Update - Thursday, March 6, 2008[ | ]
Skill Updates[ | ]
Guild vs. Guild[ | ]
- Victory or Death: reduced damage increased to 10%; this skill now reduces healing by 10%.
- Victory is Ours: both teams now get this bonus at Victory or Death, regardless of how many NPCs either team has; increased damage to 20%.
Assassin[ | ]
- Augury of Death: increased recharge to 20 seconds.
- Dark Prison: decreased duration to 1..6 seconds.
- Shadow Prison: decreased duration to 1..7 seconds.
- Shroud of Silence: decreased duration to 1..3 seconds.
- Siphon Speed: increased recharge to 30 seconds; decreased duration to 5..15 seconds; this skill now recharges 50% faster if cast on a moving foe.
Dervish[ | ]
- Grenth's Aura: decreased duration to 10 seconds; increased recharge time to 25 seconds; increased Energy cost to 15; increased casting time to 2 seconds.
- Mystic Regeneration: decreased duration to 5..20 seconds; increased recharge time to 12 seconds.
- Pious Assault: increased activation time to normal weapon attack activation time.
- Wounding Strike: functionality changed to: "If this attack hits, target foe suffers from Bleeding for 5..20 seconds. If you are under the effects of an enchantment, target foe also suffers from a Deep Wound for 5..20 seconds."
Elementalist[ | ]
- Aftershock: removed the long aftercast.
- Blinding Flash: decreased duration to 3..8 seconds.
- Crystal Wave/Teinai's Crystals: removed the long aftercast.
- Double Dragon: removed the long aftercast.
- Flame Burst: removed the long aftercast.
- Flame Djinn's Haste: decreased duration to 8..14 seconds; increased recharge to 20 seconds; the skill now recharges 50% faster if you damage a foe with it.
- Frozen Burst: removed the long aftercast; increased recharge to 8 seconds.
- Glyph of Energy: decreased Energy reduction to 10..35; canceled spells now count as a use of the Glyph's effect.
- Glyph of Lesser Energy: canceled spells now count as a use of the Glyph's effect.
- Inferno: removed the long aftercast.
- Lightning Orb: functionality changed to: "Send out a lightning Orb that strikes target foe for 10..100 lightning damage and that foe has Cracked Armor for 5..20 seconds if it hits. This spell has 25% armor penetration."
- Mind Blast: decreased Energy gain to 1..8; increased recharge to 3 seconds.
- Rodgort's Invocation: increased recharge to 8 seconds.
- Shock Arrow: increased recharge to 8 seconds; functionality changed to: "Send out a Shock Arrow that strikes for 5..50 lightning damage if it hits. If Shock Arrow strikes an attacking foe, you gain 1..9 Energy. This spell has 25% armor penetration."
- Shockwave: removed the long aftercast.
- Ward Against Foes: removed the long aftercast.
- Ward Against Melee: removed the long aftercast.
- Ward Against Melee: increased recharge to 30 seconds.
Mesmer[ | ]
- Cry of Frustration: decreased Energy cost to 10.
- Enchanter's Conundrum: functionality changed to: "For 10 seconds, target foe casts enchantments 100% slower. When this hex is applied, that foe takes 30..120 damage if not under the effects of an enchantment spell."
- Imagined Burden: decreased duration to 8..20 seconds.
- Power Leak: decreased Energy lost to 3..17.
- Power Lock: decreased recharge to 12 seconds.
- Psychic Instability: this skill has been moved to the Fast Casting attribute; decreased casting time to .25 seconds; functionality changed to: "Interrupt target foe's action. If that action was a spell that foe is knocked down. (50% failure chance with Fast Casting 4 or less.)"
- Simple Thievery: decreased casting time to .25 seconds; increased recharge to 10 seconds; decreased duration to 5..20 seconds; changed functionality to: "Interrupt target foe's action. If that action was a skill, that skill is disabled for 5..20 seconds, and Simple Thievery is replaced by that skill."
Monk[ | ]
- Guardian: increased recharge time to 4 seconds.
- Heal Party: increased casting time to 2 seconds.
- Reversal of Damage: decreased recharge time to 3 seconds.
- Symbol of Wrath/Kirin's Wrath: removed the long aftercast.
Necromancer[ | ]
- Deathly Swarm: decreased casting time to 2 seconds; increased recharge time to 6 seconds.
