Guild Wars 2

Awesome! I get to try it out!

Probably die a lot, but I get to try!

Unfortunately I need to sleep, and then get up and go to work for a living.

Thanks for the late evening weekend work Chris. BTW my Bengals are going to defeat the Sea Chickens next week. Andy is full Ele mode and on fire.

Daddar.5971:

Unfortunately I need to sleep, and then get up and go to work for a living.

this…….keep it open until tuesday

Thank you for the Extension, HOWEVER< would it not be better ot end it at like 09:00 pm PST ( which is 05:00 am for us european folks).

I ask due to Many of us starting to do the raids etc at 07:00, meaning only 1 hour of the raids.

thank you for the extension though, the UI is almost PERFECT , a few small tweaks like making it easier to start a subsquad ( I had ot drag it to a certain pixel) maybe a larger area? probably just me :P. but thank you for the extension!

Chris Cleary.8017:

We are going to extend the beta until Noon PST on Monday – Raiding will be available the entire time (pending non disasters)! GOGO!

This really isn’t long enough for those of us who need to sleep and go to classes/work monday morning, couldn’t it be extended any longer?

Was nice to get in again, got to phase 3 but a 8min enrage timer? I thought we were moving away from go zerker or go home mentality lol /s.

THANK YOU ANET! As a leader of an Oceanic guild this is something we love to hear. A lot of us had missed out since it wasn’t viable for ANET to leave the bugged UI system on while they slept, so thank you for giving off hours a chance to test it!

Chris Cleary.8017:

We are going to extend the beta until Noon PST on Monday – Raiding will be available the entire time (pending non disasters)! GOGO!

Please can you extend it a few more hours, you are shutting it down right in the middle of European prime time now(9pm european time). 3 pm PST would be so much better.

Us Europeans haven’t had a raid oppertunity in prime time yet, this would mean so much to me and my guild.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I’ll be happy to pass along your suggestions and requests, but the decision on the end time is naturally dependent on a lot of factors.

We really appreciative of your enthusiasm!

Have a great time testing out the raid system. Pretty sweet, eh?

Thx for trying, my raid starts 1 hour before the end time right now (many people in our guild can’t make it before that), would love to have a bit more time.

All of Europe will be forever in your debt :p

btw, not to be pushy, but will we be getting an update on this? One way or the other, i wanna be able to plan my raid team :p

How about a bonus beta weekend?

Extended til noon monday? I thought that was when it usually ended?

Why not have week long betas? Give more people a chance to play it. Not everyone gets weekends off but I’m sure you’re well aware of that.

uhohhotdog.3598:

Extended til noon monday? I thought that was when it usually ended?

Why not have week long betas? Give more people a chance to play it. Not everyone gets weekends off but I’m sure you’re well aware of that.

It was supposed to end at Midnight PT Sunday. They extended it 12 more hours.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-final-beta-weekend-event-begins-october-2/

Relshdan.6854:

Daddar.5971:

Unfortunately I need to sleep, and then get up and go to work for a living.

this…….keep it open until tuesday

Same here. Was home all of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday waiting to raid. I’ll be home for the last two hours but most of my friends won’t be around. I know it’s a beta and kitten happens, but it is disappointing that we couldn’t experience this together. Please extend it into the evening!

Plz extend it to the rest of the day some of us work long days and would like to play something I paid for sense it was down almost if not all day Saturday and Sunday. Thanks.

It really needs to be extended. You guys opened raids at 8:30pm pst according to Chris Cleary’s post on reddit. That’s 11:30pm est and 10:30pm cst. The bulk of the NA population lives in those two time zones and would either have gotten off for the night or would only be able to enjoy the raids for a little bit. And then work/school on Monday. The EU population would have already been asleep and would only get to enjoy the raids for a while after work/school today.

Daddar.5971:

Unfortunately I need to sleep, and then get up and go to work for a living.

+1!

