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THINGS I WISH I'D KNOWN EARLIER - Guilds

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* Guilds do not have their guildnames displayed above their members' heads until the guild reaches level 5. You can get your guild to level 5 by doing city writs, heritage quests, or turning in status loot to accumulate guild status points.

* Completing heritage quests gives a sizable amount of personal status points, as well as guild status points if you are guilded.

* Guild status points contributed by a player become permanent to the guild after one week. If a character leaves the guild, any GSP they have contributed which is less than a week old will be deducted from the guild total.

* The amount of GSP a person contributes to the guild from a writ, HQ, or status loot item is 10% of the personal status gained.

* Status housing and most items from the City Merchants can only be purchased when a guild reaches a certain level. If you are not in a guild, you will not have access to these items.

* Writs also increase your faction with whatever group gave you the writ. Each city faction group has items they will sell to people with high enough faction, regardless of guild level.

* If you are an officer in a guild, you can send mail to the entire guild at once. Open a Norathian mailbox, click the "Send" tab, and where you would normally place the name of the person you are writing to, put "Guild". This costs 5s, no matter how many members the guild has.

* Guilds can design Heraldry cloaks for their members. At level 15 the leader can customize the background color and the heraldry icon for 5 plat. Available customizations increase at lvl 30 and 60, with the price to change the cloak increasing to 20 and 50 plat respectively.

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