Guild Wars 2 Guild organization thread.

Vargen wrote:

Looks like my regular crew has settled on Gates of Madness, so that'll be my home. Anybody have good info on how guesting and cross-server guilds work?

Cross-server guilds are pretty straightforward. You can only chat with one guild at a time, and you select which guild from the guild menu. You choose a guild to "represent" and that becomes your guild so long as you continue to represent it. You get chat access, your actions earn the guild Influence points, etc.

Guesting is not going to be enabled at launch. It should be enabled some time Soon™.

They're holding the guesting feature offline till the servers settle down. They have confirmed that once the free server transfers stop, guesting starts.

as for cross server guilds, you'll earn influence for whichever guild you are representing but in a separate pool for whichever server you are on. which means that if you're the only guild member on a given server it's pointless to represent that guild(for the purpose of influence).

Also you can only PVP or WVWVWVW with your Home guild, or did they lift that?

This is the thing that is tearing me apart.
My main set of peeps are playing on a different server than GWJ but they are a smaller guild than what we appear to have here (Do we have a tally of how many we will have at launch?)

I want PVP but want a guild large enough that I can PVP with guildies and not pugs.

sigh.
/1st world problems

I'm a little late to the discussion, but I just bit the GW2 Bait and I don't know anyone else who is playing. Mostly I lurk around here but GWJ seems like a great community I would love to join you all. From What I can tell Northern Shiverpeaks is the preferred primary server, right? Who are the main contact folks going to be on NS?

Thanks

caterin6 wrote:

I'm a little late to the discussion, but I just bit the GW2 Bait and I don't know anyone else who is playing. Mostly I lurk around here but GWJ seems like a great community I would love to join you all. From What I can tell Northern Shiverpeaks is the preferred primary server, right? Who are the main contact folks going to be on NS?

Thanks

Cool, welcome. We're usually a pretty mellow bunch so I'm sure you will feel at home. It does look like NS is going to be the place to be, just keep an eye on this thread over the next couple of days in case plans change. And don't feel shy to jump into the conversations.

MrDeVil909 wrote:

And don't feel shy to jump into the conversations.

Just dont jump to conclusions unless you have a mat.

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groan wrote:

Also you can only PVP or WVWVWVW with your Home guild, or did they lift that?

This is the thing that is tearing me apart.
My main set of peeps are playing on a different server than GWJ but they are a smaller guild than what we appear to have here (Do we have a tally of how many we will have at launch?)

I want PVP but want a guild large enough that I can PVP with guildies and not pugs.

sigh.
/1st world problems

Structured PvP works fine cross server. You can create a party of your friends and queue up for match no matter what server you are on. WvW is the only thing that is limited by your server.

From the responces to the surveys I saw a little over 40 GWJ members. I would expect around launch to see our numbers in the 50's.

This is a last call for emblem submissions, I will be putting up a survey tomorrow so if you have an emblem idea post it here or send me a PM. Also tomorrow I will put up a list of our officers and their expected in game names if I have them so you will know who to contact this weekend if you need an invite.

Cobble wrote:

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Yes!

Hello all,

New to the community. Look forward to playing with everyone in game.

I finally got some time with the game during this evening's Stress Test; really pumped for the weekend. See everyone early Saturday on NSP.

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Griffon

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Car Dragon

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Arrow Gray

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Arrow Blue

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Anvil

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Sword Green

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Sword Gray

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Pony Face

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Pony Gear

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Octo Gear

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Masks

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Don't forget: we're all starting from scratch and Arovin will need 2S to create the guild (for up to 100 members) so it might speed things up a bit if the first few ppl that get on could mail their initial coppers to him.

Sword Gray, Arrow Gray, and Octo Gear are my favorites.

GrandmaFunk wrote:

Don't forget: we're all starting from scratch and Arovin will need 2S to create the guild (for up to 100 members) so it might speed things up a bit if the first few ppl that get on could mail their initial coppers to him.

What's the standard amount of starting cash for a new character? Would it make sense to create a couple of throwaway chars just to mail the starting money?

i forget what the reward is for the initial mission but we're probably fine just going out and doing a few renown quests.

I voted Octo but i gotta say there was a strong urge to vote Pony gear simply for the GWJ Magic Crystal throwback. That one more than any does have a GWJ in-joke already attached.

Octo gear was so awesome I couldn't pass that one up.

I wanted to vote for one of my pony emblems, but the Octo is too awesome.

1) Octo Gear
2) Masks
3) Sword Gray

Niiiiiice!!!!

merphle wrote:
GrandmaFunk wrote:

Don't forget: we're all starting from scratch and Arovin will need 2S to create the guild (for up to 100 members) so it might speed things up a bit if the first few ppl that get on could mail their initial coppers to him.

What's the standard amount of starting cash for a new character? Would it make sense to create a couple of throwaway chars just to mail the starting money?

From what I remember from yesterdays stress test, roughly around 1 silver (depending how much looting you did). But I got around 2 silver with doing the first couple heart quests. Also I remember reading somewhere that you'll need 5 people to sign the charter. Which starter zone is Arovin going to be in and who's going to be with him?

PS: Octo gear!

Octo gear is too awesome not to pick.

I think it could do better with our colors as a white background stands out too much IMHO.

Randomman wrote:
merphle wrote:
GrandmaFunk wrote:

Don't forget: we're all starting from scratch and Arovin will need 2S to create the guild (for up to 100 members) so it might speed things up a bit if the first few ppl that get on could mail their initial coppers to him.

What's the standard amount of starting cash for a new character? Would it make sense to create a couple of throwaway chars just to mail the starting money?

From what I remember from yesterdays stress test, roughly around 1 silver (depending how much looting you did). But I got around 2 silver with doing the first couple heart quests. Also I remember reading somewhere that you'll need 5 people to sign the charter. Which starter zone is Arovin going to be in and who's going to be with him?

PS: Octo gear!

I'll be in the Sylvari Starter zone but it is easy to jump to any of the others. Just use the PvP menu to go to the mists then use the gate to Lions Arch and then gate again to where you want to go.

Haven't seen anything about needing other ppl to sign a charter, I've created a guild on my own and sent out invites easy enough a few tests ago.

could this maybe be a requirement for the 50+ upgrade?

GrandmaFunk wrote:

Haven't seen anything about needing other ppl to sign a charter, I've created a guild on my own and sent out invites easy enough a few tests ago.

could this maybe be a requirement for the 50+ upgrade?

Well I just checked the wiki and I can't find any remarks about minimum amount of people needed for signs ups. But if we do need some sigs then we can easily meet in lion's arch. No more running from TB to Org.

ranalin wrote:

So far it has cost only 1g to create a guild. 30-40min if going solo will give ya that. I think my guy was level 4-5 last time i did it so however long that takes.

1g is 100 silver, not 10 silver (if I'm not mistaken). Unless you're playing the market like a pro, I would very much like to know how you got that much.

Tyops wrote:
ranalin wrote:

So far it has cost only 1s to create a guild. 30-40min if going solo will give ya that. I think my guy was level 4-5 last time i did it so however long that takes.

1g is 100 silver, not 10 silver (if I'm not mistaken). Unless you're playing the market like a pro, I would very much like to know how you got that much. :)

Apologies that should be 1s

So far it has cost only 1s to create a guild. 30-40min if going solo will give ya that. I think my guy was level 4-5 last time i did it so however long that takes.

edit: should be 1s not 1g

At 1s, the only reason I think they have that price is to stop bots.

Octo Gear!

Octo Gear is the clear winner, but it does need more color. (Blue gear, black background with a lighter grey Octo).