Guild Wars 2 Launch Date: 28th August
After years of waiting, ArenaNet has announced the launch date of Guild Wars 2: 28th August, 2012.
There are 2 PvP formats in Guild Wars 2. The first is structured PvP which allows competition on an even footing. The second is World PvP, which involves massive 3-way battles between servers with hundreds or thousands of participants in 2-week long battles. In Guild Wars 2, any character can enter PvP at any time and is automatically scaled to level 80. Skills, experience and equipment can be obtained just in PvP, so the PvE world is in fact optional.
Those who do want to play PvE will find themselves in a large, beautiful and dangerous world. Guild Wars 2 is set 250 years after the events in Guild Wars 1, after the rise of the Edler Dragons. Humans, no longer the dominant race, are joined by the Charr, Norn, Asura and Sylvari as playable races. Each character has a personal story, which is influenced by choices made at character creation and during the game.
Guild Wars 2 does not have traditional quest givers. Events just happen around you, like it or not! Exploration is encouraged to find more events and things to do. Events scale in difficulty to the number of participants, and everyone is rewarded based on how much they helped. Players are encouraged to play together (no kill/loot stealing). Even if they are different levels, loot and experience scaling occurs so that high level players aren’t penalised for playing with their low level friends.
The game has 8 professions, each of which has a unique skills, style and combat mechanics: Guardian, Warrior, Engineer, Ranger, Thief, Elementalist, Mesmer and Necromancer. There is no dedicated healing profession - any combination of professions can play together, so you no longer need to worry about who will bring what.
A larger number (enough to fill 3 in-game guilds) of TOG members have been playing GW2’s Beta Weekend Events, and will be even bigger at release. If you are going to play this game, head over to the Guild Wars 2 Division as there is a lot of excitment and information there.
There will be one more BWE before release, starting on the 21st July. Participation in the BWE requires pre-purchase of Guild Wars 2. Pre-purchasing also grants you a 3-day headstart before the official launch.
- ArenaNet announcement
- TOG Guld Wars 2 Division
- TOG Guild Wars 1 Division (in case you need something to do before launch!)
The following screenshots are by Toggers during the Beta Weekend Events.
Morri: Lion’s Arch centre area
Pinkeh: TOG take on troll cave
Ebonytears: Awesome water effects
inoshiro: WvW: blue invaders inside garrison
Saturnshimmer: Beautiful underwater colours
Roq: Do you still love me?
Ludy’s pretty norn
Sweetblue: Top of stairs in beginning Norn area
Zeigfried: with Baelrock during an event
Jaglavak: Storming the castle
Dander: I entered this city and thought, umm I am gonna be lost for quite some time
Seoh: Special effectstastic!
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Sweet article and nice piccies. GW2 is perhaps the first mainstream MMO where people are actively rewarded for helping each other. I also like GW2’s emphasis on exploration and the choice of activities between PvE, WvW, sPvP without the need to power level.
The BWE starts on the 20thremains FYI
Nice article!
So what classes have TOG member been playing in the Beta, I didn’t have time to participate in the last rounds, but curious to see what people liked and didn’t like and general thoughts on the class they chose.
Best check the forums Boomer, however in short ive played all but the guardian & all the races. To be fair they are all really fun, my personal favs are (not in order) Ranger, Thief, Warrior, Elementlist, Engineer. Prob start with a Ranger first, they play more like the wow ranger than GW. There are a lot of improvements and its the first mmo ive played since wow that hooked me right away!
I can’t wait to taste this. :D
any hints on class to choose.
Stress test tomorrow starts aus aest time ,
Saturday 11/8 2100
Might be 0900
1 hour stress test tomorrow, check forums for event timer post.
Ok ok,… I am back into MMOs (Since Aion),… I try to get away but this one has pulled me back in…
Can someone PM me for any info in getting into the TOG guild
SumDumGai, go to the GW2 division forum. Everything you need is there :)
http://www.theoldergamers.com/forum/guild-wars-2/
Stress tests have been fun so far (despite the hardcore lag while they’re pretty much ddosing their own servers). Can’t wait for full release! Seriously this game man...This is unlike any mmo you have played it is such a great game.
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I really wanted to get into the beta of GW2 but I made the mistake of doing a pre-purchase at Best Buy after being mistakenly told by the guy in games sales that I would be able to use the code on the receipt to gain access to the beta’s and 3 day head start. Apparently, that only applies if you order the digital download version off of their website and not for retail copies. I was almost tempted to go ahead and buy another copy but I guess I can wait and save the $80 for gems or something.
On one hand I am intrigued by the promo, on the other hand as a newbie I have no idea what to expect. Is this any good for a player new to guild wars or do you need some kind of background (I’m a lotro player only), as tbh I’m not sure what it’s all about?
I say i have played in both Warhammer and Aion TOG guilds and GW2 is the culmination of both games I am having fun soloing atm but intend to be with ToG asap… you will see my ranger Ronin Knute constantly greeting TOG - say hi back when u can
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Awesome promos !
I am dying to play this game....Are there any new guilds in this version?
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I have really been enjoying Guild Wars 2, I hit level 80 a few weeks back now and I spend most of my time making gold in Guild Wars 2 at moment. I was surprised at the huge amount of content they included for the launch. There is still plenty to do even now
this is a very nice game
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cool game great graphics still play it once in awhile. My brothers got me hooked on WOT so we have been playing this.
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