Grouping to bash mobs is not socializing.
Socializing is when you go towards people without anything forcing you or pushing you to do it.
For the people used to games with forced grouping end games, GW2 can be confusing in many aspects. I never had to be forced to speak with people to do it personally, and I definitely don’t define “monster bashing” as the best social interaction ever.
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I’ve made a little “simulated” image to explain what I’m meaning.
Look on the right of the screen.
Those slots would be able to be bound to keys of course.
Basically, 8 or 10 slots where you could put inventory items in, and also if it’s a weapon, configure (with a right click menu) if it goes in the main hand or off hand.
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I think it would be nice to have some additional user configuration hotkey slots where we can put various food and other consumables, and also some unused weapons in so we can eat food easily with a key and change our actual weapon(s), when out of combat of course.
Right now, to eat food or change weapons, we have to open the inventory or the hero panel, search the item we want, click it… not very “user friendly” if you ask me.
Thanks!
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I have to agree with the people who say that advertising a guild on general chat and asking for “skilled players” is a recipe for disaster, a good way to end with not only bad players but also a lot of kids with overinflated ego.
Personally, in my guild, we only take people who are pleasant to play with, even if they aren’t “zomg top skillz!”.
i personally dont keep people in my guild who are bad at the game and choose to stay that way, its simply the way my guild is, if someone is lacking i will put all my effort into helping them and finding out what they struggle with, im an elitist but i like to think that im one of the good examples, i plan on turning the guild into a WvW guild so i need everyone to be average in it, if not then i will help them, if i know they are going to try i will help, i dont help the people who want a free ride :P
but yeah i aggre with you, its people who advertise like that who are lazy and give “elitists” a VERY bad name.
Well I’m glad I’m not in your guild. I guess I don’t take video games seriously enough to behave like that towards fellow players, and even less towards fellow guild mates. And yet we don’t have any trouble tackling any of the content of the game, including WvW.
As I said, I rather be surrounded by pleasant people even if they aren’t the best players ever than by “skilled” ones who take games way too seriously and are not pleasant to play with. I play games to relax, not to manage a second job as guild leader to lead a sort of pseudo military organization in a game after I’m done with my real job.
When I remove someone from my guild (happened once so far since release, we have a good recruitment policy), it’s because he behaved badly and broke our few guild rules which mostly say “be nice”. Never because he’s less skilled than others. I’d hate myself if I ever did that.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
I have to agree with the people who say that advertising a guild on general chat and asking for “skilled players” is a recipe for disaster, a good way to end with not only bad players but also a lot of kids with overinflated egos. Now then, maybe that’s the kind of people some are looking for…
Personally, in my guild, we only take people who are pleasant to play with, even if they aren’t of the “zomg I R top skillz!” type. It works just fine so far.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
This game is a haven for casual players. Maybe that’s a good thing. When a AAA hardcore MMO is released that requires actual skill and minimal brain activity; the casual players can stay right here.
I’m more than happy to let those with minimal brain activity get their jollies elsewhere.
I see what you did here… well done, I must say :-)
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
People who brag they are “skilled” are most of the times not only NOT the most skilled at all, but also often just annoying and also arrogant, and therefore not pleasant people to play with.
And discrimination? It’s usually the ones who think they are better than everyone else who discriminate the “lesser players”, and not the opposite.
“Any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king.”
- Tywin Lannister, Game of Thrones.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
What they should do for such events is rewards the high level players more for being in higher level areas. For instance, a slightly increased chance of chest drop. Encourage them to leave the lower level areas alone.
But give out stuff to people who didn’t even participate in the fight? No, definitely not. I will never agree with such an idea. Not to mention how this would be exploited.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
I wasn’t aware the game was more a “grindfest” now than at release. It’s actually because it isn’t that I keep on playing it.
And people who played 2000h definitely need to get a life… that’s constant approx. 6:30 hours a days for 10 months, no matter if week day or weekend. No MMORPG developer can cater to people without a job who can play video games all day long.
