Guild score

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should guilds have a score that allows players looking to join a guild an easy way to determine if the guild is good or not?

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They already do. It’s called the guild achievement. It’s a bit easier to view with 3rd-party websites, etc.

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Define “good” for the purposes of this topic

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Pretty much impossible to account for preference. Some of the guilds I’ve liked the most others would spend like 1 reset in, maybe less. Some that I cut trials short and noped out of other people might consider their favorite guild. To much comes down to your personality and what you want your guild to be.

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Oh great ,now a rank for a guild ,no. Do you want a guild war ?

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I imagine you would be able to ‘inspect’ the guild to see a variety of data

I also imagine this would be integrated into a new ‘guild finder’ in the game

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how do you condense a “variety of data” into a score that is in any way meaningful?

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We had guild levels in Cata. All of the smaller guilds whined. Fun stuff was taken away, instead of revamped.

I’d rather see a fun system of levels put back in. Something not so detrimental to small guilds.

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Guild levels were terrible. They had every right to whine.

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Guild levels were fun and we earned cool stuff. It got guilds to work together and be a team and socialize. Revamped into something not so “if you don’t have this, your guild is useless” and it would be great.

You can create a system that even small guilds can earn levels.

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I think it would be useful to have some more readily available information on them.

Like for an example I would find helpful: If you love keys and see the guild as a whole runs like 7 keys a week, probably not worth your time. Or you can tell with that if they’re a heavy raid logging guild.

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HWGT was so nice :confused: I still miss it

on topic, there is no doubt that the in-game guild finder is absolutely awful. but I don’t think a generic “score” would be at all helpful.

Some things they could do to improve it:

show raid progression
show how many keys run a week in guild groups
show pvp information
set guild profiles to expire after X months unless actively mantained
better searching
more room to type information about the guild

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For me this is an easy equation. It’s simply : Add up all the io scores x awesome - (minus) awe = some (of the time it’s a great guild).

Yeah it’s just me. So what!? big whoop, wanna fight about it? Didn’t think so
:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I wish the in-game inspect page told you more about a guild, like its prog, highest key and pvp scores in the guild, how long the guild has been around, etc.

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you have different tabs.

one tab for ‘activity’
average number of players online per week
average playtime per week

one tab for ‘pve’
see the bosses the guild has defeated, and on what difficulties, etc

one tab for ‘pvp’
see which players pvp, and their ratings

maybe a guild F.A.Q. page where the guild master can write some text to answer common questions

some questions will allow input, like, ‘what time do you raid’? etc.
this way other players can use the guild finder to run a search only for guilds that raid during those days/times

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ok and I totally agree that’s all great information that should be displayed

but that’s not a score. I think distilling all that to a single score is a bad idea, but I think displaying the information is an excellent idea.

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A “good” guild can mean so many different things to different people. It would be unrealistic and inaccurate to try to represent that with a score.

But, I do agree it would be nice if players had better ways to search for guilds. The in-game guild finder needs a lot of improvements.

The guilds should have better ways to describe themselves, put up recruitment posts, etc. And the applicants should be able to easily look up various details about the guild without referring to 3rd party sites.

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You just add it all up and divide by the number of sources obviously

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Well “good” is pretty much open to anyone’s interpretation. I mean what would the score be based off of? If you base it off guild progress in raiding, then “good” doesn’t actually have the same value for a dedicated mythic+ or PvP player does it? If you base it off the PvP ratings of their members, then it has no merit to someone looking for a mythic raiding guild.

Instead just look at potential guilds and see if they are doing things you would enjoy and seek out those that are.