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)
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.
Guild Mission | Category | Influence to Unlock | Merit to Unlock | Build Time | Perquisites | Estimated Unlock Time* |
Guild Bounty | Art of War | 30k | 0 | 3 days | Art of War 5 | Immediately |
Guild Treks | Economy | 50k | 30 | 1 week | Economy 6 and Guild Bounty Unlock |
1 week |
Guild Rushes | Politics | 50k | 80 | 1 week | Politics 6 and Guild Treks Unlock | 3 weeks |
Guild Challenge | Art of War | 50k | 150 | 1 week | Art of War 6 & Guild Rushes Unlock | 6 weeks |
Guild Puzzle | Architecture | 50k | 250 | 1 week | Architecture 6 and Guild Challenge Unlock | 9 weeks |
*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 Mission | Cost to speed up 25% | Cost to speed up 100% |
Guild Bounty | 75k influence | 300k influence |
Guild Trek | 125k influence | 500k influence |
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 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.
Guild Mission | Guild Merits earned |
Guild Bounty Tier 1 | 15 |
Guild Bounty Tier 2 | 20 |
Guild Bounty Tier 3 | 25 |
Guild Trek Tier 1 | 5 |
Guild Trek Tier 2 | 7 |
Guild Trek Tier 3 | 10 |
Guild Rushes | 15 |
Guild Challenge | 30 |
Guild Puzzle | 30 |
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.
Week | Merit Earned | Merit Spent | Merit Total |
Week 0 | + 25 from Guild Bounty | 25 | |
Week 1 | + 25 from Guild Bounty + 10 from Guild Trek |
-30 to unlock Guild Trek | 30 |
Week 2 | + 25 from Guild Bounty + 10 from Guild Trek |
65 | |
Week 3 | +25 from Guild Bounty +10 from Guild Trek +15 from Guild Rush |
-80 to unlock Guild Rush | 35 |
Week 4 | +25 from Guild Bounty +10 from Guild Trek +15 from Guild Rush |
85 | |
Week 5 | +25 from Guild Bounty +10 from Guild Trek +15 from Guild Rush |
135 | |
Week 6 | +25 from Guild Bounty +10 from Guild Trek +15 from Guild Rush +30 from Guild Challenge |
-150 to unlock Guild Challenge | 65 |
Week 7 | +25 from Guild Bounty +10 from Guild Trek +15 from Guild Rush +30 from Guild Challenge |
145 | |
Week 8 | +25 from Guild Bounty +10 from Guild Trek +15 from Guild Rush +30 from Guild Challenge |
225 | |
Week 9 | +25 from Guild Bounty +10 from Guild Trek +15 from Guild Rush +30 from Guild Challenge |
-250 to unlock Guild Puzzle | 55 |
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).
Category | Upgrade | Guild Merit cost | Influence Cost | Perquisites |
Economy | 5% gold from kills banner (30 mins) | 2 | 400 | Economy 6 |
Economy | 10% kill gold and 15% magic find banner (30 mins) | 3 | 500 | Guild Rushes Unlock and Economy 6 |
Economy | +10% crafting critical success (24 hrs) | 3 | 200 | Guild Treks Unlock and Economy 6 |
Economy | 5% increased gold for kills (24 hrs) | 3 | 300 | Guild Bounty Unlock and Economy 6 |
Architecture | 15% Gathering and 10% Swiftness Banner (30 mins) | 3 | 500 | Guild Challenge Unlock and Architecture 6 |
Architecture | Spawn Combat Crafting Stations (1 hr) | 5 | 1000 | Guild Challenge Unlock and Architecture 6 |
Architecture | Spawn Armor Crafting Stations (1 hr) | 5 | 1000 | Guild Challenge Unlock and Architecture 6 |
Architecture | 15% Reduced Waypoint Cost for 24 hrs | 20 | 2000 | Guild Puzzle Unlock and Architecture 6 |
Politics | 10% Karma and 10% Experience Banner | 3 | 500 | Guild Bounty Unlock and Politics 6 |
Politics | Guild Heroes* Banner | 6 | 1000 | Guild Puzzle Unlock and Politics 6 |
Art of War | 15% Reduced Repair Costs for 24 hrs | 20 | 2000 | Guild Challenge Unlock and Art of War 6 |
*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 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.
Item | Guild Commendation Cost | Coin Cost |
Letter of Commendation | 4 | 20 silver 16 copper |
Guild Banner Tonic | 1 | 10 silver |
Endless Guild Banner Tonic | 20 | 20 gold |
Miniature Red Siege Golem | 25 | 10 gold |
Miniature Green Siege Golem | 25 | 10 gold |
Miniature Blue Siege Golem | 25 | 10 gold |
Class Gear | 2 | 10 silver |
Summon Guild Vault | 1 | 10 silver |
Guild Armor Station | 2 | 25 silver 4 copper |
Guild Weapon Station | 2 | 25 silver 4 copper |
3 Guild Exp Banner | 1 | 10 silver |
3 Guild Gathering Banner | 1 | 10 silver |
3 Guild Karma Banner | 1 | 10 silver |
3 Guild Magic Find Banner | 1 | 10 silver |
Guild Banquet | 1 | 10 silver |
3 Guild Heroes Banner | 3 | 10 silver |
3 Guild Gathering and Swiftness Banner | 2 | 10 silver |
3 Guild Gold and Magic Find Banner | 2 | 10 silver |
3 Guild Gold from kills banner | 2 | 10 silver |
3 Guild Karma and Experience banner | 2 | 10 silver |
Guild Caretaker Backpack | 5 | 5 gold |
Guild Assassin Backpack | 5 | 5 gold |
Guild Defender Backpack | 5 | 5 gold |
Ascended Accessory | 12 | 5 gold |
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