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[Levyne]

The Greatsaw's volume has been increased, lol

Ranger's Quickening Zephyr has had a slight buff to compensate, eh

 

[Hawkian]

Well reveal is now 4 seconds.

Not... buffs to stealth, buffs to quickness skill durations that aren't in the notes, like time warp

 

[Levyne]

"Pets now benefit from their owner’s agony resistance"

I can die happy ;-;

Edit: Ash gonna get himself some Fused Weapons

 

[Hawkian]

Still no class change kit.

Maybe next month!

You should probably give up waiting for that :'(

Added the Name Change Contract to the Gem Store. Each Name Change Contract can change one character’s name once. Place the Name Change Contract in the inventory of the character whose name you want to change and then double-click to activate it. Name Change Contracts are available in the Service category of the Gem Store for 800 gems each.

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“Fine Transmutation Stone” is now “Transmutation Crystal”
“Basic Transmutation Stone” is now “Transmutation Stone”

I'll never get used to this.

 

[Complistic]

Jump to Guardian changes. Big fixes. Nothing interesting.

Jump to Black Lion additions. Still no class change kit.

Maybe next month!

Probably never going to be one. There wasn't one in gw1.

 

[AFollowerNotALeader]

The game says new build in an hour

Race to world first WvW Rank 1 begins now~

Sweet. That means when I get home I get the new patch. It always stresses my OCD on patch day because I don't want to accidentally get two sets of dailies done on one day (which would upset me because my stupid brain would be convinced it was cheating).

 

[Hawkian]

Updated World vs. World UI screen to include a new ranking system and score breakdowns by map.
Updated Outmanned bonus to increase World XP, receive no armor damage on death, and increase experience.

Ba-bam.

 

[Boogdud]

So on the 4 second 'reveal' debuff on stealth now. How does a d/d dagger thief deal with that with snd/bs? Does it mean you can't perform a bs more than once every 4 seconds?



Engi changes, quite a few, nothing for me to get really excited about though. Buffing turrets... They would have to buff the damage output by like 1000% for anyone to want to use them. Static, uncontrollable drop-boxes that you walk away from right after you use them. That's just not fun gameplay no matter how you look at it.

"Blowtorch skill: No longer displays “miss” on attacks that connect at medium and far distances."

Any idea what this means? So when you're strafing (all the time in pve/pvp) it just doesn't tell you that it's not hitting now? Because if you're moving with the torch you hit about 1 out of every 20 shots. It doesn't sound like they fixed the issue with it missing like 90%, they just "fixed" the UI telling you it missed.


Kits still don't get weapon stats...

 

[Hawkian]

Whatevs turrets sound fun to me

New ascended rings from the February build now have Mystic Forge infusion recipes available.

 

[erpg]

Probably never going to be one. There wasn't one in gw1.

Well, GW1's store was a lot less comprehensive as well.

I'll keep my hopes up. It's the reason I keep the game installed.

 

[Jest Chillin]

Ba-bam.

Man those are all so awesome for us for this week. We're outmanned a lot so increased World XP, No damage on death.. it's just godly! We were outmanned for a good 30-45 minutes when we first started on Sunday and we were wrecking Meguuma's skirmish squads. I can only imagine the XP we would've gotten!

Updated costs! Please be an adjustment down!

 

[Hawkian]

Added more armor and weapon options to vendors inside World vs. World.

Give us a screenshot if you can, somebody

 

[Jira]

Connection error incoming....can't wait so I can go make some food.

 

[Arcteryx]

That quickness change is going to BLOW for Rangers. I doubt I'll be playing my Ranger alt anymore until ANet actually works on that class.

That said, finally FINALLY we get the name change contract

Spoiler

fuuuu 800 gems

!

 

[docbon]

I don't know how to feel about these engineer changes. My specific, multiple kit build is going to suffer greatly. ;|

 

[Divvy]

IT BEGINS

 

[theMrCravens]

UP!
sloooooooooooow download.

 

[Divvy]

1.4MB/sec to 1.4KB/sec in less than 15 seconds!

 

[Proven]

I'm finally back after PAX East and playing too much Monster Hunter.

I log in, and a minute later the patch comes out.

