Newb Seeking Guidance

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Posted by: kittyjamin.8142

kittyjamin.8142

There were several questions I wanted to ask the community before I even picked a server, since I’m not quite exactly thrilled of having to pay to move from server to server I feel that I might as well ask them instead of winging it.

First off, transferring to another server. Is paying to move to another server the only way? Or can I just make a character to learn the ropes, delete him and choose another server later?

The bank, is it account wide, region wide, server wide or character based? (goes along with making toons to test out the classes)

I noticed there’s a guesting tool but how exactly does a guild work, is it server based? Or are we able to use the guest tool to drag members together from multiple servers?

Can you have characters on multiple servers? I figured with the world versus world it’d be sort of a bad idea to be able to due to “Spies, traitors, griefers and etc.” roaming about. Yet I haven’t been able to find out if you can or not.

Do the questions they ask you in character creation affect how your character progresses -as in skill acquiring, specialization and etc.?

Are the race based abilities / traits / powers w/e they’re called significant enough to affect my choice of character?

In videos I have also noticed there’s 3 choices, ferocity-charm-dignity (at least I think), are those choices just story progression / branching or does that eventually affect skills / power acquisition?

Everything else seems to be easy to understand, I’d probably have more questions once I actually get into the game, but as of right now I’m just doing my research before I’m stuck into a position I don’t want to be in.

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Posted by: Falunel.7645

Falunel.7645

Welcome to GW2!

First off, transferring to another server. Is paying to move to another server the only way? Or can I just make a character to learn the ropes, delete him and choose another server later?

If you delete all of your characters, you can transfer servers for free. Be sure to put your non-character bound items in your bank first, though, so you can take them out on other characters. Note that you can only transfer servers once every 7 days (regardless of whether you did a paid or free transfer).

The bank, is it account wide, region wide, server wide or character based? (goes along with making toons to test out the classes)

It is account-wide.

I noticed there’s a guesting tool but how exactly does a guild work, is it server based? Or are we able to use the guest tool to drag members together from multiple servers?

A guild can have members from any server. However, guild upgrades are server-bound. Every server has a separate upgrade and influence pool, so if your guild has the guild bank unlocked on the Blackgate server, guild members based on Tarnished Coast cannot use it, but must build their own. Hopefully that makes sense.

Guild members also have the same restrictions regarding guesting, in that they cannot WvW together if they are on different servers. However, they can participate in guild missions together if one server has them unlocked, and get full rewards. They can also play PvE content together through guesting. Note that they can only guest together if they are in the same region. NA players cannot play with EU players.

Can you have characters on multiple servers? I figured with the world versus world it’d be sort of a bad idea to be able to due to “Spies, traitors, griefers and etc.” roaming about. Yet I haven’t been able to find out if you can or not.

You cannot.

Do the questions they ask you in character creation affect how your character progresses -as in skill acquiring, specialization and etc.?

They affect the first and second arcs of your personal story- you will have different story missions depending on what you pick. Some of them also give you different-looking starter gear. Others put different NPCs in your home instance that you can chat with (for no benefit than just chatting). The charr warband choice determines the profession of an NPC you fight alongside for the first three arcs of your story. That’s the extent of it.

Are the race based abilities / traits / powers w/e they’re called significant enough to affect my choice of character?

Not really. All races have the same stats, hitboxes, traits, and so on. There are racial skills, but they are deliberately weak next to class skills. Only things to consider when choosing a race are the following:

-Cultural armor (which is cosmetic)
-Appearance- some people hate how armor looks on charr, or how small asura are, or the look of cloth and metal on sylvari.
-Size- some people find norn and charr unbearably slow (they move at the same speed as other races, but appear slower due to being bigger). It’s also harder to do jumping puzzles on norn and charr due to their size.

In videos I have also noticed there’s 3 choices, ferocity-charm-dignity (at least I think), are those choices just story progression / branching or does that eventually affect skills / power acquisition?

They determine a few flavor dialogue choices for NPCs, but that’s it.

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Posted by: Wolfheart.1938

Wolfheart.1938

1) You can delete all your characters and transfer freely, or keep your characters and transfer paying with gold (in-game currency), but that is a bit too expensive for new players.

2) Account-wide

3) Basically you can do anything you want with every player on any server in your current region (NA or EU) as long as it’s not WvW. You can party with and join players from other servers (through guesting) in dungeons, open world maps and PvP. You can only play WvW in your own server, for obvious reasons.

4) No. All characters are bound to the same server.

5) No.

6) No, by design. You can freely choose your race because of the looks.

7) They serve no other purpose other than giving your character different lines when interacting with a very small amount of NPCs. Basically they are useless

“We have no first-person view because stupid people would lock into it”
“You can’t have more than 10 HS decks because that would confuse people”
“30 fps is more cinematic”

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Posted by: Adine.2184

Adine.2184

Your bank is account wide

Guilds are sever based and any guild you join all your characters are a part of ( keep this in mind if you join a 100 % rep guild ).

You can NOT have characters on multiple servers . As you stated this would allow for spying .

Most of the character creation questions will have an effect on your personal story the exception being personal item questions and the ferocity/dignity/charm question . They will NOT have an effect on what skills you acquire however .

not really the race based skills are for the most part pretty weak .

no they really dont do anything .

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Posted by: kittyjamin.8142

kittyjamin.8142

Very helpful, thank you.