Heart of Thorns Beta Weekend Event 2 Gameplay

[@reloadeddice8654]

3:37 The moment everyone went to check on their Steam.

[@kakulugiashthegreat]

I was on my phone and I still went to check my steam.

[@Lymew]

Ok so this is an awesome video! I will give it my first thumb up ever! Thank you for highlighting the wonders of this beta (beauty of the map, feeling of the map beeing huge, dynamic events beeing so much better mechanical and lore wise, ennemies being more interesting, the fact that you notice the new professions as such, the fact that as low health you run to a Ventari tablet, etc - I felt the same!! But you put words onto it and it makes the hype in me rise even further! )! Thank you WoodenPotatoes for making so many enjoyable videos :)

[@WoodenPotatoes]

+Lymew Thank you very much for a lovely comment!

[@nitagwathney1969]

When our map did the event where Faren comes back almost everyone gathered around him like he was a rockstar. I'm still happy that he's alive( I know I need a life :D )

[@LambsEatLions]

You were talking about personal story characters being in the map, iv also noticed this, Beigarth from the norn personal story ( and knights ascended) was casually stroling the jungle too :)

[@Ojyh]

I've hated the white flashes when you hit mobs since the beta of the original game. And I'm really surprised to finally hear someone else talking about that problem only now ! It's not only the white flash, the hit animations are annoying too (you know, when your ennemies start shaking like they have really severe nervous tics). Not only the mobs look like they're having an epileptic seizure, but I will end having one myself ! I don't know if any of you remembers that, but before the launch of the game someone at Arenanet talked about "the sense of hitting". People felt like their character wasn't really hitting their opponents. So Arenanet decided to put even more flashy effects and exagerated animations to "correct" the issue. They also tried to "connect" the chain skills of auto-attacks to make them look more fluid, like a real combo and not like 3 separated skills. My opinion is that not only they failed at achieving their goals, but they also missed the real issues and made things even worse.The "epileptic mode" may have been there before the sense-of-hitting iteration. But it's still a very annoying problem we should get rid of. Anyway, if they want to create a real sense of hitting, they need to change the animations. And maybe some sound effects. Adding more flashy effects and stupider animations is the last thing we need. If you look closely, many animations (for example : almost all the melee auto-attacks) are completely crazy. It's mostly the skills animations that don't give a good sense of hitting. Some moves are completely unrealistic, they just feel EXTREMELY ineffective. Oh and about the fluidity of auto attack chains... If they had made 3 animations that really go well together and have continuity between them, they wouldn't have felt the need to work on creating fluidity between them afterwards. Thay also failed this part anyway, because what they did is they chopped the animations while they were not even finished to make the second one begin right after. The result is that there's actually no fluidity between the animations, they look unfinished and the sense of hitting they were trying to give has definitely disappeared. Don't get me wrong, not every animation is like that. It's actually weird to see how some animations can be cool and really well done while others are completely crazy and poorly made.

[@Brimstarr]

Yeah WP, amount of detail in these maps visually and explorable is immense. Im in love with the beta and not regretting my purchase at all. I noticed the breakbars were wonky as well, but it would be easier to adjust that then lets say a characters AI adjustment.

[@CoupeDeJarnac]

I'm glad to see you throw out different builds. I was watching a friend play last night who was learning the game, and they were being told you have to run Ice bow. You have to run Scholar. You have to do this and that. I was dumb founded as I've done the same content with almost every build you can think of. Builds mean next to nothing with such easy content. I just hope raids aren't face rolled. Oh and Mace+Glint rev = either perma fury + perma 15 stacks of might, or 25 perma stacks of might.

[@TheLKStar]

I wonder why people post random comments before watching the video. As for the break bars, they absolutely need to look into it, they are a big deal and it would be a shame if they became a non-mechanic.

[@sacritwice]

You can get far more poison stacks on reaper if you go with bone minions/ rise!/corrosive poison cloud/ lich form. Just go with the death magic grandmaster death nova, use all utilities, pop lich form, summon the five minions, exit lich form, and pop shroud #4. You should get ALOT of poison stacks. It's also pretty cool to see that many bone minions running around.