Alt+F4, maybe I should play some Monster Hunter...
edit:

That quickness change is going to BLOW for Rangers. I doubt I'll be playing my Ranger alt anymore until ANet actually works on that class.

That said, finally FINALLY we get the name change contract

Spoiler

fuuuu 800 gems

!

What quickness change? The only major thing I've heard is that thieves always get the reveal debuff now, which I so called a month ago.
edit2: Found the patch notes. I'm dumb.

 

[Ashodin]

DOWNLOADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

 

[Jest Chillin]

I'm finally back after PAX East and playing too much Monster Hunter.

I log in, and a minute later the patch comes out.

Alt+F4, maybe I should play some Monster Hunter...
edit:


What quickness change? The only major thing I've heard is that thieves always get the reveal debuff now, which I so called a month ago.
edit2: Found the patch notes. I'm dumb.

Quickness effect reduced from 100% to 50% because it was instagibbing people. Affects sword thieves a lot and Time Warp groups in PvE.

 

[Divvy]

Quickness effect reduced from 100% to 50% because it was instagibbing people. Affects sword thieves a lot and Time Warp groups in PvE.

Don't forget Frenzy warriors and their 100 Blades. That's going to be painful.

 

[Jest Chillin]

Don't forget Frenzy warriors and their 100 Blades. That's going to be painful.

Yeah, I suppose that will hurt them a ton since they need the chain to hit for full effectiveness already and this just gives more room to escape.

 

[Divvy]

Patched!

 

[Hawkian]

Crashed on opening WvW screen :'(

Liking the mail from the Orders.

 

[Divvy]

You can buy Invaders, Knights, Carrion, Clerics, Berserkers and Rabid! exotic armor with badges now.

 

[Divvy]

Goddamn, the new guild weapons are nice. Especially the shield and greatsword!

EDIT: Oh damn fused weapons are amazing!

 

[Proven]

Catapults no longer do damage to Flame Rams through doors. Outmanned buff is now an actual awesome buff. Will need to try how less culling works on my machine. This sounds fun for me.

 

[Kos Luftar]

Can anyone take screenshots of the new weapons and post them so I can see them since I am stuck at work and cannot log in.

I must have closed logmein, on my home PC, because my plan of remotely loging in and starting the update did not work.

 

[Hawkian]

Can reproduce crashing pressing "B" in Heart of the Mists. Gonna try rezoning and see if there's the same effect.

edit: Yeah, I'm just crashing on trying to open the WvW menu from anywhere

Potential story spoilers:

Spoiler

In Scandinavian nomenclature, "Eirsson" is the surname that would be given to... well, Eir's son. Is Braham...?

Spoiler

There have been rumblings about a dragon egg about... "The Hatchery"?

Bearing in mind that this is the first Living Story arc, I'm pretty psyched. Even if it doesn't live up to its full potential this time around it's just so damn cool that they're committing to this kind of content. I think about what the ongoing story might be like in two years and it really gets me hyped for the future of this thing.

 

[Levyne]

Why must I be at work

 

[Divvy]

Here's a sample cuz it'd take too damn long to do this for every skin:

Guild weapons:

Fused:
Looks like a fusion between the molten and destroyer weapons, but better than both.

 

[Levyne]

Damn.

 

[Taffer]

Epidemic skill: Now requires line of sight of the main target to spread conditions to nearby enemies.

I can live with this, mostly because I never noticed you could use it without line of sight.

Death Shroud skill: No longer uses a custom skill bar interface, thereby allowing players using Death Shroud to see buffs, health, and endurance. The screen and sound effects are unchanged.

I am a happy necromancer.

Changing attunements no longer causes players to start autoattacking.

I am a happy elementalist.

Fixed a bug which allowed players to commune with places of power while downed.

I just used this to grab a skill point in Malchor's Leap guarded by an unpopular champion, it was pretty amusing. I still died, but I died happy.

 

[Kos Luftar]

OMG!

Thanks for taking the screens Divvy!

Wow.

Looks like i'm spending $20 dollars on gems when I get home.

Are these all from the Gem Store, or are some of them from the Guild Commendations Vendor?

