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Update - Thursday May 24
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.
o Crafted armor in Prophecies and Factions now supports insignias. The insignia bonuses are meant to 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 have been 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 will grant 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 will grant 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 deions 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.
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| 05/24/07 19:50 |
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Rogue
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Anet will kill their own wiki GG?
Though they do have the new 15k tat set up:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Image:Monk_...ine_armor_m.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Image:Monk_...ine_armor_f.jpg
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| 05/24/07 19:54 |
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Cool...the new armor is ok, but I dont think it will replace my monks as its impossible to re-create his dye, and I hardly use my monk.
Glad they finally added insignias to tyria/factions, I can finally get the right armor for my other characters.
As for the way they talked, saying the will eventually integrate their wiki into GW....I figured we wouldn't even come close to that until the end of this year....with GW:EN
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| 05/24/07 19:57 |
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All in all a great update - EXCEPT they've hit the Urgoz' Warren farm with the nerf-bat :(
The vamp enemies at the start now no longer give exp or items - this is a sad day.
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| 05/24/07 20:05 |
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White Lobster
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I'm liking the armor changes.
I can finally get a Templar (formerly Knights) helmet with a swordsmanship and tactics mod. And I can put some radient sigs on my Templar armor. I use a weird energy sword build >_> .
I wish they would go ahead and make the weapons all have inscrptions. That would make some of the weapons in my storage actually usable.
I also really love the fact that my IDS is now gold, instead of blue (that always bugged me).
PS.
Is anyone else having problems with pinging builds to guild/alliance/teammates. I can only ping builds through whisper now. Its very annoying.
Edit: I'm loving this F10 thing, and how the offical GWiki has a seperate page for all of your guilds and alliances already linked and ready to edit. Also the search and the quest tabs are really good. Now, if people would just write guides for the quests, that would help.
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| 05/24/07 20:06 |
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bo fairfieild
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| QUOTE | | * Players can now speak with Tolkano [Tournament] to spend their Tournament Reward Points on various armor and weapon skins. |
New skins? w0000000ttt!!!
for PvPers only? boooooooo!
I can't get on now, but I'm excited for what I will see tomorrow when I log on :)
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| 05/24/07 20:10 |
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| QUOTE | | Enemies who die from Suicide Health and Suicide Energy no longer grant experience or loot. |
are you fricken serious!!!! then ENDS famine farm
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| 05/24/07 20:30 |
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zoron
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its like arenanet wants GW to have a poor econemy! they just also dropped thoe onyl special thing on glads armor the + energy this is the only armor i have and i can't farm to get new stuff im so mad!!!!!!
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| 05/24/07 20:34 |
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| QUOTE | | its like arenanet wants GW to have a poor econemy! they just also dropped thoe onyl special thing on glads armor the + energy this is the only armor i have and i can't farm to get new stuff im so mad!!!!!! |
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| 05/24/07 20:37 |
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Lady0Sheep
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The new armour set for those interested:
  
*grin*
Lady Phoeniks - Lvl 20 Ele
Ladie Avalon - Lvl 20 Monk (can be heal or prot)
Fayth Wildspirit - Lvl 20 Necro
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| 05/24/07 20:47 |
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Brynden
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| QUOTE | | its like arenanet wants GW to have a poor econemy! they just also dropped thoe onyl special thing on glads armor the + energy this is the only armor i have and i can't farm to get new stuff im so mad!!!!!! |
First off, the change to the urgoz farm makes sense. It was never supposed to be an area you could solo, and that farm was pretty cheap anyway. And you do realize you can add radiant insignias to your gladiators armor, so it's exactly the same as it was before. And what do you mean you can't farm? There are tons of places to farm, and tons of really easy ways to make money. Try just playing through the game and doing all the quests you find, you'll make over 50k doing just that.
