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Update - Thursday, May 17, 2012

Alliance Battle Updates

• Increased Alliance Battle score multiplier for Imperial faction gain from 4 to 10.
• Decreased win bonus for Alliance Battles from 2000 Imperial faction to 1000 Imperial faction.
• Increased underdog multiplier for Alliance Battles from 100% and 200% to 300% and 500%.
• Increased Imperial faction per kill in Alliance Battles from 30 to 40.
• Increase [sic] Balthazar faction per kill in Alliance Battles from 10 to 20.

Title Change

• Decreased the title rank required to get maximum effectiveness from title-based PvE skills.

Environment Effect Update

• Stone Spores: causes a 33% reduction in outgoing damage and healing, as well as -2 to all attributes. Additionally, Stone Spores always remain active in applicable PvP areas, instead of toggling on and off.

Miscellaneous

• Added a sweets-exchange NPC to the Great Temple of Balthazar.

Guild Wars Wiki notes

• Unlike the progression of other Sunspear skills after this update, Vampirism's life stealing continues to follow the progression prior to this update (i.e. maximum effectiveness is reached at Sunspear rank 10 instead of 5) even though the descriptions display 20 life stealing from rank 5 to 9.