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A list of information known about Guild Wars 2 from various sources. It makes no claims to completeness nor to being completely accurate!

General[edit]

  • No release date announced
  • Public beta expected in the second half of 2008 - ref
  • No subscription fee - ref
  • Holiday events still
  • Likely to be a Collectors Edition
  • business model of regular expansions/campaigns to continue - [1]
  • 'It was in active design and early R&D as of early 2007.' - [2]

Technical[edit]

  • Continued support for OGW after GW2 release - ref
  • No plans for console, still focused to deliver on the PC - ref
  • No in-game ads - [3]
  • "try to keep our system specs reasonable. We don't develop on highly-advanced systems, and we intend to make Guild Wars 2 as approachable as Guild Wars is." - [4]
  • Will have higher system requirements then OGW - [5]

Servers & Persistence[edit]

  • More persistence in the world, but instances will still be used. - [6]
  • Events in instances could have an impact on the persistent world (?) - [7]
  • 'explorable' areas as a persistent world, missions and a dungeon will be instanced - [8]
  • Servers/worlds in game, players can transfer between these at will like districts. - [9]
  • Player number cap not finalised "have to put the player cap in a way which avoids both abandoned and overcrowded areas." - [10]
  • Event System which notifies all players in the zone that something big has happened. All players participating in a large event will be rewarded - [11]
  • Trying to build cause and effect into the game - [12]

Movement[edit]

  • Click to move will be removed from the game - ref
  • Z-axis to be added
  • Jumping! and other environment interactions - swimming or sliding - ref
  • Target locking still in game - ref
  • "environmental clutter will react should your weapon, intentionally or unintentionally, smash through it" - ref
  • Players will still be able to "teleport" their character around the game world. No significant changes to character transport. [13]

Graphics[edit]

  • rewriting portions of the engine in order to provide much greater detail - ref
  • DirectX10 Supported but not required - ref
  • Likely no graphical blood - [14]

Characters[edit]

  • Different races (see below)
  • Level cap will be increased, but a cap has not been stated but it could be as much as 100 or have no cap - ref
  • Plateau of power in leveling system. "not going to require players to grind away their life to actually reach that plateau" - [15]
  • No transfer of characters from OGW. Hall of Monuments can transfer some info and provide some items, including reserving character name.
  • It is unlikely HoM achievements will have to go to a character of the same name GG 23/10/07
  • Can still have multiple characters - [16]
  • Don't have to choose between a PvP or PvE type character, A character can play anywhere - [17]

Parties[edit]

  • Companions don't take a party slot
  • Side-kick system like City of Heroes "I can do what my friends can do, regardless of our levels. It doesn't mean I can't play certain content because I'm not a high enough level yet" - ref
    • Applies in World PvP - [18]
    • Equalise a low level character to a high one allows a person to participate in PvP without grind. - [19]

Companions[edit]

  • assumed to be part of the character, making up for the characters weaknesses - ref
  • customisable like heroes - ref
  • can take a companion which doesn't take a party slot - ref
  • If alone a player will be buffed instead - ref

Professions[edit]

  • designed for solo or group play
  • The primary and secondary professions system will be kept - ref

Skills[edit]

  • Fewer skills which are less complex - ref
  • Skills might have a different effect depending on the situation of the character. Jumping, surrounded by enemies... - ref
  • Definitely have a skill number restriction, like the 8-skill-system. - ref


Races[edit]

  • There are 5 confirmed player races; Human, Charr, Norn, Sylvari, Asura - ref
  • More races to be announced/added to the game later - ref
  • Races are to have different characteristics and also different abilities - ref
  • Possible map access restricted depending on race (see lion's arch)
  • Equal footing - ref

Human[edit]

  • On the back foot in Guild Wars 2 ie fighting to survive. - ref
  • Some still in the east of Ascalon in the Ebonhawke fortress. - ref
  • Kryta a "last bastion of humanity". - ref

Relations[edit]

  • Charr - obviously not friends with. No open war.
  • Norn - ties but not trusted by the Norn
  • Sylvari - Neutral
  • Asura - Neutral

Charr[edit]

  • Control Ascalon from the North to the Crystal Desert in the South to the Shiverpeaks in the west and Ebonhawke in the east. (?) - ref
  • Militant - tribal - ref
  • Divided into Legions or warbands which maintain rule - ref
  • 4 legions - Ash Legion, Blood Legion, Gold Legion, and Iron Legion - ref
  • Sharmans are lower class Charr citizens seen and dangerous and subversive - ref
  • "underlying goal of every Charr leader to prove his own superiority, subjugate his fellows, and raise the banner of one legion above the rest" - ref
  • Believe it is their destiny to rule Tyria - ref

Relations[edit]

  • Human - obviously not friends with. No open war.
  • Norn - pseudo-alliance
  • Sylvari - Neutral
  • Asura - Neutral

Asura[edit]

  • Skills with magic and crafting - ref
  • Now the best crafters in Tyria - ref
  • condesending and confident, like to experiment for power and magic - ref
  • Control neutral trade routes and try very hard to be neutral - ref
  • Believe it is their destiny to rule the less intelligent races - ref

