Guild Wars 2

Whenever I bought GW2 a couple years ago, I picked a server randomly. Played the game and had some fun, but later on I found out that several friends, including my brother, also owned the game. However, we were all spread out across different servers. My brother ended up paying to transfer to my server so that we could play together. Eventually I got bored with the game and stopped playing.

Then the megaserver was introduced and I decided to come back and play with my friends. Had some fun, and since I was getting back into the game I decided to try out WvW for the first time with my brother. I had a blast with it and now its what I play the majority of the time I log in. Eventually though, it grew dull because I was just playing with myself all the time. Yeah I joined some guilds and played with them, but I just felt like I was just another number added to the group.. So after a little while I stopped playing again.

Now that I just heard about the new expansion coming out, I got interested in the game once more. However, the biggest draw of the game for me and a couple friends is WvW. But since we currently can’t play together, I’m not really sure that I will buy the expansion unless there’s a way that I’ll be able to play WvW with my friends without collectively spending 100’s of dollars on server transfer fees alone.

You, or your friends, can transfer at no cost by deleting all characters and transferring the account, and all account-bound items.

Or, you can exchange Gold for Gems.

Good luck.

don’t move to very high populated servers, it costs more and you will have longer queues for WvW…

if you move to the high populated server, it’s 1000 gems, right? that should be around 180g… and as you will move to the server where some of you already are, you can support each other, so the one who will stay pays half the cost for his friend who will be moving to his server for example, that would be 90g each, that’s not that much… and you can farm some dungeons together to make it faster you can also sell your materials from bank to make money fast…

or move to the medium populated server and it’s just 500 gems, even easier, but with less people in WvW… but with less people playing, every person have higher impact imo, but I don’t WvW much, so it’s just a guess

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You, or your friends, can transfer at no cost by deleting all characters and transferring the account, and all account-bound items.

Or, you can exchange Gold for Gems.

Good luck.

MaXi.3642:

don’t move to very high populated servers, it costs more and you will have longer queues for WvW…

if you move to the high populated server, it’s 1000 gems, right? that should be around 180g… and as you will move to the server where some of you already are, you can support each other, so the one who will stay pays half the cost for his friend who will be moving to his server for example, that would be 90g each, that’s not that much… and you can farm some dungeons together to make it faster you can also sell your materials from bank to make money fast…

or move to the medium populated server and it’s just 500 gems, even easier, but with less people in WvW… but with less people playing, every person have higher impact imo, but I don’t WvW much, so it’s just a guess

Ah.. The past week I’ve been checking on the server list several times every day. I’ve checked around 5-6 am, 12-1pm, and 9-10pm. Literally every US server in the list is either full or very high no matter what time of day I check.. Meaning it’s at least 1800 gems to transfer. That’s either around $25 or 300 gold pieces per person. And with about 10 people across 6 different servers that would like to WvW together, that’s quite a bit of money/time to spend. Plus that doesn’t even factor in the cost of the expansion if we decided to buy it.

I was hoping that maybe they would make it possible to transfer servers once after installing the expansion, or at least lessen the cost, but if they don’t then I don’t see myself buying/playing the expansion. Thanks anyway.

You have a Pve Megaserver.
As you pointed out yourself, you can play together with your friends, which means that you also can do world bosses and dungeons together. Ask them if they are up for gold-farming and make yourself comfortable while farming the gold needed for transferring all together.
No PUG-life, you spend time with your friends ingame and you farm a lot of gold in no time.
300g per person is easily done within 2 weeks if you just run AC p1/3, CoF p1/2, SEp1/3, TA up/fwd & CoE full. these dungeons take together 2.5h and reward you with ~17g just from the bonus chest and another ~12g in loot. Add on top of that just a daily tequatl run and you have another 2g for free + bonus loot.
If you really want to try hardcore while still be in lazy-mode, do tequatl multiple times per day with different characters to get an additional gold for free. By just doing that you can farm tequatly for 5g a day… A tequatl-attempt takes 5-7min + 10min waiting time before it starts.

so yea, by just doing the bare minimum you end up with 31g a day, so farming the transfer-costs for you and your friends only takes 2 weeks if you do it together…
Enjoy your time.

I would be very surprised if they added a free transfer with the expansion. The problem is, if they gave everyone a free transfer, tons of players would jump ship and the world’s populations would shift dramatically. This would potentially unbalance the world rankings and totally mess up the lists. The fee is there to discourage server hoping, so players cannot simply find the best server and jump to it quickly and easily.

As others have said, there are options available to get transfers without paying real money. It may be more time consuming, but you do have options. If I were you, I would get all your friends to start saving up gold, so you can all get transfers in time for HoT. I suspect you will have enough time to do this.

MaXi.3642:

don’t move to very high populated servers, it costs more and you will have longer queues for WvW…

if you move to the high populated server, it’s 1000 gems, right? that should be around 180g… and as you will move to the server where some of you already are, you can support each other, so the one who will stay pays half the cost for his friend who will be moving to his server for example, that would be 90g each, that’s not that much… and you can farm some dungeons together to make it faster you can also sell your materials from bank to make money fast…

or move to the medium populated server and it’s just 500 gems, even easier, but with less people in WvW… but with less people playing, every person have higher impact imo, but I don’t WvW much, so it’s just a guess

Here is the largest issues with this, just because a server population states Full/Very High doesn’t mean diddly squat currently. Your WvW experience could be dull and boring. Those population indicator’s ? Ya they are garbage, they base it off ALL players on that server, inactive, active, PvE, SPvP, WvW, … all of them.

It’s a large bone of contention with the WvW players currently, we have servers that are underpopulated in WvW and yet according to Anet they are Full status. These “Full” servers can’t get players to transfer to the server because they are full, considering it doesn’t matter what server your on for PvE the ONLY thing this effects is WvW and its currently doing more harm then good. Good servers are dying off, having their morale destroyed, and basically not enjoying the game because Anet has YET to address or fix this issue.

Thats my rant, now if your looking for a true idea opf where servers are in the grand scheme of thing for WvW you can google GW2 Millenium and it will give you an more accurate depiction of where servers truly rank, regardless of there population status.

Don’t transfer blindly because a server says “Very High” if you intend to WvW.