GW2: The Lost Coast - Teaser Poster + about level requirements for the weekend event

Halloween event in Guild Wars 2 ended a few days ago, the next major events in the game, however, raise already on the horizon! Mid-November is the update go "The Lost Coast" and others online a new island to the battlefield. On Facebook ArenaNet now published a teaser image. There was also information about the level requirements for the planned weekend event.

Participation in the weekend event

On Friday, 15.11.2012, it's time, then go with Guild Wars 2, the next big update online. A teaser site for The Lost Coast ArenaNet released at the end of the week. First details about the new gw2 gold game director Colin Johanson also announced in an interview.

As part of the interview Johanson revealed among other things that on 16.11.2012 starts a weekend event, which will open the way to a new island. In the forum, a player asked now that (stage) requirements one had to participate in the event and whether it was accessible as the Halloween event for all.

Johanson explained to her that the event and the things that would take place this weekend, basically by the level scaling technology are available for players of all levels. "We want that everyone has the opportunity to try it," said Johanson.

Teaser image on Facebook
Already, there are in the game the first indications of the upcoming November update yourself. So on the coast Löwensteins emerged such as new ships and in a hut were discovered mysterious posters.

One of them priced at a fantastic new holiday paradise that is to be accessible shortly. Posters said ArenaNet now published on the official Facebook page for the game, it was an appropriate translation of a Facebook user:

On Friday, 15.11.2012, it's time, then go with Guild Wars 2, the next big update online. A teaser site for The Lost Coast ArenaNet released at the end of the week. First details about the new game director Colin Johanson also announced in an interview.

As part of the interview Johanson revealed among other things that on 16.11.2012 starts a weekend event, which will open the way to a new island. In the forum, a player asked now that (stage) requirements one had to participate in the event and whether it was accessible as the Halloween event for all.

Johanson explained to her that the event and the things that would take place this weekend, basically by the level scaling technology are available for gw2 gold players of all levels. "We want that everyone has the opportunity to try it," said Johanson.

Teaser image on Facebook
Already, there are in the game the first indications of the upcoming November update yourself. So on the coast Löwensteins emerged such as new ships and in a hut were discovered mysterious posters.

One of them priced at a fantastic new holiday paradise that is to be accessible shortly.

A short guide to everything we know about GW2

The intention of this thread is to give you a quick and easy point by point reference of what we know the game offers, whenever possible it is backed up by links. If you want an in depth look at classes and mechanics read chelmo's Mass info for the uninitiated.
PLEASE NOTE ArenaNet are developing GW2 with a process of iteration, all information is subject to change at any time. Also note that ArenaNet has the policy of not discussing any aspect of the game until it is live in the current iteration of the game, if they talk about it, it's already in the gw2 gold game.
Official links:
guildwars2.com
ArenaNet Blog
The Guild Wars 2 official Wiki

The World
Set some 250 years after the original game. Tyria will be the only playable continent, the continents of Elona (Nightfall GW-Chapter 3) and Cantha (Factions – GW chapter 2) will not be included.
The game world is set to be much larger than the original game, much of the game play is said to be underwater. The lost land of Orr has risen from the depths and along with it the elder dragons have returned to threaten its survival.
The majority of the world, with the exception of dungeons and personal storyline, is set in a persistent world and isn't heavily instanced like its predecessor. Areas will be large and from what we've seen in videos will be zoned, meaning there will be portals and loading screens between areas.
There are 25 large explorable zones, 8 dungeons, and 6 cities currently planned for Guild Wars 2 Source
The world will have day/night and weather cycles. Some events will be linked to the time of day and weather cycle, some events will even effect weather.
As well as language understandable by the player there will be translatable languages discoverable by players, source: The language of Guild Wars
Cost
You will need to buy the game but there will be no subscription charge, revenue will come from micro transactions similar to the current GW shop (make over, name change, fluff items and maybe skill/weapon unlocks) and by additional game content released further on.
Movement
Unlike GW1 you will be able to jump and swim. Movement plays a very important role in combat.
Tutorial
Of the three racial starting zones that have been demoed so far, all three had a boss fight at the end of the tutorial.
Travel
Map travel is possible using waypoints, you unlock waypoints by exploring and finding them. Players can open the map, choose an unlocked waypoint and teleport there. There is also an Asura gate system that allows travel between cities, these don't need to be unlocked. Both forms of travel will have a small currency cost.
Extended Experience
It was revealed at PAX that GW2 will have a phone app, enabling you to keep in contact with your guild and friends and track their progress. The game will also offer various web utilities including use of the auction house and guild chat.
Anet Blog - Rick Ellis talks about the extended experience
Extended Experience Q & A
Hall Of Monuments (only available to Guild Wars players)
The Hall of Monuments (HoM) is only available to the original GW players who own the expansion Eye of the North. The HoM is a place that celebrates your achievements in the original game, it has four monuments to unlock: Devotion, Fellowship, Resilience, and Valor. The monuments are completed by adding companions (heroes/hench with upgraded armour and certain combat pets), Mini Pets (non combat pets usually received as character birthday presents or as special promotional items), by gaining titles (completing content, vanquishing areas, playing PvP etc) and by attaining 'elite' armour sets.
GW Wiki Hall of Monuments
The HoM will bestow special items in GW2 for linked accounts, those items are based on your GW account achievements and will be available for all of your characters on your GW2 account. Current GW players can use the online calculator to see what rewards they have unlocked on their account and how they can progress.
GW2 HoM FAQ
GW2 HoM page and calculator
PvE and PvP
The world of Tyria will be PvE. There are no plans to have PvP servers.
There will be a separation of skills between PvP and PvE, this is to ensure balance for either play style can be pursued more effectively.
PvP is supported and will include structured, instanced, team based games and a large zone known as 'The Mists' which will have massive World vs World vs World combat. You can jump in to team based games on an equal footing with the same character level and item quality as everyone else. WvWvW can be joined at any time, on entering you character will be kicked up to level 80, your skills ad gear however will remain the same. You can progress in WvW as you would in PvE by unlocking more skills and getting better gear. Players will drop items, none of these items will be from the player themselves but from a loot table, you won't lose any of your gear to other players.
Structured PvP
There will be tournament style PvP matches and games that will be 'hot joinable', allowing players to jump in to a match at any time, with matches ranging from 1 v 1 to 10 v 10. You can join in structured PvP immediately from character creation, all players joining a Structured PvP match will be boosted to max level, have top end gear and access to max level skills. Structured PvP is all about skill and not about gear. At Gamescom 2011 we saw the first glimpse of structured PvP with a map called The Battle of Khylo, a conquest map with three capture points and siege weapons as the secondary mechanic.
GW2 Wiki - Battle of Khylo
GW2 offficial site - PvP overview
AreNet VS Boon Control at Gamescom 2011
World V World v World PvP
World V World encounters are on a two week timer and pit three servers against each other, completing objectives, such as holding a fort or taking an enemy fort will provide buffs for the whole server. At the end of each two weeks the servers will change to ensure servers of an equal level are competing with each other. The match is based in an area called the Mists, away from the PvE game play. Games are hot joinable, players are boosted to max level on entry with their current skill set and gear. After the short tutorial players are free to enter WvW and can play to max level (unlock skills and gain better gear) without the need to PvE.
The map consists of four areas, three home areas (called The Borderlands) for each server team all connected to a central area. There are siege weapons to buy and build, NPC races who may help your side if you help them first, resources to get and protect (simply called 'supply'), castles to conquer and hold, supply caravans to protect and of course opposing players to kill. Parts of the map are underwater with their own objectives.

