Guild Wars 2

Before you go telling me “If you’re looking for a guild, you’re in the wrong section”, hear me out. Ever since the LFG tool came out our lives became much easier for doing dungeons or just about any world content. We changed from having to spam the map chat and alt-tabbing out of the game to announce our need for a 4th person in a website, to simply having all of this implemented into the game.

What if… we expanded this even further? What if we could save time and effort from those poor recruiters who spend hours to end cycling across the maps, looking for candidates? What if we could spare an hour of scrolling down pages in 2 or 3 different forums, looking for that specific guild we’re looking for?

I propose that we get a tab, either in the LFG tool or another kind, specifically for guilds! When we open such tab we immediately get a list of active guilds who are recruiting(white or green text) and not recruiting (grayed out). As we click on the name of one that interest us, on the side we should get a short summary about what are they about, the type of content they focus on, their timezone and / or location and the number of members they have. If we’re interested in joining, we “sign in” our characters by clicking the “Propose to Join” button, after which guild officers and guild leaders would be instantly notified on the guild rooster (or a special tab) about the potential recruits.

I have no doubt that there are dozens, probably hundred of Guilds, so a “Search” button would facilitate things quite a lot. So if I type in, for example, “RP” and / or “PvE”, it should narrow the list down to Guilds with the “RP” and “PvE” tags on them.

This is a great suggestion! Hope the devs see this one!!! I’d give u loads of +1 if I could (but now only got one since the system wont let me give u more)!

Me like!!!

I like this idea a lot

the question is, would we get in trouble for doing it before that feature was listed or have it get us reported for lfg tool abuse? lol

Yeah, that’s pretty cool. Taking guild recruiting out of the map chat would be nice anyway. How many people do recruiters get with that who wouldn’t be using this tool if it existed? Can’t be that many.

An in-game option would be cool, but what features are you willing to give up to get it? Remember, resources are very limited.

This seems like a case where out-of-game options are sufficient. http://gw2.guildex.org/ as an example. Also, my server has a website with guild registry just for guilds based on our server: sanctumofrall.com

+1. would also mean less issues with recruiters across servers.. The Megakittenup still has recruiter going out there. and we are all from different servers.

timmyf.1490:

An in-game option would be cool, but what features are you willing to give up to get it? Remember, resources are very limited.

This seems like a case where out-of-game options are sufficient. http://gw2.guildex.org/ as an example. Also, my server has a website with guild registry just for guilds based on our server: sanctumofrall.com

By your logic nobody should suggest anything because there may just not be enough resources for it. Its merely a suggestion, an opinion – as far as I know, its still free to post those. Besides, care to tell me who, where and when were you informed about the amount of resources ANet have, and where they can be invested on? Because that sounds like the kind of thing that nobody but insiders know. If ANet is going to do it or not its up to them, not for us to make personal “assumptions” of whether they can deliver it or not. Don’t be such a downer, specially with things you know nothing of. And if by some reason you actually know something about it, show up proof to back it up