Game Update: 1/23/08

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Guild Wars Game Update Notes


Update - Wednesday January 23

Skill Updates

Victory or Death
The Guild Lord will now use his axe when combating other Guild Lords.
NPCs during Victory or Death will do 30% more damage, and an additional 10% more damage each minute after Victory or Death.

Monk
Aura of Stability: decreased duration to 3..10 seconds.

Dervish
Pious Assault: decreased activation time to .5 seconds.

Warrior
Fear Me: increased recharge time to 6 seconds.

Ritualist
Sight Beyond Sight: reverted duration back to 8..20 seconds.

Fear me nerf might make UW runs a little easier...

iway is dead :/

HAHAHA about the freaken time, bye bye iway

Iway got owned, sway got buffed LOL.
Gg on iway nerf. But why AoS? That was a pretty good way to counter sway :\

~Prof.

Aww NM I thought it said increased activation time lol my eyes are going. What's the deal with Fear Me though? I saw no reason to hit that skill I don't use it anways. lol And why is Iway dead now?

Actually, they buffed Pious Assault. It activates faster, I think.

how's sWay buffed? ya iWay nerf is finally here so we might see fewer iway pugs

How was Pious Assault nerfed?

"Fear Me!" was a key skill in modern IWAY.

1) Pious assault got buffed.
2) Fear me was used in IWAY, which is why it was nerfed.

Because IWAY used Fear Me to drain casters energy. With a increased recharge time they can no longer spam it. IWAY is always killed by ANet lol good stuff. Though I am kinda sad about Aura of Stability, decent skill to put on another monk that is under attack by Thumpers.

Pious assault hits in half a second now so it actually got buffed, and they whole point of iway was too make enemies lose all energy so they can't heal, now that fear me has 6 second recharge it makes it so much harder to pressure teams with it since they rc energy long before iway wars can use it again.

I think the 6 recharge is a bit of overkill though. It really makes fear me skill useless now. It would have been more fair to make it 6 adrenaline I think than 6 recharge and then 4 adrenaline as well.

Funny, about IWAY being nerfed, because that's what they said the last time something in the build got tweaked. People will make adjustments and it'll be back again.

Just

I do mean

Sight beyond sight....as expected

Pious assault....interesting maybe we will see a lyssa + erem + myst + pious sweep combo...insane attack rate...pulling off 4 damaging attacks in roughly 1.5 seconds

I don't see the reasoning behind Pious Assault.

Other stuff good.

Pious is pretty insane now, especially since it works with any weapon. 1/2s deep wound? Yes pls.

pious is good yes

although it's hard to fail on such small update, must say it's good

let it be known that pious assault does NOT need a scythe. it works with any melee weapon.

which means that sword warriors can now deal an unconditional deep wound at last... at the cost of 10 energy.