Aneet blog on World PvP
MMORPG.com WvW Preview
GW2 Wiki on World PvP
Diovidius Has made a great thread with links to articles and videos, it covers pretty much everything we know so far on PvP.
Further in this thread MumboJumbo has provided some great links of post-gamescom 2011 PvP info.
Character Creation
The game will have extensive character creation options, the creator is based on Aions system but will be limited so no grotesque or deformed looking characters can be created. There are extensive options including sliders for various parts of the anatomy. Anet have deliberately scaled back options to ensure characters look natural in the world of tyria. You can also select the dye colour of your starter armour here too.
Charr Character Creation
Human Character Creation
Characters also have an extensive emote system.
Femal Human Emotes
Character creation also sets up your background story for your personal storyline.


Races
There are five playable races and each will have its own starting city and have their own racial abilities, they are:
Humans - Once the dominant species Humans are now in decline, the capital city of Divinity's Reach in Kryta, ruled by Queen Jennah, is their last stronghold. They look to their allies and former enemies (The Charr) to secure their place in the world and overcome the dangers posed by the elder dragons.
Abilities: Most of the human abilities in the game call upon the power of their six gods. These abilities can ask for a small favor such as the "prayer to Dwayna," which heals the player. Some of the human abilities ask for major intervention from the gods, such as the one that summons the two fiery hounds of Balthazar to come to the player's aid.
Charr – originally the arch enemy of the humans, the Charr have ceased hostilities in an uneasy alliance to fight the greater foe
Abilities: The charr use technology, explosives, and sheer ferocity in battle. Whether laying down a "shrapnel mine" or using a mighty "battle roar," the charr are a force to be reckoned with. Charr also use advanced tactics, such as calling upon warband support to overwhelm their foes with numbers.
Charr walk on two legs while wielding weapons, without weapons they run on all fours.
Asura – small pointy eared creatures with a strong sense of self, who look down on other races and often each other. They have developed their own technology which includes the creation of magical, mechanical creatures known as golems. They originally rose from their underground dwellings during the story line of 'Eye of the North' the first and only true expansion for Guild Wars (EotN was the replacement for the 4th chapter which was abandoned after Anet decided to focus on the new game GW2)
Abilities:The abilities of the asura have a lot to do with golems and magic. An asura player might use a simple "arcane blast" or create a deadly "radiation field." If they are really in a bind, they can summon a magical "golem battlesuit" that they can climb into and use to devastate their foes.
Norn – a tall strong independent race who have the ability to shapeshift, they are a proud warrior race and also made their first appearance in EotN. The Norn skill bar will change to reflect the form they have shapeshifted to.
Abilities:The norn rely on individual feats of strength and their faith in the spirits of the wild. Their link to nature allows them to "call upon bear" to increase their health or "call upon raven" to attack their foes. When the situation calls for it, they can assume snow leopard form to wreak havoc on the field of battle.
Sylvari – a new 'emergent race' who developed from a magical tree which produced cocoons from which they emerged, these new creatures share a common consciousness, each is born from the same tree and emerges ready equipped with the knowledge of those Sylvari who have come before.
Abilities:The empathic nature of the sylvari allows them to call upon both other sylvari and all green and growing things. They can use the "blessing of the pale tree" to protect themselves or cause an enemy to "take root," immobilizing them. In times of great need, they can call upon the "strength of the dream" to heal themselves from critical damage.
Ability info from this gamespot article.
Video - Races of Tyria

