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Update - Wednesday, June 8, 2005

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== Update - Wednesday, June 8, 2005 ==

This week, as part of our in continuing promise to keep Guild Wars free of hacks, cheats, and other exploits, we closed the accounts of more than 100 users of bots. With today's update we are taking further steps to address the bot problem. New changes will improve our ability to identify and ban users of bots, rebalance mission areas that were highly exploited by bots, and reduce the overall effectiveness of bots, exploits, and other highly repetitive forms of gold and item [[farming]]. We are taking these steps to improve the game for all players, so that people using bots to farm gold cannot generate a huge influx of new gold into the economy, which increases prices for everyone and encourages other players to engage in repetitive farming just to keep up.

We know that some players currently engage in repetitive farming activities for the primary purpose of unlocking skills and items for PvP. Rather than preserving the effectiveness of farming for this purpose, it is our intention to address the larger issue of the need for farming by assessing how players acquire and unlock items, runes, and skills, and then by taking steps to ensure that players can acquire and unlock these things through normal gameplay. We believe that the most effective way to play the game should also be the most fun way to play the game. You can expect to see the first meaningful changes towards this goal next week.

This week's other improvements:
*Changed [[Signet of Capture]] so that it now targets dead [[boss]] monsters. When you use the signet, you are presented with a menu of all of the dead boss monster's skills, and can capture any skill of your choice. This eliminates the need to keep boss monsters alive while trying to capture their skills, and will substantially reduce the difficulty of capturing certain skills that are rarely cast by boss monsters.
*Added [[rune trader]]s. Be aware that these traders specifically deal with already-identified [[rune]]s, so runes you buy from them are for the purpose of wearing, not unlocking.
*Added traders for [[rare crafting material]]s.
*Added magical bonuses to a number of [[quest]] and [[collector]] items.
*Improved the guild matching system so that top-ranked guilds can find opponents more readily.
*Improved Tournament and [[Team Arena]]s so that if a player drops out during a mission, that player will be replaced by a [[henchman]] for the next mission.
*Improved drops of [[Obsidian Shard]]s in [[The Fissure of Woe]].
*Changed the way [[armor]] [[infusion]] quests work. The [[seer]] now infuses all of your currently worn pieces of armor, but the infusion effect is slightly reduced in power in order to preserve the intended challenge of the following missions.
*Fixed Henchmen AI to prevent Henchmen from running off after a party respawn.
*Fixed skills [[Vengeance]] and [[Unyielding Aura]] so that the effects after [[resurrection]] work properly again. These skills were inadvertently broken by last week's update.
*Fixed skill [[Enervating Charge]] to correctly deal armor piercing damage.
*Fixed skill [[Wild Blow]] so that it correctly ignores attempts to [[Block]] or [[Evade]].
*Fixed skill [[Feral Lunge]] duration of bleeding effect.
*Added [[Dwarven Ale]] for sale on Dwarven [[Merchant]]s.
*Added more storage agents to [[Droknar's Forge]] and [[Arena outpost]]s.
*Added the option of attaching [[Guild Wars Prophecies#Guild Wars Collector's Edition (box content)|Collectors Edition]] account keys onto existing retail accounts to unlock the [[Divine Aura]].
*Updated the user interface so that [[platinum]] pieces are clearly separated from [[gold]]. Previously various interface elements would incorrectly display "1000 gold pieces;" now they will display "1 platinum piece."
*Updated health bar positions on many monsters to more closely track the monster.
*Updated boss monsters [[Thul Boulderrain]] and [[Eater of Souls]] to use the correct glow color.
*Changed the appearance of collector NPCs in many [[Crystal Desert]] maps.
*Adjusted monster spawns in [[Talmark Wilderness]], [[Ettin's Back]], [[Ice Caves of Sorrow]], [[Riverside Province]], [[Sanctum Cay]], [[Majesty's Rest]], [[Stingray Strand]], [[Nebo Terrace]], [[The Arid Sea]], [[Prophet's Path]], [[The Scar]], and rebalanced spawns of [[Caromi Tengu]] throughout [[Kryta]].
*Increased reward for quest "[[The Villainy of Galrath]]" from 500 [[experience|XP]] to 4000 XP.
*Fixed loot problems in quests "[[The Undead Hordes]]," "[[The Last Hog]]," and "[[White Mantle Wrath: A Helping Hand]]."
*Fixed quest drops in quest "[[Blood And Smoke|Blood and Smoke]]."
*Fixed the countdown timer in [[Elona Reach|Elona's Reach]] so that it now begins after the [[cinematic]].
*Fixed fame in the [[Heroes' Ascent|Tomb of Primeval Kings]] so that it is granted starting from the first competitive victory.
*Fixed inability to trade [[bag]]s. Unequipped bags can now be traded.
*Fixed an error that prevented characters from continuing to play after reaching level 15 in [[Ascalon (pre-Searing)|pre-searing Ascalon]].
*Updated European and Korean translations.
*Made minor tweaks and improvements to a variety of NPC AI scripts.
*Fixed miscellaneous rare crash bugs. <noinclude>
[[Category:June 2005 updates]] [[Category:Balance updates]] [[Category:Localization updates]]</noinclude>

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