Guild Wars 2

Thank you for this post, Dara. I sent a message of this to my friends right away. We’ll have to see how we will slice that apple, so to speak. But I’m sure we’ll enjoy our G(u)ilded Hall in any case.

Are the items in our current guild banks (gold and items) safe for transfer, or should we consider pulling everything out?

I understand there is a “Guild Vault” of sorts and know little about it, or how it may coincide with the current guild bank.

Dara, I was wondering if its possible to buy favour for gold, like you can currently with influence, I understand if you are unable to answer this for whatever reason but I would really appreciate it if you could answer, thanks.

Dara Potocska.8196:

If looking for answers on Guild Banks, you can find them in this post here: Guild Bank security when HoT launches

Folks in the thread had similar questions and hopefully the answers provided there will provide some reassurances. =D

Thank you kindly.

Dara Potocska.8196:

6. Queue what you can!
Anything in your queue will be auto completed. This counts for your guild’s currently building upgrades and your items further back in the queue.

Hi Dara. My guild had upgrades building in queue which would have completed before HoT release. Checking earlier, the queue is now empty, and the upgrades have not completed.

The log does not indicate any cancellations or completions.

Is this working as intended? Or should I submit a bug report.

Thanks in advance.

Ok I have another question, what are the requirement to claim Guild Hall. I heard it or read it somewhere that we will need Favor to actually start the expedition. If yes, how many do we need? And is it possible to get that amount from the first set of Guild Missions?

The reason for this question is because everyone in the guild scheduled to join this one time event for the guild. Don’t really like it in the event where everyone poured in the time and found out they can’t actually claim Guild Hall immediately, especially for big guilds.

Thanks.

Mourningcry.9428:

Dara Potocska.8196:

6. Queue what you can!
Anything in your queue will be auto completed. This counts for your guild’s currently building upgrades and your items further back in the queue.

Hi Dara. My guild had upgrades building in queue which would have completed before HoT release. Checking earlier, the queue is now empty, and the upgrades have not completed.

The log does not indicate any cancellations or completions.

Is this working as intended? Or should I submit a bug report.

Thanks in advance.

If you have enough influence left then get them back in the queue asap and worry about the bug afterwards. 24 hours left…

My guild’s currently building “Guild Trek Unlock”, but considering this post we should just cancel it and build consumables instead, or did I miss something?

Hey Dara,

quick question:
Friend of mine builds his guild. He has queued architecture for lvl 4, but dont has the treasure trove yet. He can’t put it into the queue as he don’t has the requierents yet. Is he able to complete it after release, or do you change it that he’s stucked with the 50 slot bank?

@Shuai: You won’t need the Guild Treck Unlock with HoT, so yes, better cancel it and build something else

@Chrisnx: Your friend maybe could speed up the achitecture lv4 to complete it before tomorrow (I got the same issue atm in one of my bank guilds)

@Fryggenbart
I’m kind of doubious becaue of this extract from the “Rethinking Guilds” article:
“If your guild had obtained the necessary research level and prerequisites to have consumables like banners or Vault Transport unlocked under the current system, you will have them unlocked to craft in the new system.”
Some banners, e.g. Guild Heroes Banners, requires guild events unlocked to be able to craft them, in this case the “Guild Puzzle Unlock”. Wouldn’t this be the additional prerequisite besides your research level that’s needed to craft the banners?
If that’s the case, it sounds like having guild puzzles inlocked will let you craft heroes banners immediately, having guild rushes unlocked will let you craft 10% gold and 15% MF banners immediately, etc.

Dara Potocska.8196:

2. Activate and complete your guild missions before Heart of Thorns launches.

Your guild mission consumables will not be usable in Heart of Thorns as guild missions will no longer need consumables. If you run missions before launch, you will be able to run the missions after launch for guild rewards. For further notes on missions, read Colin’s post on a Handful of HoT Notes

Is it possible to get a refund of influence for guild missions (and maybe other upgrades that will go away)? For some missions we have like 10 available in the upgrade list, quite some influence which we could use for weekly favor. We worked for this and got some gold spent into this, will this be lost?

