Few questions before i buy...

Guildwars has already got me tempted to buy it, after playing one of the weekends and no monthly fee. Also its the first MMO i have seen with the greatest focus on player skill

But to details:

What ports does the game use, im behind a uni firewalll so i cant play most MMO but i can play FPS

Also im the UK, what is the release for here and are there sperate servers or whatever to US?

Is US version same as UK?

And can you get the CE in the UK? and wtf is that mace thing i saw a pic of Is it a ingame item or is it real

I don't know about the ports, but I know I ca't play at my uni.
The game was released at the same time all over the world, and the servers are all linked so everyone can play with everyone else, none of that shard nonsense that other games have.
That would have been a picture of an in-game weapon.

so that I don't have to start a new topic, there is a question I would like to ask, too;

From what I understand, success is largely determined by the players skill, not time played (level). What ways do this game implement 'skill'? Is that like, you use certain keys to swing your weapon in diffent ways and to block attacks, rather than all of it being determined by character stats?

I would refer to it more as tactics than skill. It's like the skill you need in playing Magic The Gathering.
You get to take eight skills (from a maximum pool of 150) into any battle. The skill of playing is all about knowing what to take and how/when to use them.

ah thanks for clearing that up