Guild Wars 2’s second Heart of Thorns beta weekend event starts on September 4th at 3:00 p.m. EDT. ArenaNet’s Colin Johanson says that the weekend tests “are your opportunity to help shape the development process and the experience you’ll have” when the game’s first expansion goes live.
He goes to explain how and why the devs won’t be revealing everything about Heart of Thorns in these weekend soirees, but rather will be testing enough to “broadly understand how everything works.” Players will be able to explore the first story chapter and the initial portions of the map, as well as the new Stronghold PvP game mode.
Source: Announcement