You assume a guild will have people playing at all times, ready and willing to join you at your beck and call. News flash, it doesn’t.
Making friends works, but do you only ever play when your friends are on? Do you wake up before them and decide to sit around (or alternatively just not play at all) until they wake up and logon to do content with them? Because if you play without them, you will be locked to the dungeons, which means they can no longer help you
Chat channels other than Trade are dead, and imagine having to spam in Trade chat to get a dungeon doing. You’re a joke.