Guild Wars 2

Anyone know when next beta might be happening? At least where I can find information about this I can not find it anywhere not even about past betas. Is there a different place for this information I am unaware of? Thank you.

www.guildwars2.com

So we buy Pre Purchase Edition for beta access,but anet is just putting up stress tests instead.
Another stress test on the 9th wvw.
What’s the point in buying Pre Purchase Edition then.

XxTAFxX.6741:

So we buy Pre Purchase Edition for beta access,but anet is just putting up stress tests instead.
Another stress test on the 9th wvw.
What’s the point in buying Pre Purchase Edition then.

Do it before July 31st and you may get a free character slot (see if this applies to your account), regardless of the edition you buy. Other than that, for existing players not a whole lot at the moment.

If you are not applicable for that character slot, there is really no reason not to wait until they announce the first beta weekend. Does the WvW stress test thing suck, yes of course, but if you read what they have said they will likely only set up three special servers for it which means three maps (+ EB) each with a hard cap on players so the space is limited by server capacity from the get go.

Also since it uses special servers there is a chance that either special accounts will have to be created, or their accounts manually flagged, for the people involved so it is also a matter of logistics as well.

There are probably technical reasons why they are doing the test this way, either they can not integrate it into the live client like with the PvE betas (for any number of reasons, leaderboards, server rankings etc.), or they don’t want to because that would unintended side effects for the live game. It could also be because those special servers will be running some sort of special analytics or diagnostic code specific to this stress test.

The beta tests will arrive somewhere in the future. All you need is patience I’m sure they will announce it on the front page.

WvW is not technically expansion content. It will be available to all, and does not require the purchase of HoT. Though pre-purchasing may allow access for WvW beta, my thought would be to view that as a bonus rather than to expect it.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-revenant-and-stronghold-test-weekend/

Randulf.7614:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-revenant-and-stronghold-test-weekend/

Happy to see that the random dev tease or revenant in LA actually was more than someone slacking at work (though I don’t think they would have been found out easily, if that had been it).

Here is the million dollar question, what will happen too loots gained as the beta character, I don’t really care personally. Will still try it out… but I can guarantee if they don’t address this and people get a precursor drops there will be salty people on the forums if they don’t get to keep that.

I mean the progress in the beta maps would obviously be lost and the character itself eventually… but this is a bit different in my mind at least. It is after all stuff we could have played using regular character.