Guild Wars 2

Hi all, I bought gw2 for a while but hasn’t really got into it (stopped playing my ele when she was like on 3x lv….). Until now, HoT has released and there is so many talking and I am starting to get interested into playing and plan to purchase the HoT expansion once my ele got to 80.
And I just realized I just don’t have enough storage to do crafting. I searched on the internet that I can make a personal guild bank to get 50 slots with only 6 gold. So I created a guid right away and when I get to the guild initiative notary he said I need like 50g and ~1000 favor for the 50 slot stash….?! I believed I have missed out something..So is it that expensive now to create a personal guild bank? ><

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Hi all, I bought gw2 for a while but hasn’t really got into it (stopped playing my ele when she was like on 3x lv….). Until now, HoT has released and there is so many talking and I am starting to get interested into playing and plan to purchase the HoT expansion once my ele got to 80.
And I just realized I just don’t have enough storage to do crafting. I searched on the internet that I can make a personal guild bank to get 50 slots with only 6 gold. So I created a guid right away and when I get to the guild initiative notary he said I need like 50g and ~1000 favor for the 50 slot stash….?! I believed I have missed out something..So is it that expensive now to create a personal guild bank? ><

Under the pre-HoT system, guilds “leveled” by spending influence (and sometimes Guild Merits) plus time to build upgrades. Influence could be bought with coin (just like real life!) Influence also accrued passively due to member attendance and through participation in in-game activities, e.g. events, dungeons, activities, etc.

And at that point, yes, it cost 6 gold to start a new guild and add 50 slots of community storage to it.

In the new era, guilds require favor and gold to progress. Unlike influence, favor can only be obtained actively, via participation in guild missions. Fortunately, your guild gains immediate access to missions (compared to being required to build access in the old system). Thus you can complete a few missions and work up to your guild bank — this is more work than before, but still doable.

Ignoring the background, here’s what you need to do:

1. Create your guild (same 1g cost as before)
2. In the “Mission” sub-tab of the guild panel, use the gear-icon to choose the types of random missions you’d like to see: WvW, PvE, PvP, or a mix.
3. Look in the “easy missions” and choose one that looks doable solo or by enlisting the help of friends and/or whoever happens to be on the map at the time. Easy missions earn 300 favor

The new costs are:

• 1,000 favor (slightly more than 4 easy missions)
• 50 gold (i.e. 10x more than it used to cost)

tl;dr it’s still possible to build personal guild banks of arbitrary size; it is, however, more work

I see. Thanks for the clear explanation. Gosh…it really is so expensive ><’’