Guilds

Press G. If you're not in a guild, the window offers two ways in: found your own, or walk into the Starter Guild. Any other guild has to invite you.

Founding a guild

1. Press G and type the guild's name in the box. A name is 3 to 24 characters, and no two guilds may share one, whatever the capitals.
2. Press Create. Founding costs 1,000,000 gold from your own purse. If you carry a Horn of Uma King, the horn is used up instead and the gold stays yours.
3. You are the guild's leader. A new guild has three ranks (Leader, Officer and Member), room for 10 members, one vault shelf and an empty purse.

The Starter Guild

Press Join the starter guild to walk straight in, no invitation needed. It's a room to ask questions in: guild chat is where new players find out how things work. Nobody leads it, so nobody can invite, remove, spend or change anything; everyone in it is a plain member. It fills up like any other guild, and the button says so when it's full. Leave it whenever you're ready to join a real guild.

Being invited

• Face to face. A member whose rank may invite targets you and presses Invite target on the Roster tab, or types /ginvite and your name (or /ginv) from anywhere on the server. You get the box above: Accept or Refuse. Party members can also invite you from the group window's menu.
• By letter. A guild can write to you with an invitation in it. It works once, only for you, within 7 days. Open the letter in your mailbox and accept it there.
• Joining is checked at the moment you accept. If the guild has filled up meanwhile, or you've joined another, you're told so.
• New members always start at the guild's lowest rank.

Press G or the guild button on the menu. It's the biggest window in the game, with twelve tabs along the top and the same header on every one of them.

Every member sees every tab. What changes with your rank is which buttons work: a button your rank can't use is drawn dimmed, and its tooltip says why.

The first tab. Not one line of text but a small book: up to 20 pages the officers write, with headings, colours, lists, item names and links between the pages.

The three buttons appear only for a rank that may write the notice. A guild with no pages yet shows its short one-line notice instead, if it has one.

Writing a page

The tags

A tag the game doesn't know is skipped, not shown. Emoticons (:smile: and the rest) draw as pictures, as they do in chat.

Everyone in the guild, online or not, in a table you can sort and filter.

Right-click a member

• Nobody can act on someone of their own rank or above, or promote anyone to their own rank or above. That rule can't be changed by any permission.
• The leader can't leave while anyone else is in the guild, and nobody can be promoted to leader.
• The last member out ends the guild. They have to empty the vault first, or it won't let them go.

Storage the whole guild shares: ten shelves of 150 items. Each shelf has its own name, its own picture, and its own rule about who may put things in and who may take them out.

Putting things in and taking them out

• Right-click an item in your bag (or Shift-click it) while the Vault tab is showing, and it goes onto the shelf you're looking at.
• Right-click an item on the shelf, or Shift-click it, to take it into your bag.
• Or click to pick an item up and click again where it goes. Take off anything you're wearing before you store it.
• With the chat line open, Shift-click links the item in chat instead.
• The vault only works in a town (any safe zone). Anywhere else, every move is refused.
• Every item in and out is written in the journal, with who moved it.

Who may use a shelf

Each shelf has two settings, May put in and May take out. Each is a rank: that rank and every rank above it may do it. Click the button to step through the ranks, or to Anybody. You can't set either above your own rank. A shelf anybody may fill but only officers may empty works as a deposit box.

A new shelf lets anybody put in and lets Officers and above take out. Members who may not touch a shelf can still see what's on it.

Buying shelves

The first shelf comes with the guild. The rest are bought in order, out of the guild's purse, by a rank that may buy vault shelves. Each costs twice the one before:

All ten together cost 2,555,000 gold and hold 1,500 items.

The guild's own gold, shown in the header of every tab. Any member may pay in. Nothing comes back out as cash: the purse is only ever spent on things the guild buys, and every coin is written in the journal.

The purse holds at most 100,000,000,000 gold. A payment bigger than the room left is cut to fit.

Supplies the guild buys for its members. The purse pays; the items go into your own bag.

What's on the shelf

The rules

• The shop is open only while the guild has Guild Premium.
• Your rank needs the Buy from the guild shop permission. Officers have it in a new guild; members don't.
• You have to be in a town, and everything you buy has to fit in your bag.
• Every purchase is written in the journal: who, what and how many.
• The items are the guild's own copies. They work exactly like the ordinary ones and can be traded, but no NPC shop will buy them, so the guild's gold can't be turned into a member's.
• Prices are the same as an NPC shop's. The guild pays them so you don't have to.

The dungeons your guild has open this period, how much of each is left, and who leads the hunt and shares out the loot.

A rank that may open dungeons starts a run at the dungeon's Instance Stone, and can pick the two leaders here from the roster. Everything else about runs, the loot bag and resets is in Dungeons.

The guild levels up as its members hunt. Every level is one perk point, and points go on a tree of perks that every member carries as long as they're in the guild.

The rules

• Every point costs one perk point, at any tier. What gets harder is reaching the guild level.
• Placing points needs Spend perk points; wiping needs Wipe the perk tree. In a new guild only the leader has either.
• A wipe is refused if it would leave the guild with more members than places, since Roster points come back too.
• When the tree is changed by an update, the next wipe is free, and the button says so.
• Perks are a buff every member carries. Leave the guild and they're gone. The guild buff's icon on your buff bar lists what it's giving you.
• Might, Focus and Spirit give you at most one rank for every 4 of your own levels, and Guard and Ward one for every 8, so a level-20 member gets 5 of a full Might's 20 ranks. The tooltip tells you when your level is holding you back.

