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Why to go premium? (Not a question, but an answer.)

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"Why should I go Premium?" people ask. Well here's an answer to most (hopefully all) of your questions!

Going Premium isn't just an upgrade for yourself - it benefits the entire game by putting more money towards costs that the game needs to run, things like development and things like the cost of the servers, stuff like that.

There are three clusters of servers out right now, split between 2 sets: Freedom and Epic.

The Freedom Clusters consist of Celebration, Exodus, Deliverance, Independence, and Chaos and a newer group of two called Pristine and Release. All of these servers are PvE only with the exception of Chaos. Chaos allows for player-killing, deed raids etc. and includes the HOTA event, or Hunt of the Ancients which is a capture the towers affair with the winning alliance taking a unique (to the event) statue and some rare resources.

The Epic Cluster is a cluster of servers that consist of Desertion (MR-Home), Serenity (JK-Home), Affliction (BL-Home), and Elevation (Everchanging map of contested territory.) All of these servers have PvP without penalty enabled, all of them offer F2P with the exception of Elevation, which is P2P.



Here are just some of the advantages of upgrading to Premium:

  • Limitless skills. Skills as a free player are 'capped' at 20. This means that you cannot gain skill past 20. As your characteristics all start at 19.5, when you train skills (such as digging or carpentry) that increases these characteristics and they are blocked by the skill cap, you are therefore left at a disadvantage compared to the players who purchased premium early.
  • Religion & Enchantments. As a free player you can follow one of four gods being either Vynora, Magranon, Fo, or Libila (Epic Cluster and Chaos only.) However, as a free player you cannot become an effective priest due to your faith cap. Priests get access to something called enchantments, these can be placed on items by the religious followers of the four deities (Vynora, Fo, Magranon and Libila*). The enchantments can add a range of benefits to items ranging from increased skill gain upon usage to added damage in combat.
  • Better Economy. Non premium players are not as capable of making money as premium players are due to their skillcap, so going premium could help you get the things you want and help you raise money by yourself without the need of paying real life money to do so, even though that is an option.
  • Better items. As a premium player you get the ability to get your skills past 20, so once again you have access to better items. A higher quality item can speed up your timers with that item, make it take less damage, make it more effective and things of that sort.
  • Access to better stuff. With uncapped skills, you can do things like ride more animals, tame better things, sail different boats, build larger buildings etc..
  • Better Community. More random people willing to help you out in a jiffy due to the fact they know you might stay around longer because you're a premium user.
  • Deeds Deeds are placed by settlement forms you can buy at any trader and when planted these things form villages and grant a few nice bonuses. the biggest factor is that with over 30 days upkeep, buildings, fences, walls, signs, lamps etc will suffer no decay. They also provide things like guards, which offer protection from animals and players. You are also the only one able to do things on your now owned land with the exception of the villagers that you choose to add and give specific permissions to, you can also claim land with your perimeter in case you want to expand your deed so nobody else can plant in your planned area. Deeds typically require less manual maintenance than an F2P settlement due to less decay and (probably) higher QL items.
  • Priest Status. As explained in religion and enchantments, you need premium to become a priest, or if you're on the epic cluster or Chaos, you need the premium to become a champion!

Epic:

  • Faster skillgain. Skillgain on Epic is at least twice as fast as the freedom cluster. This allows for players to get in to the thick of the action much faster in PvP and many people find it far less of a grind than Freedom due to this too.
  • More 'effective' skills. Not only is there faster skillgain, but the skills are actually more effective than listed too, so with 40 skill, you can create items up to 65QL relatively easily. This effectiveness is on a curve, so as you get higher and higher, the additional effect is smaller - meeting at 100.
  • Valrei map. The home of the Gods. Completing missions will not only help your kingdoms chosen God to move around the map, collecting items to attempt to win scenarios, but you will also gain bonuses for helping. Completing missions will usually trigger spawns of unique monsters in enemy lands, while winning a scenario triggers a large event, often permanently scarring the map.

