Guild Wars 2

Seems we’ll get a new BETA weekend next week, in a different area of the first map together with the ‘Herald’, thief specialisation (Daredevil?) and ‘Berserker’ as addition to the other specialisations!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-second-beta-weekend-event-begins-september-4/

No mention of the achievements working and giving you permanent rewards means another weekend of ‘you lose whatever you do’. Which means another weekend of ‘I logged in as the new classes, played around a little, and then went back to the game that rewards me for playing’.

Edit: mm I sound bitter, but I’m not. I’m telling ANet why they they might be getting less user feedback then they may hope.

Wooohoo! I bet the gone-wild noble is Faren. Pleasepleaseplease. A new hunk of map to explore, three new elites to test, omg.

I guess I have to punt my Chronomancer and Dragonhunter if I want to try Berserker and Daredevil — that way I can keep enjoying Reaper and try out Herald with the slots I have. Happily I wasn’t enamored of their looks anyway

Edit: Just think of all the Tarzan references they can do with Lord Faren. It’s gotta be.

TheLordQ.1857:

No mention of the achievements working and giving you permanent rewards means another weekend of ‘you lose whatever you do’. Which means another weekend of ‘I logged in as the new classes, played around a little, and then went back to the game that rewards me for playing’.

Why would you expect anything else? It’s BETA testing – it’s for testing and giving feedback.

Donari.5237:

Wooohoo! I bet the gone-wild noble is Faren. Pleasepleaseplease. A new hunk of map to explore, three new elites to test, omg.

I guess I have to punt my Chronomancer and Dragonhunter if I want to try Berserker and Daredevil — that way I can keep enjoying Reaper and try out Herald with the slots I have. Happily I wasn’t enamored of their looks anyway

I saw some datamined achievement the other day on Reddit with an event about Lord Faren, so most likely!

It’s a pity we only have 4 character slots, as we’ll have to delete and recreate some characters then, but as the progression is account bound we can deal with that!

This makes me kind of sad, i was expecting the Next beta weekend to be after the ranger and engineer elite specializations are revealed… I guess i was wrong

Thanks for posting about it. I always forget to check the front page!

I hope we can get a bank reset before then!

Why on the holiday weekend when I’m busy. I really hoped it would be the following week

TheLordQ.1857:

No mention of the achievements working and giving you permanent rewards means another weekend of ‘you lose whatever you do’. Which means another weekend of ‘I logged in as the new classes, played around a little, and then went back to the game that rewards me for playing’.

Edit: mm I sound bitter, but I’m not. I’m telling ANet why they they might be getting less user feedback then they may hope.

Beta testing isn’t for permanent rewards. Its for testing and providing feedback.

I’m sorry you didn’t realize that.

Nice ! I have off that weekend, go to the Pow-Wow get something for the new car, eat some fried bread and help test a game .

TheLordQ.1857:

No mention of the achievements working and giving you permanent rewards means another weekend of ‘you lose whatever you do’. Which means another weekend of ‘I logged in as the new classes, played around a little, and then went back to the game that rewards me for playing’.

Edit: mm I sound bitter, but I’m not. I’m telling ANet why they they might be getting less user feedback then they may hope.

What makes you think they’re getting less user feed back than they hope?

Can we pls beta test the new wvw maps. While I will love to hop on my reaper again. I really want to roam around on the new wvw map. Maybe it might bring some population into wvw for a change as well. My server could sure use it.

Vayne.8563:

TheLordQ.1857:

No mention of the achievements working and giving you permanent rewards means another weekend of ‘you lose whatever you do’. Which means another weekend of ‘I logged in as the new classes, played around a little, and then went back to the game that rewards me for playing’.

Edit: mm I sound bitter, but I’m not. I’m telling ANet why they they might be getting less user feedback then they may hope.

What makes you think they’re getting less user feed back than they hope?

Not gunna bother carefully going over events and reporting feedback if there is no point. I’ll check the classes I’m interested in and then go back to actually earning rewards.

A new location of the HoT map?

Does that also mean we may get a different Main Storyline Mission that may focus on that new Map location?

Also, Faron Gone Wild sounds like a comedy TV show.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Vayne.8563:

TheLordQ.1857:

No mention of the achievements working and giving you permanent rewards means another weekend of ‘you lose whatever you do’. Which means another weekend of ‘I logged in as the new classes, played around a little, and then went back to the game that rewards me for playing’.