Professions
GW2 relies on a different trinity to the classic one of DPS, Heal and Tank. GW2's trinity is one of damage, control and support. There are no dedicated healers, tanks or ally targeted skills.
Elementalist
Warrior
Ranger
Necromancer
Guardian
Thief
Engineer
Mesmer
April 2011- as an April fools joke the Commando was announced :)
Healing
As mentioned previously there is no dedicated healing class, there will be support classes but it's expected these will be about prevention rather than cure, each profession will have it's own healing skills and is therefore expected to be self sufficient for healing. There are no ally targeted skills in GW2 Source
Names
16 characters including the use of spaces.
Death and the the 'downed' state
When a player gets close to being defeated they enter in to a 'downed state' their skill bar will change and they will have the ability to use special skills, these are your last chance skills, skills that could save you from death, rallying from this state will take you back to your original skill bar and get you back in to the fray. All players, from level 1 will have a revive skill to resurrect fallen players. The more times a player dies the longer it takes to revive them. If you die and aren't revived you will, for a small amount of gold, be resurrected at the nearest shrine. An attrition mechanic has been introduced to remind players to either learn to play or go play in a lower level area; armour will get damaged on death (not from hits and not from being in the downed state}, one piece of armour will get damaged on death, if all pieces of armour are damaged one piece of armour breaks on the next death and ceases to provide any stats, repairs are completed by an NPC in outposts (we don't know yet if repair kits will be available}.
healing + Death
Development update with info on being downed and defeated
Leveling
The game will have a max level of 80, the first few levels will come quite quickly but after a point the difference in levels will plateau so that getting from say lvl 45-46 will take the same amount of time as getting from lvl 76-77.
Progression and Leveling
Skills
Skills can be changed at anytime while out of combat. Weapon skills can be changed during combat by equipping another weapon.
In order to ensure easier balance of skills between playstyles, there will be a difference between PvE and PvP skills.
Skills will have tiers that can be unlocked as you progress.
When underwater your skillbar will change to skills that fit with the environment
There are no ally targeted skills in GW2 Source
The players skill bar will have ten skill slots, the first 5 skill slots are for weapon skills dependent on what the player is wielding (a warrior wielding a mace will have a different weapon skill set to a a warrior wielding a sword), if a player is wielding a sword and an off hand then the skills change accordingly while a two handed weapon will dictate all 5 slots , the player can also use 'environmental weapons' such as rocks which in turn change the weapon skill slots. The next 5 skill slots will be restricted by having one healing skill and one elite skill of the players choice, the player is free to slot the remaining 3 of those 5 with class and racial skills.
Getting Skills
Weapon skills are currently acquired by using that weapon, the first time you equip an axe you will have only one skill, the more you use that weapon the more skills you unlock, this happened pretty quickly in the gamescom 2011 videos.
Players use skill points to unlock healing and utility skills, these points can be attained by completing skill challenges, these aren't profession specific which allows players of differing professions to complete the challenges together. There are 200 skill challenges in the game.
Soucre
Cross Profession Interactivity
Skills will be interactive and offer a synergy between players, examples such as rangers firing arrows through an elementalist's fire wall will add burning damage and in the 'Manifesto' video a gun is seen to be firing through a static field to add electrical damage.
Combos
A lot of skills we have been shown so far have progressions or chains, as an example a necromancers minion skill may change to become a skill to explode those minions once summoned, a warriors strike would chain to vengeful strike then wrathful strike, providing increased damage. There are also cross profession combos that players can discover during combat, firing your arrows through a necromancers poison AoE may add poison damage to your shots.
GW2 Wiki - Skills
Traits
Traits are slottable and are used to modify your skills and attributes, Traits can be used to increase your weapon mastery or decrease time between swapping weapons in combat or increase/add a certain type of damage . Each profession has a couple of 'trait lines' how you slot your traits defines how you choose to play your character.
Skills
Traits Overview
Attributes
The team have settled on 4 attributes:
Power increased attack range
Precision increased critical strike chance
Vitality increased health
Toughness increased defense/armour
Attribute points are earned as you level. You will be able to reset attribute point allocation at a cost.
Izzy on attributes and iteration

Achievements
Completing or mastering something will provide you with an achievement, some achievements will also provide you with a title that you will be able to display. Achievements are account based rather than character based as some, like mastering all weapons, can't be achieved by a single character. Achievements provide no game advantage.
IGN article
(Thanks to Gmr Leon over on gw2guru whose post there contained this info and link)
The demo contained the following list of achievement groups
Slayer
Party Animal
Weapon Master
Explorer
Adventurer
Conqueror
Trader
Hero

