Guild Wars Mini-Interview #33

ArenaNet has answered another small batch of questions about their upcoming Guild Wars, with the interview once again being posted on the game’s official website. An excerpt to follow:

Q: What’s coming next month?

A: I guess it’s safe to say that if this month has a bit of a PvE focus, next month may take more of a look towards PvP content. You may have read that we’re currently designing opportunities for Guild versus Guild combat. One of these will furnish you with an entirely new way to attack another guild’s guild hall. (And the news around the water cooler is that you may see a few exciting changes in the guild halls themselves, too.) We’re adding a number of new maps for GvG combat. The combat settings will cater to different kinds of playing styles, and will serve up a number of objectives. They’ll even take place in different regions. One interesting aspect of GvG battle is that the maps will be randomly chosen and not player selected. So when you issue a guild challenge, you need to be prepared to undertake several different kinds of battle, and not simply choose the one at which your team is best. With this feature, the guilds at the top of the ladder will truly be the best of the best, because they will have proven themselves not as master of one mapset, but as the commander of many.