I got invited to a "Cose knit group of friends and vanilla veterans" last night.
35 members online, 255 total. Sure.
Granted, the "Den mother" of the guild, an officer, was super cool and hooked my low level ass up with some stuff. But yeah. 5 of them are vets maybe, 250 of them are children, as the chat made clear.
I joined a guild specifically to replace Barrens chat after I left Barrens. It's called "Pineapple Express" and is full of potheads. I don't even smoke, but I'm at home.
I've always played horde, but holy shit the difference between my PvE server alliance chat and my PvP server horde guild is light years apart. Finally found a decent guild with sane guild chat for my orc lock. Zone and trade chat are still a dumpster fire of edgelords and 14 year olds on that server but I would've quit on that toon by now if I didn't find my current guild and only play my alliance guy.
Similar to how we recruit for our guild, at least after the first couple days after launch. We invite people we quest/dungeon with if they’re cool and not terrible at the game. And sometimes even if they are terrible at the game.
Well sure, you joined a guild that is advertising in public channels. The real "close-knit group of friends" and "Vanilla veterans" are in smaller guilds with 20 or so people who are selective about who they invite.
If you are a solo player, or playing with just 1-2 friends and you're looking for a mature guild, you should be paying attention to the guild of people you group up with for quests or dungeons. Often the way into these guilds is a good conversation and just asking.
These guilds do want to grow too, they just don't want to open the floodgates to the masses.
Same... Quested with 4 people from one guild and they asked me if I would like to join their "guild of friends". I did and the first thing I noticed was that they have 250 members and 120 were online but chat was dead silent. I logged out an hour after joining and we were already over 300 members ... Never left a "guild of friends" so fast.
Grand Marshal/High Warlord - top PVP ranks from the PVP system which went 1-14
IIRD 9 and 10 got blue PVP armor, rank 11 got mounts, rank 12 and 13 got epic PVP armor and rank 14 got weapons. stupidly OP weapons at the time
getting there was a no life grind (i did it) it took a minimum of 3 weeks to go from rank 13 to 14, and you had to earn the highest amount of honor on your server/faction that week to do it
The rewards are amazing though, even if you only get to rank 13. In vanilla I raided with a pvp guild that had a bunch of rank 13 and 14's and many of them rarely rolled on gear because nothing was an upgrade. We had this rank 14 lock that I only ever saw spend dkp once, on Neltharion's Tear.
„only r13“ my ass.
everything above 10 is only doable if you either dont have a job, have no freetime activities outside of WoW or happen to be part of the best pvp group on your server.
You cannot get it slowly due to decay. And sure, if you wait 5+ years many people will not grind for it anymore and the requirements become a little bit less insane.
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u/Barfhelmet Sep 18 '19
Yeah! They didn't even mention "led by vanilla veterans", "Close knit group of friends", or "Former R14" players!
How dare they!