It's not just new zones that were arranged in this beta weekend. Almost every aspect of Guild Wars 2, from the user interface to the aperture accomplishment system, has been tweaked and refined. Even accessory areas, such as the afterimage and complete of affray combat, accept been analyzed and adjusted. While we've been searching at the bold for some time now, Guild Wars 2 continues to evolve.
One such archetype is Lion's Arch. In the aboriginal MMO, the animal basic city-limits was a above trading port. Following its calamity and destruction, and abundantly alone by the animal kingdom, the anchorage was rebuilt from repurposed ships and salvaged driftwood, giving it a different architecture. Over time, added ships accept been hoisted aloft and added to the structure, affiliated calm by a arrangement of gantries and catwalks. It's created a bewilderment of a city, absolute abounding hidden areas just cat-and-mouse to be discovered. Much like Divinity's Reach, Lion's Arch is acceptable to be a benefaction to role players appetite the amusing aspects of city-limits life.
As able-bodied as developing the apple of Tyria and aberrant it with stories, there's aswell been a drive to bury added MMO systems into the lore. The micro-transaction based Gem Store and player-driven Trading Post are now beneath the affliction of the Black Lion Trading Company, an NPC band specializing in bartering diplomacy beyond the continent. The Gem Store contains a amount of new items, including glasses, apparel and hats! There are a agglomeration of added fun items, such as chests of transformation potions, forth with the annual upgrades we've apparent before.
While the Gem Store has apparent the a lot of cogent UI improvements, there accept been a amount of added tweaks and changes. The repositioned contrivance bar and resizable map are the a lot of accessible improvements, but a accomplished host of tooltips and popups has been added to advice new players appear to grips with the basics. The LCD affectation on Logitech keyboards has aswell been enhanced, to cover apple and area stats, as able-bodied as simple appearance stats and a placeholder for While there's been abundant plan acceptable the apple of Tyria back we endure paid a visit, it's not all been about the lore. Appearance aperture skills, ahead a affray selection, accept now been afar into tiers. To buy abilities from the after tiers, a minimum amount of abilities from beforehand tiers accept to be bought.
It's bright to see with all the changes that ArenaNet is absorption heavily on adorning and convalescent the amount gameplay experience, rather than amazing us with swathes of new content. There's a audible plan to accept players advance added into the game, rather than advance agilely over a beyond amount of areas. Once the accepted agreeable has been able to a shine, it's acceptable that we'll see added areas introduced.