Guild Wars 2: Pre-Release Discussion

**Akiyama** · 2012-08-23 15:19

I have no idea where people are gonna be honestly :< Thank god we get five character slots.

**supercoco** · 2012-08-23 15:24

as long as we can do quests and things together, doesnt matter in which server we're

**Aevis** · 2012-08-23 15:38

the "only" people from ArenaNet currently hard at work are mostly the network/server guys. Jeff Grubb (lore and continuity designer) mentioned recently on a press meeting, that he isn't allowed to fix new bugs since last week. even if a severe, game breaking bug would arise, only a handful people have the permission to fix right now. (german source)

I wouldn't want to be in the headstart support/on-call team tho.

**supercoco** · 2012-08-23 16:14

where is our bank ?

**arus2001** · 2012-08-23 16:23

In the cities, at least as I found when playing on the human side. In the centerish/upper area there's a few NPCs east of the AH/NE of the WP.

**Rhyis.** · 2012-08-23 16:28

Crafting stations are also banks as well.

**niwaar** · 2012-08-23 16:32

Originally Posted by Akiyama

I have no idea where people are gonna be honestly :< Thank god we get five character slots.

A reminder. Character slots do not work the way they do in other MMOs. Your characters are part of your account. Your account chooses a server. Thus ALL characters on your account are bound to that server.

Originally Posted by supercoco

as long as we can do quests and things together, doesnt matter in which server we're

Guesting will not be available at launch, but will appear shortly after. This seems to be due to updating the guesting UI as well as allowing server populations to balance.

Originally Posted by supercoco

where is our bank ?

Eanae can correct me, but I believe the official BG guild will be settled on Ehmry Bay and I would assume he is going to settle there and start the guild. That is where the eventual guild bank will be located.

However, please note that unlike other MMOs where you immediately gain some sort of guild bank on guild creation, GW2 requires days of "build" time to gain access to a bank. With the first guild upgrade build tanking 16 hours and I believe the guild bank feature actually taking another 2 full days to build. The bank feature will probably not be a priority for most guilds directly at launch. As things such as the first ranks of the base guild upgrades all require 16 hours to build. A lot of guilds will choose to go directly for the bank, others will go for the guild logo. Some will go directly towards the ability to drop bonuses for XP, Karma, PvP and Crafting/Gathering.

If you meant personal bank and not guild bank, they are located at Crafting Stations, the personal Asura Banking robot you get for having the Digital Deluxe and near to the trading post. The banks/trading posts are marked by gold circles on the map. Each of the 6 major cities (7 if you include Ebonhawke) has a bank/trading post as does some of the outlying areas/outposts.

Unfortunately, my group chose Crystal Desert as a home server and will be setting up shop there. If anyone else is going to be on the server and wants into the guild, send me a forum PM.

**Ohemgee** · 2012-08-23 17:38

I guess I'm settling on Yak's Bend with a few RL friends.

Something tells me I'm going to buy a world transfer.

**Akiyama** · 2012-08-23 17:51

Oh wow.. really? So all five characters go to one server? Laaame.

Was hoping I could have one with a couple buddies, one with BG, and so on..

**Arelian** · 2012-08-23 17:51

I'll be on Yak's Bend with some RL friends as well, but I fully expect I'll be guesting a fair bit. One of my friends ran around some of the launch zones during the stress test today, he said Vigil Keel and one of the 35-45 zones are amazing.

Edit for Akiyama: You can visit any server at any time by using the Guest feature. While it won't be available at launch, I expect it to be functioning within a week or two. By using the guesting, you can do EVERYTHING (questing, exploring, instancing, sPvP) with any of your friends except WvW. WvW is tied to the server you choose at the beginning. Guilds and the trading post (AH) are cross-server, so the server you choose at the beginning only matters for WvW. Don't stress about it, guys.

**Akiyama** · 2012-08-23 17:53

I personally have buddies going to Ehmry Bay so.. dunno what I'm gonna do. A shame you can't freely switch.

**Arelian** · 2012-08-23 17:59

You *can* freely switch. Just not immediately at launch so server populations can chill out.

**Takiwaki** · 2012-08-23 18:08

Originally Posted by Arelian

You *can* freely switch. Just not immediately at launch so server populations can chill out.

Actually you can freely switch at launch, server transfers will be free until things settle, then you can "guest", The importance of servers are really mainly for WvW. The main thing is that you can visit servers and play with friends at anytime, except for WvW

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a...-guild-wars-2/

**Takiwaki** · 2012-08-23 23:34

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/manual/

cool vid and music

**vadre** · 2012-08-24 00:56

I noticed yesterday all the servers for different regions were in one list to pick from, will guilds be able to span all of them (so there can be 1 by guild across all servers)? I would guess not but just thought it was worth checking

**Katlan** · 2012-08-24 00:59

Correct, each guild name is unique across ever server.

tol · 2012-08-24 02:15

You can now link your gw1 account into your gw2 account for those of us who couldn't before.

http://account.guildwars2.com/

**niwaar** · 2012-08-24 03:29

Originally Posted by tol

You can now link your gw1 account into your gw2 account for those of us who couldn't before.

http://account.guildwars2.com/

Finally!

I will have my HoM! Wish I had more, but 30 is good.

**Dragir** · 2012-08-24 06:57

Seems like the most suitable thread to drop this information into... rather not make a new thread.

Just wanted to let everyone know that there's a guild of former FFXI players (Catalyst, Fairy server, 2004-2008~ish -- I still play

) who will be creating their characters on Sanctum of Rall for Guild Wars 2.

Anyone who's going to be on Sanctum of Rall and is interested in being a part of a guild of other former FFXI players is way more than welcome to join. Just send me a PM and let me know what your character name is once that's settled.

See you in 16-19 hours. 8D

**Dantrag** · 2012-08-24 08:25

Looks like I'm going to be on Sanctum of Rall as well. :D RL friend just told me he was going to that server so I'll see you there Dragnir

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