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Screenshots do look darker than actual gameplay, that is why I use fraps instead. I also have a 32in LED LCD smart tv, but i can clearly tell that screenshots from game just turn out dark and bland when done with the in game option. Fraps does not look the same.
I can take a screenshot made using the “ingame” method and put it right next to the game running in windowed mode, and it looks exactly the same. I just double checked to be sure, actually.
Screenshot with in game option, then use fraps, see the difference.
If fraps gives a different result, then it’s not accurate. The in game option gives the exact image of what you actually see on your screen.
No, it doesn’t, that is the problem. Fraps overlay takes exactly what i see on screen, always has. In game screen is much different and does not look the same.
Well, there’s something wrong on your PC then. When I put the actual game running in a window and a screenshot taken with the in game method side by side on my PC, they are exactly the same.
Lol.. not my PC…. Look up “High quality screenshots removed from GW2” and think about that again.. Nothing wrong with my PC, and fraps is accurate as far as overlay screen captures. You can clearly see the difference.
The difference doesn’t mean the fraps version is accurate.
As I said, when I put the game running (what you actually really see when playing) and a screenshot taken with the built in system, they look exactly the same. That means the screenshot is accurately representing what you see on the screen. Something on your PC is altering the final output of the game.
And I invite you to read my full post this time instead of only answering to a part of it.
The screen looks different in full mode than it does in windowed. take a picture in game with the print screen, then compare it to your actual screen, NOT using windowed.
I see… you have changed the brightness setting.
Instead of that, my display is correctly calibrated and I don’t need to artificially increase brightness inside games (and subsequently crush the whites and lose bright color resolution).
I like brighter looking games, personal choice, so yes I adjust the brightness a bit higher my tv is calibrated fine. It’s my preferences that change it. Tera has beautiful coloring, I don’t prefer the game as much as GW2, but that is the style I like. the screencaptures look darker in game, and I dislike that, it takes away from the color and bright looks.
No problem with that, but keep in mind that you do lose resolution (=quality) in the brightest colors when you do that. White can’t be whiter than white (aka 255,255,255 RGB), so stuff is lost in the process.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
Screenshots do look darker than actual gameplay, that is why I use fraps instead. I also have a 32in LED LCD smart tv, but i can clearly tell that screenshots from game just turn out dark and bland when done with the in game option. Fraps does not look the same.
I can take a screenshot made using the “ingame” method and put it right next to the game running in windowed mode, and it looks exactly the same. I just double checked to be sure, actually.
Screenshot with in game option, then use fraps, see the difference.
If fraps gives a different result, then it’s not accurate. The in game option gives the exact image of what you actually see on your screen.
No, it doesn’t, that is the problem. Fraps overlay takes exactly what i see on screen, always has. In game screen is much different and does not look the same.
Well, there’s something wrong on your PC then. When I put the actual game running in a window and a screenshot taken with the in game method side by side on my PC, they are exactly the same.
Lol.. not my PC…. Look up “High quality screenshots removed from GW2” and think about that again.. Nothing wrong with my PC, and fraps is accurate as far as overlay screen captures. You can clearly see the difference.
The difference doesn’t mean the fraps version is accurate.
As I said, when I put the game running (what you actually really see when playing) and a screenshot taken with the built in system, they look exactly the same. That means the screenshot is accurately representing what you see on the screen. Something on your PC is altering the final output of the game.
And I invite you to read my full post this time instead of only answering to a part of it.
The screen looks different in full mode than it does in windowed. take a picture in game with the print screen, then compare it to your actual screen, NOT using windowed.
I see… you have changed the brightness setting.
Instead of that, my display is correctly calibrated and I don’t need to artificially increase brightness inside games (and subsequently crush the whites and lose bright color resolution).
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
Screenshots do look darker than actual gameplay, that is why I use fraps instead. I also have a 32in LED LCD smart tv, but i can clearly tell that screenshots from game just turn out dark and bland when done with the in game option. Fraps does not look the same.
