.

Wastrel's Worry: 1/4 cast. Formerly 1 second.

FAST CASTING

Mantra of Recovery: Duration 5~17, recharge 30. Formerly 30~78 seconds duration, 20 seconds recharge, and drained 8~3 energy when casting spells.

ILLUSION MAGIC

Echo: 5 energy, 1 cast. Formerly 15 en, 2 seconds.

Unnatural Signet is no more.

INSPIRATION MAGIC

Drain Enchantment: 10 energy. Formerly 15 en.

Mantra of Recall: 20 recharge. Formerly 15 seconds.

Mantra of Signets: Duration 10~22. Formerly 30~78 seconds.

MISCELLANEOUS

Arcane Mimicry: 15 energy. Formerly 10 en.

Signet of Humility: No longer touch range.

------------

ELEMENTALIST


AIR MAGIC

Mind Shock: Additional 10~42 damage. Formerly bugged.

Shock: 10~50 damage, 5 energy. Formerly 15~51, 10 en.

Whirlwind: 3/4 cast. Formerly 1 second.

EARTH MAGIC

Grasping Earth: "For 8~18 seconds, all nearby foes move 50% slower but have +24 armor against physical damage." Formerly "adjacent".

ENERGY STORAGE

Ether Prodigy: 1 cast. Formerly 2 seconds.

FIRE MAGIC

Fireball: 2 cast. Formerly 3 second.

Incendiary Bonds: 10~50 damage. Formerly 2~21.

Inferno: 3/4 cast. Formerly 1 second.

Meteor: 10 energy. Formerly 25 en.

Mind Burn: 15~51 damage. Formerly 10~50.

Phoenix:

WATER MAGIC

Armor of Mist: 10 energy, 2 cast. Formerly 25 en, 3 seconds.

Deep Freeze: 10~70 damage. Formerly 10~76.

Frozen Burst: 20~68 damage. Formerly 10~70.

Ice Spear: Instant recharge. Formerly 3 seconds.

Ice Spikes: 20~68 damage. Formerly 10~70.

Maelstrom: 10~22 damage. Formerly 8~29.

Shard Storm: 10~54 damage. Formerly 10~70.

Swirling Aura: 10 energy. Formerly 25 en.

Water Trident: 5~53 damage. Formerly 10~58.

MISCELLANEOUS

Elemental Attunement: 50% of energy cost gained. Formely 30%.


The following skills have an increased aftercast time of 1.75 seconds instead of the normal .75 (basically most PBAoE spells):

Aftershock, Crystal Wave, Flame Burst, Inferno, Frozen Burst, Shock, Symbol of Wrath


Miscellaneous and/or Unconfirmed:
-Equipment Slots: Edit Whoops! check Quinn Falcon's post for more details.

Quinn Falcon

Quinn Falcon

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

UK, Manchester

"-Equipment Slots: A starting RP character now has only one slot to equip their weapons and/or shields. A PvP character has two. Are equipment slots now something that needs to be purchased or unlocked? Or is it just a bug?"


Unless im misinterpreting this, it's just a GUI change, you can open up the other slots again in the inventory screen, big button labelled "weapon sets" tick all the boxes and you have your 4 weapon slots back

Xma

Xma

Site Contributor

Join Date: Mar 2005

Belgium

Idiot Savants

- When winning in the Hall of Heroes, the chest holds now a rare item (in addition to the celestial sigil), which is assigned randomly to a player. (I think it is always a max damage/energy one). There might still be bugs preventing you to pick up the items sometimes.

- Morale bonuses from killing wardens doesn't carry over anymore to first Tomb PVP map.

Stylin

Core Guru

Join Date: Feb 2005

Famesticks are gone, and replaced with /fame. ;(

Scavenger

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Attributes - I love this site great info but u guys said there was 10 point per lvl and im lvl 5 and have been noticing theyve only been givin me 5 points per lvl and my attributes arent adding up like i had thought they would...

anyone no if this is a new change or a bug i should report?

SisterMercy

SisterMercy

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2005

Sisters of Mercy

Bags and belts are now saleable commodities, which you have to equip to use, and can unequip.

And... TADAAAAA!!! Chat filters!

