GW2 Guild Missions guide

A general guide to the GW2 guild missions introduced with the Feb 26 Flame and Frost: Gathering Storm patch.

Navigation

• Guild Missions
• Guild Merits
• Guild Commendations
• Guild Bounty (separate page)
• Guild Trek (separate page)
• Guild Rush (separate page)
• Guild Challenge (separate page)
• Guild Puzzle (separate page)

Guild Missions

Guild Missions Unlock

There are 5 categories of Guild Missions: Guild Bounty, Guild Treks, Guild Rushes, Guild Challenge, and Guild Puzzle. These Guild Missions can only be activated by first unlocking them in the Guild Upgrades window.

Guild Bounty will be the first Guild Mission guilds can unlock since it requires only influence to unlock. To unlock Guild Bounty, you must have Art of War 5 already researched since it is listed as a perquisite and have 30k influence to spare. The build time is 3 days but if you have influence to spare, you can speed up the build time by 25% by spending 75k influence. This stacks so you can finish Guild Bounty right away if you have 75 x 4 + 30 = 330 k influence.

As you can see in the table below, each Guild Mission other than Guild Bounty requires the previous Guild Mission unlocked. This means that there is a natural order of progression in the sense that you can only unlock Guild Missions in this order: Bounty –> Treks –> Rushes –> Challenges –> Puzzle.

In addition, due to the Guild Merit requirement and the weekly Guild Merit cap, a guild cannot unlock all Guild Missions at once even if they have tons of influence to spare to speed up the upgrades.

*This is assuming you have all the influence and perquisites needed to unlock that Guild Mission.  If you are confused about how this is calculated, see Guild Merits section.

If you are thinking of spending influence to speed up the research for Guild Missions, here is how much extra influence you need to spend.

Guild Missions Tiers

• Once you have unlocked a category of guild mission, you will need to build it first before you can activate it in a similar way that you need to build a guild banner first before you can activate it.
• Guild Bounty and Guild Treks have 3 tiers you can build. . For Guild Bounty, each tier cost 200 influence and 12 hrs to build. (cost 500 influence to speed it up every 25%) For Guild Treks, each tier cost 200 influence and 1 day to build. Higher tiers of Guild Missions have a shorter time limit to complete but rewards more Guild Merits.
• Guild Rushes, Challenge and Puzzle only have 1 tier and they all cost 200 influence and 12 hrs to build. 

Guild Merits

Guild Merits

Guild Merits are earned for successful completion of a Guild Mission. For Guild Mission with tiers, more merits are earned by doing it on the higher tier.Note that doing Tier 1 Guild Bounty repeatedly will only allow you to reach 15 merits. You can only gain more merits by doing Tier 2 or Tier 3.

There is a weekly cap on earning Guild Merits from each type of Guild Missions. Note that this weekly cap reset every saturday evening at 7pm EST (same time as daily reset time).

• Guild Bounty: 25
• Guild Trek: 10
• Guild Rushes: 15
• Guild Challenge: 30
• Guild Puzzle: 30

As you can see, doing Guild Challenge/Rushes/Puzzle or doing Guild Bounty/Trek on the highest Tier once will reach the weekly merit cap for that Guild Mission type.

Based on the weekly cap, you can figure out how many Guild Merits you earn per weekly and when each Guild Missions can be unlocked.

In the table below, Merit Total is calculated by (Previous Week Merit total + Merit Earned – Merit Spent). For example, in week 1, you earned 25 from week 0 + 25 from Guild Bounty. This totals to 50 and allow you to unlock Guild Trek, which cost you 30 Merits. This brings your total down to 20 but you can now gain an additional 10 merits from the Guild Trek you just unlocked, making this total to 30 for week 1.

Guild Merit purchases

In addition to purchase the next Guild Mission unlock, Guild Merits can be used to purchase other upgrades provided you have the relevant Guild Mission unlocks.

• Note: None of the banner effects stack with other banners that give similar effects (i.e. 10% karma and 10% experience banner does not stack with any other karma or experience banner).

*Guild Heroes Banner give 10% Karma, 15% Magic Find, 10% experience from kills, 10% gold from kills, 10% increased movement speed and 15% gathering chance. Does not stack with other banner boosts.

Guild Commendations

Guild Commendations are earned by participating in Guild Missions. You only earn them if you complete guild missions started by the guild you are currently representing. You earn 0-2 Guild Commendations per Guild Mission category with a weekly reset.

• Guild Bounty: 2/week
• Guild Trek: None
• Guild Rush: 1/week
• Guild Challenge: 2/week
• Guild Puzzle: 1/week
• Total: 6/week

The vendor to purchase items with Guild Commendations is just next to the bank in Lion’s Arch. Here are some of the items he has for sale.