The achievement groups expanded to reveal multiple progress bars, for example the Weapon Master group had one progress bar for each weapon type.
The demo had a disabled feature for comparing achievements with other players
Combat
Combat in Guild Wars 2 is built around damage, control and support. Damage is simply decreasing the enemy's health, control is preventing the enemy from doing what it wants, and support consists of boosting the abilities of allies. Each profession is able to perform any of these roles.(Taken from Guild Wars2 wiki).
Combat will be tactical in terms of movement, taking advantage of the environment and by using cross-profession combos (see previous example of elementalist static field being fired through by a warrior using a gun to add electrical damage). There will be many environmental weapons littered about the world from simple rocks to a jar of bees that can be thrown at an enemy, some of these environmental weapons will react differently depending on which profession picks them up.
Body blocking can only be replicated through the use of skills, there is no collision between characters in GW2. Source
Players will be able to dodge attacks and projectiles. Dodge has a 'dodge' bar, once that is depleted you won't be able to dodge until it regens, this is to stop players dodging all the time.
Some skills will have tactical advantages when used from the side or behind an opponent, other skills will be directional, AoE or a mix of both meaning positioning will be important.
Combat for underwater changes to better fit the environment, your skillbar will change and you will use a more suitable weapon, there are three underwater weapons which are class restricted, they are Trident, Spear and harpoon gun. Submerged players receive a mask that lets them breath underwater, there will be no need to watch or worry about a breath bar.
Jonathan Sharp Talks Underwater Combat
Combat on the official site
Further talk on combat
Underwater Combat Demo
Armour
The type of Armour you wear depends on your profession type:
Scholars will wear Light Armour
Adventurers will wear Medium Armour
Soldiers will wear Heavy Armour
Each dungeon will have a minimum of one unique armour set for every armour type as a possible reward.
You will be able to dye your armour and players will be able to have 3 separate hues on each armour piece.
Dye System Demo
At character creation you can dye your armour, when you equip new armour the game will try to intelligently match the new armours dye scheme to your previous one until you change it.
In the demo an armour upgrade item was rewarded from an event, it's looked like this system might be similar to the current GW Insignia system but instead of one upgrade, the item had several stat boosts. These items can be crafted.
Weapons
The list of standard wieldable weapons is as follows:
One-Handed: Axe, dagger, mace, pistol, scepter, and sword.
Two-Handed: Greatsword, hammer, longbow, rifle, shortbow, and staff.
Offhand only: Focus, shield, torch, and warhorn.
Underwater Weapons: Spear, trident and harpoon gun.
Not all professions will be able to wield all weapons and some professions will be able to wield more weapons than others.
A weapon wielded as an off-hand will have different skills to that same weapon wielded in the main hand, not all professions will be able to wield a weapon as an off hand.
Environmental objects will also be able to be used as weapons and have their own skill set, which may differ depending on the profession wielding it.
Weapon skills are earned by using the weapon.
Combat Part 2 guildwars2.com
Consumables
There are consumable items that can be bought, crafted or looted. These range from food stuff to item buffs and upgrades.
Interface
Everything we know about the interface is taken from demo videos at gamescom. The devs have stated that it's a work in progress and that there will be some player customisation. Take this info only as rough guide.
Skillbar


1. Switch Weapon Set
2. Weapon Skills (first three are main hand, last two are off hand or all 5 for two handed weapon)
3. Build Up Bar, profession specific, Warriors have Adrenaline, Necromancers have Life Force
4. Life
5. Energy Potions
6. Energy Bar
7. Five slots for profession/Race specific skills, heal and elite skill

Hero Panel
The Hero Panel acts as a character panel, the place to equip your items, it also has options for managing skills, traits, is where your dye collection can be used, track your personality and your personal story.
See GW2 Wiki Hero Panel
Guilds
Players will have the choice of either keeping their characters in the same guild or having different characters in different guilds. There will be guild achievements and guilds will be able to hold keeps in WvWvW PVP, there will be a guild calendar for coordinating events and you will be able to participate in guild chat from any web browser without logging in to the game.
On joining a guild you begin to earn a currency (called Influence) for your guild, this influence can then be spent in four areas:
Politics (PvE buffs, guild emblems, guild armor contracts, weapon contracts and party items)
Art of War {PvP buffs, gains and siege items)
Economy (karma, experience, magic find and gathering buffs.)
Archiotecture (build a bank and make it bigger - likely more to come here when Guild Halls are introduced)

GW2Guru article on guilds
incgamers article
Level Down System
When players enter areas or personal story instances that are beneath their level they will be kicked down to the appropriate level, players keep all skills unlocked but stats are bought down to be in line with the area. Loot while kicked down remains appropriate to your character level. While you do have the advantage of better skills you won't be able to one shot anything, a challenge is still intended.
From the GW2 wiki
Quests and the Dynamic Event system.
There will be no NPC's with exclamation marks above their heads, quests have been replaced with a dynamic events system. Instead of picking up a traditional quest players will need to pay attention to their environment, visual clues such as the appearance of invading hordes or an NPC running out to call for help as well as more subtle clues such as changes to the environment will be the entry points for players to join in these events. Events are set to scale depending on player numbers, player level will not bar successful and meaningful involvement in these events, a higher level player can join lower level events and will find their skill level adjusted so that, while still being a little over powered for the event, they shouldn't be able to steam roll the event.
Events are dynamic and one event will effect other events further down the line, players always have the choice as to their level of involvement and which events to get involved in. NPC's will remember when a player has helped them out in the past and react differently after the event.
Players do not need to party to gain rewards from participating in an event, all players who participate will receive a reward, the majority of these rewards will consist of Karma and Gold, the player is then free to choose what items to spend it on.
It has been stated this events system means a player could visit the same area several times and not find the same events happening.
The events system eliminates kill stealing and encourages group play through the scaling dynamic, the more players the more interesting the fight can become.
For some events completion can be achieved in a number of ways, in the case of a village being attacked and set on fire, players can choose to either help put out the fires or repel the invaders, doing either or both will help complete the events objective.
There is a 'scout' NPC that will be able to tell you of the potential trouble spots in the local area to help you find possible events
Examples:
Centaurs may attack a village, players can help save the village or let it be captured, the centaurs could then set up base and try to expand without further player intervention in to surrounding territory. If the players defended the village there is nothing to say that the centaurs won't keep trying.
A player may return to a previously visited watermelon field to find the crops destroyed, the farmer may be calling for help to fight off an invader, at the same time the player has noticed the watermelons have gone because the field is over run by rabbits, on further investigation traps/cages may be found in that field, the player has the choice of either fending off the invading mob or help capture the rabbits.
Dynamic events
Q&A: Dynamic Events 1
Q&A: Dynamic Events 2
GDC Vault - Designing Guild Wars 2 Dynamic Events
PAX Panel of Events: Designing a New Dynamic Event with the Developers
MumboJumbo spent some time researching info on events- see this post
Instances and Open World
The majority of the game will take place in a massive open world, each player also has their own personal storyline, these will be instanced but you can choose to invite friends to help you or just to come visit. Dungeons are also instanced.
Dungeons
Dungeons are designed for five players. Instead of random loot drops players players will be rewarded with tokens to spend on dungeon items. Each dungeon will have the minimum of one armour set for each armour type and a full range of weapons as possible rewards. Initial encounters in dungeons will come from following the story, subsequent entries in to dungeons will be in an 'explorable' mode, players will have the opportunity to take different routes and have different encounters in a more difficult version. All dungeons give you the opportunity to explore them in several ways, most explorable dungeons have three different ways of playing, players make a choice through vote as they enter the dungeon. Dungeons also have dynamic content that can be triggered so that repeating the same option in explorable mode could still provide fresh content.
gamebreakertv hands on
From PC Gamer, posted on GW2 Guru

