Anyone else out there struggle to really find a good social fit and end up making a private guild for yourself? Back in Wrath I was in a 10man guild, we had about 25ish maybe 30 people in the guild and 15 or so of us were active. We raided a few days a week, became pretty good friends, even doing two meetups in Vegas.
In late summer of 2010, our then guild leader had some very serious personal life things happen and the guild fell apart. Since then, I’ve searched high and low, to find a guild like that. I’ve just never found my tribe.
In 2019 I came across a YouTuber named Kraken Latte, who does a lot of amazing videos on the game, tips and tricks that have helped her. Once of the things she’d suggested was making your own personal guild. I’d never really considered it.
I’ve been playing the game solo since 2016, so I decided to make my own guild. It’s kind of cool really. It makes sharing things with the 40ish alts across my account easy and also on my second account as well.
So are there any other solo players like myself who’ve just made your own guild and create stories for your character within that?
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The couple guilds I tried out were great. I just dont have the desire to play on a schedule or when someone else is ready and Im not in the mood.
I have my own private guilds for storage space the the guild perks now.
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It’s all about Community’s! Not Guilds 
Guilds are server’s that are connected try getting someone to sign the form for your guild like say Org (All Horde should be easy right to get 5?) Nope half of them couldn’t due to server restrictions. This made it really hard for me to get Rated Bg’s going. So I did a little research and created a community through Battlenet. Find it’s much easier to do the in game community as you can post links to discord etc. Where in game is toon based so youd have to sign up with all alts too. It took me about a month to have a solid community of roughly 30 members and run rated bg’s every two days with almost full groups going into them with pretty much the same core players every time. Solo is over rated! 2’s and 3’s make you a good player not solo’s.
My current guild is just me.
All of me have a lot of fun together.
When cross-faction opens up there will be even more of me to have fun with!
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I watch Kraken from time to time. Ive run a solo guild for about 10+ years now. Everyone I knew has retired and I am too social anxious to join with new people (Ive tried.)
So yeah. If you were to check my guild, it would be all my characters. Sharing a bank and such
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I’ve had my own personal guilds for years now. Mainly for the guild bank. Guilds plural, I have many alts on 4 or 5 servers.
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This is my personal guild. I have a few characters with personal guilds that just add to the flavor established by the name, etc. I don’t have any characters in an actual guild with other people.
A couple of times I’ve thought “why not join a guild?” Generally speaking drama and idiocy very quickly disabuse me of that notion.
I would genuinely rather accomplish less if it means I need to interact with fewer people. I don’t mind queues and even some team-ups for hard world quests or what not, but actually making friends on the internet has literally never gone well for me and I’ve had the internet since 1995.
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I’ve considered it every now and then, but as it wouldn’t actually solve the issue that I normally run into in WoW when I reach endgame these days (with a job that makes 95%+ of guilds’ - or really static groups in general, I even tried FFXIV to see if maybe the 8 person groups there would make it any easier, but it really didn’t - raid schedules a no go for starters), have never actually gone through with it.
(I have occasionally created solo guilds in mobile games, usually because of things being heavily built around guild vs guild PvP so the newbie guides would always tell you, get a guild ASAP because of extra daily/weekly resources or the next goal in the “progression growth track” would ask for an action exclusive to guild members, but actual guilds only wanted long timers or well-paid whales so it became about the only recourse. But in an actual MMORPG, not yet.)
What I usually run into is the kind of guild where everyone is welcoming and friendly, but almost nobody regularly actually does things together. They’ll go their separate ways in PUGs, or have their static group they belonged to before they all joined the guild, but don’t interact with the rest of the guild much or at all. You call for interest in raids and out of 300+ people you don’t even get 10 to sign up (this has happened to me in multiple expansions, particularly Mists and Shadowlands) - never mind that mechanic scaling bugaboos usually mean you want 15 to be comfortable. Basically, the social fit is there, but there’s little or no communal gaming outside of the occasional event like Timewalking week.
So basically, you’re technically in a guild but you still end up being mainly a solo player (which then is even the worst of both worlds, because assuming you did find a raiding group you’d be expected to leave behind your buddies to join the associated guild as part of onboarding; in Mists, Discord wasn’t even a thing yet so unless people used IRC or Facebook you were basically leaving them behind altogether, and in the guild I was active with during BFA and SL, most social activity actually was in the ingame guild chat rather than the Discord which tended to be mostly dead).
