Is this the way to go on GW2?

This is how the average player arrange his slots:

• Cool Warrior
• Cool Ranger
• Cool Necro
• Cool Elementalist
• etc
• etc

This is how new NCsoft farming-for-your-lives forces us to arrange our slots

• Main Char
• Mule Number 1
• Mule Number 2
• Mule Number 3
• Mule Number 4
• etc
• etc

I'm quite sure i'm not buying GW2 with all the macrotransactions and other ugly stuff, but if some drunken friend decides to buy it for me on my Bday, should i try to make diferent chars, or focus all my efforts on one?

I'd like to know.

thank you

I think it depends on your play style, honestly. I have 9 characters now, and I play all 9 of them.

Now, that comes at a certain price. I don't have obby armor (I have vabbian on several chars, but not obby). All of my maxed titles are spread out over all my characters, so I only have 1 character with r1 KoaBD.

However, there are positives too. I do a lot of PvP and so I can run just about anything on my PvE characters. And I would get really bored just playing 1 character.


Basically, it depends on the way GW2 is set up. If it's like the way GW1 used to be and has minimal grind and no HoM to work for, then you're fine. If it's like GW1 is now, then you'll need a main + mules.

We don't know yet. We don't know how long GW will be etc. I would first complete the game with your main. And then look if it's worth it to do end game with that charakter. if not, you can create a new one. But honestly, nobody can tell you this yet.

And the average arranging =

- Main
- Assassin
- Pvp/Mule
- Pvp/Mule

etc..

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I believe Anet has stated that it'll be pretty hard to run out of storage in Guild Wars 2.

I feel quite the opposite. I hope Anet adds more to the store.

Personally I'm not into title farming so I actually do play characters of many different professions.

More like:

Account 1 - play
Account 2 - storage
Account 3 - storage

I'll actually attempt to complete the game before loading up on storage accounts. Hopefully they'll have an auction house this time.

i got three accounts, my main that i actually play on..

second is mule

third is a untouched account from pre-factions. Like to keep it that way, got some nerfed stuff there. -50 major runes, pre buff staves, old armours with old dye. Fun stuff.

gonna do the same if i bother to play gw2

yeah depends on if your a hoarder or not.. some peeps packrat- and if you own a warrior, nuff said really.. sooo many weapons

Lol, yea. I have to actually end up using numerous alt accounts just to hold my crap. Not to mention I have an alt account with 5 character slots all dedicated to holding nicknacks for Nick presents. :\

Well >.> I have 6 different Characters and all of them I use for different purposes, I don't have storage problems because anything I don't use practically is sold, and tipically I know when I will need an item and save it for that occasion. This is a common practice in most MMO's not just GW, if you're going to packrat :/ get used to having mules. Lol

Disagree very much. A lot of people have items that they can not simply"merc" or "sell off" right away. Look at Tramp... He is the perfect example that a lot of players need the extra space.

Which is understandable, its not completely necessary to do though. If you want to be mad crazy rich and be able to sell your items off, you must either make room or mule, look at Diablo 2 :P Mules galore.

66 chars here. 10 on one account are pve, 3 on another are pve, rest are all storage mules.

do you have a link?

jesus... 66 characters? how many copies of gw / +character spaces did you buy?

I gotta say I already made that migration in GW1 ages ago... though initially was not due to storage reasons.

I used to have 1 character per each primary class, and only had the PvP chars double as mules. It was great in Factions. Everyone goes to lv20 quickly, and so long as everyone are lv20, everyone are equal.

However, that all changed with Nightfall. Just the quest "And a Hero shall lead them" x10 almost burnt me out... (since 8 of them start with almost no points) And then, the true horror starts in Vabbi and onwards where every group was LFG rank4 Lightbringer... In the end I just bothered to get one of my characters through and call it a day.

As time flies, EotN, bonus missions, books and more books, stuffs and more stuffs, now even the rest of characters' inventories all get filled and, they have all already become the mule1, mule2, ... muleN's.

Unless there is a skill change just so happens to give them "something" to do, they will probably never get back into the game lol.

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On my 'play account' I rarely play on other characters than my (main) Ranger, Necro (for when I want to blast through stuff with Discord) and my Monk (in alliance party).

7/10 of my characters are already collecting dust, and rarely gets used.

I must not be nearly as bad as a packrat as I thought. I only have 1 account with the 8 given slots, no extra storage beyond the free gift panel, and I manage to scrape by with the space I have.

2 of my slots are devoted mules, a third is starting to become a mule but not dedicated yet. One toon holds extra armor sets and another for minipets and tomes.

I have a somewhat decent collection of weapon mods and gold Q9 weapons for if I need a given weapon on short notice, I try to sell off greens when possible or give them to heroes. I tend to give alot of stuff away for free though or sell for cheap often. Most of the weapons I store are generally more common skins, so I have no qualms about giving something away if an ally/friend or sometimes random people in towns need something.

