Guild Wars 2

Hello guys,

I’ve tried to search the forums for similar posts but I couldn’t find any.

Subject: Guild Halls Upgrades’ Cost.

As a WvW guild, we usually split the costs of anything between us, however not that much or at least we’re not used to it. I really find it disturbing to request from other members to donate gold in order to upgrade the Tavern which costs around 580g if I’m not mistaken, in order to purchase the materials.

??? Question no.1: Are they a lot cheaper to be crafted, or is it a few gold cheaper, cause usually it’s not that big difference.

??? Question no.2: Why wasn’t the upgrades’ cost scaled to the guild roster size as the Guild Hall expedition scale? A guild with 475 members can easily fund this guild hall, but our identity as WvW guild (just like most of the WvW guilds, RP guilds) is based on a limited group/guild members.
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Furthermore, as mentioned above, we’re a WvW guild, so before getting the War Room (which I couldn’t find in the list on Wiki), we’re basically a guild without a WvW identity. Making it really hard or extremely unlikely to show domination as a guild in WvW.

??? Question no.3: Am I able to skip the Tavern and proceed to the War Room construction at a certain level?

??? Question no.4: Is there any cheaper way for the whole subject & its problems?

It’s the first time I ask for guidance since the years of GW2, so be kind please shy

@1: yes, they are. Most of the components are easily farmed, but the HoT ones are still fresh, so their cost hasn’t stabilized yet. Unfortunately, to farm them, you do need to play in HoT areas. I don’t think they are acquirable in WvW.

@2 here the answer is simple. HoT is all about grind, so the devs aren’t going to decrease that grind for any reason, no matter how sensible it might sound.

@3 no, you can’t. But don’t worry, currently war room is bugged and to produce it requires mats that can only be bought from an already built war room. Yes, that means noone is able to do build it yet, till it gets fixed.

@4 – see answer to the point 2.

The guild halls are expensive even if you’re a large guild. We’ve already spent 500g and at least another 500-1000g in donated mats to progress our guild hall to the point where we’ve unlocked the tavern, market, mine, arena and workshop. We haven’t even paid to upgrade any of these to a “working” form yet.

We spent the last month preparing and saving up for this and it still feels extremely expensive even for our large (300+ guild). I can imagine this taking literally 3-4 years to fully build out for a smaller (60 or less) guild.

It’s to the point where I question the value of many of these upgrades. How important is it that we build decorations in our guild hall? Is it worth hundreds of gold and lots of time spent farming special mats? Is the arena worth that much extra too? Hard to say.

It’s clear that these are very long term upgrades though. It will only cost you in the short term.

Well we all know that before decorating and going for the luxurious stuff, we simply need the War Room before anything, we don’t care about the guild hall layout now. What matters is how effective we are in WvW.

Thank you for your answers