I’ve come across a problem while coming back to the game. I’ve gotten multiple invites from guilds randomly. I look at the guild achievements and see OK nearly 1500 not bad, so you accept. Then you find out the guild is basically a walking corps. Even though the guild has hundreds of people, you see only 5-8 of them actually playing the game.
The guild rating system needs to change to something that reflects what they are doing actively. It’s seriously not a good feeling to join guild after guild to find the vast majority of them are dead. Well, that just makes the game look dead.
I’ve started to get the feeling that there are not really a lot of guilds that are actually more than a social club for professions. I just get some dead meaningless invite from some guy that didn’t event take the time to send me a proper message. When I see a guild invite I should be able to quickly tell what kind of a guild is inviting me. Are they even doing normal raid runs? ETC
Sort by level and look at RaiderIO to see how active the guilds really are. You can also look at recent raids to see if they have 10-20 people to actually clear stuff.
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What type of corps? Like the peace corps or marine corps?
Corpse…
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With the advent of cross realm everything, it feels like discord communities have sort of replaced guilds to an extent. And they’re much more conducive to playing.
With discord servers, you can:
- join multiple servers for the activities you’re interested in
- see all the communication happening, even if you weren’t logged in
- your events, chat, and voice server are all in the same location accessible even when not logged in
And, in my experience playing on an RP server, our guilds are focused more on a specific RP aesthetic vs what content they do and they tend to be active mostly when an event is happening. Goblin alts in a goblin guild, elf alts in another guild, dwarves in a third, etc.
Combined with blizz removing nearly all need to communicate with other players outside of endgame content, it’s really highlighted how little people know how to make new friends when that communication isn’t forced on them.
You basically have to either spark up discussions in game (good luck) or join mega discord servers to meet people you vibe with and run with them (though probably not in the same guild still for the reasons stated above).
I’ve had mixed success with both styles but it definitely takes some effort to find those people you vibe with.
I agree it’s a bummer guilds have fallen by the wayside but there are still options to find people to play with at least.