Official Guild Wars thread

• Rin wrote on 2012-09-25 15:21
  Professions
  General
  • Implemented a fix to make Heartseeker, Lightning Leap, Flame Leap, and Monarch’s Leap hit more reliably.
  
  Elementalist
  • Fixed bugs with Flamestrike and Ice Shards so they can’t be fired behind the player.
  • Quick Glyphs: This Air Magic trait has been updated to apply 20% recharge reduction to the elite skill Glyph of Elementals.
  
  Engineer
  • Grenade Barrage: This Grenade Kit skill should now be usable underwater.
  • Short Fuse: This trait is no longer overwritten by the Grenadier trait. Also, this trait now works with underwater grenades.
  • Speedy Kits: Added a 5-second recharge to the trigger for this trait. This was to prevent players from exploiting it to gain vigor buffs of extreme duration.
  • Invigorating Speed: Added a 5-second recharge to the trigger for this trait. This was to prevent players from exploiting it to gain vigor buffs of extreme duration.
  
  Guardian
  • Merciful Intervention: This skill has been updated to work with the Meditation Mastery trait. The tooltip for this skill has also been updated to display the healing amount when affected by traits.
  • Elusive Power: This trait has been updated to not grant might when aegis was blocked.
  
  Mesmer
  • Fixed text on “readied” mantra buffs.
  • Veil: This glamour skill has been updated to show the appropriate active duration when not affected by traits.
  
  Necromancer
  • Taste of Death: This skill’s healing fact has been updated.
  • Spectral Wall: This skill has been updated to apply the correct amount of vulnerability (10).
  • Vampiric: Fixed a bug with this trait so that it now functions with projectiles.
  • Close to Death: This trait has been updated to provide its listed 20% boost instead of the previous (unlisted) 10% boost.
  • Banshee’s Wail: This Curses trait has been updated to apply extra swiftness.
  • Spectral Walk: This skill has been updated to be more active and to work properly with its recharge trait. Also, Sever Spectral Bond has been changed to Spectral Recall.
  • Minion Master: This Death Magic trait has been updated to properly affect the elite skill Summon Flesh Golem.
  • Putrid Mark: This skill has been fixed to make it properly unblockable with the Greater Marks trait.
  • Mark of Evasion: This trait can now trigger the Soul Marks trait.
  • Reaper’s Protection: This trait has been updated to properly work with a variety of crowd-control effects.
  
  Thief
  • Bountiful Theft: This trait has been fixed so that it doesn’t apply 15 seconds of vigor twice.
  
  Races
  Norn
  • Call Wurm: Autocasting has been removed from this skill to prevent an exploit. Additionally, the skill may now be cast on the move.
  
  Player versus Player
  • Legacy of the Foefire: Fixed an exploit that was allowing players to teleport past one of the gates.
  
  World versus World
  • Experimental Rifle: This item is no longer usable in World versus World.
• Shanghai wrote on 2012-09-28 06:40
  Some of the dialogue you get with NPCs can be pretty witty and funny at times.
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/19l2P]
• Reptile wrote on 2012-09-29 04:47
  I'm just going to post my username on since most people in our guild don't recognize me in-game
  it's okazmat.1743
• Bakuryu wrote on 2012-09-29 22:36
  OMG You can double click a waypoint to skip the confirmation message. Small discovery that brings some joy to my heart. teehee.
• Reptile wrote on 2012-09-30 00:58

  Quote from Bakuryu;957237:

  OMG You can double click a waypoint to skip the confirmation message. Small discovery that brings some joy to my heart. teehee.

  
  Don't triple click like I do ALMOST EVERY FREAKING TIME so you have press the yes or no confirmation message
  anyway what does it mean when waypoints have two swords crossing each other on them
• Cucurbita wrote on 2012-09-30 01:03

  Quote from Reptile;957293:

  
  anyway what does it mean when waypoints have two swords crossing each other on them

  
  
  It means some bullshit is going down there, making it unsafe to teleport there. So they dont let you.
  
