In Mists of Pandaria, I was on the B-Team of a guild raid team. Then the A team disbanded and we were the only team. Our guild leader and one of his lady friends left the server, leaving the guild with his alt for better progression. Then we cleared heroic Throne of Thunder, and got server first normal Garrosh.
Suddenly the guild leader decided he and his friend wanted to come back. So they started edging their way into the heroic raid. The lady was a healer who would do stuff like stand in the fire. I was the only healer who wasn’t an officer meaning I was on the chopping block.
So suddenly the guild leader started accusing me of sending her harassing whispers. He wouldn’t provide the names of the toons, not the text of the whispers so I could do a writing analysis of.
So I took a screenshot of all my wow clients with full character lists and available character restores (meaning I didn’t delete/restore in the past month). I think I also contacted Blizzard and had a GM confirm I hadn’t been making or deleting or restoring on any account.
The raid leader thought it was nonsense and they didn’t want to deal with it anymore so we moved to a new guild tag.
Eventually the raid leader burned out and quit. Without him, the raging verbally abusive people started flying off the handle. I don’t do well with yelling so I started getting quiet and distant to protect myself. Then a girl joined, a healer. Then one of the officers told me they were benching me for three weeks because they felt I was burned out because I wasn’t acting like my cheerful talkative self anymore. It was dumb. I thought about it for a while and decided that I shouldn’t have to take an acute anxiety med to play a video game and peaced.
I pugged heroic and got both 10 and 25 man heroic before they got it.
They lost the server first race.
Much later a couple of ex guildmates were telling me what happened. The raging and benching was blackballing and intended to get me to quit to make room for that lady. The lady was dating the rage lord.
Another told me that she was terrible and they had to bring someone else in and that they wanted me to come back. And I told them to go pound sand.
Always. Most of the guild drama I see is petty though. Did have a main tank just rage quick mid raid in mythic nathria cuz he has 1 piece of constructive criticism said to him.
so i started playing tbc classic and was looking for a leveling guild. i joined this one guild and got to around level 16 ish when midsummer festival started so naturally i went and did the fires on each of my alts on both retail and classic.
I come back after like 2 weeks to find i’m guildless. at first i thought it was because i had been logged out for too long. but later i join new leveling guild from some of the members of the old guild i had joined and find out the gm had a meltdown on discord over something and kicked everyone out of the guild and disbanded it.
I got into a crappy situation where I was friends with the GM and also the girl he dated in the guild. They had long term plans on getting together and were already video chatting/calling. So far the obstacle was being in two different countries but they had plans of getting together in the summer.
Then one day he got drunk and told me in DM that he was actually married with two children I was honestly shocked and short of telling him that he should not get into something with a girl online (and making her think it’s for real) while being married - and that he needs to tell her - I didn’t have much to say. The next day he read our conversation and begged me not to tell the girl in the guild.
She really thought he was the best thing since sliced bread and as her friend - and the person she called “a girl’s girl” it was just a crappy situation that obviously did not end well… then the guild died rip
Ohh boy lets go to the dark place in my raiding past. I was in a guild in the burning crusade era I forget the name now dark portal something, whatever it was I was at the time the main tank for the guild.
During this time my mother got very sick and her cancer pretty much showed her why everyone fears it, hates it and it is a horrid sickness and took her life. I had to of course take about a week off - Missing the total of 2 SSC raids as we where progressing on warlord whats his face with the extra adds. When I came back the following week I learned I was demoted even though I told my GM and officers what happened the reply was:
“I mean, it was your mom but did you think about the guild and what it meant to us? You didn’t even consider how far it set us back and now we are behind a week because you selfishly took time off. Your mom is gone so what where you going to do there? You couldn’t do anything but you could have been there for us and, you let us down and you are done raiding with us”
I ended up having a talk with her, but as both of their friend, I wanted to give him a chance to come clean himself. Better to hear the truth directly from him than second hand, or so I would prefer myself. At least have that shred of decency once the cat it out of the bag… alas, he did not. I feel for his wife.
1st guild mostly the randoms just starting bs and we either kicked them or they quit. then one day one guy in our clique we were on discord together and they are making fun of me in a racist way like they always do. i let it go of course including his wife who doesn’t even play yet alone knows me well enough to say thing kind of things. never said anything. then i said 1 bad word to her and she went off XD. gave him the whole lecture you gotta choose me over him when he didn’t care what i said. i legit told um bro i know what you gotta do i aint even gonna be mad at you. that was the last time i talked to him. my friends were all telling me how i was in the wrong and im like why? she was saying racist things to me despite i let it go multiple times and she doesn’t know me well enough to say those kinds of things to me either. said 1 bad thing to her and im in the wrong? lol
the 2nd one was pretty much in a guild that didn’t like us. we’d always ask if they wanted to run content or help us push M+ only select few who did like us do content with us outside of raiding. one day our RL who was the GM was yelling at us on a fight she was 100% wrong about in terms of why she was yelling at us for. got annoyed with it and logged out of discord. even while in discord i knew the fight and mechanics i mean we wiped on it so many times same thing happened. next raid day tried to get in and they won’t invite me and someone whispers me that next time i should be in discord. so they basically benched me. that same night took our lock out pugged it and cleared the boss we were stuck on. that same week i cleared the raid got aotc before all of them and they were still stuck on that same boss.
had my friends pug it with me and we cleared it the next week and they were still stuck on that boss. we left that guild well i did after they benched me. all 3 of us top 5 dps. even out dps’d their mage who was more geared then my mage.
