Yeah I'll go guilded. I agree with Sea though. At the very least, can a guild build two cities right off the bat? Maybe we can have 2 cities in parallel: A hamlet near noob spawns where we all meet up, quest together, farm together, pvp together, etc. And from that hamlet we feed gold into the guild bank to level up the Cairn city. Once we're all well-geared, we have 50+ main weapon skills, and we have a 50+ parry tank, we head to cairn. Remember though Minos and shit will supposedly be hard(er) as hell in release, so it might take 75 skill or something.

BoS Archon
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