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RTSFirebat · Aug 24, 2007, 05:52 AM // 05:52

Guide to the Guild Wars: Eye of the North - Sneak Peek Weekend Event (August 24th – 26th, 2007)
By RTSFirebat (IGN: Luna Silverwood)

Please enjoy this guide to the Guild Wars: Eye of the North preview event.

Comments, Suggestions and Feedback is always welcome

All information is subject to change if and when it becomes available. You can help by PMing me directly any information such as bugs, images or general info which isn't already in the guide. Thank you - RTS

Pre-Order Guild Wars: Eye of the North Now!
Participate in the Sneak Peek Weekend
72 Hours, Early Access, Keep Everything!

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Table of Contents:

Note: Use CTRL+F and search for each topic listed below...

General Event Information
Schedule
Accessing the Event (Far Shiverpeaks)
Event Map of the Far Shiverpeaks
Pre-Order Items Information
The Norn and the Asura
New Titles:

Deldrimor
Ebon Vanguard
Norn
Master of the North

Depths of Tyria (Dungeons)
New Weapon Skins
Mini Games

The Norn Fighting Tournament
Dwarven Boxing

The Eye of the North and the Hall of Monuments
New Condition - Cracked Armour
New Heroes

Gwen - Mesmer
Jora - Warrior
Xandra - Ritualist
Kahmu - Dervish
Vekk - Asura Elementalist
Ogden Stonehealer - Dwarf Monk

New Ranger Pets

Mountain Eagle
Polar Bear
White Wolf
Black Wolf
White Moa

Locations of Interest

Rabbit Valley
Gwen's Garden

Known Bugs
Updates
Contributors

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General Event Information:

The event is open to anyone who reordered a copy of Guild Wars: Eye of the North and as added a pre-order code to their account. Easiest place to pre-order the game is via the Guild Wars In-Game Store.

Keep Everything! Everything you acquire during the Sneak Peek Weekend, including items, XP, Heroes, and loot, will be available to you when the game goes live on August 31.

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Schedule:

The event is happening between on the August 24th – 26th, 2007, weekend:

Start: 12:01 AM Pacific Time (= 7:01 a.m. GMT), August 24th, 2007
End: 11:59 PM Pacific Time (= 6:59 AM GMT on the 27th), August 26th, 2007

Note: All progress, items, skills, and
Heroes you have unlocked and obtained during the Sneak Peek Weekend will be accessible again when the game goes live on
August 31.

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Accessing the Event (Far Shiverpeaks):

To travel to the Far Shiverpeaks and access the Sneak Peek content, speak with one of the following NPCs:

Len Caldoron in Lion's Arch
Minister of Maintenance Raiugyon in Kaineng Center
Bendah in Kamadan, Jewel of Istan

Only accounts which have a pre-order key attached to them will be able to do this of course.

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Event Map of the Far Shiverpeaks:

The following is a map of the area available in the event weekend.

Please download the map onto your local machine to avoid over using bandwidth of the image host.

Note: some locations show on this map cannot be reached during the preview.

For a complete map of the GW:EN locations, go to the Guild Wars web site via this link:

http://www.guildwars.com/events/inga...ek/default.php

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Pre-Order Items Information:

Anyone who has pre-ordered GW:EN will also have gained access to the following bonus items by typing /bonus in-game:

All items are customised to the character who creates them. But you can recreate them as many times as you like.

Glacial Blade

Cold damage: 15-22 (Requires 9 Swordsmanship)
Damage +15% (While Enchanted)

Hourglass Staff

Energy +15
Fire damage: 11-22 (Requires 9 Divine Favour)
Fire damage: 11-22 (Requires 9 Fast Casting)
Fire damage: 11-22 (Requires 9 Soul Reaping)
Fire damage: 11-22 (Requires 9 Energy Storage)
Fire damage: 11-22 (Requires 9 Spawning Power)
Halves skill recharge of spells (Chance: 20%)
Halves casting time of spells (Chance: 10%)
Health +45 (While Enchanted)
Two handed

Darksteel Bow

Piercing damage: 15-28 (Requires 9 Marksmanship)
Armour penetration +20% (Chance: 20%)
Damage +15%
Energy -5
Two handed

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The Norn and the Asura:

You will be able to enlist the aid of two new races:

The Norn

The Norn is a race of shape-shifting half-giants who dwell in the Far Shiverpeaks.