  It'll open up again once the people there take care of whatever bullshit is going on.
• Shanghai wrote on 2012-09-30 01:11

  Quote from Cucurbita;957295:

  It means some bullshit is going down there, making it unsafe to teleport there. So they dont let you.
  
  It'll open up again once the people there take care of whatever bullshit is going on.

  
  
  And then it happens again after an hour or less so basically the waypoint is pretty much usable only 25% of the time.
  
  My friend says that there's 3 contested waypoints that are next to each other that always have group contested events happening between all 3 every 15-30 minutes, so that'd be a good way to farm up some karma and such.
• Sapphireoath wrote on 2012-09-30 01:29
  I need a good source of lvl 68+, Rare+ equips for Ectoplasm. Anyone got suggestions? Say, recommended events, dungeons, etc.
  Also, is getting a Magic Find set JUST for this even worth it? I only need the Ectoplasm for crafting my Draconic Armor set :P
• Cucurbita wrote on 2012-09-30 01:54

  Quote from Sapphireoath;957303:

  Also, is getting a Magic Find set JUST for this even worth it? I only need the Ectoplasm for crafting my Draconic Armor set :P

  
  
  Not really, but having a magic find set is really useful everywhere else too so theres no harm in getting one. Just pop it on right before opening a treasure chest or something.
• Rin wrote on 2012-09-30 04:41

  Quote from Sapphireoath;957303:

  I need a good source of lvl 68+, Rare+ equips for Ectoplasm. Anyone got suggestions? Say, recommended events, dungeons, etc.
  Also, is getting a Magic Find set JUST for this even worth it? I only need the Ectoplasm for crafting my Draconic Armor set :P

  
  
  I still think dungeons are best at this point, as the devs want their PvE challenges to have rewards like this.
  
  But as you can see, too many people farmed too fast for the devs, so they implemented the dungeon restriction system.
  
  As for Magic Find, it's a hit or a miss, from what I can tell in Lion's Arch map chat.
• BlackCat9 wrote on 2012-09-30 15:10

  Quote from Sapphireoath;957303:

  I need a good source of lvl 68+, Rare+ equips for Ectoplasm. Anyone got suggestions? Say, recommended events, dungeons, etc.
  Also, is getting a Magic Find set JUST for this even worth it? I only need the Ectoplasm for crafting my Draconic Armor set :P

  
  
  I usually get a lot of yellow drops from the Defend the Citadel of flame (its the quest which opens CoF dungeon). The more people, the more enemies to tag. Then if you like, run the dungeon too or just afk until the event starts up again.
• Sapphireoath wrote on 2012-10-01 01:34

  Quote from BlackCat9;957480:

  I usually get a lot of yellow drops from the Defend the Citadel of flame (its the quest which opens CoF dungeon). The more people, the more enemies to tag. Then if you like, run the dungeon too or just afk until the event starts up again.

  
  
  Is that with a Magic Find set? (only up to 21% for MF, can't make/afford Superior Pirate Runes :P)
• BlackCat9 wrote on 2012-10-01 02:20

  Quote from Sapphireoath;957713:

  Is that with a Magic Find set? (only up to 21% for MF, can't make/afford Superior Pirate Runes :P)

  
  
  No magic find set. If you can cook or have a friend who can just get them to make a heap of food that boosts magic find.
• BlackCat9 wrote on 2012-10-01 02:20

  Quote from Sapphireoath;957713:

  Is that with a Magic Find set? (only up to 21% for MF, can't make/afford Superior Pirate Runes :P)

  
  
  No magic find set. If you can cook or have a friend who can just get them to make a heap of food that boosts magic find.
• Rin wrote on 2012-10-02 04:00
  October 1st patch notes:
  
  General
  
  

  • Fixed bugs for various stuck events and skill challenges.
    
  • Fixed bugs for various map areas that allowed players to get outside of the playable space.
    
  • Fixed a bug in dungeon speed-clearing code. Players should no longer experience reward reductions without triggering the speed-clearing debuff.
    
