Guild Wars 2

What does your guild spend them on?

We get 90 per week with the missions we do. The things that use merits (after all unlocks) mostly use 3, 5, or 20 merits, and take 1-3 days.

We can’t spend them faster than we can make them. If we speed up upgrades, we run out of influence.

Do you other guilds have a good way to spend merits to get more bang per buck?

I’m in the same situation =/ — I’ll speed up the small buffs but the 20 merit waypoint and repair cost wayy too much influence.

yeah once you get all of the missions unlocked it’s REALLY hard to spend them. My guild stopped doing Treks since we dont need more merits and trek doesn’t reward commendations.

It’d be nice if they had a way to convert merits into influence or something fun like that.

Eventually you will get all the upgrades and has nothing to spend on, so leave it to rot =(

sarah.3617:

It’d be nice if they had a way to convert merits into influence or something fun like that.

Yes. This please!

+1 for converting Merits into influence – rushing the Merit buffs is extremely expensive (5K Influence per 25%) and is not practical for medium sized guild. My guild has had max merits every week, and we can’t spend them at all because rushing the buffs would cripple our influence which we need to keep other buffs up for our guildies.

A process to convert merits to influence would be ideal, and would allow guilds to take those extra merits and use them towards other buffs, or towards rushing the merit buffs.

Alternatively, drop the influence cost completely from the merit buffs, and require a merit cost to rush them, completely removing influence costs from the merit buffs – This would allow guilds with an overflow of merits but not enough influence gain to rush the merit buffs for their guildies, and would provide a use for the overflowing amount of merits available.

Totally agree. It’s one frustrating aspect of the game that should be easy to resolve.

+1, a merit to influence conversion will help guilds who have maxed out their merits, and will help guilds that need more influence to get more missions.

+1 for merit to influence converting. Or give some other use for merits so we can get rid of that red 250 =D

Using reduced waypoint and repair costs works for us to keep our merits below 250.

I really wish we could use Merits to buy WvW upgrades. Our guild goes through 10-20 Guild Golems every week (50 supply, takes 4 players to build it, great for ninja-ing Garrisons)

Or have a way to directly use merits to rush items perhaps?

Krosan.2890:

Using reduced waypoint and repair costs works for us to keep our merits below 250.

Those are a total waste though. If you factor in the “value” of the influence used based on the merchant value for that influence, even ignoring the merit cost, you lose a ton of money making those things.

About the only thing I find actually valuable are heroes banners, but the better deal for those is with guild commendations, not influence/merits.

Tbh I don’t like any of the 30 min banners, the duration doesn’t seem long enough for my guildies to all benefit, and why does it have to be a banner? Why not just give it to all guild members from when it is activated or for the first XX mins in which they log in. The only benefit of banners is that joe public can use them too. For me banners will be a waste of time, a part from the heroes banner.

Instead I’ll probably be running the ones that we can maintain. e.g. the pure influence + guild wide magic find and, the influence + merit, +gold from monsters .. at least all guildies regardless of when they log in will benefit.

At least the waypoint one is guild wide, and although potentially uneconomic,

I wish we could keep more than 250 merits…. one of the things my guildies miss from GW1 is the guild hall… ANET has hinted at this, but if/when it does come in, it isn’t going to be cheap!

Rising Dusk.2408:

sarah.3617:

It’d be nice if they had a way to convert merits into influence or something fun like that.

Yes. This please!

Indeed. There is no way one can spend all the merits a guild earns, and if you start speeding up those guild bonuses you will run out of influence in no time.
They should add merit -> influence convertion.
1 merit -> 200 influence (250 merit = 50 000 influnece) sounds good or at least half that.
It would allow guilds to afford to have more bonuses active by spending more influence on speed ups.

I agree completely with the idea of allowing merits to be converted into influence. Especially with a smaller guild we are just not able to keep up with the amount of influence we need for things and we got merits comming out our ears. If we had something to spend the merits on (that did not also require influence) it would not be so bad but it sure would be nice to have more ways of getting influence for the smaller guilds

Stopped doing Trek like others because every week we hit cap anyways. It’s a useless currency once you hit max level. Need merit to Influence conversion or some items like feasts etc would b nice to buy with merits directly.

frankly I don’t care what they add I just hope that add something so we have to stop building things to let merits catch up instead of stop doing missions to let merits burn off.

You can convert gold into influence. Maybe they should consider allowing us to put merits on the market. New guilds will snap them up but then the community determines the price.

I dont know about being able to sell them. It takes away from the guild having to work for what they want to purchase and the latter you need to climb to get to the missions you want. But definitely more uses for them or the ability to convert them to influence would be nice