Ashen.2907 Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 So that you can say, "yeah, Ive got 35k AP and 150k gold on my other account, just enjoying experiencing the game like a noob again on this account." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelgar.7214 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 To play WvW with friends/guilds on different servers. Will be the same likely when it goes to the group thing. So four accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turin.6921 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Additionally to what other said you overcome reset restrictions as well. You can do double the fractals a day and double the raids clears a week and send the extra gold to your main account. You can craft more timegated materials and send the end crafted mats that is not account bound to your main account. You can farm multiple nodes with different accounts instead of waiting for them to reset etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moira Shalaar.5620 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 This past year I used the zephyrite festival & Halloween to buy all the home instance nodes for my accounts and I farm those once a day per account. It adds maybe a minute including load times and i’m pulling in 3 candy corn cobs/50 days, + sprockets & crystals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse.1562 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 > i was lazy to start second account everyday. but when i read this all it’s free gold. thanks for confirm it. i will take that few minutes for this from now. it’s unfortunately i can’t start 2 accounts at the same time with one pc. :) You can and I do. I have several things that I do most days in the two accounts simultaneously, on side-by-side monitors (e.g. Matriarch in Verdant Brink for Amalgamated Gemstone - takes maybe 10 minutes including remembering to log on at roughly the right time, and nets about 1g 70s extra per a/c per day). I've even on occasion taken both into a fractal, with friends (not usually worth it, mind; the downside of having to control each one separately usually more than outweighs the advantage of an extra set of skills and an auto-attack, for me at least). There's a limitation, in that only one session can be windowed fullscreen, but frankly that's minor. The only thing making it tricky to run multiple (native) copies of the game is that you need to kill one Windows handle (AN-Mutex-Window-Guild) after starting each one before you can launch another. I've a script that someone else cooked up a few years ago that does that. If you want to try, do a search on the handle name; you'll turn up plenty of hits, both in these fora and elsewhere. Or you can use, e.g., GW2Launchbuddy (a similar search comment applies). Oh, and with regard to **Moira Shalaar**'s comment (just above) - if you run two sessions, you only need to stock ONE home instance between all of your accounts, if you feel the inclination to have each one loot that daily (that's another of my own regular things I do). Party up, enter on the correct account, drag the other one in. Simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackarps.1974 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 I have 2 accounts. One is my main and the second is purely for extra gold income and WvW when my main's match-up is stale. Most everything gets funneled into my main account though. Multi-boxing is nice though too and can provide some small benefits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illconceived Was Na.9781 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 > @"Moira Shalaar.5620" said: > This past year I used the zephyrite festival & Halloween to buy all the home instance nodes for my accounts and I farm those once a day per account. It adds maybe a minute including load times and i’m pulling in 3 candy corn cobs/50 days, + sprockets & crystals I want to highlight this one for the OP, because they have asked both about home instance nodes and about multiple accounts. Moira's comment illustrates how you can combine the two for greater benefits, faster return-on-investment. FYI does require some extra work to be able to convert account bound currencies and mats into something your main account to use. While substantial, it's a one-time effort that could be worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaraki.5784 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Log-in rewards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traced.3495 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 For me multiple accounts were the main draw of MMORPGs. For making characters, have them become a crew during story, be able to exist in the game world at the same time. I had two GW2 accounts from the beginning. And then, some more. For the twin accounts, I keep them as identical as possible. I always want at least two accounts logged in whenever I am in game, I hate to be just... one. ): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Vega Van Kain.9842 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 > @"GW Noob.6038" said: > Given the fact that most of the good stuff is account-bound, I don't see the point of having a second GW2 account. Enlighten me. Log-in rewards, dailies, laurels.....it's the easy way. You have also the wood farm. You can do more and more better (and having more and more gold) One of them, if you just do 1 match in pvp with it and you try hard (you have to), you can won your game (and it's done for the daily) or having at least 2 stats and you'll have to do just 1 other achievement to have your daily done (a Vista, Gathering) all this in ~10min max (and don't forget, pvp don't need gears, you can start directly) + reward track (can have a lion's key) + match rewards (can have 15 gold each X games)......a lot of golds. You can also do the masterpiece, i will not going in details ;) but you can do some group activity that you can manage to do alone with your alt accounts = double rewards. I have 6 accounts and i do all of this :) pvp game ~ 1h10, group activity ~ 15 min, that's make 1h25 of farming "accounts" per day for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspirine.6852 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 WvW was the main reason for me to get another account. One on a host, and one on a smaller server. Didnt do it for laurels MC's or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kratan.4619 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Because some people are so desperate to get accounts based rewards faster than they otherwise would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XatraZaytrax.2601 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I got my second account at launch so I could have a friend play with me. That lasted about a month. Now I just hop on so I can wander around, acting like a noob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayrilana.1396 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Prior to LS3, one could theoretically have made close to 10K gold every 28 days between log in rewards and daily ascended crafting with 30 accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blockhead Magee.3092 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 The reality is I can't have a third account without getting that second one. Math gets in the way again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannelore.8153 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 There's alot of economical reasons, but for alot of people its just so they can chat in Lion's Arch or something while getting repeatedly destroyed in hopeless Player Versus Zerg battles In WvW and similar situations, it helps take the edge off of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbill.7483 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I have a second one for the typical laurels and coins as well, but I also use it to farm the Ornate Rusted Keys to get the swim speed boosters faster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoriMoriMori.5349 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Don't see point in it. Yes, you could use the 2nd account to get more from dailies and overcome some limits on certain things. But you also could just buy gems for that money and turn them into gold directly. And 2nd account still will require additional time to manage it - time is money, so why not, again, just buy gems and turn into gold, and buy all you need from market, straight on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svarty.8019 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 In WvW, you can choose which matchup you play in - Sometimes one matchup is a massive blowout, where a giant enemy zerg appears at off-peak hours. There is no way to prevent this anymore thanks to numerous well-meaning but misguided complainants on the forum such as "Nerf walls", "Nerf Arrow carts", etc. Add in the huge amount of Red Circles and Pulls introduced in PoF. In 2020, there's no point EVEN TRYING to defend anymore. In such a situation, friendlies tend to play PvE or log off - if they have another account they can just go to another matchup and avoid the enemy zerg entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW Noob.6038 Posted January 26, 2020 Author Share Posted January 26, 2020 Y'all resurrected this old thread? :D I got the second account, which I use to get Laurels and Mystic coins. It would be vastly too much effort to use it for anything else, like farming and doing dailies...unless I bought one of those Waypoint unlocker thingamabobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Vega Van Kain.9842 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 > @"GW Noob.6038" said: > Y'all resurrected this old thread? :D My fault cheif, I slipped, January 2019---- January 2020 :3 Annnnnnd everybody just follow..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dayra.7405 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 > @"Ashen.2907" said: > So that you can say, "yeah, Ive got 35k AP and 150k gold on my other account, just enjoying experiencing the game like a noob again on this account." Excatly, after several years with my main account, I had fun for a while starting a new one from scratch (and without support from main). But now the 2nd account is mostly inactive, I am to lazy to do the login for the additional rewards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyncale.1629 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Playing an Alt account can be very refreshing indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassdeff.1895 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 More mystic coins, more raiding , more home farming, more guild hall farming, more mules to store things on, double key runs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanner Blackfeather.6509 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 > @"MoriMoriMori.5349" said: > Don't see point in it. Yes, you could use the 2nd account to get more from dailies and overcome some limits on certain things. But you also could just buy gems for that money and turn them into gold directly. And 2nd account still will require additional time to manage it - time is money, so why not, again, just buy gems and turn into gold, and buy all you need from market, straight on? 28 days of logins gives 20 Mystic Coins and 55 Laurels (if choosing Plentiful Laurels). 20 MC is 26 Gold 55 Laurels is 33 Gold (Material bags) 59 gold costs ~200 gems. Return on investment depends a lot on how much you pay for the account. Sure, at full price it'll take upwards of a year, but most who have extras have *not* payed full. If you can find one for ~$10 you're out of the red after only 3 months. This is of course not counting any easy dailies, opportunities like the current festival, etc. Anytime a new desireable and tradeable thing using Charged Quartz is added (like the Skyscale food), having an extra account to charge on is pretty lucrative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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