Guild Wars 2

so, my small guild ~5 is trying to figure out what we can do in HoT together. They mentioned fractals will be revamped. so maybe that.

i kno we can’t do guild hall, thats for ~15+ guilds

can’t do raids, thats 10 members

most are carebears, so pvp and wvw is out.

is all we have to look for is adventures (dynamic events?) and 1 time story events?

The great thing about this game is that although you’re in a guild, you can still play with other people from other guilds. Your 5 man guild can match up with another 5 man guild and do the raid together. Maybe you’ll even fall in love and become a 10 man guild. Then you absorb another 5 man guild to become a 15 man guild and now you have guild halls.

Open world events, personal story, living story, mastery leveling, adventures and fractals I’d imagine.

Are you sure about guild halls though? Didn’t they say the instance you need to do to unlock guild halls would scale?

Hook up with another small guild! Remember that there are two sets of guild armor and weapons so to get it all you have to make at least 1 friend (or subguild) if you want it all.

Our small guild used to host public bounties and just created an “event runner” rank with no permissions that we added people to so they could get the rewards. It gave solo players and other small guilds a chance to do bigger content, and it gave us a way to fill in our numbers for guild content that was bigger than our guild, so it was a win/win for everyone.

In fact, shoot me an ingame mail and let’s have a chat. Maybe we can help one another out and make some new friends in the process.

The whole game is small guild content. lol

ideally hooking up w/ other guilds could work, it worked super well in gw1, but we had alliances

w/ alliance every1 kept their own guild identities but gave u that bigger group for doing content together when needed, if we had that, i def wouldn’t complain

Jaxom.7310:

so, my small guild ~5 is trying to figure out what we can do in HoT together. They mentioned fractals will be revamped. so maybe that.

i kno we can’t do guild hall, thats for ~15+ guilds

can’t do raids, thats 10 members

most are carebears, so pvp and wvw is out.

is all we have to look for is adventures (dynamic events?) and 1 time story events?

The entire game is suitable for “small groups.” There is hardly any content in the game that is designed for large groups.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Jaxom.7310:

so, my small guild ~5 is trying to figure out what we can do in HoT together. They mentioned fractals will be revamped. so maybe that.

i kno we can’t do guild hall, thats for ~15+ guilds

can’t do raids, thats 10 members

most are carebears, so pvp and wvw is out.

is all we have to look for is adventures (dynamic events?) and 1 time story events?

The entire game is suitable for “small groups.” There is hardly any content in the game that is designed for large groups.

right, which has worked out for us so far. we can’t do much of the guild missions other than some bounties, but we have gotten by

i was referring to HoT content tho

Jaxom.7310:

so, my small guild ~5 is trying to figure out what we can do in HoT together. They mentioned fractals will be revamped. so maybe that.

i kno we can’t do guild hall, thats for ~15+ guilds

can’t do raids, thats 10 members

most are carebears, so pvp and wvw is out.

is all we have to look for is adventures (dynamic events?) and 1 time story events?

You can invite non-guild members to everything you listed.

Now if you are asking, what content can I do with my group of 4 friends and not including any other human being ever. Then pretty much just fractals.

Jaxom.7310:

ideally hooking up w/ other guilds could work, it worked super well in gw1, but we had alliances

w/ alliance every1 kept their own guild identities but gave u that bigger group for doing content together when needed, if we had that, i def wouldn’t complain

As long as you have open guild slots, it was mentioned that you would be able to chat across all guilds you are part of, not just the one you are representing. It’s not exactly alliances, but should help make teaming up a little bit easier.

I’m hoping this is the case since I too belong first to a small ~5 active member guild

So, the answer is “don’t be a small guild”? Whee, that’s definitely going to solve that problem…

Astralporing.1957:

So, the answer is “don’t be a small guild”? Whee, that’s definitely going to solve that problem…

Just like “Don’t solo” is the answer to “how will I do fractals and dungeons if I only solo?”

Group content of X size is obviously intended for a group of X size

If you guild does not have that many players, it’s a pretty logical assumption that you need to make other arrangements to fill those extra spots.

We’re not talking 40 people here. It’s ten people. That is not an excessive amount. If you’re already doing dungeons, then find five friends. If your guild is two people then you’re in a good place to fill someone else’s extra unfilled slots.

If you choose to have less people than required for content, and you choose not to make arrangements to team up with others, then you also choose not to do the content.

