Game updates:September 2009

September 2009 updates

• Thursday 24^th of September (talk, feedback)
• Thursday 17^th of September (talk, feedback)
• Thursday 10^th of September (talk, feedback)
• Tuesday 1^st of September (talk, feedback)

Update - Thursday, September 24, 2009

Skill Updates

• Mantra of Resolve (PvE): reverted this skill to its original functionality.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented Escape from appropriately blocking melee attacks.

Update - Thursday, September 17, 2009

Automated Tournaments

• Updated Automated Tournament map rotations.

Skill Balance

For more information on these changes, please see the Developer Updates page.

PvE & PvP Changes

Dervish

• Armor of Sanctity: increased duration to 15 seconds; increased recharge to 15 seconds.

Elementalist

• Ether Prism: increased recharge to 25 seconds; decreased damage reduction to 75%.
• Immolate: increased recharge to 5 seconds.

Mesmer

• Distortion: increased recharge to 8 seconds.
• Illusion of Pain: changed the description to more accurately reflect its functionality.
• Mantra of Resolve: decreased duration to 5 seconds.

Monk

• Patient Spirit: increased recharge to 4 seconds.

Necromancer

• Rip Enchantment: increased recharge to 15 seconds.
• Vampiric Spirit: increased casting time to 2 seconds.

PvP Only Changes

Assassin

• Death Blossom (PvP): increased recharge to 6 seconds.

Necromancer

• Signet of Agony (PvP): increased recharge to 20 seconds.
• Unholy Feast (PvP): increased recharge to 20 seconds.

Ranger

• Escape (PvP): functionality changed to: "Elite Stance. For 1..8 seconds, you move 33% faster and have a 75% chance to block attacks. Ends if you make a melee attack."

PvE Only Changes

Monk

• Selfless Spirit: increased recharge to 45 seconds.

Necromancer

• Signet of Agony: decreased recharge to 8 seconds.
• Unholy Feast: decreased recharge to 8 seconds.

Paragon

• Finale of Restoration: reverted this skill to its original behavior.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that allowed the Health gain from "Fall Back!" to be affected by healing modifiers.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the Health gain from "Incoming!" to be affected by healing modifiers.
• Fixed a bug that caused Signet of Creation to decrease Binding Ritual skills to 1/4 second casting times instead of making them cast instantly.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Avatar of Dwayna from spawning in the International District versions of Sardelac Sanitarium and Druid's Overlook.
• Fixed a bug that caused Molotov Rocktail to wander outside his intended area.

Miscellaneous

• Removed duplicate version of Faction Rewards NPCs in the Alliance Battles outposts.
• Tolkano [Tournament] is now in the following outposts: Random Arena [sic], Heroes' Ascent, Zaishen Challenge, Zaishen Elite, Jade Quarry (Kurzick & Luxon), and Fort Aspenwood (Kurzick & Luxon).

Guild Wars Wiki notes

• The Random Arena Zaishen quest was changed to display the correct number of wins required in all text languages, excluding English and Bork! Bork! Bork! which had been corrected in previous updates.
• A bug prevented Escape from appropriately blocking melee attacks. This was fixed in the following update.

Update - Thursday, September 10, 2009

Miscellaneous

• Removed Dizhou [Xunlai Pollster] from the Great Temple of Balthazar.

Guild Wars Wiki notes

• The Zaishen Combat signpost dialogue for the Random Arena Zaishen quest was changed to display the correct number of wins required (from 5 to 3). The change only affected English and Bork! Bork! Bork!; it was left unchanged for all other text languages.

Update - Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Miscellaneous

• Nicholas the Traveler has been brushing up on his language skills.
• Kun Shao has gone on vacation until the Xunlai Tournament House is able to distribute points for the month of May.
• Fixed a bug that allowed teams to sync join in random PvP.

Guild Wars Wiki notes

• It's still possible to sync in random PvP, but it is more difficult than it was before the update.
• The base objective and second bonus objective for the Random Arena Zaishen quest was changed to display the correct number of wins required. The change only affected English and Bork! Bork! Bork!; it was left unchanged for all other text languages.