I can take a screenshot made using the “ingame” method and put it right next to the game running in windowed mode, and it looks exactly the same. I just double checked to be sure, actually.
Screenshot with in game option, then use fraps, see the difference.
If fraps gives a different result, then it’s not accurate. The in game option gives the exact image of what you actually see on your screen.
No, it doesn’t, that is the problem. Fraps overlay takes exactly what i see on screen, always has. In game screen is much different and does not look the same.
Well, there’s something wrong on your PC then. When I put the actual game running in a window and a screenshot taken with the in game method side by side on my PC, they are exactly the same.
Lol.. not my PC…. Look up “High quality screenshots removed from GW2” and think about that again.. Nothing wrong with my PC, and fraps is accurate as far as overlay screen captures. You can clearly see the difference.
The difference doesn’t mean the fraps version is accurate.
As I said, when I put the game running (what you actually really see when playing) and a screenshot taken with the built in system, they look exactly the same. That means the screenshot is accurately representing what you see on the screen. Something on your PC is altering the final output of the game.
And I invite you to read my full post this time instead of only answering to a part of it.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
Screenshots do look darker than actual gameplay, that is why I use fraps instead. I also have a 32in LED LCD smart tv, but i can clearly tell that screenshots from game just turn out dark and bland when done with the in game option. Fraps does not look the same.
I can take a screenshot made using the “ingame” method and put it right next to the game running in windowed mode, and it looks exactly the same. I just double checked to be sure, actually.
Screenshot with in game option, then use fraps, see the difference.
If fraps gives a different result, then it’s not accurate. The in game option gives the exact image of what you actually see on your screen.
No, it doesn’t, that is the problem. Fraps overlay takes exactly what i see on screen, always has. In game screen is much different and does not look the same.
Well, there’s something wrong on your PC then. When I put the actual game running in a window and a screenshot taken with the in game method side by side on my PC, they are exactly the same.
That “overlay” capture of fraps actually looks completely washed out in your picture.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
Screenshots do look darker than actual gameplay, that is why I use fraps instead. I also have a 32in LED LCD smart tv, but i can clearly tell that screenshots from game just turn out dark and bland when done with the in game option. Fraps does not look the same.
I can take a screenshot made using the “ingame” method and put it right next to the game running in windowed mode, and it looks exactly the same. I just double checked to be sure, actually.
Screenshot with in game option, then use fraps, see the difference.
If fraps gives a different result, then it’s not accurate. The in game option gives the exact image of what you actually see on your screen.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
Screenshots do look darker than actual gameplay, that is why I use fraps instead. I also have a 32in LED LCD smart tv, but i can clearly tell that screenshots from game just turn out dark and bland when done with the in game option. Fraps does not look the same.
I can take a screenshot made using the “ingame” method and put it right next to the game running in windowed mode, and it looks exactly the same. I just double checked to be sure, actually.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
I love these amateur “graphics mods” these days.
They increase constrast to hilariously exaggerated levels, to the point the game looks like a cartoon, and call it “The Ultimate Super Mega kitten zor Hax of L33tskillz Graphix skillzors!”.
Agreed, most of the screenshots are over-saturated and quite ugly… people should learn to calibrate their monitor instead of using third party “mods”.
The only positive benefit I can see from that thing is the new anti-aliasing modes.
How it looks ingame is Completely different for Every monitor.Just because a screenshot can look “oversaturated” is because of your monitor settings…
I stopped reading here. My display is a 32" LED TV that has been professionally calibrated. Most people don’t even know what it means to calibrate a display, you can even do that manually and get decent results with free tools available on the net (and no, you do NOT use “windows tools” to calibrate a display, those are crap).
If GW2 seems too dark to you, it’s not because of the game, it’s because you need to learn to properly set at least brightness and contrast on your display. It takes like 10 minutes to make everything on your computer look much better without any need of third party tools or filters.
