After playing the game since launch and largely ignoring influence, I decided I should really read up on it, because I had a few questions.
According to the wiki:
1. You earn influence for the guild just by logging on. This influence is per character, with a max of five per 24 hours. So if you log on to all five characters, you get the guild an award for each one. There are diminishing returns, however. A log on gets 10 influence for the guild for the first 20. After 20, it's 5 influence up to 50 log ons. After that it's only 1 per. So depending on how many of us are logging on in a given day, it may not even be worth having to watch the loading screen for four additional characters.
2. I knew influence rewards increase if we are doing things together, rather than solo. What I wasn't sure on was whether we need to be partied for the bonus. According to the Wiki, we do. Doing a dynamic event solo earns 2 influence for the guild. Doing it grouped with at least one other guild member gets 20. So when we run into each other waiting for a world boss or out doing dailies, we should group up to maximize influence earning.
Doing a dungeon with one or two guild members gets 10 influence per member. Doing it with 3 or more takes it to 100 influence.
3. If you are on overflow, you don't earn influence.
I wasn't aware of these things, so I though I'd share them.
According to the wiki:
1. You earn influence for the guild just by logging on. This influence is per character, with a max of five per 24 hours. So if you log on to all five characters, you get the guild an award for each one. There are diminishing returns, however. A log on gets 10 influence for the guild for the first 20. After 20, it's 5 influence up to 50 log ons. After that it's only 1 per. So depending on how many of us are logging on in a given day, it may not even be worth having to watch the loading screen for four additional characters.
2. I knew influence rewards increase if we are doing things together, rather than solo. What I wasn't sure on was whether we need to be partied for the bonus. According to the Wiki, we do. Doing a dynamic event solo earns 2 influence for the guild. Doing it grouped with at least one other guild member gets 20. So when we run into each other waiting for a world boss or out doing dailies, we should group up to maximize influence earning.
Doing a dungeon with one or two guild members gets 10 influence per member. Doing it with 3 or more takes it to 100 influence.
3. If you are on overflow, you don't earn influence.
I wasn't aware of these things, so I though I'd share them.