Guild Wars 2

Well, it had to happen sooner or later.

Having asked whether it was possible to merge accounts or transfer toons, or even transfer account bound items paid for with gems, etc and receiving an unequivocal ‘no, and not any time in the future’, I had to make a decision.

Due to the combination of character bound wvw ranks, time gating, ascended items, laurel system etc I took the decision yesterday to concentrate on just one account and mainly one toon, and deleted eight level 80’s in full exotics, wasting 100’s of gold, thousands of gems and losing maybe 150 wvw ranks from those toons.

I left two toons on there as I couldn’t bring myself to lose another 200 wvw ranks as well a huge pile of items, skins – and maybe one day i might want to shift the account to another server for some NA fun as the queues in prime time for Gandara are getting very long and boring.

So this account that I am posting from now is basically dormant, caused entirely by the time gating brought into the game and the bad decisions to make a lot of items account bound that should be tradeable, such as all the ascended stuff, laurels, dungeon tokens, etc etc and of course the wvw ranks system as that is where I like to spend my time.

Why did you have 2 accounts in the first place?

Great job to advertise for hackers and gold sellers that your account is up for the grabs ^^

Long standing Guild Wars 1 tradition is my suspicion. I have two accounts too. It just seemed logical. There were reasons in Guild Wars 1 to have two (like getting ten gifts of the traveler per week instead of just 5, since it’s 5 per account).

In the end, I play my second Guild Wars 2 account very rarely.

I have 3 GW accounts with 37 characters, mainly because they were cost efficient for character slots, and there was a time you could not link accounts. After awhile, I barely played 2 of the accounts; I wish GW would have had in-game mail between accounts. =(

Victory.2879:

Well, it had to happen sooner or later.

Having asked whether it was possible to merge accounts or transfer toons, or even transfer account bound items paid for with gems, etc and receiving an unequivocal ‘no, and not any time in the future’, I had to make a decision.

Due to the combination of character bound wvw ranks, time gating, ascended items, laurel system etc I took the decision yesterday to concentrate on just one account and mainly one toon, and deleted eight level 80’s in full exotics, wasting 100’s of gold, thousands of gems and losing maybe 150 wvw ranks from those toons.

I left two toons on there as I couldn’t bring myself to lose another 200 wvw ranks as well a huge pile of items, skins – and maybe one day i might want to shift the account to another server for some NA fun as the queues in prime time for Gandara are getting very long and boring.

So this account that I am posting from now is basically dormant, caused entirely by the time gating brought into the game and the bad decisions to make a lot of items account bound that should be tradeable, such as all the ascended stuff, laurels, dungeon tokens, etc etc and of course the wvw ranks system as that is where I like to spend my time.

I don’t get what you want. You decided to get 2 accounts instead of buying more slots. You complain about laurels, dungeon tokens and ascended stuff not being tradeable?

Shirk.6421:

Victory.2879:

Well, it had to happen sooner or later.

Having asked whether it was possible to merge accounts or transfer toons, or even transfer account bound items paid for with gems, etc and receiving an unequivocal ‘no, and not any time in the future’, I had to make a decision.

Due to the combination of character bound wvw ranks, time gating, ascended items, laurel system etc I took the decision yesterday to concentrate on just one account and mainly one toon, and deleted eight level 80’s in full exotics, wasting 100’s of gold, thousands of gems and losing maybe 150 wvw ranks from those toons.

I left two toons on there as I couldn’t bring myself to lose another 200 wvw ranks as well a huge pile of items, skins – and maybe one day i might want to shift the account to another server for some NA fun as the queues in prime time for Gandara are getting very long and boring.

So this account that I am posting from now is basically dormant, caused entirely by the time gating brought into the game and the bad decisions to make a lot of items account bound that should be tradeable, such as all the ascended stuff, laurels, dungeon tokens, etc etc and of course the wvw ranks system as that is where I like to spend my time.

