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Guild Wars 2: Lead Designer Eric Flannum Answers Follow Up Questions
May 7th
After a good deal of silence, ArenaNet essentially blew the doors open on Guild Wars 2 last week, providing tons of details on the game's overall design goals, combat system, and even revealed the game's first class: the Elementalist. While the information provided eager fans with tons of answers, they also generated many more questions. Eric Flannum recently took some time to answer nine of these questions on the official ArenaNet blog.
Q: We’ve read some concerns about limitations of a 10-slot skill bar. Some players feel that it’s inflexible and doesn’t allow for enough creativity in making a build. What say you? Eric:
Think of it this way: You’ve got 5 slots that you can slot freely, with the caveat that you have to bring one heal and one elite skill. Your other 5 skills are determined by the weapon set you bring. Most professions can equip two weapon sets and switch freely between them in combat, even stringing together combinations of attacks between them. That means you have access to 15 skills at any given time and you make a minimum of 7 choices (9 at most) to determine what those skills are. Yes, we do restrict some of your More >
Nouveau fond d'écran – l'Élémentaliste Norn!- Guild Wars 2
Apr 30th
Nous venons de publier un tout nouveau fond d’écran pour votre plaisir et comme un geste de remerciement pour avoir fait passer le mot à propos de nos articles sur l’Élementaliste et le système de combat via Twitter, Digg, Facebook et Reddit. Déposez des forces élémentaires pures sur votre bureau grâce à ce fond d’écran de l’Élémentaliste Norn incroyable, nouveau et créé par Kekai Kotaki ! Dirigez-vous vers notre galerie de fonds d’écran pour le récupérer aujourd’hui.
Guild Wars 2: Elementalist Spell Videos
Apr 28th
The Elementalist is the first profession to be revealed for ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2, and we've got five new videos of several of the spells at the Elementalist's disposal to share with you!
Churning Earth
Meteor Shower
Phoenix
Static Field
Water Trident
Click the above images or go here to watch the videos.
Guild Wars 2: Combat Mechanics Detailed; Elementalist Revealed
Apr 28th
MMORPG.com's Michael Bitton breaks down part one of Guild Wars 2 Lead Designer Eric Flannum's two-part feature on combat and the newly revealed Elementalist profession.
Yesterday we were treated to a massive reveal of Guild Wars 2 in the form of a lengthy blog post by ArenaNet studio Mike O'Brien on the newly launched ArenaNet blog. Mike's post outlined three problematic areas with MMO game design and what ArenaNet's plans were with Guild Wars 2 to address them. In doing so, Mike hinted at two things we'd be hearing more about today: the Elementalist class, and combat.
The Elementalist was teased in a few examples Mike used to illustrate various points about the game's combat systems, such as the fact the Elementalist would have access to the "Stone Boots" trait that would prevent them from being knocked back, or the fact they could combine their various spells to devastating effectsm etc. Today, ArenaNet has officially unveiled the Elementalist via one part of a two-part feature by Guild Wars 2 Lead Designer Eric Flannum.
Read all about it here.
Also, be sure to check out our Guild Wars 2 gallery for screenshots of the Elementalist!
Guild Wars 2: Concept Art Video Part 4
Apr 20th
Earlier last month we brought you parts one, two, and three of the concept art video used during Guild Wars 2 Art Director Daniel Dociu's presentation at this year's Game Developers Conference. Today, we bring you part four, which clocks in at over five minutes and features even more gorgeous eyecandy.
Click the above image or go here to watch the video.
Daniel Dociu présente les graphismes de Guild Wars 2 à la conférence GDC- Guild Wars 2
Mar 19th
La semaine dernière, à la conférence GDC, notre directeur artistique Daniel Dociu a rencontré l’équipe de Massively.com pour discuter des graphismes incroyables de Guild Wars 2—Découvrez l’entretien ici ! Ce n’est pas la première fois que Daniel participe à la conférence GDC pour présenter ses superbes créations. Vous vous êtes toujours demandé à quoi ressemblait un bébé charr ? Découvrez-le dans la première des quatre vidéos de la présentation de Daniel à la conférence GDC ici !
Interview relative à Guild Wars 2 sur IncGamers- Guild Wars 2
Mar 1st
Le site IncGamers vient de mettre en ligne une interview réalisée avec les principaux concepteurs de Guild Wars 2 qui permet d’en apprendre davantage sur les races, le gameplay et l’histoire du jeu. À quoi ressemblera le mode PvP dans le nouveau jeu ? Quelle est l’espérance de vie d’un Asura ? Pourquoi les différentes légions charrs n’arrivent-elles pas à s’entendre ? Vous trouverez toutes les réponses à ces questions et bien d’autres encore en cliquant ici.
Guild Wars 2: Exclusive Voices of Tyria Trailer!
Dec 16th
"The Voices of Tyria" is the latest trailer for the follow up to ArenaNet’s successful Guild Wars MMORPG, Guild Wars 2. In "The Voices of Tyria" we are treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the game’s voice officer process as told through the voice actors themselves.
The cast of Guild Wars 2 will be voiced by some major talent such as Felicia Day of The Guild fame, as Zojja; Troy Baker, whose credits include King Conan in Age of Conan, and more recently Snow Villiers of Final Fantasy XIII, as Logan Thackeray; the prolific Steve Blum as Rytlock Brimstone; and Kari Wahlgren, who is no stranger to the Guild Wars franchise, having voiced Gwen in Guild Wars: Eye of the North, as Caithe.
Watch "The Voices of Tyria" here!
For more information on Guild Wars 2, visit the game’s official website.
Guild Wars 2: NCsoft CEO: Beta in 2010, Launch in 2011
Nov 10th
NCsoft CEO Jaeho Lee made reference to the possibility of a 2010 beta, and subsequent 2011 launch for Guild Wars 2 in a recent conference call to investors, stating, "I believe there will be certain public events in the year 2010… at least a closed beta test for those titles. Commercialization will be expected, at this point, probably some time in the year 2011."
You can download and listen to the conference call yourself here.
Le calendrier MMO 2010 est désormais disponible !- Guild Wars 2
Nov 3rd
Le quatrième calendrier MMO est désormais disponible. Il est illustré avec des dessins originaux tirés des meilleurs MMO actuels et à venir, dont une magnifique illustration Guild Wars 2 réalisée par notre talentueux graphiste Kekai Kotaki ! L’argent récolté sera intégralement reversé à l’établissement de recherche médicale infantile St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Vous achetez un superbe calendrier et soutenez en même temps une bonne cause. Tout le monde y gagne !
De plus, toute personne achetant un calendrier participera à un tirage au sort permettant de remporter de superbes prix MMO, dont une copie en version boîte de la Trilogie Guild Wars. Visitez la page http://www.mmocalendar.com et commandez votre calendrier sans plus attendre !