I'm curious, for anyone that has found themselves without a guild in a new or older MMO lately. How did you go about finding friends, and a guild, to play with? Did you look through forum posts? Group with people for a dungeon, and found you liked them? Or just answer a spam message in general chat?
Lately I've found myself without a tight knit guild, kind of bouncing around, feeling quite listless. Usually I find that the people I'm playing with tie me down to an MMO more than the MMO it's self. Granted the MMO still needs to be decent, but if you have a really good group of players, you often times will find yourself playing a game long past it's expiration date just to play with "friends".
I would not like playing the game either if I could not join a Guild. Like, on one of the MMORPGs I play, you have to be lvl 32 before you can join a Guild. I think that game is Dragon Blood. BUT, you lvl up pretty fast. When you get to 30, sometimes it is harder to lvl, because there is not much you can do and you lose your stamina quickly and cannot enter the Crypt until your stamina reaches 30 out of 150, again. The Crypt is where you lvl up reallly quickly and can get lvl up fruits for your other characters to lvl up with. Than On League of Angels, I don't remember what lvl, but it can get pretty lonely out there when you have to play on your own. On Dragon Saga, I am lvl 36 or something like that, and I do want to join a Guild, but have not been able to as of yet. You have to be pretty fast to accept invites and stuff on there because they are timed. I lost an invite to a Guild because I clicked on the wrong button. But I will get into a good Guild on there. I have been playing MMORPGs since I can remember, for a very long time. It is just something that I really enjoy
Starting a game when it releases is the best way to find a new guild... just be social and talk to people you come across, etc. until you find the right fit.
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My suggestion is Check the forums, check the in game guild search
(If available), and talk to the leaders before joining. Ask them what
the guild is about and what they offer and tell them what you want out a
guild... and they should tell you if they can accommodate that. You
need to find the guild that is a match for you. Do not join a casual
guild as a hardcore endgame player, and do not join a hardcore guild as a
weekend warrior for example.
Gona make a few comment about the state of guilds though.
Not gona comment on casual guilds because they are all over the place in every modern mmo, but gona comment about endgame focused guilds.
Sadly in most games todays guilds are near meaningless simply because of the solo player design, everyone gets their own loot pool systems, dungeon finders, and ever more present shift to lower and lower man content.
I usually run a guild in the mmos I play, but I am finding it harder to find ppl who actually want to be in a guild... or I end up getting people who join but then never want to do any of the guild activities (Aka completely worthless members). It is getting harder and harder to actually run serious structured guilds these days.
This problem is one of the big cancers that is destroying the endgame communities in the genre... and mainstream mmos and the ever more casual focus is to blame. People simply do not need to group up together with a guild to accomplish things ingame... therefor todays guild in most mmo are nothing more then pointless chat channels, with minor buffs and vanity housing. Hell some games like ffxiv you can get the BIS gear for everything and only need a small static group. Or you actually get punished for running with the guild as a whole because of lockouts and no worthwhile large scale fights (looking at you again FFXIV).
People came together and formed guilds and bonds with each other in earlier mmos, including WoW, to be able to complete the hardest content in the game, work as a guild towards progression, and for loot to be distributed in a fair and organized manner with all those who attended. Sadly that aspect is all but lost in the current AAA releases.
If there is a forum where people list and describe their guilds, I start there.
Failing that, I stand in a city and watch people as they go by. The guild names are a clue (not definitive, but an indication) of what the guild may be like.
A guild like <Playah Killas> is probably pvp oriented and has a youthful membership.
A guild like <Guardians of Lothlorian Mist> is probably PvE, roleplay and has an older membership.
A guild like <Blue Berry Cuddle Bears> is either a social guild or a pvp troll name (because who wants to be wrecked in PvP by someone in a guild called cuddle bears?).
A guild called <Elite Raid Force> probably at least thinks it's a raid guild.
Based off of those assumptions I send a tell to someone in a guild that appears to fit what i am looking for and say "May I ask you a few questions about your guild?
Usually works.
"Guild finder" in WoW is a complete pos btw.
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My suggestion is Check the forums, check the in game guild search (If available), and talk to the leaders before joining. Ask them what the guild is about and what they offer and tell them what you want out a guild... and they should tell you if they can accommodate that. You need to find the guild that is a match for you. Do not join a casual guild as a hardcore endgame player, and do not join a hardcore guild as a weekend warrior for example.
Gona make a few comment about the state of guilds though.
Not gona comment on casual guilds because they are all over the place in every modern mmo, but gona comment about endgame focused guilds.
Sadly in most games todays guilds are near meaningless simply because of the solo player design, everyone gets their own loot pool systems, dungeon finders, and ever more present shift to lower and lower man content.
I usually run a guild in the mmos I play, but I am finding it harder to find ppl who actually want to be in a guild... or I end up getting people who join but then never want to do any of the guild activities (Aka completely worthless members). It is getting harder and harder to actually run serious structured guilds these days.
This problem is one of the big cancers that is destroying the endgame communities in the genre... and mainstream mmos and the ever more casual focus is to blame. People simply do not need to group up together with a guild to accomplish things ingame... therefor todays guild in most mmo are nothing more then pointless chat channels, with minor buffs and vanity housing. Hell some games like ffxiv you can get the BIS gear for everything and only need a small static group. Or you actually get punished for running with the guild as a whole because of lockouts and no worthwhile large scale fights (looking at you again FFXIV).
People came together and formed guilds and bonds with each other in earlier mmos, including WoW, to be able to complete the hardest content in the game, work as a guild towards progression, and for loot to be distributed in a fair and organized manner with all those who attended. Sadly that aspect is all but lost in the current AAA releases.
Failing that I join a guild with people that I randomly group with outside of an instance.
Or if it's a game a bit more serious like EvE or similar, I find one with the same goals.
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Failing that, I stand in a city and watch people as they go by. The guild names are a clue (not definitive, but an indication) of what the guild may be like.
A guild like <Playah Killas> is probably pvp oriented and has a youthful membership.
A guild like <Guardians of Lothlorian Mist> is probably PvE, roleplay and has an older membership.
A guild like <Blue Berry Cuddle Bears> is either a social guild or a pvp troll name (because who wants to be wrecked in PvP by someone in a guild called cuddle bears?).
A guild called <Elite Raid Force> probably at least thinks it's a raid guild.
Based off of those assumptions I send a tell to someone in a guild that appears to fit what i am looking for and say "May I ask you a few questions about your guild?
Usually works.
"Guild finder" in WoW is a complete pos btw.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests