Game updates/2013-01-29

January 29, 2013

Update 3 - January 29, 2013

Dungeons

General

• Fixed a bug where projectiles passed through the ground in several locations

Fractals of the Mists

• Fixed a bug that did not remove the Lava condition from players who died in the pools of lava at the final boss in the Volcano Fractal
• Fixed a bug where players were stricken with Agony even when they avoided the Ice Elemental's AoE ice storm

Daily Achievements

• Removed the Daily Combo Kill achievement from the daily achievement rotation

Events

Made the following changes to the Champion Risen Priest of Grenth boss:

• Increased cooldown on Grenth's Shadow Pull skill
• Changed radius of spells
• Modified attacks to do less damage
• Modified attack area so as not to overlap on attacks
• Modified Velocity of Teleport to allow player to not go into ceiling
• Decreased the damage of Grenth's Shadow Pull skill
• Decreased the numbers of spells

UI

• Hid blank world-event UI for Temple of the Silent Storm Week

General

• Adjusted Orr Undead loot drops

Guild Wars 2 Wiki notes

• The blank world event wasn't actually hidden in this update.
• The Daily Combo Killer achievement was actually removed in a previous update.

Update 2 - January 29, 2013

Fixed various server crashes.

Update - January 29, 2013

General

• Changed all non-copper karma gathering tools to have a level restriction.

Personal Story

• "The Steel Tide": Reduced the number of giants you need to defeat to progress.

Profession Skills

Elementalist

•  Magnetic Grasp: This ability now immobilizes the target that it strikes. It is now a large Projectile finisher, and damage is now split between this ability and Magnetic Leap.
• New skill –  Earthen Rush (Earth Skill 3): Activate this ability to leap to an enemy that's been struck by Magnetic Grasp.

Ranger

• Spirit health increased by 25%.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki notes

• The changes to Magnetic Grasp were actually introduced in a previous update.