Category: Guild Wars 2 News

Detailed analysis and pointed criticism can come later. For now, Jason’s just enjoying the Heart of Thorns experience.

With Heart of Thorns now over a week old, and our review currently in progress, we wanted to spend this week pining over the things we really appreciate in ArenaNet’s first Guild Wars 2 expansion. Next week we’ll tally up a few aggravations, but for now let’s give credit where credit is due.

A little over one week into the launch of Heart of Thorns, and we caught ArenaNet’s Colin Johanson napping long enough to coerce some answers out of him about the current state of the Guild Wars 2 expansion and how things are going inside the walls of the Bellevue, Washington based developer.

Less than a week after the launch of the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns expansion, the team is ready to implement some changes to two of the core features: Elite Specializations and Adventures, each tangentially related to other systems including Hero Points.

I’ve spent probably 15 hours since Friday in ArenaNet’s first expansion for Guild Wars 2, Heart of Thorns. In that time, I’ve had almost as much fun as I ever did in the game’s first months, but there’s also a hint of frustration as some systems seem a bit grindy at first glance. Today marks the first of several articles leading up to our final review, so read on for our initial thoughts.

We’ve only had a couple hours so far with Guild Wars 2’s first expansion, Heart of Thorns. So while our review and first impressions will be forthcoming, we wanted to start off your long weekend of playing with a few helpful tips we’ve learned from our first few moments in the jungle. Be sure to add your own too!

Now live after months of hype and patience from fans, Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns officially launched at 301am ET / 1201am PT on October 23rd. Boasting over 7 million accounts, ArenaNet shares a new infographic as players flood the Maguuma Jungle.

The fine folks at ArenaNet are streaming the final hours counting down to the Heart of Thorns launch at 12am PDT, but they’ve also put out a new interactive trailer to help you wile away the hours if you’re just too anxious to wait patiently.

ArenaNet is preparing players for this week’s launch of the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns expansion by providing a summary and links to earlier blog posts about various features coming with the new content. Today’s spotlight shines on Raids.

One of the new features coming with the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns expansion is the new "action camera", essentially a mouse-look camera that removes the necessity for holding down the right mouse button in order to turn the camera. Now it is simply a matter of pointing the mouse and character and boom, the perspective changes to that particular view.