Guild Wars 2

Hello! I do not know if this is the right place for this so sorry if its not. Here are my thoughts on the Beta release of Heart of Thorns on August 7-10(Please note this is my first beta!):

Beta over all:
I only had a few issue with the beta structure itself.
1: The fact that transmuting gear was not free for beta characters. While I know that this is trivial just something I thought would be free. (Yes I know if you went to each capital you got a transmute charge but it still was a pain).
2: The gear set up was a little weird to me. We didn’t have access to Sinister stat gear. Which was something I really wanted to test, specially on a Rev. Also we didn’t get all the Runes and Sigils. Something I think that may help is like a in game builder like the builder at Intothemist.com? I don’t know if that would be hard to implement but something like that where you choose your gear, your sigils, runes, and your gems in your accessories and such, cause we couldn’t even change gem.

Revenant:
1: While I think the idea of the combat for Rev is super cool, he seemed a little weak compared to the other classes. In full zerker they didnt do as much damage as the other classes did. Also I think they should have access to more of their legends. Engis get 3 or 4 “stances” and so do Eles. I think it would make Rev’s more difficult to play yes, but that means much more fun to learn and play!
2: The last thing about Revs was their defense, for being heavy armor they really died fast.

Necro-Reaper:
1: The reaper is really amazing on Necro, and it has alot of different options for being built. The only problem I had with it was the lack of conditions(I thought it was supposed to be a conditiony specialization haha if not its a cool zerker one!) and the shouts seemed kinda weak. Other than that I really liked it!

Heart of Thorns:
1: I really like the story line and the intro to it, seems really cool and fun and I cannot wait to play the full version!

Reaper works fine for condition builds for the traits, though I doubt greatsword was intended for conditions. Also this seems really late. You should probably just wait for the next BWE btw, they already released a list of buffs and changes to the specializations.

1: The fact that transmuting gear was not free for beta characters. While I know that this is trivial just something I thought would be free. (Yes I know if you went to each capital you got a transmute charge but it still was a pain).

Why would they want people to waste time transmuting gear in a beta?

Transmuting was free if you had any Transmutation Charges. Nothing consumed on your beta account was lost on your live account. You could spend all your Gold, Transmutation Charges, use your BLTC skins you were saving to sell, consume food, etc., etc. It would all still be there on your live account.

I transformed all my weapons to expensive BLT skins. =P