Comments on: What, exactly, is a “good guild”?

By: Al

Al — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:52:34 +0000

I like to experience WOW and find it very hard to do so with so many that treat it like a college class, where everything is to be studied. Don’t get me wrong, I like to come prepared with food and other buffs, but not “knowing” everything about an encounter that my character would not know.

To me, this spoils the excitement. Already “knowing” how to beat a boss before I’ve ever faced him and having someone tell me exactly what to do because they’ve already done it, is not as much fun as figuring it out on my own. Brainstorming with a group of guys who are facing it for the first time.

I got a group together of 4 guys who took the challenge of beating all the 5 man dungeons at or below the recommended level. Half the fun was figuring out how to beat the MOBS without already “knowing” how others had done it. We finally beat them all and it was a lot of fun.

I’d love to find a group that wanted to do the 10 man raids that way too. But most I’ve been in so far are led by someone who already “knows” everything. Not much fun in my book. People just after the gear and not the experience. In a hurry to get stuff and wanting every advantage they can find getting fully decked out 80′s to help them.

What makes a good guild? A group of guys that learn how to work together and compliment each other, rather than following the “one and only right way” to do every boss. Ones who are creative and come up with new ideas, rather than just follow what others have done before. Ones who are as interested in seeing you advance and get better as themselves, because they know the strength is in the team, not any one individual.

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:23:53 +0000

Aeritmus, I completely understand where you are coming from =)

It is always easier to always complain about all the frustrations than to recognize all the positives! I fall into that trap all the time…and then smack myself a bit when I realize that I really am greatful for all the good things we’ve got!

Sof, That is most definately a tough place to be! Guild splits are always hard. Leaving a guild is always hard. Having all of your friends one place and you another is also hard!

I’m not sure what I’d do if I were in your shoes…but I’m sure that everything will work itself out!

By: sofandtree

sofandtree — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:49:18 +0000

Brilliant post.
I’m currently very much rock and hard place. I have a very hectic real life at the moment, and I’m in a casual raiding guild, who’s raiding needs fit mine – once or twice a week, and you don’t get shouted at if you can’t attend.
However calling to me keenly is a spin-off from my old guild. I used to be a semi-hardcore raider with them, four or five nights a week.
They split off from the main guild (whom I left due to personal problems and I wanted to cut down on my raiding), and none of the people who were getting me down in old place, are in the new one.
They want me to come back to them, but I feel really loyal to my current group of people.
At the moment I have an alt in the spin-off guild (Sapphrina), but I feel really 50-50 split as to where Espreya should be.

By: Aertimus

Aertimus — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:31:33 +0000

I do the same thing. I don’t know how many times I find myself thinking and yelling about “how much LOKI sucks” with temperature and voice raised to very slowly remember that we are 5th Ally guild on our server… that the front page of our server on WoWProgress. I used to be in a guild that probably wouldn’t have made page two.

Whats a good guild? I think you covered all the stuff that would be important to me if I were searching for a new guild. I would want a guild who would think two or three times about letting me in and make sure they thought I was good enough. A guild with a good rep, who gave people a fair chance, but didn’t hold their hands.

I guess I know the guild I’m in right now is a good guild for me because my heart would break 100% if I had to leave.