The whole tree: 132 points in three branches. No guild fills it, so every point is a choice.

Fellowship: who you are (34 points)

A guild starts with 10 places, and 50 is the most any guild can hold. Renown does nothing for members today; it makes every later point arrive sooner.

War: what you hit (80 points)

Each tier needs the one above it full. Warriors and assassins use DC, wizards MC and taoists SC, so a guild of mixed classes has to choose. Your own level caps what you get:

Expeditions: the guild's own dungeon (18 points)

These work only inside your own guild's copy of a dungeon, not in your own or your group's copy and not out in the world. Rally counts you too, and adds to Wisdom: a guild with both full gets +100% experience in its own dungeon.

A guild earns experience when its members kill monsters. It's extra: the member keeps every point of their own.

• The guild gets 5% of the experience each member earns from kills, after the member's own rates and the group's share. Quests and experience items pay the guild nothing.
• Renown adds to that, and so does Guild Premium (+5%).
• Small guilds earn faster. Under 20 members, guild experience is multiplied: about ×2 for 5 members and ×1.4 for 10. Recruiting never lowers the guild's income overall.
• Every level is one perk point. There is no top level.
• Every member online is told when the guild levels up, and members who may spend points are reminded while points are waiting.

Up to level 50 each level costs 1,250,000 × the level squared. After 50, each level costs 8% more than the one before, so there's always a next level, just a dearer one.

Thirty days of extras for the whole guild, bought with Guild Premium items that members give. It's the column down the right of the Perks tab.

What it gives

• The guild's dungeons reset every day instead of once a week.
• The guild shop opens.
• +5% guild experience from members' kills.
• In the guild's own dungeons: +1% experience for every guild member a kill pays (a group of six guildmates gets +6%), +20% gold and +10% drops.

• Buying while Premium is active adds 30 days to the end.
• Guild Premium items are sold in the game store for 500 Game Gold, and can be traded. You can't use one on yourself; it's only for a guild.
• Both giving and buying are written in the journal.

Everything said in guild chat, kept. Log in after a day away and read what you missed.

• Each line shows when it was said, in your own time, and how many days ago if it wasn't today.
• Scroll up, or use the wheel, for older lines. They load as you go.
• Hover a line that's cut short to read all of it. Item links show the item.
• You can read back to the day you joined the guild, and lines are kept for 90 days.
• There's no box to type in: talk with /g in the chat window.
• Reading it needs the Read the guild log permission. Every rank has it in a new guild; a guild that doesn't want its chat kept for members to read can take it away.

Every coin into and out of the purse, every vault move and every big decision, with who did it and when. Any member may read it.

• Newest at the top. Scroll down, or use the wheel, for older rows; they load as you go.
• On the right: the gold moved, green coming in and gold going out. A vault row shows the item instead; hover it for the item's full tooltip, refines and all.
• Hover a row that's cut short to read all of it.
• It goes back 30 days.

It records deposits, repairs paid by the guild, shop purchases, vault shelves bought, items in and out of the vault, perk points and wipes, dungeons opened and their loot handed out, letters written and emptied, invitations sent by letter, Guild Premium given and bought, wars declared, won and lost, land tax, the hall's rent, buildings, and islands bought, sold and renamed.

The guild's own mailbox, and letters written in the guild's name. What a letter carries goes into the vault, never into anyone's bag.

Letters to the guild come from other guilds, and from the game: when a guild dungeon resets, whatever is left in its loot bag arrives here, from "Dungeon". The guild's mailbox holds 100 letters from others; the game's own letters always arrive.

Writing as the guild

1. Press Write. Choose To a person or To a guild with the button, and type the name.
2. Fill in the subject (up to 60 characters) and the message (up to 500).
3. To a person who isn't in a guild, tick Invite them to join to put an invitation in the letter. It needs a rank that may invite.
4. Pick a shelf with the arrows and click up to 5 items to attach them (click again to take one off). Only from shelves your rank may take from.
5. Press Send to and the name.

• A guild's letter carries items from the vault but never gold.
• Reading the post needs Read the guild's post; writing needs Write as the guild. Officers have both in a new guild.
• Every letter written, and every letter emptied, goes in the journal.

A guild names its own ranks, puts them in order and decides what each may do. Up to 10 ranks; the first is always the leader.

Only a rank that may edit ranks sees this tab; in a new guild that's the leader alone. Giving a member a rank is done on the Roster.

Each rank holds any of these. A new guild starts with Leader, Officer and Member, set as shown.

The leader holds every permission. Whatever a rank holds, nobody may act on someone of their own rank or above.

Two tabs about what the guild owns and fights for. Each has its own chapter.

• War: declare war over land while standing on it, and follow every war your guild is in. See Wars and conquest.
• Estate: three sections. Rentals is the rented guild hall, Islands the guild's islands as cards, and Castles the land it holds, one at a time from a list, with their gates and taxes. See the Estate tab, the rented hall and Islands.

Members of your guild show on the minimap and the big map wherever they are on the same map as you, however far away.

• They're a marker, not a player you can click: hover one on the big map to see the name.
• Only on the same map, and the same copy of it: a guildmate in a dungeon copy doesn't show in the public one.
• Members of your group show the same way. See Maps and travel.