Normal to avoid Guilds early?

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I’m overall new to the game, and currently have one level 20 character. I understand this is an RP server where joining guilds would help come across that more. I’ve gotten three random invites.
But, I don’t feel comfortable quite yet joining a guild. I kind of want to get used to the feel of the game a little more, and level up. Hell, I might even open up my own guild. My only question though, is it normal to wait before joining guilds?

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Pretty much, yea. You want to look and find a guild thats a good fit for your character.

Are they military oriented? A lonesome adventurer looking for some comrades? A no good criminal? The right guild will help build that character and that story.

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Don’t take those random invites. Here’s some advice if you are looking for a guild: once every month there is a ‘job market’ of sorts. Its usually during the last week of the month. The previous one was held yesterday for example. All sorts of guilds show up of all kinds so its a good place to look around if you are really curious about wanting to join a guild.

I’d say if you are wanting some good roleplay just go around the the capital cities, I found my guild through the random social roleplay one finds in SW. It was much more natural and it certainly formed a more natural bond.

So just go at your own pace and join up with a group that you feel really fits what your character is looking for and you as the player would find entertaining to join on these adventures.

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I’ve been on WoW for a while now and 97% of my characters are -still- without guilds. It’s absolutely normal and perfectly fine.

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Same . Since leaving the guild I am enjoying more of my time ingame .

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I ignored the mass spam invites and found a great guild from a personal whisper :slight_smile: . Our guild is growing and fits Beryl perfectly. The job fair is also a great way to find a “home”.

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If a guild spams you with invites, those are the guilds you want to avoid at all costs. They are large, disorganized, where everyone is a stranger to everyone with no vetting process or loyalty in them.

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It’s normal to play however you play even if it’s not the way you see others play. What I mean is, this is your game experience and you do it how you want to.

When I was new I didn’t leave the area my race (night elf at the time) started until the General chat in my third questing area (Darkshore) had conversation about questing somewhere else because the horde were killing our quest givers. I was guildless and had never RPed before, though my server (Silver Hand) was a thriving RP server. Auto invite addons (like the ones people are using to just send you random guild invites) didn’t exist at the time, so the only way I heard about guilds were advertisements in public chat channels. I think I was maybe level 20, but it was vanilla…so like I was 1/3 of the way through leveling when I finally found a guild that I liked. I was months into the game.

It’s OK to take your time. There are people who have been playing for years who are not in a guild. A lot of my characters are unguilded.

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If there’s a person whispering you unprompted about you joining their guild, run the other way. Vetting processes are rather important so that the guild can have people who mesh well icly and oocly to create that good good rp.

But its completely fine to not join a guild at all. Its just not for some people and that’s a perfectly ok thing to feel. Take your time and feel it out see if you even want to join one. Its perfectly normal.

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Concur with all of the above. A good guild is a great thing for meeting people, getting events, making friends and finding groups. A bad guild is maddening and miserable.

I wouldn’t join anywhere that mass invites. I’d say solo play for now, and then as you meet cool people, add them to your friends list. When you do get lonely, you can use the in game guild finder, or check these forums, to see if a group sounds good. You could also consider joining a community too, which is less formal than a guild and you can be in multiple ones of those.

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It’s absolutely fine to avoid guilds as you learn to enjoy the game on your own. There are a few benefits to joining up, but most of them are only recognizable after you’ve played without them. As a happy freelancer (who’s been the lone member of more than one ‘privacy’ guild solely created to avoid unsolicited invites) I can absolutely say there is plenty to do on your own, and with the raid-, group-,and pvp-finder tools, you can always find someone to play with when it suits you.

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It’s perfectly fine not to be in a guild, I haven’t been in a guild in years. I get invites from RP guilds/mass invites almost daily, but in the end it’s my choice and no one else’s.

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There’s also an option in your settings to automatically decline guild invites if they get to be too pesky!