Personal and Guild Status Point questions/clarification.

ARCHIVED-Sethar · Feb 15, 2007

Had some questions about Status Points (Personal/Guild).

I have been doing some various searches on the forums and I am getting some conflicting information, along with some outdated information. I just wanted to post what I've learned and please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this (I'm sure I am):

You must be in a guild to earn status points, do writs, buy items using status points, etc.

10% of any status you earn goes towards your guild if you are a patron. If you are just a member, you don't contribute to the guild status at all.

Having more than 12 patrons affects the speed of exp gain (imposes a penalty) for the guild. If you have patrons that have zero status, and never earn status, it hurts your guild.

If you quit a guild, the guild loses all your status points but it does not affect the guild's experience level. When you join a new guild, they do not get your previously contributed guild points (it is reset to zero). Your personal status is unaffected (you retain it, although it is not visible until you join a new guild).

You do not spend Guild Status points. The sole purpose is for gaining guild levels. Merchants never take from the Guild Status points, only from your personal status points.

Writs yield status points based on guild level, not personal adventuring level.

Doing a bunch of writs with Academy of Arcane Science builds up faction with that group. It does not lower faction with others (such as Freeport Militia, Dismal Rage, etc.)

Each faction has its own vendor of items you can buy with personal status points, based on your personal faction level with that group (not the guilds overall faction).

City Merchants sell items based on your guild level, using personal status points to purchase.

As long as you are in a Guild and meet the guild level requirements or faction requirements, you can buy any items you want from City Merchants or faction specific vendors. (Meaning that there is no difference if you are a patron or a regular member of the guild)

You get discounts on items such as horses or houses, based on guild level. The cash price goes down, but you have to pay personal status points.

If you quit a guild but have a house that requires status points, you will not be able to earn personal status points (except by selling status point items to the appropriate people) effectively causing you to eventually "lose" your housing when your personal status pool dries up. (You don't really lose it, you just can't walk into it again until you pay the upkeep).

Thanks in advance for any help!

ARCHIVED-nimrodblack_EQ2 · Feb 15, 2007

Sethar wrote:

“Had some questions about Status Points (Personal/Guild).

I have been doing some various searches on the forums and I am getting some conflicting information, along with some outdated information. I just wanted to post what I've learned and please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this (I'm sure I am):

You must be in a guild to earn status points, do writs, buy items using status points, etc.
Above = True (I believe you can do the writs but you will not accrue Guild Status because no guild)

10% of any status you earn goes towards your guild if you are a patron. If you are just a member, you don't contribute to the guild status at all.
Patron system is gone. There is no longer a penalty for having lots of inactive members so everyone contributes 10%

Having more than 12 patrons affects the speed of exp gain (imposes a penalty) for the guild. If you have patrons that have zero status, and never earn status, it hurts your guild.
See Above (no Patrons anymore)

If you quit a guild, the guild loses all your status points but it does not affect the guild's experience level. When you join a new guild, they do not get your previously contributed guild points (it is reset to zero). Your personal status is unaffected (you retain it, although it is not visible until you join a new guild).
Almost right. When you leave a guild only the Status that you earned within...some amount of time (someone may know this) gets removed from the Guild total. When you join a guild you will be Zero Guild Status but your personal status will be the same given that you did not spend any.

You do not spend Guild Status points. The sole purpose is for gaining guild levels. Merchants never take from the Guild Status points, only from your personal status points.
Correct (above)

Writs yield status points based on guild level, not personal adventuring level.
Dunno where this came from. Your adventure level determines what writs you get and as your level goes up any writs that are from lower levels give less Status. Obviously there are crafting writs as well...these are based on your crafting level.

Doing a bunch of writs with Academy of Arcane Science builds up faction with that group. It does not lower faction with others (such as Freeport Militia, Dismal Rage, etc.)
Correct (it used to drop your faction with the other groups but it does not anymore)

Each faction has its own vendor of items you can buy with personal status points, based on your personal faction level with that group (not the guilds overall faction).
Correct (above)

City Merchants sell items based on your guild level, using personal status points to purchase.
Correct (above)

As long as you are in a Guild and meet the guild level requirements or faction requirements, you can buy any items you want from City Merchants or faction specific vendors. (Meaning that there is no difference if you are a patron or a regular member of the guild)
Patron system is gone

You get discounts on items such as horses or houses, based on guild level. The cash price goes down, but you have to pay personal status points.
This may be misleading. You have the ability to buy certain horses/houses based on your guild level. Some houses can be rented with gold but still require the Guild Status to be of a certain level. Some houses can only be rented with status+gold. Most of the bigger homes require Guild level 30+ and require status to purchase and rent.
Horses...(aside from a few exceptions) can be purchased with gold or with Status+lessgold. There are some mounts that are recieved through quests. Some through a combination of faction level and status cost...and some require status+gold+faction+guild level. Mounts are highly varied through the game.

