Guild Wars 2

All of the following advice is assuming all bugs & glitches are fixed.
Press ‘G’ key to start a guild.

Choose your your guild name and the guild tag can be 3-4 letters long which will display next to your name as you play. This tag can be an acronym for the name of your guild or it can be any 3-4 letters that are creative and represent your guild the way you want it represented.

On my server I see some players with the guild tag [BEER] and I always smile when I see them. I don’t know if their tag is an acronym or not, but it’s definitely catchy.

Once you have started your guild pay attention to the green influence points in the top right corner of your guild window. Those are currency for your guild. You will use the influence points currency to purchase ‘guild upgrades’ in:

Politics
The Art of War
Economy
Architecture

For example: purchasing the upgrade to learn Politics level I enables you to purchase the Guild Emblem Template. At that point you can travel to the Guild Registrar to create and customize a guild emblem. There is one in Lion’s Arch @ the bank.
Next is Politics II so that you can purchase a guild armorer contract to put the emblem on armor etc.
Learning The Art of War gives you PVP boons in WvW.

Please note that each guild upgrade takes time to learn once purchased and will be placed in a queue for several hours even a couple days for some of them.
You can even purchase an upgrade to train more than one upgrade at a time simultaneously.

What is the best way to get influence points?
I have found that the best way to ‘earn’ them is to do the World Events.
If you have a group of 2-4 people already, go run some World Events and earn influence together. It’s a win win because you also earn Karma, XP, and game currency (copper, silver, gold).

I was eager to get all four upgrade categories up to level I quickly so I purchased GEM’s for $20 and turned them into gold to purchase influence points from a guild promoter.
That is another way to do it. I realize not all will agree with that method, but I am a little less patient.

You can edit the name of the ranks, add ranks using the ranks tab on the left and clicking edit in the top right.

In order to promote/demote someone in your guild ‘right-click’ their name and then left click the rank you want them to be.

If you are concerned about new recruits representing your guild before you have gotten to know them. There is an option to un-click the box under ranks where it says display guild emblem. This way they can earn the right to display it by earning the trust of their fellow guild members and leaders.
It helps to avoid having an unfriendly player represent your guild that could tarnish your guilds reputation.

That’s all I can think of for now…please feel free to add your two cents in the replies.
We are all new to this epic game and we all have jewels of advice to share.

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How does the creator of a guild lower the rank of someone who has been put to Leader Rank? I did it by mistake but I’m currently afraid that that person has quit the game and will be handing off his account to another person, someone I don’t know and don’t trust.

Anyone in the leader rank (or whatever a guild has set their highest rank name to) has to change their own rank to lower it. Members cannot change the ranks of people in the same rank as them.

Bluestone.7106:

Anyone in the leader rank (or whatever a guild has set their highest rank name to) has to change their own rank to lower it. Members cannot change the ranks of people in the same rank as them.

I was afraid of that. So if a Leader ranked player is hacked then the guild has no recourse for protecting itself? Will we be able to petition for recovery or are we out of luck? And what good will that do if Arena.Net will not change the rank of a player when petitioned? Something I’ve done.

For the future, I suggest that there be a confirmation pop-up when setting someone to the Leader rank.

If there is damage as the result of an account being hacked then you can submit a support ticket. The degree of help you can get I am not sure. Currently the GMs cannot restore items but are working on a tool that will allow them to and it may allow retroactive rollbacks.

I was in ventrilo one time with guildies. I was mucking around and created a new rank called timeout and moved an officer there. We had a laugh then I moved him back, then realised I put him as a leader not an officer so I said in vent to right click his name and choose officer and he did it then afterwards realised he had been leader for a second lol.