by the way, when we hit guild rank 18, we picked up two more standard bearer titles. If you're ever interested in being able to use one, just ask an officer to assign you one.
Our current standard gives you, your party , and guildies in your raid a 25% run speed buff, Bonus Influence during PQs, XP from kills, and 20% faster AP regen. It's really nice for working over an area in a group.
A few things to note:
1) When you plant a standard, you have 1 hour to pick it up before it decays.
2) If you die while holding a standard, it is destroyed.
3) If a Destro player has 15s with nobody hitting them, they can claim your standard.
When these happen, you have to buy another standard. They're 2g each - so not a huge deal for the higher-level folks. However, if you claim a destro banner (or vice-versa) the captured banner can be placed in a keep... kind of a "neener neener, we stole your banner" kinda-thing.
4) We have two different banners. The Warrior's Standard currently only has 1 tactic on it. We'll get additional spots as our guild continues to level. For now, the Recruit Standard is the one you'll want to purchase.
5) To equip the Standard, you have to purchase it, move it to your paperdoll, slot it on a hot bar, then click the hotbar button.
it takes a few seconds to deploy. While holding the standard, you are unable to perform any action except Stowing the standard (click your hotbar again), Plant (slams in into the ground), Standard's Blessing (15s shield - use it to stow the standard during battle), and Slam (damage and knockback for all nearby destro)
Timers:
Planting is instant
Deploying takes 5 seconds
Stowing takes 10 seconds
Reclaiming takes 15 seconds
Claiming a destro standard takes 15 seconds.
Lastly, any Standard Bearer can claim a keep (tier 4 only, i think) At this time, we are not claiming keeps because they are expensive to claim, and we don't have enough high-level people to defend them. The longer a keep is claimed, the stronger it's defenses will be... so obviously, we want to hold it until it's maxed out.
