Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this has been suggested, though I believe it has even though i didn’t find anything through the search. But I was wondering if there was way/will ever be a way to merge guilds. Currently, I run a small guild with friends and some others I met in-game. However, I’ve also met many nice folks (2 of which own their own guilds) and we’ve talked about how nice it would be if we could merge. We figured we’d just make a new guild together, but that comes with several problems:

1. Influence: A new guild means that we will be starting over at zero influence, which is really disheartening.

2. Upgrades: Same as above, they will be completely reset.

3. Deluxe Items: One of my buddies has a deluxe edition and has the benefits on his current guild. Of course, a new guild would mean that those benefits/items or whatever it is will not be there. (I’m not quite certain what you get from it, but I’d rather not take him away from what he rightfully paid for.)

Anyhow, I was just wondering if something like this would ever become possible seeing as there were Alliances in gw1. And to my knowledge, they were somewhat similar to this. I’m not sure how this may be implemented, but I’d love for this to be an option.

Just switch the members to the best guild? :p

Maybe im in the minority in this , but i believe in the reputation a guild builds ingame.

Your idea is nice , but it would allow a guild to wipe clean their record of bad actions , at least a while each time.

After all , if 2 guild fuse together , only 1 main one must remain , and this mean they just need to add a new name and done , a clean record till people realize the problem.

Same problem happens with guild getting to change their names at will using influence.

So i dont agree with this idea. Let people be know for their actions.

OBS1: Alliances as far as i know and understand , would not allow what you seek.

OBS2: What he got is influence , any guild can earn it back with time.

3. The only deluxe item is a book or something that adds 1000 inf once as far as I recall, so that would be as issue #1 =). So basically influence loss is the biggest problem. Bit of offtopic, but I had the same issue when transferring to another server – had to start all over (would also like to see migration of a guild from one server to another).

But to support your topic, I would like to see such option in the future.

@Nox, Guild members build reputation for guild, not the guild itself, if guild has a bad reputation, what does it stop to just re-create it, make a new one with a different name etc.

Abigor.4952:

@Nox, Guild members build reputation for guild, not the guild itself, if guild has a bad reputation, what does it stop to just re-create it, make a new one with a different name etc.

Usually nothing , but in this game we got a lot of upgrades , while true , any guild can rebuild them.

It is not something you can do overnight , takes a while even to a big guild to rebuild all their upgrades.

And , well , there is the matter of the amount of work also , if you can easily just swap all your 500 members (im assuming it is a large guild so it would be able to rebuild upgrades fast anyway, and thus all it would matter is the work from the invites) im sure people would more tempted than if they had to reinvite every single members again.

@ Nox Wanted to argue that nobody would merge with guild if it`s bad, but then realized that you can create a new guild and merge with it, true that, but I guess there are always workarounds like allow guild to merge if they`ve earned x amount of influence, if then existed for x days and so on.

lextoc.2856:

Just switch the members to the best guild? :p

We thought of this and I was willing to move over, but sometimes people feel a little attached to what they’ve created. And also it wouldn’t be fair to the side switching to have to ask all their members to move over. For the moment, we just party up together when we feel like it as if we were one guild.

Our upgrades are also fairly even :| Though I’m sure he’s got a bit more influence seeing as some of my members have gone inactive, grrr curse them.

Nox Aeterna.2965:

Maybe im in the minority in this , but i believe in the reputation a guild builds ingame.

Your idea is nice , but it would allow a guild to wipe clean their record of bad actions , at least a while each time.

After all , if 2 guild fuse together , only 1 main one must remain , and this mean they just need to add a new name and done , a clean record till people realize the problem.

Same problem happens with guild getting to change their names at will using influence.

So i dont agree with this idea. Let people be know for their actions.

OBS1: Alliances as far as i know and understand , would not allow what you seek.

OBS2: What he got is influence , any guild can earn it back with time.

I completely understand your point on reputation. However, players also gain reputation as well with the guild. If the guild is known for bad actions, people joining will recognize their names and it will end up the same. Also, who wants to merge with a guild with a bad rep? :P Certainly not I. I really do understand your concerns about this though, I hadn’t thought of this at all.

And guilds can change names? O.O I had no idea XD Not that I plan to change mine at all.

Also, if I may ask, how did alliances work? I was told it was similar, I didn’t play gw1 though so I’ve no knowledge other than that.

Abigor.4952:

3. The only deluxe item is a book or something that adds 1000 inf once as far as I recall, so that would be as issue #1 =). So basically influence loss is the biggest problem. Bit of offtopic, but I had the same issue when transferring to another server – had to start all over (would also like to see migration of a guild from one server to another).

But to support your topic, I would like to see such option in the future.

Ah, so that’s what it was. Well even so, I would hate to take that away from him. And he also wouldn’t want to take away from what we’ve built up. For the while we’ve just joined the other guild and gain influence to help each other out.

Abigor.4952:

@ Nox Wanted to argue that nobody would merge with guild if it`s bad, but then realized that you can create a new guild and merge with it, true that, but I guess there are always workarounds like allow guild to merge if they`ve earned x amount of influence, if then existed for x days and so on.

Oh that is a really good point. Then I don’t know how that would be prevented from getting double or even triple the influence. :/

I’d really love for a way to at least change tags to match XD