Guild Wars 2

If it’s possible, could we please get a Bank reset for the upcoming Beta’s? I brought this up with Jessica at one point, but I think it’s very important to let us try out these Specialisations and Revenants with optimum Gear/Items that we would most likely use during the live game.

A lot of us have prepared our Bank after BWE1 with Ascended Gear, Food, Runes/Sigils, Infusions etc to be able to properly test out the Elite Specs as well as the new Class in PvE and WvW situations. I know these Beta’s are mostly to test the core/base feature of the Elite Specs, as well the section of the new map and it’s Masteries…. but understand that those who wants to truthfully TEST out these changes, to it’s limit aren’t able to with the items you provide. When you make changes to the live, be it a nerf or buff to classes for e.g., we look to our Gear to see if they need changes too, to either compensate or take advantage of said changes. ATM, PvP is the only true place we can test these Specs out right now during these BWE’s.

This is not for skins, which I know alot of other Players have also done. IDC for skin usage in a BETA, what I do care about is testing out these Builds and Changes with Equipment I have updated based on my first playthrough (BWE1).

So if it’s no trouble and ofc possible, pls allow a Bank reset for future Beta’s – we’d appreciate it greatly.

Will you (devs) make a new bank snapshot for BWE3?

Unlikely. Progress on beta accounts is saved, like for BWE2, so the bank ’snapshot’s are saved as well.

Good luck.

Did they say it would be saved to BWE3? I know they said through BWE2, hadn’t heard confirmation one way or the other if they were wiping or not before 3.

I dont know if this has been asked for before or if this is right place to post this but here it is,
just as title says I was wondering if it possible to get our banks etc re cloned for the next bw? there has been trait changes and new specs since it was cloned and there are things I want to try now I cant as the runes or the armour stat isn’t in the beta stuff.

so can we get this plz? as I am also guessing this is probs gonna be the last beta weekend

Do other people agree or am I crazy and alone in this?

Nah there’s a lot of ppl that want this as well. There are some that want it just for the cosmetic aspect of using a skin or two, but like I said – I’m not one of them, and am looking for the practical side of testing out a Spec or Revenant fully with updated Gear.

I might as well post this here just to get some traffic maybe and Devs to say something officially but..

Who I talked to in-game about this was Jessica Boettiger (WvW/PvP/Skills Principal QA). She did say that it was in the thoughts to maybe reset the Bank for future Betas, tho not a confirmation and def. not a sure thing for BW3. So Devs. are AT LEAST aware that it’s been asked for and considering something maybe.

I think it’s likely to depend on whether they reset everything else so we need to re-make characters. I don’t know how easy it would be for them to reset a beta account while leaving character progress intact, which is what they’ve said is involved in the snapshot; it’s basically a mirror of your whole account.

Have seen several other players who are also a little irked by the inability to reset your beta accounts and/or beta banks and wardrobes, so I figured I’d make a quick post.

The main issue is for people who were either A ) not at all at a place to be ready to test multiple characters, usually being the lack of pre-bought upgrade components, or B ) on the brink of completing or acquiring a relevant skin for the various new weapon sets.

While I am sure many players, if not most, would prefer to not have their full beta accounts reset, some of us would like the option. I know I would not have bought HoT as early as I did if I had thought I wouldn’t be able to use the legendary I was specifically making to use during the testing period. These beta are spread out over a long period of time, and it is naive to think none of our accounts have progressed a lot during that time.

TLDR; Sucks we can’t choice to update our banks/accounts for new wardrobe skins and prebought consumables/materials. I want to use my Bifrost on my Teef QQQQ.

No.

Thank you.

It was made very much clear that the accounts would be cloned ONCE for the Beta weekends and continue across all Beta events. It is the player’s fault for not reading this or having other issues with it.

Besides, it does not matter on bit. There is a singular Beta Weekend event left between now and the HoT launch on October 23rd. And that will be wiped shortly after said event. And then…and then, the actual launch happens. And we’re back to stating that the Beta doesn’t matter.

