{"id":7898,"date":"2011-02-19T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T15:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2018-01-23T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:24:15","slug":"this-week-in-guild-wars-2-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/19\/this-week-in-guild-wars-2-news-2\/","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\u2019ve 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 Guild Wars community.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/political-turmoil-in-kryta\" target=\"_blank\"><em>GuildMag<\/em><\/a> has an article on the revelations from the military forces of Kryta post last week.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/massively.joystiq.com\/2011\/02\/11\/arenanet-confirms-guild-wars-2-closed-alpha-and-beta-for-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">Closed Alpha and Beta for 2011<\/a>:  More information\/speculation about the recently announced closed alpha and closed beta programs for later this year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/massively.joystiq.com\/2011\/02\/14\/flameseeker-chronicles-were-only-human\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rounding up &#8220;Humanity Week&#8221;<\/a>: Rubi rounds up last week&#8217;s information from ArenaNet on humans.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/an-ode-to-love-in-tyria\" target=\"_blank\">An ode to love in Tyria<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arena.net\/blog\/assuring-quality-qa-at-arenanet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inside the Quality Assurance group at ArenaNet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgrevolution.com\/2011\/02\/guild-wars-2-console-development\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rumour of a <em>GW2<\/em> team working on &#8220;console&#8221; development<\/a>. Expect this to be quashed by ArenaNet soon: UI changes between PC and various consoles alone would make this a very difficult addition to their existing plans. (<em>Later<\/em>: Regina Buenaobra had apparently already posted this message to dispel these rumours: &#8220;I just want to reiterate that the development team is fully focused on making <em>GW2<\/em> the best PC MMO ever released. We have a very small team exploring the possibility of console, but there are <strong>no definite plans<\/strong> for a console version at this time. The core of <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> development is <strong>fully focused<\/strong> on delivering a fantastic PC MMORPG experience.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.guildwars.com\/wiki\/Feedback%3AGame_updates\/20110217\" target=\"_blank\">The promised <em>Guild Wars<\/em> Dervish update has been released<\/a>. This is, as promised, a major revision to many Dervish skills. I expect to have to rebuild all my Derv&#8217;s builds, eventually. It&#8217;ll take a while to absorb the scale of all the changes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildwars.com\/gameplay\/developer_updates\/february_2011_skill_balances.php\" target=\"_blank\">Developer notes on the Dervish update<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you liked &#8220;Humanity Week&#8221;, you&#8217;ll probably be very happy to hear that next week is going to be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.killtenrats.com\/2011\/02\/18\/gw2-preparing-for-norn-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norn Week<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve 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. GuildMag has an article on the revelations from the military forces of Kryta post last week. Closed Alpha and Beta for 2011: More information\/speculation about [&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-7898","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\/p2hpV6-23o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898","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=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41955,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions\/41955"}],"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=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}