Guild Wars 2

I love the new guild halls. I love it that we can build things and actually see the progress that we’ve made. This is so much better than the old guild system where the effort just corresponded to another option in a menu.

But, that’s about all I love about the new system. I hate that we are no longer able to earn upgrades by playing with our guildies. In the old system when members teamed together they created influence which could be spent on guild upgrades. In this system the upgrades are purchased with goods and gold. And I have to say it’s a LOT of goods and gold.

For about 3 years my fairly small guild has had a constant 10% MF and 10% Gathering boost going. We’ve built I can’t tell you how many guild banners for different boosters, we had Karma boosts every Sunday and experience boosts anytime new members arrived and started to level characters. Now we can’t have that unless we “donate” valuable items — literally thousands of gold worth of valuable items — and just to get back to where we were before.

It seems there are no incentives to actually play the game together, just incentives to farm, farm, farm.

Having the guild hall is cool. It’s beautiful. It’s a prideful thing.

Upgrading it isn’t fun.

It’s even worst when you hit the time gated things… coughChargedquartzcough

This has made things difficult.. we’re in no hurry but holy cow.. way to take everyone’s mats. The thing that gets me is.. high demand with little pay out… absolutely crap pay outs for boost and certain other things..