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| 05/24/07 20:55 |
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| QUOTE | | QUOTE | | Enemies who die from Suicide Health and Suicide Energy no longer grant experience or loot. |
are you fricken serious!!!! then ENDS famine farm |
If you click the links shown on wiki, those are apparently skills certain enemies can use. (enemies in factions)
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| 05/24/07 20:56 |
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zoron
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| QUOTE | | QUOTE | | its like arenanet wants GW to have a poor econemy! they just also dropped thoe onyl special thing on glads armor the + energy this is the only armor i have and i can't farm to get new stuff im so mad!!!!!! |
First off, the change to the urgoz farm makes sense. It was never supposed to be an area you could solo, and that farm was pretty cheap anyway. And you do realize you can add radiant insignias to your gladiators armor, so it's exactly the same as it was before. And what do you mean you can't farm? There are tons of places to farm, and tons of really easy ways to make money. Try just playing through the game and doing all the quests you find, you'll make over 50k doing just that. |
true. but i can't afford new skills weapons and armor
ill sdd radiant insignia. but i liked glads for having that built in
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| 05/24/07 21:06 |
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| QUOTE | | QUOTE | | QUOTE | | its like arenanet wants GW to have a poor econemy! they just also dropped thoe onyl special thing on glads armor the + energy this is the only armor i have and i can't farm to get new stuff im so mad!!!!!! |
First off, the change to the urgoz farm makes sense. It was never supposed to be an area you could solo, and that farm was pretty cheap anyway. And you do realize you can add radiant insignias to your gladiators armor, so it's exactly the same as it was before. And what do you mean you can't farm? There are tons of places to farm, and tons of really easy ways to make money. Try just playing through the game and doing all the quests you find, you'll make over 50k doing just that. |
true. but i can't afford new skills weapons and armor
ill sdd radiant insignia. but i liked glads for having that built in |
i think your gal armor stats are still the same. just modable with insignias now. but as the update says, you can't "add" stats. it will "replace."
i don't know if i'm making much sense here >.<
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| 05/24/07 21:24 |
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| QUOTE | | QUOTE | | its like arenanet wants GW to have a poor econemy! they just also dropped thoe onyl special thing on glads armor the + energy this is the only armor i have and i can't farm to get new stuff im so mad!!!!!! |
First off, the change to the urgoz farm makes sense. It was never supposed to be an area you could solo, and that farm was pretty cheap anyway. And you do realize you can add radiant insignias to your gladiators armor, so it's exactly the same as it was before. And what do you mean you can't farm? There are tons of places to farm, and tons of really easy ways to make money. Try just playing through the game and doing all the quests you find, you'll make over 50k doing just that. |
i'm not sure i understand right...does this mean that my glads armour no longer has the +energy added to it??
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| 05/24/07 21:29 |
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All the old armors got whatever their bonus was in insignia form on them, so the old glad armor still gives the energy because it now has the radiant insignia on it. Now you can just remove it or overwrite it for any other insignia you want. That means that on any new armor you have to add it yourself.
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| 05/24/07 22:01 |
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| QUOTE | * 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. |
Can someone with reward tokens please post a screenshot of what you can unlock? I've always wanted to unlock skins in pvp and i would definately like to see what you get. =)
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| 05/24/07 22:32 |
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Sorry for the confusion slye. I hadn't checked myself, and from the way Zoron said it, I thought his glads armor must have no longer had the insignias on it.
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| 05/24/07 23:03 |
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| QUOTE | | All the old armors got whatever their bonus was in insignia form on them, so the old glad armor still gives the energy because it now has the radiant insignia on it. Now you can just remove it or overwrite it for any other insignia you want. That means that on any new armor you have to add it yourself. |
i hate this update, because now instead of 1.5k armor that has an inherent energy bonus, but now with an insignia you basically have to spend 2.5k on a piece of armor for it to be like glads(1k on the armor and 1.5k on the radiant insignia)
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| 05/24/07 23:22 |
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Well, I haven't checked since the update, but prior to it, radiant insignia were pretty cheap, definitely less than 500g each. So if they're now at 1.5k each, that's obviously because of this update, with people changing their Tyrian and Canthan armors to different insignias. So just wait a bit and they'll drop back down.
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| 05/24/07 23:57 |
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Yes plz some one post what you can get using reward points a screen shot would help im wondering cus this weekend double reward points and what not.
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| 05/25/07 00:02 |
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Well, gee, are you REALLY surprised? I mean honestly you werent really doing any killing to begin with if the enemy is COMMITING SUICIDE....*shakes head* I'm glad they did it. And as for "killing the economy"...get serious. There's plenty of ways to get money, and lots of it at that.