According to the May 2007 issue of PC Gamer the Norn will get a race-specific skill which allows them to transform into a half-bear form, increasing melee damage and Health.

It is not clear if this skill will be available to Norn NPCs in Eye of the North, playable Norn in Guild Wars 2 or both.

The Asura

The Asura are a subterranean race which originally dwelled in the Depths of Tyria, but were forced into the Tarnished Coast by the forces of the Great Destroyer.

They are diminutive, intelligent, ambitious and arrogant. They have a large subterranean empire, and are magically and technically adept.

It is know that the Asura are able to create golems to fight for them as a skill.

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New Titles:

The following new titles are available in GW:ENDeldrimor

You can gain Deldrimor Reputation by competing quests and tasks for the Dwarves. The title ranks are as follows:
1000 Points - Delver (1)
4000 Points - Scount Delver (2)
8000 Points - Gusty Delver (3)
16,000 Points - Risky Delver (4)

Ebon Vanguard
You can gain Ebon Vanguard Reputation by competing quests and monster hunts for the Ebon Vanguard. The title ranks are as follows:
1000 Points - Agent (1)
4000 Points - Special Agent (2)

Norn Title Track

You can gain Norn Reputation by competing in mini-games and completing quests for the Norn. The title ranks are as follows:

1000 Points - Slayer of Imps (1)
4000 Points - Slayer of Beasts (2)
8000 Points - Slayer of Nightmares (3)
16,000 Points - Slayer of Giants (4)
26,000 Points - Slayer of Wurms (5)
40,000 Points - Slayer of Demons (6)
56,000 Points - Slayer of Heroes (7)
80,000 Points - Slayer of Champions (8)
????? Points - Slayer of Gods (9)

Also if you talk to, and then fight any Norn NPCs as you venture into EotN areas (even in the early areas) you'll gain 25 points towards the Norn title track each time you beat them.

Master of the North

To gain this title you must gain Eye of the North mastery points. The title ranks are as follows:

100 - Adventurer of the North (1)

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Depths of Tyria (Dungeons):

What is known about the Depths of Tyria, is that it's made up of a network of caves which run underneath and between the three known continents of the world of Tyria.

They are known to be inhabited by Deldrimor Dwarves and Asura. The Depths of Tyria were first hinted at by Moleneaux, and will be entered in act 1 of Guild Wars Eye of the North.

The Depths of Tyria include 18 subterranean "dungeons".

Thanks to Guild Wars.com for image

Screenshots of the Depths of Tyria feature architecture resembling Ascalon's Catacombs and the Kurzick architecture (as well as the architecture of unknown origin in Altrumm Ruins and Urgoz's Warren). The Depths of Tyria also include skull-shaped stone structures similar to those in the Ring of Fire Islands, the Fissure of Woe and the Gate of Torment.

Known names for the Dungeons are:

Arachni's Haunt
Battledepths
Bloodstone Caves
Bogroot Growths
Catacombs of Kathandrax
Cathedral of Flames
Darkrime Delves
Frostmaw's Burrows
Heart of the Shiverpeaks
Jelly Den
Oola's Lab
Raven's Point
Rragar's Menagerie
Sepulchre of Dragrimmar
Shards of Orr
Vloxen Excavations

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New Weapon Skins:

Please see the following thread to post and dicuss any new weapon and items skins found during the pre-view event:

Link: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10189762

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Mini Games:

Currently there are two known mini-games in Eye of the North, they are:

The Norn Fighting Tournament

Boost your reputation with the Norn by defeating battle-hungry opponents in gladiator style battles. You enter the tournament solo and fight four random NPCs before fighting the final boss.

The whole thing is clearly based on Street Figher 2.

Dwarven Boxing

Dwarven Boxing is a mini-game that will be introduced in Eye of the North. It will be connected somehow to the Deldrimor Dwarves. A Destroyer is among the opponents. Kilroy Stonekin is known to be involved in Dwarven Boxing, and the player apparently must assist him.

