Everyone has a fighting chance
Boss fights are supposed to bring a challenge to players, putting their skill and patience to the ultimate test! Without them, there would never be a truly worthy foe to stand between the players, and their goals. Guild Wars 2 has featured some amazing bosses thanks to their design, but some mechanics prevent these types of encounters from feeling as epic as a boss fight should be.
The Guild Wars 2 site has been updated with a new post that shows off one of the members of the bestiary to come in the Heart of Thorns expansion, the Wyvern. Attached to the article revealing the Wyvern is the news that the Defiance System will be something wholly new when the expansion arrives.
In response to player requests, ArenaNet has announced that a brand new camera system is coming into Guild Wars 2 on March 10th. Included in the new feature is the much-requested first person view, a field of view slider to widen the visible playing field, a position slider to place the camera in any given player’s "sweet spot", and a height camera that will focus on an opponent’s head regardless of size.
This week, we take a look at Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2’s financial numbers and how they relate to what ArenaNet does to please fans of both games.
We’ve partnered with ArenaNet to give away a bunch of awesome Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns swag.
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns is one of the biggest topics in the MMO world right now, being the first official expansion to ArenaNet’s sequel. As it happens, we’re headed to Seattle to see the game next week, and we want your questions to take with us. Post them, as many as you have, beyond the break.
We were able to chat with ArenaNet’s Roy Conacher and Jon Peters this week about the 9th and newest profession for Guild Wars 2, The Revenant. Debuting briefly at PAX South, with more details being released over the course of this week, the Rev (as I like to call him) is unlike any of the other Heavy Professions in Guild Wars canon so far.
The 9th and newest profession being added to Guild Wars 2 with the Heart of Thorns expansion has just been profiled in-depth over at the official site. A Master of the Mists, the Revenant will wield actual spirits from the past of Tyria in his fight against Mordremoth.
The Heart of Thorns announcement answered some questions we had about the future of Guild Wars 2, but it also created a whole lot of new ones, for example, these new specializations make one wonder, will we see new build choices allowing players to play as healers?
ArenaNet developers Josh Davis and Hugh Norfolk will be on hand for a Guild Wars 2 live stream event this Friday, February 13th to show off the forthcoming Stronghold PvP mode. Stronghold will make its debut in the Heart of Thorns expansion.