Guild Wars 2

Trying to organise a Fractals guild in order to make up for the games lack of a proper LFG UI has been a nightmare due to the limitations of the guild system. A couple of minor changes would make a world of difference.

1) /guildjoin command

If a guild is flagged as public, users should be able to type /guildjoin <name> and get in to the entry rank. Needing to invite each individual who wants in takes up so much of my playtime.

2) Increase the maximum number of ranks to 100. Currently it is ten, meaning that we’ve needed to split the guild in to 4 in order to account for 1 rank per level of Fractals. Why 10? Why so low? If a limit needs to be set, it should be set higher rather than lower.

3) Allow parallel ranks, as in allow people within a range of ranks to move themselves both up and down as they choose. Currently a person can only demote themselves- what reason is there for this restriction? The ranking system could be so much more useful if you just allowed it to be. If the guild admin doesn’t want this to occur then they can just not enable it.

4) Allow guild leaders/highest rank to send a mail to the entire guild/entire ranks

In order to inform everyone of some changes I had to send a mail to over 100 members, 2 at a time. This took me a needless amount of time. If you join a guild you open yourself up to messages from leaders- a function to send a mail to all members, or all members of a specific rank is a basic nessesity that is sorely lacking.

5) Allow members to see guild chat even when not representing if they choose to

Make it work like a chat channel. Instead of typing /guild, the user would type /1,/2,/3 etc. This would make nonrepped guilds actually useful, whereas currently any guild that isn’t your main simply has unrep creep where more and more members unrep and therefore mayaswell not be in the guild to begin with.

6) Increase the maximum number of guilds to 20

Why 5? It’s the same problem with the maximum number of ranks. There is no need for this ridiculously low restriction. I’m forced, due to your other limitations, to choose between a friends guild, exgame guild, current guild, and the 3 tiers of guilds for the new Fractal dungeon. Now that I’m forced not to be in T2 of the Fractal guild administrating has become much harder as I need to forward people on to another leader as your system doesn’t allow any way to get someone in to a guild without you being repped to it.

Seeing as there is no LFG, alternatives (such as the ability to morph a “guild” into a method for LFG) should be made viable.

Yeah … most of the changes seem to be based to allow people to run a guild like a fractal LFG.

I understand the need of a LFG feature , but in my opinion we should wait Anet solution , instead of making guilds something like that.

@Nox: Unfortunately ANet have publically stated that they have no solution, and are not working on a LFG feature of any kind.

These changes are not just for a Fractals LFG. Any secondary guild is currently unworkable due to the need of representing and the cumbersome nature of inviting members.

The changes are needed if the multiguild system is to have any sort of relevence, something I assume ANet intend- as they put the system in place to begin with (albeit poorly).

I dont think any of the features that Rising puts forward would be unwanted within the guild system itself. Although put forward with the intent to facilitate a LFG scenario most if not all the suggestions standing alone would be an improvement on the guild system as it stands.

7) Current zones for users on other servers should be shown in the format “Lion’s Arch (Blackgate)” or “Ascalonian Catacombs (Isle of Janthir)”.

This allows members to know whether someone is busy without bugging people who can’t possible attend an event.