Lyrailis wrote:
1). I shouldn't have to be forced to join a guild with a bunch of strangers who I have no interest in interacting with. It is no big secret that out of the 12million+ subscribers, that a huge percentage of those are jerks, childish, immature, or just plain unintelligent. I shouldn't have to stoop as low as to throw my lot in with them just to get some perks.
Gross exaggeration, much? I think you're actually taking the o-boards and trade/barrens chat as a cross-section of the WoW player-base. Unfortunately, cross-server BGs and LFD severely hampered everyone's ability to meet people on their own server. If you put as much effort into looking for a guild as you do complaining about being in a small guild, you might actually find a casual guild you like. Yeah, you'll lose the convenience of being able to hit up your guild bank for your own stash of shared crafting mats, but it doesn't take that long to hop onto an alt, mail yourself whatever you need, and then hop back.
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4). My Playstyle has nothing to do with this. All people, raiders, casuals, PvPers alike should have a chance at getting guild levels. Why do you think Blizz implemented 4 different ways to gain guild XP in the first place? They wanted people from all walks of WoW-Life to gain Guild XP, whether you are the solo quester, the hardcore raider, or the hardcore PvPer or anything in-between. The problem is, they nerfed the guild XP gained from quests a little too much IMO.
Actually, it does. Guild exp comes from: leveling a character (quests), daily quests, leveling a profession(?), 80%+ Guild PvE runs, 80%+ Guild BGs, and guild arena teams. I'm noticing a trend here... it seems to involve guild experience coming from doing things as a guild. Only solo guild exp gains were nerfed, so maybe they're encouraging guilds to do things as a guild?
Cataclysm Hotfixes wrote:
December 13
* General
o Guild experience caps were being hit faster than expected. As a result, guild experience gained through questing has been reduced.
* General
o Guild experience caps were being hit faster than expected. As a result, guild experience gained through questing has been reduced.
And as for GL 23's bonus to mining/herbing/skinning/disenchanting... you do realize that you could spend your time gathering instead of grinding dailies past the rep cap and come out WAY ahead in ore/herbs/skins, right? The disenchanting bonus is a little different, but that's far from reason enough to get your panties in a wad.