Changes: Game updates

Revision as of 01:37, 1 September 2007

These are the permanent links to the updates on this page.

Older updates:

2007
January	February	March
April	May	June
July	August	September
October	November	December

2006
January	February	March
April	May	June
July	August	September
October	November	December

2005
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–	May	June
July	August	September
October	November	December

The following is a list of the most recent updates to Guild Wars, as listed on the official updates info page, with GuildWiki comments.

Check the month by month archives on the right for older updates.

A 0...15 attribute level progression range is used for skills in the update notes. GuildWiki uses the same 0...12 attribute level progression range as the tooltips when displaying skill information. Title-based skills are also listed with progression ranges different from those used in the tooltips.

Update 2 - Friday, August 31, 2007

Skill Changes

Rebel Yell: armor bonus is now received when taking damage from Charr instead of fire.
Seed of Life: reduced Energy cost to 5; reduced casting time to .25 seconds; reduced duration.

Miscellaneous

Corrected sizing restrictions on the Party panel.
Expanding or collapsing the Allies or Pets sections of your Party panel now causes the panel to resize.
Changed the casting time of the creature skill “Monkey See, Monkey Do” from 2 seconds to 0.25 seconds.
Changed the casting time of the creature skill “Berserk” from 3 seconds to .25 seconds.
Added a Sigil Trader and Rocius to Tomb of the Primeval Kings.

GuildWiki notes

Players must re-accept the EULA.
There is a mistake in the update notes: The Grawl skill "Blood Rage", not "Berserk", was changed.

Update - Friday, August 31, 2007

The Far Shiverpeaks Await!

Guild Wars: Eye of the North is now available for purchase at retail stores, at PlayNC.com, and through the Guild Wars in-game store. Players who purchase Guild Wars: Eye of the North may now bring existing level 20 PvE (roleplaying) characters to the expansion's four new regions to acquire new skills, armor, and weapons, to recruit new Heroes, and to explore numerous multi-level dungeons!

Guild Wars: Eye of the North is compatible with each of the three campaigns in the Guild Wars franchise (Guild Wars, Guild Wars Factions, and Guild Wars Nightfall).
To access the expansion's content, players must complete an introductory quest. After completion of this quest, characters may travel quickly and easily using the World Map.
- Characters from the original Guild Wars campaign wishing to travel to the Far Shiverpeaks for the first time should seek out Len Caldoron in Lion's Arch and accept the "What Lies Beneath" quest.
- Factions characters wishing to travel to the Far Shiverpeaks for the first time should seek out Minister of Maintenance Raiugyon in Kaineng Center and accept the "I Feel the Earth Move Under Cantha's Feet" quest.
- Nightfall characters wishing to travel to the Far Shiverpeaks for the first time should seek out Bendah in Kamadan and accept the "Hole of Istan" quest.

Heroes

Heroes are NPC party members who can join your party, level up with your character, and use weapons, armor, and skills of your choosing. You can recruit ten new Eye of the North Heroes by completing certain quests and adventures throughout the expansion.
You can only bring three Heroes into your party at any given time. Since you and a friend can each bring three Heroes into a group, two players can now complete any challenge created for up to eight players.
After recruiting a Hero, you can use the "Add a Hero" interface in the Party Formation panel to invite the Hero into your party whenever you’re standing in a town or outpost. You can also add a Hero through the Hero tab in the Party Search panel (press P on your keyboard).
If you and another player both invite the same Hero, one of them will be the "real" Hero, who will interact with NPCs in cinematics and other scripted events, and the other will be an "imposter", who will use a generic name for the duration of the sequence.
Whenever you control a Hero, you will see a button next to the Hero’s name, which you can click to bring up the Hero Control panel. This panel provides advanced options for direct control of the Hero. You can use it to adjust the Hero's AI mode between fight, guard, or avoid combat. You can also use it to order the Hero to focus his attention on a specific target, to cast a certain skill, or to not use specific skills unless directed to do so by you.
Whenever you control at least one Hero, you will also see a button on the Compass that you can use to give orders to the Hero. To use it, simply click the numbered button that corresponds to the desired Hero, then click anywhere in the Compass or in the world where you would like the Hero to walk. To remove a Hero's orders, you can either double click that Hero's numbered button or click the "Cancel" button on the Compass.
Whenever you recruit a Hero while playing through the expansion, that Hero becomes unlocked for use with your PvP characters. Heroes that you recruit also come with skills, and those skills become unlocked on your account when you recruit the Hero.
Heroes don't maintain their own inventory of skills. Instead, they are able to use any skill that you have unlocked on your account.
Heroes don't maintain their own backpack or inventory of items. Instead, you can drag items from your inventory onto a Hero to equip him. Your Heroes can use weapons that you have customized for yourself.
Hero Trainers, located in various locations around the Far Shiverpeaks, will teach you a skill (and unlock it on your account for use by your Heroes) in return for a Hero Skill Point. You get a Hero Skill Point each time you gain a new rank of the Asura, Deldrimor, Ebon Vanguard, or Norn titles.
Hero Armor NPCs, located in the town of Gunnar's Hold and the outpost of the Central Transfer Chamber, can craft upgraded armor for your Heroes in return for certain items that you can acquire inside the Elite Dungeon (Slavers' Exile) and the Challenge Mission (Glint's Challenge).

