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== Update - Thursday, March 5, 2009 ==
=== Updated Zaishen Rewards ===
* Updated the [[Zaishen Chest]] drops to replace the [[Searing Tonic]] with a new tonic for the month of March. More information on Zaishen Rewards can be found [http://gw1101.gtm.guildwars.com/competitive/tournament2008/zaishenrewards/ here].

=== Automated Tournaments ===
* Updated [[Automated Tournament]] map rotations.

=== Skill Updates ===
==== PvE and PvP ====
===== Assassin =====
* {{skill icon|Hidden Caltrops}}: now disables all your non-Assassin skills for 10 seconds.
* {{skill icon|Shadow Refuge}}: increased duration to 6 seconds.

===== Elementalist =====
* {{skill icon|Aura of Restoration}}: decreased Energy cost to 5; increased recharge to 12. Functionality changed to: "For 60 seconds, you gain {{gr|0|1}} Energy and are healed for {{gr|200|500}}% of the Energy cost each time you cast a spell."

===== Mesmer =====
* {{skill icon|Ether Feast}}: increased Health per Energy drained to {{gr|20|65}}.
* {{skill icon|Illusion of Haste}}: reduced the duration of the Crippled condition to 3 seconds.

===== Necromancer =====
* {{skill icon|Gaze of Contempt}}: increased casting time to 2 seconds.
* {{skill icon|Rend Enchantments}}: increased casting time to 2 seconds.
* {{skill icon|Wail of Doom}}: increased recharge to 15 seconds.

===== Warrior =====
* {{skill icon|Defensive Stance}}: decreased duration to {{gr|1|5}} seconds; decreased armor gain to +10.
* {{skill icon|Disciplined Stance}}: decreased duration to {{gr|1|4}} seconds; decreased armor gain to +10.
* {{skill icon|Distracting Strike}}: functionality changed to: "If Distracting Strike hits, it deals no damage and interrupts target foe's action. If target foe has Cracked Armor, that skill is disabled for 20 seconds."
* {{skill icon|Flail}}: decreased duration to {{gr|1|15}} seconds.
* {{skill icon|Healing Signet}}: increased healing to {{gr|82|172}}.
* {{skill icon|Primal Rage}}: increased recharge to 15 seconds.
* {{skill icon|Shield Stance}}: decreased duration to {{gr|1|6}} seconds.
* {{skill icon|Soldier's Defense}}: decreased duration to {{gr|1|5}} seconds.

==== PvP ====
===== Ranger =====
* {{skill icon|Read the Wind (PvP)}}: functionality changed to: "For 24 seconds, your arrows move twice as fast."

===== Ritualist =====
* {{skill icon|Ancestors' Rage (PvP)}}: increased duration to 3 seconds; decreased damage to {{gr|1|31}}.
* {{skill icon|Weapon of Warding (PvP)}}: functionality changed to: "For {{gr|5|10}} seconds, target ally has a Weapon of Warding, granting that ally +{{gr|2|4}} Health regeneration and a 50% chance to block. Weapon of Warding ends if that ally attacks."

=== Bug Fixes ===
* Fixed a bug that caused heal-reducing skills and heal-increasing to stack incorrectly.

* Fixed a bug that caused Eye of the North treasure chests in Hard Mode to not drop Skill Tomes.
=== Miscellaneous ===
* Xunlai Tournament Agents now offer prizes for the February tournament. These agents can be found in the [[Great Temple of Balthazar]], [[Lion's Arch]], [[Kaineng Center]], and [[Kamadan]].
* Improved Hero AI for the Necromancer spell [[Death Nova]] to reduce the use of this spell when not in combat.

===Guild Wars Wiki notes===
* This month's tonic is the [[Abyssal Tonic]].
* The description of the PvE version of [[Weapon of Warding]] is the same as for the PvP version, but the skill's functionality is unchanged.
* Weapon of Warding ends if the target hits, not attacks as stated
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self>Dmitri Fatkin at 23:15, 7 May 2019