Dara Potocska.8196:

The following upgrades will provide NPCs in the Guild Initiative Office.

Guild Armorer Contract will be renamed to “Guild Armorer 1” and will be auto unlocked for the Market.
Guild Weapons Contract will be renamed to “Guild Weaponsmith 1” and will be auto unlocked for the Market.
Guild Stash will be auto unlocked from the Notary
Guild Treasure Trove will be auto unlocked from the Market.
Deep Cave will be auto unlocked from the Market.

I’m not sure of what I just read. Can you please explain this part and how it works?

Dara Potocska.8196:

Guild Stash will be auto unlocked from the Notary
Guild Treasure Trove will be auto unlocked from the Market.
Deep Cave will be auto unlocked from the Market.

What does that mean .. what is the Notary and the Market ? Do i have to claim
a Guildhall for my Bankguild first to get back Access to my Bank ?

Beldin.5498:

Dara Potocska.8196:

Guild Stash will be auto unlocked from the Notary
Guild Treasure Trove will be auto unlocked from the Market.
Deep Cave will be auto unlocked from the Market.

What does that mean .. what is the Notary and the Market ? Do i have to claim
a Guildhall for my Bankguild first to get back Access to my Bank ?

If you already have the guild bank, you keep the guild bank. The Notary & Market are where you would get them if you did not have them unlocked beforehand.

I wanted to get the Deep Cave upgrade for my personal guild, and I realised I needed the Research Level 5 upgrade for Architecture to be unlocked before I had the Deep Cave available for queuing. So I spent gold to get Letters of Commendation for enough influence for both the Research Level 5 and the Deep Cave.
However, now it seems like I won’t be able to queue the Deep Cave in time for the HoT launch. Does this mean I have actually made a bad decision and will have to forfeit the remaining influence I had bought? That sure seems terrible.
Anyway for ANET to make an exception and speed up just the Research Levels so that guilds can get the upgrades they want? Or it’s really just a sucks-to-be-me situation?

Dara Potocska.8196:

Good day,

The following upgrades will unlock scribing recipes. You must have a guild hall to scribe the schematic and build the item. However, until you get the guild hall you will be able to purchase the items with favor from a Guild Requisitioner found in the Guild Initiative Office.

Guild Catapult will auto unlock the War Room upgrade “Scribing: Guild Catapult”.
Guild Siege Suit will auto unlock the War Room upgrade “Scribing: Guild Siege Golem”.

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Have fun, everyone! \o/

Hi Dara, quick question here. Does this mean that we will not be able to get the guild siege we currently have built once hot hits? We have several guild catapults built and building, so should we just leave one built to unlock this upgrade and activate the rest so that we don’t lose any of them?

Thank you and the other devs for all your work BTW, looking forward to the new guild system and guild halls!

Pol Starmaker.9168:

I wanted to get the Deep Cave upgrade for my personal guild, and I realised I needed the Research Level 5 upgrade for Architecture to be unlocked before I had the Deep Cave available for queuing. So I spent gold to get Letters of Commendation for enough influence for both the Research Level 5 and the Deep Cave.
However, now it seems like I won’t be able to queue the Deep Cave in time for the HoT launch. Does this mean I have actually made a bad decision and will have to forfeit the remaining influence I had bought? That sure seems terrible.
Anyway for ANET to make an exception and speed up just the Research Levels so that guilds can get the upgrades they want? Or it’s really just a sucks-to-be-me situation?

After hot release influence will not be used anymore, so you can queue arch 5 now, tomorrow it will be done and then convert the remaining influence in favor or the other things needed to do the deep cave upgrade.

What about the various items that grant influence to a guild? Will they just grant the new token(s) or will they just be inventory clutter now?

Leery.2976:

Dara Potocska.8196:

Good day,

The following upgrades will unlock scribing recipes. You must have a guild hall to scribe the schematic and build the item. However, until you get the guild hall you will be able to purchase the items with favor from a Guild Requisitioner found in the Guild Initiative Office.

