Guild Wars 2

I’m struggling with map completion. Suppose I created a character on a shard with an active wvwv presence making it more realistic to complete. Could I then mail the gift to my main character? In other words, does account-bound also mean cross-shard?

I know that map completion is time-consuming…in essence, doing it twice but once without having finished the wvwvw maps. But, I find this more enjoyable (and legendary) than checking to see if the colors have changed.

You cannot mail items to yourself, you can only store account bound items on your characters or account bank. I recommend just being patient and checking in often to see your worlds progress with whatever you need to map. One option is to transfer if your really that desperate.

It does not matter at all which character you complete the map with. The gift is account bound…meaning that you put it in the bank and any of your characters(provided they are on the same account) can access it.

I cannot say in absolute confidence, but I do not think you can have characters on different realms. I think that your account (with all characters) is on a realm. X T D brings some good points. Patience will pay off. It took me many, many months to finish but I finally managed as the maps changed hands. If you are really in a hurry, then I would agree that perhaps transferring to a different server could work.

yea sorry forgot this part, all characters are on the same server (shard, world w/e you wanna call it) so there is no cross server between characters. Say you transfer one character your entire account transfer including all your characters. And Im not sure what you meant by “doing it twice, but first time w/o wvw maps.” To get the gift of exploration ALL maps required have to be done on the same character, so its not like you can do pve maps on a warrior, and wvw maps on a mesmer for example, doesnt work that way. If I misunderstood my apoligies.