Guild Wars 2 Joooooin Usss

[smilodon]

Okey Dokey. Thanks to Gorion for explaining the procedure but:

The transfer fee  is waived for accounts without any active characters. This allows  players just starting out to change to another world that is not full.  You also can transfer without cost if you delete all your existing  characters. The next time you log on without any characters, you will be  prompted to choose a new home world. ^[1] Please be aware of the following:

• Transfers to any game world â€" whether  free or paid for with gems â€" are allowed only if the population of the  world is at less than capacity.
• Transfers to any game world â€" whether free or paid for with gems â€" are allowed only once per seven days.
• If you decide to delete the characters on your account, Customer Support cannot restore them, in whole or in part.
• Items left on the characters will be deleted and cannot be restored. Move items to your personal account bank to preserve them.

For me the process runs as follows.

1. Delete all your characters
2. While still logged in select 'World Selection' in the bottom left corner of the screen.
3. Find Gandara and select it as your new choice.
4. Check (ignore) the warnings and proceed.
5. You will be logged out.
6. Click 'OK'
7. Log in and you will see the character selection screen, create a character, you are now on Gandara.

There is a warning that the process could to some time, for me it was instantaneous. High Population Servers are not like ones in WOW, I checked on-line and the chances or queues etc are zero.

Changing worlds will not delete anything in your bank, you will still be in the Guild and you're friends list will be intact. Unlike WOW and other MMO's most of your activity will stay with the account i.e. guild membership, friends list, karma points etc. All you really loose is your character, their bags and gold.

[Gorion]

Currency is account bound, so you shouldn't be losing that.

If you are, just mail it to me and I'll mail it back to your new toon.  AFAIK you can also put your extra bags in the bank.

LydonB.6293

Ingame: Dragelis

[OldBloke]

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2. While still logged in select 'World Selection' in the bottom left corner of the screen.

Mine is inactive due, I suspect, to the '7 days' rule.

[Gorion]

If you want to play now, just create a new account, and mail over your stuff mate.

Either use your new account as receiver, or use me and I'll forward.

[RizZy]

Okey Dokey. Thanks to Gorion for explaining the procedure but:



For me the process runs as follows.

1. Delete all your characters
2. While still logged in select 'World Selection' in the bottom left corner of the screen.
3. Find Gandara and select it as your new choice.
4. Check (ignore) the warnings and proceed.
5. You will be logged out.
6. Click 'OK'
7. Log in and you will see the character selection screen, create a character, you are now on Gandara.

There is a warning that the process could to some time, for me it was instantaneous. High Population Servers are not like ones in WOW, I checked on-line and the chances or queues etc are zero.

Changing worlds will not delete anything in your bank, you will still be in the Guild and you're friends list will be intact. Unlike WOW and other MMO's most of your activity will stay with the account i.e. guild membership, friends list, karma points etc. All you really loose is your character, their bags and gold.

So, I've just deleted my character & it's telling me that I can only switch servers if I upgrade to the full game, did I just kill myself for no reason then? awesome.

[smilodon]

I've no idea. I bought the expansion so have a sort of paid account. If you're on a free account just create a new free account and log in with that. It's probably no more involved than making a transfer. You might loose a few resources but unless you have levelled up a long way I don't think they are that important and can easily be required by simply levelling up your character.

Only if you bought the original GW2 game or the recent Heart of Thorns expansion or had loads of Gold/Karma would you want to do a world transfer rather than just fire up a new account. And as always you could stay on Underworld only you'd apparently miss out on the goodies from Gandara and any grouping up we might do?

Oh and a quick update, we're keeping the new Guild as the official one, seeing as most people have joined that one now. The old original dMw guild on Gandara will not be used. Seems that Guilds are not 'World/realm/server' dependent. You can be on any server and still be in the guild as it's your account that is in a guild not a specific character. So whether you are on Gundara or Underworld you can be in the official dMw Guild.

[Gorion]

I can help around boosting ppl up, so getting back were you where won't be an issue.

[Sneakytiger]

ok then i'll just use the underworld server.

[Gorion]

ok then i'll just use the underworld server.

To make it more clear:  The official server is Gandara, the official guild is the new one.

So just use Gandara in conjunction with the new guild. The new guild was opted as the proper name was available when it was created, back in the day it was taken.  Meaning, use your Gandara account and represent the guild called Dead Men Walking (new one).

[JonnyAppleSeed]

Jas.7320 Gandara

... who do I need to tap up for invites ?

[Sparko]

So, I've just deleted my character & it's telling me that I can only switch servers if I upgrade to the full game, did I just kill myself for no reason then? awesome.

I got the same

[smilodon]

Seems free accounts don't transfer. As nothing has been purchased and no characters are being moved there's effectively nothing to transfer. I've purchased Heart of Thorns which is tied to my account and so I need to transfer to Gundara rather than start again, otherwise I'll obviously loose my purchase. I imagine the game developers assume people will just roll a new account if they are playing for free.

So

 Paid account = transfer
Free account = start a new account

[Gorion]

Jas.7320 Gandara

... who do I need to tap up for invites ?

I'll send you an invite later on mate. I'm still in blurry vision mode at the moment.

--Done.

[OldBloke]

New account created.

OldBloke.6942 on Gandara

[Gorion]

Sent you an invite.