Asura, Deldrimor, Ebon Vanguard, and Norn Titles

Players can now earn ranks in the new Asura, Deldrimor, Ebon Vanguard, and Norn title tracks by completing quests, participating in bounty hunts, competing in three brand new mini-games, and performing a variety of other activities. Attaining higher ranks in these titles gives players the following benefits:

Rank 3: Access to a special item crafter. Each group has a single item crafter who provides unique and powerful items. You must spend a Skill Point to have these items crafted for you.
Rank 4: Access to an exclusive weapon crafter. Each group has a single weapon crafter who provides unique weapons, such as the Raven Scythe and the Charrslayer Axe.
Rank 5: Access to an exclusive armor crafter. Each group has a single armor crafter who provides single unique armor pieces, such as the Dread Mask or the Magma Gauntlets.
All ranks: The 50 PvE-only skills and passive bonuses provided by these groups become more powerful with each title rank.

Hall of Monuments

Players who travel to the Eye of the North now have access to a personalized Hall of Monuments that will contain the following five special monuments used to commemorate character accomplishments earned across all Guild Wars campaigns:

Honor — The Monument to Honor displays a character's title-related accomplishments and major PvE achievements, such as completing a campaign or elite mission. Character-based titles must be maximum rank to be displayed. The restrictions for account-based titles vary by title.
Resilience — The Monument to Resilience displays all Ascended armor sets acquired by a character. To display a new armor set, the character must have the coat, leggings, gloves, and boots for that set.
Valor — The Monument to Valor displays all Eye of the North end-game weapons acquired by a character. Displaying a weapon customizes it so that only that specific character may use that weapon.
Devotion — The Monument to Devotion can display any miniatures collected by a character. Displaying a miniature customizes it so that only that specific character may use that miniature.
Fellowship — The Monument to Fellowship displays a character's Heroes and animal companions. In order to register a Hero on this monument, that Hero must have at least one armor upgrade. In order to register an animal companion, the animal companion must be level 20.

Initially, all Hall of Monuments will have open access to the Monument of Honor. Players can then choose to upgrade their Hall of Monuments by obtaining special Monumental Tapestries from major quests. These tapestries can be used in the main hall to unlock access to each of the remaining four monuments.

The Hall of Monuments is character based rather than account based. This allows players to store accomplishments for each individual level 20 PvE character on their account. Titles that are account based will be applied to the Hall of Monuments of each character on an account.

GuildWiki notes

Players must re-accept the EULA.

Update 2 - Thursday, August 30, 2007

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that made it appear as though some characters were invisible.

Miscellaneous

Made additional preparations for the release of Guild Wars: Eye of the North.

Bugs

The Markers on the Map for already completed Main/Primary Quests/Missions, completed Dungeons, and explored zone names on the Preview Weekend are gone on the Map with the Release of GW:EN.

Update - Thursday, August 30, 2007

Playbalance Changes

As is expected with any unfinished content shown in a preview, many aspects of playbalance within Guild Wars: Eye of the North have been adjusted since the Eye of the North Sneak Peek event. For existing live content, only the two following skill changes have been made:

Monk

Seed of Life: reduced duration to 1..5 seconds; increased recharge time to 25 seconds.

Paragon

"There's Nothing to Fear!": increased the recharge time to 20 seconds.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that caused Health Bars to stick out over the edge of the Party panel when it was sized too small.

Guild Wars In-Game Store Updates

Once a Guild Wars account is linked to a PlayNC master account, it uses the currency of the country registered at the time the PlayNC master account is created. If the Guild Wars account is not linked to a PlayNC account, it will use the current IP to determine the currency type displayed.

GuildWiki notes

GW:EN Pre-order is no longer available from the in-game Guild Wars Online Store.
GW:EN is now available from the in game Guild Wars Online Store. (nb: pre-order discounts take effect in the checkout and are listed in the column on the right for pricing/total costs)

Update - Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that prevented some parties that had received a "bye" in the first round of a tournament from not always receiving their Tournament Reward Points.
Fixed a compatibility problem with Eye of the North and some graphics chipsets, including Intel 915/945.

Miscellaneous

Healing Spring now plays an effect in the area in which it is active.
To prevent players from unintentionally breaking items, Perfect Salvage Kits can no longer be used to salvage materials.

GuildWiki notes

Players had to re-accept the EULA.
The quests Against the Destroyers, The Knowledgeable Asura, and The Missing Vanguard have been updated.
This update changed Eye of the North from a town to an outpost.
Mesmer Primeval Armor is bugged. The character is invisible on the character selection screen and in the game for some graphics card chipsets.
Ritualist Ancient Armor is bugged. The character is invisible on the character selection screen and in the game for some graphics card chipsets.
This update also appears to have fixed some major clipping issues with several shields on Monk characters.
The major port cities on each of the three continents have been reverted to their original state, before the GW:EN earthquakes.
The Armor bugs can be fixed by removing the armor and then re-equipping it.
Certain Shining Blade NPCs, including Elder Gretchen in Aurora Glade and Alari Doubleblade in Silverwood, now have audio dialogue when you speak with them (like Eye of the North NPCs).

Update 2 - Monday, August 27, 2007

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that prevented players from removing GW:EN heroes from their parties after the end of the Sneak Peek weekend.

Update - Monday, August 27, 2007

Ended the Guild Wars: Eye of the North Sneak Peek preview event.

GuildWiki notes

NOTE: Fixable bug: If a player had an Eye of the North hero in their party when the sneak peek ended, the slot will be "taken up" despite the hero being locked and unusable until the game's release. This problem can be solved by going to an area that forces one's party off (and then mapping back to a city or your Guild Hall), such as most PvP arenas. The Random Arena seems to work best as it sets the party size to 1. This bug has been fixed by a subsequent update.
If a player was participating in the sneak peek weekend, and was in a GW:EN city when it ended, they were sent back to the starter location for their character's respective campaign; i.e., Tyrian characters were sent to Ascalon City (Post-Searing), Canthan characters to Monastery Overlook, and Elonan characters to Chahbek Village.
If a player tries to maptravel to a city from the sneak peek weekend, they get the message "You may not enter that outpost".
Fixed an unintended bug that let players who already added the final GW:EN key to their account play in the preview territories.
Re-added the 'Qualifier Points' text and toolbox in the hero panel.

Update - Friday, August 24, 2007

Bug Fixes

Hard Mode has been re-enabled, fixing its unintentional removal.
Fixed a bug in the Guild Wars store that erroneously showed GW:EN Pre-Order as having been purchased on some accounts, thereby preventing access to GWEN.
Fixed a bug that prevented players from purchasing the GW:EN Pre release Bonus Pack in the in game store.

Update 2 - Thursday, August 23, 2007

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that reduced players' ranks in the Gladiator title. Affected players will receive Balthazar faction points equal to the amount their faction cap was reduced while the bug was in effect.

Miscellaneous

Characters may now only equip up to 3 PvE-only skills at a time.

GuildWiki notes

The option for Hard Mode is no longer available. This was unintentional.
The limitations to the amount of equipped PvE-only skills are officially announced with the second update but they were already implemented in the first update.

Update - Thursday, August 23, 2007

Territory and District UI Changes

Travel between European and American districts is now available through the District List and the map travel dialog panel.
The Change Territory button has been removed from the Edit Account panel in the Character Selection Screen.
The District List and the map travel district menu have been updated to include a "More Options" button. Selecting this button opens a new dialog panel for travel to districts divided by territory and language.
This panel also allows you to choose which numbered district to travel to, instead of automatically taking you to the active district.
Players will now log in to the territory and language of the last outpost they visited.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug in the Nightfall quest "Into the Fire" that prevented players from collecting their reward occasionally.
Fixed bugs in the North Kryta Province and Tasca's Demise that prevented players from Vanquishing them occasionally.
Fixed a god statue in Fahranur, the First City[sic] that was mistakenly summoning Lyssa's Muse instead of the Champion of Balthazar.
Fixed a graphical error with the Hourglass Staff preorder item.

Miscellaneous

Added new ranks to the Kind of a Big Deal title track.
Re-enabled the reconnect after disconnect feature.
The Text Language drop-down list found in the Options [F11] panel now displays all language entries in both your current language choice as well as each entry's language.
The Party panel can once again be resized vertically. It still re-sizes automatically whenever members are added or removed.
To avoid players accidentally expanding or collapsing groups listed within the Party panel, players must now click on the [+] button to expand or collapse these groups.

GuildWiki notes

This update required users to accept a new version of the EULA.
- One of the changes was to a line in 5(b) that will allow them to close all your accounts if you attempt a charge-back, instead of just the account you're attempting the charge-back from.
- The other was in line 4(b): added the line "Where possible, your game account shall be identical to your master account."
This is a fairly large update, approximately 35.7 MB large and contains over 3600 files.
This update scaled the Gladiator title ranks up (first rank at 500), but did not convert existing player gladiator points. This seems to be a mistake as all schemes for changing this title included a plan to convert and scale players' gladiator points into the new scheme. See this link for details on the schemes to scale the title. The changes were reverted in the subsequent update.
Rank 5 of the Lightbringer is now called "Conquering Lightbringer" and rank 6 is now called "Vanquishing Lightbringer." Previously, rank 5 was called "Vanquishing Lightbringer" and rank 6 was called "Conquering Commander."
Common districts were renamed back to English districts.
Pressing M (for world map) in an area that does not appear on the world map such as Sunspear Sanctuary, will show a mini-map on the big map and a button labeled "Mission Map" in the bottom left corner that toggles this mini-map.
A slot for Onyx Gemstones was added to material storage in preparation for GW:EN.
Earthquakes have begun to randomly occur in Lion's Arch, Kamadan, and Kaineng Center more commonly. When an earthquake happens, the background music changes to an eerie new music track. Along with the initial appearance of Oozes, Rats, and "Reserve" NPCs, this effect began occurring in-game on August 22nd.
GW:EN skills work in skill templates.
Added a Moa Nest to Regent Valley, and by interacting with it you can get a Moa Egg. For more information and a screen see this

Fixed a glitch with male Paragons, which had caused the right arm to twitch repeatedly while using the /bowhead emote.
Using "LFG" and other phrases no longer truncates the message when adding it to Party Search.
If an elite skill is captured and then the character is warped to a town or outpost, the elite skill furthest to the left on the skill bar is removed if multiple elite skills are equipped after the capture. Before the update, the elite skill farthest to the right was removed.
When advertising on the Party Search panel, unchecking and then rechecking the "Seek Party" checkbox causes the player to announce said advertisement in local chat, rather than trade chat, for example. This can easily be misconstrued as attempting to buy/sell in local chat.
In this update or one of the subsequent updates over the weekend, the tooltips for title skills were altered to show progression ranges from 0...(max rank) instead of 0...(80% of max rank).
Salvaging unidentified armors will produce a rune or insignia and always break the armor, eliminating the possibility of getting an unidentified armor with no rune on it. This prevents selling those unidentified gold armors to others as if they have runes, it also prevents players going after the Wisdom title track from getting double IDs from one item.