Personal Storyline and NPC interaction
At character creation you have the opportunity to make choices and develop a back story prior to entering the game, these choices will dictate how your personal story line plays out and how NPC's interact with you. Those choices will never lock you out of nor restrict your content in the open world and main story line.
Your instanced personal story line and the environment in your personal instance will change according to your choices. You could start off as a mild mannered type but later decide you have had enough and decide that the best way to get through is by force, choosing to punch your way to information rather than using diplomacy, that will earn you a reputation in the wider world, so while merchants may not like you they'll still do business with you. In the demo the three character traits that contributed to your personality development were:
charisma
dignity
ferocity

Your choices in the instanced personal storyline also effects your environment within it. Inviting friends lets them experience a different side to the personal story that they may not have got to have seen.
If you out level your personal story content you will be kicked back down to the appropriate level.
Karma
Karma is a currency, develop it by doing good deeds, taking part in events and helping lower level players and you can use it to buy goods. During the demo successful completion of some events spawned a merchant NPC who sold special items for karma.
You can of course choose to ignore most of these RP elements and just get on with the game.
Personal stories
Personality in Guild wars 2
Player Housing
As part of the personal storyline players will have a home instance, this will be about the size of a city block within your racial city. Within that home instance players will have the racial equivalant of a house (Asura may have an Asuran lab). You will be able to invite other players in to your home. This is unlikely to be in at launch and will follow in an update along with guild housing.
Massively interview with Ree Soesbee
Crafting & Gathering
The crafting professions are:
Weaponsmith – Weaponsmiths craft melee weapons, such as swords, axes and hammers.
Huntsman – Huntsmen craft ranged weapons like bows and pistol, as well as torches and warhorns.
Artificer– Artificers craft magical weapons such as staves and scepters.
Armorsmith – Armorsmiths craft heavy armor pieces.
Leatherworker – Leatherworkers craft medium armor pieces.
Tailor – Tailors craft light armor pieces.
Jewelcrafter – Jewelcrafters craft jewelry, such as rings and necklaces.
Cook – Cooks can prepare food which characters can eat for temporary combat buffs.
Players can have two active crafting professions. Professions can be swapped at a cost, when relearning the previous profession you start at the level you left off, the higher the level the higher the cost of switching professions. Recipes can be discovered by putting between two and four correct items in to the crafting interface allowing you to discover recipes by trial and error, recipes will also be available as drops. Crafting will take place at a workstation. When selecting a profession you will be supplied with a starter pack of materials useful for that profession.
Crafting demo at Gamescom 2011
Gathering - all players can gather, there are no gathering professions to choose from. Nodes spawn so that each player can gather individually, you don't have to worry about someone stealing the node you are clearing mobs to reach, your quota will still be there.
See Andrew Mcleod Talks Crafting
Fashion
It has been stated that if an NPC is wearing it it's very likely you will be able to wear it too. This article on the official blog references transmutation stones which are bought from the item shop, they are used to put the look of one piece of gear on to another piece, that level 1 helm you loved can have its look transferred to that ugly lvl 80 helm of awesomeness, keeping the lvl 80 stats. It has been stated clearly that all armour, from start to end game will have good looks, no one will be forced to buy transmutation stones because of poorly designed armour.
Q&A on loot and items
Mini Games
Each major town will have it's own mini games, these are social activities that aren't dependant on character level, they will vary in their mechanics from complex games of skill, simple target practise, solo games, multiplayer and full on no rules bar brawls. They will carry rewards, for example during the bar brawl you may be rewarded by the local dentist by handing in teeth you've knocked out the mouth of your opponents. It's intended that these are fun past times that can step out side the normal rules of the wider game.
Activities - games within the game
Auction Houses
There will be an auction house and it will be accessible from outside the game, you can monitor and bid from a web browser/phone app interface without entering the game. Players will also be able to post 'bids' for items not currently listed on the AH and other players can choose to meet that bid and supply the item.
Audio
The music is composed by the original GW composer Jeremy Soule.
There is extensive voice acting but not everything will be voiced.
A lot of care has been taken with audio to ensure the world sounds alive. They have a built a dynamic audio system that reacts to environment, clothing etc to change the sounds to allow for a more realistic sound scape. Players will be able to import their own playlist of music to replace that of the composer if they so wish, allowing your music to be fully integrated in to the game letting you carry on hearing environmental and weapon effects.
Video - Giving Tyria a Voice
Talking Heads - VO and dialogue in GW2
James Boer talks gw2 audio design
End Game
There is an anti grind philosophy with GW2, there will be no end game grinding through raids to achieve better and better gear. there will be 'elite' zones and dungeons so that gw2 gold players who enjoy a challenge can play through those. End game is expected to consist of elite content, PvP, crafting and achievements. The sidekick system will also allow high level players to revisit and experience new dynamic events in lower level areas. Any grind will be purely voluntary and will likely be rewarded with titles and cosmetic items. As there are individual starter areas and cities for each race and branching personal story arcs, it's expected that rolling alts will add to retention of players.

