Guild

Guilds are the primary community connection of Guild Wars. They're used in the Guild versus Guild GvG battles.

You don't need any members to create a guild, and being part of a guild isn't at all necessary to fully enjoy the world of Guild Wars. However, being a part of an active guild can add another element of teamwork to the game, and climbing the ladder to being the top guild in Guild Wars will bring you a measure of acclaim inside the world.

Creating A Guild
To create a guild, one must speak to a Guild Registrar who can create one for a fee of. The registrar will ask you for a guild name, and a 2–4 character abbreviation that will appear next to all guild members' names. For example, a character named "Rojhaz Gravewit", in a guild whose abbreviation is "AbCd" will appear as "Rojhaz Gravewit [AbCd]." The character length limit for a guild name is 31 characters including spaces.

Once your guild is created, you can start inviting members.

Note that once one of your characters is a member of a guild, all of your characters on that account will belong to the same guild. Also note that a leader is not able to leave the guild while he still has members in it. He would have to promote another member to leader and then leave the guild after.

It is important to note that you cannot change the name of a guild after creation under any circumstances.

Adding, Removing, and Promoting Members


You must be an officer or the leader of a guild to kick, promote, or add a member.

Adding & Removing Members
To invite a member, first open your guild window, by pressing G on your keyboard or by using the menu. The guild window shows the roster of officers and members, as well as their online/offline status and an approximate time they were last online.

From there, simply type in the name of the person you wish to invite. If they are offline, it will send the invitation as soon as they log in. If they accept, they will show up in the guild roster as a member. Inviting members to a guild costs.

If you should want to kick someone out of the guild for any reason, click on the icon to the left of their name in the guild window, and select "Kick [player name] out of guild." This process is not directly reversible; if you change your mind, you'll have to reinvite the member in question, which will cost you another.

It is generally considered bad form to ask your new recruit to pay the membership fee.

If your guild owns a Guild Hall, you can issue a "guest" invitation to a player for the same fee. A guest invitation allows the player to compete on the side of your guild in Guild vs. Guild combat for up to 8 hours, after which the invitation expires. While someone is a guest of a guild, they still retain their membership to their true guild.

There is a guild cap of 100 members and officers, although guests can still be invited when at the cap.

Promoting & Demoting
Guild membership has three tiers: the members, the officers, and the leader. All members can speak in guild chat, wear the cape, visit the guild hall, or participate in a GvG combat party (assuming, of course, that the guild has a cape and a guild hall). An officer has the ability to add or remove members from the guild (they cannot remove the guild leader or other officers) and promote other members to officer. The leader has the abilities of an officer, but can additionally demote officers back to common member status or remove officers from the guild. Guild leaders can also designate another officer as the guild leader&mdash;however, a guild can have only one leader at a time, so if a leader does this, he himself is demoted to officer status.

To promote or demote a guild member, use the menu found by clicking the icon next to their name on the roster.

Getting a Cape
Your guild's cape is the symbol of your guild throughout the world of Guild Wars. The cost of a guild cape is. This may seem expensive to a new player or guild, but in the grand scope of things, it's not very much money. Further, it is very difficult to recruit members into a guild with no cape.

In the Inventory window, you can toggle the visibility of your cape in various areas. The settings are:
 * 1) Always Show
 * 2) Hide in Towns and Outposts
 * 3) Hide in Combat Areas (Except PvP)
 * 4) Always Hide (Except PvP)

Designing the Cape
To start designing your cape, you must talk to a Guild Emblemer. You can find a Guild Emblemer in every town. It is worth noting that only a guild leader can design a cape for the guild.

You can play with the cape design tool free of charge, so that's a good time to take screen shots (pressing the Print Screen key on your keyboard) of some designs to show the members of your guild. The cape creation tool is quite robust. You can select four primary areas to customize your guild's cape: the fringe, the emblem, the detail, and the background.

There are currently 174 emblems from which to choose, and ArenaNet regularly adds new ones. Selecting the emblem checkbox in the tool, and clicking on any of the emblems at the bottom of the screen will show you how it will look on your cape. While emblem is selected, clicking on any of the colors or adjusting its brightness with the slider beneath the color tool will preview the emblem with that color.

To change the detail, click on the two single arrows beneath the preview of your character's cape. Changing the color of the detail is the same as changing the color for the emblem.

The background color is changed by selecting the background color checkbox, and manipulating the sliders in the same way as the emblem or detail.

The two double arrows beneath the preview will change the fringe design of your cape.

Once a design has been finalized, pressing "Accept" will confirm the purchase, remove the fee from your character, and instantly place the cape on all members of your guild.

You can change your cape design at any time, but remember that it will cost you another.

Quitting or Disbanding a Guild
You can leave your guild by clicking the icon next to your name on the guild roster and choosing "Leave Guild."

If you are the guild leader, you must first promote an officer or member to the position of guild leader before you're allowed to quit.

If, as guild leader, you wish to disband your guild entirely, you must first kick out every member individually. Once all members are removed, you can then click the icon next to your name, and select "Disband Guild".

Guild Halls
To purchase a guild hall, your guild must already have purchased a guild cape. A hall costs one Celestial Sigil. If your guild has a cape, you can speak to the Canthan Ambassador in Lion's Arch, Kaineng Center, Kamadan, Jewel of Istan, or the Great Temple of Balthazar to visit any guild hall. While visiting, you can purchase the hall from the ambassador or speak to him to visit a different hall or leave the hall. While visiting a hall, each has a Sigil Trader.

Any non-pre-Searing member of a guild is able to travel directly to their Guild Hall using the "guild hall" button in the Guild window (reached by pressing G).

Once you have purchased a Guild Hall you can purchase services for it and host guild battles.

Alliances
Alliances are one of the hardest parts of a guild to maintain. Without some strong guilds, an alliance will just be a chat room. As guilds are the backbone of any alliance, all participating guilds must be active in order to prevent their alliance from dying due to inactivity or nonparticipation. In order to start or join an alliance, a guild must first decide if it wishes to side with the Kurzicks or the Luxons, as all guilds in an alliance must be aligned with the same faction in order to obtain faction points. To invite a Guild into an Alliance the Guild's leader must pay. A strong alliance participating in Alliance Battles regularly may begin to gain enough faction to be granted an outpost or town.

Creating a Guild Website
There are many ways to build a guild website. You can start one from scratch or you can use a guild hosting service. The prices for guild hosting vary from service to service. For example Guild Launch offers a free ad supported service and a premium services with larger file storage and dkp.

Typical Features for Guild Websites
The Guild Hosting services typically offer:


 * Public and/or private forums for members to communicate with each other, or other tools for communications such as instant messaging or chat servers.
 * Tools for tracking the roster of characters that a player might have in the guild
 * An application for scheduling and organizing raids, tournaments and other gaming events.
 * Applications for tracking treasure, items, or points accrued toward redeeming treasure (often referred to as a DKP system).
 * A news system

Popular Guild Hosting Services

 * Guild Launch
 * GuildPortal

Related articles

 * Guild versus Guild - Inter-guild competition.
 * Guild Hall
 * Guild Lord (services)