I’m pretty sure you can’t, but is there a way to hold onto a previous guild while testing the waters in a new one? Some group dynamics don’t work out and it’d be nice to be able to pop back over to a previous guild and not lose guild progress/rewards. Do you lose all guild exp and benefits if you leave and come back? Can we have a “main” guild and “secondary” guild?
Nah, other than by joining said guild on an alt and not the character you have in the guild. Guilds are meant to have some kind of loyalty / structure involving social customs to them. If you wanna try one out, you gotta actually commit to it, rather than just pick and choose which one you feel like being in on a given day.
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I wish. I’d have all my toons in a personal guild to share loot in that guild’s vault even if they are in other guilds for actual raiding, M+, PvP etc.
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You can with an alt.
If you’re on a high populated realm, you can join a secondary community while being in your original. I know several people who dedicate being in a guild, but they don’t participate in things like mythic+. Therefore they join a community dedicated to RP, if not PvP.
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This! This!! THIS!
This is right up there with sharing rep account wide for me. Different guilds do different things. Not to mention how there are so many guilds that are barren between large content events.
Additionally, I’m not going to find a guild name as great as I currently have. I wouldn’t want to fly another banner.
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I love my RP guild to death. I’ve written fiction about them that’s going to languish in Google Drive until the heat death of the universe. I would LOVE to be able to be in a content-focused guild at the same time so that I can actually do stuff and maybe actually git gudt. But between the two, I must stick with the RP guild.
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The closest thing I’ve experienced was an MMO I played ages ago that had a guild alliance system, where you can add ally and enemy/rival guilds. Though most of the features from forming that pact had a benefit for guild pvp.
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I wish I had the time and patience to join guilds with alts to find one I might actually like. The main one I’m in is dead with 2-4 people on at a time but often just me. I really only want it for socialization and maybe join up for group things once and awhile but nothing serious, but I hop around my alts too much and I don’t know if I can bring myself to leave the guild I’m in, dead or otherwise, since a family member is the one who did it.
It’s boring though when there is no one to talk to or I ding a bunch of achievs and no one is on to say congrats… 
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What you are looking for is the “Community groups”, not guilds.
Not the same thing but if you want to be in multiple different communities then that’s the best thing you can do in-game.
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Still forever wishing we had ESO’s guild system. Since everything is tied to your @handle, not individual characters, you’re allowed 5 guild slots to cover all necessities - raiding, trading, social, rp, etc.
Genuinely has been the best guild system I’ve come across (not to mention their guild finder is a lot more robust), and let you have a private and/or close-knit guild while still getting your feelers out into other ones for various content or entertainment.
Would love to see something like it in WoW one day, though I’m sure it’ll take a lot of overhauling the guild system (and probably the account system itself) to ever get something like it. Warbands at least are sort of a step in a good direction to tying your alts together a bit easier.
Community groups would work well enough until then, if the system wasn’t one of the most buggy things I’ve ever encountered. 
I attempted to set one up for my guild of friends, so we could have a contact between Alliance and Horde on our realm (before guilds were allowed to be cross-faction), and it only actually displayed people’s messages maybe 30% of the time. Either you’d never see your message go through at all, you’d never see others’ responses, or you’d have to keep the big menu for it open just to talk in it properly.
It’s the same for another community I joined. I never see messages from it unless I open up the big window.
It could almost solve the issues, if it didn’t have so many bugs - but a lot of people still seem to favor guilds over community, regardless.
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