Game updates/20080401

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[edit] Update - Tuesday, April 1, 2008

[edit] Skills

[edit] Guild vs. Guild

• Victory or Death [sic]: at Victory or Death, each player now deals 5% additional damage for each rank achieved in the Kind of A Big Deal title track.

[edit] Assassin

• Shadow Form: increased duration to 10...50...60.

[edit] Elementalist

• No changes.

[edit] Mesmer

• Diversion: increased duration to 120 seconds; increased disable time to 60...108...120.
• Blackout: removed the touch range restriction; this skill no longer disables the caster's skills.

[edit] Monk

• Peace and Harmony: increased Energy regeneration to 6...9...10.
• Protective Spirit: changed skill to: For 5...21...25 seconds, target ally cannot lose more than 50% maximum Health due to damage from a single attack or spell.

[edit] Necromancer

• Animate Bone Fiend: increased recharge to 30 seconds; increased casting time to 5 seconds.
• Spiteful Spirit: Fixed a bug that caused monsters not to flee while in the area of effect.

[edit] Norn

• Ursan Blessing: reduced recharge to 5 seconds; this skill is no longer PvE-only.

[edit] Ritualist

• Wanderlust: this skill now causes Exhaustion.
• Pain: this skill now causes Exhaustion.
• Bloodsong: this skill now causes Exhaustion.

[edit] Warrior

• Dwarven Battle Stance: increased duration to 10...26...30 seconds; this skill now deals +10...34...40 damage and causes knock down.

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Increased the effectiveness of the Lucky Aura.
• Loremaster Ermenred in Lion's Arch will now allow characters to travel back to Pre-Searing Ascalon after they've successfully performed a number of tasks.
• Tanned Hide Squares are now Tanned Hide Polygons.
• Increased Paragon base armor to 100.
• Scythes now hit a single target.

[edit] Guild Wars Wiki notes

• The update notes are an April Fools' joke and the changes have not actually been implemented in-game.