Just fired up Tequila and I need to wait for beta to download before I can access the standard shards. I didn't even click on the new Beta heading in Tequila, it just started up. Would be awesome to have this be an optional setting to save bandwidth and playtime.
Edit: Had to close and open Tequila a few times to get this to complete, so it's not like we can reliably AFK while it downloads either...