Guild Wars Update Notes

September 3, 2005 9:15 AM

The Guild Wars website has been updated with an update forecast, mentioning that the free Sorrow's Furnace update is coming this week (the 7th), which will include a number of economic and balance changes. With these changes "Many things will become significantly easier to acquire, including skill points and skills. But the gold cost of learning a skill from a trainer will be somewhat more expensive for most players" so it is suggested you invest unspent Skill Points prior to the upgrade.

Maarten Goldstein

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September 3, 2005 9:48 AM

so... use the 40+ skill points i have saved up before the patch?

I is confused.
- Luminair
  
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  September 3, 2005 10:02 AM
  
  they just mean to save you the annoyance of losing out on your hard-earned cheap skill points.
  
  It's actually quite courteous of them to mention it. I'm not sure I can recall a time when a developer tipped off the players to exploit cheap stuff before they raised prices.
- thebigbeefsandwich
  
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  September 3, 2005 10:02 AM
  
  I dunno either. :( their explanation makes no fucking sense... to make pure guesswork out of it I guess there will be more skills and points available from the mini quests, but they will cost way more to buy from a trader.
  - Luminair
    
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    September 3, 2005 10:43 AM
    
    they just mean that buying skills from trainers will be more costly after this update, so you should spend them now if you want to get cheap skills.
    - thebigbeefsandwich
      
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      September 3, 2005 11:56 AM
      
      I get that part but the contradiction is that they say skills and points will also be easier to acquire. so wtf, that leaves me guessing whether I should just wait for the new "easier acquisition" or whether I should spend skill points now as it won't be enough to offset the coming higher prices
      - Luminair
        
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        September 3, 2005 7:31 PM
        
        then I don't think you get it after all :[
- Arcanum
  
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  September 3, 2005 10:49 AM
  
  They mean the points you use to acquire new abilities/spells, not the points you put in to attributes ("Strength", "Curses", etc.), or the points that get spent when you rearrange the points in your attributes.