Guild Catapult will auto unlock the War Room upgrade “Scribing: Guild Catapult”.
Guild Siege Suit will auto unlock the War Room upgrade “Scribing: Guild Siege Golem”.

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Have fun, everyone! \o/

Does this mean that we will not be able to get the guild siege we currently have built once hot hits? We have several guild catapults built and building, so should we just leave one built to unlock this upgrade and activate the rest so that we don’t lose any of them?

You wont lose any siege/banners consumables. So you are safe. What you can do this evening take out any siege and queue up a full list of siege before HoT launches, last chance to get guild siege via influence.

I should say keep at least 1 finished siege of each inside the upgrade list to be sure you unlock that specific recipe for scribing.

Tyvm for some great info there.

One more question from me.
Please can you tell us the conversion rate for converting unused influence to favor?
How many influence points for one favor point?

Dara Potocska.8196:

12. What are the Notary and the Market? And do we have to claim a Guild Hall for my Bankguild first to get back Access to my Bank?

The Notary and Market are 2 of 7 areas of focus for your guild to gain upgrades from (the others include the Tavern, Mine, Workshop, Arena and War Room). The Notary will be accessible through the Guild Initiative Office and the others will only be accessible through the guild hall once it is obtained. If you don’t have the guild banks unlocked before Heart of Thorns, you will need to get the upgrades from those sources after launch.

OK, but just to make 100% clear. My guild has all the bank vaults unlocked. Tomorrow morning I will be able to walk up to the guild bank and see all 3 vaults? I won’t have to claim a hall or unlock anything to get access to the full bank?

I know you are saying we wont be able to unlock the guild hall immediately, which is fine, but can you be just a bit more specific about the barrier to entry.

Is it simply that we need to get to the entrance or is it time gated based on the amount of favor you have to earn through pvp and wvw missions this weekend (since there are no pve missions available)? Will we be able to earn enough favor to unlock the hall at all this weekend? Also, are the entrances gated by gliding or mushroom mechanics?

Some of us already have events on the schedule this weekend bringing people together to unlock the hall. Just need to know if that is even possible.

Please clarify something for me Dara,

Based on what was said in this link: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Guild-Bank-security-when-HoT-launches/first#post5602172
“If your guild had Guild Stash, Treasure Trove and/or Deep Cave before HoT, your guild will still have access to them after HoT. They will still be accessible from the Guild Bankers.”

And per this post:

Dara Potocska.8196:

Good day, friends! Are you Faren well today? To answer a few of the questions:

12. What are the Notary and the Market? And do we have to claim a Guild Hall for my Bankguild first to get back Access to my Bank?

The Notary and Market are 2 of 7 areas of focus for your guild to gain upgrades from (the others include the Tavern, Mine, Workshop, Arena and War Room). The Notary will be accessible through the Guild Initiative Office and the others will only be accessible through the guild hall once it is obtained. If you don’t have the guild banks unlocked before Heart of Thorns, you will need to get the upgrades from those sources after launch.

If looking for further answers on Guild Banks, you can find them in this post here: Guild Bank security when HoT launches

My guild already has the entire bank unlocked.

So it appears we have access to the Treasure Trove /Deep Cave AFTER we upgrade the Market. Or is the Market only needed IF we one doesn’t currently have the Treasure Trove /Deep Cave?

So BEFORE we have access to the Market in our captured guild hall, will we be able to access our Treasure Trove /Deep Cave?
And will we have deposit and withdraw abilities?

That other thread clearly states that access to the guild banks will still be available for those without HoT and for those who have HoT but who have not yet claimed their guild hall.

So, yes, is fine.

I guess the “don’t assume anything” side of me wants to make sure that if we already have the Trove and Cave, that we will have them first thing in the Guild Initiative – without having capture the guild hall or upgrade to the Market.

Personally, my intention is to pull the money out of the guild bank as a precaution
Can never be too careful IMO

Fowidner.6930:

Leery.2976:

Dara Potocska.8196:

Good day,

The following upgrades will unlock scribing recipes. You must have a guild hall to scribe the schematic and build the item. However, until you get the guild hall you will be able to purchase the items with favor from a Guild Requisitioner found in the Guild Initiative Office.

