Probably a really dumb question, but the way I read this is the beta is over Saturday night / Sunday morning (Sunday at midnight) rather than ending Sunday night / Monday morning. Is that right?
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Guild Wars 2 public Beta is here for pre-purchases! [Stress Test June 27th]
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Probably a really dumb question, but the way I read this is the beta is over Saturday night / Sunday morning (Sunday at midnight) rather than ending Sunday night / Monday morning. Is that right?
Every class has access to dodge for evading attacks, and a self-heal for when things go wrong. Casters aren't getting one-shotted exclusively; we've seen footage of heavy-armored warriors and guardians getting splattered as a reward for their inattention as well. Players need to keep their eyes open to enemy telegraphing and what's happening around them.
Additionally, every class has access to elements of Control, GW2's replacement for tanking. Elementalists, for example can Chill enemies (causing a 66% movement speed and skill cooldown reduction) on every single weapon except scepters, simply by shifting to Water Attunment. And because the Scepter is a main-hand only weapon, it would be paired with either a dagger or focus, both of which have an ability that chills. Air attunement has either a knockback or a stun on all but one weapon setup (Scepter / Dagger, though scepter does offer a Blind which negates the enemy's next attack). Earth Attunement has a lot of cripples (50% movement speed reduction) and immobilizes, plus two Shield spells (one that greatly improves armor and one that renders the caster invulnerable for 4 seconds). That's not even mentioning utility skills like Arcane Shield (Block attacks with an energy shield. If it blocks three attacks, it explodes), Lightning Flash (teleport to target area) or Mist Form (Morph into an invulnerable, vaporous mist for a brief time). They can also use Conjure Earth to create a "Magnetic Shield", which acts like a new weapon, giving the elementalist 5 new skills (including a cripple, an interrupt and an invulnerability). Oh, and when you create a Magnetic Shield, you automatically equip one and one is conjured for any other player to pick up. That means if something goes wrong, two people can step in and work to control the enemy while the 'dedicated tank' (which doesn't exist but for the sake of your scenario we'll include) rallies, with the help of the other group members reviving him and his own downed abilities. Worth mentioning that the Magnetic Shield has a force pull, so an Elementalist 'tank' can yank an enemy away from someone trying to rally.
And if you're still downed after all of that? Elementalists can immobilize foes and assume a mobile, vaporous form while in the downed state.
This doesn't even touch on all of the other Control abilities that everyone in your group brings with them. The difference between a good player and a dead one is situational awareness and knowing what skills to use and when. Success is placed entirely on the individual, not the tank or healer. Some people are going to be pissed off that they can't blame someone else for their failures, but guess what? Those people are assholes and we don't care what they think.
Not a dumb question at all. The Beta is supposed to run for 60 hours and start at noon Pacific time on Friday. That means it will likely end around midnight on Sunday. For east coasters, it will run from 3PM Friday to 3am Monday morning.
Dead Prince
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downloaded the beta client. 13GB. log in screen <3
GasProblem
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I downloaded it after all...
Anyway, it says account ready, and just seeing the login screen and the menus and the music was worth it
The menus feel so smooth. Hmmm.
Anyway, it says account ready, and just seeing the login screen and the menus and the music was worth it
The menus feel so smooth. Hmmm.Client link on /vg/ was legit. So excited to start downloading this!
ANet pulls off the red/black on white contrast better than a lot of recent attempts.
My main complaint with the login screen is that the White on White in the options menu can be hard to read at times. Apart from that I love it
ANet pulls off the red/black on white contrast better than a lot of recent attempts.
Aye, they do.
Also as I posted somewhere else about the White on White thing:
Some of the letters aren't covered by the brownish background (most are, some aren't so it looks from my POV that it's White on White)
Also the red word (custom for me atm) doesn't go well with the brownish background as it makes it a little hard to read.
Still relatively miner stuff
only a few days left til we get to step into Tyria again 
Complistic
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I think im going to wait a few more hours for them to give an official link.
BattleMonkey
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Have they said if the beta clients will be allowed to be updated for full release or will we have to redownload everything again for release?
Disheveled_Zen
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Same, last thing I want is client issues as I bombard the login screen on Friday.
Likewise. I want to get it straight from the source without any chances of it being corrupted or screwed up. I'm not in any hurry, there's still 3 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes and 30 seconds until things get underway.
GasProblem
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Aye, they do.
Also as I posted somewhere else about the White on White thing:
Some of the letters aren't covered by the brownish background (most are, some aren't so it looks from my POV that it's White on White)
Also the red word (custom for me atm) doesn't go well with the brownish background as it makes it a little hard to read.
Still relatively miner stuff
The top of the options menu is pretty brown, but the lower you go the less brown it gets. In the lower left corner you see "Gw2: 14,058", that's pretty hard to read with a white background. But this is extreme nitpicking xD
RepairmanJack
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Doing the same. I've waited this long and still have to wait 3 more days, a couple hours for an official link is fine for me.
XD it is extreme nitpicking. I'm more worried about if they carry some stuff like that over to the full game since some (such as my gf) have eye problems (be it half blind like my gf or perhaps colour problems or something like that?) and have trouble reading anymore options they add below where the "Gw2:" thing is.
GasProblem
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I wanted to wait but I couldn't
It only took me a couple of hours to download anyway, wouldn't mind downloading again.
