GW2 Beta Weekend Event # 2 = June 8th

[Loggahead]

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

The next GW2 BWE will start on June 8th @ 2:00pm CST and will end on June 11th @ 2:00am CST. Apparently our characters will not be wiped which means we will likely all still be on the Borlis Pass server!

Arenanet announced the news this morning via the following blog post:
www.arena.net/blog/announcing-the-next-guild-wars-2-beta-weekend

Here is a small excerpt:
We have listened intently to all of your feedback from our first Beta Weekend Event, and we’ve made great strides toward resolving many of the issues you’ve helped us identify. These include party movement into overflow servers, chat functionality, key bindings, server stability, performance, and many more that we will detail in the near future.

Smoke & Fire mates! I look forward to romping in Tyria with you guys next weekend! Haaaar!

-logga

[syncrosonix]

i may end up playing it once it's finally released.

[morgwath]

Supposed to take a trip with my parents that weekend. we'll see if i get to play any

[wraithguard]

I'll probably end up being at work for nearly the entire weekend....because I'm almost always at work for nearly the entire weekend on any given week.

[Loggahead]

I'll be on there. Looking forward to seeing the changes they've made since the last beta. I'm particularly interested in the keybinding changes (I didn't like reaching up for the Fkeys to activate class skills) and engine optimization.

Hopefully some of you will be able to find some time to play. If so, I'll see you on there!

Smoke & Fire ~~~ !!!

[Loggahead]

Here's an updated post on Arenanet's blog as to the changes that have been made for this weekends beta:

www.arena.net/blog/the-big-beta-weekend-preview

Things of note:
- New Dungeon
- New Explorable Area outside LA
- New Mini Dungeon added to WvWvW
- Combat Improvements
- No Character wipe
- Overflow Server tweaks
- Key Binding changes


-logga

[Loggahead]

Well, it's officially over and it was officially AWESOME !!! This weekend's BWE was incredible. I had such a good time and can't believe how incredible GW2 is in it's beta state. They could release it as is, today, and it would be my game of the decade... Unbelievable...

I took some screenshots for you. The necro in all of these shots are none other than Morgwath "Morgy" Gurthgul and the ranger is a new mate we met this weekend named Razor Back. Enjoy:

[morgwath]

Had a blast. Took some of the same pictures as Loggahead so i'll not post doubles. but then after logga went to bed Razer and I kept at it. We stayed until servers shutdown.

The Beta Weekend Finale was in the Charr starting area this time. First off there were "Fun Boxes". When you clicked on them a random funny thing happened. Fireworks went off, you turned into a jackalope, shrunk, grew enormous, turned to stone, turned invisible, turned into a charr, etc.

Then servants of teh crystal dragon appeared at certain waypoints. The waypoint had a crystal case over it so we took off running to it and killed a miniboss and then broke the case off the waypoint. After doing this at a couple different waypoints I finally died. That's when I realized that the servants where actually players!! It was basically PVP! I got turned into one and had a new list of skills and was going around killing people when the servers shutdown.

So here are a few pics I got of the finale.

[Loggahead]

Morg! That looks wicked awesome!!! I hate to have missed all that mayhem!

Did you and Razor Back stick together the rest of the night? He seemed like a cool dude, had a good time with the three of us romping around Kessex Hills like a warband causing a ruckus!

[morgwath]

We mostly stuck together. I went afk for a bit, then came back and joined up again. Then when the finale started it was all mayhem and I lost him, saw him once or twice before i was turned into a bad guy.

[syncrosonix]

looks neat! i'm looking forward to some GW2 action once it's finally been released. i'll need to pick up a new gaming rig or laptop before taking the plunge, though.