Relations[edit]

Good relations with all, Neutral

  • Human - Good for heavy lifting
  • Others - pawns in their schemes and experiments

Norn[edit]

  • Territory in the far North, found throughout Kryta and in old Dwarven forts in the shiverpeaks - ref
  • Individual strength and individualistic race - ref
  • Can transform into a Bear form - ref which makes them stronger - ref
  • At war with the dredge - ref

Relations[edit]

  • Human - some ties but no trust
  • Charr - pseudo-alliance
  • Sylvari - Neutral
  • Asura - Neutral

Sylvari[edit]

  • Inquistive possibly naive - ref
  • Born adult "as if awakening from a magical dream" and do not age - ref
  • Special connection to others "the Dream of Dreams" - [20]
    • learning before birth and communication
    • hidden whispers behind this of unclear origin or meaning

Relations[edit]

Neutral and not as aware of racial issues as much as others. - ref


Enemies[edit]

Ancient Dragons[edit]

  • Earthquakes in GWEN caused by awakening ancient dragons - ref
  • Primordus, the first to awake, lives in caverns under Tyria - ref
  • Another rose at/in Orr - ref
  • Another is in Ascalon, which has corrupted Ascalon and its monsters further. - ref
  • Much greater than Glint or Kuunavang - ref
  • Have no interest in being nice to anyone - ref

White Mantle[edit]

  • Still around in Kryta - ref

Centaur[edit]

  • Still around in Kryta - ref

Dredge[edit]

  • Fight with the Norn in the Shiverpeaks for land - ref

Guilds[edit]

  • Allow mixed races - [21]
  • 'Home' in Lions Arch - [22]

PvP[edit]

  • Entrance to the Mists and the 'Hero's Hall' to be at Lions Arch - [23]
  • Two types; Structured and World PvP

World[edit]

  • play characters of any level, using the skills that you have in your possession at that particular time. - [24]
  • relaxed bridging point between PvE and structured PvP. - [25]
  • large scale, no parties, could take place over a long period with people coming and going. - [26]
  • Objective based - [27]
  • In the Mists.
  • Everyone in your world is fighting for the same team and matched up against other worlds - [28]
  • "By achieving victories in these battles there will be benefits to your world," Strain said. "Bonuses, advantages, maybe everyone gets increased energy regeneration or healing rate or enhanced loot drop rate." - [29]
  • Shuffled every few weeks to make sure it is fair - [30]
  • Never required to participate in World PvP but can "gain experience and progress your character" - [31]
  • Design aim is to allow each character to be useful - [32]

Structured[edit]

  • Like GvG in OGW - [33]
  • A character is given "maximum level" with everything unlocked. - [34]
  • Level playing field - [35]

Setting[edit]

  • Set 250 years into the future of OGW
  • Still going to try and tell a story - [36]
  • story arcs, or bubbles rather than a monolithic story - [37]
  • Try to make the world a place to hang out, have fun and explore - [38]
  • No more "paving barriers you can't get across" - [39]

All setting from ref unless otherwise noted

Ascalon[edit]

  • Humans but entirely pushed out of Ascalon by the Charr. The final stronghold in Ascalon is a fortress called Ebonhawke. Ebonhawke located to the east of the Tyria map (?).
  • Ascalon City held by spirits loyal to King Adelbern.
  • Has an Ancient Dragon

Kryta[edit]

  • Human
  • Constant conflict and turmoil
  • Ruled by a queen and senate
  • Many human refugees settled here
  • Divinity Coast == capital

Lions Arch[edit]

  • Pirate/mercenary town after flooding
  • Neutral open to all races
  • PvP home

Orr[edit]

  • The city of Arah is the seat of power
  • Orr has returned to Tyria through the return of an ancient dragon.
  • Controlled by the dragon and undead minions
  • This dragon and the minions prevent access to Cantha and Elona.

Elona[edit]

  • Ruled by Palawa Joko
  • Unable to access due to the Orr dragon cutting off land access
  • Suggested that this area could be reopened at some time

Cantha[edit]

  • Isolationist
  • Players unable to access due to the Undead Corsair ships cutting of shipping.
  • Suggested that this area could be reopened at some time
  • Find some around Maguuma (?)

Other[edit]

All information in this section is from ref unless otherwise noted

Order of the Sunspears[edit]

  • Essentially wiped out of Elona.
  • Spread to different continents. How significant they are in Tyria is unclear

Order of the Whispers[edit]

  • Still exists
  • work in Kryta and with the Ascalonians and maintain contact with Elona
  • Saved knowledge of ancient human history which is now hidden in the shiverpeaks

Dwarves[edit]

  • Scattered race very rare to see
  • Made of stone and earth (?)

Gods[edit]

  • The Human Gods (Melandru, Balthazar, Dwayna, Lyssa, Grenth) have been largely silent for 2 centuries. It is unlikely they will be as influential in GW2.