Guild Wars 2

After taking over leadership of a guild I have been a member of since the young days of GW1, I have noticed a few things that are kind of no brainers to help new players and old alike get more out of their guild memberships and improve communication among members.

Message of the Day – a lot of new players don’t even realize this is a thing. We use this to put up event information and announcements, and people don’t know it’s there. A lot of other games with community management (including GW1) simply had the MotD appear in the system messages in chat when you logged in the first time. Please bring this back. It would make so much communication that much simpler. Bonus for a /motd command to make it appear whenever you want it to.

Representation – We are not a rep-required guild, so we often have allies or others online but not representing our guild. This is fine, but the method of telling apart someone from repping and someone who isn’t is not clear enough. These are already pushed to the bottom of the roster (if you sort it the right way). How about something simple like a line across the roster dividing those who are and are not repping the guild. This way you can tell at a glance, and you won’t try to talk to people who can’t see your chat channel.

Guild Bank – This is something we have to show people how to use. Again, a majority of new players do not even know that this is a thing. Our is divided by rank, and we make use of the text fields to label them as such. Since it doesn’t quite work like the normal bank there is a learning curve here (cannot split stacks or add to existing stacks in the bank itself). It would be nice if there were some notification or icon, perhaps in the guild menu itself, that would show or lead a member to their nearest guild bank. This could work just like scouts showing parts of the map, or those “Show Me” emails you get for dungeon notifications.

With guild halls teased and little other information regarding them, I’m hoping guilds as a community management tool get a lot of qol improvements.

Any other guild features you would like to see to help communicate with your roster?

In september 2014 this has been discussed with devs in a CDI. The feedback you are giving has been given back then too and GW2 is currently using this feedback to implement elements of this. When this implemented is unknown. Personally I think that HoT is a great moment to do so!
More info bout CDI and links to the ones bout guilds here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Collaborative-Development-Master-Sticky

thank you for the link. the search options in this forum are still abysmal.

I’m hoping that whenever they give us the info on Guild Halls in HoT, they will discuss other QoL changes they are bringing to guild management. They’ve hinted such things are coming but are completely close lipped on any details.

I would be immensely happy if they move the “Leave Guild” button away from the “Represent” button. It’s uncomfortably close.

Donari.5237:

I’m hoping that whenever they give us the info on Guild Halls in HoT, they will discuss other QoL changes they are bringing to guild management. They’ve hinted such things are coming but are completely close lipped on any details.

I think this is the same issue with other innovative elements in HoT. they can’t tell us too much cause then competition knows too. They want to keep the innovative stuff away from being public knowledge as long as possible. So given the fact that we know nothing bout Guild QoL stuff and given the hints that we might see stuff in HoT it is either a very bad omen (no guild QoL) or a very good omen (a lot of innovative changes for guilds). looking at how the API is improved for guilds over the last few weeks, my bet is on the improvements.

Behellagh.1468:

I would be immensely happy if they move the “Leave Guild” button away from the “Represent” button. It’s uncomfortably close.

100% agreed!
Not left a guild that often…but isn’t there an “are you sure” window?? It is the one “are you sure” window that is actually needed! Maybe even get people to type the name of the guild