Guild Wars 2

Hey, I was wondering, will people that have pre-odered the expansion save their character progression (e.g. masteries) after the beta has ended and the expansion is officially released? Or would they have to start all over once it’s out?

The way it worked last time was that your account was in effect cloned and the clone could do whatever it wanted in the new area.
This had no impact on your “true” account and was removed after the betas where done.

Yargesh.4965:

The way it worked last time was that your account was in effect cloned and the clone could do whatever it wanted in the new area.
This had no impact on your “true” account and was removed after the betas where done.

This is how it very likely will be again this time.

People used the copy for:

- testing stuff and builds without risking/spending their assets ingame
- throwing stuff into the mystic forge
- trying out new classes
- kicking themselves in the head for getting that longwaited precursor drop on their clone character instead of their regular account

Basically the clone characters and economy is completely seperate from live accounts. Everything that happens on there gets wiped. You won’t have access to the TP etc.

All rewards gained from interacting with clone characters like killing them in wvw though remains available and valid as long as it was created using the live account.

Thank you both kindly. It clarified a lot. <3

It was pretty funny during the last beta my friend threw his stuff into the forge on the beta account. He got dusk out of the forge since it was on the beta account anet would not let him keep it XD.

I don’t know anyone who threw stuff in the forge that was happy. If they got nothing, it reinforced their negativity about RNG (reducing their enjoyment of other things). If they got something, they are still kicking themselves for having “wasted” their luck on something even more ephemeral than digital rewards in a digital game are in the best of circumstances.

What happens in Beta stays in Beta. :p

Throwing stuff into the forge would be useful if you were already planning to do it outside of the beta anyway. It would allow you to double the size of your data set. Information is the only thing you can keep from the beta.

Cyninja.2954:

Yargesh.4965:

The way it worked last time was that your account was in effect cloned and the clone could do whatever it wanted in the new area.
This had no impact on your “true” account and was removed after the betas where done.

This is how it very likely will be again this time.

People used the copy for:

- testing stuff and builds without risking/spending their assets ingame
- throwing stuff into the mystic forge
- trying out new classes
- kicking themselves in the head for getting that longwaited precursor drop on their clone character instead of their regular account

Basically the clone characters and economy is completely seperate from live accounts. Everything that happens on there gets wiped. You won’t have access to the TP etc.

All rewards gained from interacting with clone characters like killing them in wvw though remains available and valid as long as it was created using the live account.

I imagine all my time during the beta weekend will be spent doing as you mention, testing stuff out, getting a feel for things etc. But does that mean if I do things in the vanilla maps or HoT during the beta weekend then any rewards from events there would get wiped too? I don’t imagine I will, but just curious anyway. Or during the beta will we just not have access to normal GW2/HoT and only have access to the beta content anyway?

killermanjaro.5670:

Cyninja.2954:

Yargesh.4965:

The way it worked last time was that your account was in effect cloned and the clone could do whatever it wanted in the new area.
This had no impact on your “true” account and was removed after the betas where done.

This is how it very likely will be again this time.

People used the copy for:

- testing stuff and builds without risking/spending their assets ingame
- throwing stuff into the mystic forge
- trying out new classes
- kicking themselves in the head for getting that longwaited precursor drop on their clone character instead of their regular account

Basically the clone characters and economy is completely seperate from live accounts. Everything that happens on there gets wiped. You won’t have access to the TP etc.

All rewards gained from interacting with clone characters like killing them in wvw though remains available and valid as long as it was created using the live account.

I imagine all my time during the beta weekend will be spent doing as you mention, testing stuff out, getting a feel for things etc. But does that mean if I do things in the vanilla maps or HoT during the beta weekend then any rewards from events there would get wiped too? I don’t imagine I will, but just curious anyway. Or during the beta will we just not have access to normal GW2/HoT and only have access to the beta content anyway?

Nothing carries over to your account. You can sell your entire bank and storage (to an npc) get all HPs and map/stories/achievements complete and it will vanish with the clone account.

If they do the ‘clone’ account thing, again. I was wondering, because in the Demo videos from Partnership particpants, it seemed they were using a Demo account, instead of their own (as a clone). I don’t know if that was because ‘clone’ accounts aren’t available this time, or for some other reason.

Either way, nothing carries over. There will be a disclaimer at the top of the screen during all gameplay stating this fact.

killermanjaro.5670:

Cyninja.2954:

Yargesh.4965:

The way it worked last time was that your account was in effect cloned and the clone could do whatever it wanted in the new area.
This had no impact on your “true” account and was removed after the betas where done.

This is how it very likely will be again this time.

People used the copy for:

- testing stuff and builds without risking/spending their assets ingame
- throwing stuff into the mystic forge
- trying out new classes
- kicking themselves in the head for getting that longwaited precursor drop on their clone character instead of their regular account

Basically the clone characters and economy is completely seperate from live accounts. Everything that happens on there gets wiped. You won’t have access to the TP etc.

All rewards gained from interacting with clone characters like killing them in wvw though remains available and valid as long as it was created using the live account.

I imagine all my time during the beta weekend will be spent doing as you mention, testing stuff out, getting a feel for things etc. But does that mean if I do things in the vanilla maps or HoT during the beta weekend then any rewards from events there would get wiped too? I don’t imagine I will, but just curious anyway. Or during the beta will we just not have access to normal GW2/HoT and only have access to the beta content anyway?

The way it worked during the HoT beta was everyone got a special beta-test character slot. Any character you made in that slot was automatically level 80 with a bunch of level 80 gear (and had the option of being a revenant) and was completely seperate from the rest of your account.

For example they could access the bank but anything they took out would still be in there for your other characters and anything they put in wouldn’t show up on any other characters. They’d start with the same gold allowance as the rest of your characters but if you spent it all on your beta character it would still be there on your others, and vice versa.

For the first few betas they couldn’t leave Verdant Brink, later on they allowed revenants anywhere to get feedback on their balance in normal zones.

Assuming it will be the same in the PoF beta it means if you want to play existing content or ‘save’ your progress you simply log into one of your existing characters, but they won’t be able to access the new maps. If you want to play in the new maps you make a beta character and accept that nothing they do will carry over.

If I remember correctly, we had a temporary beta character slot, so you can’t use any of your regular characters to go into the beta test. You get some genetic stat swappable equipment. Your bank gets cloned, so you can still use some of your own things. TP, guild storage and mail was disabled for beta characters, so you couldn’t dupe your stuff.

Not sure how shared inventory slots will work though. Those weren’t a thing then.