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Guild is an important factor in most of the MMORPGs. In everquest2, the guild system is excellent, I hope to tell you give a rough idea about it.

What are Player Guilds in EQ2?
Player guilds are organizations within the game that allow for more organized group and raid play as well as guild perks and camaraderie. Player alignment or faction no longer matter within a guild and guilds may have members from any city of any alignment on the PvE servers. On PvP servers, there is an aligned requirement.

What are Status Points in EQ2?
Status points used to be specific to guilded characters in EQ2, but this is no longer the case. Un-guilded characters may earn and spend status for various things such as mounts and housing, but many of these things still require guild involvement and minimum guild levels. In order to earn status, you will need to complete city writs or heritage quests.

What are “City Writs”?
City writs are tasks given by the city in which you reside to gain. These tasks are simply small and easy quests that don’t yield much in reward other than status points and experience for your guild.

Who and Where are the City Writ NPCs?
Please see the TTH City Writ Guide for this information.

How do the Guild’s Level and my Character Level affect the City Writ quests I receive?
Guild level makes no difference, but tasks will be suitable for your character’s level.

Should I focus on completing writs for a single faction or all of them?
For the cities that offer various factions, truly the best way is to work on all factions. If you gather one task for each faction, you can often times find those tasks to be in the same areas and easily completed together. This gives you more status and more experience for your guild in a shorter amount of time.

What is Guild Experience in EQ2?
Guild Experience is measure of your guild’s overall contribution to the well-being of the city.? This is handled in much the same manner as adventuring through a level progression system. As your guild members accrue more guild experience, your guild level will rise.? As the guild level rises, this will unlock more prestige rewards that the guild will have access to for their contributions.

How does the game calculate Guild Experience?
Earned status is now divided by the number of unique accounts in your guild (minimum of 6, maximum of 24). For example, if a guild member, belonging to a guild of more than 24 people (alts are not included) completes a heritage quest for 30000 personal status points, 1250 points will go to the guild. If a guild of only 6 members (alts not included) completes the same heritage quest, 5000 points will go to the guild.

What does the Guild’s level influence?
The following occurs as the Guild rises in level:

More status rewards become available on the nine social status merchants.
The coin and/or status cost of status rewards will decrease as the guild levels.
Hallmark Raids become available at certain guild levels.
Certain NPCs in your home city may treat you differently.
What does my Faction level influence?
As you complete city writ quests, whether as a Follower or Patron, your faction standing will increase with the group you’re doing the quests for.? As your faction with this group rises, it will unlock more status rewards with the city merchants. Also, when you’ve completed a number of writs for any particular faction, you’ll receive a prefix, such as “Squire” for the Fighter faction.

Is there a penalty for having less then 24 members in a guild?
Not really. If you have less than 24 members, all incoming personal status points will be divided by the number of members the guild actually has. The minimum number is 6 and the maximum is 24. The idea is pretty simple. While a guild will make more status per writ and heritage quest, the guild with 24+ members will have more people to complete writs and heritage quests. All guilds will be different depending on how active the members are. An active guild of 6 could definitely out level a casually played guild of 40.

Is there a penalty for having more then 24 members in a guild?
No. Read the question above. It would actually benefit a guild of 24 to bring in more people since 24 is the largest amount guild status can be divided by.

Can I choose not to participate at all?
Of course! But along with the personal benefits of having status such as lower costs for housing, guild specific mounts, and the upcoming guild halls, its worth helping out as much as you can.

What happens if I leave the guild?
The following things will occur:

You retain your personal status points.
The experience a member earned for the guild is subtracted out and lost only if you’ve been a member for less than 7 days. Otherwise, your contribution resides with the guild.
Can I take my guild contribution points to another guild?
No.? Any experience you contribute to a guild is tied to that guild.

Can I lose my personal status points?
No.? You cannot lose your personal status points. You can spend them though. Personal status points can be spent at a city merchant or a horse trader for specific mounts.

Status & Faction Rewards
You will find City Merchants and/or Guild Merchants in every city in which players may reside. These merchants will help you in spending your status. You can get anything from clothing to titles to mounts with your status. Keep in mind that even with all the status in the world, many items have minimum guild levels in order to purchase.
You can use your gold to my some unique items from the Faction Merchants and City Merchants.

Who and Where are the Faction Merchants?

Faction merchants are typically located near their corresponding writ givers in each of the player cities.

Who and where are City Merchants?
City Merchants can be found

Qeynos
1.? Qeynos Harbor:? City Merchant Rabbleson of Merchant Potsby – SE side of the archways that lead to the docks.
2.? South Qeynos:? City Merchant Jowling – second story of The Herb Jar (vial symbol on the map)
3.? North Qeynos:? City Merchant Tatterhorn – inside the armor shop, Call to Arms.
4.? Eldarr Grove:? City Merchant Mirthmire - inside Antonica’s House of Pottery (bow & arrow symbol on the map)

Freeport
1. West Freeport: City Merchants Balex and Chiron - across from the Blood Haze Inn
2. South Freeport: City Merchants Saraphon and Valokis - near the West Freeport and Big Bend zones.
3. East Freeport: City Merchants Progenitus and Polycethes - Second floor of Seafarer’s Roost.
4. North Freeport: Merchants Crateria and Caphion - Inside the Jade Tiger’s Den.

Gorowyn
Western Platform: Merchant Shulzel - Insdie the Assembly of Gorowyn.

Neriak
Southern Pod: Merchant Jander - Inside a house near the docks.

Kelethin
Merchants Celea and Aothis - Inside the bank.

Maj’Dul
Inside any of the court faction houses.

What types of things can guild members purchase from Status Merchants?
The status reward inventory that guild members have access to at Status Merchants are similar to the ones that one might have at Faction Merchants.? The main difference in the rewards is the way they are “flavored”.

Some examples of this would be:

A nice painting to hang in your home;
A nice new uniform to wear around town;
A cool piece of furniture that others could admire.
A cool title with a thank you letter from a faction for all of your hard work on behalf of the city.
What if I completed the Betrayal Quest?
Betrayal has no effects on your guild standings and will only affect your personal factions.

What are the “Hallmark” Guild Raids?
This is an additional raid that is unlocked as the guild levels.? The city gives the guild organization a special commission to seek out and destroy particular enemies.? Once unlocked (assuming the necessary guild level is maintained) the guild can complete the raid once a week.? All guild members can participate in “Hallmark” raids.

Hallmark raids will reward in-game items but not to the significance of normal adventuring raids.? They are intended to be an added “bonus” for guilds aiding their city.? The toughest fights in the game are still found and un-locked in the traditional manner.

Hallmark raids do not give out the best loot.? Instead they are fun gatherings that the guild can take part in.? Think of them in the same manner as a quick “pick-up” raid that gives the members who are just logging in something quick and fun to do.

Since live update 16, guild quest raids now scale according to player level and reward additional status!

Author:Savanja