So the time has come for us to announce the winners of our epic 'Design a Skill' contest! Five lucky people will be receiving Guild Wars 2 wall graphics from LTLPrints, as modeled above by the legendary artist himself: Kekai Kotaki.

First of all, we'd like to thank ArenaNet for the participation in the contest. Particularly Game Designers Isaiah 'Izzy' Cartwright, Jon Peters, and the rest of the combat design team for screening all of the entries, and taking on the incredibly difficult task of picking out a handful of winners. Secondly, thanks to everyone who entered! We were blown away by the amount of creativity in the entries.

So, without further ado, let me introduce our lucky winners:

Grand Prize Winner:

• N3verendr - 'Stonewark'

The four runners up, in no particular order:

• CrazyExcel - 'Plasma Shackles'
• grabus - 'Soar'
• nurt - 'Wrought Iron Bear Trap'
• Vulturion - 'Infernal Damnation'

Congratulations to you five! We'll be in touch shortly. Read on further for more insight from Jon and Izzy on their selected skills...

The test server is now online!

In order to play on the US-Canada test server, you need to
DOWNLOAD the test client:
Beta version 1.22.0 for Windows
Beta version 1.22.0 for Mac and Linux
(Double-click on loader.swf to launch the game!)

You will not be able to play on the test server without this client.
Also, please note that server is primarily for people residing in Canada or the US - you might encounter high latency if you live outside these countries.