1. What happens when you die ? Do you loose equipment/money/experience ? Do you have to fetch your corpse back ?
When you die, you get 15% death penalty (-15% to health and energy), but don't lose anything else. Death penalty can be removed by killing ennemies or by moving into another instance. Usually you have to wait and get resurrected by a friend, but in explorable areas there are shrines at which you reappear after death.
2. Can you choose not to participate in PvP and GvG activities ?
The choice is all yours, as Egin said it's all in their own instances. The only time you'll be attacked by another player you'll probably be expecting it.
3. How do you communicate in-game ? Have you used some third-party vocal communication software during the beta weekends ? What was your experience with this ?
I have used ventrilo to communicate with some of my friends and never had any problems.
4. Can you create several characters with the same account ?
You can create 4 characters per account.
5. Can you have a pet ? I like pets
Rangers can have pets, necromancers can too but theirs lose health over time and can only be summoned with ennemy corpses. Rangers have to charm an animal and it stays with them as long as they keep their charm skill on their skillbar
6. Can you be a member of several guilds ? at the same time ?
Your account is attached to your guild, if one of your characters joins a guild, all your other characters will be in that guild too.
7. Are there special areas for guilds (guild hall, shared inventory or so) ?
Currently a guild can choose from 6 different Guild Halls, and I heard ANet say they would add a shared guild inventory but I'm not sure it will really be implemented.
Hope that helps
