Guild

Overview
A Guild, within the context of Dungeons and Dragons: Online, is a group of players who may share common interests and objectives. More often than not, a Guild operates on one, designated server.

Note: This page is not intended for Guilds in Dungeons & Dragons Online to promote their guild. It is intended to hold information involving the new Guild System.

Creating
You can create a Guild by going to Social Panel in your menu bar (commonly in the top left hand corner of your screen) and selecting the Guild tab. Enter in the name of the Guild you wish to create and then click on the Create button. If all goes well and if the name is not already taken you will then become the leader of your very own guild.

Premium and Free to Play accounts will need to purchase a Guild Charter from the DDO Store to be able to create a Guild.

Joining


Joining a guild is based on an individual guilds requirements, some actively recruit from the General Chat channels whilst others require you to fill out an application to join the guild. Whichever method is employed, there is a type of guild for everybody. Small, Large, Social, Raiding, Casual, Permadeath, etc.

Recruiting
The recruiting process of a guild is up to the Leader of the Guild. If you have a Guild Level of 5 you can send a Guild Recruiting Sigil via the ingame mail system, just go to a mailbox, compose a message and the option will be made available to you.

You can advertise for guild members in a public area in the General chat channel, or post information about your Guild on the DDO forums for the server your guild is on, or even invite those you group with on a regular basis.

The Officer's of a guild also have the ability to recruit new guild members.

Guild Member Ranks
Guild Member Ranks are not to be confused with Guild Levels. The former is for individual Guild Members, the latter is the standing on the server the Guild has achieved.

Traditionally the Guild Member Ranks available were Leader, Officer and Member. With the new Guild system a Guild Leader can create new ranks with different names. They can be named anything you want, you can even do Military designations, Medical designations, or whatever else.

Guild Level
There are a maximum of 100 Guild Levels, a guild goes up in level by getting Guild Renown (see below). The higher the level the more benefits a guild has, which includes bigger airships.

Guild Renown


Guild Renown is accumulated by guild members gaining Guild Trophies, after you have achieved Guild Level 25 the Guild Renown will start decaying over time. The higher in Guild Level a guild achieves, the faster the Guild Renown will decay. Guild Renown will stop decaying again once you have gone back to Guild Level 25.

By the Guild Renown starting to decay at Guild Level 25 it enables smaller guilds to be able to have an Airship without worrying about losing said airship.

For the full list of abilities unlocked by each level, see Guild Renown.

Guild Trophies
Guild Trophies can be found from treasure bags that drop from monsters and collected from treasure chests. They are used to gain more Guild Renown for your Guild. The lowest amount you can find adds 50 Points of Guild Renown.

Guild Airships (Guild Housing)


Guild Airships are the DDO version of Guild Housing, an extensive guide to gaining and populating them can be found at the Guild Airships page.

Guild Crafting
Certain items from the game when looted from chests will have the ability for Guild Augment Crystals to be crafted onto it. More information can be found at the Guild Crafting page.