Would love to give it a try after work though… Best answer would be another beta weekend

Now I’m salty. It’s a big middle finger to the whole East Coast. Like other I went to sleep, work and I’ll get back at home right on time for not trying the raid beta.

Cool Cool

Thank you for the extension, but 12 pst is 3:00 EST and that is exact time I get off work. If it is possible it would be great to extend the time to 9 pm EST.

Nice that you have them working but the time allotted is horrible for anyone that lives on the east coast and works a normal day shift. Had all weekend and didn’t get to try out raids now I’m gonna have to wait till the 23rd to try them. Not usually a complainer since ANet has been awesome but admittedly I’m a little miffed, since raids was one of the things I really wanted to try. Now only those that have the day off or live in an odd time zone or play hookie get to try it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3nipnp/world_first_vale_guardian_kill/

An NA guild has already defeated the raid boss. Please up the difficulty level, I thought these raids were supposed to make hardcore players weep after wiping for weeks and then finally give you a sense of achievement when you defeat it.

If somebody has already done it, during the limited time the raids have been available this weekend, then it’s clearly too easy and will reach farm status way too soon.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

uhohhotdog.3598:

Extended til noon monday? I thought that was when it usually ended?

Why not have week long betas? Give more people a chance to play it. Not everyone gets weekends off but I’m sure you’re well aware of that.

It was supposed to end at Midnight PT Sunday. They extended it 12 more hours.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-final-beta-weekend-event-begins-october-2/

They only extended it till noon not midnight which is 12 hours not 24

do we have any updates on the time, is an extension with a few hours for eu possible?

ElijahFitzroy.5762:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

uhohhotdog.3598:

Extended til noon monday? I thought that was when it usually ended?

Why not have week long betas? Give more people a chance to play it. Not everyone gets weekends off but I’m sure you’re well aware of that.

It was supposed to end at Midnight PT Sunday. They extended it 12 more hours.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-final-beta-weekend-event-begins-october-2/

They only extended it till noon not midnight which is 12 hours not 24

???

I said 12 hours, from midnight, not to midnight.

Dondarrion.2748:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3nipnp/world_first_vale_guardian_kill/

An NA guild has already defeated the raid boss. Please up the difficulty level, I thought these raids were supposed to make hardcore players weep after wiping for weeks and then finally give you a sense of achievement when you defeat it.

If somebody has already done it, during the limited time the raids have been available this weekend, then it’s clearly too easy and will reach farm status way too soon.

You do realize that this is just the first boss(?) in that wing. There’s more to it than what the people beat. And if I was reading a different thread right, this was supposed to be a trash mob that setup how to do the boss(es) later on.

Buh, i’m going to miss it.

Third phase is a beast… we tried several times but could only get there and then time ran out. Not sure if eight min is really long enough if you want non-zerker style gear.

For funzies, for the explorer types. There is a sad person to the right of the entrance. The right platform you can fly to is covered in respawning pocket raptors, and the left side has some more story stuff.

I do like the concept of the raid and the mechanics of it, it is what I enjoy in such content. The part that can teleport you outside the orange circle sucks though, so you do have to split your group and have someone with aggro (like a tank) and others go to it :/ Then some sort of healer/support on that person… I dunno… trinity seemed needed which was sad times.

still hoping it gets extended just a bit (few hours is enough) more so the EU people at least get a chance to have 1 raid evening, could we get a response on that?

@those asking/begging/complaining (sorry to group all together, there are some legitimate reasons they could, but, they already extended it to try to get more people to test it, at some point you have to stop a test…)

General response, not specifically targeted: Except they worked hard to try to get the problems resolved all weekend, and they already extended it 12 hours. Whatever they do, some people are going to miss out for some reason. “I can’t make it because I had 24 hour shift” “I had to fly across the country” “My timezone was asleep” “My internet went out that whole time” “My dog ate the wifi router, and by the time I got it replaced…” I think the only one I haven’t seen on the forums for this and similar extensions is the dog one, and I"m not even sure on that.

