Gone Guildless
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iTZKooPA on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 18 Comments Tags: Guild, french-canadians eh?, gquit, grouping, guild drama, guild master, naxxramas, ninja, raiding, sad panda, sad story
iTZKooPA on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 18 Comments Tags: Guild, french-canadians eh?, gquit, grouping, guild drama, guild master, naxxramas, ninja, raiding, sad panda, sad story  Snow is no fun alone. |
Last night I did something that I have never done in my MMO career, I gquit. Even when I quit the game for a few brief months around The Burning Crusade's launch, my fingers never actually typed that sequence into World of Warcraft's command prompt. In fact, at that time of my relapse into real life, I was the second oldest member in the guild. And no, the GM wasn't the longest-standing member, my IRL boss was. It stayed that way until my subscription ran its course, then I was promptly gkicked.
Upon returning to World of Warcraft more than a year ago I found it fairly difficult to readjust. Going from arguably the best guild on the server to bouncing from guild to guild as they repeatedly disintegrated was a drain on the soul, and my intentions to continue playing. My former guild finally "collapsed" - GM quit and guild was reformed under a new name - shortly after TBC's launch. The pieces were quickly picked up by a few of the dedicated members and reformed as a hardcore, min-maxing powerhouse of a guild. Not something I wanted. I fought through the ups and downs, and eventually stumbled into a guild of close knit friends. Not only were many of them real-life friends, but they happened to be French-Canadian.
They were a good group of people, some of them excellent players, others, not so much. They made a good run towards the end of TBC to get through all of the raid content. They brought me along on those raids when they could, but I never felt that I was part of the guild. I was just that rogue they'd bring along if they needed some melee DPS. I was the guy who could get anything cooked, or would waste time fishing. I was the gnome that was always at the AH. I was the dagger lover they'd ask lore questions to. I was the uneducated person who couldn't speak French. I was THAT guy, not one of them.
Nevertheless, I did have some good times and late nights with them, and thank them for the support they showed me and instances we ran together. I even scored some going away gems along with the well wishes and good lucks.
With my trusty rogue finally at level cap and geared enough to enter Naxxramas, it was time to look ahead. Wrath of the Lich King brought more than a few friends from my old guild back to the game, so I created a private channel for us to chat in due to our guild separation. Slowly the channel filled up as old friendship were re-kindled or re-discovered. Loot drama forgotten - a priest taking tanking loot to use the stamina as a PvP item - we have fallen back under the same banner one by one. A banner that I will join as soon as the GM gets online. Till that time, Solidsamm remains guildless, but this time on his own terms. Soon, I shall return to dominating Naxxramas!
It feels good to be excited to raid again.
Reader Comments (18)
Why not join the TRS guild? :)
Nice post, i have been in lots of different guilds but at the moment i have a found a great pve guild called delirium. i'm gonna leave when i hit 80 cuz i'm a pvp sort of guy; gonna miss them though, oh and....... FIRST (maybe)
I recently took advantage of the free server transfer. It was a tough choice b/c the guild I was in was the one I first started raiding with . . . but things are looking up on the new server and hopefully the raid withdrawls will be gone soon!!
I left my guild one time, but after a while I realized all the good times we'd spent. Sometimes you just need your own space ^.^
I've been in a few guilds over the years in WoW. At the moment the guild I'm in has around 6 of my close friends in it, not all of us are raiders in the guild, but it adds a whole new take when you can talk IRL about guild drama and stuff. It really does make the game a lot more enjoyable when you meet good people.
I've only been in one guild where I truly felt like part of the team and community. It was disbanned due to a personal problem the GM was having. But it was some of the most fun I had in the game and was one of the things keeping me playing Alliance.
But since I've been horde exclusive I find myself having a hard time finding a guild to truly fit in with. The last guild I was in is apparently WoW's biggest guild and I a falling out with its officers but even there and with the great community around it never felt particularly like home.
And the last ditch effort I made was to create my own guild with local people which ended up falling apart due to lazyness(no one was working to boost the membership or autonomy and the peoples fair weather relationship with WoW.
So I can understand the guild problems people can have. But the best thing is to stick it out, find some like minded people and roll with it. Best thing you can do is look for a guild doing what your doing, or with people who you are able to relate to(either though PuGs or other activities) and roll with them.
Finally, one piece of advice, your friends list is a gulid too... just without a bank, tabard and guild tag.
perfect timing on this post
you see, today, me and the other 80s in my guild (im teh GM) are joining a raiding guild
little do the members of the raiding guild know, that once we're decently geared, the other GM and I have made plan do merge guilds (they are all joining mine - my DK is going to assume the role of leader in my absence). the reason for this is taht we have more bank tabs, a cooler name... and they don't have a tabard
good post!
Finding the right guild is an important thing. When i started wow for the first time i was invited into a raiding guild that my RL friends were in. Being a non raider in a raiding guild is so boring. They were so boring and when i asked questions like 'who was prince?' i was basically ignored beacuse i wasn't able to raid'
So i switch to horde and met some people and foounded out own guild. My guild is the Knights of Squinky and it's a great little guild. We do RP and stuff together and we have great fun doing it. It's great to just be able to do random stuff with your friends and then laugh about it. Like the time we were in skettis and our rogue decided to kite the boss but ended up just running away from him or the time we got drunk and jumped off of thunder bluff. And it's always fun introducing myself as the guild tank (I'm a lock) and watching people get confused. (they shouldn't tho cos i swing my staff pretty hard) It's the little injokes and stuff that only you know about that makes a guild enjoyable.
