Curse

Oso Minar · Feb 01, 2008, 03:39 PM // 15:39

Oh hey, Jeremy

I found the Zealots of Shiverpeak through a few web searches. I checked the Guild of the Week listing for a few PvE/PvP guilds, cruised around the wikis, checked out the websites, and thought that ZoS would be a friendly and mature enough place for me. Talked to a few officers, did a few runs, and I've been there ever since.

Morgoth the dark · Feb 01, 2008, 03:56 PM // 15:56

i joined beta testing guild i've met during the e3 event

Rothaga · Feb 01, 2008, 05:01 PM // 17:01

I joined a guild where the guy was spamming in-town.

Jeremy Untouchable · Feb 01, 2008, 05:05 PM // 17:05

Guru Zealots FTW....My RL buddy called me yesterday. Says he's starting the old guild up. I wouldn't leave my current guild (unless ejected via a small nuke) And I told him it was going to be a up-hill battle to rebuild a guild these days. Just too many run of the mill PVE guilds recruiting out there. Even recruiting with pugs they won't stay if the guild is small or inactive. Owell. Worst of his problems is a AFK for 2 months leader...(where's the small nuke when he needs one?)

I think his only hope is to smack his other buddy's untill they drop WOW and get them active. Or train newbies from presearing on and build there guild loyalty. XD thats a pain thou......

Amadei · Feb 02, 2008, 07:36 AM // 07:36

My guild consists solely of people who do (or used to do) volunteer support work for LiveJournal, so when I started playing GW (got sucked in by a fellow support volunteer - HI KAMARA), I got an invite to the guild straight away. The BPA is the only guild I've ever been in and the only guild I'll ever be in

N E D M · Feb 02, 2008, 07:42 AM // 07:42

i was searching online for info on GW and the first place i found was a forum which had all the info i wanted, pics of all the armors, stats etc, guides walkthroughsand all such stuff.
I started posting on the forums, and as my in game experience grew, along with my knowledge base, i realized i dont have time to recruit , etc, to get my own guild going, so i gave my guild to my second account and joined the guild of theis forum i had been visiting, which it turns out, is probably the second most visited GW fansite after guru.

Pleikki · Feb 02, 2008, 07:49 AM // 07:49

Ive met My mates When i just like help ppl do missions running em etc then i sometimes notice some cool guy and well start chat alot

then into flist and I got new mate!

WOO. Pathetic.

-Loki- · Feb 02, 2008, 07:57 AM // 07:57

I made my first guild with friends. When it collapsed, I went with some of them into a guild they found. When that collapsed, a friend got me into another guild. A guildie from that guild got me into my first PvP guild, from there I got into guilds from people I met on IRC. My final resting place is a guild lead by someone I knew from TGH. I never once got into a guild from a pug.

Linksys · Feb 02, 2008, 08:15 AM // 08:15

I actually met the last guild I was in through GW Guru. It was a guild and alliance specifically for hard mode stuff and titles. It went quite well for them for a while. But one of the officers was really annoying, passive and condescending and there as no way he would be demoted or dealt with in any way. He totally blew me off and it went on and on so I left the guild. So the guild wasn't as great as I hoped it would be. Plus the core group acts all nice and stuff. But when someone leaves because of an issue, they take to insulting the person behind their back in chat and vent. I knew it was only a matter of time until it was me because of the issue some people and I had with the annoying officer.

bhavv · Feb 02, 2008, 11:26 AM // 11:26

First guild was a nub guild I got into via 'LF guild' in all chat. Second guild was the same. Next 2 or 3 guilds were PVP ones from meeting people in HA. Then I quit PVP and got into the CASH farmers alliance, these guys were like uber PVE, but not much HM going on, just mostly farming elite areas. So I left and put up a LF hard mode alliance on guru and got into SNOW. Ended up getting legendary guardian in 2 or 3 days by 2 manning with a guildie in lotu. /EPIC PASS alliance.

Avarre · Feb 02, 2008, 11:38 AM // 11:38

Do not turn this into an elite guilds discussion. Posts regarding this will be removed.

