Guild Wars 2

So this announcement was posted recently:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-final-beta-weekend-event-begins-october-2/

In that post, they tell us that we will make completely new characters for this beta. Does that mean all the masteries will be reset as well? That would make me very sad. (I would survive though. :P )

The thing is that in the Masteries stream today Rubi commented or at least implied we’d be continuing our mastery progress. I’m sorry I don’t recall her exact words.

So maybe account progress can be retained and the corrupted data only affected the created alts? I hope so, because clearly we’ll want gliding as a tool when testing the raid and it would be a pain to spend a few hours re-leveling it before we can test that (I got it through updrafts and lean techniques, plus I got jumping and speed boost mushrooms).

I believe I’ll have a number of hours away from home being social, too, so I reeeeally want to keep my mastery progress.

It’s also conceivable they could artificially give us some progress, if need be. Not to mention, there will only be one raid boss and the raid will be entered from a temporary gate, which may be partly so as not to require masteries.