Sausaletus Rex

Sausaletus Rex

Death From Above

Join Date: Dec 2004

First post's been updated.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scavenger
Attributes - I love this site great info but u guys said there was 10 point per lvl and im lvl 5 and have been noticing theyve only been givin me 5 points per lvl and my attributes arent adding up like i had thought they would...

anyone no if this is a new change or a bug i should report?
The amount of attribute points you'll get increases as you level. First you'll gain 5, then 10, then 15 and so on until scaled so that you reach a maximum of 200 attribute points at level 20. The first several levels you won't gain mor than 5AP, basically.

azunder

azunder

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sausaletus Rex
Worlds: When you first logon or create an account you'll select your "world" or the group of servers you'll be playing on. There are 3 at the moment "American", "European", and "International". No, this isn't the beginning of a shard system, you'll be limited to traveling to districts from your world or to "international" districts which every world can travel to. You'll also be matched up against teams from other worlds in PvP combat, especially in GvG or the Tombs. It's mostly in place to both improve people's connections as well as for the "Worlds at War" - where each world can receive a bonus by doing something.
So, if you're in asia and you choose the american world, your connection would be worse than choosing the asian (korean) world?

Owend

Owend

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2005

California

The Ice Elementals now actually drop Icy Lodestones. (ah, simple pleasures)
Gwen is as cute as ever.

Xma

Xma

Site Contributor

Join Date: Mar 2005

Belgium

Idiot Savants

About items from HoH chest :

After seeing a dozen maxed items from the chest, we got a 5-28 axe.

So not always max, but drop table must be be high-level.

Sausaletus Rex

Sausaletus Rex

Death From Above

Join Date: Dec 2004

Quote:
Originally Posted by azunder
So, if you're in asia and you choose the american world, your connection would be worse than choosing the asian (korean) world?
No idea. I've tried both American and European and both worked fine for me with no noticeable difference. Except, you know, everyone speaking German on the Euro servers. That it's something to do with connection speeds is speculation but it makes sense that they're using these regions to balance server loads and populations in some way. That makes for better connections for everyone, hopefully.

neoflame

neoflame

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2005

Drain Enchantment is now 10 energy. I forget if anything else about it is changed, though.

Gaile Gray

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet

Join Date: Feb 2005

Wow, great update there! Have you had any sleep in the last 36 hours?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sausaletus Rex
That it's something to do with connection speeds is speculation but it makes sense that they're using these regions to balance server loads and populations in some way. That makes for better connections for everyone, hopefully.
That's exactly right, Saus. We want to give everyone the best possible service, so players choosing the world that is most local to them is always a good decision.

There will be other reasons that you want to select a world and stick with it. This has to do with tournament play. Details will become more apparent upon release, although you've certainly seen a hint of it with the green broadcast announcements and some accessible regions in this BWE. We definitely have more tasty things in store for you.

Virtuoso

Virtuoso

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
Wow, great update there! Have you had any sleep in the last 36 hours?
I don't think any of us have gotten any sleep, least of all the Guild Wars Guru staff. =-) Thanks guys!

-Virt

azunder

azunder

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
That's exactly right, Saus. We want to give everyone the best possible service, so players choosing the world that is most local to them is always a good decision.
Well, the closest world to me is the Korean world and I don't speak a single syllable of Korean.

Xellos

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2005

No Idea

May I ask if anyone has tested the new weapon statistics? I know there are a few bows such as eternal and shadow, but I'm not sure about their stats.

From my experiences, the eternal bow has really fast rate of fire, and decent speed travel, but this might be cause of lag. Shadow is horrible, and storm is somewhere between horn and short. This is just guess from playing, and is completely inaccurate :P I'd hope for testers to post their results.

EDIT: My connection was on crack, half-moon and short bow should still be the fastest. Storm/Eternal isn't that great other then looks, and shadow is just plain horrible. Course, this is from experience, and my connection might still be screwy.

OrangeArrow

Flame Bait

Join Date: Mar 2005

Mass

Mo/Me

this was mentioned before in Fansite Friday but havent seen it posted here
For PVE there now a few NPCs that offer Skills for Quest rewards so far I seen them in Yak's Bend, Old Ascalon, Saradelc Sanatarium, And Piken Square. Don't think I seen them anywhere else.

Raumoheru

Raumoheru

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Fame: Fame sticks or the staves that indicated your fame rank, are now gone Fame appears to be account based (this is unconfirmed).
nah that has always been there,

Sausaletus Rex

Sausaletus Rex

Death From Above

Join Date: Dec 2004

Quote:
Originally Posted by Raumoheru
nah that has always been there,
Getting to rank 3 witha PvP character and then starting up a RP character who's rank 3 with the exact same fame has always been there? Or starting up another PvP character who'll be at the same amount of fame?

