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Guild Wars 2 Developers Answered your questions on Reddit

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Mike O’Brien, the President of ArenaNet, with ArenaNet designers and developers are answering your questions about the game and the upcoming beta event in the next three hours.

Here’s who will be participating:

  • Mike O’Brien – President/Founder – MO
  • Chris Whiteside – Lead Producer – Chris
  • Mike Zadorodjny – Content Designer – z
  • Mike Ferguson – WvW Designer – Ferg
  • Peter Giuntoli – Programmer – Peter
  • Jon Peters – Systems Designer – Jon
  • Isaiah Cartwright – Lead Systems Designer – Izzy
why is the beta only available to people who either a) preorder GW2, or b) win a beta key in random obscure contests.

We have a certain amount of server capacity. We promised people who pre-purchase that they’ll have guaranteed slots in each upcoming beta. After taking care of them, we give away remaining slots in online contests.

~ MO

Were any extreme/major changes made to the thief profession? I feel like the thief has been slightly neglected compared to other professions, such as ranger and guardian.

We did do a big thief balancing pass in between last BWE and this BWE so be sure to check out the traits as there is a lot of new stuff in there as well as tweaks to the existing stuff.

~Izzy
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Beta Key Giveaways

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In order to get as many fresh faces to see their cool game Arena Net has organized several giveaways of beta keys for the upcoming Beta Weekend Event on various fansites and websites. We wanted to try and maintain a comprehensive list of all the websites doing the giveaway. We will try and update this list as the days go by.

Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend 2 begins on June 8th

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Chris Whiteside, the lead producer of Guild Wars 2, announced today that Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event 2 will begin on Friday, June 8th, at noon PDT (GMT-7) and will run until Sunday, June 10th, at 11:59 p.m. PDT (GMT-7).

Your existing beta characters have not been deleted, and you will be able to continue right where you left off! This means that enterprising players with characters level 35 or higher will be able to test their mettle against the explorable version of the Ascalonian Catacombs dungeon!

Your participation is even more important when you consider that we take our beta events very seriously in terms of our development strategy. At ArenaNet, “beta event” means exactly that—it’s a development-centric event in which we test our systems, discover new and exciting bugs, and get pivotal feedback from our testers about what is going in the right direction and what isn’t.

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.

 

Source: arena.net

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 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

Guild Wars 2 Beta Client Download

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With the latest news that Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event invites have just been sent, you have probably asked yourself how to download the client?

There are two ways (known so far):

  • Log in to the Guild Wars 2 beta forums, click on the account link, click on the Download Clients link
  • Guild Wars 2 Client download on cloudfront.guildwars2.com/
    Create a folder where you want to install the game and put the Gw2.exe in there.

There are also some known issues that you should read before Beta Weekend event.