If you quit a guild but have a house that requires status points, you will not be able to earn personal status points (except by selling status point items to the appropriate people) effectively causing you to eventually "lose" your housing when your personal status pool dries up. (You don't really lose it, you just can't walk into it again until you pay the upkeep).
Although this may be true....i would wager it happens very rarely. Status items can be purchased on the broker if you are really hard up for status. Once you have the house from 30+ guild access....getting into the smallest of guilds to earn status for rent is easy. And i would wager selling status items farmed from low level mobs would also completely cover the cost.

Thanks in advance for any help!”

ARCHIVED-Kellin · Feb 15, 2007

Sethar wrote:

“Had some questions about Status Points (Personal/Guild).

I have been doing some various searches on the forums and I am getting some conflicting information, along with some outdated information. I just wanted to post what I've learned and please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this (I'm sure I am):

You must be in a guild to earn status points, do writs, buy items using status points, etc.
Incorrect. You gain personal status no matter if you're in a guild or not. In order to use them to buy things, however, you must be guilded (there are exceptions on PvP servers, but I won't go into that here). I believe you can still do writs if you're not guilded, but I'd need someone else to verify this for me.
10% of any status you earn goes towards your guild if you are a patron. If you are just a member, you don't contribute to the guild status at all.
The patron system was trashed a few LUs ago. Everyone in a guild contributes an amount equal to 10% of your personal status that you earned. This does not subtract from your personal status, it's more like a 10% match.

Having more than 12 patrons affects the speed of exp gain (imposes a penalty) for the guild. If you have patrons that have zero status, and never earn status, it hurts your guild.
Outdated information, no longer applies.

If you quit a guild, the guild loses all your status points but it does not affect the guild's experience level. When you join a new guild, they do not get your previously contributed guild points (it is reset to zero). Your personal status is unaffected (you retain it, although it is not visible until you join a new guild).
Correct.

You do not spend Guild Status points. The sole purpose is for gaining guild levels. Merchants never take from the Guild Status points, only from your personal status points.
Correct.

Writs yield status points based on guild level, not personal adventuring level.
Incorrect. Writs are based on your adventuring level. Therefore, a level 70 doing level 67 writs earns more than a level 40 doing level 40 writs. The points awarded are based on the level and difficulty (solo vs. heroic) of the writ.

Doing a bunch of writs with Academy of Arcane Science builds up faction with that group. It does not lower faction with others (such as Freeport Militia, Dismal Rage, etc.)
Correct. It used to, but no longer.

Each faction has its own vendor of items you can buy with personal status points, based on your personal faction level with that group (not the guilds overall faction).
Correct. The faction you build doing writs is all about you, not your guild.
City Merchants sell items based on your guild level, using personal status points to purchase.
Correct.

As long as you are in a Guild and meet the guild level requirements or faction requirements, you can buy any items you want from City Merchants or faction specific vendors. (Meaning that there is no difference if you are a patron or a regular member of the guild)
Correct, since the patron system is no longer in effect.

You get discounts on items such as horses or houses, based on guild level. The cash price goes down, but you have to pay personal status points.
Correct. Some items can still be purchased without status points, but they will cost more.

If you quit a guild but have a house that requires status points, you will not be able to earn personal status points (except by selling status point items to the appropriate people) effectively causing you to eventually "lose" your housing when your personal status pool dries up. (You don't really lose it, you just can't walk into it again until you pay the upkeep).
Incorrect. The house is yours, and you can continue to earn status for heritage quests and writs.

Thanks in advance for any help!”

ARCHIVED-nimrodblack_EQ2 · Feb 15, 2007

See...Kellin knew more then me...i think you have all your answers now.

ARCHIVED-Rhonara · Feb 15, 2007

Kellin wrote:

“Sethar wrote:

“You must be in a guild to earn status points, do writs, buy items using status points, etc.
Incorrect. You gain personal status no matter if you're in a guild or not. In order to use them to buy things, however, you must be guilded (there are exceptions on PvP servers, but I won't go into that here). I believe you can still do writs if you're not guilded, but I'd need someone else to verify this for me.”

”

I can verify that my baby Fae regularly does writs and receives personal status points without being guilded.

Rho

Log in or Sign up

Personal and Guild Status Point questions/clarification.

ARCHIVED-Sethar Guest

ARCHIVED-nimrodblack_EQ2 Guest

ARCHIVED-Kellin Guest

ARCHIVED-nimrodblack_EQ2 Guest

ARCHIVED-Rhonara Guest

Log in or Sign up

Personal and Guild Status Point questions/clarification.

ARCHIVED-Sethar Guest

ARCHIVED-nimrodblack_EQ2 Guest

ARCHIVED-Kellin Guest

ARCHIVED-nimrodblack_EQ2 Guest

ARCHIVED-Rhonara Guest

Useful Searches