FUTUREPOLY Offers Digital Painting Online Masterclass if you're an artist and want to learn digital art, Guild Wars 2 artists are teaching classes

Go Forth and Multiply: The Hylek a surprise blog on one of the non-player races in Guild Wars 2

That sounds like lots of fun.

Video: The Guild Wars 2 PAX East Panel these are the official videos, better quality than the fan made versions that have been around before

Thanks Guybrush, it's always nice to hear straight from those in charge.

Commando - new Guild Wars 2 profession reveal (but note the date)

Commando Interview

The German version of new profession: Alchemist

Shadowmancer, the third scholar according to wiki (from April 1st)

ArenaNet sure gone all out this year.

"If it bleeds, I can kill it." Love it!

Hmmmmm......wonder if they are joking?

While Commando as GW2 profession is an April Fools joke there is a new solo mission (no other players, no heroes, no henchmen) in GW1 for which you temporarily become a commando type. No one shot kills though. And it took me like 7 times to finish it. I hate solo missions.

Darn, I was going to take that as my motto....

Excluisive Reveal of Commando

Seventh Profession Revealed

This gag keeps going.

'aircraft carrier'

My favorite was "sylvari dandelion paratroopers".

Apparently before the commando joke was up one game web site had an "interview" announcing that Guild Wars 2 for PC was canceled in favor of having the game on the Ipod.

Goin’ Commando with Horia Dociu - the man responsible for the Commando gag talks about how he came up with the idea and how other Arenanet staff donated their free time to make it work

Guybrush, that is some real dedication displayed there.

Those Sneaky, Sneaky Skritt - another article on one of the non-player races in the game. I'm not a fan of rodents.

Hmmmm, I like the idea of the hive mind. Thanks

Ghosts of Ascalon Nominated for Scribe Award - Arenanet blog entry

Guild Wars 2: Why You Should Care - article from another gamer site

That is a great read! Thanks Guybrush!

April 28th will be the 6th anniversary of Guild Wars: Prophecy. Last year Arenanet revealed the elementalist so maybe they'll release another profession this year.

Next week is charr week. I hate the charr. Only good thing about charr week is that it brings us closer to sylvari and asura weeks.

Also Nowgamer.com claims they will have an exclusive Guild Wars 2 reveal on Monday with related images on Wednesday and video on Thursday.

Guybrush, why do you hate the charr?

Because they're the enemies of Guild Wars: Prophecies characters and I see no reason why they should suddenly be considered among the heroes as player characters in Guild Wars 2. They had to rewrite Tyrian history to make it out that the humans actually stole the land from the charr so the charr were just taking it back. In other words they turned Prophecies player characters into the bad guys. Besides I personally slaughtered so many charr they should be extinct by the time of Guild Wars 2.

Oh and as I keep having to remind the charr fans, charrs in Guild Wars 1 ate humans.

Well I can see the problem then.

Day 1: Prepare Yourself for Charr Week - schedule for the week

Day 1: Creating the Charr Starter Area - Monday's second entry

Day 2: Scott McGough on Writing the Charr - a couple of the dialogues actually made me laugh

Day 3: The Artistic Origin of the Charr - the first one in the third image is female, as the blog mentioned there are no female charr in GW1 (charr males made the females stay home while the males waged war on humanity, that's changed by GW2 time, females no longer required to stay in the hearth bareclawed and pregnant)

Day 4: New Video and Lore on Charr Web Page - I'm stunned that they had this up so early

Day 5: The Legions of the Charr - now I have to be angry at my Prophecies character's king, his curse actually brought the charr together when they would otherwise have destroyed each other

End of charr week.

Other sites on the charr:
Jeff Grubb im Interview zu den Charr - in this interview on a German site (English translation) Arenanet makes another change, suddenly charr didn't actually eat humans, they just pretended to, to scare people

Guild Wars 2 Charr Week: ArenaNet Interview - Nowgamer did get their interview, but I wouldn't call it exclusive since obviously other sites got interviews too

The roar of engines and the thunder of guns: Massively's analysis of the new Guild Wars 2 video

Thanks Guybrush

For some races some professions are against type so although player characters are not limited in what professions they can be its possible that NPCs for a given race may not have certain professions.

For example, Anet has said there are no NPC charr guardians, as charr are not big on defense and they distrust magic. In a later interview they said if a need for a charr guardian NPC arises they could create one but as it stands now there are none.

This brings up the question, what professions are against type for the other races. Some fans thought necromancer for sylvari but we already know that there at least two sylvari NPC necromancers because the sylvari see death as a natural part of life, even if no sylvari has yet died of old age (because the race is only 25 years old), only from accidents or combat.

Would the highly individualistic norn see any use for a guardian?

I'd have thought they highly magical asura would see a warrior as against type but actually most asura NPCs in Guild Wars: Eye of the North were in fact warriors.