Update – 01. April 2009

Skill Updates

Assassin
  • Scorpion Wire: no longer has half-range. Changed functionality to: "Target foe is teleported to your location and knocked down."
  • Shroud of Silence: changed functionality to: "For 5..20 seconds, target player cannot send chat messages."
Dervish
  • Increased duration of all Avatar skills to 40..70 seconds.
  • Avatar of Grenth: changed functionality to: "For 10..90 seconds, your attacks steal 1..2 enchantments from any foe you hit and apply those enchantments to you."
Elementalist
  • Sandstorm: now deals 10..30 more damage if the caster is standing in a sandy area.
  • Searing Flames: removed Burning condition.
Mesmer
  • No changes.
Monk
  • Ray of Judgment: Removed Burning condition, increased damage to 10..90.
Necromancer
  • Animate Flesh Golem: removed the single-golem limit.
Paragon
  • "Fallback!": Now ends if target ally is not moving away from a foe.
  • "Incoming!": Now ends if target ally is not moving away from a foe.
  • "It's Just a Flesh Wound!": This skill can now be used while dead.
  • "The Power is Yours!": changed functionality to: "Sacrifice all Health. Until resurrected, 5 nearby party members gain +1..5 Earth Magic, +1..5 Fire Magic, +1..5 Air Magic, +1..5 Water Magic, or +1..5 Healing Prayers."
Ranger
  • Beast Mastery: pets now have a chance of ignoring commands unless their master has a higher Beast Mastery rank than the pet's level.
  • Equinox: Exhaustion duration is now based on the time of day.
Ritualist
  • Signet of Ghostly Might: reverted functionality to: "For 10 seconds, target ally or foe does +10..35 damage. When this skill ends, that target is slain."
  • Spawning Power: Weapon skills now last 50% longer for each rank of Spawning Power.
Warrior
  • Bull's Charge: functionality changed to: "You Shadow Step to target foe and knock them down."
  • Dwarven Battle Stance: duration is now based on the user's height.
  • Gladiator's Defense: duration is now doubled in Random and Team Arenas.

Guild Battles

  • Guild Battle NPCs now respawn at regular intervals until the Guild Lord is slain.

Miscellaneous

  • Removed the Lucky Aura effect from the Lunar Fortune item.
  • On a direct hit, the Zaishen rank emote now deals minor damage based on the user's rank and knocks the target down.
  • Characters suffering from Blind cannot see distant enemies.
  • Characters suffering from Dazed will now spin in place. The camera is locked for the duration of the effect.
  • Introduced a new Cartographer title for the Battle Isles.