Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to get my head around the changes to the guild influence, merits and missions system. As on the face of it, it looks like well established guilds well lots of merits and influence are well going to be just as well off as brand new ones, that have not worked and saved up their merits etc.

I.e they will all start from Zero Favour.

So, will there be a way to convert merits/influence into favour, because otherwise it looks like they’ll be getting the shaft

I’m also not sure about everyone getting the same guild missions each week. While it may seem a grand idea to get guilds cooperating the reality is, having to share a mission with another guild is a PITA. They either don’t wait for us to get our guild there, rush on ahead trapping their guild members and ours into a room or well just grief the event.

Added to this the complete pest of trying to get my guild into the same instance so we can you know.. actually coordinate and make sure everyone gets the reward I can see this whole ‘everyone gets the same mission’ thing being a total train wreck, especially on weekends when it’s really popular..

I was really looking forward to guild halls, and the guild mission revamp but unless I missed some info this just seems like a huge backward step

I thinking it’ll be similar to dailies in that guilds will get their weekly guild missions and they can activate them and when activated they’ll get which particular flavor mission they get.

So Weekly guild missions assigned:
Rush
Puzzle

When the guild goes to do the mission they get a randomly assigned one of that type.

I just hope that we still get the same amount of commendations/gold per week even though we can’t do all four every week.

I was thinking it’ll be something like this:
Bounty – Get X,Y and Z
Rush – Spiders
Challenge – Supplies
Puzzle – Langmar

So whenever you choose to spawn say a puzzle for that week you’ll get Langmar. which will clash with every other guild who is doing a puzzle at the same time as you are(+-30 mins). Otherwise you are limiting a guild to one mission a week…

I really hope you will be able to convert merits and influence to favour. There’s nothing to spend them on atm