I couldn't imagine storing lots of collector items, even though the traveler has pretty much run his course I'd rather just farm my items every week for myself and not bother trying to stockpile to sell on given week.

The only time I ever had serious storage issues was when I got the bright idea to stockpile an entire sweet tooth title before using any so I could click them all at once, which wasn't very smart.

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Back to the op's question though, I would/will most likely start out by filling up my slots with real playable characters. That way you can learn how each type will play in gw2. If you find yourself leaning towards liking to play only a certian few out of however many characters anet gives us, then you can use the ones you don't like as storage, and still have atleast had the experiance of playing the ones you didn't favor.

I have 11 toons. 1 of each class, and 2 monks, because I realised only after I put obby on my original monk that I really was shooting myself in the foot by having destroyed my starter armour, as well as the fact that the Prof Yak headpiece is unobtanium by any other means than starting in Prophecies.

I have to be honest, I use all of them. Not all at once, obviously, but I go through phases where I get addicted to different things. Basically, if there's something in GW that can be done, then I want to be able to do it. It was the same when I played Neverwinter Nights, which is why my NwN account has 100+ lvl 40 fully ubered toons.

My war and my original monk have bits of obby, as well as this, my War is my main armour collector and has A LOT of armour. Most of that resides on my second account, lol.

Across all of my toons, there probably isn't one who doesn't have at least 2 sets of elite armour.

Now for the other stuff.. :P

I'm a self-confessed hoarder. I don't like standing in Spamadan for hours trying to get fair prices for items, so most of the nice things I get, I hang onto, or give to friends who need and will use them. Thankfully, seeing as regardless of the hours I've put in, or how many times I've covered the majority of the 3 continents, I haven't had a decent drop in about 8 months, this is less of an issue lately. Though this isn't really the place to get into the nitty-gritty of that debacle..

The irony I suppose, is that just one NwN toon, has more storage space just in their inventory, than my entire GW and alt GW account put together. Now from my perspective, there's something really wrong with that. And I haven't even mentioned the wonderful item that is the magic bag, which regardless of weight reduction(a factor in NwN, reliant on your strength level)basically adds a whole GW toon's inventory space, per bag.

Add to that, and forgive me if I'm wrong, but I could swear that when I bought Prophecies, it came with 4 toon slots. Why then, when I added the other 2 campaigns, did I only receive 2 slots with each. Correct me, as I said, if I'm wrong, but don't you get 4 with your initial purchase, regardless of which campaign it is? So why are we being robbed of 2 slots with each consecutive purchase? Is it a penalty perhaps, for giving them too much money?

Honestly, my head is starting to hurt. People have been complaining a lot lately about the macro and micro transactions, but as far as I can see, we've been getting screwed by that from day 1.

There was alot of upset players concerning just that when the newer campaigns started coming out. If my memory serves me (but it often doesn't so correct me if I'm wrong), the ingame store didn't exist back then, and anet blamed the lower slot additions on data server space. After the upset player's gave up their cause and things died down they released the extra slots and no one put up a fight, so it is what it is.

Ironic isn't it, that my old NwN server that has literally thousands of different players accounts on it, that never get deleted, regardless of even years of inactivity, has no limit whatsoever on the number of toons you have, for free I might add. And this is a privately owned server. LOL.
IMO, it's akin to theft, and storage space issues are a really, really, REALLY lame excuse for that theft, especially when they reverse themselves and say without saying: "Well, if you can afford to pay for them, then we actually do have the space after all!" "Turns out we accidentally only partitioned 1% of each drive when we first made GW!"

Um, yeah. They say tomayto, we say tomahto, but it's only us getting the rotten fruit.

I play all of my characters! I move the crud they're holding around a lot, but I play them. Hell, even my dedicated mule finished NF >_> I try not to keep too much shit around, as anything you could possibly need you can get in 5 minutes in Kamadan.

I hear ya on the gear movement Jensy, before I got my alt account, I had 2 toons at any one time that could just go out and fight without first having to shift everything over to another toon, lol..

I currently have 2 accounts; one is my main playing account, upgraded with character slots, populated with characters of every profession, and a couple of PVP chars.
A couple of characters are acting as mules, but they take turns depending on flavour of the month profession.
The second account is a mule account, but only out of something to do with it. Bought initially to let me run round with daughter, it'd just sit dormant, It was useful wen XTH was running, but now it's stocked with map pieces, DoA gems, beautiful shells, and multiple spare armor sets from main account characters.

The joy of GW is that there isn't the necessity to have to devote tons of playtime exclusively to one character to be effective, so it's easy to maintain multiple characters.
I'm hoping that that ease will be carried over to GW2, particularly since we'll have multiple species, as well as professions.