 

[Divvy]

OMG!

Thanks for taking the screens Divvy!

Wow.

Looks like i'm spending $20 dollars on gems when I get home.

Are these all from the Gem Store, or are some of them from the Guild Commendations Vendor?

Guild weps use 4 commendations for each skin.

While the fused use tokens you get from BL chests.

I opened 10 and didn't get a token

Oh and the skins and the tokens are account bound.

 

[Hawkian]

All of the fused skins and a good number of the Guild are quite desirable.

Kos, the Guild ones (first two) are for commendations. We can afford them, too.... and of course the pistol is among the coolest pistol skins I've seen...

edit: Divvy, I think the Guild weaps have different costs. They're not skins, they're legit exotics.

 

[Divvy]

All of the fused skins and a good number of the Guild are quite desirable.

Kos, the Guild ones (first two) are for commendations. We can afford them, too.... and of course the pistol is among the coolest pistol skins I've seen...

edit: Divvy, I think the Guild weaps have different costs. They're not skins, they're legit exotics.

Oh yeah, you're right.

7 commendations for 2 handed weapons, 5 for main handed, and 4 for offhanded.

Oh and they cost 3 gold as well.

 

[Kos Luftar]

All of the fused skins and a good number of the Guild are quite desirable.

Kos, the Guild ones (first two) are for commendations. We can afford them, too.... and of course the pistol is among the coolest pistol skins I've seen...

edit: Divvy, I think the Guild weaps have different costs. They're not skins, they're legit exotics.

ARGHH!

Someone post the pistol and hammer for Commendations!!!!

If pistol is as cool as you say hawk, i'm going to have to go back to dual pistol build on my engi.

 

[Divvy]

ARGHH!

Someone post the pistol and hammer for Commendations!!!!

If pistol is as cool as you say hawk, i'm going to have to go back to dual pistol build on my engi.

Hammer is quite nice

 

[Kos Luftar]

That is awesome!

Thanks again Divvy.

So to get both of those, I'll need a total of 12 commendations? 7 for hammer, 5 for pistol?

 

[Divvy]

That is awesome!

Thanks again Divvy.

So to get both of those, I'll need a total of 12 commendations? 7 for hammer, 5 for pistol?

Yep, and 6 gold

 

[Divvy]

Given the amount of bitching in Lion's Arch over the nerfs in the patch, I'm just going to stay away from the forums for a few days...

 

[Hawkian]

Um.

 

[Kos Luftar]

I saw a picture of this giant Blue Box in Rata Sum near the Metrica Province Asura Gates. I wonder if that is the "Super Adventure Box"!

From Reddit:

 

[Jest Chillin]

For those not in-game.. they added the April Fools skins to the PvP locker as well. Not every weapon got one though.

 

[Hawkian]

The "Super" (April/8-bit) weapons are among the most absolutely ridiculous items I've ever seen in any game.

The bird on the staff is completely animated with multiple joints.

 

[Retro]

That said, finally FINALLY we get the name change contract

Spoiler

fuuuu 800 gems

!

Paid Name changes are actually the same price as World of Warcraft, for what it's worth. Since names are one-per-game and reputation really is important, I think the price is actually merited here.

Quickness effect reduced from 100% to 50% because it was instagibbing people. Affects sword thieves a lot and Time Warp groups in PvE.

Don't forget Frenzy warriors and their 100 Blades. That's going to be painful.

It will suck for people who made builds around it, but this change honestly needed to happen, especially with the 100 blades instagibbing and thief shenanigans. I'll be the asshole and say it; if you were relying on quickness for your build, you knew it was overpowered and it was going to get nerfed.

The "Super" (April/8-bit) weapons are among the most absolutely ridiculous items I've ever seen in any game.

All of them have this amazing 'cube' particle effect pouring off them. Needs to be seen to be believed. Gonna be a good holiday.

 

[Divvy]

The "Super" (April/8-bit) weapons are among the most absolutely ridiculous items I've ever seen in any game.

The bird on the staff is completely animated with multiple joints.

I need that GS and Sword, holy shit.

 

[Arcteryx]

Are those April fools skins permanent? from BL chests? if so, gonna stock up on keys real quick.