Been gone a while, question about being guildlessFollow

You got two options really. 1) Accept a guild invite to stop the pestering and if you choose, shut off guild chat. 2) Put everyone that whispers you concerning guild invites on ignore. Won't work if your ignore list is near full but I find telling them no thanks doesn't guarantee them to stop whispering you.

Hi, Lochnvar! I feel your pain. I just began playing WoW for the first time in December. I come from playing EQ since 1999 and the whole guild whisper thing was like culture shock. There are not the same "rewards" for lack of a better word for guilds to have more members in EQ, other than a guild wishing to put together a certain type of raid group, etc. so "over there" in general chat one sees "Any guilds recruiting?" instead of the guild spams in WoW and definitely no individual tells/whispers asking one to join a guild.

At first I would stop what I was doing and reply to the whisper with a polite "Thank you for the invitation but I'm not looking for a guild atm." But getting 5+ a day, if sometimes not an hour, got real old, not to mention invariably the whispers are when I'm in the midst of a particularly tricky battle. So, I created a macro I put on my activity bar (or whatever it's called) and now just have to do one click to respond. Then I got a couple of snarky responses to my polite no thank you so now I just ignore them entirely and close the whisper window. It was humorous the other day when I was on my main and got a more "unique" guild invitation whisper. It was something like - a ball of light appears in front of you; you hear a voice behind you...then went on to the typical "join our guild." I clicked my macro just for props for originality. No reply as per usual. Then I log onto my bank alt shortly thereafter. Within seconds I received the identical whisper. That gave me a chuckle for awhile.

My personal opinion on these random guild invitations: in addition to being annoying, I don't want to join a guild who's in it for a numbers game; who has no earthly idea how I play, what I would bring to the guild, etc.

On the other hand, a guild that is tossing out random invites probably isn't inviting you because they expect you to be a first string raider. Since guild perks were introduced, a solo player is at a disadvantage. At 85, you may not care about XP boosts, but you will still get benefits from many of the other guild perks.

Since I don't play on NA/EU servers, I'm not sure how well my experiences apply to that environment. I have several toons in guilds where I was spam invited and have had a good time with them. While random guild invites may not be a ticket to big time raiding, you'll get the benefit of guild perks and if things don't go well there is no real problem quitting. Why not give them a chance? You may meet some decent people. I have.

is there a guild recruitment section on Zam? I don't see it in the forum options.

I'm not very good at the whole guild recruitment thing. That would certainly be a far less painful option (for those of use who DO require guild recruitment).

I think we've been down this road before, eh? My stance hasn't changed. I could be content never joining a guild. I solo, I care nothing, nada, zip for the "end game" or raiding. When I played EQ regularly, I often spent more time chatting with friends than killing anything. I'm on only child RL, for what it's worth, and have no problem keeping myself entertained. I just have to shake my head when I see in general chat, "I'm bored." I mean, seriously? So log off and do something else.

Recently I have been doing research on guilds on my server - I have even put a "this is the type of guild I am looking for" with my specifics on my server's forum. I have received many friendly and supportive responses with a couple of guilds providing a bit of info and directing me to their website to APPLY if I am interested. After application there will be an interview. Then there is a period, varies in different guilds but approximately 2 weeks - month, of "getting to know you" to see if one is a good fit for the guild. Those procedures are what I consider good guild practices.

If you've found a guild you enjoy by accepting a random invitation...great! Let's just say I'm a bit selective, shall we and drop the "give them a try," ok? Great, cool.

Edited, Mar 26th 2012 12:44pm by Azalysa

Rhode is Red.

Gratz!

I missed the reference to Tichondrius so It is likely I who am old and absentminded. The main reason for the tone of my post was that several times in the past during these type of guild discussions people suggest I give the random invitations a try and enumerate the perks of a being in a guild. If you were not one of them, then I do apologize to you. (And even if you were, my general annoyance got the better of me, so I apologize either way.)



I've never disputed and wholeheartedly agree there are perks to being in guilds. For me, many of them are just not important as to how I play the game - extremely casually, generally solo, no interest in raids, etc. I did note that I recently posted about seeking a certain type of guild and much of what I would like was mentioned by Ollamnh. I may just have found a social guild that states it is more important to have fun people, no drama, respect, helping each other, etc. than a jerk with mega-stats. I plan to speak with the officers of that guild so I may be one of the "guilded" soon.

My gripe isn't with guilds...it's with this constant random invitations. Again, I came from a game where it was just the opposite - one had to search for a guild, many joined guilds from meeting people with whom they played in a pickup group, etc. But since there are no guild perks for acquiring members, it's a whole different situation, thus my surprise at joining WoW and being immediately bombarded with guild invitations until the friend who invited me clued me into why this is so.

I've always enjoyed your posts, Rhodekylle and again, apologize for the tone of my post.

You're right re: RL stuff..and thank you for accepting my apology and your well wishes.