Update - Thursday, August 16, 2007

Skill Updates

Assassin

Dark Apostasy: reduced casting time to .25 seconds.
Fox Fangs: reduced activation time to .5 seconds.
Golden Fox Strike: reduced recharge time to 4 seconds.
Iron Palm: reduced Energy cost to 5.
Jagged Strike: increased Bleed duration to 5..20 seconds.
Jungle Strike: reduced activation time to .5 seconds.
Locust's Fury: reduced recharge time to 10 seconds.
Palm Strike: reduced Energy cost to 5.
Unsuspecting Strike: reduced recharge time to 2 seconds.
Way of Perfection: increased duration to 60 seconds; decreased casting time to .25 seconds.
Way of the Empty Palm: reduced recharge time to 10 seconds.
Wild Strike: this Skill is now unblockable.

Ritualist

Ancestors' Rage: decreased casting time to .25 seconds; removed Exhaustion; functionality changed to: "For 1 second, nothing happens. When this Enchantment ends, all foes adjacent to target ally are struck for 30..130 lightning damage."
Anguish: reverted skill to its original behavior.
Defiant Was Xinrae: reverted skill to its original behavior.
Disenchantment: reverted skill to its original behavior.
Dissonance: reverted skill to its original behavior.
Spirit Burn: functionality changed to: "Target foe is struck for 5..50 lightning damage. If any Spirits are within earshot, Spirit Burn causes Burning for 1..3 second(s)."
Wanderlust: reverted skill to its original behavior.
Wielder's Strike: increased recharge time to 6 seconds; decreased unconditional damage to 5..50; decreased conditional damage to 10..40; removed exhaustion.
Xinrae's Weapon: reverted skill to its original behavior.

Victory or Death Changes

Increased the total time between GvG matches in Automated Tournaments to 35 minutes. Games use a tie-breaker if not complete within 28 minutes, with an extra minute on either end for map loading or internet delays (total 30 minutes), and 5 minutes between each round to allow teams more time to organize.

Miscellaneous

Made additional adjustments to the Luxon Warriors in Fort Aspenwood to prevent them from fleeing homeward when the siege turtle is killed.
Fixed a bug that occasionally cut off lengthy trade and party-search-related messages in the Chat panel.
Added additional trade and grouping keywords to the list of words that trigger Party Search.
Changed the layout of the Forgotten Shrines and Fetid River Heroes' Ascent maps.
Added a message to alert players when someone in their district has achieved a maximum title that counts toward earning Favor of the Gods.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that prevented Water Tormentors and Sanity Tormentors in the Domain of Anguish from having weapons when created by the Call to the Torment skill.
Changed Abaddon’s AI for "Words of Madness" so it does not allow entirely avoiding him while achieving Masters level completion of the mission at the same time.

GuildWiki Notes

Files that are being downloaded now decrement through each number instead of skipping number of files while downloading.

Update - Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Fixed a bug in the encounter with Mallyx the Unyielding that caused his Summoning Shadows skill to ignore its recharge time.
The damage of Mallyx the Unyielding's Shadow Smash skill has been reduced to 150.

Update - Monday, August 13, 2007

This was an undocumented update.

GuildWiki Notes

This update disabled the reconnect feature in the game to prevent further exploitation of a trade bug that allowed players to duplicate items using reconnection.

Update - Friday, August 10, 2007

Skill Updates

We will be evaluating the following Skill changes over the course of the next week. Additional adjustments may be made during that time period.

Dervish

Rending Touch: increased recharge time to 8 seconds.

Necromancer

Reckless Haste: increased Energy cost to 15; increased duration to 6..12 seconds; increased recharge time to 12 seconds.

Ritualist

Wielder's Strike: reduced recharge time to 5 seconds.
Ancestors' Rage: reduced Energy cost to 5.

Warrior

Desperation Blow/Drunken Blow: these Skills now only knock you down if they hit.

Bug Fixes

Removed the ability to create a Guild Wars account without a Guild Wars Access Key.

Update 2 - Thursday, August 09, 2007

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that caused the Guild Lord to take extra damage.

Update - Thursday, August 09, 2007

Favor of the Gods Changes

To ensure that all territories share in the Favor of the Gods together, we have made several modifications to the Favor system.

The Favor of the Gods has been changed from a territory-based PvP reward system to a globally based PvE reward system.
Players can now earn world favor in one hour blocks. These blocks are earned when 20 individuals have achieved the maximum rank in several specific titles. Players who obtain maximum rank in these titles while the world holds favor will extend the one hour block by an additional 3 minutes.
The following maximum level title tracks count toward achieving Favor of the Gods: Survivor, Defender of Ascalon, Legendary Cartographer, Legendary Guardian, Legendary Skill Hunter, Legendary Vanquisher, Sunspear, Lightbringer, Kurzick, Luxon, Lucky, Unlucky, Gamer, Drunkard, Treasure Hunter, Wisdom, Sweet Tooth, Hero, Gladiator, Champion, and Commander.
Once an individual has achieved the maximum rank of one of the titles mentioned above, players in specific outposts (see below) will receive a message informing them how close the world is to receiving the gods' favor, which title was achieved, and the name of the player who achieved it. The outposts that will broadcast this message include: Temple of the Ages, Zin Ku Corridor, Chantry of Secrets, Lion's Arch, Kaineng Center, Kamadan, and the Great Temple of Balthazar.
When the world holds the Favor of the Gods, players can type /favor to display the length of time left before the Favor of the Gods expires. Typing this command when the world does not have the gods' favor displays how many more players must achieve the maximum rank in a title before the world once again earns favor.
The Hall of Heroes message no longer references the Favor of the Gods.

