Guild Wars 2

This may have been mentioned somewhere but I’m unable to find it. What areas will we be able to explore today? WvW? PvP? Guild Halls? just PvE and the new class? I know several people with invited and we all have different goals in mind but have been told different things. Could someone clarify this please?

Thanks

Its not been mentioned. We will know when the beta opens.

Im pretty certain the devs are too busy to check the forums with preps and monitoring for the stress testing.

It is very likely that it is simply the demo they have shown at PAX and Rezzed. The test is to test stability after all, not to test new things.

From: https://help.guildwars2.com/home

Why can’t I access certain game features from my beta character?

To keep our live game healthy while we do our tests, beta characters are restricted from certain game features. You will be unable to access PvP, WvW, the Black Lion Trading Post, and some other features from your beta character.

All this Hype for nothing…

Maybe we should tune down our hype for the expansion too :P

The restrictions make sense. You shouldn’t be able to do any PvP on a class with skills that others don’t have access to. Also agree that BL trading post should not be allowed. Again, you may have items in your inventory that no one else has. You should not be able to sell it. This. makes. sense.

“Log in with your beta character to be taken to the beta testing area.
Please note that your beta activity—including character development, account-based development, and spent currencies—won’t impact your live Guild Wars 2 account. Your beta progress will be saved for the duration of the stress test, but all beta characters and beta account progress may be deleted at the end of the test period.”

My bet is, it’s the same area that we’ve seen on the demo. It will be part of one map and there will be the fight with the wyvern to test large numbers on a boss fight.

Given the dearth of information we’ve been given about it, I think you’re right, Wound.

A “stress test” in computer terms is stressing the servers to see what load balancing they need to do. But for the first one, I’d be surprised if there’s that much boss fighting. They probably want to see what the loads are with a specific number of players hitting the servers at the same time first. It’s only two hours, after all. They may or may not scale it up and down to see how things flow.

It makes me wonder what “character creation” will actually be in the Beta slot. My guess is we’ll be using one of our already made chars that will be pushed up to Lvl 80 if it isn’t already. It’s a full-on level 80 area, after all. Kind of like EoTN in GW1 was, it’s for max level chars, so having someone playing an unfamiliar character in a boss fight might not get the best feedback.

We’ll find out in 27 minutes, I suppose.

The email stated we’ll be creating a human character, so I imagine it will be just an instant 80 not associated with any of our original characters.

Per the FAQ no WvW or PvP. That likely means not testing Stronghold or borderland stuff unless they somehow have segregated instances of those.

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/91220997-Heart-of-Thorns-Beta-FAQ