Talking to Kilroy Stonekin in Gunnar's Hold enables you to begin boxing. He gives you a set of Brass Knuckles, and a series of quests in which you fight various enemies from different lands. Near the end of these quests, you will be given Thunderfist's Brass Knuckles, a rare pair of inscripable daggers.

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The Eye of the North and Hall of Monuments:

The Eye of the North is a tower in the Far Shiverpeaks, which shows visions and plays a significant role in the plot of
Guild Wars Eye of the North. The tower contains the Hall of Monuments.

The Hall of Monuments will allow you to add monuments, and each monument will unlock something, such as an exclusive item or title, for a character on a linked Guild Wars 2 account.

Note: Each of the different sections requires a Monument Tapestry to activate.

Confirmed Guild Wars 2 unlocks:

The Monument of Fellowship contains big statues of your unlocked hero companions and pets.
The Monument of Devotion shows little statues of your minipets and collectibles.
The Monument of Honour shows your titles and accomplishments, including finishing a campaign.
The Monument of Valour displays unlocked high-end weapons obtained from the Eye of the North expansion.

The Monument of Resilience shows all your ascended armour sets.

Here's the 10 armors that core professions can get.

Ritualists and Assassins will have 9 armors in there: Elite Luxon, Elite Kurzick, Elite Canthan, Elite Exotic, Elite Imperial, Vabbian, Ancient, Primeval, Obsidian.

Paragons and Dervishes will only have 5 armors in there: Elite Sunspear, Vabbian, Ancient, Primeval, Obsidian.

There is only one input for each Granite Citadel and Marhan's Grotto, even though you can purchase multiple armors from those locations.

Note: If a character puts a minipet in their HoM, it'll customise the pet for that character. So don't borrow any from your friends, otherwise they won't be very pleased.

Dicussion thread of the HoM is here: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10189776

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New Condition - Cracked Armour (Thanks Guildwiki for Info):

A new condition will be added in GW:EN expansion. The in-game description is as follows:

Condition. While suffering from this Condition, you
have -20 Armour (minimum 60).

Skills that cause cracked armour:

Necromancer - Well of Ruin Well of Ruin
Necromancer - Weaken Armour Weaken Armour (1)
Mesmer - Shrinking Armour Shrinking Armour
Elementalist - Shell Shock Shell Shock
Assassin - Shadowy Burden Shadowy Burden (1)
Ritulist - Sundering Weapon Sundering Weapon

Note: (1) These skills have been announced by Isaiah
Cartwright to be changed to inflict Cracked Armour with the release of Eye of the North.

Skills that involve when cracked armour is applied to a target:

Warrior - Body Blow
Ranger - Piercing Trap
Ranger - Body Shot
Dervish - Aura Slicer

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New Heroes:

The following new heros you can find in GW:EN:

Gwen - Mesmer:

Gwen is a domination mesmer by default, she has no elite skill loaded.

Take Gwen down to the Underworld to meet her mother, and you get a interesting Easter Egg and a bit of closure:

Jora - Warrior:

Xandra - Ritualist:

You can recruit Xandra the Ritualist hero from the Norn Fighting Tournament if you beat her in the tournament.

Kahmu - Dervish:

You can recruit Kahmu the Dervish hero after you beat him in the Norn Fighting Tournament.

Vekk - Asura Elementalist:

You obtain him once you have completed the quest to get to GW:EN

Ogden Stonehealer - Dwarf Monk:

You obtain him once you have completed the quest to get to GW:EN, at the same time as Vekk.

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New Ranger Pets:

The following new pets can be charmed in GW:EN:

Mountain Eagle

Polar Bear

White Wolf

A level 5 White Wolf or Black Wolf will randomly spawn at The Great Wolf Shrine.

Black Wolf

A level 5 White Wolf or Black Wolf will randomly spawn at The Great Wolf Shrine.

White Moa

They are located in Drakkar Lake towards the Sifhalla exit. They Spawn in a mob and run.

