Automated Tournaments
* Players can now speak with Tolkano [Tournament] to spend their Tournament Reward Points on various armor and weapon skins.
* The Automated Tournament clock now changes appearance when it is time to join the current round.
Item Updates
Armor Insignias and Bonuses
* Players can now obtain armor insignias from all campaigns. Profession-restricted insignias will only drop in campaigns in which characters of that profession can be created.
* Crafted armor in Prophecies and Factions now supports insignias. The insignia bonuses replace the previous inherent armor bonuses and require several additional changes:
o From this point onward, armor pieces newly crafted in these campaigns will not have inherent bonuses. The crafting costs of these armor pieces have been reduced accordingly.
o All existing level 20 armor from these campaigns now have insignias in place of their inherent bonuses. Please note that the bonuses on these armor sets have not been altered. The only change is that these bonuses now come from insignias.
o All existing lower-level armor pieces from these campaigns now support insignias but have had their inherent bonuses removed.
o Numerous armor sets have been renamed to avoid redundancy with insignia names.
* Lower-level collector armor pieces from Prophecies and Factions now support insignias. Level 20 collector armor does not.
Ascended Armor Changes and Additions
* The following changes were made to Ascended armor sets:
o The armor sets crafted in Droknar's Forge are now divided between the two armorers in a more organized fashion.
o Several Ascended armor sets have been renamed to avoid naming conflicts with the corresponding level 20 armor sets.
o A new "Labyrinthine" tattoo set has been added for Monks at Marhan's Grotto.
* In Prophecies, Mesmer, Monk, Necromancer, Ranger, and Warrior headgear may now be crafted with a variety of attribute bonus options.
* Existing Lieutenant's Helms crafted in Prophecies now have a +1 Tactics bonus in addition to a Lieutenant's Insignia.
Miscellaneous Item Changes
* The Icy Dragon Sword is now considered a rare item. This change also means that it is now exempt from loot scaling.
* To help prevent trade scams, "The Heart of Ice" Prophecies quest item no longer shares icon art with sapphires.
Elite Mission Updates
Urgoz's Warren
* Defeating Urgoz now spawns a chest that each player will be able to interact with individually. This chest grants each player either one inscribable rare item or one of Urgoz's unique items, as well as two chunks of amber.
* Players who open this chest while in Hard Mode will receive two item drops and four chunks of amber.
* Urgoz no longer drops his unique items himself.
The Deep
* Defeating Kanaxai now spawns a chest that each player will be able to interact with individually. This chest grants each player either one inscribable rare item or one of Kanaxai's unique items, as well as two chunks of jadeite.
* Players who open this chest while in Hard Mode will receive two item drops and four chunks of jadeite.
* Kanaxai no longer drops his unique items himself.
The Underworld and Fissure of Woe
* Passage scrolls now have a chance of dropping from monsters slain in the Underworld and the Fissure of Woe so that players have a chance to earn free passage back to these areas.
Help Panel
Players can now access a Help panel by pressing F10 on their keyboard or by typing /help. This new panel contains links to the official Guild Wars Wiki,where players can both obtain and contribute information about their current quests, skills, locations, and guilds.
* The /help emote has changed to /helpme. /help is now used to open the Help panel.
* Typing /wiki into the Chat panel opens the front page of the wiki, while typing /wiki followed by a word or phrase searches the entire wiki for that content. (Please note that there is only an English language wiki available at this time.)
Bug Fixes
* Fixed a bug that caused some items to appear temporarily as white boxes in the Inventory panel.
* Fixed a bug in Old Ascalon that prevented some players from vanquishing the map while in Hard Mode.
* Fixed a line-of-sight bug that allowed a variety of exploits in the Dark Chambers Hall of Heroes map.
Miscellaneous
* Made preparations for the GvG Double Reward Weekend event.
* Bow descriptions have been updated to include bow type.
* The Observer mode game list now remembers which categories have been collapsed. The automatic selection feature now only chooses from expanded categories.|||Thanks for the news Zero!
Wow, in-game wiki support? So we can wiki the mission we're on while we're in the mission without having to alt-tab out? Awesome! I'm super pumped about the rest of the changes too. Can't wait to play and test them out.|||Quote:
Thanks for the news Zero!
Wow, in-game wiki support? So we can wiki the mission we're on while we're in the mission without having to alt-tab out? Awesome! I'm super pumped about the rest of the changes too. Can't wait to play and test them out.
I tried the wiki in-game right after the patch and it Alt-Tabs you out to a new page loaded at whatever you searched for :p So you still get sent out the progam.|||Quote:
I tried the wiki in-game right after the patch and it Alt-Tabs you out to a new page loaded at whatever you searched for :p So you still get sent out the progam.
Well, writing a web browser was easy back in 1995, when HTML was simple. Now just to output a webpage, the wiki software has to go through CSS and DHTML / XHTML hoops to deal with everything from broken Netscape 4 through Firefox and that travesty called IE. Writing something in-game to render the stuff from the wiki without adding loads of exploits to the game would be hard. As in, equal to writing a good portion of guildwars all over again hard. Now, the dev's could have restricted the guildwars.com wiki to markup that would get styled and rendered in-game. But that is just a suggestion.
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Defeating Urgoz now spawns a chest that each player will be able to interact with individually.
This is somewhat overdue. I've brought a ranger carrying both of Urgoz's bows, with heros that each have Urgoz for themselves, and still been the only person to get bows off of him. In a fair game, everyone who contributes equally gets an equal share. The whole gold sharing system (as certain people will complain about) is superior to the dev's last game (Diablo II) in reducing bad behavior through sharing.
While everyone is supposed to get a equal chance at Urgoz and Kanaxai, people like me feel guilty for getting (quite publicly among the group) the rewards over and over. I'm sure the RNG gods of Guildwars are punishing me elsewhere (30 runs for 1 ecto?) but still... It's a game, not a sport. I'd rather play with a group and have fun than suffer through all of the Deep or Warren and have people flame me for a hour and set me to Ignore because I got lucky and they didn't.|||Amazing...|||Anyone got a pic of F10 Help Panel?|||Very pleased about the old armours insignia change, as that means various armours I bought for appearance's sake that have since proved to have useless stats don't have to be deleted and replaced after all. Those black dyes weren't a waste!
Also thankyou for changing the artwork to help prevent one of the common scams. It's only a minor detail in the scheme of things, but it's the sort of detail that creates a good impression.|||Good update.
Good thing I waited a while to make some piece of armour more effective and so saved a lot of gold.
Will be checking out older (profecies) armours to see how they can be improved.|||Glad to hear that they finally made the armors consistent throughout the game.
Alot of the other stuff hasn't been an issue for me yet, but I'm glad they got it out of the way for when I get to those things.|||Quote:
Good update.
Good thing I waited a while to make some piece of armour more effective and so saved a lot of gold.
Will be checking out older (profecies) armours to see how they can be improved.
I crafted my FoW the day before the patch saying "I bet that insignia patch is coming tomorrow" and then it did :p Still Rangers got a set of +energy and +life armours now so its not all bad ^^ I'll load up and take a pic of the help panel btw so gimme a minute to load it up.
Edit: and here it is
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