Guild Wars 2

Somewhere along the lines I feel like I may have misunderstood something, so I’d like to ask here to clarify;
My total age since I started playing is 331 days, which means I’m getting close to my first birthday. But my oldest character is (I’m not currently online so I forget the actual number of days) somewhere around 290 days. I never kept my very first character because I wanted to free up character slots and I was a terrible Engineer. But I seem to have gotten the idea that your birthday isn’t determined by how long you’ve been playing but by your oldest character. Is this correct?

I’m sorry if it’s a stupid question but as I’ve said, somehow I’ve come to thinking this and I don’t know if it’s right or not.

Birthdays are per character. If you made a few alts over a few months and retained them, their birthday gifts will arrive on their individual anniversaries. The people nabbing 2nd birthday gifts right now are those who made and kept characters in the head start period right before main launch.

So you have 75 days to your oldest character’s first gift.

about 10 months ago I was surprised to find two of my bank characters had birthdays. fun times. this is why you should use alts for banks if you dont want to play them anymore, instead of deleting them.

It’s based on an individual characters age, as in when a character reaches 365 days.