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Update 2 - Wednesday December 20, 2006[ | ]

GuildWiki notes[ | ]

Update - Wednesday December 20, 2006[ | ]

Wintersday Festival[ | ]

Wintersday approaches, can you all see the signs?
The grentchies and the snowmen will soon all align.
For a battle in the end is what we shall face;
To determine the wintery fate of the whole human race.
Dwayna and Grenth will vie for our favor;
Through threats and presents of a wintergreen flavor.
In the end one shall win, one shall surely prevail;
And the length of the winter is the final detail.
So stock up on snowballs and clear all your packs;
For gifts of all sorts will rain down on your backs.
And if you should see a small urchin or three;
Remember the spirit of the season — 'Tis better to give than receive.


The Wintersday Festival has arrived! Kamadan, Lion's Arch, Droknar's Forge, and Ascalon City are decorated for the occasion, and over the coming days, holiday activities will begin as special guests arrive to join the fun. Everything leads up to the big Winterday celebration on January 1, which will take place every three hours in Lion’s Arch and Kamadan (on the hour in Lion’s Arch and 15 minutes past the hour in Kamadan). Be sure to collect Candy Cane Shards for use in the big celebration!

Party Search[ | ]

The new Party Search panel allows you to advertise when you’re looking for a group to join, and to search for other players and parties to join you. With the Party Search panel, you can join up with other players even when they are in a different district from you. In any town or outpost, press ‘P’ to bring up the new Party Search panel. If you’re the leader of your party, or if you’re not in a party (all solo players are treated as parties of one), you can use the “Seek Party” checkbox to add your group to the list of available players and parties, and to advertise what you’re looking for. As a party leader, you can select another group and click “Join” to propose merging with that group. After clicking “Join”, you will see a question mark icon next to that group indicating that you are waiting for a response from them, and they will see an icon next to your group indicating that you have invited them. If you receive an invitation from another group, you can select that group and click “Join” to accept the invitation, merging the two groups. If you accept an invitation to join a group which is currently in a different district from you, your group will automatically travel to the other district. If you are alone, you will travel immediately upon clicking “Join”. If you have other people traveling with you, the game will provide a 10-second countdown and give each player the option of canceling.

Reconnect After Disconnect[ | ]

While playing in a mission, explorable area, or PvP game, if your game client loses its connection to the Guild Wars game servers due to Internet connectivity issues, or if the game client or your computer crashes, you will have the opportunity to reconnect to the game servers and resume exactly where you left off, for a period of ten minutes after the disconnection. During that ten minute period, your character will remain in the world. If your character was performing an action like attacking or spell-casting at the moment of disconnection, your character will complete the action. If your character was in a party, the other members of your party will be notified of the disconnection. You must reconnect from the same computer that you were playing on when the connection was lost.

New Titles[ | ]

  • The new Commander title track is available to players who compete in Hero Battles. Players receive one point toward the Commander title for each victory.
  • The new Gamer title track is available to players who compete in Snowball Fights and other holiday-themed games. During the Wintersday Festival, players who compete in Snowball Fights receive 10 points for each victory. Other holiday event games will be scored differently.

Other Updates[ | ]

  • The Guild Wars Official In-Game Store now sells the 2006 edition of Guild Wars (original Prophecies campaign), which has been available at major retailers since its release in early 2006, and is called Game of the Year Edition in America and One Million Edition in Europe. The 2006 edition contains seven bonus items that were not part of the original Guild Wars box. Players who purchased Guild Wars (original Prophecies campaign) through the in-game store since its launch there in July will receive a free upgrade, and other players who own the original Guild Wars can choose to upgrade through the in-game store for a small fee.
  • Demo accounts can no longer trade or drop items, to reduce the use of demo accounts by commercial gold/item farmers.
  • Characters that come to Elona from a foreign land now get Heroes that start at level 15, and can play two new quests, Securing Champion's Dawn and A Land of Heroes.
  • Six additional quests have been added to Istan, and many existing quests have been updated.
  • Additional treasure chests are available throughout the continent of Elona.
  • The PvP Equipment Builder now allows the player to specify the dye color of weapons and off-hand items.
  • The Skill Bar in the Skills and Attributes panel now shows tooltips even if tooltips have been disabled for the primary Skill Bar.
  • The Quest Log panel now allocates more space to the list of quests when the list grows large.
  • Heroes’ Ascent now requires parties with a minimum of four human players.

Balance Changes[ | ]

Bug Fixes[ | ]

GuildWiki notes[ | ]

  • After reconnect Roster and Alliance Tabs show nothing.
  • There is a new Festival hat maker, to whom you can show all of your hats. After showing him a hat with any of your characters, he will be able to make one for each of your characters for the small price of 10g.
  • For a short time all guild hall NPCs disappeared.
  • A new icon in the lower right of the screen has been added. When the mouse hovers over the icon, the icon gives FPS, Ping, and Server IP information.
  • The art for the collapse button in the Observer, Friend, Quest, and Guild menus has changed from an arrow to a +/- sign. In addition, the size of the font in the Quest Log that lists the quests has been reduced allowing more to be viewed at a time.
  • Loading screens have an IP in the upper left corner that shows you to what server you are being connected. This is to help Support resolve player issues.
  • The drop box for choosing your region upon login has been removed.
  • The Load from Skill Template window now shows templates matching the player's/hero's primary profession at the top of the list.
  • Heroes' Ascent altar matches were bugged. Enemy teams had to be defeated before time expired to win altar matches. This was fixed in the succeeding update.
  • The Quest Arrow on the minimap is now larger and pulsates.
  • The status bar as well as tag for many NPCs now include their professions. i.e., W20 Ghostly Hero, R20 Pet-Petname.
  • If you purchase the Prophecies upgrade pack, you can get the bonus items by typing /bonus.
  • Buried Treasure, Treasure Chests and "Do Not Touch" are the Treasures mentioned above in the update notes.
  • Jerneh Nightbringer no longer spawns in Marga Coast. This has been confirmed by Gaile to have been done on purpose.
  • Heroes now inform the player that they are not wielding a weapon outside outposts if they're unequipped.
  • Destructive was Glaive no longer can be cast on allies.
  • Activating the skill Rampage as One no longer causes the player to stop running.
  • Characters in the selection screen now follow your settings for displaying headgear in outposts.
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