{"id":3595,"date":"2010-04-29T13:10:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T17:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2018-01-23T18:11:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:11:23","slug":"sudden-uptick-in-guild-wars-2-information-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/29\/sudden-uptick-in-guild-wars-2-information-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden uptick in <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> information releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nice folks who published <em>Guild Wars<\/em> five years ago are now preparing <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> for release . . . sometime. No firm release date has yet been revealed. This week, however, has seen a lot of new information released about the upcoming game, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arena.net\/blog\/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> Design Manifesto<\/a> by Mike O&#8217;Brien, one of the company founders.<br \/>&#8220;So if you love MMORPGs, you should check out <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>. But if you hate traditional MMORPGs, then you should <em>really<\/em> check out <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>. Because, like <em>Guild Wars<\/em> before it, <em>GW2<\/em>  doesn\u2019t fall into the traps of traditional MMORPGs. It doesn\u2019t suck your life away and force you onto a grinding treadmill; it doesn\u2019t make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun; and of course, it doesn\u2019t have a monthly fee.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The first confirmed profession in GW2, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildwars2.com\/en\/the-game\/professions\/elementalist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elementalist<\/a>. One of the eight professions in the new game (there are ten in <em>GW<\/em>, so we&#8217;re definitely losing at least two of the current ones). Victor&#8217;s favourite <em>GW<\/em> character is his Elementalist. He&#8217;s looking forward to finding how the character class has been changed in the new game.<\/li>\n<li>Some quite substantial changes to the combat system from what we&#8217;re used to in <em>GW<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildwars2.com\/en\/the-game\/combat\/part-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">Combat, Part 1: Skills<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildwars2.com\/en\/the-game\/combat\/part-two\/\" target=\"_blank\">Combat, Part 2: Weapons, Professions and Races<\/a>. It sounds like the changes are going to make the combat experience a whole lot more interesting (possibly harder to master, but definitely more interesting).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arena.net\/blog\/five-years-in-tyria\" target=\"_blank\">Five Years in Tyria<\/a> by James Phinney, a brief tribute to <em>GW<\/em> on its fifth anniversary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nice folks who published Guild Wars five years ago are now preparing Guild Wars 2 for release . . . sometime. No firm release date has yet been revealed. This week, however, has seen a lot of new information released about the upcoming game, including: Guild Wars 2 Design Manifesto by Mike O&#8217;Brien, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[191,192],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-guildwars","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-VZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41928,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/41928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}