Game updates/20080501

Update - Thursday, May 1, 2008

Guild vs. Guild

The Guild Battle rules which were altered in a previous update will remain in place including:

• Number of archers on Burning and Druid's Isle.
• NPC positioning on Warrior's Isle.
• Wards will continue to not protect Guild Battle NPCs.
• Certain Ritualist skills will continue to not affect or protect Guild Battle NPCs.

Skill Updates

Reverted temporary tournament changes to skills:

Assassin

• Assassin's Remedy: reverted Energy cost back to 5.

Mesmer

• Chaos Storm: reverted Energy cost back to 15.
• Energy Burn: reverted Energy drained to 3...7...8; reverted damage per Energy to 12.
• Energy Surge: reverted Energy drained to 3...7...8; reverted damage per Energy to 12.
• Fevered Dreams: reverted recharge back to 10 seconds.
• Fragility: reverted Energy cost back to 10.
• Hex Breaker: reverted skill type back to skill.

Elementalist

• Blinding Surge: reverted recharge back to 4 seconds; reverted Blindness duration back to 3...7...8 seconds.
• Glyph of Concentration: reverted number of spells affected back to 2.
• Lightning Orb: reverted skill back to applying Cracked Armor.
• Shockwave: reverted casting time back to .75 seconds.
• Ward Against Melee: reverted duration back to 5...17...20 seconds

Monk

• Aegis: reverted Energy cost back to 10.

Warrior

• Disarm: reverted time that attack skills are disabled back to 0...4...5 seconds; reverted recharge back to 12.

Ritualist

• Ancestors' Rage: reverted casting time back to .25 seconds.
• Death Pact Signet: reverted activation time back to 3 seconds.
• Flesh of My Flesh: reverted recharge back to 0 seconds.
• Splinter Weapon: reverted recharge back to 5 seconds.

Dervish

• Eremite's Attack: reverted activation time back to ¾ seconds.
• Mystic Sweep: reverted activation time back to ¾ seconds.

Paragon

• Ballad of Restoration: reverted recharge back to 20 seconds.
• Harrier's Toss: reverted activation time back to .5 seconds.
• Song of Restoration: reverted recharge back to 20 seconds.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused interrupted attack skills to occasionally deal damage.
• Fixed a bug with skills that convert damage from one type to another, such as Stone Striker and Greater Conflagration. The converted damage was working incorrectly with armor bonuses and penalties.
• Fixed a bug that allowed characters to occasionally Shadow Step while carrying a flag.

Miscellaneous

Created wiki pages for Asian language players to report localization bugs:

• Japanese: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Jason_Yu/Japanese_Localization_Bugs
• Korean: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Jason_Yu/Korean_Localization_Bugs
• Traditional Chinese: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Jason_Yu/Traditional_Chinese_Localization_Bugs

The wiki pages for the European localization bug reports are now hosted by the European community team:

• French: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Julien_Crevits/French_Localization_Bugs
• German: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Martin_Kerstein/German_Localization_Bugs
• Italian: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Martin_Kerstein/Italian_Localization_Bugs
• Spanish: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Peter_Verhelst/Spanish_Localization_Bugs