Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

I bought the game yesterday and must say I am enjoying it a lot,I do have 1 problem that has annoyed me a bit.

When choosing my world I decided to go with a medium population,I thought to myself that if it was too quiet on the world I would just start another character on a different world,I did see the message saying that I would be locked to that world and to move I would have to pay for a transfer.
No problem I thought as I have time enough and I would just re-roll on another world,I had no idea that my entire account would be locked to the world,I have never seen this before in an mmo were my account was locked to a world.

It is a bit of a blow as my world is quite quiet even in the main city I only seen a handful of people.

Is there any plans to allow players to start a new character on different worlds?
Seems a bit strange to lock the entire account to a world.

Thanks.

Sorry,also can anyone explain what it is to play on another server as a guest please?
Can I always play on another server as a guest?

If you delete all your toons you can pick another server.

If you delete all of your character you can change worlds for free.

Alternatively you can guest on any world for as long as you want and can do everything except play World vs World (WvW). I would actually recommend trying a few servers out through guesting before you switch, so you know you’re switching to one you’ll like.

Edit: Guesting is playing on another server temporarily. You can do it for as long as you want but it’s not a permenant change like world switching. The only thing is you don’t get any WvW bonuses (either from your own server or the one you’re guesting on), you can’t play WvW on that server and I’m not sure how collecting Influence for your guild works.

As for why it’s because of WvW. If you could have characters on multiple servers players could create characters on their opponents servers and use them to do things like open up keeps to let the enemy in or waste all their resources so they can’t build anything.

Tactics like that were quite common at the start of the game when you could switch world freely and it was a big problem for anyone playing WvW.

Ahh thank you.

I will do that later today,really enjoying the game just need more company on the journey

Thanks again.

I still think they should provide a bit more information on each server on the selection screen, especially for new players.

I had a bad experience during the first beta when I picked a server at random, thinking it didn’t matter, and ended up on the unofficial Russian server. Only being able to speak to about 50% of the players meant I was left out of a lot of the social side of the game, even things like events being called out in map chat.

I can’t remember now if you couldn’t switch during that beta or if I just didn’t bother because it was only 1 weekend but it made me determined to make sure I made the right choice for launch, which involved trawling through 4 or 5 fan sites to try and find out what groups would be playing on which servers.

They’ve made the situation a bit better, but I still think everyone should be given 1 free transfer so you’re not having to delete all your characters and start over or pay if you guess wrong at first, because it is still esentially a wild guess at which server would be best for you.