Guild Wars 2

Just a few questions, for anyone who might have done so already:

1. Is there a cooldown on server transfers, and for how long? I don’t mean for WvW, because I know about that. Like, if I want to go play with my friend on Sanctum of Rall, can I transfer over there, play with them for the night, then go back to Fort Aspenwood come morning?
2. Does it affect my guild or my guildmates at all? Or are guilds exempt from server association? If I transfer servers, does it boot me from my guild or something, or are we just unable to participate in WvW with eachother until I return?
3. Is there anything besides these questions I should be aware of when transferring servers? Is there some topic already out there that addresses my questions?

I ask because a couple of friends of mine are on Sanctum of Rall, and I’d like to play with them tonight, but I have a small guild of friends (maybe 10~15 active people) who I can’t risk abandoning; I just wanted to transfer for the night to play with my other friends, since guesting isn’t implemented yet and searching the forums has the devs responding to guesting-related questions with “Oh, but server transfers are free, just use that,” so I kind of figured that they must function in a similar fashion or else the devs wouldn’t be telling people to use it that way.

Once they get the Guesting feature fixed, you’ll be able to temporarily travel over to your friend’s server, and play with them without actually leaving your home server.

Guilds can be cross-server if they choose to be, but all of the influence earned will mostly help those on the home server for the guild. And I think you aren’t able to represent your guild in WvW, or something, but I’m not really familiar with guild stuff and PvP.

Also, you can try and see if you can get your friends to server transfer over to your server. This way, you are all on the same server and you don’t feel like you would be abandoning your guild or your friends. Free transfers are currently up, though I’m not sure for how long.

The problem is that they have a group of friends on their server. I’ve invited them all over to ours, but they need to discuss it amongst themselves and come to a decision before then (as there’s nothing holding them to their server; it was just an arbitrary choice), and it may be a week or two before that happens.

I wanted to play with them as they’re all newbies currently, and it’s fun to teach newbies to play the game; you get to share in their excitement at discovering new things and such, you know?

ANet stated they’d implement guesting “once the server populations stabilize,” and yet they are encouraging people to utilize free server transfers in lieu of guesting until it’s implemented. That’s a clear conflict of interests, since the servers will never stabilize with people constantly jumping about to play with friends, so who knows when it’ll go live.

The problem with them not adding guesting yet is that until that feature is added the populations will absolutely not stabilize. As long as free transfers are available, people will use and abuse that feature and will be server-hopping for various reasons. There are the obvious reasons: just indecisive people like me. There are the more rare reasons, like WvW spies and freeloaders, etc. Okay so maybe the WvW followers aren’t a rare reason, but you get my point!

Th-that’s great and all, but I’d just like to know whether or not I can safely server transfer to my friend’s server for a day or two, then go right back to mine without my guild dissolving or finding myself locked onto another server for a week.

Hyperdimensional Keichan.7526:

Th-that’s great and all, but I’d just like to know whether or not I can safely server transfer to my friend’s server for a day or two, then go right back to mine without my guild dissolving or finding myself locked onto another server for a week.

You can do that, yes. But I’m not sure if they have a “cool-down” in server transfers.

Your guild will not dissolved. Guilds are cross-server. It exists everywhere.

You can read this other post of mine for more information about guilds