What is being in a player guild like?
It’s like being a member of any other self-directed voluntary association: as good as the people in it. The best way to find a guild is to chat with players you’ve grouped with repeatedly in the game and enjoyed playing with, and at some point mention that you’ve thought about joining a guild. If they’re enjoying playing with you, you may receive an invitation. Guilds that run around randomly inviting players they haven’t even met tend to end up about as cohesive and enjoyable as any other group of complete strangers thrown together. Player guilds fall into about three categories at the moment, these being completely unofficial but widely recognized. First, each server has some high-end “raiding guilds”, which can include hundreds of players, focus on lengthy well-planned raids of high-end zones, and have increasingly stiff prerequisites for membership (you must have reached a certain level in the game). In some expansions the top zones are “instanced”, so each raid gets its own versio
