I did the same thing and al I ended up doing was helping gear folks so they could join the power guild. I only had one guild that was run by an aussie that was just for fun. Then a couple new folks came in and pushed us into trying to raid.
The aussie just quit and let the raiders have it.
I feel like WoW has been the best it’s ever been in terms of solo playstyle. I’ve not done M+ or done non-LFR raids, and I still feel like I got a bunch of stuff to do for the next few weeks. I usually do follower dungeon for the weekly dungeon quest, and then hop into LFR or delve if I have some time to kill and don’t know what else to do. I can’t be bothered about optimizing gear ASAP, so I already know I’ll get there in time and can just chill and take my time.
How do you find these people? Please don’t say “trial and error”.
The in-game tools are non-existant for being able to find like-minded players.
I’d LOVE to take your advice, but, the only invites I get are those huge automated guilds where nobody talks in gchat, or those smaller guilds that after a day or two you’re the only one who is ever on.
Star Wars Galaxies MMO (SWG) had a great in-game social window/tool where you could list your likes and dislikes, even stuff like music, etc. Made it real easy to find others. Wish WoW had in-game tools like that.
Don’t know why, but that brought an image to my mind of a bunch of Pandarans who all say at the same time “CARE! BEAR! SSSTTTAAARREEE!!!”
That’d actually be a cool feature.
And I get that, it’s why I haven’t raided for several expansions.
The guild I’m in (not this personal bank guild) is social but not always super active but they get together during the weekend and do this or that.
I think a lot of people are holding out for some magical perfect guild to materialize from the aether and scoop them up and it’s just not going to happen that way.
I don’t know. Sometimes Brann yells at me “Don’t stand there!” and I reply with “Well where the f*@( do you want me to stand at motherf#$(%&!” as I desperately dodge incoming attacks. Seems social to me. /shrug
That’s not what anyone is waiting for. I want to ask again, when was the last time you tried to join a guild and tried to fit in and get to know the people in the guild?
Because they are tried and true. I joined a guild midway through week one of this season and had a much better time playing the game because of it - and the guild I joined is for late night and focused on more casual Heroic raid progression with some Mythic Keystone dungeon runs. There’s a guild out there for nearly every player, and if there isn’t then make your own and find other like-minded players. You don’t even need to join or make a guild, just make and play with some friends to start out with.
Literally yes. If you’re not going to put in the effort to improve your situation, then why would you expect someone else to do it for you?
A week and a half ago, and it is going beautifully.
“Don’t stand there!”
As he breaks my CCed mob and interrupts the exploding lizards.
Oh Brann…
You look.
Even if you had all likes and dislikes displayed, this doesn’t change anything, you still look. People will still form cliques, will still go inactive, will still have different schedules, will still fight, will still have good and bad people etc. etc.
You could make a whole thread of talking about what Brann would say to others in an tavern setting, after he leaves us at the end of a hard day of delving, where he’s grabbing a drink and could talk good/bad about us players he has to help out with in delves with others at the tavern.
“I kept telling them not to stand in the s#!% but they wouldn’t listen to me!”
This is a projection.
I always find it funny that more people don’t look here.
We’ve had thousands of posts in the last few weeks about people not getting into m+, and nobody in those threads ever tried to get groups going.
I used to love world PvP guilds but those have mostly died. So I started raiding and have had some pretty good luck overall.
Attendance is key. Seen plenty of people come and go but the only way to become a veteran on the squad is by showing up.
For some its social anxiety, or not wanting to take leadership, or just not liking m+. (Personally I hate timers, will never do them. /shrug)
True story, I used to run a guild on Shadowsong back in Vanilla/BC, and it takes allot of work if you want to do it right/well. That’s another reason why people don’t start one of their own, the commitment to others and time.
But the game is desperately calling out for an in-game way of finding others socially by likes/dislikes/expectations to guild with.
It’s funny cause he used to be the one standing in it, and would then scold me about it. Not sure if they fixed that, but it was pretty hilarious. Very true to the real M+ experience.
So you don’t want to play with other people on a schedule. You don’t want to pug any more because of the community.
Um.
Why are you even here?
Look. We found another with absolutely no viewable experience with raiding or M+ telling us about how it is.
I’m noticing a trend here.
Solo gear progression! So glad it’s finally happening. Also, I love queueing bgs, and interacting with people in chat. Not to mention working together when running into people doing world quests. LFR is pretty fun too.