The Beta Weekend Event is Coming! - no asura or sylvari which is fine with me, I want to save those for launch

Cool!

Main site http://www.guildwars2.com/en/ now has a Beta Event Weekend countdown timer, you may have to clear the cache, shot down and reload browser to see it.

Works just fine for me Guybrush. Thanks

I had to clear cache, exist and reload to get the timer instead of the charr image.

Guild Wars 2 on the Social Media Front

Thanks Guybrush....I saw this announced on Joystiq

Guild Wars 2: The Inside Stories

Guild Wars 2 developer has plans "for literally years to come"


Still waiting for BWE email.

Thanks Guybrush, it's good to know they are thinking long term

I got the email telling me where to go to get into the beta week end. I had trouble getting to the place, as did other people. But its fixed now and I just finished downloading the file. Now I have to run it over night so it downloads the beta files.

Congratulations Guybrush.....you will have to give us your impressions once you are allowed to talk about it.

No NDA for these beta weekends. Since they're open to any one who pre-purchased the game.

Choosing and Transferring Worlds in Guild Wars 2

There's a couple more pictures on Facebook. One's a boss monster in asura area. Other is some mysterious woman, I'm guessing either the queen or the head of the shining blade, both mesmers.

I forgot to uncheck auto play so I got a log in screen, let it play the music. Can't log in until Friday of course.

The digital versions of Guild Wars 2 have "sold out". buy.guildwar2.com no longer has pre-purchasing available. This was done to maintain stability at the start of the weekend. If they find that there is room for more people they will make pre-purchase available again.

Gamestop and Best Buy still have some digital keys available.

Just under 2 and 1 have hours until the Bet Event Weekend begins. Unfortunately I have just 1 hour and half to play before I have to leave for work

edit: Well my first hour wasn't so great (it started early BTW) I'm not used to the controls and kept running into things. At one point I got stuck in a corner but hitting space to jump got me out of it. The first boss monster downed me twice.

I created a norn ranger and was surprised that first weapon was axe. You start out with one weapon skill. I did enough combat to unlock 2. And for reward after first boss I chose war horn. Next have to start unlocking its skills. But have to go to work now.

Yea, that pesky work thing has a way of getting in the way.

I switched to charr thief. And I just go to were first boss is when they shut the server down for 30 minutes of maintenance.


Charr thief

Kissa 2

Kissa Nimbelcaw, charr thief in armor and street clothes, except for the gloves both are default versions. Gloves I got as a drop.

Oops, I'm a snake

After drinking a potion I got out of a Mystic Chest, as a snake Kissa had no skills

I experimented with crafting and create a Rune of Life, which added to armor gives +20 health. Once an experiment works the recipe is added to your list so you don't have to just remember what you did.

Well, its over. I didn't care for the finale at all. They asked everone to come to norn territory but my norn was only level 5 much too low for all thee strange beasties running amok.
When the crowd ran off without me I just tried to go back to doing normal things, but the new monsters made it nearly impossible.

I had least fun on ranger. They need to work on pets. And most fun on elementalist.