Guild Wars 2

You can go in the instance, then go to character select and relog. It should get you in the new map, without having done the story

They should remain playable next BETA weekend, I believe they explained this a while back.

“Progress earned by beta characters over the course of the weekend will be preserved between BWE1 and BWE2 so that you can continue testing where you left off.”

http://dulfy.net/2015/07/31/gw2-heart-of-thorns-first-beta-weekend-begins-august-7/

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!

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/

Some nice and interesting videos here already, hope to put mine online soon as well currently waiting on our composer :P

Thanks again!

Hello and welcome to our recruitment page!

Guild Name: Guardians of the Silver Dragons [GSD]
Website: www.gsd-guild.com
Language: English speaking

Guardians of the Silver Dragons [GSD] is a small European guild built from the ground up. When the game originally launched in 2012 we were primarily a Dutch-speaking guild but quickly came to accept other members as well. Ever since we have been striving to create a place where people can feel at home. A place where you can be who you want to be without too much drama. We pride ourselves in truly knowing our members. With us you aren’t just a number or a name, you are a friend and family member. Most of us will know one another by their first name and some have even met outside of the game! To ensure that everyone fits in and feels at home, we carefully screen our applicants and aim for a total membership of 50 to 60 people. Whether you play PvE, PvP or WvW, with GSD there is usually someone to play with.

What do we offer?

To better help organise our guild and bond with our members, we offer various different tools. More specifically we offer our own Website, TeamSpeak 3 Sever, Minecraft Server, WhatsApp groups and (soon) our own Forums. With these tools in hand it is easy to communicate within the community and even do things together outside of the game, which is highly encouraged. Are you a fan of Minecraft? Simply hop onto our own server and ask others to join you! Or perhaps you really enjoy playing games on Steam? Ask around, there might just be someone who wants to join in on the fun!

By joining our two WhatsApp groups you can easily ask if someone wants to join you for a fractal run or a dungeon. Or when you are bored at work or school, all your friends are just a click away, hiding in your pocket! On our website you will find the latest news about the game as well as an event calendar for scheduled events. These include weekly Guild Missions and Training Raids in the future, as well as bi-weekly events. These bi-weekly events are events of our own creation. These can be litereally anything! Perhaps we will send you hunting for items based on clues and riddles? Or maybe you have to team up with others to beat a dungeon … naked? The possibilities are limitless and not always restricted to Guild Wars 2. That said, we will do our best that our events are accessible to anyone who would like to join.

Requirements

• You are 18+
• You are on a European server
• You represent the guild most of the time (80%)
• You register on the website and make an application
• You will install and use TeamSpeak 3 (for events)
• We kindly ask you to join the WhatsApp groups (highly recommended)

Website
Video

Gaile Gray.6029:

Sweetchuck.6379:

“Make sure to abide by our Terms of Use and not to use any copyrighted content beyond our own”

We have to use music we own or have permission to use?

We cannot post a video that has copyright music. Even if you bought a copy of the music, we cannot post it publicly. So best advice: use Guild Wars 2 music or music that you, personally, composed.

Thanks for asking — it’s a good question.

Thanks for clarifying that!
One of our members just finished composing a 30 second music piece just for our video, now hope I can edit my footage around it!

This sounds great! Our guild (30 members) will try to make something for sure, we have some composers that’ll love creating something just for this!

Probably ‘Ascended’ gear then. Ascended gear takes a while to craft (though can also be obtained as a drop from champion bags, world bosses and PvP reward bags AFAIK).

Ascended gear, however, is the top gear in the game and is account bound rather than soulbound. This means that you can freely move it around between your characters, provided they are from the same armour class (light, medium, heavy).

If you need more information about it, this is a link to the wiki!
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_equipment

So after having spent the entire weekend in Verdant Brink I decided to make a video of my journey. This is one of the first videos I’ve ever made so please bear with me!

https://youtu.be/jAFxQyrfP0Q

Lord Arhan Warmark.7098:

If you’re running Windows 10 and an Nvidia card, you need to roll back to the Windows 8.1 driver as far as I know. That should fix your FPS. I’ve also read running GW2 in compatibility mode can fix audio issues.

If the roll back to the older driver fixes your problem with FPS, make sure you disable driver updates from Windows update otherwise it’ll just force the newer broken drivers on you.

Well for me it only happened once in Verdant Brink, after already having been there for several hours. Simply restarting the game solved the issue for me and I haven’t had FPS or audio issues since.

They announced PvP Leagues at Gamescom, you can read all about it in the blogpost of today

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-pvp-leagues/

Continue:

MASTERIES

The idea behind the mastery system is great and it gives players a great way to progress their characters. The fact that it is account bound is even better as then it doesn’t become too repetitive but you build upon something for all your characters.

