We have a super short show this week, featuring Harry Hol. We talk about nothing but the upcoming Beta Weekend!

GW2 Beta Weekend
http://www.arena.net/blog/announcing-the-next-guild-wars-2-beta-weekend

  • June 8th-10th - Starts at noon-ends at midnight
  • They are asking for lots of feedback. They want to know what works, and what doesn’t, so make sure that you submit that feedback, and log those bugs!


Changes in the upcoming beta
http://www.arena.net/blog/the-big-beta-weekend-preview

  • Keep your characters! (YEAH!)
  • Enter the Catacombs – Level 35+ dungeon
  • Gendarran fields – Level 25-35 zone
  • Mystic Forge – trade crap for less crappy crap?
  • More on WuvWuv
    • Mini-Dungeons
    • Skill Challenges, dynamic events and jumping puzzles, all in the WuvWuv zone
  • Automated Player vs Player Tournament.
    • 5v5, 3 rounds, single elimination
  • Subtle changes to combat
  • Overflow Servers
    • Party UI shows Overflow Server status (different world, etc)
    • You can now switch overflows to one that a party member is on.
    • Should stay together now on zone changes.
  • Chat bubbles!
  • Key Binding
  • Lots of UI improvements
    • Square mini-map
    • Stamina bar
  • Tiers for Skills
  • Gem store has been re-organized. Getting 500 gems for this beta to play around with the store.


Guild Wars 2 AMA
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uodjr/im_a_guild_wars_2_developer_ama_about_the_next/

Exploring the world of GW/GW2
http://youtu.be/ARZWX51hYYk

The Dev with the Dragon Tatoo
http://www.arena.net/blog/the-dev-with-the-dragon-tattoo

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