Videos
GW2 Debut Trailer
Design Manifesto
Races of Tyria
Voices of Tyria
Ranger Skill Videos: Spread Shot, Barrage, Hunter's Call, Whirling Defense, Serpent's Strike.
Elementalist Skill Videos: Water Trident, Static Field, Phoenix, Meteor Shower, Churning Earth.
Necromancer Skill Videos:Putrid Explosion, Locust Swarm, Grasping Dead, Life Siphon, Doom.
Warrior: Skill Compilation
Guardian: Skill Compilation
Thief Skill Compilation
Engineer Skill Compilation
Concept Art Videos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
Dev walkthrough at Gamescom: Part One, Part Two, Part Three.
TubeElephant Has a great channel over on youtube, he's edited all the info together from various videos to provide a one stop shop for everything you need to know.
See cyphers excellent post for more gamescom 2010 videos and more in depth info on classes here
romanator0 started a great Gamescom 2011 Video thread with plenty of eye candy.

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Guild Wars 2 is a free upgrade, but with paying tournaments

ArenaNet and NCsoft announced with great fanfare a few days there the immediate availability of a major update for  Guild Wars 2  called  "The Shadow of the Mad King."  Available from October 22, it brings some new .

In his statement , the editor shows all the new features introduced by this big patch, the first of which is an event dedicated to the celebration of Halloween. This takes place until 31 October and brings new minigames and dynamic events on all of Tyria.

The latter also evolve somewhat with the emergence of new vistas to unlock, new boss minidonjons with some success and more to unlock.

However, the main addition of this update is probably Tournaments gw2 gold players against players ... paid! Available very soon, it will pay a cost gems (the game's currency) so that your team of 5 players can compete to win major prizes. However, it is possible to exchange gold against his gems at a variable rate, so you do not have to get his card. Free tournaments are also available to qualify for the tournament fee.

Finally, note that the game is again available for several weeks, stockouts are now ancient history.  You can also take a ride on our forum,  dedicated to this topic Guild Wars 2 to share your experience.

Here is finally a video presentation of how Halloween

Guild Wars 2: Patch notes for the update of 24 October 2012 - paid tournaments will be released soon

A new content update for Guild Wars 2 fixes more problems with crashes in PvP, and there's fixes in the Fort of the Trinity. For individual sections of the scavenger hunt, and for players who have been associated with using the authenticator periodically kicked from the game server

Guild Wars 2 ArenaNet developers have played a new update on the game server, which handles primarily to the elimination of some errors and problems. For example, it was in PvP to frequent crashes. This was due to a bug that allowed the activation paid tournaments. The tournaments are paid - if all tests run smoothly and the system is stable - in the course of the 25th October 2012 will be released.

Another major bug made sure that the active user authenticators were separated from the regular gw2 gold game server - with the most recent update will no longer be the case. Generally were "many crash problems" solved precisely it addresses not in the patch notes but. The full patch notes for Game Update for Guild Wars 2 of 24 October 2012 you will find below and on the official website for the online role-playing game Guild Wars 2.

Patch Notes Game Update of 24 October 2012 for Guild Wars

A bug was fixed which led to frequent crashes in PvP. This was the verliebene bug that caused darfür that paid tournaments could be activated. We will spend another day with testing to ensure that the system is stable and error-free before players spend gems for it. If you encounter any unforeseen problems we paid tournaments will be published in the course of the coming day.
Various crash issues have been fixed
The progress bar for Halloween success has been corrected
An instance of input has been added, it allows players on reaching the fort in the Trinity Tahernes to reach office
The individual sections of the scavenger hunt will fürhen no longer cause errors when they are triggered by too many players at the same time
Fixed an issue that players regularly active authenticators separated from the buy Guild Wars 2 gold game servers
Fixed a bug which caused a door that was closed in two of the ways of Arah

"Guild Wars 2" your 9 major trouble alternatives involving plug-in released

"Guild Wars 2" standard site just lately posted a piece of writing in Reddit pointed out that your "Guild Wars 2" transpired a lot of troubles considering that their sale made, along with brought up tips on how to boost in the near future to get. The complete wording will be as employs:

Considering that "Guild Wars 2" sport sale made we have now observed this troubles:

Bill stability - many of us gotten a great deal of hacking actions, and also looking to hacking actions survey. Many of us feel that these kind of versions will be in your username and passwords compromised via various other gw2 gold online games along with internet sites, along with try and go with this info using Guild Wars 2 avid gamers username and passwords. So as to end his or her actions, many of us de-activate your private data recast purpose, along with presented a new address authentication purpose. Many of us in addition expect that this avid gamers to the security with their individual uses, by using a exclusive private data, and also other address private data plus the sport private data difference offered to "Guild Wars 2".

