Guild Wars 2 finally starts to come to life

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New trailer:

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/media/videos/

Or youtube link here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5LAgayKx7k

WELL worth a look.

That was... utterly breathtaking.

Whoa. That was pretty awesome. Even if the second half was mostly clips we've seen already, that was still really cool.

Plus I loved Caithe going all bullet-time, but I'm pretty much latching onto anything sylvari lately. And I would hope that that quells any questions people somehow STILL have about her profession!

Oh, and PvP info!

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/pvp/pvp-overview/

Aaaaaand a pile of screenshots.

http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1674&pk=44574&fk=81233&i=1

Happened to watch most of the big GW2 panel at PAX via a livestream...two bits of fairly big info, and a bunch of little things.

1) Guilds are not account-based as they were in GW1, which we already knew. You can join multiple guilds on the same character, though, and choose which guild you want to represent at any given point in time. Also, doing stuff with guild members earns you influence, which can be spent to unlock stuff for the guild (examples were storage and flags that give an XP bonus). Also guilds can claim and upgrade keeps in WvWvW.

2) There WILL be expansion content released for the game - there'll be some free stuff, some downloads in the store, and boxed expansions. They intend to have separate teams working on content and expansions.

Also, I just saw something on twitter about traits being scrapped and redone? And airships play a major part in the storyline, apparently...(less keen on that bit, because I do not like the whole steampunk thing and that just brings it closer to that)

Oh, and dye. 400 different dye colors. Each individually named. And you can save templates/presets for different combos.

I had to close the livestream because it was messing up, but there's still stuff popping up on twitter.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/loadNews/21837/Asura-Week-to-Begin-September-12th

So, asura week is next week. That's actually a bit odd on the timing, as sylvari week was only a month ago and previous releases like this have always been spaced about 6 weeks apart.

http://www.arena.net/blog/matt-barrett-on-asura-design

Not really a huge amount there, but I really like the video.

Some stuff:

http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-development-update-by-jon-peters
http://www.arena.net/blog/eric-flannum-on-the-guild-wars-2-g-star-demo
http://www.arena.net/blog/chuck-jackman-on-updated-cinematic-conversations

Guild Wars Gameplay.

Looking good? The underwater sections looked pretty sweet.

Underwater combat should be fun, yeah.

Nothing new in those videos, though, as they didn't really change anything for the G-Star demo; in fact, it was a shorter and more limited version of the demo that's been shown at US/European conventions..

(and apparently even with that, and having 60 play stations available...there were six hour lines to play it.)

Well.

It's official.

Mesmer is the last profession!

It's actually not been officially revealed - apparently the video got leaked, but it's been confirmed as real, and the official reveal will be on Wednesday.

YouTube video

Martin Kerstein confirming that it's real.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 😱 😄 <3

We got a release date yet? or general time frame?

Nope - it's still just "when it's done". They won't announce anything or even give a general timeframe because they don't want people to take something like "maybe spring" to mean "it will definitely be out in April" or anything like that.

Supposely there's going to be beta news by the end of the year though.

Niiiiiiiiice.

I like the big ass laser beam.

I'll consider Mesmer. Looks pretty sweet.

any idea how big the community is for the original guild wars still?

Not really.

It's hard to tell because not many people when they're on spend time in outposts.

😄 😄 😄

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

Magical. Duelist.

**** YES.

Also, if you want to see some amazing trolling...(ArenaNet just loves to screw with us):

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/

ALSO.

Closed beta starts on Friday.

THIS WEEK IS AWESOME FOR GW2 STUFF <3

Probably out in 2012 then...