Feedback:Game updates/20110322

Update - Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Skill Changes

For more information on these changes, please see the Developer Updates page.

Dervish

• File:Aura of Thorns.jpg Aura of Thorns: decreased Cripple duration to 3...7...8 seconds.
• File:Avatar of Grenth.jpg Avatar of Grenth: decreased life stealing to 0...10...12 Health; decreased inflicted Disease duration to 3 seconds.
• File:Crippling Sweep.jpg Crippling Sweep: decreased bonus damage to 3...13...15.
• File:Ebon Dust Aura.jpg Ebon Dust Aura: increased duration to 30 seconds; decreased bonus damage to 3...13...15; increased recharge to 20 seconds.
• File:Enchanted Haste.jpg Enchanted Haste: decreased duration to 7 seconds.
• File:Fleeting Stability.jpg Fleeting Stability: decreased duration to 2...5...6 seconds.
• File:Harrier's Haste.jpg Harrier's Haste: decreased duration to 2...7...8 seconds.
• File:Heart of Fury.jpg Heart of Fury: decreased duration to 2...8...10 seconds.
• File:Mystic Corruption.jpg Mystic Corruption: decreased unconditional Disease duration to 1...2...2 seconds.

Elementalist

• Air Attunement: decreased casting time to 1 second; decreased recharge to 30 seconds.
• Earth Attunement: decreased casting time to 1 second; decreased recharge to 30 seconds.
• Elemental Attunement: decreased casting time to 1 second; decreased recharge to 30 seconds.
• Fire Attunement: decreased casting time to 1 second; decreased recharge to 30 seconds.
• Invoke Lightning: decreased damage to 10...74...90; decreased recharge to 6 seconds.
• Water Attunement: decreased casting time to 1 second; decreased recharge to 30 seconds.

Mesmer

• File:Fevered Dreams.jpg Fevered Dreams: split for PvP.
• File:Fevered Dreams (PvP).jpg Fevered Dreams (PvP): decreased duration to 5...13...15 seconds; increased recharge to 20 seconds.
• File:Shatter Enchantment.jpg Shatter Enchantment: decreased Energy cost to 10.
• File:Shatter Hex.jpg Shatter Hex: decreased Energy cost to 10.

Necromancer

• File:Angorodon's Gaze.jpg Angorodon's Gaze: decreased Energy gain to 3...10...12.
• File:Barbed Signet.jpg Barbed Signet: decreased Sacrifice to 8%; changed functionality to: "You inflict Bleeding for 3...13...15 seconds on target foe and all adjacent foes."
• File:Barbed Signet (PvP).jpg Barbed Signet (PvP): merged with PvE version; this skill now functions the same in PvE and PvP.
• File:Masochism (PvP).jpg Masochism (PvP): decreased Energy gain to 1...3...3.
• File:Oppressive Gaze.jpg Oppressive Gaze: decreased Poison and Weakness durations to 3...10...12 seconds.
• File:Signet of Suffering.jpg Signet of Suffering: changed attribute to Blood Magic; removed casting time; decreased recharge to 4 seconds; changed functionality to: "You suffer from Bleeding for 6 seconds. The next Necromancer skill that targets a foe causes Bleeding for 2...13...16 seconds."

Ritualist

• File:Consume Soul.jpg Consume Soul: changed functionality to: "Elite Spell. You steal 5...49...60 Health from target foe. All hostile summoned creatures in the area of that foe take 25...105...125 damage."

Miscellaneous

• Added support for the Guild Wars Guru 2011 GvG Championship Series.
• Altered the locations of several creatures in the Tomb of the Primeval Kings.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused Ebon Dust Aura to add bonus damage for ranged attacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused damage from Rending Aura to ignore armor.
• Creatures summoned with Celestial Summoning Stones and Shining Blade War Horns now appear in the party window.

Guild Wars Wiki notes

• Aura of Restoration: increased recharge to 20 seconds.