The Searing Travis Neiderhiser

Mac client beta (you're welcome Steve), destory spammers one button click at a time, crafting made easy, butter…not so rare, rocket boots seem fine to me, gold tips from Marco and someone hates 5 things about Guild Wars 2…bfffft!

Special Guest:
Markco's Gold Tips

Say hello to our special guest Shokenaw, who expects to keep exploring and finding beautiful things in the world. Zach will keep doing whatever he feels like, Vayne loves finding references to GW1 and recovering captured waypoints, Nick just wants to do dungeons, and Travis can't figure out whether to play an alt or stick with his ranger. Also: tips on building your character traits, the mystic forge is slightly predictable, and a heated discussion of *gasp* the trinity! (or lack thereof).

Shokenaw's Blog

Guild Wars 2 has been released, recent updates to game mechanics, the social game that isn't so social and so much more!

The game has launched!
If you pre-purchased the game not through buy.guildwars2.com, make sure you apply the SEPARATE game code to your account. BWE access codes and live game codes are different!
Sound and vision mag talks with audio director James Ackley http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/article/sv-interview-guild-wars-2-audio-director-james-ackley
GW2 crew hosting launch events this Saturday in NY, Orlando, Austin, LA, and Seattle http://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2/events
Time magazine is very impressed with GW2 so far http://techland.time.com/2012/08/28/guild-wars-2-its-the-pinball-machine-of-mmos/ http://techland.time.com/2012/08/28/guild-wars-2-sales-one-million-pre-served-record-400000-playing-at-once/
Before the game was even technically out it hit 400,000 concurrent users, a record for pre-launch http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/28/guild-wars-2-hits-400k-concurrent-users-before-launch/
A few errors are going on, if you see one check out this site for common issues and fixes http://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8994
Wednesday Status
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/z1poz/guild_wars_2_status_wednesday_august_29/

Guild Wars 2 wins stuff, beta client isn't really a beta client, ArenaNet proves they rule at biking, Colin puts some rumors to bed but lets them stay up all night, GW2 purcahses are region locks, Travis has some fun with sound effects - annoys audience, Dances, and jumping puzzles.

Hey Stephen, the video you asked about with Colin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzDti9XxHFs

Justin's tool that analysis the Guild Wars 2 market and lets you know what makes the most sense to craft:
http://giygas.justinvanderheide.com/

ArenaNet gives us a glimpse of the servers going live, times you can expect to get in-game during launch, deep Mesmer and Necro discussions regarding "pets", the economy of Guild Wars 2 along with learning curves, steam rolling dungeons for armor, mounts??  Hm.

Another stress test, of course more jumping puzzle discussion, we make up a new race (when I say we I mean Vayne), why can't we find a profession and stick with it?  Questions with listeners!