VinnyRidira · Feb 02, 2008, 04:45 PM // 16:45

I made my own guild together with friends. I have made only a few friends pugging and some have joined, but because the guild is only really good for having all the merchants and stuff and we do not actually do any PvP or GvG the people eventually either move off or stop playing GW.

We often play 2 peeps plus 6 heroes and occasionally 3 or 4 people. I play solo with 3 heroes and 4 henchman. I would love to be able to have 7 heroes as I make sure they all are well runed and have good insignia's. Also we set up the heroes as complimentary to the team. Nothing beats good synergy and I guess that is also a problem in pick up groups.

isisaset · Feb 03, 2008, 04:07 PM // 16:07

My guild is very small - myself, my husband, our son, and 2 friends from an old guild (one I met while green farming ^^, uhh ohh, pug). Our alliance has 2 other very small guilds... One of the leaders I met while we were pugging, trying to master some mission or another. The other leader was an AB find. We've been together for quite some time now and are all happy... But, despite how we met, we still make fun of pugs sometimes over alliance chat when someone is stuck in an exceptionally bad one! haha

Edit: Phrase "diamond in the rough" comes to mind. ^^

Halmyr · Feb 03, 2008, 04:37 PM // 16:37

I came back from a 3 month break to find out my guild was dead, so I disband it.

I stoud in Droknar spamming I was looking for a guild (was not expecting anything good tbh). Got one in, stayed in for about 2 week before I was promoted to officer and the officer ask me to make a allied guild for PvP, that failed, and I tried to rejoin the other guild, leader was in an other guild, so I got an invite into that one, and the rest is history
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That last guild is ATF(Ascalon task force) which the members have been disbanded, seperated, refound, rejoin and a lot of the members are now in The Guild SOUL (Soldiers of untold Legend), including me as an officer

Grasping Darkness · Feb 03, 2008, 04:52 PM // 16:52

I love playing with pugs. I've joined a few guilds but only stayed in them for a week or less because of annoying beggars and wts guild/alliance spam and the obligation to commit to guild stuff because I'm about as random as a human can be and for a thousand other reasons. pugs for me forever

Slycandestin · Feb 04, 2008, 01:36 AM // 01:36

The first guild I was in had an 12 year old leader (not exaggerating) and the couple people in the guild which I usually played with said they were going to this other great amazing guild, and they invited me to come along. They ended up turning their backs to us, the guild leader didn't like that so they were kicked. I stayed and was eventually promoted to officer and that's where I stand now.

Seriously if anything, PUG's should be better now than they used to be. Not everyone has to use Heroes & Henchmen. The people that always get into groups and ruin them, not making any progress can just solo by themselves. The ones that know how to work together with other people can get into groups and have their fun, while filling the gaps with heroes.

Are people honestly that frightened of pick-up groups? I mean it took me a while, but I got in a group for a gwen dungeon Frostmaw's Burrows in hard mode last night at 3am. We only used 2 heroes and breezed through it, and had a lot of fun in the process. It felt like a real online RPG *gasp*.

newbie_of_doom · Feb 06, 2008, 08:58 AM // 08:58

RA/HA/GvGguesting/FriendsofFriends/Recruiting lol

Linksys · Feb 06, 2008, 11:16 AM // 11:16

I'm not frightened of pick-up groups really. It's just hard to find any. No one ever uses the party search. No one seems to want to start a group. Whenever a few people chat about wanting to do the same thing, sometimes a group still won't get started because no one wants to be the leader.

Kay84 · Feb 06, 2008, 01:35 PM // 13:35

Found my guild through someone who left the guild I was in before DVDF.

Fluffiliscious · Feb 06, 2008, 03:29 PM // 15:29

I found my guild through a posting in the Guilds section here on Guru. I've never thought about joining a guild based on a PUG but I do still use PUGs all of the time. Sure, sometimes they're awful but sometimes they're awesome. Sometimes it's nice to have someone else to give ideas if you're stuck and can't get a bonus or whatever. Plus, I like to chat