Chapter 2 Information from Computer Gaming World

Just wondering if the new guild halls will be available to players who only have chap 1. It would be kinda weird if I got one of the new guild halls and half my guild cant get into it because they havent bought Chap 2. Does anyone know if this has been covered somewhere else and I just havent seen it yet?

Other than that...I cant wait to check out the new places and characters and generally look forward to playing this new part of the game. A-net hasnt let us down yet so this new Chap should be interesting.

There is an interview with Gaile Gray over at photics.com

http://photics.com/issues/issue25b.html


To paraphrase (and not copy their text)

Might want to add that to the front page list, looks like PvE will get some kind of.... well, "something" to be recognised by? Could be anything, PvE /rank style emotes, special titles, furry dice hehe anyway PvE players will get something in that respect.

Hehe, rangers are the one class (weeelll, maybe mesmers too) where the females look tougher than the males. To be honest I would have just been happier with less blatant cliches in the character faces/builds. You know, chubby Conan rip-offs for the warriors, david beckham for the rangers ect...

oh i hope so... and i hope we'll have more new armor crafters in diff areas, mb they just forget to mention it...

but what about new skills for existing professions?

Hm, is this an expansion or will we have to buy it all over again?

Release Date: March 31st 2006
While it's not written in stone yet and there is always the possibility of it getting pushed back, Chances are good this is the date we should be looking for. I'm a bit surprised though because I was expecting somewhere around May. Also take note that page was put up on Jan 8Th.

Articles:
* Gamespot Q&A With Gaile on Chapter 2

This is a whole other box that you will have to buy... but you DONT HAVE to buy it... If you want all the new stuff, you will have to buy this

actually i take back what i said this could be good with good vs bad ...cuz bad guys could get skills that good guys cant and good guys could get skills bad guys cant...and maybe if you kill a bad guy you could cap his dark skill

They already told us a few times before to not believe any of those release dates unless they specifically come from ANet themselves. I do believe someone mentioned the March 31st in the forum discussion you linked, and the same thing was told to him.

I'd wait for something official, but thanks for posting the Gamespot interview, I hadn't seen that yet.

until its on the official site, ignore the 31st march. They've said first half 2006, stores/sites are using March 31st coz its halfway through the first half.

Yes, unless it's from an official source, take any release date you come across with a handful of salt.

I've heard a story about an Electronics Boutique store trying to tell Gaile what the release date for Chapter 1 was sometime in mid-2004. Surprisingly enough, that wasn't accurate either...

So does anyone know if there are any screens in the magazine of the Ritualist?

"Gaile Gray: We DO have a major update planned in a VERY short time." She mentioned it won't be similar to SF but we will have NEW GREENS! If this is all true I strongly doubt Chapter two will be out before May. Also, if it wasn't mentioned yet Chapter two will be called Guild Wars: Factions

NO

this has been already shot down officially as normal advertising to get preorders and the date will change when the real date is on the OFFICIAL site,

rumor and people keep spreading it.

from the people who should know

I swear, if I see another post about the supposed "March 31" date I'm at the very minimum just deleting the post. It's been posted how many times now and people still don't read.

..... I can't believe I'm saying this to a mod but Savio calm down everyone is excited about this so their trying to spread the word.....even though it they probably don't think and use the search button and didn't remember the "DON'T POST RELEASE DATE UNTIL ANET RELEASES DATE!"

"Story missions match groups with and against each other (whole 8 player groups included)"

Does anyone care to speculate about this? As a PVE only player, this disappoints me. It sounds like some of the normal game missions will be PVP (like that annoying arena at the end of Pre-Sear). I don't want to have to deal with any other people than those I play with locally in my guild. Especially not in PVP contexts. We play casually, damn it.

It's fairly safe to say these PvP sections will be probably be optional There is a large enough player base that only likes to PvE so I doubt Anet will do something to alienate them.

I like the idea of "groups of 8 WITH each other" maybe this means some big battles versus like some boss or army, or something? 16 people PvE

"16 people PvE" Nah. If I wanted crap like that, I'd play WoW with raids of 40+. I pretty much only play the game with people I know; and I'm certain I'm not a minority as a player who does that. Keep me with the party I formed in town when entering the mission, and have reasonable enough henchmen to pad up to what's required to do the mission.

That's why those sections will more than likely (if it hasn't already been stated as fact by Anet) be optional like I said...