Guild Wars 2

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As my title suggests, this thread is about small guilds (less than 50 people) and guild halls. I have recently started up my new guild and we’re having trouble with getting our guild hall off the ground. Everything needed to level up the guild hall seems to be too difficult for a small populated guild to accomplish, especially if all of the players have real lives and jobs to deal with. It seems that we have to come on every day and do things we don’t want to do just to get upgrades done.

It especially hurts my guild as we’re a World vs World focused guild and now for 90% of these upgrades, we need to go out and farm PvE or PvP to get mats needed for certain upgrades (ex: Silverwastes Shovels for Mining upgrades).

I’m not sure if I’m the only guild leader of a small guild who feels this way, but to me, it feels like Anet is pushing for larger guilds to make playing the game easier. Are any other small world vs world guilds dealing with these problems?

My guild just captured the guild hall today… 2 of us… It’s long and expensive to unlock the things we already paid to unlock before HoT for our WvW focused guild.

You are 100% correct and you have only seen the tip of the ice berg. Guild Halls are for large guilds (or very rich guilds)! Period. Yes, you can get a guild hall and yes, you can make a few upgrades, but here is what you are looking at.

You are a WvW focused guild so I’m sure you would like (need) supply capacity upgrades and the ability to craft Catapults. Aura 8: Supply Capacity requires at least level 37 Guild Hall. JUST the elder wood planks required to level the Guild Hall cost 360g, and that’s just for starters. The ability to craft Catapults requires at lest a level 200 Scribe. The cost to level Scribe is about 600g according to Dulfy. I have heard of Guilds spending 38,000 gold on this effort.

I would refer you to other posts complaining about the same issue, but they have seem to disappeared. Especially the one where a very large guild disintegrated trying to level the Guild Hall and Scribe.

Recommendation: If you are very rich and don’t care about spending ALOT of gold, go for it. If you have ALOT of guild members that are willing and able to donate and/or spend ALOT of time grinding for materials and gold, go for it. If you are like most guilds, the members have limited time and patience to farm and donate just so they can play WvW, so don’t destroy your guild by making them do things they don’t want to do. The members of my guild (the ones that are left) won’t even talk to me any more because I’m always begging them for Elder Wood, Sand, Bloodstone, Etc.

Make sure that you understand what it is going to cost and proceed accordingly.

Good Luck.