Skill Updates

We will be evaluating the following changes over the course of the next week. Additional adjustments may be made during that time period.

Assassin

Black Spider Strike: increased Energy cost to 10.
Dark Prison: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
Death's Charge: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
Expose Defenses: increased recharge time to 25 seconds.
Golden Phoenix Strike: decreased Energy cost to 5.
Shadow Prison: decreased duration to 1..10 seconds.

Dervish

Attacker's Insight: functionality changed to: "For 20 seconds, your next 1..3 attack Skills cost 5..20 less Energy."
Enchanted Haste: decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Featherfoot Grace: decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Grenth's Fingers: decreased recharge time to 10 seconds; increased Cripple duration to 5..15 seconds.
Meditation: decreased recharge time to 8 seconds.
Rending Touch: decreased recharge time to 5 seconds.

Elementalist

Arc Lightning: decreased recharge time to 6 seconds.
Blinding Surge: decreased Blindness duration to 2..8 seconds.
Blurred Vision: decreased Energy cost to 10; decreased casting time to 1 second; decreased recharge time to 12 seconds; decreased duration to 4..10 seconds.
Chilling Winds: decreased Energy cost to 5.
Glyph of Elemental Power: increased duration to 25 seconds; increased number of Spells affected to 10.
Glyph of Energy: decreased recharge time to 10 seconds.
Glyph of Renewal: decreased recharge time to 10 seconds.
Rodgort's Invocation: decreased casting time to 2 seconds; decreased recharge time to 5 seconds.

Mesmer

Arcane Echo: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds.
Cry of Frustration: decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Drain Enchantment: increased Energy cost to 15; increased casting time to 2 seconds; decreased recharge time to 20 seconds; increased Energy gain to 15..25.
Echo: decreased recharge time to 10 seconds.
Illusionary Weaponry: decreased recharge time to 25 seconds.
Panic: decreased duration to 5..20 seconds.
Spirit of Failure: increased Energy cost to 15.
Signet of Illusions: functionality changed to: "Your next 1..2 Spells use your Illusion attribute instead of its normal attribute."
Spirit Shackles: decreased duration to 5..20 seconds.

Monk

Aegis: decreased Energy cost to 10; decreased area-of-effect range to earshot.
Blessed Light: decreased recharge time to 3 seconds.
Guardian: increased duration to 2..7 seconds; increased block rate to 50%.
Judge's Intervention: decreased recharge time to 8 seconds.
Remove Hex: decreased casting time to 1 second; increased recharge time to 8 seconds.
Shield of Regeneration: increased recharge time to 8 seconds.

Necromancer

Faintheartedness: decreased duration to 3..24 seconds.
Meekness: decreased duration to 5..30 seconds; decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Plague Sending: functionality changed to: "Sacrifice 10% maximum Health. Transfer 1..3 negative Conditions and their remaining durations from yourself to target foe and all adjacent foes."
Plague Signet: decreased recharge to 4 seconds.
Plague Touch: functionality changed to: "Transfer 1..2 negative Conditions and their remaining durations from yourself to target touched foe." Plague Touch is now attributed to Curses.
Poisoned Heart: functionality changed to: "All adjacent foes are Poisoned for 5..15 seconds. For 10 seconds, you suffer -5..-2 Health degeneration."
Price of Failure: increased Energy cost to 15; decreased damage to 1..46.
Reckless Haste: decreased Energy cost to 10; decreased casting time to 1 second; decreased recharge time to 10 seconds; decreased duration to 4..10 seconds; increased miss chance to 50%.
Rip Enchantment: functionality changed to: "You lose 30..10% Health. Remove one Enchantment from target foe."
Shadow of Fear: decreased duration to 5..30 seconds.

Paragon

Awe: decreased recharge time to 10 seconds.
Signet of Aggression: increased the strikes of adrenaline you gain to 2; decreased recharge time to 5 seconds.

Ranger

Equinox: decreased casting time to 3 seconds; decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Escape: decreased recharge time to 12 seconds; decreased duration to 1..8 seconds; increased run speed to 33%.
Famine: decreased casting time to 3 seconds; decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Flame Trap: increased damage to 5..20.
Greater Conflagration: decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Infuriating Heat: decreased casting time to 3 seconds; decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Lacerate: decreased Energy cost to 10; decreased activation time to 3 seconds; decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Point Blank Shot/Zojun's Shot: decreased Energy cost to 5; increased damage to 10..40.
Punishing Shot: decreased recharge time to 5 seconds.
Run as One: decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Storm Chaser: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds.

