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Today's blog entries: Guild Wars 2 Goes Underwater - everybody can do this Introducing Dungeons in Guild Wars 2 - not for the inexperienced, not available until you reach level 35 (max level is 50) Other sites: PC Gamer on underwater combat GameSpot: Guild Wars 2 Hands-On Preview - Engineers, Dungeons, and Underwater Combat - includes vidoe

The Mostly Harmless Quaggan Introducing the Guild Wars 2 Asset Kit

ArenaNet’s Tradeshow Summer

Contest winners - I didn't win. Although I'm disappointed at not winning even honorable mention, I'm more disappointed the my favorite videos done by other people didn't either. Frequently Asked Questions about the Engineer

Introducing the Engineer - the official 7th profession reveal Other sites on the new profession: New Guilds Wars 2 profession revealed: the tinkering Engineer! Guild Wars 2: Engineer - Interview mit Eric Flannum und Jon Peters (english) Guild Wars 2 Interview (PC) Guild Wars 2's explosive seventh class: The Engineer [GW2] New World Profession – Engineer Just as the guardian profession started with humans and was later adapted by other races, the engineer was developed by charr and adapted by other races. My guess is, engineer would be the profession for which there are no sylvari NPCs. My opinion: It doesn't fit the fantasy setting to have a character that can use flamethrows, mines and grenades, they may as well have kept the commando. And it anticlimatic to reveal the last new profession before the last returning profession. Now we know last one is mesmer. No surprise there. And they broke the pattern. Should have been adventurer, scholar not adventurer (thief), adventurer (engineer).

IncGamers’ Guild Wars 2 Interview Part 1 IncGamers’ Guild Wars 2 Interview – Part 2 - the last line, from interviewers claims big news coming Thursday, May 19. Since Arenanet has said profession reveal this month that could be it.

- German language interview, click on CC to turn on English subtitlesMartin does mention profession reveal coming soon. Other sites specifically say this month. Since Anet previously said one returning profession and one new one left, most people think number 7 will be mesmer. I'm one. Makes most sense to me to save the new profession for last. Anticlimatic the other way. That and if they stick to the pattern then scholar is next. again press CC to get English subtitles on this German language interviewGerman language Ninjalooter Interview with Martin Kerstein Ninjalooter Interview with Martin Kerstein translated into English by Guild Wars 2 Journal Video: City of Lion’s Arch - video is at bottom of the blog, the music is the same music you'll hear in Guild Wars: Prophecies at Lion's Arch Lion’s Arch: Building the Heart of the City - another blog entry, on designing GW2 cities in general and Lion's Arch in particular Video contest entries due tomorrow. Results posted the 26th. So many good entries I don't know how they are going to pick 17 (2 grand prizes, 2 first place, 3 second place, 10 honorable mentions). My GW2 Video Contest Entry

Shadows in the Water – The Krait - evil NPC race Exclusive Interview: ArenaNet’s Bobby Stein - about the voice overs Interviews given to European web sites: Otazky-Odpovedi - from a Czech Republic web site, this is the English language version of the interview Variance Guild Wars 2 – Arenanet interview - from a Hungarian web site, this is the English language version of the interview Interview pro Guild-Hall.cz ! - another Czech Republic interview, English version

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/contests/video-contest/ - contest with grand prize being a trip to Arenanet headquarters to play the game. Note: open to people at least 18 years of age in US (excluding Rhode Island), Canada and Europe.

An Introduction to the Environment Art of Guild Wars 2

Day 1: Prepare Yourself for Charr Week - schedule for the week Day 1: Creating the Charr Starter Area - Monday's second entry Day 2: Scott McGough on Writing the Charr - a couple of the dialogues actually made me laugh Day 3: The Artistic Origin of the Charr - the first one in the third image is female, as the blog mentioned there are no female charr in GW1 (charr males made the females stay home while the males waged war on humanity, that's changed by GW2 time, females no longer required to stay in the hearth bareclawed and pregnant) Day 4: New Video and Lore on Charr Web Page - I'm stunned that they had this up so early Day 5: The Legions of the Charr - now I have to be angry at my Prophecies character's king, his curse actually brought the charr together when they would otherwise have destroyed each other. Dang that Adelbern! End of charr week. Other sites on the charr: Jeff Grubb im Interview zu den Charr - in this interview on a German site (English translation) Arenanet makes another change, suddenly charr didn't actually eat humans, they just pretended to, to scare people Guild Wars 2 Charr Week: ArenaNet Interview - Nowgamer did get their interview, but I wouldn't call it exclusive since obviously other sites got interviews too The roar of engines and the thunder of guns: Massively's analysis of the new Guild Wars 2 video

Ghosts of Ascalon Nominated for Scribe Award - Arenanet blog entry Guild Wars 2: Why You Should Care - article from another gamer site

Those Sneaky, Sneaky Skritt - another article on one of the non-player races in the game. I'm not a fan of rodents.