E-mail authentication - your address authentication technique operate how: your current bill coming from a brand-new spot certainly not logged get access, your current address will certainly get the e-mail, to make use of to the get access choice. Consequently, regardless of whether men and women recognize your current "Guild Wars 2" private data, they need to be aware that your current e-mail private data for you to get access sport. It's also possible to present two-factor authentication by making use of YAHOO AND GOOGLE as well as Aol this specific address to increase improve the stability of your respective bill. E-mail authentication technique have been on the internet.

Crew, Accountants and also other cultural devices - your crew, your Modern society and also other cultural devices found a lot of troubles. Case in point, avid gamers can not be viewable for the road, and also the cross over place is just not inside very same shunt server. These kind of phenomena, specially through optimum times. Were fitting in with deal with these kind of troubles along with correct these people throughout bigger bring up to date.

Server - a lot of hosts reach a new vividness place. Many of us command the quantity of hosts, to ensure following optimum interval inside 1st, in order that it is possible to some amount of obtain gw2 gold gamers throughout every single server. While needed, many of us raises the quantity of hosts, by way of example, in Thurs night, your The german language server along with This particular language hosts are generally entire, consequently we shall put a pair of teams of The german language server or a gang of This particular language server.

Your shunt server - the 1st design and style shunt server, so as to remedy the challenge involving hoarding many avid gamers first inside sport along with bring about dilemma inside amateur place. While a new local variety can be too big, your fresh appeared gamer are going to be allocated on the your shunt server. In case you plus your teammates are certainly not in a very shunt server, you'll be able to right-click on the teammate's avatar along with tend to enroll in. On the other hand, due to above-mentioned crew technique, there are many troubles, so this attribute often don't succeed.

Buy and sell Place - we've been looking to create your buy and sell place at stake immediately, ahead of many of us aimlessly decided on 15% in the avid gamers to get screened, while each of our exchanging place technique can be dependable ample, which enable it to allow for a satisfactory amount of deals, many of us will certainly most avid gamers wide open. Presently, we've got concluded the net exchanging article examination, along with most avid gamers for you to close up your buy and sell place to take care of. Due to the many avid gamers doing your examination, so you made it easier for people quite a lot.

Snail mail technique - many of us observed that this actions of an probable neglect in the snail mail technique, along with for the short term de-activate your snail mail technique. Many of us will certainly wide open immediately. Snail mail technique so as to reduce hacking via avid gamers whom shift involving just about any residence, while each of our e-mail authentication technique can be dependable, many of us will certainly first turn on this specific attribute.

Select - we've got began a new hit on the plug-in. We've got observed a number of gentle as well as non-malignant plug-in actions, and will be granted a new 72-hour concept treatment pertaining to the 1st time. Following select hit employment, we'll be throughout rigorous acquiescence while using initial insurance plan, everlasting exclude people that utilize plug-in avid gamers.

Online community - were currently the principle target remains to be to take out sport faults, the action dependable. For that reason, so as to software class is just not preoccupied by simply various other operate, many of us thought we would work out throughout many avid gamers in the sport first after which it wide open online community.

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"Guild Wars 2" the particular 9 huge difficulty remedies regarding plug-in declared

"Guild Wars 2" established internet site not too long ago printed a write-up about Reddit remarked that the particular "Guild Wars 2" took place several issues given that the selling, and also mentioned the way to increase in the future being. The total text message can be as uses:

Given that "Guild Wars 2" video game selling we now have identified these issues:

Consideration safety : we all acquired plenty of hacking habits, along with wanting to hacking habits record. We all believe these kinds of kinds come in the particular account information ripped off coming from some other gw2 gold game titles and also sites, and also make an effort to match up these records together with Guild Battles a couple of participants account information. So that you can quit their particular habits, we all power down the particular security password reset to zero operate, and also introduced any post office box authentication operate. We all furthermore desire the participants for your defense of these very own functions, employing a special security password, as well as other post office box security password as well as the video game security password big difference ready to accept "Guild Wars 2".

E-mail authentication : the particular post office box authentication method perform just how: the consideration from your fresh place by no means logged logon, the post office box can acquire a great e-mail, to utilize for your logon agreement. Thus, even when folks realize the "Guild Wars 2" security password, this individual must understand that the e-mail security password to be able to logon video game. You can even offer two-factor authentication through the use of YAHOO or perhaps Bing this kind of post office box to help expand raise the safety of one's consideration. E-mail authentication method continues to be on the web.

Staff, Accountants as well as other sociable methods : the particular staff, the particular Community as well as other sociable methods current several issues. Illustration, participants can't be exhibited around the guide, plus the move location just isn't inside the identical shunt server. These kinds of phenomena, specifically in the course of top durations. We have been attempting to take care of these kinds of issues and also resolve these inside the most up-to-date up-date.

Server : several computers have reached any saturation level. We all handle how many computers, in order that following your top period of time inside the initial, to make sure that you can still find a specific variety of acquire gw2 gold participants inside each and every server. Any time essential, we all increase how many computers, as an example, about Thursday night, the particular In german server and also People from france computers are usually total, thus we are going to increase a couple of sets of In german server and a band of People from france server.

