Guild Wars 2

Well basically as the title says, I think this would be an awesome addition to the game.

For starters; it would make the small guilds happy as they could finally unlock higher tiers upgrades easier. Everyone makes a kitten-ton of karma, hell my alt has 370k+ just sitting there and she hasn’t even visited an area south of lion’s arch.

It would also make bigger guilds happy because then they wouldn’t have to spend coin so much on influence upgrades; the leaders could just put in w.e is missing from the next upgrade, or if future content came out, people could get access to it faster and, lets face it, that’s why we are all in the bigger guilds anyways.

One could argue that it would defeat the purpose of spending coin on influence, but then I’d come back with ‘It would add another karma-sink into the game and thus make people play longer and have to choose between: Do I pay for guild upgrades or do I pay for other things like Karma gear or even Obsidian Shards?’

Obviously, it would have to be balanced. It’s so easy to make karma, but it shouldn’t be overly easy for guilds to just hit max upgrade tiers. I know I just got finished defending small guilds, but seriously thinking about it, something like the following(most likely tweaked by Anet) would be enough:

5-10k = 10 Influence
20-30k = 100 influence
50k = 500 influence
80k = 1000 influence
250k = 10000 influence

I’m just ball parking some numbers here, off the top of my head, so anyone else’s input is well welcomed.

One could argue that trading karma for influence makes no sense as well immersion-wise, but neither does doing 5 tasks and having a small chest appear in front of your character, but we live with that. It’s not like we do 5 tasks and then go to a certain location or NPC and get rewarded. Why can’t this fit.

I honestly think that this would be a great addition, and that’s why I brought it to the suggestions forum. I don’t know if its been brought up before, so I’m making this new thread.

Quick thought: maybe cap the amount of karma that can be spent to the highest tier per account.