Tips to finding an active/fun guild

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Ever since the release of shadowlands I have been struggling to find any sort of guild with more active players than 5 at a time. I have been using the guild finder but have gone through at least 30 guilds at this point both on Alliance and horde side of the game. I am switching to predominantly Alliance based out of Dalaran. Most of these guilds people tend to not be friendly and it is a few guys active only (5) out of 214 people on average. The others never make it past level 30’s. I just want something for fun but also a good group that actually performs M+ and raids together maybe some PVP but that seems to be too much lol.

Side note: No I have no IRL, friends that play the game. So hopping in their guilds is not possible and I do not have any actual “friends” I have made in the game unfortunately even being social and having 6 alts from Shadowlands alone. (I started playing in BFA). Also the guild I am in now is also one of the aforementioned inactive guilds :slight_smile:

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join a gaming community’s chapter. those dont melt apart as easily.

i am happily in my 3rd year with mine.

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what do u mean by that?

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gaming entities that exist in multiple games. think a less good version of Method.gg for example. they play CS:GO, Runescape and WoW among other games.

sometimes they have sponsors and stuff so they have some full-time gamers managing them.

hell, you can even apply to mine although we just raid in WoW and FFXIV.

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squint How would one apply to this gaming community?

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^ this right here tho

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Most guilds are bad, especially the alliance once in dalaran

In PST these guild leaders love to sweet talk you but as soon as you join their guild its nothing like it was advertised.

I remember getting asked to join a guild that was “beginner friendly” and as soon as I joined all I heard was AOTC, KSM, and people doing +15-20 keys. I defintely understand that we are a couple of days away from 9.1 and people are rushing to get their achievement but don’t say the guild is “Begginer friendly” and “has a lot of new players” when everyone who is active is 210+

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same as any guild. most of them invite you in a casual/alt rank without any qualifications and then if you want to… become something … you apply from within. just /W an officer.

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Honestly, better off picking up some form of higher content and finding a Guild trying to fill a core spot for that content.

There’s gonna be a LOT of overlap between “casual guilds” and “Let me turn on my autoguildinvite spam addon and grab all the level 23s who will never log in again”. It’s going to make finding a “general purpose” guild that’s ACTUALLY active very hard.

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Agree with Ventorath. A good guild needs a purpose, and is best off attracting people with the same goals and personalities. Instead of a random collection of very different people who will squabble all the time.

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If you want to server transfer my guild’s recruiting and fun. I can’t really speak for Dalaran.

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Same issue on my server. I really don’t know the answer other than to admit defeat to Blizz and cough up the money to xfer.

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Do LFG stuff until you bump into people you like, then look into joining them.

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Check guild finder with “large” filter;
The 900+ member guilds with 20+ members on after midnight will tend be those guilds. Some even have it in their description. Also, be prepared to join and use discord; the few I’ve been in don’t use chat very often.

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Don’t join cesspool guilds, they’re never a good guild.

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It starts with going to Moon Guard.

That’s the fun realm.

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I dont mind using discord but a dead guild chat is a bit iffy for me.

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You can’t expect a oerson to be online 24/7.

That is where Discord becomes useful. You can send messages to each other 24/7 there. Voice chatting isn’t necessary.

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Make sure you hop in their discord. Sometimes there are only 5-10 people in my guild online of a night (less leading up to 9.1), it’s a different 5-10 throughout the week and without jumping into discord I wouldn’t have build any game relationship with any of them

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Finding a new guild is a very hard thing to do. When my previous guild finally collapsed mid-BfA, I was lost because I had been with them since vanilla. :frowning: (Yeah, the original vanilla. Over a decade.) There are a few pointers I can give…

First… Know what YOU are looking for in a guild. This sounds obvious but not a lot of people put extended thought into it. When you’re considering this, consider not just activities but also guild culture (as an example, think: “what kind of jokes do you want to be hearing?”), what is the ability level of the guild versus your ability (you won’t fit in with a CE guild when you’ve never managed past heroic – be realistic about your ability!), the main location of the other guild members (tells you when people are going to be online most), and the size of the guild (a HUGE guild might have more people online, but be too large for any but a few to get to know each other well).

Second… Ask lots of questions. Now isn’t the time to be shy and you do not want to make any assumptions. Take time to think up a list of important questions and ASK THEM. If you want to raid heal, ask if there’s a raid spot available. If it’s super important you have people to play with on DayX, then specifically ask about how many people are on that day in a given week. If answers seem vague, don’t back down. Ask for clarification. Order of questions is also important for purposes of saving time. If there’s something which would make a guild a total no-go, ask about that first. You should ask to see their Discord, which will tell you a lot about the group too.

(As an aside to this, if you are interested in being in a raid, it would be super important to not just ask about raid times, but also the policies about missing scheduled raids, the loot rules, how raid drop BoEs are handled, what support is offered to the raid in the way of consumables or “class officers” who can help with knowledge gaps, and the scope/goal of the raid – for example, my own guild states ours as AotC focused with some dabbling in early mythic bosses.)

Third… Do NOT limit yourself to the server you’re currently on. This can be harder or easier depending on how many characters you have and you financial status either in or out of game. For small servers, it’s possible the pool of guilds is too small to have what you want. Look far and wide! I assure you that finding a great guild is SO WORTH IT. If you think you have found a great guild, battletag friending the guild members and cross server grouping for a couple weeks allows you to test how your personalities and active playtimes mesh. A guild that’s actively recruiting should be happy to let you make sure you’re making the right choice before server transferring. (If they’re not, to me that would be a hard pass, for example.) If you think you’re an omg awesome fit, pay to transfer just one MAIN CHARACTER to them. Other characters can follow after when you know for sure you have a winner. Don’t forget, character transfers can be bought with gold or RL money or a combination of both. For lesser alts, you can wait for a character services sale. (They’re uncommon, but they happen.)

Fourth… Don’t limit yourself to the in-game guild finder. While it’s possible to find guilds that way, it’s poorly designed, hard to search, and generally not the first place active guilds are recruiting. There is a bit of recruiting happening on the WoW forums, though it’s hit/miss. You’re really going to want to hit up social media. Look for Facebook groups and Discords where guilds are recruiting people!!

Lastly… Be ready to take your time. I can’t stress this more. Finding the right guild is going to take time. It took my friends and I several months to find the right guild, but we’re all very super happy in our choice. :slight_smile:

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