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Massively.com’s Rubi Bayer has up the latest interview with Game Designer Jeff Grub giving us a recap of the Guild Wars 2 world and the novels to be released: Q: So there are three novels? A: Yes. The first one is here, Ghosts of Ascalon. The second one is Edge of Destiny by J. Robert King, and [...]

Community Manager Regina Buenaobra has posted a great wrap-up of NCSoft and ArenaNet at ComicCon 2010 that you won’t want to miss over on the official ArenaNet blog. You’ll find information on the Guild Wars 2: A New Type of Fantasy MMO panel, fan questions and pictures from their flickr stream. The penultimate question was “Will [...]

You’ll want to head over to view Ravious’ latest blog posting on KillTenRats.com that gives a very thorough review (without spoilers!) on the newest Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon book by fantasy authors Matt Forbeck and Jeff Grubb. If you’ve been debating whether to pick up the book or not this review must just push [...]

A return to lore today, with an interview with ArenaNet’s Jeff Grubb, game designer and co-author of the Guild Wars novel Ghosts of Ascalon. You’ve referred to yourself as an “embedded writer.” What do you mean by that? JG: We have a writing staff. We have very talented people, and their primary task is to [...]

Sabre Wolf, Malchior and Izari are back with another episode of the GuildMag PodCast. This time they talk more about rangers and their pets, future professions and even share a little exclusive info! The GuildMag Podcast is now also available on iTunes! Comments

Sabre Wolf is back again with episode 17 of ‘Guild Wars 2 Info’, recapping the Ranger profession and the changes to pets in Guild Wars 2. Other topics include death, healing, and the GuildMag PodCast. If you have any comments or feedback feel free to post over in the forum thread: GW2 Info Video Series. Transcripts [...]

LiveSpot has put up an interview with ArenaNet’s Eric Flannum, covering quite a few aspects of Guild Wars 2. The interview is in Polish, but as usual a helpful forum member has provided a translation. LiveSpot: So in the game we’ll get a marketplace for players to buy and sell items. Will we be able to [...]

Q: I want to play a ranger without a pet. Are pets mandatory for the profession to be effective? Can you have a non-pet ranger like in GW1 and not sacrifice a lot of your effectiveness? Eric: Rangers must use their pets to achieve maximum effectiveness. A ranger could choose to mostly ignore his pet [...]

OnRPG snagged an exclusive interview with Eric Flannun and Jon Peters, designers of Guild Wars 2! Listen to that interview here: OnRPG Comments

Ten Ton Hammer: While the ability to revive fallen allies or help them rally back into battle should make for some excellent group play, what’s to prevent the “downed state” from simply prolonging the inevitable dirt nap when playing solo? Jon Peters: The short answer is rallying. You can use the fact that you rally back [...]