Guild Wars 2

Further Exploration Tour

We unlocked this about 13 hours ago, did not get a cut scene or any other visual queue besides the npc becoming noticeably excited with our purchase. Also as stated during this livestream level 80 should be the guild hall max, but we only have enough upgrades to reach around level 64 as this upgrade didn’t unlock anymore upgrades or proprietors.
http://dulfy.net/2015/09/30/gw2-guild-week-day-two-livestream-notes/

The most interesting part of this upgrade besides the fact that it automagically deletes 2 mountains is that it still leaves many rooms and doors locked. The most prettiful of said rooms you can take a look at below. It’s a crystal locked in a room that is just off the guild vault.
#illuminati

Can a dev confirm this please?

Dang…looks like my 2-man guild has some catching up to do…

given that theres 2k favor cap per week…
that low number of guild attributes
that amount of favors in the screenshot

did u upgrade all the cheap favor/exp ratio upgrades just to get lvl 40?

Well, it’s more a 4k cap per week as there’s a double reset in the system at Friday and at Sunday. But regardless of that cap, upgrades costs very very little favor in comparison to aetherium and materials. (It’s one guild mission per upgrade more or less)

It’s mostly the WvW upgrades that are relatively cheap (Aetherium wise) versus some of the PvE stuff, and PvP is somewhere in the middle. So as long as you have the materials, you can actually level up quite fast with your guild.

So yeah, it’s possible to get level 40 guild at this point if you upgrade all the WvW stuff and the right amount of aetherium rate (if not all?)/ + all buildings. As you can see in the screenshot, favor is high, aetherium is at 7. Anyway, I didn’t bother with that math, tbh. So congratulations on Os!

Not sure why they need a Dev to confirm it though, surely the screenshot suffices.

Sigh, how I miss the old influence system.

The guy that comes up with this new rip-up spreadsheet is kinda beyond me.
Did he think his decision REALLY wouldn’t drive a good portion of people away from the game?

The worst part is they take away the default bonus from a guild and reintroduce it, gating it behind hundred thousands of gold…

Congratulations Os!

#15minutes

/10charr

That 0 in 40 looks shopped to even a naked eye, come on.

mbhalo.1547:

That 0 in 40 looks shopped to even a naked eye, come on.

I feel there’s a Taylor Swift song for this comment..

mbhalo.1547:

That 0 in 40 looks shopped to even a naked eye, come on.

FrizzFreston.5290:

Well, it’s more a 4k cap per week as there’s a double reset in the system at Friday and at Sunday.

wait wut? where does it say this?

DeWolfe.2174:

FrizzFreston.5290:

Well, it’s more a 4k cap per week as there’s a double reset in the system at Friday and at Sunday.

wait wut? where does it say this?

Nowhere, it’s a bug, I think. But I haven’t been taking that a close eye at all of the resets to be really honest. But I do noticed that when we had an few missions done during the week that on sunday when we usually do our missions our cap had been reset mysteriously. It could be because we our favor from influence reset is on Friday (or was), or a bug in the system as a whole.

I mostly ignored it as we rarely reach our cap.

:3 <3 this guild so much!

FrizzFreston.5290:

DeWolfe.2174:

FrizzFreston.5290:

Well, it’s more a 4k cap per week as there’s a double reset in the system at Friday and at Sunday.

wait wut? where does it say this?

Nowhere, it’s a bug, I think. But I haven’t been taking that a close eye at all of the resets to be really honest. But I do noticed that when we had an few missions done during the week that on sunday when we usually do our missions our cap had been reset mysteriously. It could be because we our favor from influence reset is on Friday (or was), or a bug in the system as a whole.

I mostly ignored it as we rarely reach our cap.

I think it happens when you put an upgrade through in between missions. I noticed once weeks ago that we seemed to have gotten more than the limit, wasn’t paying too much attention so i wasn’t sure. Last week we definitely broke the cap, went from 0 to 2150. (On Sunday, did everything on Sunday night, so anything happening on Friday wouldn’t have affected us.)

Not surprised. Our guild is me 30’s right now (think 35) and we have definitely not been optimizing aetherium or favor. So I knew there were guilds near this point already. Congrats OS.

Aomine.5012:

Sigh, how I miss the old influence system.

The guy that comes up with this new rip-up spreadsheet is kinda beyond me.
Did he think his decision REALLY wouldn’t drive a good portion of people away from the game?

The worst part is they take away the default bonus from a guild and reintroduce it, gating it behind hundred thousands of gold…

Its not close to hundreds of thousands of gold to unlock what people use most often. People cry daily on this forum about how difficult or grindy this content is when really it just requires organization and patience.

We’ve chosen to go a different path ourselves, but checked our math and yes, this is completely legit. We would have been there right about the same time had Stonemist Claiming not sucked up a seriously huge chunk of our aetherium the last week.

so, Congrats!

You all earned it!

Now, let us know if you get attacked by Mordremoth when you push the button.

We unlocked further exploration about 9 hours ago, no epic fight. Video will be up soon.

Bump for video post.

GG level 80 is a lie, the cake is a lie, its all a lie.

