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Use Your Guild Wars Character Name in GW2

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ArenaNet released new details about Guild Wars name reservations:
 

If you’re a Guild Wars player who wants to use your character names in Guild Wars 2, now is the time to stake your claim. It’s easy—all you have to do is log in to your Guild Wars account to reserve all your character names. But don’t delay—the deadline for name reservation is July 31.
 
We’re building our Guild Wars 2 name reservation list on July 31. We’re only reserving character names from active Guild Wars accounts, which is why you’ll need to log in at least once in 2012 before we build the list in order to be considered an active Guild Wars player.
 
Your Guild Wars character names will not be reserved indefinitely. You must create a Guild Wars 2 character with the same name as your Guild Wars character during the Headstart Access period or on launch day. Shortly after launch, we’ll free up all the unclaimed names for new Guild Wars 2 players to use.

 

Guild Wars 2 Beta 3 Key Giveaways

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Guild Wars 2 the third beta event is on the horizon, and if you haven’t got your beta key yet, in the list below you can find various beta key giveaways that are going on:
 

Source – Reddit.com

Guild Wars 2 Beta Key Giveaway on Curse

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If you are looking for a Guild Wars 2 beta key, Curse has keys to the final beta weekend.

Starting at midnight (PDT) on Monday, July 9th Curse Premium members will have first crack at the codes. We’ve got 5,000 keys set aside for North American Premium members and 5,000 for European Premium members.
 
At midnight (PDT) on Tuesday, July 10th, we’ll open up the giveaway to all registered users. At this time 20,000 keys will be given to registered users in North America and 20,000 to users in Europe.
 
To get your key:
North American users click here
European users click here

Play Asura and Sylvari in the third GW2 Beta Weekend

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ArenaNet announced on the official blog that Guild Wars 2 fans will be able for the first time to play Asura and Sylvari races:
 

For our final Beta Weekend Event (July 20-22), we’re making the asura and sylvari races available to beta players for the first time. Players will be able to create characters from any of the five main races of Tyria—human, norn, charr, asura, and sylvari—and begin their Guild Wars 2 experience in any of the five radically different home regions.
 
For asura players, this means beginning your tale in Metrica Province, a vivid, exotic jungle area full of high-tech laboratories, quirky golems, and competing krewes of mad scientists. Nearby, the massive monoliths of the asuran capital Rata Sum hum with technomagical power. These diminutive geniuses may seem cute at first glance, but never underestimate an asura…
 
Sylvari players begin their story in the Grove, a luminous living city nestled in the shade of the Pale Tree, the “mother” of every member of this young race of plant humanoids. The sylvari are an enigmatic race of chivalrous explorers who are driven by an insatiable curiosity and guided by a collective Dream.

Guild Wars 2 Release Date August 28th 2012

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According to a new video, posted a few minutes ago Guild Wars 2 will be released on August 28th, 2012. Don’t forget that all Pre-Purchase editions include three days of Headstart Access!
 

 
Official announcement:
 

Guild Wars 2 will officially launch on Tuesday, August 28th.
 
This is an incredibly momentous day for the studio and for me personally. This journey began in 2007 when we first announced that we were beginning work on Guild Wars 2 and that you wouldn’t be hearing from us for a while. Then in 2010 we unveiled our manifesto for Guild Wars 2: a living breathing online world that challenges convention, that’s designed for fun instead of grind, and that brings social interaction to a new level in an online world.
 
Through all the long hours and hard decisions, we were bolstered by the knowledge that we were not in this alone. All along you’ve been there for us, cheering us on, supporting us when we needed it, testing early versions of the game, and above all, giving us your honest feedback every step of the way. Guild Wars 2 is a better game for all of the work that our community has put in.
 
Now that we’re just two months away from launch, we’ll spend our remaining time optimizing, polishing, and balancing the game, to ensure that we provide you with the best launch-day experience we possibly can.

 

Source: ArenaNet Blog

New GW2 Stress Test on June 27th

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Today, ArenaNet announced four-hour Stress test event, scheduled for Wednesday, June 27th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT (GMT-7). It will be the same build as last Beta Event, including the final event.

We were very pleased with how our servers performed during our second Beta Weekend Event, but we want to gather additional data on how they operate under load before the next one.

That’s where you come in.

All players who have pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 are invited to participate in our upcoming stress test. This four-hour test event will run on Wednesday, June 27th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT (GMT-7).

We won’t wipe characters for this event, so if you played in our previous betas, you can pick up right where you left off. All we need you to do is log in and have fun—leave the stress to us!

Mystic Forge and Mystic Vendor in Guild Wars 2

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Mystic ForgeDuring the second Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend I came across a special place – Mystic Forge. It’s located in the Lion’s Arch – Mystic Plaza.
 
Guild Wars 2 Developers described it as a strange forge that actually holds the imprisoned djinn Zommoros, who hails from distant Elona. If you offer the Mystic Forge gifts (like unneeded items and weapons), you will receive a gift in return. Got a pair of pistols that you don’t need? Drop them in the Mystic Forge and see what Zommoros gives you in exchange!
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