Fan Faire 2008 - Day 2 afternoon - some wonderful announcements!

Guild Halls!

  After lunch and live questing it was time for Guild Halls!!!!!  I got to the room a little early, found a good spot and opened up my laptop to take notes.  I mean, it's guild halls!!!  Right behind me was the guys from Stratics.  We chatted a little bit before the session got started .. they're pretty fun. 

Most of the pictures here were taken from the projected images .. so they're not the best quality.  For a full list of details, check out the article by Nami Denmother on EQ2 Traders!!  Nami's always a great source of information! 

As for my thoughts .. ohhhhh .... this is going to be cool!!  They are incredibly expensive though!!  I got out of the panel and immediately found a spot to call my Guild Leader with details and instructions to start saving up!!!  The Guild Halls will allow us to place tradeskill stations, writ givers, brokers, bankers and more!  There's even the option of portals and a fun new tool called a Guild Strategist that allow you to place a banner in the world and your guild mates can port right to it!  How cool is that?! 

So what's the trick to guild halls?  Well .. they're EXPENSIVE!!!  And the stuff to go into it is expensive (Items are often costing plat and millions of status) and limited in how many of the guild "amenities" that you can have in the house.   At guild level 30, you can have 15 amenities, and at guild level 80 you can have 30 amenities.  The numbers approximately scale at the rate of 2 amenities for every 6 guild levels.  That's not enough to get everything, so folks will have to pick and choose.   There's also a bunch of decorations that are guild hall specific that don't take up any amenity slots but cost plat and status to get.