1. & 2. You can have all your characters in one guild, spread out over many guilds or not in a guild. 3. You can use the Looking For Guild button, ask in /trade chat in a major city, or on the WOW forums for your realm. 4. I wouldn't offer back-rubs but you need to state what you are looking for like "LF active social guild with occasional help"
When you are offered a membership in a guild to look at the guild level. There are some perks with going with a higher ranked guild but see with the smaller guilds are offering as well. Some of the smaller guilds are more helpful or will offer free repairs.
The largest benefit (to those giant mass-recruiting guilds that are largely supported by that addon that automatically sends a guild invite and a whisper to anybody who's unguilded, and let me tell you how much I wish that addon would permanently die in a fire) of mass-recruiting people, or being in a mass-recruit guild, is the guild perks-guilds can earn experience the same way(s) players do and they can level up to 25. A lot of the perks are beneficial to the players in them (extra exp, instant mail between guildmates, a 10% discount on all vendor items, the coveted mass res for reforming after wipes in bad dungeons, etc), and some of the perks are beneficial to what is largely a much smaller subset-there's one perk in particular (that has two ranks) that deposits a copy of like 5% of the gold that guildmates loot into the guild bank. Obviously, the larger your guild and the more active those guildmates are, the more money the guild bank makes. Some mass invite guilds use some of that money to pay for repairs for their members,
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CRZ, or "Cross-Realm Zones," is why you sometimes will see people in general chat (or out in the world) with server suffixes on their names (for example, "Xella-GrizzlyHills") and why sometimes when you cross a zone border, everything will phase out and your character will glow a little bit before everything phases back in. It was a bit of tech Blizzard implemented about a year, year and a half ago to make lower-level areas of the world more populated, especially giving the declining populations of many servers. You can invite people from other servers to your group and party with them, but can't trade with them except for specially-marked items (like the blues you get in dungeons) and conjured items like healthstones and mage food/drink
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Thanks for the really excelent reply. I'd unsubbed before just before the CRZ change and hadn't even heard of the CR change at that stage. Great description and I'm almost curious enough to re-sub and give them a go. :)
The major benefit of being a guild, especially if you are levelling a character up, is the boost in experience that the higher level guilds give you. There are other benefits: a guild will often have a bank that contains items to help people levelling professions. There are items that can be purchased from the guild vendor once you achieve a certain reputation with the guild, that also help levelling
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1. The game does not prohibit this. Some guilds get cranky about it. 2. Yes. I will say it gets confusing, though. 3. Ask. When we recruit people we don't invite them until we've had a couple minutes' conversation in which I cover the size and structure of the guild and find out what the potential member is looking for. I also make it clear that we're in a trial period and if it doesn't work out we go our separate ways with no hard feelings. Sometimes the only way to find out what the guild is about is to be in it for a while. 4. People looking for guilds can use the in-game system and the Blizzard realm forums. I would suggest you look at the Ysera forum and see what threads are there from others looking for guilds and how people who are looking are responded to.
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3. You can use the Looking For Guild button, ask in /trade chat in a major city, or on the WOW forums for your realm.
4. I wouldn't offer back-rubs but you need to state what you are looking for like "LF active social guild with occasional help"
When you are offered a membership in a guild to look at the guild level. There are some perks with going with a higher ranked guild but see with the smaller guilds are offering as well. Some of the smaller guilds are more helpful or will offer free repairs.
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Thanks for the info!
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CRZ?
So, I'm being a bit naive, then, with what I'm looking for? I'll fire up the game in a moment, and poke about again in the guild finder.
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I'd unsubbed before just before the CRZ change and hadn't even heard of the CR change at that stage. Great description and I'm almost curious enough to re-sub and give them a go. :)
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1. The game does not prohibit this. Some guilds get cranky about it.
2. Yes. I will say it gets confusing, though.
3. Ask. When we recruit people we don't invite them until we've had a couple minutes' conversation in which I cover the size and structure of the guild and find out what the potential member is looking for. I also make it clear that we're in a trial period and if it doesn't work out we go our separate ways with no hard feelings. Sometimes the only way to find out what the guild is about is to be in it for a while.
4. People looking for guilds can use the in-game system and the Blizzard realm forums. I would suggest you look at the Ysera forum and see what threads are there from others looking for guilds and how people who are looking are responded to.
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