When i started WoW i was the same levels as my friends, level 1 soooo there was no esy way to get a guild for me so i had to find my own. I found a nice leveling guild at about level 15 and then at level 20 joined one that my RL friend was in and then at level 30 we moved to a different one and then at level about uhh 44 i went to a different one and then at about level 50 i went to another one and stuck with it til 80. Now as you can see ive guild hoped since level 1 and now im finally in a raid guild and im going to stick with it, now i would have stayed in the guild i was at, at level 50 but the guild leader didnt like me because she was a noob and i showed her wrong more than once, and not many people liked me because i was to "good at the game" /sigh. But the guild im in now is fine everyones funny, everyones not a noob and i love it.
I'm in a guild with my sister and some friends we've known since we started WoW. We're a small guild, and I like it that way. I have a few alts, and none of them are in as good of a guild. It's nice to have some friends that you get along with so well and the guild makes quite a difference in my playing :)
When my first (and still main) toon got into the 60-ish range during TBC, I joined up with my brothers' guild. Unfortunately, it was more of a placeholder guild than anything else. So I was pretty much left out of things while my brothers and their buddies did stuff in another guild. When the guilds were merged to form what is now known as "Rounders", I was completely forgotten to be included. Cue /gquit.
At that point I had been level-capped for awhile and was feeling rather aimless after I left. A few days after, I got invited into a Karazhan pug. So when the Orgrimmar zeppelin reached Stranglethorn Vale, the fellow pug guy that was standing next to me whispered that he noticed I was guildless. I replied that the last one had been mostly inactive. He then asked if I wanted to join his. I wasn't really sure what to look for in a guild, so I chose to take a leap of faith and said yes. Turned out that he was the GM.
I loved how it's a family-run guild with a focus on PvE stuff, a laid-back atmosphere, strong belief of "we'll help, but won't be holding your hand" in leveling a toon, and sharing mats when a person needs something. I'm now an officer in it, as well as the guild healer. Haven't ever regretted taking that leap.
Still, I know that my story is not a common one out there in the World of Warcraft. Best advice I can give is to do a lot of research on various guilds that you think you might be interested in.
After finding out that some friends played on this server, I rolled a toon here and leveled it to 70 and joined a guild they had found. Ran Kara for a few months there (not many people so couldn't do 25 mans) I get on one day and I'm guildless. Find out that during the night some time the guild leader gkicked everyone and took everything in the guild bank.
So some of the members formed a new guild, it was fun leveled in it til 80. Then I got geared for Naxx but they raided to late for me and thats what I love to do. So I pugged a Naxx-25 one night with almost a full group from another guild and about halfway through I got asked if I was interested in switching guilds. Well now I had some friends in the guild I was currently in that I'd known for a while, but like I said couldn't raid with them. So I made the decision and left to join this new guild and while I'm not raiding with my friends I am having a great time raiding.
So, sad to not be with friends but happy to be raiding.
P.S. I'm on your server Horde side hope to gank you soon samm :P
I bounced around guilds too. Mostly because they just didn't get when I said "I'll do what ever you want me to do." When they kept asking me what I wanted to do. XD
On my current server (Elune US), I started in my cousin's guild, but he had some RL issues with his kids and had to leave with his wife (and kids.) So the GM changed from him to a friend who eventually merged the guild with another... that got hacked badly. So they disbanded and a couple friends there made another guild that slowly formed into a PvP guild and I wasn't into that scene. Seemed others weren't as well so we left that one and made another guild. That flourished as a Raiding guild and I was happy because I was useful as a healer! When WotLK came out though, issues started popping up and eventually it dissolved.
Then my cousin came back (/cheer) with his wife and took over my first guild on the server (which it seemed it never disbanded.) I am now happy and content with family and friends. Working on my DK as a tank and getting my priest up to healing lvl. Sitting around BSing with everyone and generally being the over talkative person I am. (If this post isn't enough to understand that!)
The best part was when I was asked to come along for some heroics on my DK from old guild mates. I hadn't actually ran an instance other than some sad attempts on the two in Dragonblight. Well, we did Violet Hold heroic and I got three achievements. XD Didn't realize my cousin and his wife was on and they told me to slow down on the achievements with a laugh. I did two more heroics that night and was very happy. No ups though... I had been buying blues and epics from the AH or people calling out over trade.
My story is long but i'll shorten it...started with RL friends they came and went, moved servers to play with work people they came and went, moved servers to play with new work people, RL called said hey were back join us. so inturn caused another move server. now I'm back with almost an complete local guild and loving it we use the term "run with what u brung"(yes i know bad grammer)...for those who don't know what that means is there is no guild requirement saying u have to be this class/spec due to guild does not have any..its more of play what ever class/spec u want as long as u enjoy the game and the raid well improvise..I had nights where top dps was 1600..current 10 man is 2 tanks, 2 or 3 heals, rest melee dps due to we have no ranged and we have cleared all naxx. 10 man with out issues.
Someone needs to work on his title!
What server do they play on any1 know?
i left a guild whose gm went ape nuts ..so we all formed another guild and i've never been happier
Warriors of Faith, the guild Sam talked about joining, is on Magtheridon (PvP). We are happy to have him. He's run with us in Naxx soaking up the rogue loots that we otherwise would have been forced to DE.