Ritualist

Ancestors' Rage: This skill now causes Exhaustion.
Anguish: decreased Energy cost to 10; decreased recharge time to 20 seconds. This skill now causes Exhaustion.
Defiant Was Xinrae: decreased Energy cost to 5; decreased recharge time to 5 seconds; increased duration to 5..15 seconds. This skill now causes Exhaustion.
Disenchantment: decreased Energy cost to 10; decreased recharge time to 20 seconds. This skill now causes Exhaustion.
Dissonance: decreased Energy cost to 10; decreased recharge time to 20 seconds. This skill now causes Exhaustion.
Gaze of Fury: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds.
Recovery: Fixed a bug that caused the effect to stay even after the Spirit had died.
Sight Beyond Sight: decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
Spirit Burn: decreased recharge time to 6 seconds; decreased damage to 5..50; decreased conditional damage to 10..40.
Spirit Rift: increased casting time to 2 seconds.
Splinter Weapon: decreased duration to 20 seconds.
Vital Weapon: decreased duration to 5..35 seconds.
Wanderlust: This skill now causes Exhaustion.
Wielder's Strike: This skill now causes Exhaustion.
Xinrae's Weapon: decreased Energy cost to 10; decreased recharge to 10 seconds. This skill now causes Exhaustion.

Warrior

Berserker Stance: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds.
Crude Swing: functionality changed to: "Attack all adjacent foes. Each foe you hit is struck for 1..20 damage. You have -40 armor while activating this Skill."
Flourish: decreased recharge time to 8 seconds; increased Energy gained per recharging attack Skill to 2..7.
"For Great Justice!": decreased Energy cost to 5; increased adrenaline gain to 100%.
Savage Slash: decreased Energy cost to 5.

Victory or Death Changes

Victory or Death now occurs at 18 minutes.
The Guild Lord now walks to the flag stand at 20 minutes.
The Guild Lord no longer deals 300% damage to non Guild Lord NPCs.
Guild Battle NPCs now deal 200% damage to Guild Lords.
Guild Battle NPCs now march out of the Guild Hall in three waves. The first wave arrives at the flag stand at 18:45, the second wave arrives at the flag stand at 19:00, and third wave (Bodyguards and Knights) arrive at the flag stand at 19:15.
Automated Tournaments have been updated to reflect the Victory or Death changes.

Miscellaneous

Made preparations for the Dragon Festival Redux weekend event.
Reset Territory Changes for all accounts.
The Kurzick Necromancers found in Fort Aspenwood now equip the skill "Rising Bile" instead of "Death Nova." This change was implemented to prevent an exploit that allowed Kurzick players to lure Necromancers away from the gates they guard.
Removed the “Add Key” button from the account edit UI. You must now add keys by using the “Create Account or Add Access Key” link on the login screen.
Updated the “Mission Pack Promotion” screen in the Guild Wars In-Game Store to contain more details about the promotion.

GuildWiki Notes

The Kick and Leave buttons are in their original places again.
Size is approximately 1.7 MB.(when you use -image)
This update has introduced the first time in Guild Wars history that a skill other than an elementalist skill causes inherent exhaustion.
Screen effects are not occurring when imbibing alcohol for the Drunkard title.

Several incorrect skill descriptions were fixed, "There's Nothing to Fear!" now correctly refers to party members instead of allies, and many pet attacks now specifically refer to the player's pet in the singular, as opposed to the previous "your animal companions".

Update - Friday, August 03, 2007

Heroes' Ascent Changes

Reduced the time on the Antechamber and Forgotten Shrines from 10 minutes to 6 minutes.
When a team in the Antechamber or Forgotten Shrines has scored 20 points more than its opponent, the game ends and the high-scoring team wins.
Players can now only bring a maximum of 2 non-human (Hero or henchmen) players into Heroes' Ascent maps.

Miscellaneous

Adjusted the circumstances in which Heroes use the skill "Death Nova" in PvP.
Fixed the skill "Vampirism" so that it now steals the correct amount of damage.
The Burial Mounds map has been added back in to the Heroes' Ascent map rotation to accommodate the large number of teams playing during the Heroes' Ascent Bonus Weekend.

GuildWiki Notes

The Gladiator Title Track had its description reverted to as it was before the August 2nd update.
The "Qualifier point" text and mouseover on the Account tab of the Hero Panel is missing.
Size is approximately 2 MB.(when you use -image)

Update - Thursday, August 02, 2007

Heroes' Ascent Update

As a part of this play-balance test week, we’ve made the following changes to Heroes' Ascent:

Removed Broken Tower from the map rotation.
Removed Burial Mounds from the map rotation and replaced it with Fetid River, a new 8v8 Annihilation map that has a Priest.
Removed Sacred Temples from the map rotation and replaced it with the Antechamber, a new 8v8 Control Point map.
Added Forgotten Shrines, a new 8v8 Control Point map, to the map rotation after Unholy Temples.
Changed the Courtyard's game type from Kill Count to King of the Hill.

Miscellaneous

To prevent exploitation of the Nightfall starter mission and quests, the gold rewards for the "Take the Shortcut", "Rally the Recruits", "Quiz the Recruits", and "Primary Training" quests have been removed, and the gold rewards for the Chahbek Village mission have been decreased to 20 gold for Standard, 30 gold for Expert, and 50 gold for Master's. The reward for the Nightfall quest "Secondary Training" has been increased to 200 gold to compensate.
Updated the map rotation for Automated Tournaments.

GuildWiki Notes

Party Search text now appears at the end of the text string. Example: LFG for xx quest (Party Search)
Gladiator Title Track description has been updated. It says you earn 1 point per win in Random and Team arenas and 5 bonus points for each 5 wins in a row. This is only a text change. This has been posted as a bug from Gaile on the fansite forums [1] [2]. It is noted that it is a possible future change to the title and that it would affect retroactively those who have earned points in the current system.
Size is approximately 4.5 MB.(when you use -image)
Added some Translations for the Guild Wars: Eye of the North Preorder Items.
You can no longer place preorder items in storage, not even with the item swap trick that worked before.

