Guild Wars 2

Greetings,

I’ve been really enjoying the beta weekend events not just for the content, but for the ability of trying out new builds and character types without the overheads of having to craft a set of X armour/weapons or to level character Y to 80.

So much so, that I wonder if these can be a reoccurring event in future? Something like a “Free Build Weekend”?

These would supply a temporary character slot for one weekend much like the betas. We can try out any class at level 80, plus we can play around with a pre-packaged set of armour, weapons, runes and sigils without having to spend 100’s of gold to find we don’t really like that play style.

Everything achieved would still be temporary and deleted at end of weekend of course, but a try-before-you-buy option would be excellent!

I like this idea! I always find myself gearing up a character, then not enjoying the playstyle and just end up using it as a ‘mule’.

biofrog.1568:

Greetings,

So much so, that I wonder if these can be a reoccurring event in future? Something like a “Free Build Weekend”?

I like the idea.

Keep in mind: it’s a lot more work on ANet’s side than any of us are likely to imagine. So it might sound really good to us and also be more trouble than it’s worth for them.

Honestly it’s a pretty good system that seems mostly set up already, I wonder if it could be effectively forked to in stead be used as the test bed for future balance changes.

I know in the past they’ve said they don’t like the idea of a test server, but if they can run two stubs for balance changes this way, why not use it for balance testing as well?

It’s one thing to do this for 3 weekends and get no rewards or progression from it. It’s another if it happens more than that. There have already been a number of posts saying they won’t do the betas or only do a little because they can’t personally benefit from it. Having weekends that are not a beta test and will not gain you loot or progression of your Mastery Lines will end up only being used by the people who want, as OP does, to test a build or char for free. Everyone else will ignore it.