I don’t get what you want. You decided to get 2 accounts instead of buying more slots. You complain about laurels, dungeon tokens and ascended stuff not being tradeable?

Im with you. I dont understand what hes complaining about. I have two accounts also but for entirely different reasons

So you couldn’t be bothered to…
- salvage the exotics and sell the mats
- spend the laurels and sell the goods (craftings mats or dyes)
- convert the gems to gold

… then move that mass of cash over the other account?

Sure you lost some stuff, but you certainly could have minimized this loss. Also, why the drastic measure? Why not, you know, just stop playing that 2nd account, it’s not like it would have any cost associated?

Two accounts were from my gw1 days- actually I had 3, mainly to do with build choice, etc.

Two accounts used here as they were on different servers for a very long time, and at the start of the game it was easy to keep all toons in exotics and have the end game gears. Didn’t need dungeon tokens to get the best equipment.

Then laurels came along, and ascended time gated account bound stuff, and then wvw ranks character bound, and after a while you realise that you either focus on one toon and try and keep it up to date, or you give up completely. I chose to keep playing and focus on mainly one toon (which is very much against my nature, which is to enjoy every class and learn all the mechanics). Hence the decision I made.

As to crying, far from it, just stating my reasoning in why I did what I did.

What do I want? An end to the ever increasing creep towards being forced to play one class that this game has done by bringing in all the above mentioned items and making them account or character bound, and making the game more alt-friendly again.

I don’t get what is the point of this post? Is this to protest against Anet’s policy? But you only hurt yourself as you say, losing those things. What harm would it make if you just leave your characters be? You can even leave them at JP chest or a rich harvesting node or at your home instance and still make use of them just fine.

Just make the dailys/monthlys on the account you don’t use and within some time you also have the laurels there. And you don’t need dungeon tokens for exotics… just look into the TP.

Zerole.7306:

So you couldn’t be bothered to…
- salvage the exotics and sell the mats
- spend the laurels and sell the goods (craftings mats or dyes)
- convert the gems to gold

… then move that mass of cash over the other account?

Sure you lost some stuff, but you certainly could have minimized this loss. Also, why the drastic measure? Why not, you know, just stop playing that 2nd account, it’s not like it would have any cost associated?

Did most of the above- but the ‘loss’ was still huge- but that wasn’t why I deleted the toons. I have a terrible habit of going back to old games and old accounts so to minimise the temptation I deleted most of them, liquidated what I could, and transferred what I could over- but of course all of the gem stuff is account bound so that didn’t help all that much. There’s still a pile of mats etc to deal with at some other time…those that aren’t account bound of course…

Idk, you could have parked them all at a JP for a daily chest each. You can get exotics and rares well as the regular drops. You could have parked them in Frostgorge by an ori or ancient wood node for a quick harvest or done a run of each to get all 4 nodes. You could have just let the account sit and used it all for storage. It’s possible you could have parked each one by a guild puzzle chest to open daily, but not sure about this one. (When your inventory is full you go to WvW, visit a crafting table and unload or sell everything and log back out. Next time you log back in, you are standing by the node/chest. Or you email everything to your main account).

Imo, deletion of level 80s is the last thing you should have done.

Some ppl play hard,some ppl play smart. Lol thread

Victory.2879:

Did most of the above- but the ‘loss’ was still huge- but that wasn’t why I deleted the toons. I have a terrible habit of going back to old games and old accounts so to minimise the temptation I deleted most of them, liquidated what I could, and transferred what I could over- but of course all of the gem stuff is account bound so that didn’t help all that much. There’s still a pile of mats etc to deal with at some other time…those that aren’t account bound of course…

Do you have enough crafting skills in relevant crafts to turn those account bound mats into items you can transfer and then salvage on your main account?

Like I can turn account bound bananas into a chocolate banana that I can put on the trading post. Though with that example, you can’t salvage it, but at least it would give you a boost of some kind.

