Game updates/2018-05-22

May 22, 2018

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Late Notes - May 22, 2018

World Polish

• Reduced the rate at which Globs of Ectoplasm are salvaged from rare Elonian weaponry.

General

• Fixed an issue in which gathering tools would not properly swap between equipped slots and open shared inventory slots.

Update - May 22, 2018

World Polish

• Bloodtide Coast: The prisoner in the "Free an Order of Whispers agent from pirates" event now properly appears in his cage.
• Crystal Desert: Fixed a bug in which hydra heads could appear in midair in areas with varied terrain heights.

General

• Fixed an issue in which some creatures in Path of Fire™ maps became invulnerable and would not drop their targets and return to their original positions.
• Updated the way some miniatures are sorted in the Hero panel so that they are grouped in a more orderly fashion.
• Fixed a bug that caused the bronze, silver, and gold llama miniatures to display the wrong icon in the Hero panel.
• The interaction range of sunken chests has been decreased, and players can now be interrupted when attempting to open them.

Dungeons

The Ruined City of Arah

• Elite Orrian spiders no longer bite everything in a large radius around them.

Fractals

• Decreased the duration of invulnerability applied to unreachable creatures in fractals and dungeons.

Raids

Stronghold of the Faithful

• Reduced the cooldown of the Intervention skill in the Xera encounter.

Personal Story

• Night of Fires: Using a mount to skip past the first gate before Canach opens it will now correctly apply the achievement eligibility effects.

Items

• Superior Rune of the Dolyak: This rune will now report its 6-piece healing bonus in the combat log.
• Giver's Mithril Imbued Inscription: Fixed a bug that prevented the creation of some krait weapons that have this inscription.
• Shadow Shield: This item now uses the correct icon.
• Swim-Speed Infusion +10: This item can now be put into storage.

Profession Skills

Elementalist

•  Glyph of Storms: Fixed a bug in which this skill required a full cooldown in situations where it should have required an interrupt cooldown.

Engineer

•  Bandage Blast: Fixed a bug in which this skill displayed a much higher healing value than intended when combined with the Health Insurance trait.
•  Kinetic Accelerators: Fixed a bug that prevented scrappers from gaining stability when using a function gyro in an instanced PvP mode.
•  Takedown Round: Fixed a bug in which this trait fired at the engineer's location rather than the target's location when using Particle Accelerator.

Guardian

•  "Feel My Wrath!": Fixed a bug the prevented the fury skill fact from displaying.
•  Healer's Resolution: Fixed a bug in which this trait granted retaliation when a heal skill was canceled.

Mesmer

•  Bountiful Disillusionment: The stability duration for this trait has been reduced from 3 seconds to 1 second in PvP and WvW.
•  Illusionary Defense: The damage reduction per stack this trait applies is now split between game modes and has been reduced from -5% per stack to -2% in PvP and WvW.
•  Phantasmal Defender: The tooltip for this skill now shows the correct damage the skill inflicts in PvE. Its damage has been reduced by 50% in PvP and WvW.
•  Phantasmal Disenchanter: The damage of this skill has been reduced by 50% in PvP and WvW.
•  Phantasmal Warlock: The damage of this skill has been reduced by 50% in PvP and WvW.
•  Echo of Memory: Reduced the damage inflicted by the illusionary avenger by 50%.

Necromancer

•  Putrid Curse: Removed a tooltip that was displayed incorrectly.

Ranger

• Canine— Crippling Leap: Slightly increased this skill's travel range to ensure that it always travels to its intended range.
• Canine— Brutal Charge (Soulbeast): Slightly increased this skill's travel range to ensure that it always travels its intended range.
• Porcine— Brutal Charge (Soulbeast): Slightly increased this skill's travel range to ensure that it always travels its intended range.
• Iboga— Consuming Bite: Reduced the base damage of this skill by 40%, and reduced its scaling damage per condition by 75%.

Revenant

•  Roiling Mists: Fixed a bug in which this trait granted boons upon swapping legends.
•  Scorchrazor: Fixed a bug in which this skill gave an error when the revenant's target was correctly within range.
•  Rift of Pain: Fixed a bug in which protection was applied around the revenant rather than around the rift.

Thief

•  Silent Scope: This trait now works outside of combat. Stealth is applied at the end of a dodge roll instead of at the beginning. Added additional effects particles to show when stealth is applied.

Warrior

•  Balanced Stance: Fixed a bug in which this skill granted bonus toughness from the Rousing Resilience trait, even when it was not breaking a stun.

Structured Player vs. Player

PvP Lobby

• The free-for-all arena has been expanded.
• Benches have been added around the map.

World vs. World

General

• Players can now get a Grandmaster Mark Shard from the final bronze, silver, and gold skirmish chests. If a player collects 10 shards, they can trade them with the Skirmish Supervisor for grandmaster marks.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store

New Items and Promotions

• A new Elonian Elementalist Outfit is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 700 gems.
• For a limited time, the Spooky Mounts Pack returns to the Style category of the Gem Store for 1,600 gems.
• For a limited time, the Zodiac weapon skins and the Dominator weapon skins are available at a discount from Black Lion Weapons Specialists for 3 Black Lion Claim Tickets, available in Black Lion Chests. Keys are available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 125 gems each.

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