Guild Wars 2

Can anyone drop me a link for an article explaining the process of making a personal guild (specifically for a personal guild bank)? Realise I could just set the guild up (which I’m about to do anyway) and muddle through but if there’s a guide that explains the process of influence-farming/researching upgrades etc. then that would simplify matters.

You get the most influence from doing a dungeon (10 per run). Each activity gives you 2 points.

Logging in (on each character) for ~10 minutes will give you 10 points per day.

You can also purchase influence via gold

Yeah I’m already resigned to having to buy influence (with laurels or gold), I was more just wanting to make sure about the correct research order (so I don’t waste inf on upgrades I don’t need)

You can buy influnce if you have the gold to do so.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Promoter

And this lists what you can spend influence on, towards the bottom of the page.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Influence#Architecture

Are either of the ‘architecture level 1’ / ‘architecture level 2’ upgrades a prerequisite for the Guild Vault research?

yes, both architecture 1 and 2 are prereq’s for the first stage of the guild bank (guild stash) so all in all you are looking at earning or buying 2500 influence and it will take you 4 days in ‘building time’.

To get the second tier of bank will cost 20,000 influence (2 weeks build) and for the final tier 30,000 (2 weeks build).

Thanks. I’m only interested in stage 1 (will only be using it as a workaround to the ‘gold sharing’ aspect of the next update) so that’s reasonably manageable. I’ll just stick to my main for the few days required to get it!

I just did this recently to get some more storage. I had lots of questions about the process, but once I started it, and started earning influence, and then checked under Architecture, it really was pretty easy to follow. I had also heard that you get 10 influence for each character you log in each day. I played for a few days, and then supplemented by “buying drinks” to get enough influence to start the next ‘stage’.

Think the total you need is 2500 influence. Seems like a lot, but what I spent on influence was cheaper than any other way to get more storage for me.

Here’s a good guide:

http://gw2rr.blogspot.com/2013/01/test-post-01.html