Guild Wars 2

Simple fact is that guilds shouldn’t have to recruit to enjoy in game guild content. If it’s meant for guilds it should be meant for any sized guild to unlock. Perhaps it takes more than that guild to complete, but who cares. Folks can as allies and friends for help. The need for larger groups to DO the content should mean that it takes a large group to UNLOCK the content. This flies really in the face of all that Anet said in the past about not catering to mega-guilds and allowing content to be enjoyed by all. This also adds an element of grind as folks will need to grind out influence type things to try and unlock what they need and try and get to unlocking art of war and then unlocking the first guild mission.

Some guilds, as stated will never see this content shared among their close friends or allies and will rather have to join guild missions guilds on the side, merge, or turn their guild into something they don’t want. I’m really scratching my head at Arenanet’s decision here. Everyone was excited about guild missions, now it’s just content that many may just never see so it might as well not even be there. Too many guilds and any new guild need to unlock other things before they even think of Art of War unless they are a PvP guild. Shoot the last few guilds I’ve been in I’ve seen maybe 5-10k influence and in most around 500-1500. To groups like this, this influence requirement is like staring into the abyss. Just don’t get it and no explanation has made any sense concerning it yet.

If the reason the cost is so steep is to keep large guilds from simply farming the content over and over and filling up their coffers, I can get that, but they need to come up with a better way not to alienate other groups. GW2 is all about scaling so why not scale the influence requirement based on guild size? I mean that is simply to unlock the content, not do it. To do it they’ll need what any other guild would need, the right number of people and the right type of tactics to beat the content.

Shrugs I was looking forward to guild missions and my current guild might even be large enough to get the influence, I’m not sure as I just joined and don’t know their activity level yet, but just don’t get this decision.