In spite of a relatively quiet update week for both Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, we managed to find plenty to discuss this week.

The annual Dragon Festival in Cantha begins next week, bringing with it our annual dose of red bean cakes, sugary blue drinks, and fabulously bad acting. The newest Guild Wars 2 information brings us an ArenaNet blog entry about new alphabets and prompts a discussion on what this might mean for gameplay. We continue our endless speculation about the next class reveal, and read lots of reader mail. Thanks for that, you guys — keep ‘em coming!

Also, we try not to, but we still say “mechanic” a lot.