Guild Wars 2

Like it says. Can I be the leader of my guild but also represent another once in a while?

I’m wondering because i started a guild with some friends but they don’t play very often. I have a lot of points invested into the guild and I am the leader of said guild.

I have been wanting to join another guild for more of a social experience for the game. But do not want to give up leadership of the guild i started. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for any relevant information

Yes, it is. It works just like normal- you can switch between representing your guild and another. A lot of people make their own guilds for extra bank space.

Thanks for the quick answer, you sir have made my day.

Just speaking from my experience in other MMOs, my answer would be no. Sharing time between guilds is just that – sharing. It means that neither gets 100% of your time or commitment. Commitment is the whole concept behind a guild – not commitment except for when a better PvP squad comes along or commitment except for when some people you would rather be playing with log on.

It’s fine to have non-guild friends you like to play with, but they always need to take a back seat to guild members. That can’t be reconciled when two guilds are in play.

Quasimojo.2547:

Just speaking from my experience in other MMOs, my answer would be no. Sharing time between guilds is just that – sharing. It means that neither gets 100% of your time or commitment. Commitment is the whole concept behind a guild – not commitment except for when a better PvP squad comes along or commitment except for when some people you would rather be playing with log on.

It’s fine to have non-guild friends you like to play with, but they always need to take a back seat to guild members. That can’t be reconciled when two guilds are in play.

You do show you’re mainly speaking from your experience with other MMOs. Particularly the ones where you had to farm for buff food, repair bills and the best-in-game gear upgrades all week to be allowed to join the weekly hardcore raids.

This game is different. Most guilds in GW2 are different. There’s no raids. There’s no gear threadmill, just a lot of whining about it lately.

Do what you like most, as long as the second guild you join is ok with it.

I think I’d be more concerned with the first guild not being ok with it. By Paradox’s logic, there is no point in forming guilds in the first place – just keep a friends list.

Guilds honestly serve no point other than organizing people together for some activity. You can get by fine without them.

If you are in a guild, when you’re doing the activity (i.e. WvW) then it would be helpful to be representing the guild for communication but then most use raidcall or some chat program. When you’re not doing anything with the guild then it doesn’t matter.

If my guild leader or any other officers in my guild decided they to be in another guild along with our guild, I would leave.

If you’re in a position of authority in a guild you should not be spending your time in another guild (that isn;t your own personal one for the bank).

Did you guys even read the first post? It’s a guild for just him and a couple of friends, those friends don’t play much so no reason to represent it all the time. I can perfectly see why he doesn’t want to leave his guild altogether (guild bank probably, still do guild activities with those friends on the rare occasion they DO play).

Now those friends, as he says, barely play so they don’t really have a voice in this matter, do they? It’s little use to ask them if they’re okay with not rpresenting his own guild most of the time, because if they don’t play, why would they care?

So what it all comes down to is that the SECOND guild has to know there is a personal guild that will be represented on rare occasions only. If that second guild is okay with that, there’s no problem at all.

How my logic says there’s no need for guilds completely eludes me. I just say that there’s no need to dedicate your entire life to one guild (unlike some other games out there) as long as the guild you’re usually active in agrees with you.

By the way, I’m in a similar situation. I made a 2-man guild together with a co-worker who hasn’t played for weeks. I recently joined a second guild. That second guild knows that in rare occasions, I might not represent them but represent my own guild together with that co-worker and they’re okay with that. Nobody cares. Case closed.