Most if not all the screenshots using that third party thing are saturated, way too bright, meaning they lose details in the brightest colors, the whites are crushed, they look ugly on a proper monitor.
Being able to add SMAA to games which don’t support it is definitely nice, but that’s it. The rest of that thing is mostly crap which ruins the image instead of enhancing it.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
I love these amateur “graphics mods” these days.
They increase constrast to hilariously exaggerated levels, to the point the game looks like a cartoon, and call it “The Ultimate Super Mega kitten zor Hax of L33tskillz Graphix skillzors!”.
Agreed, most of the screenshots are over-saturated and quite ugly… people should learn to calibrate their monitor instead of using third party “mods”.
The only positive benefit I can see from that thing is the new anti-aliasing modes.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
Thing is, they have to be careful with promoting stuff they don’t control the source code of. Someone could very easily create an application that uses the API and which would be malicious – virus, malware, keylogger.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
My favorite places are the Norn mountain areas, notably Lornar Pass and Timberline Falls (it’s Falls, not Rise…), and also Wayfarer Foothills, best starter area of the game in my opinion. But then, I love “viking” lore.
And there’s Divinity’s Reach. The most impressive city ever created for a MMORPG.
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I would, without thinking twice, I’d even pre-order a “deluxe digital” edition if there is one. This game is one of the rare MMORPG deserving my hard earned money.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
For instance, if you have 100% magic find, and the original drop rate of an item is 1%, then this drop rate is augmented by 100% and is now 2% (1% + 100% of 1%).
So while augmenting drop chances, you still need to win that luck roll ;-)
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If they ever do that, they will no longer get my 10, 20 or even 30 euros per month (mods can check my purchase history and see I’m not lying or exaggerating).
But I’m confident the ANet developers know better and this won’t happen.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
I’m going to have to agree with the other posters here… 3+ months of building up expectations with a quite good story line that got better each patch, to culminate with a dungeon, now matter how nice it is, that will only be there for 12 days? Really, 12 days?
I beg you to rethink that and make the dungeon available longer, or even make it permanent.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
I don’t think the “fear of elitism” argument is valid anymore as we have players being denied from some dungeons for gear already, as well as some professions outright.
Humans have always been able to harm each other, even with bare fists. Give them weapons, and they do it more efficiently and more massively.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
There are lots of people that hide their gear EVEN when they join groups that ask for specific gear (for example “full zerker Warriors only”) and then come here and complain they got kicked… That’s not a better attitude at all.
Nice example of an elitist attitude already in the game you gave here. Refusing people because you want some kind of “optimal” group setup.
No need to make it worse by adding an inspect feature.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
Want to know about my equipment?
ASK ME! You know, TALK TO ME! Send me a whisper! I will gladly link you my gear and tell you how to get the pieces you cosmetically like! And maybe you could even make a new friend, who knows!
There is one problem with this… everyone can link different gear with same skin but different stats or even link gear from gw2db. So gear linking is useless when you are interested in knowing the stats, not the skin.
Saying that, I would never want them to add a full inspection, just an easy way to see Agony Resistance and maybe Magic Find and I’m happy, anything more and the drawbacks far outweigh any potential benefits. Still AR and MF should be visible in one way or another.
Or just… trust people?
Personally, even if they add such a feature with a toggle, and some guy in a PUG asks me to turn it on, I will not accept. Not that I have anything to hide, I’m full exotics and I don’t have a single magic find item, but I strongly dislike that kind of elitist and suspicious attitude. Doesn’t want me because he doesn’t trust my word? His loss, not mine.
It’s that kind of attitude that makes me stick mostly to guild groups. Today’s players have no patience with others, and need to rush everything and faceroll it with maxed out gear. At least in my guild, we won’t snob a member because he’s not maxed out in exotics with optimized stats, we accept everybody and we advise each other about how to play better instead of that “if you’re not optimal by my standard, you’re a scrub I don’t want to play with” attitude. Attitude which was bred mostly by WoW and its clones.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
But, some people just get into dungeons with bad gear and think that’s ok.
