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[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

A Guild Hall would be appreciated by a good many players, I feel, but it should be useful for more than just a meeting place.

Here are some ideas from another thread:

@Venjin-bronzebeard

Just throwing another old idea:

Guild Halls.

Instanced buildings within Org and SW that can be customized with banners, statues from achieves, etc.

Mission tables for all applicable expansions and the weekly Mythic Loot Chest could also be found there. Portals to every raid in the current expansion. A banker. An auctioneer. Everything and anything the guild needs in a centralized location where guildies can congregate.

Heck, you can even make the dang thing cost 50k gold and only be unlocked by an achievement just to prevent/discourage 1-account guilds from abusing this feature.

@Fumel-arathor

Well, I’m going to repeat my post about guild halls here at least:

10/30/2018 08:23 AMPosted by Fumel

So, I’ve been thinking about guild halls and how a guild might be able to open theirs up. (Yeah, maybe jumping the gun since we don’t have guild halls, but I’d rather think positively–I’ve had too much negativity regarding guilds already.)

I wanted to come up with something that even a tiny guild like mine could accomplish, but still make it a significant investment in one’s guild. What I’ve thought of is an achievement where guild members complete X-number of instances (dungeons, raids, and/or BG’s) whether in a group or separately. Counting individual runs (rather than requiring a guild group) allows small guilds to earn their halls, while making it faster for larger, active guilds. If five guildies run a dungeon, they’ll get credit for five runs at once.

I was originally thinking only on-level and Timewalking instances should count, but that punishes players who really just like to go to old instances for transmogs, mounts, or pets. However, since it’s easy to spam a lower level dungeon on a high-level character, I would say count only one run per day for low-level dungeons and one per week for raids.

How many instances required for the guild hall would of course be up to Blizz, but I was thinking around 500. That’s a significant amount, but not so many that it can’t be done by a guild like mine (with really only two active members currently).

Anyway, I’m still going to continue my read-through of the original thread, but I wanted to put some new thoughts in this one as well. I have some other ideas for guild halls, but I’ll save those for later. I hope other posters will add their own ideas for more improvements they’d like to see for guilds.

Of course, we all still want the permissions separated and removed from under the “is-officer” heading.

@Fumel-arathor

10/29/2018 07:07 AMPosted by Druunah

10/28/2018 10:39 PMPosted by Mceuan

While we’re at it, why can’t I mass mail everyone in my guild on the same day? Why am I stuck with a roster that tracks Achievement points instead of ilevel? Why does the MotD load before system messages? Why don’t I have some means of communicating with my guild ingame, instead of relying on Discord or Facebook or something else? Why can’t I see several days worth of bank activity on the logs? Why can’t I have an ingame means of tracking alts of people I’ve kicked? Crazy as it sounds, sometimes those people want to come back and be disruptive.

Great ideas.

Let me list them for Blizzard:

As Guild Leaders we need:

A mass mail System so we can mail everyone in our guilds on the same day.

Why does the guild roster track Achievement points instead of ilevel?

Why does the MotD load before system messages?
This has always been but should not be.
Few read it, because many don’t see it

Why don’t I have some means of communicating with my guild ingame, instead of relying on Discord or Facebook or something else?

THAT! Seriously! I made several guild sites before settling on creating a Facebook group for our guild. (My reason for Facebook? I could never get many guildies to check out the amazing guild pages I made for us. It occurred to me however, that most people had Facebook pages. So a FB group it was. An in-game alternative would still be much more preferable.

We need to be able to see several days worth of bank activity on the logs,

Why can’t I have an ingame means of tracking alts of people I’ve kicked?Sometimes those people want to come back and be disruptive.

For that last one, perhaps a way to not only ban toons from our guilds, but accounts as well. As a Guild leader I have often had those who were booted from the guild attempt to return days, months, even years later. Some people can get major chips on their shoulders. Several times over the years I have had to open tickets to Blizz because either myself or guild-mates were being harassed by someone with a grudge. A couple of times, the person being harassed knew nothing of the person doing the harassing. They were being targeted simple for being in the guild.
Wouldn’t it very likely save Blizzard time and money to create a feature (ie: account bans / blocks) for guilds eliminating this issue?

“Guilds need to have more incentives to do things together, and it needs to accessible by all manor of guilds, not just raiding ones.”

Agreed.

One idea: Guild only quests. A series of quest chains that are accessible to those in guilds and / or guild groups only. (I know, it’s not all inclusive. Not everything needs to be)

Rewards could be gear both practical and cosmetic.
Pets
Special abilities (mostly for show-off / bragging rights) or access to elixirs / potions for the more practical.
Achievements (duh)
How about the ultimate prize maybe being a guild hall?
We as a guild still have guild meetings the old fashioned way. We gather our toons together at a specified location, and have a meeting. We usually meet in an out of the way place, but there isn’t really any place in the open world there isn’t someone doing something, and sometimes we get interruptions. Especially from the noobish and the annoying. A guild hall would be a nice place to gather, maybe show off awards and guild achievements in some way. A “display case” of sorts for guild rewards comes to mind, but there is probable a better way. How about a readable in-game “history of your guild” tome in the guildhall? Open it and read: “Your Guild” was created on xx/xx/xx by “Toonytoon” a warrior of great renown. Long ago during the great Cataclysm, “Your Guild” reached level 20 (before Blizz took away such things as guild leveling) Etc…etc… (Silly? Maybe)

(Blizzard! You could also throw on that long promised dance hall next door! Hint hint) uh huh…

These quests and rewards should be accessible to all guilds including the small ones so this would require scaling.

@Druunah-ravencrest

11/01/2018 03:17 PMPosted by Mceuan

A guild hall would be amazing.

It is not owned by the GM, so it can’t be sold. It just comes with the guild. Guilds should be able to fly banners from every faction they’re exalted with, hang heads of raid bosses, display older legendaries (yes, even Thunderfury), etc. In other words, in game displays of guild achieves and it’s cosmetic stuff.

11/01/2018 03:17 PMPosted by Mceuan

I really want is a vendor who sells booze. Beer is a key component

Sir.

Your thinking is genius.

/Cheers

=)

11/01/2018 03:17 PMPosted by Mceuan

display older legendaries (yes, even Thunderfury), etc. In other words, in game displays of guild achieves and it’s cosmetic stuff.

Thank you for adding that!

The train of thought had occurred to me regarding old legendaries, but at the time I posted, I could not word it correctly for some reason. (lack of coffee and or good dwarven booze me thinks)