Guild Wars 2 Stuff

Before I begin with Guild Wars 2 news, be sure to check out the huge skill balancing update to Guild Wars 1.  A lot of people worked very hard on balancing extremely popular (and therefore touchy) farming skills, buffing entire lines of skills, and working on the balance across the PvP formats a bit more.  Then Linsey Murdock of the Guild Wars Live Team hints on Facebook that the next big patch will be a content patch, and she will have to kill people off.  My guess is she might be planning to push forward with the timeline in Guild Wars.  Now, on to the future.

The biggest news in the past few weeks is the official announcement coming from ArenaNet on the first Guild Wars novel: Ghosts of Ascalon.  The book is set for release this summer, and it will detail the story behind the peace agreement between the charr and the humans set one year before the events of Guild Wars 2.  The most fun way I’ve heard the book described was at PAX 2009 where they described it as ‘like Canterbury Tales with explosions.’  It’s described this way because not only will the main characters be dealing with the physical ghosts of Ascalon to retrieve the Khan-ur macguffin, but they will have to deal mentally with some of the ghosts of their pasts.  It will only be available at the outset as a paperback