Guild Wars 2

My guild does WvW. We have few players who have any sort of PvE interest at all. Consequently, we can’t get any of these new guild merits needed for the higher ranking guild perks. We have to run bounty missions and all that other PvE junk and there’s just not enough interest.

So is that it? WvW guilds will never progress to the highest tier guild perks?

Can we get some method of obtaining these merits inside WvW? We’d like to be able to spawn crafting stations and get 15% off armor repair and use Guild Heroes Banners and so forth but those cost merits and merits are PvE-only.

Why does Anet keep doing this?
I thought you guys would have learned something with Ascended Gear — you admitted it was a mistake to launch it without any way to obtain it in WvW but you keep making that same mistake. (Since the invention of monthly quests I’ve only been able to complete two of them because only two of them were able to be done in WvW.) If you make new content, consider that a lot of your players are only here for WvW and if we can’t obtain it through WvW somehow, then it’s not new content for us.

last i checked this months achievements that i completed was 4 daily achievements compeleted (only in wvw) 100 veteran kills (take towers and keeps) 100 events (pretty much taking anything in wvw) and 50 player kills in wvw….. so your arguement is invalid congrats you got your monthly without leaving wvw. and oh look same with dailies… and gawd kitten look at that you can buy accended

Yes, the two monthlies I’ve been able to do were this month’s and last month’s. I hope it’s a new trend but I suspect it was a lucky coincidence.

That wasn’t exactly the crux of my post however.

There is nothing we can do in WvW that will ever unlock the Guild Heroes Banner from the guild research tree (or any other perk requiring merits because there is no way to obtain merits in WvW).

manbearpig.8095:

so your arguement is invalid congrats you got your monthly without leaving wvw.

And what about the part about not being able to get guild merits in WvW?

It’s not that difficult to do the bounties to obtain merits. In fact, you only have 15 mins to complete them each time you do them, so it really cant be too much to ask (no matter how much you are against pve) to just do one once a week.

Doing the bounties is just as much PvE as killing a tower/keep lord.

Vitu.3580:

Doing the bounties is just as much PvE as killing a tower/keep lord.

A lot of WvW players have about 10% mapping complete. So please tell me how those guys are going to get guild merits? Except in WvW?

You can also purchase the earrings for ~40 laurels iirc

Seems like a bit of a vitriolic response you’re getting, OP.

Guild Merits are supposed to be rewarded for doing organised activities with your guild, right? Doesn’t make sense for an organised task to not reward the currency you’re rewarded for an organised task.

Sarrs.4831:

Guild Merits are supposed to be rewarded for doing organised activities with your guild, right?

Exactly, which we do every single day in WvW. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do in WvW which gives merits.

The fact that bounties can be done in 15 minutes, as someone else said, is not a strong consolation to a guild of people that mostly don’t like PvE, especially when you need a steady supply of merits to purchase the higher tier perks.

Guild heroes banner

• 3 merits
  Prequisites:
  Guild Puzzle Unlock
• 250 merits
  Guild Challenges Unlock
• 150 merits
  Guild Rushes Unlock
• 80 merits
  Guild Trek Unlock
• 30 merits

So our first banner would cost 513 merits.

If we did nothing but Tier 3 Guild Bounties, which is 25 merits for 15 minutes, it will take us over 20 hours of PvE (over 34 hours if you can only manage T1 guild bounties), as a whole guild. Bear in mind most of us have about 10% map completion so we have additional hours of work to get all the waypoints we’ll need to make bounty missions feasible.

20-30+ hours of an entire guild doing PvE seems like a lot to demand of a guild that’s built for and only really enjoys WvW. And we’ll have to keep going back to maintain a steady supply of merits for more deployables.

I guarantee if you came out with something that required 30 hours of dedicated WvW to obtain and there was no other way to get it, we would be drowning in a sea of carebear tears.

I wouldn’t care if the merit rewards were PvE things which we wouldn’t care about but some of them are pretty nice. I imagine those deployable crafting stations have bank access like regular crafting stations so I’m sure they’d be appreciated. It would also be fun to deploy them at a tower I want to defend so at least I can mess around with crafting while watching for enemies to show up.

But there’s no way to obtain these rewards within the part of the game we all enjoy.

Would be nice if guilds period weren’t punished.

-No WvW Missions
-250 Merit cap
-No guild rating system or achievement display