That being said, there are things we can do to keep things from cutting too close to the bone. One of these is to re-evaluate our various guild hall amenities, since they make up the bulk of our weekly rent. (You can see all of our amenities listed in the Guild Hall Guide.)

I’ve made an executive decision to retire our Wizard Portal Hireling. He’s been made redundant by technology — isn’t that always the way? — and will be replaced with the Small Ulteran Spire. Both amenities serve the same purpose, but the Spire costs half as much as the NPC (in both purchase and upkeep).

We may need to make additional adjustments in the future, so please feel free to comment here or on the forums about which amenities you won’t miss and which ones you can’t live without.

In other news, there have been amenities added to the game with Sentinel’s Fate and Destiny of Velious that you may not be familiar with; check them out! We may decide to take advantage of these some time in the future, but for now, Mushroom is still doing a fine job. ;)

• Standard Bearer Hireling
• Herbalist Hireling (performs the same function as the Burynai Digger, but also consumes tier 9 fertilizer; the Burynai only consumes tier 8 and below)

There will be more updates to the guide coming soon; I plan on creating a page with the various methods members can use to reach the guild hall, which will feature character names and house addresses that will make it easy to find a Magic Door.

How Can I Contribute?

Long story short, the Magic Carpet to the Sinking Sands and the Mariner’s Bell: Shattered Lands that we already have in the guild hall will be redundant — they will both take us to all the same locations. This means that we can remove one of those amenities in order to free up a slot for something new!

This is the perfect opportunity for us to try to raise enough status to purchase the Guild Strategist that we’ve been eyeballing for the last year. We’ll have the amenity slot opened up soon, and we have more than enough coin to buy it. Our only obstacle at this point is to raise the amount of status needed: 20 million. (ouch!)

As of this post, our status drive is GO! We need at least 20 million status in the guild hall escrow by the time that GU56 goes live. Keep in mind that we still have to pay our weekly upkeep between now and then, and any deposited status beyond what we need to purchase the Strategist will be applied to future upkeep and amenity costs.

Not sure how to participate? It’s easy! Just complete adventure or tradeskill writs (aka “City Tasks”) or Heritage quests or sell status loot to our Commodities Exporter inside the guild hall in order to gain personal status points. To donate status to the guild, right-click on the guild hall door or type /house while inside the hall to bring up the housing window. Click the “Deposit” tab, then donate as much or as little status as you want. Remember that status deposited into the guild hall escrow account is non-refundable, but escrow coin and status is never lost, even if we move to another guild hall.

Good luck to everyone, and let’s get those points rolling in!!

With our level 64 goal reached, it’s time to look ahead to our level 66 guild hall amenity; you can find a new poll to the right. :)