Guild Wars 2 finally starts to come to life

Good luck with that one. Seriously. I went through probably 400 fortunes and got the tiger on the second-to-last one. I was just about to give up, too, heh.

Oh bleh...

Grinding for Hero gear then?

I mean, it's worth doing the quests for that chance since they're pretty easy (I wouldn't have done then so many times if not), but it's a pretty small chance.

I need to get more heroes kitted out with shiny armor as well.

At least I don't have to spend anymore money on armor for myself...though I'm sure I will anyway.

http://twitter.com/#!/guildwars2/status/26864709145

Mesmer is the one that's returning, and I'm going to guess the one that'll be similar but with a different name is Assassin.

Having given three possibilities that actually cover all eventualities, one of the possibilities will be there twice, so there could be two back, or two altered.

If we work on the idea that we have a re-tooled Assassin and a re-tolled Paragon and/or Monk, that again leaves a Gunner type as the new one.

Having said that... there is renewed speculation, based on some vague comments at the New York Comic Con, the the Assassin will BE the gunner.

Only speculation mind, and nothing definitive to base it on.

Well, similar with a different name...it's possible, yeah.

That giant silhouette on the left still looks like a gunner to me, though. And that's not the assassin.

Hmmm. Would the Paragonk count as "similar with a different name" or "totally new", I wonder?

Come on Anet, give us another profession. It's been six weeks since the last.

I was reading the article in this month's PC Gamer about GW2, I really like where the game is going. If they don't screw up horribly it sounds like it should be outstanding.

As I take a break from swearing at suicidal dwarves...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxIhTZEEWL8&hd=1

Just concept art, but pretty.

Been quiet for a while here- though there are some neat videos from the demonstration at Paris Games Day; here's some big behemoth thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBxFOpEV5o

General feeling is that the Hall of Monuments reveal took the place of a profession reveal in the six week cycle, and all of this is part of an indication that GW2 is still considerably far off.

The November 2011 date is gaining credibility.

Latest blog post:

http://www.arena.net/blog/when-its-ready

Pretty much torpedoes any hope of it coming in the first half of next year. They will not even commit now to profession releases.

2012 is not impossible.

I liked that article.

...partly because I had been talking to John Stumme last week on GWG and he made a comment about wanting to write a blog post about how much work goes into developing an MMO.

However, I'm pretty sure that as of a few months ago no one was expecting anything before mid-2011, unless they were feeling extremely optimistic. It would be awesome but it is not very likely. I don't know if it'll drag on to 2012, though. That might be a bit much.

You'll be surprised how many were still going for first half 2011.

Well, a lot of people also think that it just takes a snap of the finger to make a game, skill adjustments require nothing more than changing a number in a database, and that designers and programmers can do the same things.

Doesn't mean they're not idiots 😛

And they'll be the ones we play with in the open world! Yay!

No, they are going to be the ones that I avoid entirely as much as freaking possible.

I don't want to play with other people. That's never going to change.

Won't be much of a choice I am afraid!

Eh. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to play without actually interacting with most people very often.