Game updates:March 2007

March 2007 updates

• Thursday 29^th of March (talk)
• Friday 23^rd of March (talk)
• Tuesday 20^th of March (talk)
• Friday 16^th of March (talk)
• Thursday 15^th of March (talk)
• Tuesday 13^th of March (talk)
• Wednesday 7^th of March (talk)
• Tuesday 6^th of March (talk)
• Thursday 1^st of March (talk)

Update - Thursday March 29

• Made preparations for the Double Fame and Double Heroes' Ascent Faction weekend event.

Heroes' Ascent

• Increased team size to 8.

Guild Wars Wiki notes

• During the 1st of April (April Fools' Day) characters changed their gender while visiting Kamadan, Jewel of Istan, Shing Jea Monastery and Lion's Arch.

Update - Friday March 23

• Made several changes to support the Chinese Open Beta Test.
• Updated pet tamer NPCs so that they can now remove pets from Heroes.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to complete the Zaishen Priest Annihilation Training mission without killing the opposing team’s priest.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some players from completing the Chasing Zenmai quest.

Guild Wars Wiki notes

• Currently Pet tamer can remove pets from any hero in an instance, whether you are the owner of the hero or not.
• This update or an earlier update changed Hahan, Faithful Protector's skills, making it possible for players with only Guild Wars Nightfall to capture Word of Healing without entering the Fissure of Woe.

Update - Tuesday March 20, 2007

• Made preparations for the Fissure of Woe and Underworld Open Access weekend event.
• Added a Xunlai Tournament House Agent to Lion's Arch, Kamadan, Kaineng Center, and the Great Temple of Balthazar. This NPC has information on the virtual prize to be won in the upcoming Celestial Tournament Play-off Predictions.

Guild Wars Wiki notes

• The hotkey for logging off to the character selection screen has been added for all languages. (Previously only working for a few languages)

Update - Friday March 16, 2007

• Made several changes to support the Chinese Open Beta Test.

Update - Thursday March 15, 2007

• Enabled the Asura miniature, which can be obtained by purchasing a copy of selected game magazines in North America and Europe.
• Miniatures will now occasionally enter their alert battle stances.

Update - Tuesday March 13, 2007

• Made preparations for the Double Faction in Arenas and Double Gladiator Points weekend event.

Update - Wednesday March 7, 2007

Skills

Assassin

• Shadow Prison: increased Energy cost to 10.
• Blades of Steel: decreased max damage to 60.

Mesmer

• Wastrel's Demise: increased casting time to 1 second.

Necromancer

• Discord: increased casting time to 2 seconds.

Ritualist

• Lamentation: increased casting time to 1 second, decreased damage to 15..75
• Gaze from Beyond: increased casting time to 2 seconds.
• Spirit Burn: increased recharge time to 8 seconds.

Hero Battles

• All capture points contribute to the morale meter.
• The center point contributes double the value of other points.
• Morale meter increases have been tweaked.
• The center shrine on Hero Battle map Bombardment has been moved. Players can no longer take the point from the other side of the trench.

Guild Wars wiki notes

• The button for returning to the Character selection screen has now "C" as keyboard shortcut. This affects only english language versions.
• A skills attribute is now shown with a darker color than the description.

Update 2 - Tuesday March 6, 2007

• Fixed a bug that caused some players to crash when selecting a character to play Guild Wars.

Update - Tuesday March 6, 2007

• Made preparations for the Chinese Open Beta Test.

Update - Thursday March 1, 2007

• Made preparations for the GvG Bonus Weekend event.