Guild Wars 2

I write this knowing that I’m about to talk about the highest of First World problems, but I’d still like to ask ArenaNet if it would be possible to merge together two Guild Wars 2 accounts.

Originally, back when Guild Wars 2 was weeks/months away from its first Beta Weekend event, and they had begun taking pre-orders, players over at the GuildWars2Guru forums had been predicting the character limit that would be present in Guild Wars 2. Many, myself being one of them, had speculated that the game would limit the amount of characters a player would be able to create. I think most people were betting on 10 characters being the total you could have on a single account. It was because of this prediction that I had decided on buying two Guild Wars 2 accounts before launch. I had the idea of playing on both accounts equally, however the game began to change. With the addition of the Living Story (with it’s own set of Achievement tracks), Ascended gear and 500 crafting, and now the new Wardrobe system, the amount of time investments needed for two accounts is something I really don’t have the ability to do it all twice.

I know, it’s my own fault for not waiting on Guild Wars 2 to come out in order to see how many characters a person can have on an account. That max is 64 for those wondering. I shouldn’t have jumped the gun like that. I also know that I can always delete those characters, and remake them on my main account a day or so later with their names. However, I have already invested enough time and gems (bought with my own money) on some of those characters that I would rather not see it all go to waste.

I honestly don’t care about the account itself, what I care about are the characters. If combining the accounts isn’t plausible, and I would say it wouldn’t be fair given the fact that I’ve unlocked the same achievements/daily/monthly on both accounts. Meaning I would get double the Achievement points in some instances. I just want the characters on my second account to get transferred over to my main account. I don’t mind losing the karma/tokens/achievement points that would be tied to that other account. I think that’s a fair loss considering I put myself in this predicament.

So, can this be done?

TLDR: I’m dumb and impatient, so I bought two Guild Wars 2 accounts before launch. Now with all of the account-based progression the game has, I don’t want to/have the time to do everything twice in order to have all of my characters decked out in awesomeness. I know this is a bit of a douchy request, but I’d still like some help on the matter.

I’ve seen this request before and the answer was no. They don’t have the tools to take a character from one account and put it in another. Plus there are other problems.

Here is an answer for Guild Wars 1 and while not completely relevant it covers some of the same points.

https://forum.guildwars.com/forum/forums/accounts/2-account-merge/page/1

“We have very clear responses when players ask about this subject: We cannot merge accounts. The programming for each account is too complicated to allow us to simply “mash it all together” into one account. What about account-based titles? Access keys? Creation dates? Whose guild and alliance affiliation does the account assume? What PvP name? What about account violations? It truly is not possible to merge accounts.”

Many of the problems are the same. Account based titles. Account creation dates (what happens in a merged account when you type /age in chat for example). Serial numbers, which is kept? Is a new one made? Account violations. What if one account is almost at a stage to be banned and then the procedure to ban is finalized after a merge but the other is squeaky clean? What if there is a problem with ownership of one account but not the other? All cause problems with merging 2 accounts.

If that’s the case, then I guess my only option will be to drop my second account… :/

Hmmm. A second account does have its uses. Extra storage for one. Mailing money and items between two accounts is sometimes useful. Farming ori, ancient wood, rich nodes, etc… is useful if you have multiple level 80s. You can have one account on a NA server and the second on an EU server.

You can have one account as your main and the other for the storage and miscellaneous reasons since you already have the 2 accounts. I doubt it’s worth buying a second account for these reasons, but if you already have it you might as well take advantage of it.