Guild Wars 2

Hey there,

I have been walking around the now deserted Vigil Keep and I see all this empty space. Vigil Keep is actually a HUGE building with a lot of potential, but we can only enter a small circular room which connects two other small rooms. If you take a look at the outside, you’ll see that the Keep is a lot bigger than just those three rooms. It seems like a shame to not use all that space :/ I was thinking of a way to use all this space, and this is what I came up with.

Vigil Keep as Guild Hall

The keep is huge, and this space is perfect to make the Guid Hall (a feature I personally would really like to have in the future). The double doors that lead to the bank is now closed, but when it re-opens it could lead us into the front porch of the Guild Hall. The starter hall only has the entrance and a small round room, but upgrades can be bought when the guild meets certain conditions.

Upgrading the Guild Hall

Before any upgrades can be bought, you need to employ workers. these can be found in any city. Choosing your workers is very important, because they determine how your Hall is going to look like. If you employ a sylvari worker, he/she can decorate the rooms with cultural decorations (color, size, location,… can be chosen by the guild). These workers can also add new rooms or floors to the hall. These upgrades are bought with gold, materials, Influence,… A maxed out Guild hall can be huge!

I’m not going to write down my entire vision of this, because it would be too long, but to make a long story short: The guild can make special rooms like a trophy room, a meeting room, a kitchen, a portal room, games room, an arena,… the possibilities are endless.

Do you like the idea or hate it? Please share your opinion, but don’t get too mean >_<

Jake

Ppl keep dreaming about guild halls in gw2? Won’t happen. But if anyhow they add guild halls you can be sure it wont be for free but a gem shop upgrade for thousands gems.

It could be that in the next feature pack they will add something for guilds. In the previous pack they adressed a few issues and made some big changes. I’m still hoping that somewhere in the future this will be added aswell. minus the gemstore thing.

I think Almorra might have a word or two to say about squatters moving into the Keep.

You know, it somewhat makes sense that if you’re a member of a given order that the order would provide space in their fortress/keep/cave for that guild. That raises a rather interesting notion of Order themed guilds who are granted space for the storage of their gear etc.

Alternatively, at a player level, you might be able to kit out a character’s own armoury in a given order much like a Hall of monuments. So for instance, a character who is an armorsmith might pay an amount to have a smithy installed in their armory or a weapon forge if they also happen to be a weaponsmith. these would only be available to a character at crafting level, oh 150(?)+. I don’t think this would be too big a deal to implement since entering in to the inside of Vigil Keep for example is already an instance.

It kind of makes sense that a Warmaster has their own quarters in the Vigil Keep.

The assumption seems to be that everyone is in an order and that the orders want other order members freeloading in their territory.

Yargesh.4965:

The assumption seems to be that everyone is in an order and that the orders want other order members freeloading in their territory.

There’s already the lockout that prevents you from acquiring an order’s armour on a given character if they’re part of an order. Although I must say the wardrobe does make this rather redundant

papryk.6273:

Ppl keep dreaming about guild halls in gw2? Won’t happen. But if anyhow they add guild halls you can be sure it wont be for free but a gem shop upgrade for thousands gems.

I actually wouldn’t mind paying $10-$15 for something like Vigil Keep as a fully functional guild hall. That’s assuming it comes as an instance that any of my guildies can WP to for free from anywhere. Also it should have every crafting table, a general goods merchant, a TP merchant, guild com merchants, a laurel vendor, guild bank, personal bank, etc. I can easily see entire guilds donating 5 or so gems per member to buy one.

Vigil Keep Hotel and Conference Rooms, Inc.

Sure beats schlepping down to Orr to fight nasty dragon minions.

Xenon.4537:

papryk.6273:

Ppl keep dreaming about guild halls in gw2? Won’t happen. But if anyhow they add guild halls you can be sure it wont be for free but a gem shop upgrade for thousands gems.

I actually wouldn’t mind paying $10-$15 for something like Vigil Keep as a fully functional guild hall.

yeah but no thx…in gw1 it was a core feature and we weren’t charged additionally for it.

Naevius.3185:

Vigil Keep Hotel and Conference Rooms, Inc.

Sure beats schlepping down to Orr to fight nasty dragon minions.

Quick, someone get Evon Gnashblade on the pho.. bird!

Really though, Vigil Keep shouldn’t be guild space. Still, there COULD be a spot in a zone for it. Maybe a portal via Lion’s Arch? (Assuming they don’t blow it up, again.)

papryk.6273:

Xenon.4537:

papryk.6273:

Ppl keep dreaming about guild halls in gw2? Won’t happen. But if anyhow they add guild halls you can be sure it wont be for free but a gem shop upgrade for thousands gems.

I actually wouldn’t mind paying $10-$15 for something like Vigil Keep as a fully functional guild hall.

yeah but no thx…in gw1 it was a core feature and we weren’t charged additionally for it.

You have a point there… Meh… What can we do? We’ve been asking for guild halls, GvG and Cantha since day 1, but they just sit there like a lump.