Guild Wars 2

The idea of pugging guild missions isn’t a new one, but i was thinking that it doesn’t happen enough. Pugging guild missions, in my opinion, helps people get their daily rewards and it could possibly be a big help to smaller guilds who aren’t so strong with their guild missions.

I can imagine it could be a hassle from the guild’s perspective, but helping players get their personal rewards could be a good way for a guild to grow. Even big guilds who have puzzles unlocked could help out.

I’m not sure if you can get personal rewards with a guild who is in a different server than you by guesting on their server. i know the guild wont benefit from pugs who are guesting, but it would a a big help to some players still.

Would it be a good idea to have a specific forum where guilds who are willing to let pugs into their guilds list their server name and/or mission schedule?

i don’t want to be 1 out of the thousands of players who join a large guild for the purpose of being able to do guild puzzles and successful guild missions.

Does anyone have any input on this topic?
I like my small guild!

• You can get rewards by guesting to another server and doing a mission with them, but they get nothing from having you (your influence won’t help them unless you’re on their server already)
• Lots of guilds do this, but usually the people who come along never represent and make the guild look scattered, so it’s not necessarily a good thing
• My guild does this with people who need it, but it’s important to have as many or more actual representing players than guests or the guild sort of loses focus
• There is a subreddit for this here that you can find guilds doing this on

tl;dr: This helps the players more than it helps the guilds, and while it sounds like a good way to grow, really doesn’t help the guild grow at all unless they get really lucky with people from their own server. I do it with my guild more because I feel bad for smaller guilds that can’t do their missions, since I was there with my guild before I started putting a lot of effort into recruiting and expanding.

Good luck with it.

That subreddit link you gave is interesting, thats a good start thanks!

I understand the negatives definitely outweigh the positives. Possibly messing up your guild’s own mission for charity to pugs is a big one, and no committed guild member deserves to have to put up with that.

but on the other hand…

Truth is have only actually pugged with 2 or so guilds, but the reason i was, was because i was at the same time in the process of finding a new guild for myself. coincidence? While i was pugging i was also examining the guild, its leaders and its coordination, and each of its players personalities. It was a good experience, and overall both the guilds had good humor and were seemingly well structured.

even though i didn’t join either of the guilds i pugged for, i think it was a good source of positive publicity for each guild to let pugs into their missions. and its definitely a better way of getting more members than advertising on map chat.

Now i even have another problem because the small guild i decided to join only has guild bountys unlocked! haha