Guild Wars 2

The number one retention mechanism in MMO’s is the social aspect. People play because their friends play. By encouraging people to run with people they know and not with random pugs you are encouraging people to form stronger bonds in game, and thus they are more likely to continue playing.

From the chest offer some guild influence, coin, and a chance of dropping gear.

I disagree there should be any extra reward item wise for running with the guild.

Still i agree that it should give a bonus influence so small guilds can also gather more influence playing together.

Your reward for running with a guild group is not having to run with a pug. That’s really all the incentive you need.

Bonus influence: Yes

Extra chest: No.

Your reward is having a team that’s used to working together. You’re likely completing dungeons faster than PUGs anyway.

And you can get the extra influence by using the Guild +20% influence in dungeons. Only cost 200 influence to make and if it’s a full guild run you’ll more than make that up.

This method would make guild runs the ONLY way to do it.

Galphar.3901:

And you can get the extra influence by using the Guild +20% influence in dungeons. Only cost 200 influence to make and if it’s a full guild run you’ll more than make that up.

It actually costs 16,700 Influence, not just 200. You need to purchase Rank 1, Rank 2, Rank 3, and Rank 4 Politics to be able to purchase the 20% Dungeon Influence buff.

I’m not sure I like the idea of incentivising people to not group with strangers. It might make guilds a little tighter, but any good guild should be able to do that on their own. More than anything it seems like it would actually weaken the community outside of guilds, which right now is good and strong on a fair number of servers.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Galphar.3901:

And you can get the extra influence by using the Guild +20% influence in dungeons. Only cost 200 influence to make and if it’s a full guild run you’ll more than make that up.

It actually costs 16,700 Influence, not just 200. You need to purchase Rank 1, Rank 2, Rank 3, and Rank 4 Politics to be able to purchase the 20% Dungeon Influence buff.

It’s a long term investment. The point is that it pays for itself in the long run.

Also I don’t really see the need for giving more influence, as the guild already earns more for guild runs since more guild people are running and earning influence.

No I think its a bad idea, not everyone has a full group of guildies ready to go dungeon and this will have a whole lot of people who otherwise would pug hold off to get enough guildies together to do it.