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Yep, I have a couple of solo guilds.
Not sure if I will keep them.
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My guild is a personal guild. I can’t wait to invite my horde alts in the future.
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You can join mine, its nice.
And to answer you, there’s probably tons of them. Most forum posters are solo players in one way, shape or form. Otherwise they wouldn’t be here for their dose of social interaction.
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Kinda sorta. I joined my first real guild midway through BC. Started raiding with them and had a blast through the rest of BC and all of WotLK. I was an officer for most of that time too. Cata broke us up though and someone else tried to take over the reins and restart, but it didn’t work out and we were officially done.
I took the guild back over in Mists and camped it for a long time. There were a couple friends that remained and it was usually 2 to 3 of us for a while. In WoD I made some new friends that also played WoW and they decided to roll on my server and join my guild. We were mythic raiding, or trying to. But found out our server had pretty much died. They transferred off, but I had no desire to transfer since I was in this server since vanilla.
Come Legion they wanted to try alliance to mythic raid. I was super against it but wanted to raid again so I joined them. About half way again I was living in Japan for a bit and raiding wasn’t working out due to lag and having to raid at 9am. So I went back to my old Rogue and played casually.
BfA they wanted to come back my guild and server. We mythic raided again but this time I realized I wasn’t meant to mythic raid. It was just too hardcore. I gave up the reins and just played casually. Eventually they found it too hard as well to maintain what mythic raiding needs and quit.
I took it back over and it was just me active. Some old friends from the guild back in BC/Wrath joined back. Just 3 though. I wanted to raid again but casually so I started recruiting. We tried out M+ and found it pretty fun. We were just doing 10-14s but it was enough. Finally, I recruited a few people that seemed really nice. They joined and we immediately clicked. They were scared of “higher” keys as they hadn’t done 10s but it was fun getting them into it. To make an already long story shorter, they’re still with me and I love the heck outta them.
I’m no longer GM as I had some personal issues a bit back and gave it to one of those I recruited in BfA. She’s an amazing GM and I do my best to support her. She’s honestly a way better GM than I ever was. We have a decent amount of people that have stuck with us since then, and while we struggle a bit to hit the perfect numbers for raiding, we still do it. The GM and I also have really gotten into pushing higher keys. In Shadowlands we reached 20s and above. Currently, we’re a bit slower to the punch, but that’s because we did a LOT of lower keys to help guildies this time.
But I’m loving our guild situation now. It was a rollercoaster, but not too bad.
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I’ve been in my own guild for about 5 years. I open it up to others, some RL friends pop in from time to time, but it’s really just me.
Doesn’t mean much, can’t tell you the last time I went to the gbank. Mostly I use it to keep from getting the “join my guild” whispers.
Love,
Lonely Kaag
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As a lifelong casual player its so hard to be in a guild, I like the Rogue class fantasy and I seem to like it too much
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Back in 2009 I was in a pretty good guild, very little drama, small and people were nice to each other and if you were a little bit weird that was ok. I took a long break and came back in 2018 and that guild was inactive. Tried a few other guilds and communities and I just couldn’t find the right fit. I made my own guild which is nice because then I can share all my mats and crap with my alts.
I’m older now too so my tolerance for b.s. has totally gone out the window. I really don’t enjoy group content aka. anything that requires a bunch of chatter and whatnot from discord is a no go. I’m very much an introvert and I like to go at my own pace which usually is much slower than the general atmosphere of the WoW community now.
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This as well. Guild and communities I personally find to be very cliquey. If you’re not already part of the established group or very charming and chatty (which I am not 
), it pretty much feels like soloing anyways.
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Im in my own guild only cuz i cant find a guild in my #1 ally server that would run high keys with since most guilds have their buddies and officers they bring to high keys
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Yes, my Alliance characters will be able to join my Horde guilds and vice versa.
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The thing about cliques is that they’re just normal human behavior. It’s why just joining a guild that invites anyone can feel empty really easily. People will chat until they have a handful of people they mesh with, and then they’ll wall off because they can do what they wanna do with that group.
If you actually want the interaction, you’re better off specifically joining a guild recruiting a raid spot or something, that way you automatically have your foot in the door to the clique[s] by participating in the same content with them a couple times a week.
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