Edit: mm I sound bitter, but I’m not. I’m telling ANet why they they might be getting less user feedback then they may hope.

What makes you think they’re getting less user feed back than they hope?

Not gunna bother carefully going over events and reporting feedback if there is no point. I’ll check the classes I’m interested in and then go back to actually earning rewards.

There is a point. You help create a better game. I don’t understand what you thought a beta was suppose to be about

3 days after MGS 5 is released and the same day Mad Max is released.. Hm.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Vayne.8563:

TheLordQ.1857:

No mention of the achievements working and giving you permanent rewards means another weekend of ‘you lose whatever you do’. Which means another weekend of ‘I logged in as the new classes, played around a little, and then went back to the game that rewards me for playing’.

Edit: mm I sound bitter, but I’m not. I’m telling ANet why they they might be getting less user feedback then they may hope.

What makes you think they’re getting less user feed back than they hope?

Not gunna bother carefully going over events and reporting feedback if there is no point. I’ll check the classes I’m interested in and then go back to actually earning rewards.

But that’s almost every beta ever for any game. There are always people willing to do the right thing by the community and test the game and there are always people looking for a free demo.

I don’t care about 2-3 days of farming. It’s irrelevant to me. So I’ll test the beta. Basically Anet is doing what all companies I’ve ever seen do with beta. They separate it from the game so you can’t pre-earn rewards.

Which means, in all liklihood, they’ll get the same percentage of people testing as they normally would and it doesn’t matter what any individual does.

Serophous.9085:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Vayne.8563:

TheLordQ.1857:

No mention of the achievements working and giving you permanent rewards means another weekend of ‘you lose whatever you do’. Which means another weekend of ‘I logged in as the new classes, played around a little, and then went back to the game that rewards me for playing’.

Edit: mm I sound bitter, but I’m not. I’m telling ANet why they they might be getting less user feedback then they may hope.

What makes you think they’re getting less user feed back than they hope?

Not gunna bother carefully going over events and reporting feedback if there is no point. I’ll check the classes I’m interested in and then go back to actually earning rewards.

There is a point. You help create a better game. I don’t understand what you thought a beta was suppose to be about

Not my problem, I already paid $50 for a polished complete game. They need to deliver that or i’ll get a refund. If they were offering HoT as a free expansion then I would gladly donate my time to help make it better. But they took my money so it is their problem now.

Was very disappointed to see that the beta weekend would be ending on Sunday. With Monday, September 7th being a major holiday in the US it would be great if the beta could be extended to include Monday.

On another note: Thank you once again A-Net for providing the dates far enough in advance so that plans could be made for the weekend. It is MUCH appreciated!

Even if achievements do work, if i am not mistaken, it only 5 ap, yes?

Aye.8392:

Was very disappointed to see that the beta weekend would be ending on Sunday. With Monday, September 7th being a major holiday in the US it would be great if the beta could be extended to include Monday.

With it being a holiday, it makes sense to end it on Sunday so that the devs can have Monday off.

TJgalon.5012:

Even if achievements do work, if i am not mistaken, it only 5 ap, yes?

Yep, and I don’t get why people are so upset over 5 points…

While not upset, I will want to try to earn them, if it something my main will earn, if not, i will play the beta as normal then.

I think it might be more than 5 points. Some of those achieves have tiers. Not that it is likely to matter to anyone other than the hardest core AP hunters, of which I believe there are fewer even percentage wise than those affected by the 500 gold cap.

Either we keep the points or we don’t. Their total amount will be minuscule compared to the thousand points per major achieve goalpost.

The reason I am going after those achieves isn’t for the ap, it’s the for the mastery points. I spent all of them last weekend and would love to continue moving up the glider line or one of the other masteries as I play. I could care less about the the ap in and of itself. Those could be worth 0 and I would still try to get them just for the masteries.

Donari.5237:

I think it might be more than 5 points. Some of those achieves have tiers. Not that it is likely to matter to anyone other than the hardest core AP hunters, of which I believe there are fewer even percentage wise than those affected by the 500 gold cap.

Either we keep the points or we don’t. Their total amount will be minuscule compared to the thousand points per major achieve goalpost.

while they do have tier, when you go into them, it shows tier 1,2,3 0 ap, and the 4th and final one, 1 ap, heh