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Locations of Interest

The following areas are worth taking a note on your GW:EN travels:

Rabbit Valley:
A place in the northern shiverpeaks where a rabbit tries to lure players into a beautiful place but when players arrive there, they get a surprise. Go there and see for yourself

The Rabbit you follow could be a parody of the killer rabbit in Monthy Python and the Holy Grail.

Gwen's Garden:

It is located on the West side of the Eye of the North. Be sure to bring Gwen with you. As you approach, two red iris flowers drop. She goes on to say that this is her garden and why it's important to her.

She says something along the lines of: It's amazing this garden can grow in such a harsh environment. Her homeland which was destroyed will someday thrive again like this garden. I don't remember the exact words and it's scrolled by already.

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Known Bugs:

The following bugs have been found in during the preview event:

After talking to the third Norn in the third mission of GW:EN Sneak Peek Weekend (the one after encountering the first female Norn in the cinematic), Windows computers will crash and reboot. The client will offer to reconnect and reload the same exact spot, but it crashes and reboots again and again.

Fix: There is no way to get around this except to start the mission all over again.

Sometimes when you're in Kilroy Stonekin's tournament, you will be knocked down, and forced to return to the outpost; disregarding the "stand up" skill.

Those who installed Guild Wars using the Boot Camp Windows XP partition from their Macs will be in for an unpleasant surprise. In mission three, on their way to the Hall of Monuments, the one after viewing the cinematic featuring Jora and the Dwarves, the player's computer will randomly crash due to a memory dump error before promptly restarting the computer. There is no proposed solution for this bug as of yet.

Note: This bug also occurs not only on Macs but on other PCs as well.

Some players using Intel graphics chips have found that after loading Boreal Station, their client now crashes when under graphical stress. This is due to a driver failure (in which the driver either stops or becomes caught in an infinite loop), which requires a full system reboot and causes a message stating that the system has recovered from a serious system error. There is no known fix at the time, but keeping movements and camera rotations to a minimum when one's frame rate is low (during loading, etc.) minimizes the frequency of the error. Reducing some ingame graphics options (F11) can also help. Unlike the "boot camp" error, crashing can occur at virtually any time.

When activating the Northen Proof of Duty in Sepulchre of Dragrimmar the game crashes. (You can not get to level 2 in this dungeon because of this bug)

If a player had an Eye of the North hero in their party when the sneak peek ended, the slot will be "taken up" despite the hero being locked and unusable until the game's release. This problem can be solved by going to an area that forces one's party off (and then mapping back to a city or your Guild Hall), such as most PvP arenas. The Random Arena seems to work best as it sets the party size to 1. This bug has been fixed by a subsequent update.

Once reaching level 7 norn (Slayer of Demons) - NO extra points can be added, not just from killing things (expected as per the Sunspear title track), but any quest rewards gained were also not adding to the total (which differs from the Sunspear). I have reported it as I think it is a bug rather than a feature they have installed.

RTSFirebat · Aug 24, 2007, 05:53 AM // 05:53

Updates to Guide:

Note: Updates at the bottom of the list are most recent...

- Added Information on new Ranger pet, made minor corrections.
- Added link to GW:EN Weapons Thread on Screenshot forum
- Added info about new ranger pet - Thanks M Sterling
- Added info about the Norn Title Track - Thanks FlameoutAlchemist
- Added info on new titles, more on new pets and other information as well.

Contributors:

RTSFirebat, GuildWiki, Mystic Cobra, M Sterling, Rau the legendary, FlameoutAlchemist, Kotetsu Rain, TheGuildWarsPenguin, Enko, Zeander

RTSFirebat · Aug 24, 2007, 05:54 AM // 05:54

RTSFirebat needs your Help!!!!

It’s going to be a busy weekend, and I want to get some event game play in myself, so for the first time I'm requesting
the public to officially help out!

What is needed?

You can help my sending me a forum PM with any of the following:

Pictures and information about new items
Information and if possible pictures of any in-game bugs
Any pictures of interesting locations such as towns, NPCs etc... If I like it I'll add it into the guide
Information, pictures and better yet how-to guides for any of the mini games
Information on quests or missions in game.

Guidelines:

Take the following into account when PMing me any information:

I won't accept screenshots with Interface stuff like health bars and skills bars blocking things.
Don't send massive 1024 x 1280 or along those lines images, please resize them to 640 x 480 if possible.
All information must be accurate and clear. Nothing made up or speculation.

