Mise à jour/20090305

05 mars 2009

Update - Thursday, March 5

Updated Zaishen Rewards

Updated Zaishen Chest drops to replace Searing Tonic with a new tonic for the month of March. More information on Zaishen Rewards can be found here. Automated Tournaments

Updated Automated Tournament map rotations. Skill Updates

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

PvE and PvP

Assassin

Hidden Caltrops: now disables all your non-Assassin skills for 10 seconds. Shadow Refuge: increased duration to 6 seconds. Elementalist

Aura of Restoration: decreased Energy cost to 5; increased recharge to 12. Functionality changed to: "For 60 seconds, you gain 0..1 Energy and are healed for 200..500% of the Energy cost each time you cast a spell." Mesmer

Ether Feast: increased Health per Energy drained to 20..65. Illusion of Haste: reduced the duration of the Crippled condition to 3 seconds. Necromancer

Gaze of Contempt: increased casting time to 2 seconds. Rend Enchantments: increased casting time to 2 seconds. Wail of Doom: increased recharge to 15 seconds. Warrior

Defensive Stance: decreased duration to 1..5 seconds; decreased armor gain to +10. Disciplined Stance: decreased duration to 1..4 seconds; decreased armor gain to +10. 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." Flail: decreased duration to 1..15 seconds. Healing Signet: increased healing to 82..172. Primal Rage: increased recharge to 15 seconds. Shield Stance: decreased duration to 1..6 seconds. Soldier's Defense: decreased duration to 1..5 seconds. PvP

Ranger

Read the Wind: functionality changed to: "For 24 seconds, your arrows move twice as fast." Ritualist

Ancestors' Rage: increased duration to 3 seconds; decreased damage to 1..31. Weapon of Warding: functionality changed to: "For 5..10 seconds, target ally has a Weapon of Warding, granting that ally +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.