If you aren’t planning to do mythic raiding, is there anything to be gained from being in a guild?
I have friends that I would like to play with, Mythic+, perhaps raid, but below mythic level.
If we set up a chat channel and add each other to our friends list, what is being lost from not being in a guild?
In the past, you used to gain perhaps from being in a guild, but those are now gone right?
So thinking it would be best to just for a chat room and add them to my friend’s list since I can basically still do everything with them except mythic raiding.
I don’t like it because I can’t control the chat list. All it takes is just that one bad invite and then your chat channel is burned. Now if they added “ownership” controls to it - then yes.
So then all you would lose is the common vault, the special pets, the shirts, the tabards, the calendar, the secure chat, the banners, and the ability to be seen as a “permanent” group from the outside.
No. The chat channels that you ad-hoc create has no controls. You can’t delete it, you can’t ensure no one else can join it (once the name of the channel is known), and you can’t be the “owner” of it unless you stay logged into it 24/7.
On the other hand, I can remove someone from the guild, and that’s all I need do.
Agreed. But, if you’re just an ad-hoc pugger/cyclical gamer/loose friendship group, then banding together officially isn’t a thing. They pug, they don’t inhabit atm. So I agree that creating a faux shell guild is pretty pointless until Blizzard invests in guilds again.
Ok, I can see how if you want to be GM, those are issues. But really, the goal is simply to have a way of letting people know when you are online and available to do something. Already basically doing it via discord and debating if it’s worth me creating / moving characters there.
All I want is to know when they are up to doing something, and vice-versa.
I see the point about being unable to trade though.
Have you looked into Communities? That’s just a message board sort of deal with the extra perk that a member of it can be in a guild, and yet still join your community.
And they’re crossrealm too. It’s how I kept in touch with my alliance guild when I was raiding on a seperate server. It’s just like guild chat, you can see who’s online and who’s not as well as a message log.
I prefer a guild because I get all of those great boosts that you used to have to level up to 25 to unlock - but, my fourteen alts are the ones in it, so I talk to too many people…
If all you really want is to play and socialize with your friends, you really don’t need a guild. Especially now you can even play cross realm (as long as you’re the same faction), if you’re on Discord together, you’ve solved communication, and Battle.net friends list will take care of the rest.
Being on the same realm is useful for trading things to each other, of course.