I wonder How we unlock level 80 though, and what the hidden upgrades might be! player housing? a Factory? a Pillowfort? a movie room? a ball pit? a cathedral for the tears of all the qq? a stargate? is there popcorn somwhere?

Very proud of the guild’s achievements. I hope everyone enjoys the video of the tour. I also hope this issue with guild levels is addressed soon.

I wish you showed the fancy room in the tour. xD

Also, what issue with guild levels? I really don’t see how that should be addressed soon compared to other things in the guild hall, like scribing, consumables NPCs polishing. Levels is really something for further down the line once there’s no more upgrades to do for some of the top guilds. It would effectively mean new content for guilds to do. (not bad to have, but surely polishing out some other things might be nice.

anet didn’t expect any guild to reach lvl40 this fast that’s why is still not possible to reach lvl80.
they said before it would take 6months for a guild to max but guilds already getting to lvl40 I would say it wont take that long.
so yeah anet needs to add more guild upgrades soon xDD

Ze Dos Cavalos.6132:

anet didn’t expect any guild to reach lvl40 this fast that’s why is still not possible to reach lvl80.
they said before it would take 6months for a guild to max but guilds already getting to lvl40 I would say it wont take that long.
so yeah anet needs to add more guild upgrades soon xDD

Its possible they may not have anticipated it, but 6 months is still a good estimate as we still have roughly 400,000 aetherium of upgrades to run. So maybe less then that, but its still a good ballpark. I felt they set reasonable expectations with guild halls to be honest.

Ze Dos Cavalos.6132:

anet didn’t expect any guild to reach lvl40 this fast

They estimated it would take two months. Which Hot is just shy of atm.

Either way, GJ on the upgrading OP. I’m solo’ing mine and it’ll take me a whole lot longer

I did the math and based on aetherium production we’ll have run through all of our upgrades on March 11, 2016. That will put it 5 months out. Now, that isn’t taking favor capping or materials requirements into account, so another month out wouldn’t be unreasonable.

Whoever chose the music for this video did an amazing job.

:3

:33333

/10charr

did you find and do the jumping puzzle inside the guildhall yet?

just like the whole area south you can also reach it rather easy without any upgrades when you found out where to glide and jump but i wonder if it is actually unlocked in a normal way when you reached lvl 40?
or if there are other upgrades needed for that?

Orangensaft.7139:

did you find and do the jumping puzzle inside the guildhall yet?

just like the whole area south you can also reach it rather easy without any upgrades when you found out where to glide and jump but i wonder if it is actually unlocked in a normal way when you reached lvl 40?
or if there are other upgrades needed for that?

We did that the first week it was out, but no this unlock doesn’t make it much easier to get to the puzzle. At about 2:13 in the video is probably the biggest change to getting to the puzzle, but its not a massive improvement. The biggest change is really just opening up the hollow itself, and getting the new waypoint. I really do hope that there is some hidden proprietor that becomes available or there are new upgrades going to be patched in shortly.

Level 80 hypee!

Bubbles.8931:

Level 80 hypee!

64.6*

If [Os] was a PvE guild, this would have had a dev response by now.

Dash.8027:

If [Os] was a PvE guild, this would have had a dev response by now.

Confirmed – for posterity

Oh you guys haven’t seen the 80 area yet? If you need an invite for a tour, hit me up

Neo Annubis.7429:

Oh you guys haven’t seen the 80 area yet? If you need an invite for a tour, hit me up

#15minutes

Dash.8027:

If [Os] was a PvE guild, this would have had a dev response by now.

Can confirm
source: reddit.com/r/guildwars2

Dash.8027:

If [Os] was a PvE guild, this would have had a dev response by now.

15 Charrs can confirm.

Well, now that’s done, can we invest 3500g in getting our second scribe?

Was the guild hall bug upgrade fixed? Did you guys lose any progress?

yanoch.7051:

Was the guild hall bug upgrade fixed? Did you guys lose any progress?

Nope. 15 charrs.

With all the negative, anti-HoT threads, I was kind of hoping this one would get a confirmation.

It never ceases to amaze me how well put together Os is. I have followed you all many times in wvw, you graced me with a wonderful guild hall walk through. My small guild LostCause (LC) is always looking to improve and strive to be as well put together. Congrats on this achievement . Cant wait to see the next Os post.

Can Os setup a level 66 countdown clock? It may help some other guilds in the race to 1st. Seems like we cant all be winners like Os is.

VoxL level 33 holla!

Just giving my pardners abump………..

And gratz Os

Do we have any word back from the devs about the soft cap for Guild Halls? I understand the hard cap is supposed to be 80, but it appears from upgrades available that there is only enough experience left to get a Guild to around level 66.

Should we expect some new guild content to come out with the balance pass that is coming soon?

Is there an update on the level 80 guild hall cap?

I would also like an update on the guild hall hardcap. Our guild hall is approaching the aforementioned softcap of 64.6, but there has been no response from the Dev side of things for over a month. Is the content for reaching level 80 even ready to go live within the next few weeks or is any information being kept underwraps because they’re not finished? I’m certain we’re not the only guild wanting answers on this topic.