 

 

Freedom:

 

  • No Player versus Player / Kingdom versus Kingdom with the exception of the Chaos server.
  • GM enforced rules regarding destruction of property and similar (barring Chaos) - Ensure you read the Game Rules!

 

 

To transfer between Freedom and Epic:

You can freely transfer between the Freedom Cluster and the Epic cluster through the use of an Epic Portal. Each server will retain different skillsets because each server has a different skillgain speed, Freedom has the vanilla skillgain speed whereas Epic is sped up about 3x and all the skills operate on a curve.


I might've missed some things, just post below if i did. Hopefully this helps some people decide on servers, and if they want to go premium.


Sidenote:

Freedom Stones takes you to the PvE server clusters where you can choose between Celebration, Exodus, Deliverance, Independence and Chaos (Once again, PvP), or the new set of Pristine and Release. all of these are F2P, with the normal P2P benefits listed above.

The Epic Portal can take you to the epic cluster where you have a choice between Elevation (The Battlegrounds), Desertion(MR-Home), Serenity(JK-Home), and Affliction (BL-Home). All of these servers offer F2P with the exception of the Elevation server which is P2P only.

And another thing, you can sail between any of the servers within a cluster.


- Update

How to pay for premium:

Pay through Paypal at the wurm shop. Cost is 16 Euros for two months. Search Google for an online currency converter if Euros are not your native currency.

Pay 10 Silver at a deed token for 1 month. Note, you must be logged in, in-game to do this.

Please note, Onetoofree AB does not refund lost premium time spent on Golden Valley - the tutorial server.

Thanks to Mr.H

Edited by Propheteer

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Drop some of the colloquial language and add a little bit of formatting and you've got yourself a sticky thread.

Just like to point out that the first half of the post is edited by moi. ;D

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If I weren't already premium on the Wild Server I would check it out I think based on your detailed, yet short and simple description. Thanks for the insight you have shared with us.

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Leave a note that if they don't like the server they're living in, they can transfer to the different premium server by using the ingame Freedom portal. 10 silver to transfer, can only bring no-drop items, takes up a conversion if transferring from Wild to Freedom basically.

Awesome answer to the question by the way.

"The gods of these mighty edifices demand payment, and your Lords of Wurm must take ten silvers in tax from the coffers of you that wish to pass. And passage is not without its conditions thereafter, for this is not easy journey for trade, but a commitment! You must be aware that you can carry nothing but the most basic of tools given when you first arrived in Wurm, though you may carry coin and those precious items such as the Bag of Keeping that cannot be dropped from citizens' possessions. But we give some grace, for your possessions will be kept safe, and should you return they will be handed back to you.

"Those who are skilled in war craft, and have gained 50 or more in skill will lose five percent of it! And this loss can only be regained through hard grind, there are no favours here. Citizens will also be forced to wear the livery of the land they travel to, and will be adopted as a citizen of that place. For those of the Horde who travel south to the Freedom Isles, you will lose your faith and favour, and all those that travel North to South will lose one of their three conversions. Those travelling North from Freedom will not lose a conversion. Be wary and count your conversion carefully, for should you wish to return North and convert to Libila's Horde, she will not accept you if your lot of three is used up!"

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On Golden Valley, you feel crammed up on a piece of land, with thiefs and fast decay rates.

When you switch and get premium, all that stress goes away. Trust me guys, it's worth it.

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You should add Artifacts to the Wild section, but other than that good write up.

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You should add Artifacts to the Wild section, but other than that good write up.

Might be a point if they actually saw the light of the wurm day occasionally :D

I would put qualify 'less decay' by stating that decay is 3x slower on premium, and I would also place it one higher on the list, above deeds where you state 'even less decay' - even less than what, you've not mentioned decay yet ;)

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You should add that lanterns autolight at night if on-deed, both above and below the surface. That's a huge selling point to having a deed imo.

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Well that would fall under deeds and we don't want to start listing all the advantages that the things mentioned in the OP provide other than a basic overview because the thread would take half an hour to read!

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Going to clean it up a bit.

If you dislike the premium server you're on, you can transfer to the other premium server. But be warned, you only have a limited amount of conversion.

