Guild Wars 2

They literally mentioned a while back, that this game won’t have as much of a gear treadmill as some other mmos.
However, 3 months down the road, suddenly we have received a new tier of equipment, which makes people step back up on the gear treadmill.
Furthermore, there are people now, who refuse to do the previous explorable mode dungeons, because hey, the gear you get there is inferior, unless you want to get it for the looks.
Quite a few arguments have arisen in our guild, because the guildmasters want players to help other guildies out, by willingly dropping down atleast some levels, to boost up those that have fallen behind. Mostly this has not been fruitful tho and the guild seems to have broken into essentially groups of 5 people, who are at a similar fractal level and only run dungeons amongst eachother.

This concerns me gravely.

-Holy

i guess that’s a no

Has anyone heard any news about any major upcoming guild- related content, since my own guild and probably a lot of other guilds are already sitting on 100k+ excessive influence. There isn’t all that much information released, so i was wondering if anyone has atleast some sources.
Even if the new tiers of architecture, politics, economy etc… won’t be released yet, maybe there are some updates which let us see when a member was last online etc… underway ?