Game Update Notes: April 1, 2018

[Gaile Gray.6029]

04/01/2018—April 1 Release Notes

World Polish

• Living World episodes are now sorted alphabetically in the Hero Panel.
• The city of Lion's Arch has been renamed Lobster's Arch.

General

• Log in between March 30, 2018 and March 31, 2018 to receive a complimentary Temporal Displacement Device.

• Added a "Delete Browsing History" button to the Black Lion Trading Post.

• Fixed a scaling bug that made asura too large.

• For performance reasons, all chair models have been removed from the game.

• Added the words "Praise" and "Joko" to the profanity filter.

Items

• Globs of Ectoplasm can now be consumed to give players a ghostly purple effect for a short time.
• Combining any four items in the Mystic Forge has an extremely rare chance to return a Quantum Communicator. Using this item will call the cell phone of one random developer.

Fractals

• Players must now fight each other at the end of every fractal. The last player standing gets all the rewards.
• Added new fractals, including Seirpinski triangles, Mandelbrot sets, Collatz fractals, and Julia and Fatou sets.

Raids

• Added the "Social Awkwardness" instability as a new Challenge Mode option on all raid bosses.
• To conform to the Tyrian calendar, the weekly reset now occurs every 8 days.

Word vs. World

• The borders between worlds are now an epic battle of musical chairs.

Structured Player vs. Player

• Losing any match in PvP now awards a Thimble of Salt.
  • Players can combine 250 Thimbles of Salt into a Vial of Salt.

Player Skills

Elementalist

• Elementalists can now access a new elemental attunement: Candy!
• Elementalists have been given additional ability slots and hotkey options to allow them to use more of their skills without needing to swap elemental attunements.

Necromancer

• Necromancers now receive a 50% power increase in all cemeteries, crypts, and mausoleums.

Ragner

• We think some issues may have been resolved as part of fixes for other professions.
• Rangers can now tame their very own Juvenile Legendary Bloodstone-Enhanced Purebred Fancy Cat by interacting with the litter of fancy kittens located near Lady Wisteria Whiskington.
  • For obvious reasons, Beastmode is not encouraged with this pet.
• Killing wild animals now results in rngers losing karma.

Ingenieur

• Drinking too many elixirs will now inflict the Nausea condition and force the use of the Regurgitate skill.
• Engineers must now complete at least a bachelor's degree to reach level 80.

Deadeye

• The maximum range for the Deadeye specialization has been increased to 30,000 to better reflect reality.

Guardian

• Certain shouts have been renamed to be more positive.
  • "Save Yourselves!": This shout has been renamed "I'll Protect You!"
  • "Retreat!": This shout has been renamed "Let's Push Forward!"
  • "Feel My Wrath!": This shout has been renamed "Feel My Wrath, Please!"

Mesmer

• Phantasmal Rogues now cast Phantasmal Thieves Guild when summoned.
• Phantasmal Berserkers can now equip the Spellbreaker specialization.

Revenant

• Revenant skills can now only be used in the Mists.
• Renegade skills which summon various charr allies will now instead summon a random charr player to your location.
• Added a new Legendary Monarch of All stance, allowing revenants to channel the powers of Palawa Kitten. This new stance grants access to a new type of "Kitten" skills.

Warrior

• Full Counter: To better reflect its name, this skill is now permanently active.
• Winds of Disenchantment: This skill is now a permanent toggle.