[@dem1882]

looks like WP's vid that came out today

[@quinnwaters6939]

Great Video as always! I noticed Dustforce music in there, nice choice!

[@ethansavickas6979]

I didn't think anything of Cin Fursarai when I saw him in the beta, but WP reminded me he was from the Human personal story and I literally sat up in my chair over a minor character in surprise.

[@PrincessSkullcrusher]

When I heard you mention about using the racial skills in a build, I went to check something from a while ago. Racial Elite skills still don't have any counterpart for an Engineers Toolbelt f5. I know it would mean designing 16+ new skills based on them, but it's something I found really fun about the engi that racials have that little extra flavour.

[@ForeverTeam7]

Baroosh the quaggan is also present in Verdant Brink !

[@codemite]

The mastery icons on the map are really hard to see, so I had the same pleasant surprise when I discovered the one in the cave with the bouncy mushrooms.

[@Fo__Sho_]

12:00 Yeah there was a point where I thought that I'm actually in a stroy step and wondered about the fact that I wasn't alone.

[@LittleV179]

I was very happy to see Biegarth the smith and shashoo and baroosh last night :D it was awesome

[@SanctumTV-Channel]

So excited for this!

[@BeyondRepair]

aren't break bars supposed to be broken? Kappa

[@orrthehunter]

The red Itzel with the dual daggers are quite dangerous if you fight them alone. Their hits are slow and they have low HP but they hit like a truck. The Bronze, Elite, and Champion ones can one shot most players if they don't have very high Toughness and Vitality.

[@ManuelRosarioRB]

Hey WP! Just an small correction, what we are seeing here is the jungle-floor biome. I think we have only seen The Canopy and the Jungle Floor. Probably for the BWE3 we will going to test the Roots of the Jungle ? :)

[@sif9633]

How can you still not understand the map yet? Their wording wasn't hard to understand

[@ManuelRosarioRB]

+Loyal Luke +Sif guys, in the BWE2 blog post they said that we will be on the floor biome...

[@ManuelRosarioRB]

+Loyal Luke That makes me believe, that we are seeing the Floor and the Canopy, i've seen some underground entrances blocked that will probably go to the "roots" of the Jungle

[@joshfitton7835]

it was Eitel the Unlovable , but i'd say the guy he guarded was more unlovable ;)

[@goat1373]

i reckon they should buff the breakbar for that wyvern but drop its health a bit because it took way too long to kill, that hylek fight was perfect though

[@Binidj]

Somehow I got onto a very low pop map last night and the encounters really don't scale down well. They are really entertaining but were so punishing (and, in the case of Faren's lessons, so long) for 5-6 people (I did mention low pop right?) that it was painful. It also highlighted a massive bias toward ranged professions; in our case we had a couple of rangers and the number of times they were the only ones standing was ridiculous! Just for clarity, I was playing a Ventari revenant and was moving and dodging and dragging my tablet around, there was a boss (not a champion) who one-shotted me, and it was quite depressing then to watch from defeated as a single bear face-tanked him while the ranger dpsed him from range. I imagine that in a zerg the content would be pretty easy (if you can see the mobs for all the spell effects!) but for group size it's tweaked too high ... certainly for melee characters. The wyvern fight for 5 people though? Super fun; really challenging, the break bar was an actual thing and it took us a while to figure out what we needed to do. That being said, I think I might switch from Knights to Nomads armour, although my damage is pretty satisfying at the moment, the character (even with the toughness and a bunch of healing/defence traits) is entirely too fragile.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

+Binidj Interesting feedback! Looking forward to seeing some lower scale stuff today.

[@neokoga]

+Binidj I had a similar experience in a low pop map. I was on a daredevil in close range combat most of the time and I had to do a lot more work to stay alive while remaining relevant while ranged dps just sat calmly back and plinked away. I find that for the beta's I'm just tossing everyone in Valkyrie gear (Power, Vitality, Ferocity) to have some survivability while still doing decent damage without having to worry about min/maxxing and just getting a good feel for the profession's playstyle more than the numbers.

