Fan made videos about GW/GW2 lore - Guild Wars 2 Guru topic, right now 2 videos, one on the world of Guild Wars and one on the Fall of Ascalon. The author plans on eight videos total covering Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 lore.

These two videos do NOT use in game footage. The artwork while based on the games does not reflect the actual appearances of the games.

One minor error, the titans are from another dimension not a distant land. They're demons from the Mists. The Mists is where the gods come from and where the spirits of the dead go.

Note: not talked about in the first video, but seen on the map, south of Kryta is the Dominion of Winds. This area will not by accessible on release but may be in an expansion. We have been told its home to the tengu, a race of birdmen which many Guild Wars 1 players are hoping will be a future playable race in Guild Wars 2. In Guild Wars: Prophecies the various tengu tribes of Tyria were entirely hostile to humans. In Guld Wars: Factions, Cantha was home to two tribes of tengu, one of which had made peace with the humans. Sometime between GW1 and GW2 the human empire of Cantha becomes xenophobic, the beginnings of this can be seen in Guild Wars Beyond: Winds of Change, ultimately driving the other sentient races off of Cantha. Presumably the Canthan tengu ended up in Domain of Winds. Ironically the humans of Cantha called their empire the Dragon Empire. It is currently unknown whether any elder dragons exist in Cantha (or Elona).



Edit: unfortunately updating graphics driver dd not fix my problem with Down state screen being black so I can't see foes.

TowerTalk LoreSpecial: Sylvari - like other lore interviews, introduction is in German but interview is in English. There is also an English transcript if you prefer to read it.

Thanks Guybrush, I'm sorry you are having driver problems.

Announcing the Guild Wars 2 Launch Date

ArenaNet Founder Mike O'Brien Discusses Guild Wars 2 MMO Launch On August 28

Whoop...there it is!

Gives me some time to decide what to do about computer, new graphics card and power supply or whole new computer.

With pre-purchase I get 3 day head start. But I have a coworker who's getting married on the 25th, so I'll have to remember to take a break in the evening to attend (assuming I can get the day off, work going to try for more than one).

Ahhh yes, the ole "Real life gets in the way of my gaming life" dilemma

The Golden Rules of Guild Wars 2

Excellent article!

Guild Wars 2 will not be available through Steam. Guild Wars 1 is but there's been some change of policy at Steam that's keeping Arenanet from releasing the new game on Steam.

The Guild Wars 2 blog is currently off line.

Thanks Guybrush

Blog back online.

I just learned that for the beta weekends if you played a ranger and went into PVP you could find all available pets unlocked to charm including pets that are Hall of Memorials rewards for playing Guild War 1. Presumably the launch version will only have those pets available to those who earned them. The HOM reward pets are just skins, they all have the same skills as some other pet in the game.

Black Moa which is unlocked at 15 HOM points has the same skills as a Flamingo.

Rainbow Jellyfish which is unlocked at 20 points has the same skills as a Blue Jellyfish.

White Raven, 25 points, is just an albino version of a Raven.

Black Widow Spider, 30 points (last item rewarded 35, 40, 45, 50 give titles only) is just a scarier looking version of a Jungle Spider. Unlike the GW1 version, the GW2 Black Widow does have a poison attack (same as the Jungle Spider), as I had hoped for.

Also another wish of mine has come true, in GW2 a ranger can charm a bald eagle pet. The GW1 eagle doesn't look much like an eagle to me. The GW2 eagle is just called "eagle" but it looks like the bald eagle.

Thanks Guybrush...pets are great!

Play Asura and Sylvari in the July 20-22 Beta Weekend Event! - I won't be, saving them for launch

Guild Wars 2: Original Game Soundtrack - purchase on four CDs