Transferring between 2 Premium Servers:

You need to...

  • Pay 10 Silver
  • Carry nothing except for no-drop items and money if you wish
  • Lose 5% of any PvP related skills if they are 50 or higher

From Wild to Freedom:

  • Uses one of your conversion
  • The Horde's Faith and Favor will be lost

From Freedom to Wild:

  • Does not use one of your conversion

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What's vitally missing from this otherwise great sticky is information about 'going premium' and transferring from GV to one of the premium servers. There is interesting info about 'switching' between servers later, but that is a possible later 'step 2' and the 'step 1' is somewhat ignored.

e.g. What can you take with you from GV? Is it better to just create a new character to start on premium instead of moving an existing GV non-premium character there?

Perhaps a little better description of the portals for a noob like myself.. which would I take and where is it located?

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To answer the above portal question (it can hopefully be added to the first post):

To be able to use a portal to a premium server, you must have paid for premium time. Do this just before using the portal as premium time starts ticking away from the moment of purchase. Note that you don't have to log out for the payment to register, you can walk up to the portal of your choice, Alt-Tab out of the game, pay for premium then open the game window again and wait for the message that premium is now paid for to appear in your event tab.

There are 4 portals by New Dawn, the starter town in GV.

Freedom Stones takes you to the PvE server - Freedom.

Flame Portal takes you to Gold Coast, the Mol Rehan starter town on the PvP server - Wild

Stone Portal takes you to The Landing, the Jean Kellon starter town on the PvP server - Wild

Desolate Portal takes you to The Shroud, the HotS starter town on the PvP server - Wild

There are also Freedom Stone portals in both Glitterdale and First Light. GD also has a Flame Portal to MR lands, and FL has a Stone Portal to JK lands.

As for traveling through, you take everything you are carrying in your inventory. Money will be transferred with your bank account (found at any deed token), but any items held in it will not be transferred.

Note that this is a one way trip. Accounts that have moved to premium servers cannot travel back to GV.

As for taking an established account, or making a new one, that is personal preference. Most premium players will recommend you take a relatively fresh account due to characteristics skill gain (there are quite a few threads in the forums explaining this so I won't repeat it here, use the search function). If you wish to be a lone player, then you will need a few key skills up such as digging, carpentry, a bit of fight skill, etc. and a few vital tools (fishing rod, cooking pan of some sort, imping tools etc.) but I would recommend that even if being a hermit is your intention, it would be wise to join a village for a couple of months to gain some reasonable skills and tools.

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I moved to wild yesterday.

To all guys on GV that think they will get killed there as soon as they leave landing :

Wild is WAY safer than GV. Nobody is going to kill you unless you ask for it ( or he's from another kingdom :P ).

There are Guard towers almost everywhere you go. You won't get killed by any big creature. :P

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I moved to wild yesterday.

To all guys on GV that think they will get killed there as soon as they leave landing :

Wild is WAY safer than GV. Nobody is going to kill you unless you ask for it ( or he's from another kingdom :P ).

There are Guard towers almost everywhere you go. You won't get killed by any big creature. :P

Sounds like you got chased by a troll and the GT saved you.

Anyway, yes it's not all that bad. Just don't cause troubles. :P

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Should add Wind of the Ages onto that enchantment list, lowering your timers to 4 seconds instead of like 30 is oh-so-nice once you get the skill for it.

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Hey Prophet, you may want to update my quote lol.

Take out the 10 silver cost. You need 20 silver to go from Wild to Freedom. It's free from Freedom to Wild.

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in line with that, because the payment is only one way, I would take out the first line of the 'Transferring between two permium servers' bit, and add that it's free from Freedom to Wild in the last section.

It may also be worth adding something at the end;

How to pay for premium:

Pay through Paypal at the wurm shop. Cost is 10 Euros for two months. Search Google for an online currency converter if Euros are not your native currency.

Pay 10 Silver at a deed token for 1 month. Note, you must be logged in, in-game to do this so if you're already on a premium server, you will need to be paid up already.

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