[@goat1373]

+Binidj comments like that you should make on the official forums, devs are looking for feedback afterall and will probably take notice

[@Lapouchy]

Revenant as a profession, even with high armor, requires a lot of attention, timing, energy management and skill in general even in open world PvE HoT maps. It's completly other direction than Warrior or Guardian who mow through mobs spamming 2 skills. You really have to get feeling of it and it applies to every Legend. I 've seen Revenants dying horribly to PvE mobs. I asked many of them why don't they use many of the active defenses avalible to Rev to stay in the fight and negate the damage. I got answers like "I didn't have Energy for block" or "using X skill is a DPS loss". People are just used to easy mode DPS with "oh shit" buttons. Revenant isn't it. In your case, there's a trait in Salvation which will blind enemies whenever you move your tablet as Ventari or use other healing skill. There's a trait in Glint which will apply 3s Protection AoE when you move your tablet, 5s if you use it with Facet of Nature up. Both when used correctly will prevent 1 hit KOs like that and let you stay on the target. There's Sword block, Sword evade, Shiro evade, Infuse Light, Crystal Hibernation, Pain Absorbtion into Embrace the Darkness to blind foes, whole Jalis skillset... It's just matter of L2P and Energy management. And that's what I love about the Revenant.

[@vela3786]

Really enjoyed your stream today, you are doing a good job. Hope you gonna stick to it. Something video related. The map definitely looks huge, so maybe it wont be that disappointing that there will be only 4 new PvE maps (at release).

[@raikozy35]

btw Im new in this channel and to the game in general, just wondeirng, is he using sweet fx color ehnancer? cuz my game doesn't look this vibrant and the shadow not as deep. I'm running the game at ultra btw, i have quite a powerful gaming PC

[@castmaster123-k1y]

if you have a look at top left of map there is a poi behind a door who's not to say it leads to the bloodstone

[@castmaster123-k1y]

+castmaster just went on to tyria 3d there is a zone portal behind door

[@runebeargames899]

hey wp, where is that headgear from? the Grenth hood. is it a gem item and if it is does it rotate into the shop around halloween?? i have a great necro style im looking to put together and im kinda missing that. Thanks and keep up the amazing vids! see ya in the beta :D

[@Moosetapheles]

Condi necro build without Duhhmfire, GG

[@Windows_96]

Hey WP, do you think we will ever see a dark night in gw2? Like we saw in Vehtendi Valley in gw1? The verdant brink nights still are just a grayer day, this saddens me.

[@foverine5183]

I absolutely love Daredvil and staff thief. on full zerker I was 2 shotting the baby wyverns. (roll into it and then staff 5 for 10k damage) really fun

[@burstlight7]

+Foverine except the mordrem snipers were practically 1 shotting me if they hit!

[@foverine5183]

+burstlight7 absolutely lmao. Always had to go for them automatically during the story mission or else it was RIP. also had to get some condi clense in there cause the tormentors are no joke either

[@viator_eagle5936]

Hey WP, I also played the Beta and have gotten all the mastery points for completing all of the events. Do you think we will get to keep those points for when the game comes out? Anet made those achievements in the core game, so wouldn't they just get moved to the Historical Category, and we would keep those mastery points? Tell me what you think about these Beta only mastery points do you think they are unfair or should we get to keep them

[@Vu1canite]

Hey WP, I was wondering, do you think we will somehow receive the achievement and the points from the Beta Weekend achievements in General tab. Most people are saying the achievements were just added as a guideline for what to do this beta weekend, but why then add achievement points to it? Was it just to try and trick more people into playing the beta weekend?

[@GachaMofo]

Lord Faren, master of the underwear, ruler of the wine bottle. Personally I think the break bars needs to be buffed..too too easy to tear apart.

[@TheArmouryOfficial]

aw man :/ just bought HoT today but i wish i knew you had an offer to support the channel earlier

[@RinBlueFlames]

WP Ive checked the official post, they NEVER said that there would only be 4 maps. They said that there would be 4 maps that have the 3 bioms. And as far as I know Anet confirmed that not all maps would have the 3 bioms soooooo~ there must be more maps.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

+Yoru Dragon Except they have. Colin specifically mentioned four maps in a recent interview as well as it being explicitly stated on their official website.