Update 2 - Friday, July 20, 2007

Enabled the creation of bonus items for players who pre-ordered Guild Wars: Eye of the North.

Update - Friday, July 20, 2007

Guild Wars: Eye of the North Pre-Order

Players can now pre-order Guild Wars: Eye of the North from the Guild Wars Official (in-game) Store.

Promotional Items

Pre-order and promotional weapons that contain open component slots can once again be enhanced with upgrade components. These upgrades cannot be salvaged from the weapon once they have been applied.

Miscellaneous

The character selection screen has been updated to Guild Wars: Eye of the North.

Bug Fixes

Fixed several skill-related bugs that occurred during the last update. Included among these updates: Fast Casting once again works on Signets, Spawning Power once again increases weapon spell duration, and Mesmer interrupt skills once again work on Chants.
Fixed a bug that caused Observer Mode games to disappear prematurely from the list.
Fixed a bug that caused attributes to be listed in red text.
Fixed a graphical map error in the Ring of Fire.

GuildWiki notes

The Heroes Ascent map Dark Chambers has been renamed to Golden Gates.

This update has caused heroes and henchmen to sometimes stay in one spot and not move despite being flagged or the controller moving.
Polish and Russian districts have been added to European district list.
Mallyx the Unyielding in The Ebony Citadel of Mallyx has had his skill Summoning Shadows reverted back to an earlier glitch where he is able to use it every 5-7 seconds even though the skill description still says the skill recharges in 20 seconds.
After this update, Elemental Hunt has the added ": 1 = 1" on the end of its description.
After this update, Menzies Battle has the added ": 2 = 2" on the end of its description.
Although Dragon Fangs do not have empty upgrade slots, they will accept upgrade components. Same goes for the Soulbreaker and Sunspear.
Serpent's Quickness no longer reduces the recharge time of other stances.
Iron Horse Mine now has a lag error that causes some computers to experience long lag issues throughout the entire explorable area.
There is a minor glitch with hero flagging, occasionally the cursor icon will not change to indicate you are going to place a flag.

Update 2 - Tuesday July 17, 2007

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that corrupted geometry on Intel 915, 945, and 965 graphics chips.
Fixed a Party Search issue that caused some players to crash.
Fixed the district drop-down list so that it no longer displays unavailable districts and territories.
Fixed a map error in D'Alessio Seaboard.

Miscellaneous

English districts are now referred to as Common districts.

GuildWiki notes

This update restored the bug which causes the ocean to appear with a random color on the title and character selection screens.
In Raisu Palace (explorable) hard mode, party does not get returned to outpost when all members reach 60dp.
The Dye Preview Screen no longer allows a player to drag and drop items into the screen to be previewed. Instead one must now preview each item by double clicking on the relevant dye and choosing the item desired to be previewed.

Update - Tuesday July 17, 2007

Party Search

Whenever a party enters Party Search, an automatic message will now broadcast to players in that party’s current district. For example, if Ancient Shahmat sets “glf monk” as the party’s description in the Party Search panel, “Ancient Shahmat: Party Search – glf monk” will appear in the Chat panel of players in the same district as Ancient Shahmat.
Whenever a party leader broadcasts “glf,” “lfg,” lfp,” “wtb,” “wts,” or “wtt” in All chat, that party will now be entered into Party Search automatically with that chat message used as the party's description. Note however that messages that contain spaces in-between these acronyms will not automatically be entered in the party search window. However, an advantage of this is you will be able to broadcast your message for more than one line in length per entry.

User Interface

The Trade panel now displays the name as well as the icon of trade items present in the trade cart, and a warning message now displays when the person you are trading with changes the offer.
The Party panel now automatically resizes vertically to match the contents of the panel.
The Party panel now maintains the same position it was placed in while in outposts and missions.
The Party panel join frame has been moved to the bottom of the panel.
Allies and pets are now listed in collapsible groups in the Party panel while in a mission.

Domain of Anguish

To balance the Domain of Anguish appropriately for a wider variety of players, the difficulty of this realm has been adjusted. Some of the changes apply only to Normal mode.

In Normal mode only, all world effects outside of the final battle have been removed.
In Normal mode only, damage output has been reduced for a variety of monsters.
The size of several monster groups found in the beginning areas of the City of Torc'qua and the The Foundry of Failed Creations have been reduced.
The Enraged ability possessed by creatures in the Domain of Anguish has been adjusted. This ability now gives the caster +50% damage when below 70% Health, and an additional +50% damage when below 30% Health.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused Mallyx to stop reacting in combat.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug in the Nightfall mission the Grand Court of Sebelkeh that caused rifts to erroneously display blue bars when being recaptured by the Blasphemy.
Fixed a bug that prevented the Factions quest "A Formal Introduction" from loading if players had quests from the Dragon Festival in their Quest Logs.

Miscellaneous

The Tyrian World Map has been enlarged and adjusted in preparation for Guild Wars Eye of the North.
Improved the system for throttling chat spam.
The Sunspear Rebirth Signet is now sorted under Sunspear skills in the Skills and Attributes panel.
The Lightbringer's Gaze and the Lightbringer’s Signet are now sorted under Lightbringer skills in the Skills and Attributes panel.
Additional behavioral modifications have been made to the Luxon Warriors in Fort Aspenwood.
Master Architect Gunther no longer runs in front of Fort Aspenwood's green gate.

