WEAPONS, SHIELDS AND FOCUS ITEMS

Doki66 Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:55 pm

Significantly improved the quality of rare (gold) and uncommon (purple) items.
Restricted Vampiric and Zealous weapon components to occur only on rare weapons.
Upgraded Sundering weapon components to provide a maximum Armor Penetration of +20% (Chance: 20%).
Added weapons with +5 Energy to PvP-Only character creation.
Added weapons with +15% damage and -5 Energy to PvP-Only character creation.
Added weapons with +15% damage and -10 armor while attacking weapons to PvP-Only character creation.
Added new Focus items to PvP-Only character creation.
Improved bonuses on wands in the PvP-Only character creation screen to better match what is dropped by monsters.

RUNES

Increased probability of finding Superior Vigor and Superior Absorption runes.
Changed new rare (gold) armor to only provide superior (gold) runes.
Changed new uncommon (purple) armor to only provide major (purple) runes.
As always, you must use an expert or superior salvage kit to extract a rune from armor. These changes will not affect loot that dropped prior to this update.

MISCELLANEOUS

Fixed a bug that dramatically decreased the chance of finding uncommon and rare loot in explorable areas.

http://www.guildwars.com/support/gameupdates/updatearchive-2006-04.php