Game updates/20080117
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Update - Thursday, January 17, 2008[edit]
Skill Updates[edit]
We will be evaluating the following changes over the course of the next week. Additional adjustments may be made during that time period.
Guild versus Guild[edit]
- Archers: now have Precision Shot.
- Footmen: now have Pure Strike.
- Knights: now have Warrior's Cunning.
- Victory or Death: reduced the damage bonus to +15%; removed the maximum Health reduction. Guild Lords now prioritize other Guild Lords over players as targets.
Assassin[edit]
Caltrops: decreased recharge time to 10 seconds.
Heart of Shadow: functionality changed to: "You are healed for 30..150 Health and Shadow Step to a nearby random location."
Scorpion Wire: decreased recharge time to 10 seconds.
Viper's Defense: changed Skill type to a spell; increased casting time to .25 seconds; functionality changed to: "All adjacent foes are Poisoned for 5..20 seconds, you Shadow Step to a nearby random location."
Dervish[edit]
Pious Assault: increased Energy cost to 10; functionality changed to: "You lose 1 Enchantment. If this attack hits, you deal +5..20 damage and inflict a Deep Wound for 5..20 seconds."
Elementalist[edit]
Chilling Winds: increased duration to 30 seconds.
Elemental Flame: increased Burning duration to 3..5 seconds.
Glyph of Essence: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds.
Mesmer[edit]
Hex Eater Vortex: decreased damage to 30..90; increased recharge to 15 seconds.
Kitah's Burden: reduced recharge time to 30 seconds.
Ethereal Burden: reduced recharge time to 30 seconds.
Mind Wrack: increased duration to 30 seconds.
Wastrel's Worry: increased damage to 20..80.
Monk[edit]
Aura of Stability: decreased duration to 1..16 seconds.
Divine Healing: increased the area of effect to earshot.
Heaven's Delight: increased the area of effect to earshot.
Patient Spirit: decreased duration to 2 seconds; increased healing to 30..120 Health.
Renew Life: decreased casting time to 4 seconds.
Restore Life: decreased casting time to 4 seconds.
Vengeance: increased damage bonus to +25%; decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
Necromancer[edit]
Signet of Agony: increased damage to 10..70.
Wail of Doom: decreased Energy cost to 10.
Paragon[edit]
"Fall Back!": decreased Energy cost to 10.
"We Shall Return!": decreased Energy cost to 5.
Spear of Fury: increased adrenaline gain to 2..6 strikes.
Ranger[edit]
Magebane Shot: increased Energy cost to 10.
Penetrating Attack: decreased activation time to 1 second.
Sundering Attack: decreased activation time to 1 second.
Power Shot: decreased activation time to 1 second.
Precision Shot: decreased activation time to 1 second.
Ritualist[edit]
Rejuvenation: increased Spirit's level to 1..16.
Sight Beyond Sight: increased duration to 12..25 seconds.
Sundering Weapon: now affects the next 3 attacks.
Warmonger's Weapon: increased recharge time to 30 seconds.
Warrior[edit]
"Coward!": decreased adrenaline cost to 4 strikes.
"You're All Alone!": increased duration to 8 seconds.
Bug Fixes[edit]
- Fixed a bug in the Eye of the North quest Kilroy Stonekin's Punch-Out Extravaganza! that occasionally prevented players who had regained full Energy from standing up after being knocked down.
- Fixed a bug in the Eye of the North quest Leader of the Pack that prevented some players from completing it.
- Fixed a bug with the Eye of the North PvE Skill Ursan Blessing that caused it to incorrectly replace some Skills when its effect expired.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a player’s profession to appear using the wrong gender-noun on the character select screen in some languages.
Miscellaneous[edit]
- Added the option to bind keys that activate Hero Skills. These keys can be bound through the "Action: Order Hero (1-3) to use Skill (1-8)" option in the Control options panel (Menu > Options > Control).
- Updated the Hero AI for the Dervish Skill, Faithful Intervention.
Open Travel: Territory and District UI Changes[edit]
- As a continuation of last year’s “Territory and District UI Changes” that saw language district restrictions removed for America and Europe, we are now removing restrictions on travel to Asian language districts.
- In this update restrictions to Korean language districts will be removed and players of American, European and Korean districts will be able to travel back and forth between these language districts.
- Restrictions on travel to Japanese and Taiwanese language districts will be removed in a subsequent build.
Guild Wars Wiki Notes[edit]
- There were also some additional translation changes in some languages.
- Spanish:
- Title ranks are now shown with the correct gender of the bearer, they were previously shown with the gender of the viewing character. A female character would see other characters ranks as female regardless of their genders.
- Delver title rank was renamed from "Pensador" (Thinker) to "Excavador" (Digger).
- Rata Sum town was incorrectly named "Bosque de Mirto" (Mirtle Forest), now it's correctly named "Rata Sum".