I would agree that It is a bit late to raise this issue, but as I said I saw other mention of it so I figured I would post on it. At this point, this is more a suggestion for future betas to have a way to reset your beta accounts to default. I mean they shouldn’t want anyone to have any source of regret having made an earlier purchase I would think. Granted it was my mistake not planning months in advance, not thinking the account would be left untouched between beta weekends, Hindsight 20/20

I don’t get why they kept hold of the beta characters for us when they had delete and reset it before GW2 came out especially when they had trouble appling the new elite spec on exisit beta characters like the whole Herald facet didn’t appear on the 1st beta Revenant. I wonder if the same will happaned to Engi/ Scrapper?

Honestly, I want the reset so I can properly test out the build from scratch. I have spared ascened armor chest with mixture of stats which reflect on my current Rev. Since the mixture reflect on my Rev survival (first test to put them together to see if it was any good or not), I converted most of the stats into Soldier so now I want to test it again with the new planned out stats.

While I got it kinda planned out on build editor but testing ingame is a different matter and I can’t exactly buy the insigna via Black Lion Trading. Sure I could make another Rev and change the stats from them but I don’t want to see the effects on exotic gears and it has been such a pain changing and applying the armor/ build on a beta character from a whole bunch of unwanted weapons, sigil, runes and armors so far.

Siphaed.9235:

It was made very much clear that the accounts would be cloned ONCE for the Beta weekends and continue across all Beta events. It is the player’s fault for not reading this or having other issues with it.

Besides, it does not matter on bit. There is a singular Beta Weekend event left between now and the HoT launch on October 23rd. And that will be wiped shortly after said event. And then…and then, the actual launch happens. And we’re back to stating that the Beta doesn’t matter.

Um, no, what was made clear was that everything would be kept through BWE2.
They never said anything about BWE3 as far as I’ve seen, one way or the other, so it’s not a huge logical leap for people to think they were intending to do a reset for the last one/further ones.
Not that they said that either, but it was left open after BWE2.

I understand that it would be nice to have a few more things in the bank for the next BWE. Heck, I’d love to have a reset of transmutation charges even though I still have plenty to make a few beta alts look good.

But the thing is, this beta isn’t for us to test out how to best set up our characters; that’s just a nice side effect. It’s for ANet to test how the content works for large numbers of players and to get player feedback on how to enhance things. I don’t see how having a legendary affects that in any way beyond maybe being able to fiddle stats a tiny bit while staying on the same alt. But there are plenty of testers who do have legendaries, so the data will get to ANet even if any particular player doesn’t manage to have one.

That holds for some of the stat combos, too, ANet doesn’t need a specific player to have them, they just need some players to have them, and it seems likely some will.

It’s all getting wiped afterwards regardless. Who needs to be the biggest and baddest in a beta? The tools will be there to test the fundamentals, to get proofs of concept, and to get ideas on desired tweaks for live HoT.

About the only thing I see as being a bar to testing is if someone didn’t manage to have their AR gear in the bank for the first snapshot so they can’t test how the elites fare in higher tier Fractals. But again, there will be some people who are set up for it. The testing will happen.

Sorry i had to ask this, i was wondering if all the items in the guild bank will get shifted to the new guild halls? I mean most of us have personal banks clotted with things, so do we have to “solo claim”(do the claiming event which requires a few people?) the guild halls before getting access to our personal banks again?

thnaks

BrandyBiscuits.2873:

Sorry i had to ask this, i was wondering if all the items in the guild bank will get shifted to the new guild halls? I mean most of us have personal banks clotted with things, so do we have to “solo claim”(do the claiming event which requires a few people?) the guild halls before getting access to our personal banks again?

thnaks

Short answer: yes.

Longer answer: yes, ANet has promised that all existing ‘improvements’ will carry over, including the guild banks and their contents.

Further, there will be an alternative access point (or points) for those who don’t own HoT, which obviously can’t require “claiming.” (Incidentally, ANet has said that claiming events will be map-wide, meaning anyone around can help; no need to solo cap.)

In other words, think of the guild banks (as well as your own bank) existing somewhere in the mists. The only thing needed is an access point, with the guild hall being just one of several (or even many).

Can somebody please post link to the info stated above? Can I really claim my own guildhall solo in open world map?

