Guild Wars 2

I played for 4 months at release and way back in 2012 we had lots of character slots available. I made 9 characters and I noticed they are still all there but no empty character slots are available. I did some research and learned that the current game only allows for 5 character slots—unless you buy more with gems.

1. If I delete one of my old 9 characters, will I lose that slot since I am clearly over the current default limit of 5?

1. If I buy the HoT expansion, will I get a new character slot to try out the new Revenant class?

Thank you!

No, you won’t lose your character spot, but you will lose that character’s progress and upcoming 5th Birthday Gift/Reward. (You can have up to 69 characters/slots.)

You will only receive another character slot with Heart of Thorns if you purchase the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition.

Welcome return, and good luck.

Having 9 characters means you have at some point purchased 4 extra character slots. 5 was always the starting amount.

5 has always been the default. As Tanner said if you’ve got 9 you must have purchased extra slots at some point. (I think a lot of people did early on when the gold to gems exchange was quite cheap, even though gold was harder to come by, and people were trying out different professions a lot.)

You only get an extra character slots with HoT if you buy the Deluxe Version. If you buy the standard version you only get the expansion content.

(The exception is free accounts, which start with just 2 character slots and get 3 more if they upgrade to a paid account.)

But once you’ve got a slot it’s permanent. Deleting the character in it will not delete the slot, even if it’s an ‘extra’ one – its just the character who will be gone. The slot can then be re-used to make a new character.

(Just make sure you remove any items you want to keep from the character first, because anything they have equipped or in their inventory will be gone forever when they’re deleted, and if it’s one you’ve not played since 2012 they might have unique items or skins which aren’t in your wardrobe yet.)

Also, what Inculpatos pointed out deserves stressing – the birthday presents are per character, and based on character age. Year 3 and 4 have been quite valuable, with a choice of account bound dyes that are pretty expensive to get from the trading post. It can be assumed that the upcoming 5th year gift is going to be similar. It might feel worth holding on to the old characters just for that, as you have 9 of them coming up!

Thanks for all the advice!

I don’t remember having bought extra character slots buy hey, that was 4+ years ago so I’m sure you are all correct. Thanks again.