Guild Wars 2

Does the WvW BL come out the same time as HoT? Because it seems weird that it comes out reset day but doesn’t come out at reset time.

Yes it does, according to this dev post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-and-the-Heart-of-Thorns-Release/5609875:

Chris Barrett.3280:

Here’s what the Heart of Thorns release will look like for WvW:

1. On the morning of Thursday, October 22nd, WvW will be terminating without completing or updating Glicko ratings as normal. This will be the end of the classic (“Alpine”) Borderlands maps for the foreseeable future.
2. On entering the build with the new Heart of Thorns content, all of your spent WvW Ability points will be refunded. Recall these can be spent differently per character, and spending them on one character doesn’t spend them on any others.
3. WvW’s reset time will be changed to be 24 hours later in NA and EU. It will now occur on Saturdays instead of Fridays.
4. At the moment Heart of Thorns content becomes available, WvW will prepare its maps. Including the new Desert Borderlands map. There’s no guarantee the matchups from earlier in the week will be the same as the new ones (or that they’ll be different).
5. The new round will run until the new reset times on Saturday, then end and update Glicko ratings. After it comes up again, WvW will be running as “normal” except for the changed reset times and the new Desert Borderlands.

There will be no WvW active during HoT launch. The are ending present matches on Thursday morning and not beginning the next week’s reset till Saturday night.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-and-the-Heart-of-Thorns-Release/first

GreyWraith.8394:

There will be no WvW active during HoT launch. The are ending present matches on Thursday morning and not beginning the next week’s reset till Saturday night.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-and-the-Heart-of-Thorns-Release/first

That’s not quite right, read the dev post I linked above. A new match will start with the new borderlands map at launch on Friday morning, and complete at the new reset time (which a different post has stated will be saturday lunchtime, not saturday night).

Edit: And a more recent post again confirming the new reset time is back to Saturday evening, 24 hours later than the current reset. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-and-the-Heart-of-Thorns-Release/page/13#post5617694

Hmm. You’re right, I did misread the details of point #4. Thanks.