I don’t know that you would be able to do it ‘solo’. But, you can be the sole member of your guild, and ask others to help you finish the instance, or whatnot.

Some links you may find informational:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/welcome-to-guild-halls/

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_hall

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_hall#External_links

Good luck.

I swear, if they lock the contents of my guild banks behind finishing this whole guild hall thing I’m going to be very unhappy.
Not sure they will, as wouldn’t that then make guilds/members without HoT unable to access their guild banks?

Still, since they’ve been less than forthcoming about the nitty gritty I will not be keeping anything important in my guild banks during the transition.
Which is going to suck.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

I swear, if they lock the contents of my guild banks behind finishing this whole guild hall thing I’m going to be very unhappy.
Not sure they will, as wouldn’t that then make guilds/members without HoT unable to access their guild banks?

Still, since they’ve been less than forthcoming about the nitty gritty I will not be keeping anything important in my guild banks during the transition.
Which is going to suck.

If you read the News Blog, or others, they specifically state you can access your Guild features outside HoT/HoT maps. No worries.

I do try to keep up with info, but I hadn’t seen that, thanks!

The currently closed Guild center in LA (northeast corner of map) will be where people without Maguuma halls can go to do the guild stuff. Plus I imagine all the guild bankers in the cities will continue to cheerfully open up your guild bank for you.

Is there any way to reset my beta bank? I’ve gotten new gear/sigils/runes/etc that i’d like to test for the next beta that you cant get from the gear boxes. Some people say that if you delete your beta characters then it resets but some other people say that it doesnt work.

Unless Anet decide to do a new snapshot, there is no way to reset your bank.

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

Data got corrupted so our beta characters will be gone. Maybe they’ll resnap the bank? I hope so, my Reaper has my green glowy glider!

So BWE3 slated for next weekend – is this gonna happen or not? Still no word here :/

They mentioned that you could “continue working on your masteries” in BWE3 during the livestream. Which I’m guessing means that they’ll again be simply carrying over the previous beta accounts, and not creating a new bank / account clone this time around.

Electro.4173:

They mentioned that you could “continue working on your masteries” in BWE3 during the livestream. Which I’m guessing means that they’ll again be simply carrying over the previous beta accounts, and not creating a new bank / account clone this time around.

They did say

Final Beta weekend event
Due to large back-end changes to core systems that have corrupted some of the beta data, your characters from previous beta weekends will not be available for BWE3—everyone will be starting with fresh beta characters.

So new chars and I would bet a new bank reset.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Electro.4173:

They mentioned that you could “continue working on your masteries” in BWE3 during the livestream. Which I’m guessing means that they’ll again be simply carrying over the previous beta accounts, and not creating a new bank / account clone this time around.

They did say

Final Beta weekend event
Due to large back-end changes to core systems that have corrupted some of the beta data, your characters from previous beta weekends will not be available for BWE3—everyone will be starting with fresh beta characters.

So new chars and I would bet a new bank reset.

Hmm. Missed that.

I mean, I dunno, they could still keep the bank the same and just wipe the characters, since even on our main accounts the bank is separate from the characters (you can delete all chars and your bank remains in-tact) but there’s certainly a chance of a full reset as well, I suppose.

Electro.4173:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Electro.4173:

They mentioned that you could “continue working on your masteries” in BWE3 during the livestream. Which I’m guessing means that they’ll again be simply carrying over the previous beta accounts, and not creating a new bank / account clone this time around.

They did say

Final Beta weekend event
Due to large back-end changes to core systems that have corrupted some of the beta data, your characters from previous beta weekends will not be available for BWE3—everyone will be starting with fresh beta characters.

So new chars and I would bet a new bank reset.

Hmm. Missed that.

I mean, I dunno, they could still keep the bank the same and just wipe the characters, since even on our main accounts the bank is separate from the characters (you can delete all chars and your bank remains in-tact) but there’s certainly a chance of a full reset as well, I suppose.

I hope so. My old chars have all the ascended weapons, trinkets, copper fed savaging, harvesting tools, boosters, etc. I’ll need a bank reset to supply new chars.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Electro.4173:

They mentioned that you could “continue working on your masteries” in BWE3 during the livestream. Which I’m guessing means that they’ll again be simply carrying over the previous beta accounts, and not creating a new bank / account clone this time around.

