The GW2Tools Trait Calculator at work
The fellows over at GW2Tools.com have launched a very handy Guild Wars 2 Traits calculator. The calculator is updated with all the latest traits and should offer hours of entertainment for all theory-crafters who want to be prepared for launch!
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The ArenaNet developer blog has received more love this evening and this time John Peters talks about traits and attributes. If you are wanting to learn about these key character components I suggest you read this as John breaks everything down rather nicely.
PCGamer just released this video breaking down the graphics settings as available in the Guild Wars 2 Press Beta. Very interesting as they check out best visuals versus best performance. This video is shot on a PC with the following specs: 3.20 GHz six-core CPU, 8 GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6900.
Read more & comment >>Ravious over att the Kill Ten Rats blog just published an interview with ArenaNet’s freshest Community Manager Rubi Bayer. Rubi tells us about her new job and shares some advice on how to approach being a community figure:
- Rubi Bayer
Most of you will all have gone mad to sign-up for the Beta over the weekend and ArenaNet wanted to let you know what events the sign-up process was for as we don’t as yet have exact dates.
There may be some time to wait until many of you get into the test but at least you know it won’t be before the end of March.
Read more & comment >>According to info released by ArenaNet today, during peak periods of the beta sign-ups, more than 4000 people were hitting the application form per minute. Mental stuff!
Counting down the days till GW2 PvP? We certainly are. We make our way to Germany in visiting with competitive Guild Wars PvP guild Forver And Ever [LaG]. Lineback Police sat down with us to share about [LaG] and give impressions on both PvP in GW1 and GW2 – press “more” to unlock the details!
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What a beast of a week! The press beta weekend embargo ended Monday afternoon, and the information release has been massive. There have been a huge amount of preview articles and videos released, and there are more being published every day. And then, when the community was just about to regain their bearings – BAM – ArenaNet opened the beta application form! It being open for only a little bit over 48 hours, the fans were almost tripping over themselves to throw their hats in the ring, even overloading the servers for a while. And the results? 1 million applicants! So with all of this going on at once, it might feel like an overwhelming task so sort through all that new information. Luckily, we here at GWOnline have done that job for you. Follow after the jump for the full deal on this week’s Guild Wars happenings.
Read more & comment >>Our Friend GuildMag tweeted a great still of a Guild Wars 2 world map earlier today. Which got us thinking that “Hey, we got video of that!”. So here it is, a closer look at how an (unexplored) Guild Wars 2 map looks like. A short video for sure, but interesting nonetheless.
Read more & comment >>The latest Invisible Walls episode has just landed on Gametrailers and on this week’s show the guys talk about last weekend’s Guild Wars 2 Beta test. Listen and watch below for their impressions.
Community Manager Rubi Bayer just posted a handy roundup over at the ArenaNet blog of some of the press coverage of the Guild Wars 2 Press Beta Weekend and everything else happening this last week, up to and including the 1 million beta sign-up accomplishment. So if you haven’t been paying attention this last week, this is a good a place to start catching up. If you are wanting for more, you can visit our news forums or hang in there for our usual Guild Wars 2 Weekly coming this Sunday. It is going to be a big one!
In the middle of the beta signup craze, Mike Ferguson completed his previously promised AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit. He answered a lot of questions, but here are some of the more interesting bits:
On population cap:
About effect overload:
On overflow servers in WvW:
