#warrior changes

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Brief summary:

Class Changes

Warrior revamp - Edge generated by warrior skills no longer stacks on a target, but instead is displayed underneath a players HP/MP bars.

Class Changes #12 by Yosha

New Items

There’s a new equippable item, the circlet.  It goes in the head slot of your profile, and any cosmetic item previously in that slot has been moved to the costuming tab. 

Circlets offer Defense and Balance modifiers, and affect your item level.

They drop in Ruinous Manor (all), Broken Prison, Lilith’s Keep (Hard), Shadow Sanguinary (Hard), Sky Cruiser Endeavor (Hard), Harrowhold, and the Civil Unrest zone.

Also available from battleground reputation stores.

Included in equalized gear sets for battlegrounds.

We’ve added a way for you to enhance existing noctenium infusions.

An Uncommon Noctenium Refiner (available from Vanguard Initiative Quartermasters for 700 credits) condenses 400 Noctenium Infusions into an Uncommon Noctenium Elixir.

An Uncommon Noctenium Elixir increases a skill’s noctenium effect by 50%, and increases all skill damage for 10 minutes, during which time Noctenium Infusions are not consumed.

The effects of an Uncommon Noctenium Elixir are cancelled when entering a battleground.

Additionally, Noctenium Infusions no longer increase PvP Attack/Defense. 

Accessory Resizing

You can now improve the stats of high-end accessories, using a Resizing kit.

Manor, Estate, Blubred, and Landsheart necklaces.

Manorborne, Estateborne, Blurbred, and Landsheart rings and earrings.

A resized accessory’s start and random options get a slight upgrade.

You may equip two resized accessories with the same name, but they are not tradeable, and still bound to the original character.

Dragon Scales

We’ve added a new reward type to Vanguard Requests.

Dragon Scales can be exchanged at the Dragon Scale shop for Hardening Dragon Eggs, Health Potions, and Bravery Potions.

Using a Hardening Dragon Egg randomly gives you either an Iron Dragon or Crimson Dragon skill manual, or a Dragon Claw.

You can convert 8 Dragon Claws into a Mysterious Dragon Egg, which generates either an Iron Dragon or Crimson Dragon skill manual.

Guild Changes

We’ve made several changes to guild quests, the guild UI, and Civil Unrest: Velika.

The guild UI now displays the offline time of guild members.

We’ve added circlets and accessory resizing kits to Civil Unrest mobs.

Rally quests now randomly appear throughout the day, and are no longer “first come, first served.” We’ve also changed them so that they may be abandoned.

Harrowhold

We’ve made some balance adjustments to our signature 30-player raid. In addition to overall play balance, we’ve:

Reduced the range of Vergos’ gaze pattern in phases 2 and 4.

Changed the Flame/Dust pattern in phase 3 so that either element can appear at random.

Additionally, the changes to the warrior’s Edge generation mean that Velik’s Blessing no longer enhances Scythe.

Bug Fixes

Bug fixes for class skills, Harrowhold and more.

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Patch 52 is scheduled for early February. Rise of the Warrior not only brings revisions to the warrior class, but also lots of new items.

The three biggest changes are: the introduction of circlets as new equipment, the refining of noctenium infusions and a method of further improving your selected jewelry.

Refined Noctenium

With Patch 52 the use of noctenium infusions has been greatly simplified and made fairer across the classes. With refined infusions, a fixed number of infusions per skill is no longer consumed. Instead, using a refined noctenium infusion grants an effect lasting between 10 and 30 minutes, depending on its value. During this time, all skills that trigger a noctenium infusion effect are enhanced. No additional infusions are used in the process. 

New Circlets

You can strengthen your character even more with this new item type! Initially, there will be two versions available: Balbatos’ Circlet and Balbatos’ Luminous Circlet.

Circlets increase your defense and balance modifiers around one and a half times as strong as earrings. They also have another special effect called Spiritual Concentration which replenishes your MP by 3% or 5% per second for 10 seconds.

Click the link for the several ways to get a circlet.

Enhanced Jewelry

Since the Harrowhold patch, many pieces of equipment can be further improved while retaining any existing enchantments and attribute bonuses. Rise of the Warrior now also introduces this system for the latest pieces of jewelry!

You can upgrade your accessories using the items dropped from endgame dungeons, Killing Spree credits and from BAMs in the weekly Guild Wars . The improvements increase the basic stats of the equipment. Necklaces and rings even obtain an additional attribute.

As always click the link for more detailed info.