[@RinBlueFlames]

but we know we are getting 1 borderland as well and 2 guild hall maps. They werent in the original count either.

[@pantelisariz]

+Yoru Dragon Ofc they are not...

[@burstlight7]

Hey WP could you have youtube notify us when you are about to stream?

[@eaSyRoca]

Hey wp, concerning the very little discussed late Chronomancer and especially the slow condition... It seems to me like its a pretty big part of his kit. The traits i would like to run are all about it (you get higher crit chance on slowed targets, after 5 crits you slow more and so on...). I just really love how all the traits work so well together, it could make the Chronomancer a great pick for PvE and large boss encounters in Raids. BUT IT DOESNT AFFECT BOSSES WITH BREAK BARS! Suddenly you don't deal any extra damage and half of your wells are useless. I feel like that ultimately just makes the whole trait-line useless and I'm rather disappointed. What are your thoughts on the matter? (I wanted to post this on Reddit rather than randomly on KZbin, but i dont really know my way around there...)

[@iekia3999]

Preorder so expensive :(... hope it gets cheaper when they actually bring the expansion out...

[@TheIronDrapery]

ow fuck, it's this weekend

[@Nepthyes]

Hey wp , someone in map chat told me that the last tier of the gliding mastery requierd you around 8 mil exp , ge said this translates to around 40 lvl ups , this is great right ? It is fairly long but not too short for me , what are your thoughts on this ?

[@RinBlueFlames]

also WP, while I wa playing my character slowly turned more and more green. I noticed that this was happening to your charcter as well. Do you think this has any segnifience?

[@DoorToTomorrow]

Hey WP (or anyone else), I have a bit of a tech question, I figured I'd ask here first. Over the last few months I've had a weird issues where enemies would just disappear and reappear, the time in between varies and it doesn't seem related to my character model settings. It happens when they're at a fair distant or right next to me, if there are 10 people around or 30. I even had Giganticus Lupicus disappear for me for several seconds. My temperatures seem fine and I'm running a i5 4670k and amd r9 290x. (On a sidenote I can only seem to be running the game on medium settings to get a solid framerate, despite these specs). Does anyone have the same issue or knows what's wrong? Thanks in advance.

[@SanctumTV-Channel]

Hey WP will you use gliding this time?

[@NycroLP]

So.. it's only for the people who preordered right?

[@SanctumTV-Channel]

+Nycro Yes unfortunately :/

[@sif9633]

+Sanctum TV *Yes fortunately

[@SanctumTV-Channel]

+Sif I suppose i just wish everyone could try it out :D i would also like Anet to make HoT free and give me £1000 but oh well :D

[@scw55]

Finding it hard to engage with the Beta Weekends. I'm reluctant to do anything since my progress isn't remembered for live; and because of that I don't want to spoil the game too much. Any advice? I simply make a character, look at tooltips, slot stuff around and be like *done*, and lose interest. I tried Chronomancer, but I don't enjoy the Well skills in PvE. There's a lot of movement and target area skills are annoying to use when moving.

[@skyerenard8939]

how the heck are you recording it? I am running dxtory and it crashes instantly once I start recording and ONLY on the beta part. when I tried to stream it I was showing 30fps stream but the stream and OBS was showing like 2fps

[@skyerenard8939]

***** hmmm I never could get that to work at all. Still would like to see official answer. I just never saw gw do this to me with dxtory let alone take up 50% cpu power just on beta stuff

[@jNayden]

where is the entrace for this maguna .. thing in the beta.. cant find it.

[@wesleysmith2989]

Wait so why do you play with the mini map off?

[@raikozy35]

does anyone know in terms of %, how much addition of content does this expansion added to the game? Considering getting it but not so sure since Im still like low level (level 25 and level 12 (another level 13 but deleted) I got the game for free due to it being free and a bit hooked but not so much (I dont play games that much in general especially during uni year)

[@GreenLarsen]

+Raikozy For below lvl 80 characters, not alot. For lvl 80 (max lvl) chars, from what we have seen (and anet is not giving us all the information) alot. It is however a 1 time buy, so no subskription or anything. So if you after what you have seen/done so far like the game, I'd get it.