Donations

Finally you can always help me out by donating any spare gold or items. GW:EN right around the corner, and I'm almost flat broke. Just message me in game... IGN: Luna Silverwood. Big Thanks in advance!!

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All submissions will be of course credited in the Contributors section. The important thing is to PM (Private Message) me the information, as I won't have the time to read tons of posts in the guide thread looking for it.

Thank you, happy gaming

Indian · Aug 24, 2007, 08:55 AM // 08:55

New Titles
Tier 1 Slayer of the Imp - 1000 ? Norn Rep
Tier 2 Slayer of the Beast - 4000 Norn Rep

Master of the North Title Track
Tier 1 Adventurer of the North - 100 eye of the north mastery points

Deldrimor Title Trach
Tier 1 Delver - 1000 Deld. Reps

Also New Weapon:

Tapesstry

Cle0 · Aug 24, 2007, 11:03 AM // 11:03

If you enter the caverns from Kamadan include a run skill if you have one -to out run the destroyers - there is a timer to escape.

SaucE · Aug 24, 2007, 11:31 AM // 11:31

Here is a sword I had drop. Stats aren't great but I love the skin.

Šiljo · Aug 24, 2007, 11:49 AM // 11:49

any1 had fun with the charr and sudenly got tigerowned?

Shaz · Aug 24, 2007, 11:59 AM // 11:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Indian

New Titles
Tier 1 Slayer of the Imps - 1000 ? Norn Rep
Tier 2 Slayer of the Beasts - 4000 Norn Rep

Tier 3 Slayer of Nightmares - 8000 Norn Rep

Agracul · Aug 24, 2007, 12:42 PM // 12:42

where is the topic with gwen armor?

Neo Nugget · Aug 24, 2007, 01:03 PM // 13:03

dont know if we can buy that this weekend.

-.- 2 random crashes in the same explorable -.-

had to restart both times.-.- -.-

Edit: 4 times -.-, last 2 when i walked in HoM.

Agracul · Aug 24, 2007, 01:24 PM // 13:24

:S
cant u buy the armor in the eye of the north? is it really hard toget 1k exp?
or did u crash trying to get this exp?

Neo Nugget · Aug 24, 2007, 01:35 PM // 13:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agracul

:S
cant u buy the armor in the eye of the north? is it really hard toget 1k exp?
or did u crash trying to get this exp?

the armor npc says some stuff that i dont know anything about.Not gonna play this until they work out the crash bugs. dont like restarting only to crash again

MoriaOrc · Aug 24, 2007, 01:43 PM // 13:43

The (Norn) armorer says you need the title "Slayer of Heroes" before he will let you buy armors from him.

Also, a pick of a new weapon I found in a chest:

Neo Nugget · Aug 24, 2007, 01:44 PM // 13:44

What rank of whatever title is slayer of the heroes?

Edit: Ahh its rank 4.http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Norn_rank

Bubba · Aug 24, 2007, 01:45 PM // 13:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neo Nugget

What rank of whatever title is slayer of the heroes?

I believe Norn

Lianna · Aug 24, 2007, 02:37 PM // 14:37

A charr bladestorm dropped these.

RTSFirebat · Aug 24, 2007, 02:43 PM // 14:43

Good god O_o first its spikes on the assassin armours, now spikes on their weapons??? lol

SirJackassIII · Aug 24, 2007, 02:45 PM // 14:45

Obtain Kahmu (Dervish Hero): Beat him in the Norn Tournament (he's in the 5th round)

MoriaOrc · Aug 24, 2007, 03:09 PM // 15:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by SirJackassIII

Obtain Kahmu (Dervish Hero): Beat him in the Norn Tournament (he's in the 5th round)

I think that might be random. I fought him in the fourth round.

My friend fought Xandra (or however it's spelled), the Ritualist hero in one of the rounds, as well.

Edit: Just fought here in round 2.

henrys back · Aug 24, 2007, 03:15 PM // 15:15

hmm... has any one else seen the white moa's?

or the snow men? and the grentches?