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Originally Posted by loramin
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I had this perspective too for awhile, but look: there are 12 casual/non-raid guilds in the wiki (and more that aren't in it), and you can't hate all their names right? There are also 9 non-A/A raid guilds, and if you haven't joined or grouped with several members of all nine of them you don't really know them right?
I played for years on this server without ever joining a guild. I got to level 60, got my Epic, etc. all without a guild. And then once I hit level 60 I finally decided to join a guild, and after I did I had one thought: why didn't I do this sooner!
Guilds on P99 are not just full of greedy neckbeards. Of course, everyone wants "pixels", because we are playing a game and that's what the game is about, but everyone is also a human being too. Try more guilds and I can all but guarantee you'll find some people you enjoy playing the game with (eg. Anonymous is a cool bunch .... and we're recruiting ... just saying ...)
P.S. On the "you have to have a ton of tolerance dealing with other people's BS", I think that's true of any human interaction whatsoever. While I admit guilds are more social than playing EQ solo, they're really not that much more social, and as long as you join a DKP guild and not a loot council one the most "BS" you'll have to tolerate is someone saying something stupid or offensive in guild chat every once in a blue moon. |
You know I actually socialize with more A/A people and some other higher tier players which is doesn't really make much sense seeing I am unguilded and I also do not enjoy raiding or the lvl 60 activities.
I understand your point. I just despise bouncing around guilds trying them all out.
I found in the past when I did guild I hated it. After a few months, I found myself not even wanting to play my toons anymore.
When I left all guilds, I found I could log on any toon and interact/group with whoever I wanted whenever I wanted. I felt like I had total freedom!
Once I was unguilded, I had no desperate urgings to run to raid mobs at any give moment. No BS over loots or secret tells from some greedy neckbeard begging me for a loot item I rolled on and won fair and square. No lofty expectations I had of what I thought a guild should be like only to drown in a mire of disappointments.
I just think some people value total autonomy and my personal experience has been guilds take that away from the player. I also joined guilds where none of my pals were in them, so that added to more of a desolate feeling and I didn't really care for the people I did meet from the guilds I was in.
Ironically, I was unguilded when going to Seb on my shaman, and I had no issues finding groups 75% of the time. Occasionally I couldn't find a group, but more often than not I did when I tried Seb.
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