[@MalfusionYo]

+Raikozy maybe this will help? not % but lists whats new. wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2:_Heart_of_Thorns

[@raikozy35]

yup saw that. hmm I dunno, maybe I will get it

[@tcgphanatic]

faron wants to dance :D

[@tracephage]

How about a condi reaper build with sinister stats?

[@JackkReaction]

+tracephage Can't access Sinister stats for free, you'd need to waste an entire gear set.

[@tracephage]

thought you might be able to use an ascended set but perhaps it should've been in the bank before the BWE events started for that to work

[@VirtuesOfSin]

I wish I could... at least I got overtime...

[@dizzt19]

The better dynamic events sound interesting but if they keep restarting the chains as fast as in the core game it will just as annoying...

[@WoodenPotatoes]

+dizzt19 They don't the chains restart only once per day and it specifically ties in to the night.

[@TsuchiGamer06]

Condi Necro NEW META?!

[@KehzaEnsis]

Well human Elite skill Reaper of Grenth is going to get nerfed now..

[@KehzaEnsis]

+KehzaEnsis Oh and poison runes.. thanks WP..

[@kiierenn]

Will ur frames drop in this area?

[@kiierenn]

ok thanks, then it will definitely drop. I have an i7 but I've had it for a bit now so i only run gw2 at 30 frames everything low :(

[@TheMartinator99]

Can someone tell me if i get a character slot wheni preorder the game right now? or do i need a char slot to create a beta revenant?

[@Vu1canite]

+TheMartinator99 you get an extra character slot right now, as well as 4 beta slots for 4 beta characters untill the beta weekend is over I imagine.

[@Vu1canite]

+Vu1canite just to clarify I imagine the 4 beta slots will be removed after the weekend but you definitely get those 4 beta slots and the one extra permanent slot now.

[@TheMartinator99]

Vu1canite Thx for the fast answer :D

[@TharusPSN]

The problem isn't just the skill effects is the zerg mentality of MMO designs. Every group fight in this whole video would have been more fun and engaging if there was half as many people. I wish you could get in a group of 5 and open a private version of the zone for your party.

[@drekcarmen7256]

And then in classic GW2 style you will end up doing these things over and over and over over again. The vanilla GW2 was beautiful but ended fast in constant grind style repetition. Log in kill same bosses every day rinse repeat. Seems like this new expansion will soon become the same thing. Did they support or fix dungeons in this one, or will it become the same thing?

[@jangelt2009]

Hi WP! Have you checked out the Exalted temple at the edge of the BW2 map? imgur.com/a/j0Rd2

[@hjalmar8986]

I have 1 question y are you spoiling maps, elite specelications and stuff like that for your self? I feel like it will be like that pokemon oras game all over again no surprises once the game launches because it all has been spoiled beforehand. I for one try to not look at stuff like this as much as possible but since I want to watch your channel and all your content is spoiling/datamineing hot.. well I think you get what I`m saying.

[@Warsong16]

+Hjalmar Lundén i agree with your angle to an extent, and side with you to a point, but, this is such another tiny part of the overall expansion (at least in theory and from what WP and others have said) that i don't think it will really impact my overall "shock and awe" when the final release comes in a few months. Not to mention, i do want to get an idea now of what class i like the best due to the new elites so i know what i wanna start my PS with right off the bat on launch day, so i have to test them out =)

[@KiraYamato227]

Fken Faren.

[@Randomly0deliberate]

Hey WP would uGeTmADbrO if I made my channel named metal tomatoes? But on a serious note... Daredevil is the biggest letdown of 2015.. Animations are so.. Lackluster and recycled trash minus then fury fists and vault.

[@mikali1704]

fun fun fun super fun fun fun super fun fun fun. It kinda became your buzzword and its getting annoying

[@draskang]

sigh.. 1-shots are so stupid.. I'm sorry, but 1-shotting is boring & lazy. It's not fun, it's not creative, it's not interesting. They could just make the entire map pulse with a 1-shot every 30 seconds & you'd have to "learn" to doge every 30 seconds & it would be "challenging". No, 1-shot "difficulty" is bull.

[@Zhaife]

tf are you wearing boi

[@nikolavukasinovic2576]

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