Game updates/20070406

Update - Tuesday April 10, 2007

Skill updates

Assassin

• Black Spider Strike: decreased damage to 5..20.

Dervish

• Wearying Strike: increased recharge time to 6 seconds.

Elementalist

• Mind Blast: reduced damage to 15..60.

Monk

• Mending Touch: increased recharge time to 6 seconds.

Mesmer

• Mirror of Disenchantment: increased recharge time to 20 seconds.

Necromancer

• Animate Flesh Golem: decreased Energy cost to 10.
• Dark Fury: fixed a bug in the skill's description that caused it to report its range incorrectly.
• Icy Veins: increased Energy cost to 10.
• Order of the Vampire: decreased Energy cost to 5.
• Spiteful Spirit: decreased Energy cost to 10.
• Well of Blood: decreased Energy cost to 10.
• Well of Power: decreased Energy cost to 10, decreased casting time to 2 seconds.

Ranger

• Natural Stride: increased recharge time to 12 seconds.
• Otyugh's Cry: updated the text to reflect its functionality. This skill only affects your animal companion.

Ritualist

• Brutal Weapon: decreased damage to 5..15, increased duration to 15..45 seconds.

Warrior

• Burst of Aggression: decreased duration to 2..10 seconds.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect audio panning.
• Increased the default mixing buffer size to correct audio distortion on some systems.
• Fixed a bug with the minimized Chat panel that caused old messages to show when you changed maps.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Hall of Heroes from appearing on the Observer list at times.
• Fixed a bug in that Chat system that caused the ignore feature to work only on Whispers.

Update - Friday April 6, 2007

• Fixed a bug that caused Health Bars to appear too small when using the small interface size setting.
• Fixed a bug that caused some characters to use the wrong spellcasting animations.
• Fixed a bug with Observer Mode. Observer Mode games will be available again on Saturday morning (Pacific Daylight Time).
• Removed the Death Penalty from the following Heroes' Ascent missions: Broken Tower, the Courtyard, and the Hall of Heroes.
• Fixed a bug with the display of numbers in skill descriptions in Asian languages.
• Fixed a bug with Crippling Slash that caused incorrect durations for conditions.
• Fixed a bug with the display of the Deep Wound Condition that indicated you had an incorrect amount of Health.
• Fixed a bug that made the casting time for Wastrel's Demise .25 second. The correct casting time for this skill is 1 second.

GuildWiki notes

• Fixed a bug that caused Deep Wound to add extra health degeneration when a character is also suffering from a condition that causes health degeneration.
• This update or one of the April 5th updates modified Windwalker Insignia to provide an additional +5 armor while affected by 4 or more Enchantments.
• Introduced a bug that prevented some players from even booting the game.
• Introduced a bug that caused some players to list all stacks as 0 or 00 while in inventory.
• Introduced a somewhat rare bug that causes a crash whenever the user saves or loads a Template.
• Introduced a graphical loading issue that causes two seconds of lag when a skill or spell is used or a number of names are loaded onto the area screen.
• Introduced a graphical bug where the image of some heroes in the inventory is distorted.