Game updates/2012-09-08

September 8, 2012

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Update - September 8, 2012

Traits

Engineer

• Updated the Engineer's Firearms trait – Juggernaut. New text for the trait: You gain 200 Toughness while wielding a Flamethrower. In addition, gain might for 15 seconds every 3 seconds, as long as you remain in this weapon kit
• Fixed a bug with Go For The Eyes. It can now only trigger once every 10 seconds.

Skills

Mesmer

• Fixed a bug with   Signet of Illusions. It now gives phantasms 50% more health instead of 300% more.

General

• Fixed a bug that should help resolve almost all of the broken skill challenges players have been running into.
• Ranger pet swap recharge is now the same in and out of combat. This closes an exploit with swapping ranger pets to generate very long buffs.
• Ranger pets should now immediately use their F2 skills when told instead of first performing an auto-attack.
• We discovered a bug in Monthly achievements that was causing some players to complete in August while others did not. We are forcing completion on all players who are currently at 100% to even out this bug for those players who have completed their monthly achievement. In the future, monthly achievements will turn over on the first of the month at midnight UTC. Daily achievements also roll over for all players at midnight UTC.
• Fixed numerous events and event chains that were blocked.

PvP

• Max Glory cap per PvP match is set to 350. You now receive an achievement for reaching this cap in a given match. This closes an exploit that was letting players farm hundreds of glory per match by trading wins.

Story

• Fixed a blocking issue in "Forging the Pact."

Crafting

• Players can now do the production portion of crafting without having to pull the resources from their bank. Note: Discovery still requires use of the bank. This is something we would like to change but decided that getting part of the way there was better than making players wait for the entire fix.
• Fixed a bug with the recipe for Ginger Pear Tarts that excluded Dough from the recipe.
• Increased the karma costs of all Bulk Cooking Materials.
• Increased the refinement costs of all Wood Planks from 2 logs to 3 logs.
• Yellow Dye recipes now include Onions instead of Celery.
• Adjusted the ingredient costs on Dye recipes.
• The following Cooking Materials are no longer sold for Karma and are now acquired through drops, gathering nodes, or loot bags: Butter, Chocolate, Vanilla, Chili Peppers, Thyme, Black Peppercorns, Cinnamon, Bay Leaves, Walnuts, and Oranges.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki Notes

• While not listed, Eggs in Bulk were removed as well.