At first I felt that obtaining masteries was rather fast but after I while it started to feel a lot slower, which I think is great. The mastery system shouldn’t be something that you can obtain in just a matter of days, weeks even. It should be something that takes a while to obtain as it is the way to progress our characters after all. Obtaining the first few masteries at a somewhat faster pace isn’t all that bad though, as gliding and jumping on mushrooms adds a lot of gameplay to the new map.

There don’t seem to be a lot of tracks available but each track has multiple masteries and obtaining all of them will take quite a while. The mastery system seems to be a system that can easily be expanded in the future with new masteries to add as new content gets added to the game.

Gliding: Gliding is simply amazing! It allows players to reach locations at a faster pace and to avoid certain mobs. Due to the many hills and cliffs in the map it’s also a great lifesaver! I have yet to find locations that wouldn’t be accessible without the gliding though. (also a great way to film new footage).

Mushroom bouncing: Mushroom bouncing is just like gliding, rather useful and amazing to quickly climb your way up hills or cliffs. You have to be careful though as if you don’t position yourself properly you’ll land badly and sometimes even die. (not sure if that’s intentional or not).

MUSIC – SOUNDS

The sounds in the new map are wonderful both that of the creatures, the jungle itself and the ambient sounds that we hear. The jungle is and feels alive just based on the sounds alone!
The music that’s being played is an amazing piece of art, the sound teams have done an incredible job here!

Overall I think the map and other content we’ve seen so far is great and with some improvements (and bug fixes) will be incredible. Kudos to the teams

I played the BETA this weekend, as many others and decided to give my opinion and feedback about it. So please sit back, relax and hopefully enjoy the read

STORYTELLING

The storytelling of the first, and only, instance that we got to play was simply put amazing. I believe the team has done a really great job on the matter and then I’m not taking the actual story into account.

The fact that you character now has a voice that he/she actively uses instead of cutscenes (and an additional text bubble over the head) provides a great way to experience the story. You are now literally a part of the story as you can still move around while your character talks, whereas before you would be locked in a cutscene. Your character, being the Pact commander, has a sense of authority that can be found in both the voice acting as the actual content. – The fact that Mordremoth talks to the Sylvari players is a huge plus as well!

VERDANT BRINK

The first map of the expansion, Verdant Brink, is a wonderful piece of art. The designers really did a great job on designing this map, even though we only experienced a slice of it. The map has a lot to offer and is built with a lot of detail. The graphics and effects of the map really give the feel of a jungle and the smoke and flying Wyverns in the air give a nice feel. The Hylek village is really well designed as are the few caves (mushroom cave!).

Exploring the map has truly been a blast and is a feast for the eye. The new exploration modes, such as the bouncy mushrooms and gliding, fit right in to this map and provide us with a new experience.

Events: The events in the map, providing that they aren’t bugged, are all different. Most of the events are somewhat challenging if you compare them to existing events in the game and are greatly enjoyable. The difference between day and night also shows in the events which gives the map an entirely new feel to it.
It would be nice though if you would see some sort of progression according to how well you did during the day, meaning that if all went well during the day this is shown during the night by having more resources for instance (something I have not noticed thus far).

Adding to the night/day cycle, I believe the “night” should be just a little bit darker than it currently is to make the difference bigger.

Creatures: There are various new creatures in the new map, most of which have new abilities that make them more challenging. The creatures fit right in with the environment and more often than not you find yourself in a spot where some sort of group play is encouraged. The creatures are present with great numbers and can thus be overwhelming for just one player. Luckily, there are plenty of players around to lend a hand

Adventures: The adventures in the map are interesting to say the least. All three of which we got to play in the small chunk of the map available to us are nice additions to the game. All of them are different but greatly enjoyable. They are fun to redo many times over and even encourage you to, so that you can compete on the leaderbords that come with it.

The adventures are easy to recognize while you play by their flag and on the map. However, I believe that it would be great to have more information indicating that the adventure is currently not playable and why. Now, if it is closed and you interact with it, it will tell you that it isn’t playable at that time, but you don’t know why.

Note: This might already be in the works, but I believe that some vistas would be a nice addition to the map to show the beautiful environment.

I’m playing on highest graphics and get about 45-80+ FPS, depending on the amount of people on my screen, which is the same as the normal maps and in some cases even better.

I have an intel core i7 – 4770K @3.5Ghz and a GTX 970

I had the same issue yesterday, using windows 10

Niyati.4215:

…for something i didn’t do. Awsome..good going Anet. A+ for that fail. Recieved an ingame mail as i logged onto the beta Test saying i got the “God walking Against Mere Mortals”. I never finished the Title in Gw1, got up to like 35/50. never exploited anything in GW2. And you guys just take away my hard earned Ap points that just broke the 14k mark last week. now back down to 13,727. The skin i just open is gone(the long bow) and a can’t get back, but now i have to get 773 Ap points just to get the next chest. what a bunch of BS this is.

