The end of the stress test was met with a rather cryptic message by ArenaNet: ”Stress testers, you may want to head over to the Plains of Ashford in the next few minutes…” With excited glee I ran around trying to figure out where this actually was. This was my very first Beta End event! I missed all of the others for some reason or another. There was aparently a little corruption going on in Ashford and if you got killed by some purplish looking people you got turned into one . . . and then got to kill the uncorrupted ones! While most people were having fun slaughtering each other I was running around snapping pretty pretty pictures.
Here are some of my favorites!

Guess what happens when you dive in the water while corrupted? You turn into a purple rock alligator thingy!

This is the AoE Crystal shattering ability, nice for taking out lots of those filthy un-corrupted people.

My little corrupted Necromancer is quite a looker huh? Corrupted Necromancer seems like a little redundant, doesn’t it?








Video from Yak's Bend, Taking down Tyler Bearce from Arenanet QA team @ 1:10 or so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LtaK8lhqmA
It did not occur to me until I was being chased by NPCs
I wish that I had thought to jump in the water. :/