giving up everything you worked on for gw2?

so my friends were talking and it said that in gw2 you cant proceed with your character from the series (prophicies,factions,nightfall). so im just wondering for people who had there characters from the very begining give them up for gw 2?

I know one thing I can't give up: beating the dead horse!

You can't continue your GW1 characters because the servers between GW1 and GW2 would be incompatable. That's what the Hall of Monuments is for (which failed miserably).

Well, Hall of Monuments is supposed to preserve them, but since Arenanet simply won't give us a way to change facial features whenever we please, I don't mind, because I tried to make my character seem realistic. Ponytails on women just didn't work back in the day, unless pinned up, like mine is. I'd kill a margonite to get long hair on her, but that simply won't happen. Hair grows, Anet! I hope you know that! Let me give her long hair!

I would not care, to me GW2 feels like a new game. Starting off fresh would be nice.

I'll probably keep playing both.

I don't plan on moving to GW2 so I'l definitely still be playing my GW characters as an alternative to whatever else I'm playing a that time.

i want to play gw 2 to try a different game since all i play is GW :P

Personally, considering GW2 is such a long ways off, its impossible to tell.
Quite honestly, I probably will be so far off GW that I won't even care that GW2 comes out whenever it does.

And yeah, I woulda been interested in GW2 if anet hadnt made the HoM such a mess. I could go on in my ranting, but this isn't supposed to be that kind of thread :P

What a fresh, new concern! Here, you've earned it:

your name should be "you're," not "your"

With that established, I advise you to recreate your character in GW2 regardless of your previous accomplishments in GW1 so that I won't have to endure your grammatically incorrect name every again, assuming that you will be able to carry over your GW1 characters from GW2, which you won't.

/grabs cookie and runs

I'd gladly give it all up for a fresh start. If there was one thing I'd like to carry over it would be titles, but I could care less about gold, items and armor. Hall of Monuments doesn't interest me at all, so if their idea of title carryovers is HoM only, even titles won't concern me.

Did Guild Wars feel like work to you? Personally, I thought it was a video game.

Exactly. I remember playing many games in the past that had unlocks (such as SSX3, Soul Calibur 3, etc), and when I unlocked everything, I erased the save file and started all over again. It's refreshing and fun to play the game and get the rewards; once you have the rewards, it can get dull. I'll thoroughly enjoy starting anew, no matter my thousands of hours invested into my 10 characters.

Some people have to remind themselves that this is just a game, and a game is meant to be entertainment; fun.

Fresher start the better. I never wanted any carry-over and wish they hadn't even done the HoM thing - I imagine it's just going to lead to loads of people running around with a "Yep, they've had my soul for some time" emote.

I hope they start GW2 very soon, I have 3 characters and one has 27 maxed titles and the secondaries have only 10 maxed titles, there is not much for me to do in the game so I don't play very much anymore. However I tried to break into pvp and the people are mean and way too much time LFG in HA so I dont think I can get a tiger so I gave up at r7. A new start will be good.

Guild Wars 2 is set 250 years into the future of the world... No res shrine or healing skill can keep a person youthful, let alone alive for TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY BLOODY YEARS!!!

Quite the opposite, if there was one thing that I could make positive Guild Wars 2 does not have at all, it would be titles.

ahh the part of it being a fricken game can....


Please tell me is living 250 years that strange? or is it strange you can pull a meteor out of the sky to hit someone AND THEY STILL LIVE.

I know I'd still look hawt after being mummified.

The only thing I love from GW1 enough to want to take to GW2 is Thunderfist Brass Knuckles. Not because they're special, but because I had so much fun running through that cave with Kilroy knocking dudes out.