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Game Update Notes: April 1, 2018


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# 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.

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