Guild Wars - State of the Game @ Official Site

This week's State of the Game article examines the recent Guild Wars play balance testing.

On Friday, June 15, 2007, ArenaNet gave us a new set of changes to play with. Introduced as a "play balance test week," it had immediate impact on the metagame, ranging from GvG to the arenas to Hero Battles. Assuming the changes remain in place, they promise to steer the metagame in another direction. To explain the update, developers posted a list of notes on the official Guild Wars Wiki. This State of the Game article takes a peek at how the various tweaks affected gameplay over that first weekend, and looks at implications for the future.