Guild Wars 2

Currently we can not claim a unbuffed keeps or towers, if it is already claimed.
But for good defenses you want to be able to rotate into a guild claiming the tower that does have buffs up.

My suggestion is the following:
- Allow for guilds to claim keeps or towers if they have “superior” active upgrades to use. That means that if you have 0 buffs up someone can claim your keep from you.
- Add some sort of messaging or “information” on what keep you have claimed and on which map.
- Art of War upgrade “Messerger Bird” that can inform your guild when your claimed keep is under attack.

This way we don’t have to try and chase down a guild by finding out who they are through their Emblem, that doesn’t say which guild it is, so we can get them to claim something else and we can claim it over them.

Thank you for listening!

Allow for guilds to claim keeps or towers if they have “superior” active upgrades to use. That means that if you have 0 buffs up someone can claim your keep from you.

I can see your objective but I’m not convinced on the proposed solution.

Unfortunately, we must consider the possibility of exploitation by other servers. We know this will happen. Log over onto an opponent’s server and force-unclaim their installation, then do nothing with it. Of course, a true team guild could then oust them, but the scenario is a bit sketchy to say the least.

I’d be more inclined to go with auto-unclaiming an installation when no members from the guild have been representing in the zone for a period of time (perhaps 12 hours) and there are no buffs.

Why? Because it’s possible for a guild to be doing a great job defending an installation without buffs and they shouldn’t be ousted by another guild if they’re putting the effort in. Our guild held a BL tower for over 50 hours in the last match, starting with buffs, but then maintaining siege and a constant presence. If another guild could just claim over all our upgrades, siege and time while we were still active I’d be pretty miffed.

Add some sort of messaging or “information” on what keep you have claimed and on which map.

Art of War upgrade “Messerger Bird” that can inform your guild when your claimed keep is under attack.

Doesn’t guild chat and/or MotD deal with this? Also Twitter, guild site shouts etc.

To ANet
Regarding identifying a guild that has claimed an installation, why is there no way to see which guild it is, beyond employing a vexillologist? It’d be really handy y’know!

@Furry, each guild has it’s own influence for each server. If people just move over to claim it over another guide, it would be very hard for them to unlock all of the upgrades and then buy the buffs.

OhhGasm.9604:

@Furry, each guild has it’s own influence for each server. If people just move over to claim it over another guide, it would be very hard for them to unlock all of the upgrades and then buy the buffs.

Hi,

That’s correct, and you’re right I was overlooking that. But it’s by no means a major obstacle to those minded for cheating. Politics L1 is 500 influence and Guild Emblem Template is 100 influence. A team of 3-5 could earn that in a few hours, or just simply buy it with gold…

Edit: Exploiting cheaters wouldn’t be interested in buffing the installation, quite the opposite, therefore they wouldn’t want all the upgrades.

Furry Fury.9036:

_*To ANet*
Regarding identifying a guild that has claimed an installation, why is there no way to see which guild it is, beyond employing a vexillologist? It’d be really handy y’know!

Exactly they should give guild name and tag on guards so we will know which guild claimed the place so we can reach them and ask them for buffs or unclaim it so an other guild with buffs can claim it. Also there should be a way to keep guild upgrades at all times like a full upgrade package more expensive than others so if your guild is earning sufficent inf points you can keep buffs at all times. Considering buffs are not so strong I don’t think that would be a problem. I think guild factor in guild wars is really weak.

Interesting comment Fury.
You are aware that exactly that is what they can do now, claim without ANY buffs, as a mean of not allowing the server they are fighting to claim with buffs?

Anyways, I only suggested it to spark a discussion that it definitely needs to be improved.