I may have to go with another poster's thought and just play GW2 or something else during the downtime. As much as playing Beta sounds nice, I dont really see a point, for myself personally. Its good for the testing purposes, stress tests and getting player feedback on things from consumer to developer perspective. But I dont see a point in doing anything that wont carry over to the main launch itself from Beta, even if I do it with the same character as I play now, unless for some odd reason they make it so it Will cross over..gil, inventory, experience, etc. That I'd consider, otherwise, just play another game and wait till the relaunch goes live and jump back in then.

Then again, my stance my be a little different than others, because I'm far from addicted to the game and have gone a week or more at a time without coming in game at all, just either out of lack of desire or due to other obligations, it doesnt phase me like it did in XI. Thankfully.