Unless your guild is so antisocial that they can’t stomach the presence of any other player ever it shouldn’t be difficult to make some friends to hang out with once a week, as I assure you there are many small guilds that would like to join you and would probably do so for only the asking.

PopeUrban.2578:

Astralporing.1957:

So, the answer is “don’t be a small guild”? Whee, that’s definitely going to solve that problem…

Just like “Don’t solo” is the answer to “how will I do fractals and dungeons if I only solo?”

Group content of X size is obviously intended for a group of X size

If you guild does not have that many players, it’s a pretty logical assumption that you need to make other arrangements to fill those extra spots.

We’re not talking 40 people here. It’s ten people. That is not an excessive amount. If you’re already doing dungeons, then find five friends. If your guild is two people then you’re in a good place to fill someone else’s extra unfilled slots.

If you choose to have less people than required for content, and you choose not to make arrangements to team up with others, then you also choose not to do the content.

Unless your guild is so antisocial that they can’t stomach the presence of any other player ever it shouldn’t be difficult to make some friends to hang out with once a week, as I assure you there are many small guilds that would like to join you and would probably do so for only the asking.

its not an anti social thing, its just not as easy for everyone. my guild an i are friends from long ago. we have sporadic schedules. we have husbands, wives, kids. we don’t have time to guarantee we’ll be on every X day for X hours. we aren’t going to fill out some survey to prove we play and we don’t want to break up our guild cause we enjoy playin together an have been for years

its tough to get people to join a guild like ours. say, hey we play almost every night, but we can’t promise it, sometimes we are out for the whole weekend due to family/vacations/misc. we don’t use teamspeak, cause we just roll for an hour or 2 and can get by w/ chat usu. i pvp, but the others don’t, so we can’t form a full team.

so, its not that we don’t want to play w/ others, its just tough

Jaxom.7310:

its not an anti social thing, its just not as easy for everyone. my guild an i are friends from long ago. we have sporadic schedules. we have husbands, wives, kids. we don’t have time to guarantee we’ll be on every X day for X hours. we aren’t going to fill out some survey to prove we play and we don’t want to break up our guild cause we enjoy playin together an have been for years

its tough to get people to join a guild like ours. say, hey we play almost every night, but we can’t promise it, sometimes we are out for the whole weekend due to family/vacations/misc. we don’t use teamspeak, cause we just roll for an hour or 2 and can get by w/ chat usu. i pvp, but the others don’t, so we can’t form a full team.

so, its not that we don’t want to play w/ others, its just tough

It’s not like you are unique in that situation. You are just in the same situation than 99% of all the gw2 community. We all have work/school, most of us have friends, family, etc. When I’m online I play with the people that are online and I fill up the remaining spot with pugs.

Of course the smaller your guild the harder it is to get more people. When I first started the game I was in a game with just my friend, but too often I was alone or only 1 or 2 were online. So I got into a new guild and my friends joined me. When they were online I played with them, but I had other people to play with then they weren’t. We made some friend in this new guild and more than ever we usually had a full party of our guild. Then we merged with another guild to form a bigger guild. Now I always have people to do stuff and I made even more friends. I still mostly play with my IRL friend of the initial guild. We always play together and other people in the guild fill up the remaining spot.

I never really understood people that don’t like to join bigger guild because of their identity of whatever. I didn’t lost my identity, I’m still playing with my IRL friends. I just have a bigger pool of people to play with me, have access to more content and have some nice discussion in the guild chat.

Jaxom.7310:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Jaxom.7310:

so, my small guild ~5 is trying to figure out what we can do in HoT together. They mentioned fractals will be revamped. so maybe that.

i kno we can’t do guild hall, thats for ~15+ guilds

can’t do raids, thats 10 members

most are carebears, so pvp and wvw is out.

is all we have to look for is adventures (dynamic events?) and 1 time story events?

The entire game is suitable for “small groups.” There is hardly any content in the game that is designed for large groups.

right, which has worked out for us so far. we can’t do much of the guild missions other than some bounties, but we have gotten by

i was referring to HoT content tho

Again, the entire core game (even most g-mish) is suitable for small guilds. All of open world HoT will be equally suitable. Raids are designed for 10 players. I don’t think ANet needs to do anything else for small guilds.

(I’m assuming we are using the same definition of ‘small’ to mean less than 25 active members. Guilds with more than 25 shouldn’t have any trouble with any of the new guild stuff in HoT.)