I had the same thing though, when I switched back to my main character afterwards nothing was removed and the achievements that I did have from GW1 (by playing GW1) were still there. They were on my normal characters but not on my BETA characters.

I agree though it does create a phantasm for me even when not blocked.

Oh yes, that Marjory Delaqua was simply amazing! I agree that the waiting queu was really long though, Orpheal and when I was waiting to play the demo there was some confusion as in the morning the devs present told us the demo was only 10 minutes, to avoid long waiting queus, in the afternoon the devs changed it back to 20 minutes which instantly made the waiting so much longer.

That said, I’m glad I could play it, even for just 20 minutes and the T-shirt is simply awesome! Hopefully I’ll be able to attend again next year and maybe the booth will be just that little bit bigger

I had a blast meeting all the devs at Gamescom today, I had some really nice chats with them and met some awesome people! Thanks again!

Gaile Gray.6029:

Yes, to confirm: We will be playing Beta Weekend No. 1 at gamescom. The demo on the floor will give you access to some tasty content for sure.

Blog post about the BWE is here.

hoewhoew.4619:

My guild (GSD – Guardians of the Silver Dragons) will be attending with 4 members, including the guild leader, which is me

I really look forward to meeting your guild. See you there.

Unfortunately one, and maybe two of our members won’t be able to attend after all as they have some personal matters to attend to.

I’m getting this error quite often since the latest patch both on the website as the gemstore, sometimes forcing me to reload the page over 5 times.

My guild (GSD – Guardians of the Silver Dragons) will be attending with 4 members, including the guild leader, which is me

Yeah well, I already pre-purchased and don’t regret it but I’d really like this to be fixed. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of people suffering from this though…

this still doesn’t seem to be working for me. I can’t see certain cutscenes from the Living Story S2, the video that pops up for the new Lion’s Arch neither for Marjory’s journal or the Zephyr Sanctum Model.

Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?

this still doesn’t seem to be working for me. I can’t see certain cutscenes from the Living Story S2, the video that pops up for the new Lion’s Arch neither for Marjory’s journal or the Zephyr Sanctum Model.

Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?

I also agree with pretty much everything that’s being said here, it’s spot on! I planned on writing my own feedback at first, but seeing how it would be similar to this, I didn’t see much of a point in creating two almost identical threads

I love playing the Revenant though, it gives some interesting ways to play and the animations are rather nice. IMO the utilities also seem rather interesting and useful though some of them still require some work.

As the weapons seem heavily build around certain legends, it’d be nice to see certain skills change depending on the legend. Maybe in a form of certain conditions/boons it gives, or then certain skills that change altogether.

Linken.6345:

hoewhoew.4619:

Actually no, you can’t go based on that as the Revenant doesn’t have everything unlocked in the map. AFAIK they don’t have the hearts completed which counts for the other 27%.

there arent any hearts in the expansion but looks to me that hes in the silverwaste map and havent unlocked all wayoints/poi/hero challenges etc

I know, I referred to the hearts in the current world
The Revenant starts with 73% map completion but doesn’t have any of the hearts or hero challenges, but does have all the vistas, waypoints and POIs

Actually no, you can’t go based on that as the Revenant doesn’t have everything unlocked in the map. AFAIK they don’t have the hearts completed which counts for the other 27%.

If you buy the standard edition, you can upgrade to the Deluxe edition through the gemstore. You can’t, however, upgrade to the ultimate edition.

So you can go to GameMania (great store btw), or buy it on the Guild Wars 2 Website. If you then buy gems, you can upgrade to the Deluxe edition and you will get all the extras that come with it.

“If I purchase the Standard or Deluxe editions of Heart of Thorns will I be able to upgrade to Deluxe or Ultimate later?
Starting on June 23, 2015, you will be able to upgrade to Deluxe in the gem store, but the only way to receive the Ultimate edition is to buy it from buy.guildwars2.com or in-game.”

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/94582027-Heart-of-Thorns-Pre-Purchase-FAQ

Defora.3694:

I always struggle to convert anet’s time to local time. So I made timer for upcoming Revenant and Stronghold Test Weekend.

• Starting time converted for all timezones: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Pre-purchasers%3A+Guild+Wars+2+Revenant+and+Stronghold+Test+Weekend&iso=20150710T12&p1=234
• Countdown to event: http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=234&iso=20150710T12&msg=Pre-purchasers%3a%20Guild%20Wars%202%20Revenant%20and%20Stronghold%20Test%20Weekend

Your timer seems a bit off, might want to take a look at this one
http://gw2timer.com/

FLiP.7680:

I expected something different from this topic, but I’ll ask anyway:

To anyone playing the beta weekend, how many skills each Legend has?

They have drop-“ups” for their heal, utility and elite skills, so one can only imagine that they’re able to swap, and save that template to when they come back to that Legend.

