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[fenrif]

I'll put the last BWE event in spoilers in case anyone wants to be surprised. I will say that some servers didn't get to do it (the timing of the event was a problem: the script to begin the finale event failed to start, but the script to end the beta weekend worked fine).

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The event involves a big dragon and some interesting chaos. In short, everyone has to defend against corruption in the Charr starter area. If you're killed by any of the corrupted entities, you respawn as an entirely different, corrupted creature (new attacks, new model -- and I suggest checking yourself out under water for an interesting surprise). Additionally, you are now a servant of the dragon, and your corrupted faction is PvP flagged against anyone not corrupted. You kill them, they respawn on your side.

Eventually the corrupted players dominate everything. You then have to take out some NPC heroes. Dragons may be involved. As for the rest, well, my server didn't get any further before the auto-ending of the BWE.

Damn that sounds awesome, I might have to try and get up early for the last BWE one.

And August 28th is way sooner than I thought it would be. So excited!

[Aoi]

I really hope performance gets tuned a bit between the first BWE and launch... My systems are perpetually underpowered. (My group was NOT happy when my laptop hit 109C and shut down after an hour of defending Heroes' Ascent. =P)

[Astral]

Definitely looking forward to the August 28th release date. Will give me something to do when not attempting to be at work, nostalgia over PS2 games, playing SWTOR, or resisting the urge to blow hundreds of dollars on Steam sales.

[Moogie]

We'll finally be able to try Asura and Sylvari races on the July 20-22 Beta. I can't wait!

[SeaBee]

Yep! Though now I'm not sure I want to ... I want to save a starting area for the actual release so it's completely fresh and new. Will I have the willpower? Stay tuned!

[Drakale]

Anyone going to be playing a dirty tree-hugger this weekend?

I'd like to try out the new area as a group this time around.

[Bluerobin]

I'm gonna be making a Sylvari, yeah. I'm going to be on a server with RL friends, though, and I'm not sure which one yet. Hopefully they'll decide today.

[Fikes]

I haven't pre-ordered yet so I haven't played the beta or anything but I do plan to play with friends at release.

The problem is that I have a wacky travel schedule so I can't be primary anything. Instead I plan to be backup damage or healing. Anyone know a class that will fall well into that role?

[Bluerobin]

Um... healing.  As far as I know only Elementalist and Guardian (and maybe Engineer with the potions gun? I know nothing about that) have somewhat decent healing capabilities and even they aren't great, since healing isn't really a major thing in GW2. Guardian's probably what you want if you normally play a healer, just because they have a lot of damage prevention/mitigation skills, but Elementalist would let you do backup damage + some healing + a little damage mitigation all at once at the expense of being much squishier and less specialized. Then again, those are pretty much the only professions I know much about (I have a small amount of experience with necromancer and mesmer and have only read skill lists for the other ones), so I might be missing something.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Make sure you redownload the client for the last BWE now, or there's going to be a huge wait tomorrow!

[Moogie]

Redownload the client? You mean "run the launcher to get the latest update", surely. I'm only pointing this out because this is the second time I've heard someone say you have to redownload the entire thing, and it just isn't true. I've had the same Beta launcher since the very first BWE and it updates itself just fine every time.

'Course, if you have lightning fast connection and unlimited bandwidth, sure, why not! Go wild! Redownload Windows every time you boot up, too.

[KaelGotDwarves]

The launcher deletes the old one and redownloads the new client for you

[Moogie]

It downloads updates, not the whole client again. If it redownloaded the entire client every BWE I would have already seen it happen 4 times. I've seen some big updates (in the order of a GB or two), but nowhere near the full size of the game.

[Bluerobin]

Oh apparently we get free and unlimited transfers for the first half of the BWE: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/wu1hw/world_transfer_will_be_free_and_unlimited_from/ (link to the actual forum post here)

[KaelGotDwarves]

Pretty sure this last one was a new client, as everything was cleared and the download was several gigs.