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== Update - Wednesday, February 6, 2008 ==
=== [[Canthan New Year 2008|Canthan New Year]] ===
* Made preparations for the Canthan New Year's Festival, which begins at Noon Pacific (-8 GMT), February 8, 2008, and runs until Noon Pacific, February 11, 2008.

=== [[Party Animal]] Title Track ===
* Added the [[Party Animal]] title track and support for it in the Hall of Monuments. Players can gain points toward the Party Animal title by using various [[festive item]]s, including [[Bottle Rocket]]s, [[Champagne Popper]]s, [[Sparkler]]s, [[Ghost-in-the-Box]]es, [[Squash Serum]]s, [[Snowman Summoner]]s, [[Beetle Juice Tonic]]s, [[Yuletide Tonic]]s, and [[Transmogrifier Tonic]]s.

=== Skill Updates ===
We will evaluate the following changes this week. Additional adjustments may be made during that time.

==== All ====
* Decreased the variance in trebuchet impacts in GvG by reducing the target deviation and increasing the area-of-effect.
* Health sacrifice now displays as a skill cost.

==== Victory or Death ====
* [[Victory or Death]]: increased the damage to 25%.
* NPCs receive an additional 5% damage bonus each minute after [[Victory or Death]].
* Added "[[Victory is Ours]]," a new GvG feature that activates at the same time as [[Victory or Death]], giving players on the team with the most NPCs a 15% damage increase.
* [[Archer]]s now stand farther apart at [[Victory or Death]].
* [[Trebuchet]]s no longer work after [[Victory or Death]].
* The [[Bodyguard]] and [[Guild Thief]] now receive a smaller damage bonus than other NPCs at [[Victory or Death]].

==== Mesmer ====
* {{skill icon|Power Leak}}: decreased target foe's Energy loss to 1..5.
* {{skill icon|Clumsiness}}: increased casting time to 2 seconds; increased recharge time to 10 seconds; now affects adjacent foes.
* {{skill icon|Ether Feast}}: increased healing to 20..50 Health per Energy lost by target.
* {{skill icon|Hex Breaker}}: changed skill type from stance to skill.
* {{skill icon|Ineptitude}}: decreased duration to 4 seconds.
* {{skill icon|Wandering Eye}}: decreased duration to 4 seconds; increased casting time to 2 seconds, increased recharge time to 10 seconds; increased damage to 10..92.
* {{skill icon|Drain Enchantment}}: decreased Energy cost to 5 Energy; decreased Energy gain to 8..13 Energy.

==== Necromancer ====
* {{skill icon|Hexer's Vigor}}: decreased casting time to .25 seconds.
* {{skill icon|Chilblains}}: increased number of enchantments removed to 1..2.
* {{skill icon|Plague Touch}}: increased number of conditions transferred to 1..3.
* {{skill icon|Blood is Power}}: decreased Energy cost to 1.
* {{skill icon|Wallow's Bite}}: decreased Energy cost to 1.
* {{skill icon|Touch of Agony}}: decreased Energy cost to 1.
* {{skill icon|Dark Pact}}: decreased Energy cost to 1.
* {{skill icon|Demonic Flesh}}: decreased Energy cost to 1.
* {{skill icon|Blood Renewal}}: decreased Energy cost to 1.
* {{skill icon|Blood Ritual}}: decreased Energy cost to 5.
* {{skill icon|Offering of Blood}}: decreased Energy cost to 1.

==== Monk ====
* {{skill icon|Light of Deliverance}}: decreased casting time to 1 second; increased recharge time to 10 seconds.
* {{skill icon|Heal Party}}: decreased casting time to 1 second; decreased healing to 30..75 Health.
* {{duplicate skill icon|Divine Healing|Heaven's Delight}}: decreased Energy cost to 5; decreased casting time to 1 second; decreased recharge to 15 seconds; decreased healing to 15..60 Health.