Guild Catapult will auto unlock the War Room upgrade “Scribing: Guild Catapult”.
Guild Siege Suit will auto unlock the War Room upgrade “Scribing: Guild Siege Golem”.

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Have fun, everyone! \o/

Does this mean that we will not be able to get the guild siege we currently have built once hot hits? We have several guild catapults built and building, so should we just leave one built to unlock this upgrade and activate the rest so that we don’t lose any of them?

You wont lose any siege/banners consumables. So you are safe. What you can do this evening take out any siege and queue up a full list of siege before HoT launches, last chance to get guild siege via influence.

I should say keep at least 1 finished siege of each inside the upgrade list to be sure you unlock that specific recipe for scribing.

Yeah I figured we wouldn’t, I just wanted to double check that auto unlock was in addition to, not replacing. Better safe than sorry. Thank you Dara for confirming!

‘Guild Stash will be auto unlocked from the Notary
Guild Treasure Trove will be auto unlocked from the Market.
Deep Cave will be auto unlocked from the Market.’

Hmm – so the first 50 slots in Guild stash are available as you clarified that those without a Guild Hall can ONLY access the Notary – what about the rest? Or is it thast ALL Guild bank upgrades are grandfathered in and available through the Notary.

To be clear – many of us just don’t want to stump up the 100G for a Guild Hall – so this is an issue…

Dara Potocska.8196:

You will not be able to buy favor with gold. We want favor to be a currency with value for the guild system in Heart of Thorns and do not want it to become trivial for some guilds.

I have a feeling that large guild will find gathering favor trivial irregardless of being able to purchase it, assuming it works like influence, but small guilds will have a much harder time. I am a member of a very small guild, and I’ve bought influence on a couple of occasions to speed up the upgrade process a bit since we gained influence so slowly on account of our member size. I worry that with the new system it will be futile to even think about getting a guild hall etcetera.

How are we supposed to do this when WvW is already shut down?

This announcement while helpful is really late.

localghost.9145:

Dara Potocska.8196:

You will not be able to buy favor with gold. We want favor to be a currency with value for the guild system in Heart of Thorns and do not want it to become trivial for some guilds.

I have a feeling that large guild will find gathering favor trivial irregardless of being able to purchase it, assuming it works like influence, but small guilds will have a much harder time. I am a member of a very small guild, and I’ve bought influence on a couple of occasions to speed up the upgrade process a bit since we gained influence so slowly on account of our member size. I worry that with the new system it will be futile to even think about getting a guild hall etcetera.

Anet wants you to gravitate towards a big market/guild. This is their way of trying to get many little guilds into big guilds. The whole ‘blob’ mentality. Kind of reminds me of MLB baseball: get the best players into the biggest markets for the ‘pricer rewards’, and wave bye-bye to the little markets who cannot compete.

Chaba.5410:

How are we supposed to do this when WvW is already shut down?

This announcement while helpful is really late.

I don’t know much about WvW queuing but I’ve just gone in my guild panel while standing in Rata Sum and set the Siege Suit and Catapult into the queue. With a couple of banners finishing in 6 hours, the two sieges should then be in processing as of launch and thus become scribe recipes.

I didn’t have to set foot in WvW to do it.

What will be happening to architecture upgrades(art of war, economy, politics, etc.) ? Upgrades you need to complete to unlock real upgrades, like deep cave. Will they still be a thing in HoT? Or will spending influence on architecture upgrades be wasted?

Donari.5237:

Chaba.5410:

How are we supposed to do this when WvW is already shut down?

This announcement while helpful is really late.

I don’t know much about WvW queuing but I’ve just gone in my guild panel while standing in Rata Sum and set the Siege Suit and Catapult into the queue. With a couple of banners finishing in 6 hours, the two sieges should then be in processing as of launch and thus become scribe recipes.

I didn’t have to set foot in WvW to do it.

