Guild Wars 2

For me personally I have only played on 3 classes ele,nec,mesmer not like I didn’t want to play other classes but leveling to find you don’t like it just sucks. I would love it if we could keep the beta options for Hot purchasers only, so we can try different classes and see which class we want to focus on. With the beta weekends i have tried a few more classes now engineer,ranger,theif and I am already focusing on a new character engineer.
Although anyone can go into structured pvp and get a sense of it not everyone plays that. With it being beta no progress is saved and/or progress not earned it hopefully wont be exploited.
I know not everyone will use the feature I believe a lot will especially new players will. Although new players can watch video its not the same having an option like this to actually play it hands on. whether its limited to certain game modes or not I believe it would be a good idea imo.

There is already a form of that, called the heart of the mists. the pvp lobby serves as a method of messing around with any class with everything unlocked. Not only are there areas where you can attack golems to see what your abilities can do and just test them out, but there are also npcs that you can attack as well (all of them are npcs that are used in game modes, there are ghosts that represent a group of npcs with a champion like npc, two above veteran but not quite champion level npcs and also a group of npcs that represent players of each class, but don’t represent play of other players).

There’s also other testing mechanisms in the heart of the mists like the dodge exercise golem (though now there’s one in each starting zone, so i’m not sure how useful that is exactly), but in any case, there is already a place that exists for that.

I would like the betas to be a thing in GW2, but not for the reasons you mentions, like it was said above, go HotM to check new professions.

The betas would be nice to have to test balance patches and new upcoming content, every respectable MMO has them in some form.

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The betas would be nice to have to test balance patches and new upcoming content, every respectable MMO has them in some form.

MRW I realize this hasn’t been a thing yet. whyarewenotfundingthis.jpg

Would be nice if the beta areas were preserved for future use. WvW updates would benefit if they could be tested before being imposed on people.