Game updates/20080401

Update - Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Note: This update was never implemented. It is a fake update in the spirit of April Fools' Day. However, this update did cause all level 20 player characters to appear as three-dimensional stick figures.

Skills

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.

Assassin

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

Elementalist

• No changes.

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.

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.

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.

Norn

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

Ritualist

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

Warrior

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

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.