Ok guys and gals....here's a new spot for all things Guild Wars 2. Our Previous Thread (part 2) reached our page limit. Feel free to discuss and inform.

Another stress test August 9th noon to four, Pacific, again that's two - six for me.

And I do have August 25th (head start) off work!

Wooo Hooo Guybrush, that is great news!

Well its working, we're all stressed. Nobody can get in. I got to character selection screen that dropped and now can't get passed log in screen at all. Keep getting restart client and try again message.

Okay, its working now. I have decided to save an orphanage or a hospital, one I don't save will burn down.

And out again. (sigh)

Had fund once I got in.

Over so back to vanquishing Eye of the North.

They're doing it again, stress test Friday, 4pm-8pm Pacific. I'll be working during the whole thing.

Sounds like it was a good thing they tested it!

Argh - 4PM, that's like 1 AM saturday morning for me!

The latest blog Arenanet entry simply announces that they won't be using the blog much anymore since the redesign of the official Guild Wars 2 web site (which doesn't even have a link to the blog anymore) but will be posting news on the Guild Wars 2 site instead. The blog will talk more about the original Guild Wars. So I guess, once Guild Wars 2 is up and running more of the staff will return to maintaining and updating Guild Wars 1.

Thanks Guybrush!

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End Game interview part 1 - Youtube video: talks about dungeons and using extra skill points, which you still gain after level 80 to craft Legendary Weapons

End Game interview part 2 - only about 2 minute on "end game", most of this part of the interview is answers to Twitter questions. Big news is that Wintersday and Mad King Thorn will be back. Since GW1 only had human player characters Wintersday was only a human holiday so will be interesting to see what the other four races do for the holiday and how they react to this crazy, undead human king.

Thanks Guybrush. Collector's Editions are all sold out at this point.

Seems silly to me but there is a one hour stress scheduled for Sunday, 11:00 AM PST to 12:00 PM. I'll be working.

I wonder how it went?

The Final Countdown—Guild Wars 2 Launch Times - looks like the counter on the mage page is now correctly counting down to midnight, instead of noon as it had been.

Thanks Guybrush..I hope it lives up to it's hype

Another strees test, Wendesday, 12PM Pacific, which again is 2PM Central.