Game Update

List of the April 1st skill updates*:



Guild vs. Guild

• Victory or Death: at Victory or Death, each player now deals 5% additional damage for each rank achieved in the Kind of A Big Deal title track.

Assassin

• Shadow Form: increased duration to 10..60.

Elementalist

• No changes.

Mesmer

• *Diversion: increased duration to 120 seconds; increased disable time to 60..120.


• Blackout: removed the touch range restriction; this skill no longer disables the caster's skills.

Monk

• Peace and Harmony: increased Energy regeneration to 6..10.


• Protective Spirit: changed skill to: For 5..25 seconds, target ally cannot lose more than 50% maximum Health due to damage from a single attack or spell.

Necromancer

• Animate Bone Fiend: increased recharge to 30 seconds; increased casting time to 5 seconds.


• Spiteful Spirit: Fixed a bug that caused monsters not to flee while in the area of effect.

Norn

• Ursan Blessing: reduced recharge to 5 seconds; this skill is no longer PvE-only.

Ritualist

• Wanderlust: this skill now causes Exhaustion.


• Pain: this skill now causes Exhaustion.


• Bloodsong: this skill now causes Exhaustion.

Warrior

• Dwarven Battle Stance: increased duration to 10..30 seconds; this skill now deals +10..40 damage and causes knock down.

Miscellaneous

• Increased the effectiveness of the Lucky Aura.


• Loremaster Ermenred in Lion's Arch will now allow characters to travel back to Pre-Searing Ascalon after they've successfully performed a number of tasks.


• Tanned Hide Squares are now Tanned Hide Polygons.


• Increased Paragon base armor to 100.


• Scythes now hit a single target.

*This skill update is not in affect. It was an April Fool's joke perpetrated by ArenaNet. It got some laughs, but hopefully it didn't actually make a fool out of you.|||wrong date... should have posted yesterday :o|||Was already posted yesterday...|||Yes I know but seeing as people fail to post it in the correct place I have to add it into the news archive or it gets lost forever :) Please post news in the news forum so it goes on the front page *sigh*|||Guild Wars Wiki notes

* The update notes are an April Fools' joke and the changes have not actually been implemented in-game.|||I edited the original post Rush, to reflect the joking nature of those updates...just incase someone actually thinks they are for real since we were late on posting it up.|||Surely nobody thought they were real :)|||Quote:








Surely nobody thought they were real :)




...well the elementalist one, at least, was true.

Or was it? Maybe they did change something and didnt tell us.|||Quote:








Surely nobody thought they were real :)




When I first saw it, I looked just at Ele...nothing changed, then looked through Necro and saw SS there and read it, and of course it could be very possible of them doing that...then I read everything else and rolled my eyes.|||i loved the norn change and wondered how long before the new ra build was 6 UW with 2 Monks.



the screams would have been heard across space and time as the PVP only players raced to get into the game to get the elite skills in gwen.



That should have been enough of a clue for all to know it was not real.



Grond The Meateater.

GWO Deli Manager