Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Guild Wars 2 Features

Guild Wars 2 has five playable races. They are:
  • Asura
  • Sylvari
  • Norn
  • Charr
  • Humans

Apart from design and lore, the simply difference between races is going to be racial abilities. Every race may have unique choices to help make at character creation which can grant a back-ground tale for this character. These modifications mainly affect the story the character experiences.

Along with the five races, there are eight Professions:

  • Elementalist
  • Ranger
  • Necromancer
  • Warrior

  • Guardian
  • Thief
  • Engineer
  • Mesmer
Various professions will have access to several weapons, skills (excluding race-specific expertise), and even characteristics. Protective covering is dependent on profession types; scholars (Elementalist, Mesmer, and Necromancer) actually make use of lights shell, adventurers (Engineer, Ranger, and Thief) will use medium body armor, and soldiers (Guardian and Warrior) tend to use heavy armor.

in contrast to classic MMORPGs, it does not have any specialized healer profession; alternatively, any profession is capable of doing any function, based on their weapon skills. In the same way, professions are not bound by race.

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Getting Started : Guild Wars 2 Basic Information

Guild Wars 2 was first launched in March of 2007 and is the sequel to 2005's original game. Guild Wars 2 was launched on August 28, 2012. The release date was exposed on ArenaNet's blog on June 28, 2012. Arenanet began offering 3 pre-purchase editions of the game beginning on April 10th, 2012: Digital Edition, Digital Deluxe Edition, and Collector's Edition. Anyone who pre-purchased the game was given a 3 Day Headstart, starting August 25th, 2012 at 12:00 am. PDT (GMT-7).

Setting

Guild Wars 2 takes place approximately 250 years after the incidents of the Guild Wars: Eye of the North expansion. The wicked dragon Zhaitan has got risen and also created an army of the undead which threatens all of the mortal races of Tyria, the planet in which Guild Wars is set. In the interim between Eye of the North and Guild Wars 2, technology has developed superior to permit guns and other mechanical devices, and new races (primarily the Sylvari and the Asura) have recognized themselves in the world.

Game Engine

Guild Wars 2 uses a heavily modified Guild Wars game engine which includes support for real 3D environments, more detailed conditions and models, better lighting and shadows, new animation and effects systems, plus new sound and cinematics engines and a more flexible combat and skill-casting system.

Gaile Gray has indicated the game will support DirectX 10, but not need it to play. Guild Wars 2 will utilise the Havok physics engine to provide ragdoll animation and destructible environments, as well as occlusion culling technology registered from Umbra Software to optimise 3D object rendering.
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