Goin’ Commando with Horia Dociu - the man responsible for the Commando gag talks about how he came up with the idea and how other Arenanet staff donated their free time to make it work

Excluisive Reveal of Commando Seventh Profession Revealed This gag keeps going.

Commando - new Guild Wars 2 profession reveal (but note the date) Commando Interview The German version of new profession: Alchemist Shadowmancer, the third scholar according to wiki (from April 1st) ArenaNet sure gone all out this year

Go Forth and Multiply: The Hylek a surprise blog on one of the non-player races in Guild Wars 2

ArenaNet Artists Bring Home the Gold in Spectrum 18 Awards

Its been popular opinion that the beastie under Drakkar Lake in GW: EOTN was the sleeping elder dragon Jormag. Popular opinion is wrong: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=618333&postcount=443 I'm hoping next week will be asura or sylvari week but no word from Anet about that yet. New ArenaNet blog post: Martin’s PAX East Round Up

Since Arenanet will be attending PAX East this weekend instead of doing a race week they're doing PAX East Week. Because they expect to be busy preparing on Thursday there won't be anything for Thursday, instead there will be two Friday entries. Day 1: PAX East Week Begins! Day 2: PAX East Preview: Izzy on Attributes and Iteration Day 3: Andrew McLeod Talks Crafting in GW2 In response to fan questions and speculation about crafting Anet has posted two comments at Guildwars2guro.com: additional info 1 and additional info 2 Day 4: PAX East Countdown: A Glimpse of the Thief (they found some time for this unscheduled short blog, the first image is an asura thief, 2nd is charr, third is human) Day 5: Catch the Thief! Day 5: PAX East Guild Wars 2 Broadcast - recording of the live broadcast from Pax East, game demo begins at 15 minutes. Day 5: It’s ON! PAX East has begun

Wasn't supposed to be released until PAX East but as a different site, not the one in the following link, leaked the 6th profession earlier today, Anet has given other sites permission to talk about it, the official guildwar2.com will updated next week. http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/03/new-guild-wars-2-profession-revealed/

This week is norn week. I'll editing this message daily to add the new links. Day 1: Norn Week Begins! Day 2: Legend and Legacy – The Norn in Guild Wars 2 Day 2: Norn Week – Go Big or Go Home A short article explaining one of the pictures in the original day 2 article, apparently it confused a lot of people. Day 3: Norn Week – Designing and Redesigning Events Day 4: Brand New Norn Video, Wallpapers, and Lore Day 5: A Spirit of Legend I'm very disappointed that they still have not shown a picture of snow leopard. All that build up in the story about a snow leopard spirit follower and no picture of the animal or its shaman? Additional news: the new game demo being premiered at PAX East will feature the norn starting area and include the guardian profession.

Guild Wars 2 FAQ updated to include this important piece of news: When will there be a beta? We will be conducting small closed alpha and beta tests in 2011. The feedback from these tests will determine when we will do public beta tests and ship the game. Guild Wars 2 is a very large and ambitious game, and Guild Wars players rightfully have very high expectations. We want players to be absolutely blown away by the game the first time they experience it. See my edited previous post for the blog and news entries for human week.

Its human week over at guildwars2.com. Every week day this week (Mon-Fri) they will be giving more information about some aspect of humans in Guild Wars 2. Today was just a basic intro with schedule for the rest of the week. http://www.arena.net/blog/oh-the-humanity-human-week-begins Most of us fans of course hope this means each of the five races will be getting a week for the rest of the month but Arenanet hasn't to my knowledge actually said that would happen. Day 2: http://www.arena.net/blog/against-the-wall-humanity-in-guild-wars-2 Day 3: http://www.arena.net/blog/designing-humans Day 4: http://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/human-week-continues-with-new-video-and-lore.html Day 5: http://www.arena.net/blog/the-line-of-duty-%e2%80%93-the-three-military-orders-of-kryta

What’s Your Style? Jon Peters Talks About Combat