  • Fixed a bug that was automatically killing players as they entered Sharkmaw Caverns in Lion’s Arch.
    
  • Fixed an exploit in renown regions that allowed players to quickly complete them by interacting with objects while their inventory was full.
    
  • Fixed a bug that caused charr characters to enter a state where any fall resulted in a long falling yell.
    
  • Fixed a bug that caused older characters to have their monthly achievement reset upon completion before the current month ended.
    
  • Fixed the conversion on all items that were changed from soul bound to account bound to actually be account bound now.
    
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing certain music from playing.
    
  • Fixed an issue with the loot table for undead grubs.
    
  • Fixed a camera bug which occasionally caused the camera to get too close to the player’s backside.
    
  • Updated the Barrel and Green Plant environmental weapons to disappear after lying on the ground for a set time. This will prevent map issues caused by hundreds of these bundles idling on the ground.
    
  • Updated Rune of the Adventurer and Sigil of Energy to each grant 25% endurance when activated.
    
  • Updated map completion rewards for Plains of Ashford and all World-versus-World maps to match the map level/content.
    
  • Added an appropriate error message for players when trying to accept too many guild invites.
    
  • Armor that is currently equipped can no longer be transmuted.
    
  • Keg Brawl has received some updates:

  
  *Lob: This skill is now ground-targeted.
  *Throw: This skill now has the range of the old Lob but with a casting time.
  

  • Master Weaponsmiths now sell their goods for coin instead of karma, as was originally intended.
    
  • Miss Mipp at Almuten Mansion now sells Curry Buns instead of directly selling outdated buffs.
    
  • Surfacing while downed underwater no longer grants invulnerability. This change was made to stop players from exploiting the surface of the water to maintain permanent invulnerability.
    
  • The Trading Post will properly refresh when using item context menus from your inventory.
    
  • Transmuted cultural armor now prevents opposing races from equipping it.
    
  • Valkyrie armor boxes will now properly contain a coat instead of two helms when crafted.

  
  
  Story
  
  

  • Fixed bugs in the story step “Ships of the Line.”
    
  • Fixed blocking bugs in the following story steps: “Forging the Pact,” “Killing Fields,” “Shell Shock,” “Short Fuse,” “The Battle of Fort Trinity,” “The Machine in Action,” and “Tower Down.”
    
  • Updated difficulty of the following story steps: “Killing Fields,” “Lines of Communication,” “Minotaur Rampant,” “Mired Deep,” “Ships of the Line,” “The Battle of Fort Trinity,” “The Greater Good,” and “The Queen’s Justice.”

  
  
  Events
  
  

  • Fixed a bug that was periodically preventing the Claw of Jormag event from completing.
    
  • Added catapults and scaling veterans to the bridge repair event in Kessex Hills.

  
  
  Dungeons
  Crucible of Eternity
  
  

  • Reduced the difficulty of creatures and bosses, particularly health and armor.

  
  
  Citadel of Flame
  
  

  • Fixed exploits that allowing players to speed clear paths of this dungeon.
    
  • Reduced difficulty of the Searing Effigy.

  
  
  Arah
  
  

  • Fixed map exploit that was allowing players to speed-clear paths of this dungeon.
    
  • Fixed a blocking bug in story mode.

  
  
  Player versus Player
  
  

  • Games will no longer autobalance after one team has reached 80% of the maximum score if the game ends by score.
    
  • Games will no longer autobalance when within two minutes of the end of the game if the game ends by time.
    
  • Autobalance functionality has been updated to give a new volunteer bonus to any players who volunteer for balancing, as well as giving any players balanced the winner bonus. When volunteers are lacking, random selection will be used. The text for this system has also been updated.

  
  
  World versus World
  
  

  • Updated the Red Portal Keep in the Eternal Battlegrounds to ensure the “no siege” debuff encompasses the entire start point.
    
  • Fixed a bug with Keep Lords in World versus World where they could become immune to damage.