Inside the Collector’s Edition – Making of GW2 Book

I wonder if they'll do the CD tomorrow or maybe the art work.

According to this Reddit, Your Survey Results Are In!. Human Elementalist is most popular character type and charr mesmer least.

Second to human elementalist was asura, third, sylvari. Most popular profession for charr is warrior, with more warriors being charr than other races. Most necromancers and most rangers will be sylvari. Most engineers charr. In addition to most eles being human most guardians, mesmers, thiefs also be human.

Plus the majority of per-purchasers bought the standard version. CE sold the least. 47% of people surveyed did pre-purchase.

How do your choices stack up against the reddit ones?

Results by race (*=most popular race for the profession, **=least):
Human Elementalist 352*
Human Thief 295*
Human Guardian 223*
Human Mesmer 218*
Human Warrior 190
Human Ranger 172
Human Necromancer 157
Human Engineer 114

Total humans: 1721. Human most popular race in general. Humans invented guardian, so not surprised human most popular choice for guardian. Charr invented engineer, kind of surprised at how many human engineers.

My choices for human: guardian and engineer. I see guardian as like a paladin. My idea for human engineer was that he picked the profession to use charr's own tactics against them, then his queen ruined his plans by making a peace treaty with them. Guardian will be dignified. Engineer fierce, which I hope lets him hit charr NPCs.

Sylvari Elementalist 276
Sylvari Ranger 224*
Sylvari Necromancer 204*
Sylvari Thief 203
Sylvari Mesmer 160
Sylvari Guardian 108
Sylvari Warrior 57**
Sylvari Engineer 44**

Total sylvari 1276. Voters seem to have stuck with the idea that the race closest to nature would prefer the professions closest to nature. I guessed correctly that engineer would be least used profession of sylvari. I think Killeen, the sylvari necromancer in Ghosts of Ascalon helped make sylvari most popular choice for necromancer. Sylvari third most popular choice for elementalist, after human and asura.

My choices for sylvari: elementalist (first character I plan to play) and necromancer (leafless tree, winter skin look great for sylvari necro).

Asura Elementalist 290
Asura Thief 179
Asura Engineer 177
Asura Guardian 148
Asura Necromancer 129
Asura Mesmer 114
Asura Warrior 94
Asura Ranger 67**

Total asura 1198. Not surprised by popularity of elmentalist, am surprised necromancer and mesmer less popular than thief, engineer and guardian. Not surprised guardian, with its use of magic is more popular than warrior.

My choice for asura: going against the grain here, warrior. Wanted one ever since I saw concept art of asura in plate armor. I could have chosen guardian but I like the idea of a member of a highly magical race choosing not to use magic in combat. My idea is he prefers to beat sense into the "bookahs" rather than trying to talk down to their level


Charr Warrior 235*
Charr Engineer 203*
Charr Thief 94
Charr Ranger 91
Charr Guardian 79**
Charr Necromancer 69**
Charr Elementalist 50**
Charr Mesmer 20**

Total charr 841. Charr less popular than it would appear on other forums. Charr clearly Arenanet favorite. In lore charr distrust magic users, seems players going to take this idea seriously. Engineer developed by charr so makes sense popular choice for charr.

My choice for charr: thief, female because I like look of female charr better than male.

Norn Warrior 180
Norn Guardian 162
Norn Ranger 126
Norn Necromancer 70
Norn Elementalist 57
Norn Thief 51**
Norn Mesmer 46
Norn Engineer 45

Total norn: 737. My guess is norn least popular race because they're perceived as just big humans, though they have a very different culture. Humans (like charr) tend towards groups, norn very individualistic. I wasn't expecting guardian to beat out ranger.

My choices for norn: ranger and mesmer. I chose ranger so I could start of with snow leopard pet and looking forward to one day turning into a half-norn/half snow leopard. I choose mesmer because I liked the idea of a big strong norn preferring to use brains over brawn. A picture of a norn mesmer clinched it. Memser will follow Raven.

