Guild Wars 2

Surely there are a plethora of forum posts questioning why PvE players have to go thru the PvP (The Mists) to get back to PvE (Lion’s Arch) for free; however, with the coming implementation of the Account Wallet this may give ANet the option to stop this unnecessary multiscreen loading.

As an example: Let’s say I am looking to move from Tequatl (Sparkfly Fen) to Shadow Behemoth (Queensdale) somewhat quickly. We will exclude the option of Jumping directly to the Swamplost Haven Waypoint for this exercise.
This would require:

1. Jump to The Mists [Loading screen 1]
2. Run across the PvP Lobby to the Asuran Gate
3. Take Gate to LA [Loading screen 2]
4. Jump to Hub Waypoint [Loading screen 3]
5. Run up to Divinity’s Reach Asuran Gate
6. Take Gate to Divinity’s Reach [Loading screen 4]
7. Jump to Dwayna’s Waypoint [Loading screen 5]
8. Use Exit portal to Queensdale [Loading screen 6]
9. Run to the Swamp. We will leave out Jumping to the Godslost Waypoint, as stated earlier ‘for free’.

So what is this Transfer Pass of which you speak?
The Transfer Pass would be the Portal Stone to the Hall of Monuments, just with a name change. This Pass would be stored in your Account Wallet.
When you activate the Transfer Pass it would give you various options on a destination.
Lion’s Arch, Any of the 5 Capital Cities, PvP Lobby, WvW Lobby, Hall of Monuments and This month’s Temporary content instance.
Now applying Transfer Pass usage to the above example:

1. Transfer Ticket to Divinity’s Reach [Loading screen 1]
2. Jump to Dwayna’s Waypoint [Loading screen 2] Assuming the Ticket didn’t deposit us here in the first place.
3. Use Exit portal to Queensdale [Loading screen 2 or 3]

How would someone get one of these Transfer passes?
Well, initially they would need to be made available to a beginning character in their starting city from a Transfer Pass Vendor. When the character gets the pass it will have no access to anywhere, with the exception of the Hall of Monuments as the Transfer Pass would make the Portal Stone obsolete. Then to gain access to the other areas(which would maybe be grayed out), you would need to get your pass stamped at a Transfer Pass Vendor in each area to activate the pass for that area.

Example:
A new Human Character first arrives in Divinity’s reach and visits the Transfer Pass Vendor for Pass with a Hall of Monument Stamp. After adventuring for some time, she stumbles into Lion’s Arch and goes to the Vendor for a LA Stamp. As she could jump to all of the Capital cities, PvP and WvW Lobbies from LA she could then get each Location’s stamp by porting there and visiting that respective location’s Vendor via the Asuran Gates.

How much would this Pass and it’s Stamps cost?
The Blank Pass would need to be free to beginning characters. After that each Stamp might have some one time fee associated with it. Once you have a stamp no further cost would be incurred for that particular location. I envision a few coppers per stamp as it needs to be available to New Players at an early stage and they would be copper piece poor. I don’t see this as a gold sink as the Pass would need to be made available to beginning Players and for Advanced players the cost for the stamp would not be an issue. I certainly do NOT see Gem purchases entering into this equation in any way.

Soul bound or Account bound?
Since the Wallet is Account bound, the Pass would need to be Account bound too. But; since each Alt would need to get their stamps for each location, the Pass would need to have locations grayed out if that Alt did not get that location’s stamp yet.

So does anyone think this is worthwhile or even viable?

I think this would be a great idea. It would also stop me from having to go get another HoM stone every time I wanted to look at HoM skins or get something from it.

Vote Ellen Kiel for cheaper waypoint travel

Karizee.8076:

Vote Ellen Kiel for cheaper waypoint travel

For 4 weeks…if it were permanent, yes. But 4 weeks is nothing in game time.

Just to clear things up.

You don’t have to go to the mists to get to lions arch or go through any of those 9 steps at all. You are purposefully excluding the easiest way to get to your destination. It would be like me complaining about baking a cake because I have to raise a cow, chickens and grow wheat we will exclude the option of going to the grocery store for this exercise.

How about you don’t exclude the easiest way to do it, Which comes at the hefty cost of doing 1 event… You would make back that cost and then some just by doing the event you are waypointing in to do in the first place.

You are complaining about loading screens and still your option has too many, Try this one.

Waypoint to Godslost swamp. [Done]

PvE players do not have to go through the mists to get back to LA for free, it wasn’t designed like that. players just found a loop hole and exploit it. Anet doesn’t mind so no harm done but the thought of complaining that your loophole circumventing the waypoint costs is inconvenient, seems silly to me.