Guild Wars: Game Updates: March 7, 2007

Several game updates went into effect today and a couple of others yesterday:

Skills

Assassin

• Shadow Prison: increased Energy cost to 10.
• Blades of Steel: decreased max damage to 60.

Mesmer

• Wastrel's Demise: increased casting time to 1 second.

Necromancer

• Discord: increased casting time to 2 seconds.

Ritualist

• Lamentation: increased casting time to 1 second, decreased damage to 15..75
• Gaze From Beyond: increased casting time to 2 seconds.
• Spirit Burn: increased recharge time to 8 seconds.

Hero Battles

• All capture points contribute to the morale meter.
• The center point contributes double the value of other points.
• Morale meter increases have been tweaked.
• The center shrine on Hero Battle map Bombardment has been moved.
• Players can no longer take the point from the other side of the trench.

And yesterday's:

• Made preparations for the Chinese Open Beta Test
• Fixed a bug that caused some players to crash when selecting a character to play Guild Wars.