New Feature: Guild Highlights!
Over the next few weeks and leading up to launch, we plan on bringing
you a new feature: Guild Highlights! To coincide with the beginning of Guild
Beta, we'll plunge you into an in-depth description of our Living Guilds system
and everything that promises to make the guild experience stand far above any
you've had so far. This week we start at the beginning with Living Guild
introduction and Guild Creation.
Guilds in WAR provide an easy way for players to socialize as well as to
organize themselves together to engage in large scale battles and
activities. They also provide another
vehicle for player and group advancement and pride.
- A Living Guild
progresses in rank though the activities and exploits of its members.
- WAR provides
above-and-beyond standard features like guild vaults, cloaks, and guild
merchants to fulfill much more than just your run-of-the-mill
communication and grouping needs.
- Guilds gain experience and
ranks just like players do. At each guild rank, guilds gain rewards that
benefit the individual guild members as well as the guild as a whole.
- Guilds unlock Standards,
Vaults, abilities, etc. for their members as they gain ranks.
- 10 unique titles (most of
which can be customized to meet the needs of the guild) to offer ease in
guild management.
- Integrated guild interface
where you can set up guild meetings or activities, perform guild
management tasks, customize guild Standards, and choose guild rewards.
In the coming weeks, we'll go into more detail
about each of these exciting features, so be sure to check the Herald often for
your sneak peek into the inner workings of the Living Guild system.
If all of the above sounds great to you, then your first step is of course to gather
up a group of your closest comrades and head to your capitol city to make your
guild official! The process is simple.
Guilds are created at the Guild Registrars
found in the capital cities. To register a guild, gather six friends together
into a group, and make sure they're not already in a guild.
-Travel as a group to a capital city and visit the Guild Registrar.
- Fill out and then accept a Guild registration confirmation dialogue
- Pay the guild registrar a modest fee.
- Start adventuring with your guild!
Our featured guild for today is Dusk till
Dawn, a Destruction guild. The Dusk Till Dawn guild was formed during the start
of the first Empire vs. Chaos focus test in February 2008. By the end of
the phase they had around 40 members and were Guild Rank 14. During last
few weeks of the EvC test, they established their web site and started to
document their members so that it would be easier to move from one phase of the
test to another and ultimately into release. Shortly after they founded
the Retribution alliance and have reformed the guild every phase including the
Altdorf Siege and Gunbad test. By the end of the most recent phase, they
had over 100 members in beta and were Guild Rank 35.
Quote from the Guild Leader:
We are very hardcore when it comes to winning in RVR but we do prioritize real
life and our families over spending every waking hour in the game. For
that reason we do welcome more casual players. We accept members over the
age of 18 but we do have a significant portion of the guild that is between 30
and 50. Don't mistake our maturity and prioritization of real life as
weakness. We aren't just talking on the forums about what we intend to
do, we make our impact felt on a daily basis in the Closed Beta. We will
continue to get stronger and work better as a team as we roll into Open Beta,
Headstart and release. The majority of our members have already purchased
the Collectors Edition. Even though most of us have just met recently, we get
along extremely well together. As a result we have built a very strong
team of top notch players in a very short time. Our desire to win is
second to none but we will not sacrifice our morals to achieve victory.
Well said, Dusk til Dawn! We'll see you on the battlefield. WAAAGH!
