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Guild Finder
Nagash
Member, Leader of Men, Kickstarter, Alpha One
Hello. I thought it would be a good idea to bring back the guild finder from the old forums. The idea of this thread is for people who wish to join guilds but are not sure which one to join. All you need to do is use this template and fill it in with your information and the potential guilds can look for members.
User name:
type of gameplay: e,g, PVP PVE PVX
playstyle:
what class you may pick:
Server:
what you want from a guild:
Any addition information: (optional)
If any guilds want to contact people on this list I would suggest sending PMs.
Please remember to keep this thread clean and no personal information such as real names and the like
User name:
type of gameplay: e,g, PVP PVE PVX
playstyle:
what class you may pick:
Server:
what you want from a guild:
Any addition information: (optional)
If any guilds want to contact people on this list I would suggest sending PMs.
Please remember to keep this thread clean and no personal information such as real names and the like
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The guild advertising forums do the job pretty well for what we have right now
The Hand of Unity is always looking for new comrades!
I bet it would reduce the frequency of people changing guilds thereby increasing guild lifespan and camaraderie.
Archeage had this.
It would have been good if used well, but was just too easy to misuse. There were no real detrimental effects to misusing it, other than what few new players there were to the game quickly realizing that it was more of a joke to most guilds than a tool, so it isn't like it was a bad thing for the game over all - it was just a waste of time putting it in to that game in the manner they developed it.
To me, if a developer wants a tool like this to actually work as the intention seems to be (help players find guilds), rather than leaving it up to players to check what things the guild wants to check, the game should instead show what the guild has done. Hardest PvE boss killed, average kvD ratio of the whole guild in PvP, leveling options the guild has chosen, that sort of thing.
As long as players are left to check the options they want, it will be a lot less useful.
I feel that it would increase the chances of someone finding a guild that they actually fit with. Rather than joining a guild, discovering they're not into the same thing as you, quitting, and looking for another guild, you'd be able to narrow your search.
It might take a few guild swaps for someone to find their "home" but they'd only have to search through 100s of possible guilds instead of 1000s. In the end i think it would reduce the total number of times someone swapped guilds to find the place they're comfortable.
How do you see it increasing the rate of guild swap?
Without the finder, you would go with grouping or ask friends to check out a guild. Going that route, you would probably find a guild that you fit better.
I guess I have been lucky with the games I play. For example, in EQ2, the first guild I joined (a year or 2 after launch) I am still with.
If you're just looking for a casual guild to have fun with in normal content it's entirely normal to find a guild through normal socializing. And maybe even the best way to do it. If all you care about is finding a chill social group, then it makes sense to just chat with people and join a guild when you get along with them.
But if you're looking for a group to do specific or hard content with, I think it makes more sense to find a guild first. Otherwise you're going into raid or PvP with a bunch of PUGs and hoping that one of them is looking for guild recruits. It's possible yeah (I found an 8-man static group in FFXIV just by pugging for while and being a good healer which they needed), but I think it's usually easier to find a group for elite content before trying to ram your head against it. Wiping over and over again with a rotating roster of PUGs can be very frustrating.
Obligatory "that's just my experience though". I don't know how common it is in other games to stumble upon hard-core or mid-core groups that are looking for new members.
I don't even know about mega-guilds or those guilds which spam recruitment messages in cities. I just assume they're more concerned about member counts than actual socializing or game content, so I've never checked one out.