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Guild Wars 2 Stress Test on May 14

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ArenaNet announced Stress Test on Monday May 14 from 11 AM to 6:00 PM PDT (-7 GMT). This special test event is open only to Pre-Purchase customers who have registered their accounts.

With your help, we can conduct important tests and address some of the issues we identified during our first Beta Weekend Event. During this event, all you need to do is play normally with a new or existing character on your Beta account using the same game client. Please note that since this is a stress test of our servers, you may experience some in-game performance issues. If you’ve pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 and wish to participate in the stress test, we recommend that you register the account and download the game client.

Pre-Purchase customers, log in to the Beta Forums for more information and/or to download the Beta client if needed.

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/stress/news/Getting-Started/169235

Source: forum.guildwars2.com

Guild Wars 2 Map with Level Range

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Guild Wars 2 Tyria level map
 
A Guru’s community member carralpha made a handy Guild Wars 2 map with zone’s level range. The map isn’t finished yet but we think it will be extremely helpful for all of the Guild Wars 2 community members during the next Beta Weekends.
 
Click here for our Interactive maps filled with data hand picked by our editors (so, no spam points from random strangers), and screenshots to better demonstrate where each POI, vista, Waypoint or Boss fight is and how to get to it if you get stuck.
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Guild Wars 2 Leveling Tips

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During the GW2 Beta Weekend Event I have noticed that many people talk about leveling problems usually their next personal story is several levels above their current level. I have noticed that trying to level up by killing the creatures is worthless since the amount of xp you gain is insignificant. So, what is the best thing to do?

  • Do the personal story, you will gain xp and armor.
  • Do the heart quests.
  • While you are finishing the heart quests try to explore and you will find new dynamic events.
  • Find event chain that finishes and starts quickly and then do it repeatedly (like the centaur event chain in kessex hills)
  • Exploring also gives you decent XP especially while you are trying to find waypoints and Undiscovered Point of Interest (you can find them on the map).
  • Skill point challenges give the same exp as heart quests of the same level
  • Try to use AoE weapons and pull as many enemies as you can. Pull one mob and while you dps it run to next one and aoe both down. (thanks ninoffmaniak)
  • Try to finish Daily Achievements.
  • Don’t forget you get gems so you can get experience boosts. The boost isn’t much, considering that monster kill xp is fairly small compared to event xp, but its still a boost. (thanks Stealth107)
  • If you don’t know where to go next, look for a scout. He is marked as spyglass on the map. Scouts will reveal hidden dynamic events and hearts.
  • Use the Asura Gate, fast travel to far away locations, to visit the other races areas. You can finish their hearts and events. The Asura gate is marked as purple tornado on the map.
  • Crafting will give you decent amount of xp.
  • Guild Wars 2 Map with level range can be found here

If you think we missed something, please feel free to share it with us in the comment section bellow.

Guild Wars 2 Guides: Crafting System

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Guild wars 2 Crafting trainers LocationsThe crafting system is divided into specific crafting professions called disciplines. Each discipline has 400 skill points.

There are eight crafting disciplines:

  • Weaponsmiths craft daggers, hammers, greatswords, maces, shields, sigils, spears and swords.
  • Huntsmen craft harpoon guns, longbows, shortbows, pistols, rifles, torches, warhorns and sigils.
  • Artificers craft scepters, tridents, staffs, foci, sigils and potions.
  • Armorsmiths craft Heavy armor, inventory boxes and runes.
  • Leatherworkers craft Medium armor, Inventory packs and runes.
  • Tailors craft Light armor, inventory bags, and runes.
  • Jewelers craft Ring, Amulets, earings, you can also transmogrify gemstones into higher levels.
  • Cooking can prepare food which characters can eat for temporary combat buffs.

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Guild Wars 2 Tips & Tricks

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The first Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event is on its way and hundreds of thousands of gamers are faced with the Guild Wars universe, perhaps, for the first time. We thought it would be helpful to compile a list of beginner’s Tips and Tricks to help you make your first steps in the world of Tyria just a bit more comfortable. If you think we missed something, please feel free to share it with us in the comment section bellow and we will add it to our ever growing list in the main post.

We have separated the tips and tricks into several categories:

Guild Wars 2 error codes and solutions

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UPDATE: August 25th 12:41AM PST official Guild Wars 2 twitter says:

Error 21: networking issue. Try this workaround: uncheck “Remember Account Name” & uncheck “Remember Password.” Restart game client.

  
UPDATE: August 25th 8:29AM PST official Guild Wars 2 twitter says:

@GuildWars2: If you’re getting an error 42 trying to log in to #GW2, try closing and relaunching the client. Thanks for your continued patience! ~RB2

  

UPDATE: August 25th 8:10AM PST official Guild Wars 2 twitter says:

We have re-established server connectivity and are aware of some Error 42 issues.If you find this error please try again to reconnect. ^DO


  
There are several error codes that you can get when trying to log in to the Guild Wars 2 Beta weekend:

  • Unable to complete operation. Please try again in a few minutes
  • Unable to connect to a login server. This could be caused by an internet routing issue
  • Network error. Please check your Internet connection and try again.
  • Error Code: 42:0:9001:3927 – The servers are full or down
Some Solutions
  • Close your launcher when you get the error “Unable to connect to a login server. This could be caused by an internet routing issue ” and start the launcher again.
  • Flush your cache

    Start your Command Prompt as Admin (Start -> run -> cmd) then type ipconfig /flushdns and press enter

  • Use your GW1 and ncsoft login.
  • Try to change your password or update the info

Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event Important Information

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The Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event starts in less than 5 hours. We have decided to make a handy page where you can find all the important links and information about Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event.

  • There are 48 servers for this Beta Weekend Event, 24 EU and 24 US servers.
  • Only pre-purchase guarantees access to the beta, not pre-order
  • The Hall of Monuments will not be available for the Beta.
  • None of the CE, DD or Pre-Purchase items are available in the Beta events. They will be available for headstart.
  • Press F11 to select the language you want in your downloader.
  • There is no NDA for the Beta Weekend Event.
  • Once you have selected a home world, all the characters you create will play on this world and will represent it in our world-versus-world (WvW) format.
  • You can change your home world, there is a limit of one world transfer every seven days per account and a charge of 1,800 gems for each transfer. A world transfer moves all of your existing characters to your new home world.
  • When Guild Wars 2 launches there will be free “guesting” feature. With guesting, your characters can play on any world where you have friends—with certain restrictions. For instance, you will not be able to participate in WvW while guesting.
  • All participants in World vs. World events are effectively level 80, although you’re limited to the abilities that you’ve earned through regular leveling.
  • Asura and Sylvari are not available for this event
  • There are no special servers. No East/West Coast, no RP, no PvP.
  • The PAX East code gets you into only the first BWE.
  • You’ll be able to change the language once you are in game