While over all I think the currently guild system is ok. I feel as though some of the guild UI options and settings could use a few quality of life additions, which I’ll list and explain my reasoning for each. Being a guild leader, it would be awesome if you could add some of these changes. Thank you in advance if this post is reviewed and if any of these suggestions are implemented Arenanet.
*Add time stamps to show inactive members- Wanting to keep a guild as active as possible should be on any guild leaders to do list. However with the current guild roster not showing log in activity for members, it makes it pretty difficult to discern who has been actively logging in and who hasn’t. After a while you start recognizing names yes, but there’s a chance that you may recognize a character name, but not an account name that shows up when the person is offline. Having a time indication showing when their last log in was, would be extremely helpful in this matter.
*Guild bank withdraw options- It would be nice if some of the guild bank withdraw options were a bit more specific in terms of how many items can be withdrawn and/or gold withdrawn from the bank. The current system pretty much allows members to take out however much they want in terms of items or gold. So far in my guild all of our members are pretty respectful in terms of guild bank usage. However in any guild there are always new members who may not be so respectful once they have access to the bank. This can also not be a great scenario if someone who has unlimited access to the guild bank gets hacked, thus granting access to the hacker to take out as much as he would like. The ability to set more specific withdraw limitations based on guild rank would be a really awesome feature for guild security in my opinion.
*Guild invite options- Although this isn’t a huge deal. The current option to allow guild invites bundled up with the same option that allows players to grant someone else a rank is a little strange to me. For example you might want one of the lower ranks to be able to invite friends to the guild etc. Giving them access to invite however, also gives them access to bump their friends rank or whoever they invite as well. Potentially giving them access to things such as the guild bank or making upgrades without the rest of the guilds consent. Which in turn may cause some potential issues with some guilds depending on things they allow access to based on the rank of an individual.
These are all the suggestions I have currently. Thank you for reading this post and if anyone agrees with these suggestions please write a reply stating so below. I’m sure the more people we get asking for these changes, the better chance we’ll have of them being implemented into the game.
Otherwise great work on Guild Wars 2 Anet. Loving the game and plan on being part of the game and community for years to come.