==== Elementalist ====
* {{skill icon|Glyph of Restoration}}: now affects the next two spells.
* {{skill icon|Deep Freeze}}: decreased casting time to 2 seconds.
* {{duplicate skill icon|Whirlwind|Teinai's Wind}}: decreased Energy cost to 5.
* {{skill icon|Glyph of Energy}}: decreased recharge to 7 seconds.

==== Warrior ====
* {{skill icon|Healing Signet}}: increased Health gain to 62..152.
* {{skill icon|Lion's Comfort}}: increased healing to 40..100 Health; increased Health gain per Tactics rank to 7.

==== Ranger ====
* {{skill icon|Troll Unguent}}: increased duration to 13 seconds.

==== Dervish ====
* {{skill icon|Avatar of Grenth}}: duration increased to 10..90 seconds; functionality changed to: "For 10..90 seconds, you cannot be blocked by enchanted foes, and your attacks deal cold damage. This skill is disabled for 120 seconds."
* {{skill icon|Mystic Regeneration}}: Health regeneration is now capped at 3 enchantments.
* {{skill icon|Pious Assault}}: increased activation time to .75.

==== Paragon ====
* {{skill icon|Mending Refrain}}: decreased Energy cost to 5; decreased Health regeneration to 2..3.
* {{skill icon|Song of Restoration}}: increased healing to 45..90 Health.

==== Ritualist ====
* {{skill icon|Protective Was Kaolai}}: decreased recharge to 15 seconds.

=== Bug Fixes ===
* Fixed a bug with a pathing issue in The [[Dragon's Lair]] outpost.
* Fixed a bug with a pathing issue in the [[Eastern Frontier]].
* [[Burol Ironfist]] in [[Boreal Station]] will no longer display his Hero tutorial dialogue buttons when he is offering or rewarding his tutorial quest.
* Fixed a bug that caused the skill [[Meditation of the Reaper]] to not remove itself properly from Heroes.
* Fixed a bug that caused [[Devona]] to spawn in [[Pockmark Flats]] after the Replacement Healers quest had been completed.
* Heroes and henchmen will now properly target themselves with the skill [[Zealous Benediction]].
* Heroes and henchmen will now properly target themselves with the skill [[Dismiss Condition]].
* Players will not die because of life loss from a vampiric weapon during the [[Rollerbeetle Racing]] festival game.
* Fixed a bug that caused a Hero to cancel and then re-activate a skill if manually ordered to use it.

=== Miscellaneous ===
* Corrected the crafting costs on two of the Elite [[Canthan armor|Canthan]] Masks sold by armorer [[Koumei]] on the Divine Path.
* Changed the item boxes in Rollerbeetle Racing to only be collectible once per player.
* Added additional base defenders to the [[Alliance Battle]]s.
* The [[Xunlai Tournament House]] NPC now offers prizes for January and can be found in the [[Great Temple of Balthazar]], [[Lion's Arch]], [[Kaineng Center]], and [[Kamadan]].

=== Guild Wars Wiki notes ===
* This update introduced the energy cost of ''1''. It did not exist beforehand.
* [[Lunar Fortune]]s from 2007 were renamed to ''Lunar Fortune [Year of the Pig]'' in an earlier update.
* Skills which have a sacrifice cost at cast time no longer state the sacrifice in the skill description but only display it similar to other costs like energy, activation and recharge.
* {{skill icon|Shadow Refuge}} had its duration reduced to 4 seconds and its healing increased to {{gr2|40|100}}.
* Some players had to re-accept the [[EULA]] after this update.
* [[PvP]] characters now start at the [[Isle of the Nameless]] instead of the [[Great Temple of Balthazar]], yet the Great Temple of Balthazar does not appear on your map automatically. This means if you ever want to access the Great Temple of Balthazar on that character, you must go through the portal before mapping to any other outpost.<noinclude>

[[Category:February 2008 updates]] [[Category:Balance updates]] [[Category:Feature addition updates]] [[Category:Event updates]]</noinclude>

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