The Book Carts of Lore - most of those book titles are references to Guild Wars 1 characters, however "Time To Dye by Kristen P" refers to Kristen Perry who created the Guild Wars 2 dye system.

That's neat...it's makes games so much more fun when little touches like that are added.

From Facebook:

Thanks Guybrush

Best Buy USA has standard digital and deluxe digital versions available for pre-purchase on their web site. No CE. Best Buy Canada has the CE for pre-purchase on their web site.

The Guild Wars 2 Facebook page has 460k fans. For every 10k on the way to 500k they will post a new piece of art work. Right now they have a picture of Eir swimming.

Still no blog entry on Beta Event Weekend yet.

Note: the Beta Event Weekend for Guild Wars 2 will be taking place during Guild Wars: Prophecies' seventh anniversary (28th).

Thanks Guybrush, I'll take a look.

The Beta Weekend Event is Coming! - no asura or sylvari which is fine with me, I want to save those for launch

Cool!

Main site http://www.guildwars2.com/en/ now has a Beta Event Weekend countdown timer, you may have to clear the cache, shot down and reload browser to see it.

Works just fine for me Guybrush. Thanks

I had to clear cache, exist and reload to get the timer instead of the charr image.

Guild Wars 2 on the Social Media Front

Thanks Guybrush....I saw this announced on Joystiq

Guild Wars 2: The Inside Stories

Guild Wars 2 developer has plans "for literally years to come"


Still waiting for BWE email.

Thanks Guybrush, it's good to know they are thinking long term

I got the email telling me where to go to get into the beta week end. I had trouble getting to the place, as did other people. But its fixed now and I just finished downloading the file. Now I have to run it over night so it downloads the beta files.

Congratulations Guybrush.....you will have to give us your impressions once you are allowed to talk about it.

No NDA for these beta weekends. Since they're open to any one who pre-purchased the game.

Choosing and Transferring Worlds in Guild Wars 2

There's a couple more pictures on Facebook. One's a boss monster in asura area. Other is some mysterious woman, I'm guessing either the queen or the head of the shining blade, both mesmers.

I forgot to uncheck auto play so I got a log in screen, let it play the music. Can't log in until Friday of course.

The digital versions of Guild Wars 2 have "sold out". buy.guildwar2.com no longer has pre-purchasing available. This was done to maintain stability at the start of the weekend. If they find that there is room for more people they will make pre-purchase available again.

Gamestop and Best Buy still have some digital keys available.

Just under 2 and 1 have hours until the Bet Event Weekend begins. Unfortunately I have just 1 hour and half to play before I have to leave for work

edit: Well my first hour wasn't so great (it started early BTW) I'm not used to the controls and kept running into things. At one point I got stuck in a corner but hitting space to jump got me out of it. The first boss monster downed me twice.

I created a norn ranger and was surprised that first weapon was axe. You start out with one weapon skill. I did enough combat to unlock 2. And for reward after first boss I chose war horn. Next have to start unlocking its skills. But have to go to work now.

Yea, that pesky work thing has a way of getting in the way.

I switched to charr thief. And I just go to were first boss is when they shut the server down for 30 minutes of maintenance.


Charr thief

Kissa 2

Kissa Nimbelcaw, charr thief in armor and street clothes, except for the gloves both are default versions. Gloves I got as a drop.

Oops, I'm a snake

After drinking a potion I got out of a Mystic Chest, as a snake Kissa had no skills

I experimented with crafting and create a Rune of Life, which added to armor gives +20 health. Once an experiment works the recipe is added to your list so you don't have to just remember what you did.

Well, its over. I didn't care for the finale at all. They asked everone to come to norn territory but my norn was only level 5 much too low for all thee strange beasties running amok.
When the crowd ran off without me I just tried to go back to doing normal things, but the new monsters made it nearly impossible.

I had least fun on ranger. They need to work on pets. And most fun on elementalist.