This breeds elitism (like the infamous “gearscore” in World of Warcraft), so I disagree. Make your own rules in your own groups, ask people to link their gear if you really want, or stick to guild groups.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
Gotta love how people insult the players who use a legit game mechanic. I never used guesting except to try it in the first few days, but the way you guys talk about other fellow players here is intolerable. “all the idiots guesting”? Really? Seems to me that they are smarter than you actually, and definitely not idiots.
This makes me actually want to use guesting just to make rude people like you guys angry.
PS: by the way, guesting doesn’t make you able to loot several chests of the same event per day. Not only this thread is rude towards guests, but it’s also based on a false belief and/or intentional misinformation.
PS2: if your server happens to be too laggy during events… why don’t YOU use guesting to go on a lower population server in order to do them? Now that would be smart…
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If they ever add such a feature, it must have an option to be turned off so people can’t see your gear if you don’t want to. I really hope they never add such a feature though.
Want to know about my equipment?
ASK ME! You know, TALK TO ME! Send me a whisper! I will gladly link you my gear and tell you how to get the pieces you cosmetically like! And maybe you could even make a new friend, who knows!
Way too many mechanics in “modern” MMORPG make player communication useless. We definitely don’t need one more in this game at least.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
As i understand it dailies are suppose to be an reward from actually playing the game not some afk reward u get when u log in.
I guess some people won’t be happy unless ANet adds ascended vending machines in Lion’s Arch which sell all the ascended gear for 10 copper each.
Actually, some would complain 10 copper is too much and ask to drop it to 1 copper.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
Excuse me the obvious hyperbole. But still, the best in videogames are the ones who spend the most time ingame. The question is simply how they influence people who spend less time. Whether you spend 4 hours a day or 12 doesn’t change the fact that it is an extreme amount of time to spend behind a screen.
Playing an average of 4:40 hours per day is beyond hardcore. Having an average of 4:40 hours per day behind your screen is not compatible with having a life. Normal people would be happy to log in for 2 hours, 3 times a week. Even that could be a stretch at times, so people like me fill that gap with gems.
Let’s be very clear here. To me, anyone who manages to spend more than 2 hours a day on a videogame consistently, is making a hardcore time commitment. Even more so if you’re spending the weekends behind your monitor instead of with loved ones. I don’t really mind, as long as you don’t mind me matching your time with gems. I will get my Quip eventually. I won’t farm all the gold for it.
I’m not sure you’ve read and even less understood what I was saying. I never denied playing hardcore required a quite large amount of time most can’t afford, and I can’t afford it nowadays either. I was just correcting your mad exaggeration of 12 hours a day, nothing more. Even the most hardcore don’t need to play more than a few hours to be the best, only the bad players need more than that. A hardcore raid group will clear a dungeon in one evening of 4 hours, when a group of bad players will need 3 evenings to do the same. Who has the most free time? Basic maths.
People who play 8+ hours a day are not the best players. It’s those who require more time to complete the same content than the best.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
So you think a small 5 man guild paying (e.g.) 5000 influence for something, and a larger 50 man guild paying 50.000 for the same thing would be fair?
Sorry if I completely disagree.
It would be a bit like saying that if 5 people have a job in your home/family, everything should be 5x more expensive for you than for the single working person, just for the sake of fairness. Sorry if I don’t buy that kind of nonsense.
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so if 5 ppl each spent one dollar and 50 ppl each spent one dollar, which single person spent the most amount of money?
I agree with you on some of your points, but this one no. If you decide to respond please answer the question first.
Your question doesn’t make any sense. What you are arguing for is basically the destruction of any advantage for associating with other people in game.
Yes, 50 people together will achieve goals faster than 5 people. It’s normal. That’s how life works too, by the way.
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IMO prices of these unlocks should scale with size and so should the events.
So you think a small 5 man guild paying (e.g.) 5000 influence for something, and a larger 50 man guild paying 50.000 for the same thing would be fair?