I'll note you only gain skill points with the character you increase your fame rank with, though. By being rank 1 or 3 or whatever else you don't gain a bonus skill point for all your characters.

PawnBoy

PawnBoy

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2005

Canada, Ontario

Team Backspace

N/R

The Necromancers skills "Verata's Sacrifice", and "Animate Bone Fiend" can now be captured from "Verata the Necreomancer" in the "Traveller's Vale"

mmmm, verata's sacrifice

Verata's sacrifice also takes 15% max health to use now

E.T.

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
. . .definitely have more tasty things in store for you.

Lunarhound

Lunarhound

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2005

Does anyone know how worlds affect what guilds you can join, if at all? Could I, for instance, invite someone in the European world to join my guild if I'm a U.S. player?

Ander Deathblade

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

when you choose a world and want to change it, you can do so in the Options tab.

Pharalon

Pharalon

Beta Tester

Join Date: Jan 2005

Carebear Club

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lunarhound
Does anyone know how worlds affect what guilds you can join, if at all? Could I, for instance, invite someone in the European world to join my guild if I'm a U.S. player?
There's no limits on who you can invite to your guild. You can have people from America, Europe and Korea all in the one guild. The only issue you'll face is that you'll have to meet in international districts to party up, which is only a problem if you don't have the required number of people online at once.

Quote:
when you choose a world and want to change it, you can do so in the Options tab.
You're limited to doing that 5 times though.

Auntie I

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Veritas Invictus

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangeArrow
this was mentioned before in Fansite Friday but havent seen it posted here
For PVE there now a few NPCs that offer Skills for Quest rewards so far I seen them in Yak's Bend, Old Ascalon, Saradelc Sanatarium, And Piken Square. Don't think I seen them anywhere else.
I got a skill doing a quest out of Serenity Temple! Darned if I remember which though

Silmor

Silmor

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Pharalon
There's no limits on who you can invite to your guild. You can have people from America, Europe and Korea all in the one guild. The only issue you'll face is that you'll have to meet in international districts to party up, which is only a problem if you don't have the required number of people online at once.
The implication of this however is that a guild spread over several 'worlds' cannot venture into the Temple of Ages missions together; the 'International' segment never wins the favour of the Gods naturally so the statues are always closed in the International District. To get the full PvP/PvE experience as a guild, you'll need to be in the same world, regardless of your actual location.

Nudge

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2005

I can confirm that the Fame is account-based. I deleted my only character with fame, and his fame was still present among my other characters, making them rank 2 as well.

You also forgot to mention GvG death, where if you get a 60% death penalty you are no longer rezzed by the priest and must be rezzed by someone else or have your penalty go down.

Sausaletus Rex

Sausaletus Rex

Death From Above

Join Date: Dec 2004

Quote:
You also forgot to mention GvG death, where if you get a 60% death penalty you are no longer rezzed by the priest and must be rezzed by someone else or have your penalty go down.
That's not a new thing, though. "DPing" teams has been a way of winning in GvG for months now, although I can't recall when it was first introduced. It's been in place for a long time as a way of keeping matches from going on forever.

Vermilion Okeanos

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2005

elementalist skill-
shock- now also give exhausion... =(

The removal of "call of" skills really explain how my warthog was doing so little damages even after buff... although still have the skill, it no longer work >_<

Huge ranger nerf, they are still pretty powerful thou... if you use it right @_@

sama

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

EST

K A R M A

did anyone notice that your npcs protecting the guild lord run out of their base at 45 mins into the middle of the map?

they also cast some sort of natural ritual where you do 25% more dmg but have 25% less health. perhaps not natural...mebe a shout... we were all too shocked too see it happen...plus we were playing blood eagle and we were in a big seesaw game.

Sausaletus Rex

Sausaletus Rex

Death From Above

Join Date: Dec 2004

Our skill pages should be all updated now thanks to THX. Let us know if you find something that's not right.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vermilion Okeanos
elementalist skill-
shock- now also give exhausion...
Spammable knockdown skills - like Gale - attract exhaustion, it's just a fact of life. That wasn't a new change, though, I think it's been in place since the Scandanavian BWE. Of course, it wasn't up in our skill listings but now it is.

