GM and Officer guild messaging

Orbyious · January 13

During the stream on the 8th there was a throw away comment that there will be a way for GM and Officers to be able to to members of their guilds.
I do not seem to be able to find any thing else about this
Could someone please point me to another references bout this?

Thormar · January 13

TL;DR: Guild Messaging is coming, but likely not in Season Zero (Update 49)

From the screenshots of the January 7th reveal, 2026 will have:

Season Zero - Spring,
Season One - Summer and
Season Two - Autumn.

Each of these 3 Seasons has a 'Player Experience Improvements' component.
Season Zero, Season One and Season Two screen:

As for Season Zero, its 'Player Experience Improvements' consists of:

What you're inquiring about is shown below but since it's not included in the 'PEI' of Season Zero it's coming in either Season One or Two.

Aislinna · January 13

During today's stream (Jan 12), at around the 1 hour mark, they said that guild changes were in the early design stages and she had nothing to share at this time, but when the design is further along, they would regroup with the participants from last year's guild summit to share with them and get feedback.

Orbyious · January 13

Thank you Thormar and Aislinna the end on 2026 now

Whizzinglane · January 13

What I would like is to have one of my characters in a guild, not all of them in one guild. For example, I would like my Vampire character in a Vampiric Guild, my Templar in a guild that focuses on Paladin, my Sorcerer in a guild that focuses on Sorcery or Magic, etc. and so forth.

Please consider this change, ZoS. Thank you!

wolfie1.0. · January 13

This probably wont happen. Not now.
Everything is going account wide not character specific.

ZOS_Kevin · January 13

We will share this with the team for feedback. However there are some technical considerations we need to make when factoring in for this.

The bigger of those is just backend management of that information. Keeping it account wide rather than character wide reduces the amount of information being managed, and helping with overall performance.

With that said, we will share this for future consideration as we continue to look at ways we can build and support guilds.

Soarora · January 13

Generally, I don’t imagine this would make for a very good play experience as the only guild type this would be beneficial for are roleplay guilds. This would reduce interaction within guilds as less people would be seeing the chat. And cause a logistical problem if every character counts as a slot in the 500 limit (and officers would need to join the guild they’re staff in… on every character anyways).

QueenMisi · January 13

Please god no. I can see how it might appeal to the handful of hardcore role players, but it would be a nightmare from a guild management perspective. Plus as mentioned above, each account needing up to 20 slots per guild to accommodate their characters.

Eurymachos · January 13

For the love of all that's good, nooooooo.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most guilds are all about people and not characters. Most guilds want and expect you to be able to bring all of your characters along. Obviously RP guilds are slightly different.

Obviously you can already RP your character being in a guild, so what is it in ESO that interferes with that RP? I can think of a few and I can think of ways for ZOS to help.

Guild bank: Currently ESO remembers the last guild bank you visited on any character and that's the default guild bank any other character sees. e.g. Your templar visits the paladin bank and then when you are playing your vampire, they also see the templar bank first when they go to the guild bank. ZOS could keep this default setting on a per-character basis.
Guild store: Same as the bank.
Guild window: Same story again, and same fix.
Guild messages in chat. I think this is already remembered on a per-character basis and you can turn off templar guild chat for your vampire character.
In-game mail: This one gets ugly.

The in-game mail is player based and it really needs to be.

Imagine for a moment that there was a way for roleplayers to have a mail setting that meant vampires and templars had a way to only be able to see vampire and templar mail respectively for immersion. You have a friend that runs both a templar and a vampire just like you and you are both in the same guilds. You announce in templar chat that you have run out of holy potions of restoration (tri-pots) and your templar friend says "brother I've got you sorted" and they send you tri-pots in the mail. But they don't arrive. You say they haven't arrived and the friend says they've been sent.

What's happened is that the friend sent them from their vampire character and forgot that their vampire character sent the tri-pots to your vampire character. Your templar character doesn't have access to vampire mail and now once you two have figured out where the tri-pots are, you have to do a bunch of shuffling to get them out of the mail and onto the character you want. Ugh.

I think ZOS can help with the RP, but I don't think it requires a lot of work from them.

Ngā mihi,
Eurymachos

Prophet_of_Malacath · January 13

You have no idea how bad this is.

In WoW, you effectively had to pick... do you want PVE, PVP, RP, etc? I didnt play with my own IRL friends because they were PVE casuals and i wanted to PVP.

ESO fixed all that. 5 guild slots? Now i can PVE in a Trial - and not miss important Officer chat from my RP guilds. I can queue for a Battleground - and still see my Trade guild announce an event. They maximize engagement via account-based, so if one guild is slow, we can pivot to the next.

Whizzinglane · 1:24AM

Thank you! I understand.

Qyrk · 2:35AM

I don’t support this at all. Not only will this encounter backend issues leading to poor performance (I didn’t even see Kevin’s reply before this), management of guilds should ideally be streamlined. I like that ESO is unique with being able to join multiple guilds but in real practice, I like that people will be able to know what’s going on in other guild chats that I may have missed.

From an RP perspective, there is already current tools you can do from the base UI alone that will help you Vampire char = Vampire guild, Templar char = paladin guild etc —> you can change your Chat settings to only show the respective guild chats and deselect others. That way your other guild chats doesn’t take away from RP narratives that you’re engaging in.

ArchangelIsraphel · 6:16AM

I'd really rather have the guilds stay account wide. I'd rather see the amount of guild slots increased on an account wide basis than see guilds get limited to being character-specific. Especially since we really, really need our trade guilds on every character. (I don't personally need more than 5 guild slots, but others might find it useful to have the number increased.)

DragonRacer · 12:30PM

As a GM, I never want to see something like that implemented because how would that even work? Alert the guild if they want to be able to see guild chat/participate, they need to have every single toon they own join?

And how would that affect the 30-item trader listing limit? Does one account with 10 toons have all 10 toons join their trader guild and they go from 30 items to 300 item listings? That could be interesting, I suppose, but I'm just still trying to envision the nightmare of having each individual toon re-enrolled into all their 5 guilds...

Pevey · 1:20PM

On the original topic of guild mails, I hope they also enable a way to opt out of receiving them. I think the fact that they are tedious and somewhat risky to send currently is the only thing keeping the volume of message spam somewhat under control.

lillybit · 1:25PM

I wish we could turn off chats like this on console, would love to turn off zone chat!