GuildWiki notes

The update is very big in size at 569.1 MB and almost 25,000 files. The vast majority of that content are files that will be used in the upcoming expansion, The Eye of the North. It is common for ArenaNet to do so before the release of new campaigns, most likely to limit server load upon the game release.

Undocumented changes

The "fix" to Mallyx the Unyielding included a fix to the exploit used to kill him which relied on leaving a Flesh Golem corpse outside the door and then having one party member use Necrotic Traversal or Consume Corpse to jump to it. Now, when the party enters the Citadel all corpses and minions will get pulled in with them.
On the login and character selection screens, the sky in the background is a bit darker. This update also fixed a bug which caused the ocean to appear with a random color on the title and character selection screens.
The skill icon for Whirlwind Attack has been changed and the damage output at Sunspear level 9 changed from 18 to 19.
When sending a skill template to chat, the words "Skill Template:" will appear in bright green, followed by the name of the template in white. Previously, the link was yellow and showed only the template name.
Skill description when hovering over a skill now have the linked attribute listed in dark red.
When a character under level 20 levels up, the level-up message now includes how many attribute points that character has gained.
A "use best texture filtering" option has been added in the graphics tab in the options.
Sky effects have been changed.
Ascalon Guards now have a new armor set.
Monk Elite Woven armor no longer shares an inventory icon with normal Monk Woven armor.
All ranged weapons that are upgraded with elemental mods now make the same sound as a wand with the same elemental damage.
Necrosis's damage has been increased.
Reaper's Mark's recharge changed from 12 to 15 seconds.
Shing Jea Monastery and Kaineng Center are now back to normal.
Kick and Leave buttons on the party bar have been reversed.
In GvG Automated Tournaments you need to have 4 14 day members in your guild, as opposed to 4 members from you guild and 4 14 day people it previously was

Bugs and glitches introduced

Much of the skill updates added on June 15th, such as the changes to Spawning Power and Fast Casting as well as the other Mesmer skills, were reverted. This is probably only accidental.
Some minor graphical errors were added on the Tyria map. This has since been fixed.
Many players have reported a graphical problem that causes characters to appear with stretched or missing body parts. This has since been fixed.
In the Fort Aspenwood mission, Siege Turtles did not cast Siege Turtle Attack in some matches. This has since been fixed.
Vampirism no longer scales with Sunspear rank, and now does 10 life stealing independent of rank.
In the Ring of Fire mission, the updated map now shows water where there is actually normal ground.
The Male Paragon's /bowhead emote is bugged. Their right arm will continuously "fall" then reset when using the emote.
In observer mode, duplicate party bars will not expand correctly if there are collapsible allies in the party.

Update - Friday July 06, 2007

Bug Fixes

Restored missing merchant to the Tomb of the Primeval Kings.
Fixed a bug in the Dragon Festival missions that prevented rifts from closing.

Miscellaneous

Added support for the Guild Wars Bonus Mission Pack promotion to the Official Guild Wars in-game store.

GuildWiki notes

The layout of the character selection screen has changed.
Removed experience reward from the Dragon Arena.

Update 2 - Thursday July 05, 2007

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that caused Imperial Guardsman Linro to not show up in Kaineng Center.

Update - Thursday July 05, 2007

Dragon Festival 2007

Attention fellow citizens of Cantha,

On behalf of Emperor Kisu, it is my pleasure to announce this year's Dragon Festival, a three-day celebration of games, dance, drink, and revelry, where we commemorate the dawning of the Age of the Dragon and all those who helped to rebuild our great lands after the Jade Wind. This year, our benevolent emperor has decreed that the festival shall henceforth also celebrate our great victory over Abaddon and his demon forces.

Throughout the duration of the festival, citizens of our great empire can convene at Shing Jea Monastery to socialize with others, partake in carnival activities, and amass Victory Tokens to be redeemed for special prizes. Fans of sport can flex their muscles in the Dragon Arena, where battle prowess and longevity are recognized and rewarded.

There will be no shortage of engaging entertainment, so we hope you make the journey to our lush island and join us in revelry.

Alliance Battles

To better reward players for participating in Alliance Battles even when in enemy territory, we have introduced a new "Underdog Bonus."

In the Luxon defense map, Kaanai Canyon, Kurzick players will receive extra Kurzick faction points equal to twice their score.
In the Luxon defense map, Etnaran Keys, Kurzick players will receive extra Kurzick faction points equal to their score.
In the middle map, Saltspray Beach, neither Kurzick nor Luxon players will receive a bonus.
In the Kurzick defense map, Grenz Frontier, Luxon players will receive extra Luxon faction points equal to their score.
In the Kurzick defense map, The Ancestral Lands, Luxon players will receive extra Luxon faction points equal to twice their score.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a stacking bug in the Assassin skill Hidden Caltrops.
Fixed a bug that prevented Alliance Battles from beginning if a party failed to load.

Miscellaneous

Deaths in the Dragon Arena no longer affect the Survivor title track.
Added Xunlai Storage and faction reward NPCs to Alliance Battle outposts.

GuildWiki notes

Many players' Hero Battle tracking appeared lost. They were told they had to re-register their accounts. This appears to go away once you log in and out a few times.
Creatures began dropping Victory Tokens.

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