Guild Wars 2

Any character you make for beta is temporary. I don’t know that you’ll even be able to use your account resources for it, but please don’t use up 80 tomes if that’s an option — your character will only exist for 2 hours on Tuesday. 4 hours maybe, if the second session is a continuation rather than a repeat.

In the 2012 betas we got full weekends to test the game, though PS cut off at the end of the racial arc. We had to start new characters every time (Donari had a lot of last names, mostly involving “Smiling” somehow, and was an Engineer and a Ranger and a Thief). At the end for short “surprise! Tomorrow is another beta session” events and stress tests they let us keep previously made alts, but all were wiped come launch.

The only thing we retained were gems we’d bought, we got to use those up in beta to test gem shop items and have them reapplied at launch.

Come on Arena net.

I go the invite but the day it is scheduled i am moving house hope it wont affect my chances in the future to participate in further stress test or closed beta .

Congratulations on those going to do the stress test for the first beta of HOT. Just guessing, I imagine those picked for this first round were those normally playing about the times specified regularly and narrowed from that list. Well, at least that is how I would begin to create such a list. Hope you all don’t find too many bugs. I did a beta for WoW once. It was fun getting a look at new content early. Not keeping any progress was a bummer though. Oh and please be sure to share some info not mentioned in the forums yet. I am curious what we are going to be able to do, thanks.