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| 05/25/07 00:24 |
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| QUOTE | | Well, I haven't checked since the update, but prior to it, radiant insignia were pretty cheap, definitely less than 500g each. So if they're now at 1.5k each, that's obviously because of this update, with people changing their Tyrian and Canthan armors to different insignias. So just wait a bit and they'll drop back down. |
Actually, they haven't been 500g for quite some time, Survivor's might have been but not Radiant. They've been steadily creeping up in price and were around 1.4k before this update. But, this update has now spiked them up to about 1.9k-2k. It also doesn't help that Radiant insignias appear to have a horrid drop rate(at least for me), unlike Attunement runes which I seem to get every other blue armor.
The one thing I don't like about the update is the fact that they got rid of the inherent mods all together. I would have preferred to be able to craft insignia armor as an option(like Obsidian Armor was/is?), not forced to buy both it and an insignia. The reason; if I wanted to create the 'traditional' Droknar's Forge druid's armor effect, it would currently cost me about 3k per piece, which is double the former cost, which is simply not cool.
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| 05/25/07 00:57 |
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| QUOTE | All in all a great update - EXCEPT they've hit the Urgoz' Warren farm with the nerf-bat :(
The vamp enemies at the start now no longer give exp or items - this is a sad day. |
im glad now people will want to do urgoz to actualy do the mish.
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| 05/25/07 02:15 |
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Gotta love A'net for this update...
It's one of the best so far!
Sure it nerves some solo farming, but hey it's still called guildwars and not solowars ^^
guess what I'm gonna do tonight: Urgoz in Hard Mode baby! ^^
Thx A'net for a badly needed update
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| 05/25/07 02:34 |
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Being able to add/change insignia for armor from any campaign is great news for me, the reduction of cost to accomodate it should make it less painful to people buying it. I'm pleased because I can stop wearing the Istan tunic I hate and wear my Kurzick tunic for the 1hp build :)
As for nerfing the suicide drops for Urgoz in HM, how much did you actually be able to farm using that ? It looked to me like the Byzzr Wingmender farm, stupidly easy but quickly becomes unprofitable. It really is easy to make money in GW now, the economy is much more egalitarian, most players can raise a few k pretty darn quickly if they want to.
Changes to Urgoz and the Deep, great ideas now everyone gets something at the end rather than just the lucky ones. I'll see you in Urgoz in Hard Mode!
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| 05/25/07 02:48 |
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Wow, I'm loving this update. I've always loved Rogue's armour for mesmer, but never wanted to buy it because of the rubbish mods on it, now I can have whichever I like :D That can only be a good thing imo :)
I'll go check out the tournament dude now and see what cool stuff is available.
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| 05/25/07 03:08 |
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| QUOTE | | Rogue's armour for mesmer, but never wanted to buy it because of the rubbish mods on it, |
Rogues armour is great for certain circumstances. I even went from enchanters to rogues one time when i started to use my messie for PvP :) extra armour makes you less squishy. All a matter of taste :)
Anyway; on topic:
I love these updates. Soloing the beginning of urgoz was only nice for the occasional gold item and for XP; so im not going to have sleepless nights over it :)
And it seems i need to get my monk new armour >.> i like the labyrinth tattoo ^^
And the chest change in the deep and urgoz is great. I think that way every party member gets equal reward for beating the mission.
necromancer all the way
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| 05/25/07 03:42 |
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I love the updates aswell as the new help panel.
And in reply to Rogue's, i use rogue's obsidian chest aswell as leggings on my mesmer, that extra 10 armor > energy anytime, and with the weapon set i use i have51+ energy nonthe less. But ye its all a matter of taste.
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| 05/25/07 07:02 |
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I love this update cuz now I can put different insignias on my 15k glads and my new 15k luxon! The only thing is that I spent 30k on my 1.5k rit armor(monstrous claws are EXPENSIVE!!) because I wanted the energy one but with the new update I could've gotten the plain one and gotten insignias but w/e. Woot love this update.
quit gw for good. end of story.
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