Ahh, the way you start the client, the big ass red dragon in the shape of a two shows up, music is still quiet, then the dragon gets bigger and the music kicks in.
It only took me a couple of hours to download anyway, wouldn't mind downloading again.
Ahh, the way you start the client, the big ass red dragon in the shape of a two shows up, music is still quiet, then the dragon gets bigger and the music kicks in.
razgriz417
Member
I downloaded it after all...
Anyway, it says account ready, and just seeing the login screen and the menus and the music was worth it
Yup I can confirm this too, Dl'd all 13 gbs of it (~150-200kb/s...) and i get the login screen with a message saying my account is good to go
GasProblem
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I think the version number of this release is 14,058 (says so in the bottom left of the option menu), so if the client that is released today or tomorrow has the same version number, we should be okay right?
Yep.
I'm still unsure if I have a pre-order account or a pre-purchase account. I wonder if I download the client if it will tell me whether I'm good to go or not.
Dinosaur Tamer
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Probably, yes. It looks like the launcher deletes the existing data and downloads everything again. So - in theory - there should be no risk of broken or corrupted data.
razgriz417
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stolen from reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/sphce/old_beta_client_is_working_atm/
If this were to be believed, if you get that message, that'd mean your account should be set up
Complistic
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from guru
edit: removed. I should read stuff.
edit: removed. I should read stuff.
GasProblem
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Hmm, when I try to launch the client right now it's just stuck on "Checking for updates".
Dinosaur Tamer
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I think you got trolled. That is the config for Batman: Arkham City. You can even see the Icon in the top left corner.
Complistic
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woops, they were talking about something else on a different page.
Lord Phol
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Are we talking builds in this thread?
Because I was reading a thread on gw2guru where the OP was trashing on guardians damage output, and decided to take on the challenge of making a viable damage build.
This is what I came up with: Guardian Face Melting Build
It's focused mostly on the burning condition and spirit weapons, though I might have to exchange an utility skill for another spirit weapon.
I have no idea how well this would actually work in the game, but fiddeling around with the calculator really made me curious on the Guardian class. I think I'm gonna try this out in the upcoming BWE.
Because I was reading a thread on gw2guru where the OP was trashing on guardians damage output, and decided to take on the challenge of making a viable damage build.
This is what I came up with: Guardian Face Melting Build
It's focused mostly on the burning condition and spirit weapons, though I might have to exchange an utility skill for another spirit weapon.
I have no idea how well this would actually work in the game, but fiddeling around with the calculator really made me curious on the Guardian class. I think I'm gonna try this out in the upcoming BWE.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Seems they removed the file for the beta. It just says "Checking for updates" now without doing anything.
Shrennin
Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
Thanks for the blog, I also read the one featuring dyes. I already knew this, but this game is going to be amazing. I love the dye system (I take it that there are still going to be rare dyes that will be hard to acquire, at least I hope).
Complistic
Member
looks like they figured it out.
GasProblem
Member
Everything works again.
Kos Luftar
Member
I left my comp to download the client this morning at 6:30am, but it was only going at 100Kb/s so I wonder if the download interrupted once they removed the file from the website.
Try exiting out of that and start the client again. After I did that it started downloading.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Tried that and it's downloading again. It's at 0% again though. I'm assuming the launcher downloads what's remaining?
Warrior_Keoni
Member
I wonder if they're using some sort of torrent technology to allow people to play the area that they're in, and pre-loading the others in the background.
Can't wait for the weekend. I convinced two of my friends to prepurchase (might get a third) so the beta's going to be extra awesome for me. I hope to convince more of my friends eventually, but I don't want them to throw down $60 only to hate the game I'd hyped up so much. I doubt I'll be disappointed with the game since I've been following it closely, have watched tons of videos, and thus know pretty much exactly what I'm getting. With any less information I could easily see people building GW2 up as something it isn't and being predictably disappointed.
Anyway my friends and I will probably just run around exploring for a while, but eventually I'd be up for doing stuff with GAF. On the topic of the downloader I'll just wait until it's official. Even with my crap internet 3 days is plenty of time to download.
Anyway my friends and I will probably just run around exploring for a while, but eventually I'd be up for doing stuff with GAF. On the topic of the downloader I'll just wait until it's official. Even with my crap internet 3 days is plenty of time to download.
I decided to pre-order it despite my PC not being where I want it for the game. I am sure it can run and I plan to build a new PC this year. I haven't played a MMO I truly liked in years but this seems up my line in enjoyable gameplay and not feeling I have to spend every hour of my free time in it. I've never been into raiding and such in regular MMOs and I don't see that being a big thing in this game (unless I'm mistaken), so I am excited to play.
Maleficence
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So I got a code from my brother who works at Gamestop but I haven't recieved an e-mail for downloading this beta. Do I not have access to this beta and do I need to pre-purchase?
No one has received an email to download yet. Patience, it should be today.
Disheveled_Zen
Member
How are people d/ling the client?
this is what I get when I log in:
Downloading a torrented older version of the previous beta client that is auto patching itself.
Maleficence
Member
The only e-mail I recieved was when I registered the code. Is that the same as most?
/Fingers crossed for an e-mail
Yes, that's all we have so far. Anything else is from files sent out for the previous beta.
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