At some point, someone is going to be inconvenienced, or miss out. They didn’t think they could get the squad ui to be stable this weekend, but they appeared to. Yes it was selfish on Anet’s part, because they wanted it tested, to see if something would break, and at least in part to see if difficulty needed changed. It’s a beta test, and as such, nothing is actually guaranteed, things change at last minute.

Sure, it sucks to miss out on something you wanted to test too, and it probably won’t be a big issue to extend it a few hours, but it’s still going to have people miss out. If they are supposed to extend the beta weekend indefinitely to fit everyone’s schedule, they might as well just release HoT now and instead spend the next 2-3 years fixing bugs that could have been fixed before Oct. 23rd. I’m sorry, but I’d rather miss out, than have the rushed mess we had at release. And tbh, even Oct. 23rd feels at least a bit rushed… I mean, some of the elite specs (that are now apparently treated as almost classes? new icons for each? really? but that’s another discussion) were only basically just made, and there is a very big difference between them, balance is very off between specs and between main classes, which is to be expected. I mean, a lot of things that had been nerfed, were given in same or even a more powerful form, to the elite specs. Of course balance isn’t going to be established for a while after release, and Again, I digress… But let them work on HoT instead of working on getting us a continuous Beta that would take time and resources >.>

edited to clarify a few things. And if they do extend it a few more hours, or don’t, gl to those in it, that get in, and test it to not just get to experience it, but help them improve things now and in the future.

I got to finally run this with a pug this morning getting the boss down to around 25%. The fight is very well designed and will place emphasis on contribution from all 10 squad members. You don’t have time to keep rezzing ppl let alone allow defeated to occur. Standing in the blue circle and skills to quickly interrupt break bars is a must, can’t waste time on members getting teleported and losing dps, and you need proper splits for phase 2. I think that at least for this boss it will be pugged regularly at some point not long after release once enough folks have seen the fight.

Something that seemed buggy about the fight was phase 2 when the boss would split – for some reason the blue guy wanted to randomly run over to the green guy with no apparent pattern as to why even when he was getting full dps and nobody died or ran over that way. This probably only happened twice out of ten attempts, but seemed odd.

Lastly, I have to say my favorite thing about the whole fight was learning the NPC’s inside the raid instance do no damage at all to player pets (meaning they also can’t tank anything for any amount of time); whether that be Mesmer Clones, Necro pets, engi turrets, etc. That’d be great if that carried over to fractals/dungeons or at least all legendary mobs in the game. Thats a wonderful change especially for Mesmer and Ranger players. Kudos to Anet!

so is it ending for sure at 9 pm now, or may we get a small extended period for the EU primetime, plz even 1 or 2 hours would mean so much for us europeans

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

@those asking/begging/complaining (sorry to group all together, there are some legitimate reasons they could, but, they already extended it to try to get more people to test it, at some point you have to stop a test…)

General response, not specifically targeted: Except they worked hard to try to get the problems resolved all weekend, and they already extended it 12 hours. Whatever they do, some people are going to miss out for some reason. “I can’t make it because I had 24 hour shift” “I had to fly across the country” “My timezone was asleep” “My internet went out that whole time” “My dog ate the wifi router, and by the time I got it replaced…” I think the only one I haven’t seen on the forums for this and similar extensions is the dog one, and I"m not even sure on that.

At some point, someone is going to be inconvenienced, or miss out. They didn’t think they could get the squad ui to be stable this weekend, but they appeared to. Yes it was selfish on Anet’s part, because they wanted it tested, to see if something would break, and at least in part to see if difficulty needed changed. It’s a beta test, and as such, nothing is actually guaranteed, things change at last minute.

