Guild Wars 2

I feel the need to write another post on small guilds being dealt a bad deal on the new “features” introduced for guilds. I lead a very small guild of friends and family, and this new update gives us nothing to strive for. The old system allowed us to progress. Yes, it was VERY slow, and we would never obtain the great things the bigger guilds could, but we could at least strive for something and attain it. It was weeks/months for us to get to 20K influence…but when we did accumulate it we researched something. It was fun….

With the new system, we cannot figure out how to actually obtain anything. It is so far beyond our reach it is very disappointing. I have no issue with how the system works for bigger guilds, mainly because I am not in one, and hence have no frame of reference.

I wish I had some great idea for how to improve this, but alas I do not. I preferred the influence system, as it gave us smaller guilds an ability to strive for something, even if it was slow. I understand that system had its own issues, but I think it was better than this new one.

I am loosing interest in GW2. I really miss congregating in the Guild Hall in GW1. Any chance of it coming back on the table for development? What about housing? I know it used to be talked about, but the wiki says its not being developed for a long time now. Does no one else still want to be able to have a place to call home in GW2?

I was very excited to read about guild missions, but was at first nervous that the content would be out of reach of my super small guild. Then I saw Leah Rivera’s post on the Wiki on Feb. 21, 2013. This is what it says….

““But what if my guild is super small?” you may say? Not to worry—all these missions take place in the persistent world, which gives you the ability to rally people from the surrounding countryside and maybe make some new friends in the process!”

WOW…..She said SUPER SMALL!!!! WE ARE SUPER SMALL!!!! Me, my wife, brother, close friend and his brother….how much more super small can you get? Is there anyone in a guild of 4, 3, or 2? Are we the record holding small guild???? Wait, I digress….

Right…expectation setting…that is what this is all about. Leah, our friendly representative of the Guild Content team just set an EXPECTATION with me, that SUPER SMALL guilds can take part in this system…..that SUPER SMALL guilds can enjoy this content….

WOOOOHOOOOO We will have something new to do other than dungeons, which we can’t really do anyway cause we are so small and between work and kids and LIFE the times we are all on AT THE SAME TIME is RARE….WOOOHOOOOO

Oh…wait, what’s that you say? Research X to tier what? That’s more than 20,000 rep! I guess that expectation was all fluff. Leah, this feels like a betrayal.

Proper expectation setting would have been more like this:

“But what if my guild is super small?” you may say? Well sorry, but if you are expecting to take part in the new Guild Mission content in a super small guild, think again. You will need a minimum of tier 5 or 6 in various guild research queues, so maybe you can take part in a year or two when the system is obsolete anyway."