The particular shunt server : the initial layout shunt server, so that you can fix the situation regarding hoarding numerous participants early on inside the video game and also result in distress inside the newbie location. When any regional amount will be too large, the particular freshly came person will probably be given for the the particular shunt server. In the event you along with your teammates usually are not in the shunt server, it is possible to right-click on your own teammate's avatar and also elect to become a member of. Nonetheless, as a result of above-mentioned staff method, there are a few issues, and this characteristic at times are unsuccessful.

Business Stop : we have been wanting to help make the particular business stop exactly in danger at the earliest opportunity, just before we all at random picked 15% with the participants being analyzed, any time our own investing stop method will be secure adequate, and will cater to an acceptable variety of purchases, we all can almost all participants available. Currently, we've accomplished the web investing submit analyze, and also almost all participants to be able to shut the particular business stop to keep up. As a result of every one of the participants playing the particular analyze, and you also aided us all a whole lot.

Email method : we all identified the habits of your prospective mistreatment with the email method, and also in the short term power down the particular email method. We all can available at the earliest opportunity. Email method so that you can stop hacking coming from participants which exchange regarding virtually any house, any time our own e-mail authentication method will be secure, we all can start this kind of characteristic.

Put : we've commenced any setback for the plug-in. We've identified several slight or perhaps non-malignant plug-in habits, and will also be offered any 72-hour subject abuse regarding initially. Following your put setback career, i will be inside stringent agreement with all the authentic coverage, long lasting bar those that utilize the plug-in participants.

Community forum : we have been today the key aim remains to eliminate video game imperfections, the sport secure. As a result, so that you can system party just isn't diverted simply by some other perform, we all made a decision to reconcile inside numerous participants with the video game early on and available community forum.

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"Guild Wars 2" the actual 9 large issue options associated with plug-in introduced

"Guild Wars 2" recognized web site lately released articles upon Reddit noticed that the actual "Guild Wars 2" happened numerous difficulties because it's purchase, as well as discussed how you can enhance soon to become. The entire textual content is really as comes after:

Because "Guild Wars 2" online game purchase we have discovered the next difficulties:

Accounts protection -- all of us obtained lots of hacking conduct, in addition to attempting to hacking conduct statement. All of us think that these types of types have been in the actual username and passwords taken through additional gw2 precious metal video games as well as web sites, as well as attempt to complement these details along with Guild Conflicts two gamers username and passwords. To be able to cease their own conduct, all of us turn off the actual pass word totally reset perform, as well as released the mail box authentication perform. All of us additionally wish how the gamers for that safety of the personal reasons, utilizing a distinctive pass word, along with other mail box pass word and also the online game pass word variation available to "Guild Wars 2".

E-mail authentication -- the actual mail box authentication program function the way in which: your own accounts from the brand new area in no way logged sign in, your own mail box may obtain a good e-mail, to use for that sign in authorization. Therefore, even though individuals understand your own "Guild Wars 2" pass word, he or she should also realize that your own e-mail pass word in order to sign in online game. You may also supply two-factor authentication by utilizing SEARCH ENGINES or even Google this particular mail box to help boost the protection of the accounts. E-mail authentication program may be online.

Group, Accountants along with other interpersonal techniques -- the actual group, the actual Culture along with other interpersonal techniques existing numerous difficulties. Instance, gamers cannot be shown about the chart, along with the changeover area isn't within the exact same shunt server. These types of phenomena, particularly throughout maximum intervals. We're trying to solve these types of difficulties as well as repair all of them within the newest revise.

Server -- numerous machines reach the vividness stage. All of us manage the amount of machines, to ensure that following the maximum time period within the very first, to ensure you may still find a particular quantity of purchase gw2 gold gamers within every server. Whenever required, all of us increases the amount of machines, for instance, upon Thurs, the actual German born server as well as France machines tend to be complete, therefore we will include 2 categories of German born server in addition to a number of France server.

The actual shunt server -- the very first style shunt server, to be able to resolve the issue associated with hoarding a lot of gamers earlier within the online game as well as trigger misunderstandings within the beginner region. Then when the local quantity is actually too big, the actual recently showed up participant is going to be designated towards the the actual shunt server. Should you as well as your teammates aren't inside a shunt server, you are able to right-click in your teammate's avatar as well as decide to sign up for. Nevertheless, because of the above-mentioned group program, there are several difficulties, which means this function occasionally fall short.

Industry Train station -- we are attempting to help to make the actual industry train station at risk as quickly as possible, prior to all of us arbitrarily chosen 15% from the gamers to become examined, whenever the buying and selling train station program is actually steady sufficient, and may support an adequate quantity of dealings, all of us may just about all gamers open up. At the moment, we now have finished the internet buying and selling publish check, as well as just about all gamers in order to near the actual industry train station to keep. Because of all of the gamers taking part in the actual check, and also you assisted all of us a good deal.

Postal mail program -- all of us discovered how the conduct of the possible misuse from the postal mail program, as well as briefly turn off the actual postal mail program. All of us may open up as quickly as possible. Postal mail program to be able to avoid hacking through gamers that move associated with any kind of home, whenever the e-mail authentication program is actually steady, all of us may switch on this particular function.

Connect -- we now have started the whack towards the plug-in. We now have discovered a few moderate or even non-malignant plug-in conduct, and you will be provided the 72-hour name consequence with regard to the very first time. Following the connect whack work, we are within rigid compliance using the unique plan, long term prohibit people who make use of the plug-in gamers.

Discussion board -- we're right now the primary objective continues to be to get rid of online game defects, the overall game steady. Consequently, to be able to plan team isn't sidetracked through additional function, all of us chose to negotiate within a lot of gw2 gold gamers from the online game earlier after which open up discussion board.

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