- Enfeeble: decreased casting time to .25 seconds; increased duration to 10..30 seconds.
- Enfeebling Blood: decreased Energy cost to 1, decreased casting time to 1 second; increased recharge to 8 seconds.
- Foul Feast: decreased casting time to .25 seconds; this skill has been moved to the Soul Reaping attribute; changed functionality to: "All conditions are transferred from target other ally to yourself. For each condition acquired in this way, you gain 0..45 Health and 0..3 Energy."
- Plague Sending: decreased Energy cost to 1.
- Plague Signet: changed functionality to: "Transfer all negative conditions with their remaining durations lengthened by 100..200% from yourself to target foe."
- Rip Enchantment: functionality changed to: "Remove 1 enchantment from target foe and that foe suffers from Bleeding for 5..25 seconds."
- Strip Enchantment: functionality changed to: "Remove 1..2 enchantments from target foe. If an enchantment is removed, you steal 5..65 Health."
- Vampiric Swarm: decreased casting time to 2 seconds; decreased recharge time to 8 seconds.
- Wail of Doom: decreased Energy cost to 1; decreased recharge to 10 seconds; decreased duration to 1..4 seconds; changed skill type to hex; changed functionality to: "For 0..4 second[s], all of target foe's attributes are set to 0."
- Weaken Armor: decreased casting time to 1 second; this skill now affects all adjacent foes.
Paragon[ | ]
- Barbed Spear: decreased adrenaline cost to 2 strikes.
- Blazing Spear: decreased adrenaline cost to 6 strikes.
- Mending Refrain: increased Energy cost to 10; decreased duration to 15 seconds.
- Song of Restoration: increased Energy cost to 10; increased recharge to 20 seconds; increased healing to 45..110 Health.
Ranger[ | ]
- Crippling Shot: increased recharge time to 2 seconds.
- Hunter's Shot: decreased activation time to 1 second.
- Pin Down: decreased recharge time to 8 seconds.
Ritualist[ | ]
- Ancestors' Rage: decreased damage dealt to 5..110.
- Death Pact Signet: now resurrects party member with 15..100% Energy, instead of the caster's current Energy; The energy returned now scales based on your Restoration Magic.
- Soothing Memories: decreased casting time to .75 seconds; decreased recharge to 4 seconds.
Warrior[ | ]
- "Shields Up!": increased armor gain to 60; functionality changed to: "For 5..11 seconds, you and all party members within earshot gain 60 armor against incoming projectile attacks."
- "Watch Yourself!": functionality changed to: "Party members within earshot gain +5..25 armor for 10 seconds. This shout ends after 1..3 incoming attack[s]."
- Axe Rake: decreased adrenaline cost to 5 strikes.
- Axe Twist: decreased adrenaline cost to 5 strikes.
- Gash: decreased adrenaline cost to 6 strikes.
- Lion's Comfort: decreased adrenaline cost to 4 strikes; functionality changed to: "All of your signets are disabled for 12 seconds. You are healed for 50..110 Health, and gain 0..3 strike[s] of adrenaline."
- Magehunter's Smash: increased adrenaline cost to 7 strikes; functionality changed to: "If this attack hits, target foe is knocked down. If your target is under the effects of an enchantment, this attack cannot be blocked."
- Mokele Smash: decreased recharge time to 12 seconds; increased adrenaline gain to 1..3.
- Sprint: decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
General[ | ]
- Added a set of player-designed weapons and items that were winners in the 2007 Guild Wars Design-A-Weapon Contest.
Hero AI[ | ]
- Improved hero AI for the skill Broad Head Arrow.
- Improved hero AI for the skill Warrior's Endurance.
Bug Fixes[ | ]
- Shadow Fang: fixed a bug that caused the duration to incorrectly change based on the Deadly Arts attribute.
- Fixed a bug that could allow Kurzick players to leave their gated areas early in the Alliance Battle map Kaanai Canyon.
- Fixed a rare bug that would crash the game server.
GuildWiki Notes[ | ]
- There was another unannounced small update about an hour after this one.
- This update introduced a bug that allowed Simple Thievery to steal monster skills. This was fixed in a later, undocumented update.
- Confirmed new weapon skins include Celestial Compass, Draconic Shield, and Demonic Aegis, as well as Serpentine Reaver, Emerald Blade, Obsidian Edge, Frog Scepter, and Dryad Bow.