Sure, it sucks to miss out on something you wanted to test too, and it probably won’t be a big issue to extend it a few hours, but it’s still going to have people miss out. If they are supposed to extend the beta weekend indefinitely to fit everyone’s schedule, they might as well just release HoT now and instead spend the next 2-3 years fixing bugs that could have been fixed before Oct. 23rd. I’m sorry, but I’d rather miss out, than have the rushed mess we had at release. And tbh, even Oct. 23rd feels at least a bit rushed… I mean, some of the elite specs (that are now apparently treated as almost classes? new icons for each? really? but that’s another discussion) were only basically just made, and there is a very big difference between them, balance is very off between specs and between main classes, which is to be expected. I mean, a lot of things that had been nerfed, were given in same or even a more powerful form, to the elite specs. Of course balance isn’t going to be established for a while after release, and Again, I digress… But let them work on HoT instead of working on getting us a continuous Beta that would take time and resources >.>

edited to clarify a few things. And if they do extend it a few more hours, or don’t, gl to those in it, that get in, and test it to not just get to experience it, but help them improve things now and in the future.

We all know all of this information. We’re just letting Anet know that we are very excited about this content, bummed that we’re missing the opportunity to try it out first, and to ask them to extend it if it’s in their realm of possibilities.

Yes they have to end the test sometime, but about 3 more hours would cover european primetime, America got to do them, plz just let EU have it, if this wasn’t a group thing i wouldn’t care… But i want to do this just once with my guild. Plz just 24 hours of testing so everyone can do it at least once.

Really wish it’d go till 11:59pm tonight, so those of us on the east coast could also get to try the raid and squad ui

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

“I can’t make it because I had 24 hour shift” “I had to fly across the country” “My timezone was asleep” “My internet went out that whole time” “My dog ate the wifi router, and by the time I got it replaced…” I think the only one I haven’t seen on the forums for this and similar extensions is the dog one, and I"m not even sure on that.

One of these is not like the others. When raids went up last night, those in the eastern time zone of the U.S. either called it a night already or would very soon. Those in the central time zone would also be going to bed soon enough. Anyone still on would have had to have heard the news in time before going to bed. These two time zones make up large majority of the U.S. population (and I assume the same for Canada as well). Based on playing WvW and pugging dungeons, I’ve noticed the population on the NA servers are heavily weighted towards these two time zones as well.

A lot of the playerbase was unable to test the raids and thus give needed feedback. This is a brand new feature they are implementing in the game and it is a big deal. We want this to succeed. We need to be able to play it and give our feedback.

I didn’t get to try raids, but I’m really in love with the new Reaper… I hope it survives post beta ‘polish’ and doesn’t get nerfed Right now it just feels good to play it… its right where it needs to be.

Played the raid for a bit got to phase 2, the whole thing felt great. The ‘trash’ bosses were at the right difficulty to get the mechanics down. Tho I think there should be a indicator that shows when you have the right amount in the lightning circle. Other wise yeah its hard and certainly not pugable and I love it!

Well, blew off work to try raids this morning and it was a lot of fun! It is tough with pugs and little foreknowledge of the mechanics, but that also made it interesting. We managed to get to stage 3 of the boss, but never finished. Anyone complete it? Is phase 3 the last?

Once I changed the Rev to hammer, I had a blast. Looking forward to playing the next version. You guys did a really good job. Been playing since April 05, and it keeps getting better. You know what needs to be fixed. I had a lot of fun exploring and playing PvP this weekend, thanks.

In my opinion FANTABULOUSLY AWESOME squad UI improvements!!! 10/10 for me

Only two things I would recommend If possible.

1) first character in a sub-squad to have a green commander icon? It would help with organization and serve to decrease some confusion.

2) There was an issues with the drag process where commanders had trouble with the squad ui window auto re-sizing when trying to drag members for forming sub-squads.

I’m guessing in the future other labels can be added to the Riad / Squad menu option?

Would have preferred it to extend to the end of the day, so that those of use on east coast (and other countries that share the time) got a chance to experience the raid and the squad UI. Was hoping to get to try the squad ui tonight at reset teq/wurm

Guys common, half my guild is still in the beta, the other half can’t join… this is stupid in the middle of primetime.