There has been no official word. We are all trying to guess.

http://countingdownto.com/countdown/104430

this ^

From the email I got,

   This Beta Weekend Event begins Friday, July 20, at noon PDT (GMT -7) and ends Sunday, July 22, at 11:59 p.m. PDT (GMT -7)

12PM PST. 1PM MST. 2PM CST. 3PM EST. 8PM +0100 UTC. Enjoy.

From twitter

https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/

Guild Wars 2 ‏@GuildWars2

Beta Weekend Event 3 will start tomorrow at 12 Noon Pacific time. To convert that to your time zone, see this: http://ow.ly/cmHbs

While the times listed above are correct, ArenaNet tends to open their servers an hour early.

awww thats post to be a secret.

Why are people so horrible at reading their e-mails and figuring out time? I have got 2 e-mails from ArenaNet about the beta ...

There are plenty of places to find this information without posting about it. Twitter, the GW2 webpage, probably 1000's of other sites talking about GW2 ... and you still have to ask in a forum? Not to mention this isn't the first post about this. /sigh

Reminds me of retards in the Firefall beta asking what time it started when it was in BOLD letters at the top of EVERY page. Is the world becoming this dumb and hopeless? It is sad.

LOL starting to feel like Hiro from Heroes staring at the clock so intently I keep thinking I've frozen time...

faster damn you faster!!

thanks for the info

Originally posted by MattVid

Why are people so horrible at reading their e-mails and figuring out time? I have got 2 e-mails from ArenaNet about the beta ...

There are plenty of places to find this information without posting about it. Twitter, the GW2 webpage, probably 1000's of other sites talking about GW2 ... and you still have to ask in a forum? Not to mention this isn't the first post about this. /sigh

Reminds me of retards in the Firefall beta asking what time it started when it was in BOLD letters at the top of EVERY page. Is the world becoming this dumb and hopeless? It is sad.

pretty uncalled for dude.  this site is great for information.  i accidentally deleted my email while i was in a meeting at work so i came on here looking for a start time too figuring some helpful people would have posted about it.  its a forum.  people can post about whatever they want relating to the game.  taking the time to post about how mad it makes you and how dumb the human race is getting makes you look really pathetic.  thanks for being an elitist and putting me in my place for being so stupid.  i will surely read all my emails in extreme detail from now on and only post to topics that you feel are relavent enough.  this kind of sarcasm still isnt as overblown and ignorant as your post.   

Originally posted by Diablo4783

pretty uncalled for dude.  this site is great for information.  i accidentally deleted my email while i was in a meeting at work so i came on here looking for a start time too figuring some helpful people would have posted about it.  its a forum.  people can post about whatever they want relating to the game.  taking the time to post about how mad it makes you and how dumb the human race is getting makes you look really pathetic.  thanks for being an elitist and putting me in my place for being so stupid.  i will surely read all my emails in extreme detail from now on and only post to topics that you feel are relavent enough.  this kind of sarcasm still isnt as overblown and ignorant as your post.   

You accidently deleted your e-mail and couldn't retrieve it. So you accidently deleted the e-mail, then went to your trash folder and then confirmed to permanently delete it? I mean, really, that is the excuse? Not to mention it is on the GW2 official site, and many other places.

My post is ignorant? I am not the one unable to perform a simple Google search, look in these very forums (as there are other posts asking the same thing) or retrieve lost e-mails from my trash folder. Assuming people have common sense or basic computer knowledge is not elitist, apparently, it is just wishful thinking.

Can anyone answer me two questions? I've gone into this game mostly blind, for the first time since... well, my first MMO. I've ignored most of the videos and feature lists. But something I heard and was excited about was that this game had no quests.

Then I heard about hearts.

Hearts sound like quests to me, the boring grindey WoW like variety. Are they important, can I completely ignore them and still progress?

And last, do you get points like realm points for killing others in RvR, like you did in DAoC? Does winning benefit my realm?

The email that ANet sent people who have prepurchased. Not sure if people with beta keys got one. 

Click to see full size version

This Beta Weekend Event begins Friday, July 20, at noon PDT (GMT -7) and ends Sunday, July 22, at 11:59 p.m. PDT (GMT -7). 

Originally posted by Garvon3

Hearts sound like quests to me, the boring grindey WoW like variety. Are they important, can I completely ignore them and still progress?

 

Hearts are pretty boring, honestly. They are not really the intended "content" of the game, they are mainly for guidance. Most dynamic events happen around these hearts. You can still progress without doing them, but I would recommend finishing them.They give experience, and also, finishing an entire zone gives you experience and a loot reward (exploring all areas, getting all skill points and filling all hearts). However, you can complete hearts by doing DE's in the same area.

Originally posted by Garvon3

And last, do you get points like realm points for killing others in RvR, like you did in DAoC? Does winning benefit my realm?

No, just experience, karma and money in World vs. World. Killing people just yeilds experience. Holding objectives gives bonuses to your realm in the form of bonus HP, gold loot increase, crafting crit chance, etc. The more points you score, the more bonuses you get. Beyond that, there are no other bonuses that I know of.

Originally posted by MattVid

Originally posted by Garvon3

Hearts sound like quests to me, the boring grindey WoW like variety. Are they important, can I completely ignore them and still progress?

 

Hearts are pretty boring, honestly. They are not really the intended "content" of the game, they are mainly for guidance. Most dynamic events happen around these hearts. You can still progress without doing them, but I would recommend finishing them.They give experience, and also, finishing an entire zone gives you experience and a loot reward (exploring all areas, getting all skill points and filling all hearts). However, you can complete hearts by doing DE's in the same area.

 

Originally posted by Garvon3

And last, do you get points like realm points for killing others in RvR, like you did in DAoC? Does winning benefit my realm?

No, just experience, karma and money in World vs. World. Killing people just yeilds experience. Holding objectives gives bonuses to your realm in the form of bonus HP, gold loot increase, crafting crit chance, etc. The more points you score, the more bonuses you get. Beyond that, there are no other bonuses that I know of.

 

So these items are like the relics in DAoC? One side holds them and gets their benefit while others try to take them back?

And this karma stuff, you use it to make you stronger in PvP? That's more or less what I was looking for. DAoC gave you realm points if you killed people which you could use to buy stronger guards, siege stuff, or give yourself some special PvP abilities.

I like this one myself 

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20120720T1200&p1=234&msg=Guild%20Wars%202%20BWE3