Guild Wars 2

I just picked up the game a couple days ago, and created my first character on the default world, which was the first one on the list, with a medium population.

Once I started to move away from my race’s starting zone, I noticed that I was handling most of the dynamic events by myself. When I ran into a tough event that I couldn’t solo, I asked /map for help, but nobody even responded, so I couldn’t put together a team.

I was wondering if I should make another character on a high or very-high population world? If it continues to feel so desolate, it kinda defeats the purpose of an MMO.

Well you can’t just make a character on another server. This game doesn’t work like that. You either have to delete ALL your characters and start over, or pay for a transfer. This is because of how WvW works. It’s required that all characters are bound to a single server.

However, you can, for free, guest any server you want, without transferring. Go to your start screen, go to the server selection, click on a server, click guest, then start. You’ll be playing PvE on that server, instead of your own.

The only thing you couldn’t do in that circumstance is World vs. World PvP.

Interesting. Didn’t know about the guesting thing. I guess I’ll have to check out some higher-pop worlds, and if I really want to, I can pay for the full transfer.

Yes if you are new you might consider deleting your characters and moving to a higher population server. Just make sure you put anything you want to keep from your characters in the bank first. I know some of the most highly populated servers had their space expanded just before the Dragon Bash update. I moved to one of the most popular servers and that made me happy.

Also guesting is also an option if you are just doing PvE, you can guest up to 2 servers n a 24 hour period I think. However that just means you can only switch to 2 of the same servers in that time period. You can guest on the same 2 servers in 24 hours even when you log out and back in.

I would suggest you check out Tarnished Coast. It is the unofficial RP server. However in popular zones like Lions Arch you may end up in an overflow server because of the popularity of the new content. That’s the server I’m on and even the overflows are pretty popular these days.

EDIT: Like mentioned above I would recommend the guesting option first until you find a server you like if you are considering the delete character option for the move. Even that doesn’t guarantee you can move there if the server is full. So if you delete you may find you need to move to another server that isn’t full but may not be your first choice.

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