On the run up to TwitchCon there’s a fair bit of Guild Wars 2 news knocking around. With that in mind, I’ve pulled together another news dump so that you don’t have to go looking for it.

First up is famed data miner that_shaman informing us that Heart of Thorns is exactly one month away. Thanks to him I’m now breaking into a cold sweat at the thought that I’ve only 30 days to finish World Completion on my necromancer.

Next on the list and with the official Heart of Thorns trailer due to release this week, Gamespot have a preview of what went on behind the scenes when it comes to the voice actors. As well as the video they also have an interview with Nolan North who plays the voice of Mordremoth. The interview and video are both worth a look at.

As for TwitchCon coverage, ArenaNet have both days pretty jam packed. The druid reveal and “skill balance preview” on the Friday has me particularly excited. 

The Quaggan are next and are part of a recent ArenaNet Tweet. What does it mean? Who knows. Maybe the Quaggan know that bubbles, the secret underwater dragon is intending to devour all the water in Tyria?

Over on the official forums, there’s a couple of red posts. Firstly, it doesn’t sound as though the daredevil is getting any new animations but it is being tightened up when it comes to the new dodge mechanic. Here’s Karl with the details, with some more here.

Still with the red posts Mike Lewis, ArenaNet’s lead programmer, has published a lengthy post discussing latency and experiments surrounding trying to improve it. Rather than me dissect it, have a read here and here.

If you missed it, the Druid teaser has been released and there’s some interesting theories on it over on Reddit. Personally I really hope we get Aspects, less reliance on a pet (or at least allow it to evade) and a re-work of our spirits. I’m always hoping the staff is power based and a mid to long range weapon.

Finally, there’s an interesting post by Colin Johanson discussing structured PvP and how the sPvP playerbase is actually growing, rather than shrinking. I find that particularly interesting because I haven’t noticed any difference in my queue times. Maybe it’s a regional thing?

Oh and before I forget, Dulfy has an awesome round-up of the scrapper. I'll keep you posted of TwitchCon news as I have it.