Update - Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Skill Updates
Assassin

* Critical Agility: fixed a bug that shortened this skill's duration when it reapplied itself.

Elementalist

* Frozen Burst: decreased duration to 3..8 seconds.
* Mark of Rodgort: increased recharge time to 15 seconds.
* Searing Flames: decreased damage to 10..100.

Mesmer

* Conjure Nightmare: decreased duration to 2..16 seconds.
* Conjure Phantasm: decreased duration to 2..16 seconds.
* Hex Eater Signet: decreased casting time to 1 second, decreased recharge time to 25 seconds, decreased Energy gained per Hex to 1..4.

Monk

* Convert Hexes: decreased recharge time to 12 seconds.

Necromancer

* Faintheartedness: decreased duration to to 3..28 seconds.
* Reaper’s Mark: increased recharge time to 12 seconds.

Ranger

* Nature's Renewal: increased Spirit level to 1..13.

Warrior
* Crippling Slash: increased adrenaline gained to 6 strikes.
* Enraging Charge: decreased adrenaline gained to 0..4 strikes.


From Official Wiki.

I'm glad they fixed Critical agility and nerfed those hexes, also the convert hexes, its nice now.

Didn't Like the nerf of Enraging.. but it's acceptable... Nature's Renewal even with bigger level? oh noes to spiritway..


Discuss.

Another ele nerf? I think someone at Anet got ganked maybe. Haha.

I actually Will congratulate A-net! I'm proud! you guys nerfed some skills that were overpowered in PvP, and PvE.

I really am happy now. Conjure phantasm is cooler now... And faintheartedness got a nice little duration nerf, which was really awesome.

And the change to Critical agility was needed. it was getting annoying...

Impressive update, step in the right direction for sure!

Frozen Burst, Faintheartedness, Searing Flames, Reapers Mark, Crippling Slash all very much required nerfs <3.

Great update, nice balance tweaks. A step in the right direction.

Eh, nothing great about it in my opinion, but whatever. Another ele nerf, Yay. Nothing significant for the ranger yet again, yay...

Searing Flames needed balance but not in that way, I agree to lessen the dmg but the burning condition should be 1...6.

Just my opinion.

.... we get a change to Natures Renewal...

Wow... thanks alot. I REALLY give a toss about that 1... actually does anyone really care?

On the bright side... Faintheartedness no longer lasts for 30 minutes.

Wait a minute what was Searing Flames damage before the update? There seems to be something odd about it.

EDIT: Guys on the GW wiki board it shows that before the update it was:

And now it’s this:

an update i like... unbelieveable! hex nerfage!! now how about giving Spirit of Failure and Price of Failure a scaling duration, huh? Please?

Hurray for Nature's renewal my underdog favorite! New and improved!! Can withstand 3!!!! hits before going away for another 60 seconds. Just kidding, I like most of these, especially hex eater sig. I remember thinking how great that skill would be to completely recharge my energy once per fight... now it may even live up to my remembrances of more naive times.

I would like to point out a likely typo in this however:
Crippling Slash: increased adrenaline gained to 6 strikes.

is in fact:

Crippling Slash: increased adrenaline *cost*

I'm cool with dat. Stopped for a moment to consider a few of my builds (use Enraging Charge in PvE a lot), but I'm confident I can adapt.

And yes, even tho I do use Faintheartedness and Searing Flames myself, I could tell they were over powered. No problems there.

Good move on Convert Hexes .

an update i like... unbelieveable! hex nerfage!! now how about giving Spirit of Failure and Price of Failure a scaling duration, huh? Please?

Cool, HA'd after this update and proceeded to get spiked by ritualists as always.

Interesting to think about. I combine Price of Failure with Reckless Haste sometimes. Scale the PoF time, and bring Reckless Haste's recharge back a bit (20sec?).

Good update but i really hope that there is going to be an update soon which will make playable one of those 400 skills which we never see :>

Ack, they nerfed my warrior build.

More ele nerfs, yay....I vote that they increase burning to 1...5...6 or something, although the damage doesn't affect me that much, it's only 13 less than it used to be.

I wouldn't hold your breath. Remember, they hold the 'we're working on GW2/GWEN card' so they can't put too much effort into this anymore.