They did say

Final Beta weekend event
Due to large back-end changes to core systems that have corrupted some of the beta data, your characters from previous beta weekends will not be available for BWE3—everyone will be starting with fresh beta characters.

So new chars and I would bet a new bank reset.

I would be incredibly kittened off if they don’t give us a bank reset now. I had a fully ascended Revenant ready the last BWE because I wanted to test them out in fractals. But if this means my Revenant is being deleted along with all the ascended stuff it had on it, I won’t be able to continue testing in the ONE thing I actually play

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Electro.4173:

They mentioned that you could “continue working on your masteries” in BWE3 during the livestream. Which I’m guessing means that they’ll again be simply carrying over the previous beta accounts, and not creating a new bank / account clone this time around.

They did say

Final Beta weekend event
Due to large back-end changes to core systems that have corrupted some of the beta data, your characters from previous beta weekends will not be available for BWE3—everyone will be starting with fresh beta characters.

So new chars and I would bet a new bank reset.

Ahh thanks for that link, missed the article last night after I fell asleep after the Launch Trailer. And yeah they kinda have to reset the bank as well now is the data is corrupted. Awesome stuff

Why can’t anet just give us ascended stuff rather than trinkets………. the technology to switch stats is already in the game………… y u do dis

Dommmmmmmmmm.6984:

Why can’t anet just give us ascended stuff rather than trinkets………. the technology to switch stats is already in the game………… y u do dis

I hope it is not because they decided to balance HoT around exotic armor lol.

I’m sure it is balanced around Exotics. Otherwise having Ascended equipment is mandatory and the whole “no grind” philosophy will be discarded.

I’d best finish up my Ascended Light armor and put it in the bank … I’ve just been holding off pending advice from a friend on good stats for my fractals mesmer. Which of course won’t be right for the Reaper I want to do most of the weekend on, but whatever!

If they do a character wipe it does seem they should be able to do a bank reset — but I’ll take my depleted beta bank over a mastery reset, any time.

On dulfy they said devs said it was going to be reset due to data corruption anyways

So with all beta characters being deleted “[d]ue to large back-end changes to core systems that have corrupted some of the beta data”, do we get a fresh bank loadout so I can actually stock up ascended armor to run frac 50s with a fresh beta ele/guard/ranger?

It wouldn’t hurt to prepare anyway and set up your bank before creating a new beta character.

Atrophied.8725:

So with all beta characters being deleted “[d]ue to large back-end changes to core systems that have corrupted some of the beta data”, do we get a fresh bank loadout so I can actually stock up ascended armor to run frac 50s with a fresh beta ele/guard/ranger?

I interpret the quote to mean they completely refreshed the data and we have to start from scratch. (That’s far easier to do than to delete individual characters and since it has no LIVE game consequences, it’s lower risk, too.)

It’s unclear when they are taking the snapshot tho…

I think it would be safe to log in anytime prior to the start of the beta and load up your bank. Then log in once the beta starts and your bank should be built. That seems to be how it worked during BWE2.

well i hope so. Gotta test out my juggernaut on scrapper…and i ran out of transmutation charges at the reaper testing so yea.. lets hope

Basaltface.2786:

well i hope so. Gotta test out my juggernaut on scrapper…and i ran out of transmutation charges at the reaper testing so yea.. lets hope

You have infinite transmutation charges in the BWE’s. All you have to do is visit the major cities and, through the “map completion” activity, you get a new one. Create a new character and repeat, ad-infinitum, until you are drowning in them. So, per character, that is what… one per race… so five, plus LA, so six per character. You have four slots to play with. Before you delete a char to test out others, make sure you have all the cities visited because the beta characters share the same account and transmutation charges. Minimum, if you make four and delete none, that is 24 new charges.

tl;dr: Stop being silly, there is no such thing.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It’s unclear when they are taking the snapshot tho…

It’ll happen just as you make your first Beta character. So before making one, just stock up the bank before then.

So, does anyone know if the bank was recloned this time?

Yes, seems to have been cloned when I made my first beta toon for the weekend.