Talk:Beta key hunt

lol Reaper of Scythes** 14:56, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Nice one --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 94.226.51.192 (talk).

I love this.-- Shew 15:12, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Awesome LOL 82.41.44.188 15:16, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Nian also drops this --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 94.226.51.192 (talk).

I heard from a friend, if you have Lucky Aura active, the drop chance doubles!--Crylos 17:08, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

How many keys does he already have that he noticed this? · LOQUAY · 17:09, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

You can't even count them...--Crylos 17:13, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

The outside links are a nice touch. 141.224.215.32 17:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Whoever put this together deserves a cookie. --Malchior Devenholm 18:09, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

OMG my friend found one of these! They are so hard to come by. :O I'm so jealous of him right now... --Amannelle 18:38, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

BTW.. this would be the perfect way to do this -elviondale (tahlk) 20:47, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Drop research

Observed drops for beta keys

Mode	Dropped by	Location	Signature
H	Rift Warden	Tomb of the Primeval Kings	Shew 15:19, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
H	Baby Dragon	The Dragon's Lair	Loquay 16:21, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
H	Gwen	Lakeside County	Fenyx 17:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
N	Rabbit	Lakeside County	poke | talk 17:01, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
H	Undead Lich	Gate of Madness	Anbu 19:02, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
N	Raven	Sacnoth Valley	19:29, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
H	The Unseen	Domain of Fear	Tanetris 21:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Screenshot Proof of Drop

Fenyx 17:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Fixed the Code for ya, Fenyx--Neil2250 , The Zoologist 17:10, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

OH SNAP IAM IN THE BETA

OH MY GUILD WARS 2 Was Better then I thought!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The classes in the beta right now are

• Paladin
• Cleric
• Druid
• Slayer
• Mechanic
• Assassin

Crafting in the game are:

• Armor Crafting
• Weapon Crafting
• Alchemy
• Tailoring
• Carpetry
• Wood Cutting
• Fishing
• Mining
• Herbalism

The Action Bar is now 20 Slots. There a 3 Racial Slots. Each class only has about 20 spells atm anyway.

We also Have Mounts now. And we can no longer Map jump from anywhere. Have to run to a Asura Portal to travle between zones. Having a Blast Though in the Mist. Sieges are still missing, but so far the Large Scale RVR been a blast Iam going to upload a video of the game play in YT soon. --Knighthonor 08:12, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Heres the video all done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 Check out my Paladin --Knighthonor 08:16, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

1. 1 You're one day late #2 You over did it, making it look like shit :p --Huginn 13:21, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Wooow Huginn. No, it didn't look like shit... it was a little... much, but I suppose that's all right. ^_^; however, it was rather late :P --Amannelle 17:34, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

With KH's Record of shat, i beleaved it up untill the word Paladin.--Neil2250 , The Zoologist 18:09, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

@Knighthonor, One WoW is bad enough ok, we don't need a 2nd one. Reaper of Scythes** 20:29, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

New Pages?

Are new gameplay-related pages gonna go up since the beta is out now? Or should that wait until the final thing comes out? 71.255.114.114 14:31, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Ehmm... it was a joke. Yesterday, it was April 1st... ^_^ · LOQUAY · 14:38, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Sign-Up for Beta link

is win. - Infinite - talk 00:57, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Ok, um...

So April Fool's Day is over, and the hi-jinx that ensued were suitably hilarious. However, with all the straight-faced replies to this subject both on the guru and here, I have only one question: did any objects called "Beta Keys" actually drop anywhere? I mean, obviously the "promotion" wasn't real, but I'm confused as to whether fake "keys" dropped just for fun, or whether every forum containing only deadpan reports of drops was just an extremely rare case of every single involved person playing along and not one single person ruining the joke. I know that the page says that the drop rate is "extremely low" (and links to "zero" on wikipedia), but I, being the gullible fool that I am, cannot rest until I know exactly what happened on that fateful day.
(tl;dr -- did the joke extend so far as to include actually dropping fake keys?) Thanks in advance.  :) 67.85.184.98 05:29, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

I wrote the part with the "beta key drop", and, as far as I know, no actual beta keys dropped in-game. There is the off chance that someone in Anet read this and had a little fun actually dropping them, but that is very remote. So I guess you can savely assume no keys dropped, ever. --Xeeron 10:53, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

I think Fenyx's report of a drop in Lakeside County Hard Mode is a 'give away'..... --Max 2 23:57, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

There is plenty of good stuff in the drop reports if you check the links:

• Lady Glaive was captain of the Queen of Fools
• Rift Wardens were famously removed from tombs some years ago
• There are no baby dragons spawning in Glint's lair
• The rabbit in lake side is famous for being un-charmable (and asaik un-killable)
• The Unseen are, well "unseen", since you never meet them --Xeeron 17:30, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

And to what i added, Its a removed material from a removed NPC in a removed town.--Neil2250 , The Zoologist 22:18, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Getting to Lakeside County in Hard Mode is easy. Finish the Prophecies campaign in NM, travel to Old Ascalon in HM, fill your skillbar with speed buffs to get up to 88mph and then get hit by Lightning Strike. Killing Gwen is the hard part. She's worse than Mallyx. (Srsly though it is a joke and I was just playing along.) Fenyx 00:36, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Lol yeah, that's what I figured. And I definitely got all of the jokes and references, and realized how silly all of the drop locations were (like being killed by the shing jea cows and getting the key from your own corpse, or seeing a wammo kill the base defender and see it drop). However, as an ardent misanthrope, I am a firm believer in the ridiculousness and stupidity that invariably results when large amounts of people congregate on the internet, so I was instantly suspicious when not a single person on the guru thread ruined the joke or did anything but play along. Ah well lol. Thanks for confirming.  :) 67.85.16.192 00:59, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

First rule about the internet my IP freind.No long words... D: --Neil2250 , The Zoologist 10:33, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Acually, that's not true :p --Huginn 14:36, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Protection

I would like to protect the beta key hunt page and this page, its a joke, it was fun, its over. But its still fun to look at. Occasionally some person finds it though and decides to edit it, put up a delete tag, ect. Not just IPs, but a few members to.--Corsair@Yarrr 03:55, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Yep, I've joined that list of members >_<. It's great to have some lols, and the category and notice at the top don't make it clear that it is a joke. ,,"Klumpeet",, 06:43, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

I disagree. The very first and last thing you see on the page are indicators of the fact that this was a joke. Not only that, but if you put your mouse over certain links, then it even further shows this. Honestly, when you first look at a page, you should look at the tags on it, like maybe in case it has spoilers or needs to be deleted. Ignoring those tags is a huge mistake. Eive 08:05, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Sry, total typing fail, I meant they do make it clear. ,,"Klumpeet",, 08:32, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Ah, in that case, never mind. But for all the people who disagree, see my above comment. Eive 09:15, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Even though Klumpeet so graciously demonstrated that actual members do get duped by it? Take a look at the edit history, the majority of the revisions have been reverts and page clearings. It was protected at one point, I would just like to make that a little more permanent.--Corsair@Yarrr 18:47, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

From a look at the history, there have been just 2 reverted edits since april. Hardly worthy of protection. --Xeeron 14:20, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

And one of those two was self-reverted. I agree with Xeeron. pling 17:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

fell for it -.- 78.70.95.232 18:11, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Haha wow, I haven't played in a while and thought this was legit for a bit there :P 24.150.172.7 20:09, 5 July 2011 (UTC)