Bug Fixes Heroes can no longer walk through pets in PvP.
Heroes' skills now correctly disable when their pet dies.
The Pet Tamer Nehdukah on the Plains of Jarin will now accept Hero pets.
PvE SkillsWe will be evaluating these new skills over the course of the next week. It is likely that we will make playbalance adjustments to them during that time.
Players can now acquire twenty new PvE-only skills. There are ten Sunspear skills (one for each profession), and ten Kurzick/Luxon skills (one for each profession).
To acquire a Sunspear skill, talk to a Sunspear Hero skill trainer. Each skill costs 1 Hero skill point. Sunspear skills become more powerful the higher your rank in the Sunspear title track.
You must have at least rank 1 in this title track to learn any Sunspear skills.
Sunspear Hero skill trainers will now convert normal skill points to Hero skill points for a 1 platinum fee.
To acquire a Kurzick or Luxon skill, talk to a Faction Reward NPC. Each skill costs 3,000 faction points. Kurzick/Luxon skills become more powerful the higher your rank in the corresponding title track. You must have at least rank 1 in the Kurzick/Luxon title track to learn any Kurzick/Luxon skills.
Title UpdatesIn order to accommodate the addition of Kurzick and Luxon PvE skills, the Friend of the Kurzicks and Friend of the Luxon titles have been modified:
The number of ranks for these titles has been significantly increased. The faction point requirement for the top rank is still the same, but the faction requirement for the first rank has been lowered.
The Faction Transfer and Faction Rewards NPCs have been combined.
Exchanging faction points for amber or jade now gives progress toward these titles.
The blessing provided by Kurzick and Luxon shrine priests now gives progress toward these titles for kills earned while under the blessing’s effects.
Exchanging faction points for Kurzick/Luxon skills will also give progress toward these titles.
Targeting Refinements Offensive skills and attacks will now identify a valid target on screen if you have no target selected.
Outside of combat, it is now possible to interact with adjacent NPCs and items with no target selected.
The Target Display now has a button that clears your target.
Miscellaneous Victory or Death is now a Skill instead of a Shout.
Fixed several issues in the Uncharted Isle that prevented NPCs from getting close enough to the flag stand to fight at Victory or Death.
The Jade Isle map has been updated.
Heroes now receive the Victory or Death buff.
Reduced the rate in which the shrines increase the morale meter in Hero battles.
The cannon on the Bombardment map now fires every 10 seconds instead of every 15 seconds.
Teams in Daily GvG Tournaments now require only 4 guild members instead of the previous 8.
Added a cap of +25 to the armor buff when stacking skills. A single skill can still push the bonus over +25. Bonuses from shields, weapons, insignia, and inscriptions are not affected and still stack.
Players may now access their account storage by clicking on the Storage Vault instead of interacting with the Xunlai Agent. Xunlai Agents now offer storage upgrades.
Additional Storage Vaults have been added to several outposts.