The State Of Wow Guilds In 2024

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There have always been Wow guilds. Some guilds are dedicated to a particular type of player participation. With different goals. Some are loose casual guilds. Over the years guilds and their members have changed. Some guilds being considered as great and other guilds being not so good. What do you think the ratio is between good guilds and bad ones? Also I’ve noticed that some people blanket recruit spam anyone on the server by sending randoms guild invites. Did you join a guild inadvertently this way and if so how did that turn out?

Have you tried out the official in-game guild-finder. Was it helpful. Were you able to join a guild that way and if so how did that go?

With the advent of Follower Dungeons and it’s possible expansion inclusion to all dungeons. So that a player can go do a dungeon with NPC Companions. Are guilds even necessary anymore?

What are Guilds like now in 2024. Do people still join guilds in large numbers or are guilds a thing of the past? Have guilds changed much in quality? What are the benefits of joining a guild and what are the negatives, or the pros and cons? What have your experiences of being in a guild been like?

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Why does your posting cadence sound like Perd Hapley

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I think the overall quality (if that can even be measured) distribution has not changed much, but some guilds have changed leadership, or the leaders are less or more busy, or the members become less or more active. It depends on the guild and more importantly, the people in it.

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My server has some great guilds, however more serious i think they are all on discord, raider io, or maybe not looking for members… i never see any guild adds in trade only rando invs on my alts

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About tree fiddy.

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Interesting Rita. Hope you are having a wonderful day. Hugs :heart: and :star: :star: :star: :star: :star:

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Just as there’s a massive skill gap between the best players and the worst players, there’s a massive quality difference between the best guilds and the worst guilds.

It’s a big gap.

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We are a guild of 5 regulars that meet for two hours every Sunday to run m+.

We may occasionally text each other and do something during the week, especially early on in an expansion.

Long gone are the days of being active everyday. We haven’t had enough people to raid since Cata.

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My guild is comprised entirely of me and my alts so that I can have a centralized bank.

I may be biased but I think it’s pretty top tier.

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Guilds I have been in that were actively raiding have gone silent as the player base dwindles and the leadership failed to attract new members to keep a viable raid roster.

I have a friend that ran a guild who had the same situation (guild death by attrition)… he joined a mega-guild called Eternal Kindgom and was quite happy with that for a while.

I wonder if mega-guilds like that are where it’s at now, because as someone noted upstream, I see a lot less guild recruiting in general/trade chat than I used to. Maybe that will pick up as Season 4 winds down and the new expansion is imminent, but it does feel different than it did even 3 years ago.

I myself have joined a couple of cross-realm communities that effectively are guilds without a guild bank or guild achievements, but I regularly have a cadre of decent players that I can run keys or raid with. Perhaps with the move towards re-integrating a splintered and shrinking player-base, Blizz will either grant “guild” perks to communities or guilds will be made cross-realm (not just cross-faction).

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So we thinking ChatGPT 3.5 or 4?

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Isn’t there a guild finder in-game kinda like the group finder?

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It’s a terrible way to find a guild, it’s not accurate at all in the slightest

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I was invited to a few guilds in the past by whisper. I clicked on the accept button without really thinking. Every time this happened those guild where full of members but very few people talked in guild chat. There were no event dates or anything. I just left each one.
Kinda a waste of time except for maybe the guild perks. But I really don’t care.

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I haven’t participated in guilds and have stuck to playing mostly solo after having some bad experiences being in a couple back in MoP. I usually just ignore the whisper and random invites, so if I was to look into joining one again I would use the finder to look for one that seems like the kind of community I’d want to be apart of. I have browsed it a bit and there were definitely some that caught my eye.

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You know, I didn’t really think anything of it, but I haven’t seen much guild recruitment either. Like, almost 0. Maybe 1 or 2 guilds for a week around a new patch before they get bored and stop logging in.

Guilds definitely aren’t a necessity anymore so it’s inevitable that there’s less than there was in, you know, WotLK or whatever, but man it’s been quiet in that regard.

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My Guild Life in WoW has been this:

I started out Guildless back in 2010, didn’t really matter because I wasn’t doing endgame stuff yet.

Joined a Hardcore Raiding Guild for Cata’s first Tier. Did really really well but burnt out due to an insane 5-day raid schedule, so I didn’t stick around any longer than that Tier.

Found myself in a smaller scale guild afterward. Nice people. Honestly if they lasted longer I think I could have spent a long time with them. But it was a merger between 2 smaller guilds, and some minor drama happened between the Co-GMs and the Guilds split back into 2. I wasn’t there for too long at that point, so I just took the opportunity to leave rather than follow one or the other GM.

Landed in a mass-invite guild after that. Still probably my favorite memory of a Guild. I wasn’t super close with anyone there, but their system for ranking up within the guild was really unique and actively encouraged members to interact with each other, so it never had that “1000 members, dead silence” thing going on that a lot of spam invite guilds have. It was definitely a Guild taking advantage of Cash Flow (literally the expansion prior it was a premiere raiding guild on the server), but they funneled enough of that gold back into the Guild via raffles and stuff that it never felt like a con.

Then I joined my Girlfriend’s guild. Basically parked my toons there to metaphorically die. I didn’t mind because we’d be in voice with whatever friends we were doing stuff with anyway, but in terms of a “guild experience”, there was none. We ran a raid team, but it wasn’t a guild group, so that would have persisted whether or not the Guild existed.

I didn’t leave that Guild on most of my toons until mid BfA, where I made the decision to switch main servers from WRA to Moon Guard due to WRA’s dwindling Alliance population up to that point (it got much worse not long after, too).

Haven’t really been in a Guild that I see as a Guild since then. I joined one in Shadowlands, but, it’s not so much a Guild as it is a Discord Server. There are no Guild Events, there is no Guild Chat, it’s just a collection of names. We actively talk in Discord, but it’s barely even WoW-related these days. So, as much as I love these guys, it doesn’t really check the “guild experience” checkbox either.

Unless we assume the average guild experience these days is just some dudes in an external chatroom that may or may not be focused on the game, I guess.

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There is mostly like 90 achieve guilds with like 100 people in it

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I’ve been in two active guilds in my entire WoW career.

One was just after I started in Wrath. Raided with them a couple of times, but didn’t like time commitment, and kinda dropped. The guild died in Cata.

The second guild was in WoD. Raided with them a couple of times as well. But again didn’t like time commitment, and kinda reverted to solo PvP again. Then I joined my current guild, because it was PvP centric, but I’m mostly by myself online now.

I get the idea of guilds, and I envy people who could actually find friends in the game, but I was never able to socialize enough to have enough fun playing with others, except one IRL person I mostly played with. I guess I was burned hard and early by elitism that had already crept up there in Wrath and I just automatically assumed everyone to be a jerk in WoW.

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Most guilds are empty or abandoned.