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== Update - Thursday, November 08, 2007 ==
=== 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 ====
* {{skill icon|Recall}}: when this Enchantment ends, it now disables all of the caster's Skills for 10 seconds.

==== Dervish ====
* {{skill icon|Mystic Healing}}: decreased heal amount to {{gr|5|65}}.

==== Elementalist ====
* {{skill icon|Shell Shock}}: decreased recharge time to 8 seconds. This Skill now has 25% armor penetration.

==== Mesmer ====
* {{skill icon|Conjure Nightmare}}: decreased Energy cost to 15.
* {{skill icon|Shrinking Armor}}: increased Health degeneration to {{gr|1|4|}}.
* {{skill icon|Signet of Illusions}}: fixed a bug that allowed this Signet to stack with itself.

==== Monk ====
* {{skill icon|Blessed Light}}: increased heal amount to {{gr|10|140}}.
* {{skill icon|Cure Hex}}: now affected by Healer's Boon.
* {{skill icon|Glimmer of Light}}: decreased recharge time to 1 second; increased heal amount to {{gr|10|115}}.
* {{skill icon|Healer's Boon}}: instead of an upkeep cost, this Skill now has a duration of {{gr|10|55}} seconds and no longer ends after a number of Spells are cast.
* {{skill icon|Healing Breeze}}: increased duration to 15 seconds; increased Health regeneration to {{gr|4|9}}.
* {{skill icon|Healing Ribbon}}: now affected by Healer's Boon.
* {{skill icon|Heal Party}}: increased heal amount to {{gr|30|90}}.
* {{skill icon|Light of Deliverance}}: increased casting time to 2 seconds; decreased heal amount to {{gr|5|70}}; now affects all party members regardless of Health.
* {{skill icon|Restful Breeze}}: increased duration to {{gr|8|18}} seconds.
* {{skill icon|Vigorous Spirit}}: decreased casting time to .25 seconds.
* {{skill icon|Word of Healing}}: this Skill can now target the caster; increased non-conditional heal amount to {{gr|25|150}}; decreased recharge time to 3 seconds.

==== Necromancer ====
* {{skill icon|Oppressive Gaze}}: conditional effect now only triggers on foes who are below 50% Health.
* {{skill icon|Weaken Armor}}: decreased Energy cost to 5; decreased casting time to 2 seconds; decreased recharge time to 5 seconds; changed the skill type to a Spell; functionality changed to: "Target foe has [[Cracked Armor]] for {{gr|5|20}} second(s)."

==== Ranger ====
* {{skill icon|Energizing Wind}}: increased Energy cost to 15; decreased duration to {{gr|30|90}} seconds; decreased Spirit's level to {{gr|1|6}}.
* {{skill icon|Fertile Season}}: increased Energy cost to 15; decreased Health bonus to {{gr|50|150}}; decreased armor bonus to 8.
* {{skill icon|Magebane Shot}}: functionality changed to: "If this attack hits, it interrupts target foe's action. If that action was a Spell, it is disabled for 5 seconds. This attack cannot be blocked."

==== Ritualist ====
* {{skill icon|Ancestors' Rage}}: this Skill is no longer considered an [[Enchantment]].
* {{skill icon|Spiritleech Aura}}: fixed a bug that swapped duration and effect time.
* {{skill icon|Weapon of Warding}}: increased duration to {{gr|5|10}} seconds.
* {{skill icon|Splinter Weapon}}: functionality changed to: "For 20 seconds, target ally has a Splinter Weapon. Target ally's next {{gr|1|5}} attacks deal {{gr|5|50}} damage on up to 3 adjacent foes."
* {{skill icon|Sundering Weapon}}: increased duration to {{gr|5|20}} seconds.

==== Warrior====
* {{skill icon|Body Blow}}: now works properly with scythes.
* {{skill icon|Symbolic Strike}}: now works properly with scythes.

==== PvE-Only Skills ====
* {{skill icon|Winds}}: fixed a bug that caused Winds (a Vanguard skill) to affect allies as well as foes.

=== Miscellaneous ===
* Added a trophy to the [[Great Temple of Balthazar]] to commemorate the current winners of the 2007 $100,000 Tournament Series.
* Removed the [[Celestial Tournament]] season PvP trophy from the Great Temple of Balthazar.
* Fixed an exploit in [[Regent Valley (pre-Searing)|Regent Valley]] that allowed players to kill pet bears repeatedly to obtain multiple ale rewards from the Bear Hunters.
* Moved a patrol of [[Stone Summit|Stone Summit Dwarves]] who often traveled too close to the entrance in [[Duncan the Black]]'s level of [[Slaver's Exile]].
* Fixed a bug that allowed Necromancer minions to count as kills for the [[Blessing of the Luxons]] and the [[Blessing of the Kurzicks]].

=== Guild Wars Wiki notes ===
*The update notes are ambiguous about whether the duration increase for [[Sundering Weapon]] affected the duration of the [[Weapon Spell]] itself or the [[Cracked Armor]] condition inflicted by it. The duration increase was for the condition.
*The [[skill type]] of [[Ancestors' Rage]] was changed from [[Enchantment Spell]] to [[Skill]]. <noinclude>

[[category:November 2007 updates]] [[Category:Balance updates]] </noinclude>

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