{"id":7735,"date":"2011-02-12T00:09:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T05:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7735"},"modified":"2018-01-23T18:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:24:23","slug":"this-week-in-guild-wars-2-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/12\/this-week-in-guild-wars-2-news\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Guild_Wars_2_icon.png\" title=\"Guild_Wars_2_icon\" width=\"73\" height=\"73\" align=\"top\" \/>I&#8217;ve been accumulating news snippets about the as-yet-to-be-formally-scheduled release of <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> for an email newsletter I send out to my friends and acquaintances in the <em>Guild Wars<\/em> community. It just occurred to me that some of my blog audience might also be interested:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last Saturday, the official Guild Wars 2 Twitter account posted this teaser:<br \/>&#8220;Next week, we&#8217;re taking a closer look at the human race in #GuildWars2 ! Keep an eye on the blog and GuildWars2.com! Happy weekend everyone!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bloogum.net\/guildwars\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bloogum.net\/guildwars\/<\/a> If you like looking at the great scenery in Guild Wars, this site is for you. It&#8217;s a huge gallery of screen shots of places in GW . . . over 6000 of them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.killtenrats.com\/2011\/02\/04\/gw2-tear-the-roof-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kill Ten Rats<\/a> speculates that the new GW2 demo for PAX East may herald a wider (dare we say &#8220;open&#8221;?) availability.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/plotting-more-than-depth\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/plotting-more-than-depth<\/a> Speculation on the upcoming Winds of Change content in Cantha: &#8220;if we go back to the same thing too many times, we\u2019re going to end up with Mursaat being the equivalent of Daleks, only without the goofy and endearing qualities.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arena.net\/blog\/oh-the-humanity-human-week-begins\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.arena.net\/blog\/oh-the-humanity-human-week-begins<\/a>  Start of a week of posts on the Arenanet blog about humans in GW2.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/massively.joystiq.com\/2011\/02\/07\/flameseeker-chronicles-the-pros-and-cons-of-long-running-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are long-running events a good thing or a bad thing?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arena.net\/blog\/against-the-wall-humanity-in-guild-wars-2\" target=\"_blank\">Against the Wall: Humanity in Guild Wars 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arena.net\/blog\/designing-humans\" target=\"_blank\">Designing Humans<\/a>  The next post in Humanity Week is about the graphics (comparing humans in GW with their descendants in GW2).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildwars2guru.com\/forum\/against-wall-humanity-in-guild-t13109p23.html\" target=\"_blank\">Responses to some of the questions generated by the voices of GW2 clips.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/canthan-new-year-2011-the-best-bits\" target=\"_blank\">Canthan New Year &#8211; the best bits<\/a>  Looking back on Canthan New Year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildwars2.com\/en\/the-game\/races\/human\/\" target=\"_blank\">Updated info on Humans at the GW2 official site.<\/a> My dogs &#8220;sang along&#8221; with the music on the Kryta video clip. (HD version of the clip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uNuS3igfc4o\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.guildwars.com\/wiki\/Feedback:Skill_update_previews\/20110210\" target=\"_blank\">Details of the GW update for the Dervish<\/a>. It&#8217;s pretty significant: 90% of Dervish skills have been updated or changed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arena.net\/blog\/the-line-of-duty-%E2%80%93-the-three-military-orders-of-kryta\" target=\"_blank\">The Line of Duty<\/a>  What should be the final &#8220;Humanity Week&#8221; posting: the Three Military Orders of Kryta.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve also seen multiple references to a November 2011 release date. No confirmation of that from Arenanet, of course. (Also, the Guild Wars 2 FAQ has been updated with this little snippet: &#8216;We will be conducting small closed alpha and beta tests in 2011.&#8217; )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been accumulating news snippets about the as-yet-to-be-formally-scheduled release of Guild Wars 2 for an email newsletter I send out to my friends and acquaintances in the Guild Wars community. 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