The Deranged Hermit

The Deranged Hermit

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2005

England

The Night Watch [NW]

N/Me

I noticed this time around that you didn't have to click on corpses for Necromacers to exploit them. The nearest corpse was automatically targeted instead when a skill was used.

Jia Xu

Jia Xu

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

England

Dynasty Warriors

Mo/E

dunno if this was a bug or not, but the chest in HoH - released nice weapons and all, but my PvP - only chars couldnt pick them up. dunno if that was me bugged or whether PvE chars were the only chars who could do that.

Mercury Angel

Mercury Angel

Avatar of Gwen

Join Date: Apr 2005

Wandering my own road.

Shatter delusions was buffed in damage, but only removes a single hex on the opponent, rather than all of them. I hate it now =\

Bluedog

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Domain of Anguish

Relentless Aggression

Me/

The trade system is lame. I think they should do what I hear that World of Warcraft does....have an auction house or auction city. Where everyone can see the item and it can be checked out before purchasing. That would be alot better than having all these people yelling all these different stats and items constantly and people spamming things over and over.

Davion

Davion

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2005

wherever the winds take me

R/Mo

The vault storage is 20 slots of storage total.

The armor you are speaking of for the ranger?... I made a report in bug thread and in game. (stupid of me not to have taken a pic of it though)

+Rawhide
AL : 70+30elemental
En : +12/+1 (+8 chest +2 legs +1 hands/feet)

You are speaking of the druid's armor I believe? The crafter's I dealt with labeled the Druid's vest (wood planks resource cost was giveaway) as "Rawhide Vest" (no druid prefixation..but had the +8 Energy gain) and also labeled the regular rawhide vest the same, except that it only had +6 energy on the vest.(again the giveaway in which was which was the resources required to build it...Only the Druid requires wood for set)
the rest of the Druid's set was prefix labeled as druids.(legs/feet/hands)

The legs were also +1/+1 regen... wearing a full druid set I had a max 31 energy for complete equiped base value.

spiritofcat

spiritofcat

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2005

Sydney, Australia

Order of the Sanguine Dragon [OSD]

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Deranged Hermit
I noticed this time around that you didn't have to click on corpses for Necromacers to exploit them. The nearest corpse was automatically targeted instead when a skill was used.
This was my first time trying to play necro and I got very confused at first that I could not click on a corpse to select it as the target for my exploitation spell. Eventually I realised that I had to be pointing the mouse at the corpse for it to work. I think that is a very bad design when everything else in the game is click to select. I don't think of the mouse as my focus unless I actually click.

Chavi

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2005

Ok. As I did last month, again I'm going to bring an old thread. It just takes me more time to update my database. Here are my observations on yours - just the differences. Of course I'm not sure how many of those are correct, so take the list as sort of questions ;-)

Elementalist
  • Meteor Shower 60 Recharge
  • Mind Burn "On Fire" duration 1-6
  • Stoning Added knockdown effect
Mesmer
  • Shatter Delusions 1/4 cast 10 rech
  • Signet of Midnight 15 rech
  • Soothing Images Effect on adjacent
Necromancer
  • Death Nova Poison effect
  • Mark of Subversion 30 rech
  • Parasitic Bond 2 rech
  • Tainted Flesh Instant rech
  • Verata's Sacrifice 15% sacrifice
  • Vile Touch 13-52 dmg
Monk
  • Holy Strike 8 rech
  • Unyielding Aura 3 cast 45 rech
  • Holy Wrath Formerly melee damage; now attack
  • Retribution Formerly melee damage; now attack
Warrior
  • Staggering Blow Weakness max duration 13
Ranger
  • Melandru's Assault Wording: "...strikes a foe "Enchantment" that foe..."
  • Muddy Terrain No longer Elite
  • Punishing Shot 6 rech

And the following are the changes you have that I cant find on other sites: Mind Wrack - min dmg 40; Mark of Subversion - 10 en; Parasitic Bond - 5 en; Feast of Corruption - 2 cast; Taste of Death - 3/4 cast.

Thanks and see you ingame ;-)

Kraav

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2005

I was using Shock during the April event and it did not have exaustion effect tied to the skill.

It was 5 en 3/4 sec cast 10 sec recharge with 10-50 damage. 25% AP

Did they change it after the event was over?