I was referring to the WvW buffs on claimed objectives.

4. Consider spending your influence.
There are about 15 consumable items that you can invest your guild influence in. You can hold 25 of each these consumables before your guild is capped on the number you can hold. If you have influence you cannot sink into consumables before launch, you will be able to exchange your influence for Aetherium, Favor and Resonance.

Influence may be exchanged as follows:
– Favor may be exchanged each week.
– Resonance may be exchanged as much as desired.
– Aetherium may be exchanged every 24 hours

How much influence should we keep for these to be on top of it at launch?

To clarify…for favor, resonance, and aetherium

Thanks for posting this! Unlike much of the other information about HoT that is hidden and shrouded (I like it, going to be an adventure), this information is necessary because it’s not good mojo to remove things from the game without proper warning, and you even gave good suggestions to what to do about it.

Will World events transfer over as well?
There is an argument in my guild about queing world events or banners

Looks like the only thing work queuing if you have lots of merits is world events.

What about commendations? Do I need to go ahead and spend the few that I have today or will they stick around?

Getting rid of a whole host of items with no compensation of any sort: not cool.

Dara Potocska.8196:

8. Will guilds be able to buy favor with gold, like you can currently with influence?

You will not be able to buy favor with gold. We want favor to be a currency with value for the guild system in Heart of Thorns and do not want it to become trivial for some guilds.

Hmmm

What will happen to the scrolls of influence one receives from the end of Retribution and Victory or Death personal story steps? What about the laurel vendor’s scrolls?

10. Will there be opportunity to complete unqueued upgrades after launch?

10. Is it possible to get a refund of influence for guild missions (and maybe other upgrades that will go away)?

Is 10 such an awesome number you just had to use it twice?

Skylark.1274:

Please clarify something for me Dara,

Based on what was said in this link: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Guild-Bank-security-when-HoT-launches/first#post5602172
“If your guild had Guild Stash, Treasure Trove and/or Deep Cave before HoT, your guild will still have access to them after HoT. They will still be accessible from the Guild Bankers.”

And per this post:

Dara Potocska.8196:

Good day, friends! Are you Faren well today? To answer a few of the questions:

12. What are the Notary and the Market? And do we have to claim a Guild Hall for my Bankguild first to get back Access to my Bank?

The Notary and Market are 2 of 7 areas of focus for your guild to gain upgrades from (the others include the Tavern, Mine, Workshop, Arena and War Room). The Notary will be accessible through the Guild Initiative Office and the others will only be accessible through the guild hall once it is obtained. If you don’t have the guild banks unlocked before Heart of Thorns, you will need to get the upgrades from those sources after launch.

If looking for further answers on Guild Banks, you can find them in this post here: Guild Bank security when HoT launches

My guild already has the entire bank unlocked.

So it appears we have access to the Treasure Trove /Deep Cave AFTER we upgrade the Market. Or is the Market only needed IF we one doesn’t currently have the Treasure Trove /Deep Cave?

So BEFORE we have access to the Market in our captured guild hall, will we be able to access our Treasure Trove /Deep Cave?
And will we have deposit and withdraw abilities?

Guild banker NPCs work like they did before. The difference is how you unlock the upgrades.

In the new system, if you don’t have the upgrades, you can get the stash upgrade from the notary (guild initiative) but in order to unlock the other two you need to build/upgrade a market within a guild hall.

if you currently have those upgrades you still keep them, and thus can still use them from guild bankers, even if you haven’t claimed a guild hall or built a market.

Does that make more sense?

ItsaJello.4168:

Will World events transfer over as well?
There is an argument in my guild about queing world events or banners

Yes they transfer

Cacti Eleven.9135:

What about commendations? Do I need to go ahead and spend the few that I have today or will they stick around?

Individual commendations are staying and will still be useful. You can hold onto them. Heck, they might (pure guessing on my part) be needed for access to the new guild armors.

Lore-wise, why will all of the GW2 Guild Halls only be located in the Maguuma Jungle? Have the previous Guild Halls all across Tyria crumbled over the years?