RL yelled about how we weren’t pushing enough dps and doing mechanics and this and that and in reality our dps was fine but the mechanics part yea a lot of them were not even doing mechanics at all. only me and like 3 other people doing the mechanics hell we had a damn melee soaking a ranged pool that is how bad it was.
The span of this whole SL expack has been terrible. My long-time guild that I raided in since MoP fell apart.
The GM was burnt out from raid leading and GMing so many years he passed the torch to a purposefully bad choice which near-immediately killed the guild… while he jumped ship with all his toons to Horde.
I tried finding a new home but guilds already have their cliques and I fit in none of them. Sigh.
So I have my own guild - Bane of Existence is just my alt army where I share resources now. It’s very lonely.
I hated SL - and I hate SL more because I blame it’s terrible end-game for our guild breakup.
I don’t know that I’ll keep playing WoW tho - this game really (to me) isn’t fun solo. And a lot of my drive to keep going is gone.
A friend of mine was in this guild That had an elitist RL who invited and kicked him out of a alt raid group cause He didn’t know mechanic on one of the later bosses. Heroic boss.
The rest of the raid group were alts with mains who were well progressed into mythic. They didn’t want to spend time letting him learn a Heroic boss.
Unfortunately for the said RL, he forgot that he and my friend were friends on Bnet RealID and had exchanged Facebook contacts before.
A simple check revealed his workplace and personal details. He was a civil servant. It wasn’t hard to compile send an email to his superior with all his doings and miss doings which were recorded on Guild Chat. Friend Used alts to bait him into commenting on some controversial topics like LBGT and Racism etc and screen shot the chats and compile them into a long word document. Basically he said things that weren’t politically correct.
He didn’t get fired but he got spoken to by HR. My friend then threatened him that he would send another load of word document of his guild conversations to another superior within his firm. He didn’t login anymore and last checked he had stopped playing wow.
A guy on the internet was mean to your friend so you baited him into saying nasty stuff and tried to get him fired from his irl job? Sounds to me like you and your friend were the toxic ones.
Sure. It partly involved me. I was recruited in TBC to join this guild’s raid team for wrath. They never told me I was just a temporary while their main healer was taking a break. Then the guild fell apart before Ulduar. Then the council/leaders all transferred servers out of embarrassment.
And somehow it was one of TBC’s best guilds. Very shady people I found out who went rogue in wrath I guess to screw everyone over
I’ve seen my share of guild drama through the years. The one that sticks out the most was a guild I was a member of in vanilla. They used a DKP system to determine loot distribution, and there was a hunter who was notorious for hoarding points and yanking good items from classes who could put them to better use. This was usually a source of drama in itself, but it really came to a head during a BWL raid when Ashkhandi dropped. At the time, aside from Sulfuras, that was the best 2 handed weapon in the game, and the absolute best in slot for warriors. So the warriors all threw in their bids for the item, and this was when hunters could use literally any weapon in the main hand, because their bows/guns went into a different slot. They used main hand weapons as “stat sticks” and really didn’t actually use them for attacking. So all the warriors were excited and overjoyed at this coveted weapon finally dropping. Then the hunter chimes in. At first everyone thought he was joking. But when he stated that he was serious and explained how big of a stat boost it was, a conversation among the guild’s leadership began. It went on for some time, and was eventually decided that the “right thing to do” was to let the hunter take it, as much as they all agreed that it was a scummy thing for him to take it from the warriors. The main tank, who was loot master and raid leader and also the guild master said some choice words, took the weapon, disbanded the raid and disbanded the guild and then kicked everyone off the vent server.
I can’t say that I disagree with his decision. I didn’t feel like he was wrong at the time, and in reflection, I still don’t. I always felt like the hunter was just being a tool, and I still feel that way.
#1. Back in Vanilla, one of our guildmates ninja’ed a piece of gear from another guildmate. This caused our guild to split into three groups - the filthy casuals not involved in the drama, a group that sided the ninja, and a group that sided with the ninja’ed. Two of the 3 groups quit the guild to go join other guilds.
Most of the players involved in that even haven’t played the game since Wrath. The ninja does pop up as active on my friends list from time to time. I sometimes wonder if he ever thought it was worth it.
#2. A married couple played WoW with their teen son as part of our guild. Dad started carrying on with someone in another guild in which he had an alt. Naughty chats and texts, exchanging pics, that sort of thing. Mom found out and torched Dad’s account, deleting all of his characters and changing his login info and account email. She then quit the game.
I’m going to be light on details but in general mine have been culture clash issues
Back in early wrath I think? The GM just logged in locked the GB and demoted everybody.
We then reformed into a casual raiding guild, that went well except for the nepotism within the officers meant that it was all the same family. They were more interested in gearing their alts than making progression. I’m noted for being rather blunt and I was… they didn’t like this and kicked me. This then lead to my current guild. There has been some drama since because I’m an idiot but that was my fault and I hope I’ve grown up since then.
I also had an alt on a guild on another server, the guild had a guild coup where the officers were conspiring behind the co-gms back (we have actual proof on that). For a variety of reasons the GM didn’t kick them (like I’d been urging them to do) after they de-facto harassed multiple people from the guild. The GM finally turned over the guild to them and they kicked me because I dared disagree with their philosophy. Allegedly that faction didn’t like me anyway. Last I checked they were try-hard mythic raiding and anyone that wasn’t in that clique had been sidelined and relegated. I’ve never been happier to be kicked for not violating rules.
I was honestly shocked and short of telling him that he should not get into something with a girl online (and making her think it’s for real) while being married - and that he needs to tell her - I didn’t have much to say. The next day he read our conversation and begged me not to tell the girl in the guild.