Guild Wars 2

Curious question, with the “bundling” for the same price, is there any reason to upgrade your current account instead of creating a new one?

You get 5 char slots with a new account verses 1 slot with the “upgrade”. Unless you’re committed to continuing a certain path there I see no reason to not buy a separate account and get an additional 5 slots verses the pathetic 1 you get if you “pre-order”.

It’s always been the case in every game which has an expansion placed ‘on top’ that it’s ‘better value’ to buy a whole new account. It was also the same in GW1 too, since you’d ‘only’ get a couple of new character slots for adding a campaign to the account versus four (I think? It’s been a while) for setting up a new one. Plus you get all the extra bank space too.

So, if you don’t really care about the convenience of having your current account being able to go into HoT (maybe you don’t have much in the way of expensive account bound equipment? I personally want my main account to be HoT-able since I have a couple of legendaries, high MF, and other bonuses) it would actually be a good plan to buy HoT and keep your current account as a ‘mule account’. It would also mean you can get any ‘one per account’ rewards more than once too in stories, which is nice.

There’s not much of a problem for going either way really.

If you upgrade you have a bunch of stuff already and most likely have at least one character ready for HoT without having to level up from scratch.

There is also the case for some of us with old items that are no longer obtainable and so on.

Why would you want to redo all the work you have done on your current account just because you get 5 new slots with a new account (which is the same number as you already have at your current account btw)?

lordkrall.7241:

If you upgrade you have a bunch of stuff already and most likely have at least one character ready for HoT without having to level up from scratch.

There is also the case for some of us with old items that are no longer obtainable and so on.

Why would you want to redo all the work you have done on your current account just because you get 5 new slots with a new account (which is the same number as you already have at your current account btw)?

5+5 = 10. For PVP it appears there is no downside to not having access to HOT, so you will actually be able to use all the classes…

why would I abadon my current account with all the items and works done over the past 2+ years to create new one?

Considering you bought the game less than a month ago, your account likely holds no value and you might as well start a new one. It all comes down to how much work you want to redo and if you actually care about it.

If you bought your account from ArenaNet and upgrade to HoT, you do get your original purchase refunded however.

Stochastic.1398:

5+5 = 10. For PVP it appears there is no downside to not having access to HOT, so you will actually be able to use all the classes…

No, you will only have 5 on the new account and 5 on the old account. A 5+1 on the old account is in my eyes worth more than 5 on a completely new account where I have to redo everything from the start.

I would say that there are several downsides to not having access to HoT. Especially the Elite Specializations and access to the upcoming Stronghold Mist Champions.

There is of course also the point that the match-making won’t work between two different accounts, so even if you have all classes spread out over the two accounts, you won’t really be able to take advantage of them all anyway.

Stochastic.1398:

5+5 = 10. For PVP it appears there is no downside to not having access to HOT, so you will actually be able to use all the classes…

If you’re only doing PvP and don’t mind resetting your account (your sPvP rank, most currencies, wardrobe and so on), then yeah, create a new one.

Personally, I think I’d much rather add the expansion to my current account where I’ve unlocked loads of stuff already.