Guild Wars 2 at PAX 2009

[Sabre Wolf]

Originally Posted by Mordakai

Has anyone commented on this:

"Later on I asked why start the rampup of information on GW2 now, given Aion is coming out, and Jeff said that the next convention cycle in March would be too late to start."

What does THAT mean? That GW2 Beta will be early next year? Or that they need a year or promotion before GW2 comes out....

yes, middle of page 3 or 4 and the bottom of page 5 of this thread.

[Odinius]

Originally Posted by Shew

Do you have an official source that confirms it's GW2 concept art?

Edit: Though, the fishing/boat net on the undead in one of the pieces does hint GW2.

Well official no, but on page one it says:
19. Found a picture of a warrior/ranger looking female with a beautiful rapier. The armor seems to be plate, but she's also wearing a nice hood and cloak. <- from the artbook

[Shew]

Originally Posted by Odinius

Well official no, but on page one it says:
19. Found a picture of a warrior/ranger looking female with a beautiful rapier. The armor seems to be plate, but she's also wearing a nice hood and cloak. <- from the artbook

Ah...didn't see that. Thanks/ awesome! That rapier is, indeed, beautiful.

[Odinius]

just hope they put it in the game this time,
remember this?

[Joiry]

Originally Posted by Mordakai

Has anyone commented on this:

"Later on I asked why start the rampup of information on GW2 now, given Aion is coming out, and Jeff said that the next convention cycle in March would be too late to start."

What does THAT mean? That GW2 Beta will be early next year? Or that they need a year or promotion before GW2 comes out....

I did, a few pages back

Basically, I think GW2 will come out roughly a year from when the trailer was first shown. Let's look at the GW1 promo timeline

May 2004 - E3 for Everyone - essentially GW "unveiling" to the world in a playable online demo. The an October event, and the weekend preorder betas Nov-April. The game is released 11 months after E3fE.

I see the trailer being released as a parallel event to the E3 event, its first real unveiling of how it would look and feel. Anet stated beta testing would occur a lot closer to release then with GW1 - so that's why its a trailer and not some demo. I think beta itself is at least 8 months out.

[Mordakai]

Originally Posted by Odinius

just hope they put it in the game this time,
remember this?

Oh yes, number one reason I created a Mesmer as my second character.

(Never understood why a rapier skin was not included in the game....)

[Thalador Doomspeaker]

One of the best pictures in the game. However, I missed that casters couldn't use melee weapons. I mean they should have fought with it like with staves or wands, but not with the mastery of a Warrior. I really hope this will be implemented in the game.

Now I really hope that the open beta would start in 28 April 2010, and the game would be released in summer (20 August, for example).

[Eliz Genevieve]

April 28th? Why such an accurate date? :P

[Thalador Doomspeaker]

GW: Prophecies was released om 28 April 2005.

[Eliz Genevieve]

/doh. didn't know.

But I agree , it would be remarkable :b

[Thalador Doomspeaker]

Originally Posted by Thalador Doomspeaker

-Do the Giganticus Lupicus and the Elder Dragons have some kind of connection/relationship?

-Where does the Deep Sea Dragon awake/ and what's his name?

-Were the human gods mortals before they had "ascended"?

-How did Palawa Joko became a Lich? Was Zhaitan responsible for Khilbron's reanimation, and if he had, did he do the same to Palawa?

-Will the Scepter of Orr play some kind of role in GW2?

-Could you tell us more about the civilization, which inhabitated the Tarnished Coast before the Asura?

-There's a dragon in the trailer, which doesn't show any life signs. Is that a dead Elder Dragon?

Could somebody get these questions to one of our "representatives" at PAX? So ArenaNet could give some kind of answers for these mysteries, that has bugged me all the time.

[Inde]

All right, all the latest tweets are up from the GW Live Panel.

[Epoch]

Originally Posted by Inde

All right, all the latest tweets are up from the GW Live Panel.

Keep it up. I really do appreciate this.

[Mandos]

Great work. Thanks so much for this.

[Lady Syve]

I'd like to add my thanks for the hard work as well. I'm totally glued to this thread :P

[Vorsakan]

Originally Posted by Ecro

were did they confirm this? lol my main is necro now & sylvari have tickled my fancy since i first heard about them ... i have found my main he he

It's in the art book coverage on p1 of this fine thread:

"17. There is a Sylvari necromancer named Trahearne. Explaining the Sylvari take on necromancy, death is just part of the life cycle, so its not considered dark or evil, just a special part of life."

[KallyX]

I want an April 28th closed beta for all 5 year players xD

btw, they couldn't make the mesmer with the rapier in GW1 for the same reason they didn't have guns in GW1, rapiers where way after traditional swords.

[Lord Bazaah]

"shadow form *snip* do something about"

pleawz do!!!!

[Chicken Of The Seas]

Thanks a lot for these updates Inde. Man I really wanna see pics of all this talk about armor...And I guess the sylvari things make sense now. We now know that somehow they are classified by seasons, and that there are sort a sort of "meaner" sylvari, like the kind we saw in concept art. I'm betting that evil sylvari people speculated as being a male sylvari is indeed one, but also part of the court.

[Bionic Bovine]

Thanks to the guys on the frontline getting all this info for us. Really appreciate the solid descriptions of the armours and info gained from the book