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fabiola · May 25, 2007, 12:06 AM // 00:06

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.
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:
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.
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.
All existing lower-level armor pieces from these campaigns now support insignias but have had their inherent bonuses removed.
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:
The armor sets crafted in Droknar's Forge have been divided between the two armorers in a more organized fashion.
Several Ascended armor sets have been renamed to avoid naming conflicts with the corresponding level 20 armor sets.
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 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.

XBloodHoundX · May 25, 2007, 12:10 AM // 00:10

Version that wont make your eyes bleed here...

Naomi Heartily · May 25, 2007, 12:11 AM // 00:11

!

A new "Labyrinthine" tattoo set has been added for Monks at Marhan's Grotto.

*runs to buy*

knoll · May 25, 2007, 12:13 AM // 00:13

I love you anet, My FoW isnt crap now :P

Tactical-Dillusions · May 25, 2007, 12:14 AM // 00:14

Nice job Anet!

Perhaps this is a sign that weapons from prophecies may be inscribable in the future, unless that task is too massive? Anyway, thanks for the armour update.

Puebert · May 25, 2007, 12:17 AM // 00:17

Totally did not see the help thing coming.

VitisVinifera · May 25, 2007, 12:17 AM // 00:17

pretty cool that old armor sets are now inscribable. That'll help.

Was kinda hoping there'd be something about mesmers, soul reaping, loot scaling, addressing anti-farmin HM, but hopefully these aren't too much more down the line

lyra_song · May 25, 2007, 12:18 AM // 00:18

New tatoo?! >:O Pics please?

Coridan · May 25, 2007, 12:19 AM // 00:19

sweeeett well worth the wait for an update...Good Job Anet...

KANE OG · May 25, 2007, 12:21 AM // 00:21

IDS's are green now, or gold? Can they still be modded? Never understood why the Ice Breaker Hammer was uniqe but the IDS wasn't anyway. A fair update anyway.

KANE

thedudemanwo · May 25, 2007, 12:21 AM // 00:21

so i don't get the urgoz/deep thing. do you get to choose the item or does it randomly drop for you?

Croco Clouds · May 25, 2007, 12:21 AM // 00:21

woooo *run to farm UW for scrolls*

Naomi Heartily · May 25, 2007, 12:24 AM // 00:24

Just saw the new monk armor, but she left before I could take screens.

Needless to say, it looks awesome.

explodemyheart · May 25, 2007, 12:25 AM // 00:25

I love the new monk armor. Someone bought it and tried to show off, but as usual, everybody crowded and they left.

fabiola · May 25, 2007, 12:29 AM // 00:29

There was also a stealth nerf to Urgoz's Warren Spirit Ranger Suicide Run. No experience or drops anymore.

Acehigh · May 25, 2007, 12:31 AM // 00:31

This is a wicked update.Good job Anet!

makosi · May 25, 2007, 12:31 AM // 00:31

I wonder what weapons can be obtained via Tolkano. Anybody able to shine a light?

I'm a PvE carebear so I can't even see.

crimsonfilms · May 25, 2007, 12:32 AM // 00:32

PvP Reward system is a MAJOR FAILURE.

American and Korean PvP is dead. I guest they want Eu PvP to die also.

With SC2 announcment - I guess they want Blizzard to make more money :/

Major failure.

tane_stelzer · May 25, 2007, 12:34 AM // 00:34

I dont believe it, we did Urgoz HM today for 4hrs and we only get the 3 bows and 1 hr after we complete this run this update comes along, i am sad :'( this aint fair.......

Acehigh · May 25, 2007, 12:35 AM // 00:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedudemanwo

so i don't get the urgoz/deep thing. do you get to choose the item or does it randomly drop for you?

Its like the gemstone chests in DoA,each person gets assigned 1 or 2 weapons depending on wether you're in HM or HM.