Also, all of Ventari utilities are tied to his Heal skill, if you swap the heal to another, those utilities are disabled or they gain a new effect?

As far as I know, based on the blogposts and livestreams so far, the utility skills, heal and elite skill change depending on the legend you are using. Every legend so far couldn’t change their utilities or heal skills, so it seems they are tied to each legend.

I could be wrong here though, but that’s how I took it all in.
As for which weapons/legends we will be able to use this weekend;

Hammer – mace/axe – staff

Jalis (Tanky) – Mallyx (Conditions) and Ventari (support/heal)

Arete.7198:

This is my first beta weekend.

Looking for instructions on how to start:
Where do I get the beta game client.
Any special procedures for downloading/starting, etc.

For this “BETA” weekend you don’t need a BETA game client. If you pre-purchased the game you should have a character slot in your character selection screen with “BETA” on it.
If you use that character slot this weekend, you will be able to create a Revenant and jump right in. The test this weekend will happen in the core game, so while you will be able to test the Revenant and the new Stronhold PvP mode, you won’t be able to test any other HoT related content. Those will be for future BETA weekends which, I believe, will also happen using the normal client. Hope that helps

yakuza snowdragon.4639:

Anyone know of any Beta countdown timers? I live in NZ and I’m always unsure of times because we’re on the start of the timeline.

There’s a timer on here

http://gw2timer.com/

I’ll be going on Thursday, with my brother. Can’t wait to see you all there!

Oooh, that looks amazing! I love it ^^
You don’t happen to have a certain plan on how to make it, a tutorial of some kind?

Pino.5209:

hoewhoew.4619:

Probably this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslqhBn3PU&feature=youtu.be&t=25m16s

Auuuuw, that hurts, was expecting August. No, new content for whole year gonna be suck big time. This game is on Zzzzzzzzzzz mode right now.

Well it says “This summer”, so August – September is probably what they meant at the time. It’s most likely a slip he made though, and probably didn’t intend to say it. My guess is that we’ll get a release date or another major feature announcement at Gamescom, early August, but that’s a guess?

Probably this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslqhBn3PU&feature=youtu.be&t=25m16s

You can’t currently play through old events and happenings from Season 1. This is something they might look into in the future but aren’t actively working on at this time.

You can buy the complete Season 2 living story set in the gemstore and play through the instances though. The wiki is also a useful tool to read up on the lore and about what has happened in the past, as you can’t relive season 1.

Hope that helps!

Wiki – Living World season 1

You get your bonuses right away (or at least within those 4 hours).

The revenant will be lvl 80 and will have several gear boxes in its inventory (exotic) so that you can choose the stats you want and test several builds.

Donari.5237:

In another thread someone linked Colin’s Reddit post (and there is also a red post somewhere in this forum) saying the test Revenants will be 80 with a set of gear choices in their bags. I am on an unfamiliar computer (a Mac) so I can’t really easily search around for the link but I bet the dev tracker has it.

And here is the link

Revenant test weekend

“They are instant level 80, fully geared, with an inventory full of other gear options you can swap in and play with.”

Same issue here

It says PvP build as it’s in the PvP builds section, doesn’t mean it’s for templates specifically. It also uses the icon from the new Stronghold PvP mode. As far as we know it could be a different build section for that specific game mode.

All of this is just speculation, of course

Yup, this is a known bug that has been around for a few weeks now. It’s been mentioned a few times in the bug section as well, here for instance.

Chase.8415:

They actually made a patch mistake and the PvP templates panel was visible for a few hours.
http://gyazo.com/4f22757884f4e8a7bbf81f1eb6fa35fe

It’s coming, we just don’t know when.

Sorry to burst your bubble there, but Colin mentioned that those aren’t for templates :P

“It’s not build templates- that was your one guess, no guesses left!
Usual stuff → Templates was a great feature for Gw1, it’s something that I think would be great for Gw2. We already announced the major features for HoT, our focus is on polishing those, as well as getting to announcing the details of all the ones we haven’t yet given any details on.”

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3b4z6j/something_new_in_the_pvp_build_window/

No, you can only update to the deluxe edition. If you want the Ultimate edition, you’ll have to purchase that one.

“Starting on June 23, 2015, you will be able to upgrade to Deluxe in the gem store, but the only way to receive the Ultimate edition is to buy it from buy.guildwars2.com or in-game.”

Well at least it’s just whisper for you, for me my entire chat decides to stop working every few minutes mixed with some spicy black screens and disconnects :P

In honour of Lion’s Arch I made this video about the rebuilding, together with the new song they released a few weeks back.

I know some of the transitions aren’t as smooth yet as they could be but I might take another look at those in the future. Meanwhile though, I hope you enjoy

https://youtu.be/8Flm1eLzQow