Guild Wars 2

Today one of my friends came by my home and was really upset. Thalia being a norn twice my size, and quite skilled with anything that can possibly be wielded as a wepon, scared me so much i almost wanted to run for the back door when is aw her face.
’ What is it?’ I asked her.
‘Thalia’ whose motto is if it cant be solved by violence or drinking, its not worth solving, sank down all the energy sapped in an instant made me even more puzzled.
‘THIS!’ Thalia said banging an empy mead bottle on the kitchen table.’
‘Your out of mead? Why dont you just by more?’ I asked.
‘Not the mead, not the beer!
’Then what is the matter my friend? You want to go to the catacombs of ascalon again and look for more ghosts?’
‘No, no thank you but thank you for the offer.’ she said as her anger subsided and an expression of overwhelming sadness filled her eyes as she looked up from her empty mead bottle.
‘Im not to good with words you know, never been a talker like Treherne, or smart like you guys in the whispers. But you know? I really tried this time!’ She shouted the last sentence nearly knocking me off my chair.
‘You tried what?’ I asked, not truely intreiged by seeing this unexpected side of my friend.
‘Its all of this!’ she waved a new mead bottle gesturing to the entire room, biting off the cap and spat it out sending it 6 feet thru the air, bouncing it off the doorknob to the hall and down into the trash bin in the corner by the door.
‘Us, the guild. It have been almost half a year since you founded us. Dawns First Light. Our guild! Weve been helping people all over the world and we have members all over the world, we are celebrated in cities the gars always greets us warmly. Weve killed centaurs, krait, risen, pirates, bandits, giant spiders, drakes. re-killed the ghosts of those bandits, saving orphasn from burning buildings saving the skritt from destroyers, found new homes for the quaggan and all thet and…. we still dont have a home of our own.’ The words burst out of her like a dam being to filled over and finaly breaking, spilling everything at once risking to drag anyone and anything with her that was in her path.
‘I want a place for us to call home aswell!’ I want a place where we can drink each other under the table and tell tales of our grand adventures! i want to show off my trophies ive collected! i want a place where we can help eachother to hone our skills!
‘….I want…..A guild hall. Youre smart, heck you are a lightbringer for the order of whispers Amalia! You if anyone with all your orders connections should be able to find us a guild hall. Ive tried talking to everyone we helped if they could help set this up, but ive never heard back from them. But you, with all you connections should be able to do something!’ She looked at me pleadingly. Thalia! Pleading! A norn pleading!
I steached out and took Thalias hand in mine and I looked her in the eyes. ‘Dont worry Thalia, i promise you, I will do everything in my power as an elementalist and as a lightbringer to get us a guild hall. We KILLED Zhaitan! we must be able to solve this too.’

Ok this is something alot of out people in our guild have been talking about for quite some time now and i realize player housing is difficult to fix but we had an idea, or rather tons of them but heres trying to sum them upp as cleanly as possible.

1. Guild halls in capital areas similar to the home instance where only guildies can enter would solve the indivdual guild building issuies for the guilds

2. You should be able to have a guild hall in one of the capital cities of your choosing with diffrent designs

3. A brawling pit where guildies can settle arguments hand to hand or just have a blast blowing of some steam either by normal wepons or like a minigame just using fists.

4. Drinking game from the event in the whispers story mode where you drink pirates under the table. this is already in the game so hopefully it wont be hard to implement in the guild hall instance area

5. Using influence the guild could buy access to specialty vendors
for alimited time as caravans of cooking material vendors or wepon/armor karma vendors sell their wares at a discount. Or hire a traveling circus that entertains the guildies or shoot of fireworks that are there for a limited time would be awesome,

6. An armory where all the ledgenday armors and gear members of the guild have collected as a in world display and monster trophies on the walls with the name of the really hard achevments that ulocked them under. a way to se all of the guilds efforts comming together.

7. Being able to challange other guilds to brawls and drinking contests allowing them for a limited time to visit the challangers guild hall and witness all of their collective acomplishments. (but unable to use vendors etc the other guild have in the zone for obvous exploiteble reasons)

8. Daily guildhall activity achevments to complete each day in the guild hall area by doing the varius activitys avalible there rewarding them with a jug of liquid Karma or a small bottle of karma, giving the palyers a reason to return and keep the guild hall full of life.

Sorry for the long rant but these are sugestions we in Dawns First Light would like to tell you so if youre willing and able to improve on an amazing experience we all have had so far making the guilds feel as alive and full of change and events as the rest of this amazing world you have created for us.

Anyone else thet have ideas how to better implement this or just have Ideas about other thing that should be in a guild hall experience please post it here

And from all of us in Dawns First Light to all the other players and the people working at arena net we wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Oh came up with another activity. Dolyak riding minigame seeing who can stay in the saddle the longest. (and perhaps an opportunity for the other guildies to scare or startle the dolyak to hamper their atempts of beating them or their guild first place of all time reccord, all in the name of sportsmanship and fair play ofcourse)

And from the guild hall, comes the opportunity to deploy a mobile guild banner (this time anywhere on the field) and also upgrade it at the same time. This would act not only as a cosmetic, but also grant any stranger near the reputable guild member bonuses based on how far it’s been upgraded. The bonuses would include a mod called reputation, and serves to increase by a minor amount the generated karma (think events) for the stranger himself or influence for the stranger’s guild. This only works for the stranger and only has cosmetic attributes for the guild member deploying the banner. This encourages occasional charity and generosity and what am I doing, this is now a troll post :/.

I like this!

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I do miss partying in our guild hall in GW1.

They could add it like a dungeon instance, maybe in LA. Like entering the vigil keep or something, where the door is accessible to everyone, but the hall you end up entering is for whatever guild your in, or whatever guild the leader of the party is in.

I know part of the lore in GW2 is how the guild wars ravaged and destroyed (or almost did) the human race, so I assume that lore explains why there’s no more GvG (unless you build your sPvP teams from your guild, which most do). But some mini-game stuff would be fun, and a place to congregate as a guild is nice too. I’m also dying for a 1v1 pvp option.

I for one like the stuff in GW2 that isn’t necessarily about leveling and maxing stats occasionally. It’d be nice. Also, the guild hall was a great common place to just quickly map to to hit storage or something in GW1, I miss having that one “home base” that one could always get to. (now a days I map to a borderlands and take an asura gate to LA).