All I see in the OP is
“I had two accounts, I deleted one with everything valuable on it very foolishly, not I am making a forums post, purely for attention…..”

With the OP making this thread purely for attention, I question the truth to his OP. It is just as likely that it is false. Either way, this is clearly only an attempt to get attention.

coglin.1867:

All I see in the OP is
“I had two accounts, I deleted one with everything valuable on it very foolishly, not I am making a forums post, purely for attention…..”

With the OP making this thread purely for attention, I question the truth to his OP. It is just as likely that it is false. Either way, this is clearly only an attempt to get attention.

He should’ve made the topic asking for our opinion before doing something being irreversible.

I think it’s fair to design the game around the idea that 1 Player == 1 Account, balancing new features around that idea. Account-based features might not be convenient or even feasible for players with multiple accounts, but the game simply isn’t designed to support that. It’s going to be clumsy, because the game wasn’t intended to be played that way. (Trying not to project my idea of developers’ intentions on this, but all design decisions seem to point pretty clearly to “one account per player, with multiple characters” being the expected norm.)

Most of the issues that multiple accounts address (cheaper character slots, multiple account-based items, more guesting options) seem like ways to work around how the system is intended to function, so I can’t say I’m too sympathetic when they become less practical as new features are introduced. For most players, I think the balance of tradeable items/currency and account-bound ones is reasonable.

The only attention I want is for the devs to take note of the restrictions they are placing on players by bringing in more and more time gating/char bound items and gears and the effect this has on players that enjoy playing multiple classes.

Here’s an example: last night I was on my engi (rank 340 odd) and decided to have some fun on my newish necro (rank 35 ish), when deso and Fs decide to come calling at our keep- no problems, Ive got maxed AC mastery and working on treb mastery. Oh wait. I’m on my necro, which has none of those due to the stupidity of character bound wvw ranks (spvp ranks are account based, why aren’t wvw??).

As for laurels, they severely restrict players with several alts as you can only earn one a day. They also restrict being able to kit out your player in ascended items.

These are the issues I am highlighting. And I had a good laugh at the comment about making a post purely for attention and not believing I had actually deleted the toons- but thanks for getting out from under your bridge:-)

For WvW and alts…

DevonCarver.5370:

Tl;dr: We are working on making the Wxp system more alt-friendly and we will have more to share in the coming weeks.

Victory.2879:

Two accounts were from my gw1 days- actually I had 3, mainly to do with build choice, etc.

Two accounts used here as they were on different servers for a very long time, and at the start of the game it was easy to keep all toons in exotics and have the end game gears. Didn’t need dungeon tokens to get the best equipment.

Then laurels came along, and ascended time gated account bound stuff, and then wvw ranks character bound, and after a while you realise that you either focus on one toon and try and keep it up to date, or you give up completely. I chose to keep playing and focus on mainly one toon (which is very much against my nature, which is to enjoy every class and learn all the mechanics). Hence the decision I made.

As to crying, far from it, just stating my reasoning in why I did what I did.

What do I want? An end to the ever increasing creep towards being forced to play one class that this game has done by bringing in all the above mentioned items and making them account or character bound, and making the game more alt-friendly again.

no one cares and that is why you are labeled as “crying” they don’t know you and perceive it as nothing but a based complaint.

They may be right. Then again you might be.

Not certain why one would delete accounts that require no money to maintain…?

Do the OP really think it is a good idea to advertise that he is leaving an account fully unattended?
Isn’t that a perfect target for hackers and gold-sellers, since the OP will most likely not check the account for quite some time?

Knowing how the game changes over time, I would have just left them dormant and wait for the day they put all this stuff account bound. They sold Minepick that were character bound and then changed them to Account bound later, I don’t see why they won’t change other stuff over time too.

The beauty of it is that you don’t pay anything for those changes, so I really don’t see why you would have to delete things that cost you your time, and your time only.