Sorry if I completely disagree.
It would be a bit like saying that if 5 people have a job in your home/family, everything should be 5x more expensive for you than for the single working person, just for the sake of fairness. Sorry if I don’t buy that kind of nonsense.
Like World of Warcraft, I’ll likely be leaving GW2 if it starts to force you to play in multi player guilds to unlock the higher tiers of rewards.
It’s foolish, and gives an unfair advantage to people who spam open recruitment guilds or otherwise have very lax recruitment measures.
We have never recruited using chat spam, we have a quite strict recruitment system with mandatory web application, yet we have 30 actively playing members.
It’s all about how good the people in charge of recruitment are, and my officer in charge of that is an ace
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You misunderstand. The thought discussed here is guilds actually inviting people into their guild for the duration of a Guild Mission. The invitees would thus have the ability to represent and get full rewards for the Guild Mission.
At the end of the mission, the new recruits would leave the guild again (or get kicked by mutual agreement). In some cases, guilds looking to recruit permanent members could invite these temporary members to stay around for longer.
Sounds a lot like a nice way for larger guilds to steal members from smaller ones to me, not to mention the smaller guilds don’t gain anything from it.
The whole multi-guild thing is flawed anyway in my opinion. There are many good ideas in GW2, but that’s not one of them.
I agree this was my point I made earlier. You larger guilds want entice members this way. Easier if ANET do something for smaller guilds and if people don’t want anything to do with larger guild they still get same content.
Trust me, that’s definitely not the way I want to recruit new members… people only there for profit? No thanks. But some guilds, much larger than mine (actually really large, I dunno where you got the idea my guild is large), don’t care about that kind of things as long as they get numbers.
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I agree with Pirlipat, because like I said, it is all depending on either the charity or the savviness of large guilds, in providing members of small guilds with opportunities to participate in their Guild Missions.
You can participate as an outsider anytime you see a guild event popping up, without ever joining the organizing guild. And you will earn influence for your own guild doing so… but of course your rewards will not be as good as the people who actually used their hard earned influence to start the event.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
You misunderstand. The thought discussed here is guilds actually inviting people into their guild for the duration of a Guild Mission. The invitees would thus have the ability to represent and get full rewards for the Guild Mission.
At the end of the mission, the new recruits would leave the guild again (or get kicked by mutual agreement). In some cases, guilds looking to recruit permanent members could invite these temporary members to stay around for longer.
Sounds a lot like a nice way for larger guilds to steal members from smaller ones to me, not to mention the smaller guilds don’t gain anything from it.
The whole multi-guild thing is flawed anyway in my opinion. There are many good ideas in GW2, but that’s not one of them.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
If I am honest this be the first time I agree with korrigan. I believe if your in a guild you should help it. if not leave. and if I saw someone join just for an event id bin them off. I want people who are ready to help the guild get better and grow.
Unless of course the guild is inviting people to join just for the events.
And this is precisely what server friendly, community based, none elitist large guilds will do. I fully expect the best guilds to say “Hey folks we’re popping a guild event, want to join us for an hour and enjoy the flavour. If you like it stay awhile and hell, we don’t mind if you normally represent your small guild of local friends”
Those random invited people are no guild members, no problem with that. What I dislike is guild members who are members just for profit, not for community. Random people joining your events is just like random people you do dynamic events with when leveling. And they don’t get the full rewards either.
If you end with a guild roster full of people who never represent, and therefore never participate in guild chat aka in the community, it’s no longer a guild you have… it’s a giant pickup group. You don’t build a community with people who almost never participate in it.
The Farstar Alliance [TFA] – Gandara Server.
A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
It’s not you who is punished, Lorelei… it’s the people taking the “risk” to meet more other unknown people who are rewarded. Risk => reward.
You prefer the safety of your smaller guild, evading the risk inherent to meeting new people, you must also face the consequences of having a smaller structure.
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A PvX guild for mature players with a life.
