User:Endrosz/2017 August

Update - August 8, 2017

Profession Skills

General

• Ammunition System: The ammunition (ammo) system has been added to the game. Several skills across multiple professions now use ammo for their skills. Ammo skills have a stock (count) of uses that can regenerate over time. Each ammo skill has a short recharge between uses that varies per skill. New skill facts for ammo count and Count Recharge have been added. Count Recharge and recharge between uses are affected by recharge-reduction skills and traits.

PvP Stat-Swappable Armor

• The PvP ascended armors Ardent Glorious and Glorious Hero's can now be upgraded into stat-swappable armor.

World vs. World

Territories

• Each objective now has a territory associated with it that is outlined on the map. An objective's territory will display the team color of the team that owns it. The WvW score UI now displays the objective of whatever territory you are in.

Gliding

• The new War Gliding Mastery has been added to WvW. The War Gliding skill allows gliding in territories that your team owns in the Mist War maps. You will be kicked from your glider if you enter a territory that you do not own.
• With the addition of gliding, several small map adjustments have been made to the Eternal Battlegrounds, Desert, and Alpine borderlands to better accommodate gliding. Along with map changes, several out-of-bounds areas have been added that will teleport players back to the spawn point if they get outside of the playable game area. This is a test for gliding in WvW. We can disable gliding in WvW if we do not find it appropriate for the game mode.

Ability-Point Reset

• A new ability-point reset vendor, the World Ability Master, has been added to each portal keep (team starting area). One free sample ability-point reset is available per character. Ability-point resets can be bought with spirit shards that will instantly reset your WvW ability points.

WvW Stat-Swappable Armor

• The WvW ascended armor Triumphant Hero's and Mistforged Triumphant Hero's can now be upgraded into stat-swappable armor.

• Three new hungry cats have been added: Holographic Kitten, sold by Holomancer Netto for 1 ; Blue Catmander, in the hidden cat room in the Mistwrought Vault; and Yellow Catmander, in a hidden quaggan area west of O'del Academy.
  • Both catmanders sell a miniature version of themselves, as well as a cat-shaped commander tag.
  • The new tag costs 300  + 250 ; existing commanders may purchase it for half the coin.
• Revenants' channeled legends now converse with the player character while idle.