There’s a lot of problems in BfA, but we need to talk about guilds. They have nothing new to offer, and the lack of interest that Blizzard has in the guild system at this point is unacceptable. If there’s one thing they need to fix at this point, I’d say that if they fixed the guild system, it’d help create strong communities. How do we do this? I’d normally lay out my idea of guild halls and crazy things like that, but here’s logical things that Blizzard could implement into a patch.
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Guild Permissions Customization: Allow us to create more ranks. Let us check moderation permissions individually. Can we have small icons that we can put next to certain ranks to indicate their status in the guild? Oh, and the ability as a Guild Master to mass-message once every 15 minutes and to mass-mail once a day would be very helpful.
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Guild Announcements and Calendar Events: First off, have some sort of window that pops up when they log in reminding guild members of upcoming events along with the message of the day. Create more event customization options, and have some sort of thing that has a countdown to the event in guild chat even? (Guild members could disable the pop-up window if they wanted to).
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Things to Get as a Guild: We need more mounts, pets and toys to earn. There should be achievements for all kinds of things so we can go even further as guilds. Make it so we can get achievements for Heroic guild raids, Island Expeditions, Warfronts, things like that. There are so many things that could be added that we could earn. Another thing to consider is guild challenges. Add more challenges with more rewards, whether it be distributed Azerite power to those who completed the challenge, even more gold added to the guild bank, or cool guild-wide cosmetics that could be made available at the vendor.
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More Efficient Methods of Recruiting: All that recruiting is right now is trade chat. Make a separate channel for guild recruitment that players are automatically joined to. If they want to look for guilds, they’ll be in this channel, and they can be given the option to leave it if they’d like. They also need to update the recruitment system. Maybe have a search bar and a mail/message sent to the GM/officers if someone requested to join? Have a spot to put the GM and officer names in the recruitment tab, too.
These are some big things they could do that I think would revolutionize the guild system a bit. I purposefully didn’t include major things that I belive they should do (guild halls, remove Communities/LFR, etc.), but this would be a huge first step that I believe is very logical.
What do you guys think Blizzard should do?