Guild Wars 2

First of all: I humbly apologize if there was already a discussion on this topic but the search function was not helpful in this matter.

Now on the topic.

Since the February patch everyone willing to do Guild Mission and not being part of a very large guild is trying to achieve alot of influence for his guild.
Based on my experience I know two ways to aquire influence: doing things in the game (logging in, events, winning tournaments etc) and purchasing it with ingame coins.

What I think here is that alot of players now have a huge amount of karma with nothing to purchase with it; why not allowing players to purchase guild promotions with karma?
Something like 40~50k for 1000 influence sounds reasonable

Not a bad idea. Karma is useless to me and this idea would certainly help the small guilds get access to the new guild content.

…but Anet don’t care. More grind = Better game.

I’ve only seen this brought up once before and it was a good idea then. The more options available to us to convert things to guild use the better. Not like there is much else to do with them.

What would prevent someone buying a promotion and kicking all of their subordinates? More than one guild (in other games, at least) has been devastated by some obnoxious jerk booting all the members and leaving.

RoyHarmon.5398:

What would prevent someone buying a promotion and kicking all of their subordinates? More than one guild (in other games, at least) has been devastated by some obnoxious jerk booting all the members and leaving.

Influence is not guild rank, it’s a currency that accrues to the guild that the guild leader and their appointees can use to open research trees, bonuses, missions, etc. You can’t buy a guild rank with influence.

Aye.8392:

RoyHarmon.5398:

What would prevent someone buying a promotion and kicking all of their subordinates? More than one guild (in other games, at least) has been devastated by some obnoxious jerk booting all the members and leaving.

Influence is not guild rank, it’s a currency that accrues to the guild that the guild leader and their appointees can use to open research trees, bonuses, missions, etc. You can’t buy a guild rank with influence.

That is a pretty funny misunderstanding, though.

Sadly I’m packed with a huge amount of karma and not enough money (I have holes in my hands and can’t keep money for anything, well actually I’m not really good in stocking money in this game).
Having the ability to spend karma on influence could really help everyone and let every guild member to participate in the research costs.

happyjedi.1372:

Sadly I’m packed with a huge amount of karma and not enough money (I have holes in my hands and can’t keep money for anything, well actually I’m not really good in stocking money in this game).
Having the ability to spend karma on influence could really help everyone and let every guild member to participate in the research costs.

I’ve saved every karma consumable I’ve earned for a long time. I have so much potential karma it’s rediculous. So far I’m up to 7 different kinds. I have no interest in using them because I don’t have anything I need them for. If this was a thing I’d chug them all then put it all into my guild.

This sounds like a great idea! It makes sense for your personal karma to to contribute to your guild’s influence. I also think karma has limited usefulness to a large chunk of players so this would give it a nice boost.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Aye.8392:

RoyHarmon.5398:

What would prevent someone buying a promotion and kicking all of their subordinates? More than one guild (in other games, at least) has been devastated by some obnoxious jerk booting all the members and leaving.

Influence is not guild rank, it’s a currency that accrues to the guild that the guild leader and their appointees can use to open research trees, bonuses, missions, etc. You can’t buy a guild rank with influence.

That is a pretty funny misunderstanding, though.

Yeah, I kept reading “Buy guild promotions with karma” over and over, and “guild promotion” only meant one thing to me. That’s probably because I’ve never paid the NPC to “promote” my guild, but I have promoted guild members.

Consider changing the title, but I think I get it now.