User:Endrosz/2018 February

Update - February 6, 2018

World Polish

• Strength Boosters, Armor Boosters, Rejuvenation Boosters, and Speed Boosters no longer work in WvW.

Profession Skills

General

• Increased the support credit given to players by 50% for granting boons, cleansing conditions, healing, and reviving.

Boons and Conditions

• Alacrity: Alacrity is now a boon. The recharge-speed bonus has been reduced from 33% to 25%.
• Regeneration: Regeneration now uses the greatest healing regeneration to immediately heal you rather than going by each regeneration stack's duration or order of application.
• Confusion: Heavily reweighted damage from this condition's base damage-over-time component to the damage-on-skill-use component. The condition-damage contribution has been removed from the damage-over-time component and redistributed into the damage-on-skill-use component. This condition remains split between PvE and PvP/WvW.

Mesmer

Mesmer phantasms were heavily reworked in this update. For more information on our goals and reasons for these changes, please see our post on the official forums called "Shattering the Status Quo."

General

• Shatter Skills: These skills now only shatter clones. Descriptions have been updated to reflect their new functionality.
• Phantasms: Phantasms can no longer be shattered and no longer count toward your maximum illusion count. Phantasms are destroyed and then replaced by clones after completing their unique attack or if their attack is interrupted.
• Downed Clones: Fixed a bug in which downed clones could persist after a rally. Fixed a bug in which downed clones could exceed the illusion limit.

Thief

• The steal table has been updated with raid-specific skills in raid areas of the game. These skills are as follows and have been placed on certain creatures and bosses throughout each section:
  •   Unstable Artifact: Shadowstep to an area and deliver a large immobilizing strike. If a downed ally is in your targeted area, you will instead shadowstep that ally to your location and partially revive them.
  •   Detonate Plasma: Activate this skill to apply many boons to nearby allies.
  •   Soul Stone Venom: Use a corrupted soul stone to immediately remove all conditions from nearby allies, converting each unique condition removed into an instance of Soul Stone Venom on that ally. When attacking while this venom is active, an additional strike that's sourced from the applying thief will be applied to all of your successful hits.
  •   Magnetic Bomb: Throw a magnetic bomb that continuously damages and pulls enemies to a point.