Guild Wars 2 finally starts to come to life

Started by Peach55 pages

Charr week now. I want sylvari, but hey, charr are awesome.

http://www.arena.net/blog/creating-the-charr-starter-area
http://www.arena.net/blog/scott-mcgough-on-writing-the-charr
http://www.arena.net/blog/the-artistic-origin-of-the-charr

http://www.arena.net/blog/an-introduction-to-the-environment-art-of-guild-wars-2

Nifty stuff.

Two blog entries today -

http://www.arena.net/blog/video-city-of-lions-arch-2
http://www.arena.net/blog/lions-arch-building-the-heart-of-the-city

YouTube video

Take notes bioware.

Yup, that's the video in the first link I posted yesterday.

oops. Slow on the ball again.

The most recent NCsoft conference call has lent more credence to a 2012 release.

Doesn't surprise me much.

Maybe it'll be out for my birthday 😄

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/18/guild-wars-2-beta-coming-later-this-year-will-probably-release/

May have a beta this year, at least! Which indicates that it'll be early next year, since they want a very short beta, as I recall various Anet people saying a few times.

Ooooh, a Beta.

Hng. This game's got me so psyched.

Well, here is the mysterious 'eighth' profession (only the seventh to be revealed, but was known as the eighth as it was the one least known about and it was assumed t would be revealed last)

It looked like a Gunner on the silhouette, and lots of people speculated names like Alchemist and the like, but there was definitely a vibe that it would be a technological type. So here he is, the Engineer!

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/engineer/

Speculation abut turrets had been rife for a while, making this class in many ways a successor to the Ritualist (in a gameplay rather than lore sense, of course).

This leaves the 'Mesmer' (assumed but not yet certain) as number eight. It seems likely they wanted to reveal it some time back but they won't release an unfinished profession, and it seems the Mesmer is giving them difficulty.

Hrm.

It looks interesting, I guess...

However, I will definitely not be playing one.

Want Mesmer!

Quick query, how are classes handled in GW2? Do we have the standard t"healer", "tank", "damagedealer" stereotypical classes, or something more?

Originally posted by Morridini
Quick query, how are classes handled in GW2? Do we have the standard t"healer", "tank", "damagedealer" stereotypical classes, or something more?

No, there is no dedicated healer (priest or monk) there is no dedicated anything, every class ;

Warrior
Thief
Ranger
Elementalist
Mesmer
Engineer
Gaurdian
Necromancer

can be played in a Damage / Support / Battlefield control.
What differs from class to class is the Maximum HP and armor level, and weapons available to use.

Interviews from last week that I somehow missed...

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/05/18/guild-wars-2-quests/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/05/19/the-guild-wars-2-rps-fanquisition/#more-59781

You've been slacking, Lana.

Hmph. Ush didn't pick those up either!

He can only do so much while I'm whipping him with a towel.

Meh!

Anyway, new interview! I've actually known the info in this one for a while now (I'm part of the site that did the interview) but had to keep quiet on it until we had everything ready to release. Which wasn't easy 😛

http://www.guildmag.com/magazine/issue7/flannumintv.html

http://tap-repeatedly.com/2011/06/10/exclusive-interview-arenanets-jon-peters-and-jonathan-sharp/