Hi Everyone,

We have some significant upcoming changes to the guild system that we wanted to give everyone a heads up on.

The goals of these new changes include:

- Building up a guild to max level is a longer term project that requires the dedication and participation of its members.
- Allowing players to actively help build the guild in more interesting ways than just contributing gold.
- Give players bigger benefits from being in a guild.
- Providing a way for guilds to compete with each other for stature.


With that in mind we have added a number of features and made some significant changes.

Guild Points
Guild Points will be needed by the guild to upgrade buildings and guild level. Guild points will be earned by completing guild tasks with other members of your guild.

Daily Guild Tasks
Daily Guild Tasks provide ways to earn points for your guild by doing multiplayer runs with guild members, doing special guild bounty runs, as well as contributing gold or Shardium to the guild, or crafting guild items. A list of guild tasks and the points earned each day has been added to the guild dialog.

The Guild Barracks
The Guild Barracks is a new building that controls the number of members you can have as well as increasing your max points per day.

The Guild Bounty Hall
Like the Brotherhood Bounties the Guild Bounty hall provides multiplayer bounties you can complete with your guild mates to earn guild points.

Guild Rankings
Guilds will be ranked on wealth and points.

Guild Shardium
Guild members will be able to contribute Shardium to the guild. Guild Shardium will be used to reduce cooldowns and buy guild buffs. Previously only the guild leader could use his/her personal Shardium to reduce guild cooldowns.

Guild Log
A log of all the actions taken by the guild and its members will be available on the Guild Log tab, this includes, points earned, buildings upgrade, members promoted/demoted, invites, kicks, contributions, etc.

Guild Buffs
Guild buffs are guild wide buffs that decrease guild store costs, increase xp earned, and improve the power of skills gained from the guild skill tower. These will be bought with guild wealth or shardium and last 24 or 48 hours.

Reduced Guild Cooldowns
All of the guild building cooldown times have been significantly reduced. Maxing out at 48 hours.

Substantially Improved Skill Tower Skills.
All of the values of the buffs in the Skill Tower have been increased.
Attack - 20 to 500 over 10 levels - previously 3 - 30
Armor/MR 10 to 250 over 10 levels - previously 2 - 20
Health 200 to 5000 over 10 levels - previously 5 - 50
Speed 2 - 50 over 10 levels - previously 1 - 10

Increased Guild Building Costs
Guild buildings will now cost guild points, and additional wealth. These cost increases are representative of the additional bonuses that you get for having a high level guild.

With all of these major changes particularly to the balance and cost of leveling up the guilds we are going to do a GUILD RESET. The guild reset will do the following:

- Reset guild level to 1 and building levels to 0
- Refund all guild wealth spent leveling the guild and the buildings
- Credit Guild Shardium for based on guild level to get guilds back up to speed. Current credit values for guild levels 2-10 are 25,50,100,150,200,250,300,400,500 Guild Shardium.
- Refund individuals contribution spent on skill tower skills

The size, and bonuses granted by a current level 10 guild are about the same as a level 3 to 4 guild in the new system. The Guild Shardium granted should help in reducing the cooldowns to get your level 10 guild up to level 3 / 4 in the new system quickly.

We are working to get these changes in by the end of the week.

Please follow up with any questions, concerns you may have.

-David

Nothing with happen to saved contribution. You will still have it.

Hi Annie & Dire,

If you have more members than allowed your guild will simply not be able to add new members until the member number is less than the member cap.

For most guilds the 500 guild shardium should cover it. Only a small number of players spent a lot of shardium to reduce guild cooldowns, but If you are one of those players we can make adjustments to how much guild shardium you have on an individual basis. We have some records, but not all records of what was spent but we will confirm with what we have if you put in a request via a ticket.

-David

Hi MadPlaid,

We don't have a system in place for guild merges. As it stands players would have to leave their current guild and be invited to a new guild.

-David

Hi Chrismaz,

No direct competition in this update, that is going to take more time. Just leader boards for now, most tasks completed etc.

Hi Elharith,

You can invite other players to your guild runs. Points are given for each guild member participating provided at least 2 guild members participate.

-David