Guild Wars 2

I created my Guild, The Band Of The Red [HAND] when GW2 first came out. I didn’t mess around with any of the ranking settings until just today. I’ve seen other Guilds with cool ranking names, so I decided to make some in mine and since I’m doing it I’d give myself a new title other than “Leader” and have all the same powers and not make anyone else “Leader” so I would still be the “Leader”. Low and behold, when I made myself “Marshall General” with exact permissions as “Leader”, it cuts off my ability to edit half of the rankings. And to top it off, it randomly chooses a person in the Guild and makes them “Leader”. Like wtf? I should still be able to be “Leader” and “Marshall General” because they have the same permissions. So now I have a Guild I built (Which I have Guild History to prove) that won’t listen to me at all and an inactive member is now “Leader” and I can’t touch him… Please give me my Guild back!!

I don’t believe there is anything CS can do to alleviate this issue. You might be best served by trying to contact the ‘inactive’ member and asking to be reinstated as Leader. Remember, in the future, to just rename the Leader, rather than making another rank.

You can, of course, submit a request to the CS Team, but usually their policy is ‘hands off’ on Guild politics. Top of Page – Support – Submit a Request.

Good luck.

Problem being is that I tried renaming “Leader” and it wouldn’t allow me to. I have no way to contact someone who is in the game no longer and ask them. It’s the devs responsibility to warn “Leaders” that they will lose the title and that it will go to some random member of the Guild instead of either maintaining it together with “Marshall General” or allowing the “Leader” to pick the member of choice to receive the new title. So now it sweeps me off my feet (and not in a good way) and I lose the Guild I built unwillingly.

Here are the warnings about editing ranks:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild#Member_ranks

Again, nothing the forums can do but advise you about the dangers inherent in editing ranks.

Good luck.

So there is zero Possibility in getting my Guild back…

No offense, but anyone in guild editing would know that you can’t set yourself to two ranks at the same time. The system would never allow that because it would have conflicting rank settings.

I just didn’t know how to change my title and still retain my position. So I thought I had to create a new spot at the same Level of Control. It gave control to a random Member instead.. Not even an officer..