Road to 70 Buff

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Not necessarily. If your server was preferred and is now congested, you can take the free transfer to another preferred server and keep the buff. I made a character on Midgardsormr a couple of months ago when they gave me a free week and it was preferred at the time. I didn’t seriously start playing until SHB release, and that server was congested by then. I was able to transfer it to Goblin and keep the buff. The character was only like 40 days old at that point.

This is actually false, I'm on Famfrit, it was preferred and now is congested. I just tried to transfer off and it says I have to wait 90 days.