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Kaivax posted:

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In patch 4.1 we'll be introducing the Guild Finder, a new system designed to enable easier and faster guild recruitment. Guild leaders and players who are looking for a guild to call home will use the Guild Finder to meet one another and begin communications that can lead to a prosperous membership.

The Guild Finder is intended to act as an in-game bulletin board for guilds that are actively recruiting. Previously in World of Warcraft, your options were limited. You would have to publicly post on your realm forum message board, or speak to other players directly via private messages or the chat channels. That can be a time consuming process. Guild Finder will allow your ?looking for new members? message to work 24 hours a day, accessible to all of the characters in your faction, from anywhere in the game.

A new Guild Finder button will now appear on your Micro Menu if you're either a guild leader or currently unguilded.



As a guild leader, you will indicate one or more of the common guild interests (such as PvP, Raids, or Role Playing), a general time of the week availability you?re looking for (Weekdays or Weekends), and which class roles you seek from new members (Tank, Healer, Damage). The Comment field is where you can say anything you like about your guild and/or the sort of members you seek. Do you only accept female orcs? Is your guild slowly transitioning from 10-person to 25-person raiding? Perhaps you?ll only accept new members who are available to play on Thursdays at noon? This is the place to say so, and help potential recruits determine whether your guild is what they?re looking for.

From the perspective of an unguilded player, the Guild Finder allows you to browse through a list of the guilds currently looking for new members. Just launch the Guild Finder, tell it about your availability, class role, and the sorts of guild activities you?re looking for, and then click ?Browse Guilds.? This will take you to the second tab, where you?ll see a list of recruiting guilds that fit your profile. Here you can read about them, and if you like what you see, submit a request to join.



Requests submitted to recruiting guilds appear in the Requests tab. From this third tab, guild leaders can examine potential recruits and proceed with the final steps toward new membership.

Whether you?re a guild leader looking to fill your ranks or a player looking for a guild that meets your strictest requirements, the Guild Finder provides an easy way to make new friends!



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Azure-TheBlueOne  2 stars
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That seems like a pretty nifty feature.

 

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The exact same system has worked well in EQ2 for years so I'm sure it will work for WoW too.
wowplayer321  1 star
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There are 3 kinds of guilds these days.

Type 1: The mega guild that will pretty much take anyone just to pad their numbers and are shooting for rank 25 ASAP. I am in a couple of these. At this time they are not that much interested in anything like PvP or raiding but this will probably change as the type 2 guilds eventually reach rank 25 and offer more of what some people are looking for.

Type 2: The raiding/PvP guild. It is a LOT smaller than the Type 1 guild, quite often 20 or even 10 people. They act as a tight knit group and are focused on their specialty. As they are so small they will take a LONG time to hit rank 25 (I am taking years).

Type 3: The Friend and Family guild. They have little focus and get little done. I do not see them ever amounting to much in WoW terms.

I was a solo player before Cata as being in a guild just did not offer me anything. Now I am a solo player in giant guild(s) who has a large number of members on ignore (cuz they are morons). You would think with 900+ members these guilds would have more then a handful that are worth associating with.

I see Blizzard trying to evolve Guilds in WoW but I don't see how this coming change will make them more useful overall.
Arcilite_I  4 stars
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Sorry but if you joined 'mega' guilds and still can't find people to associate with maybe you're just a snob.

 

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Rill_of_WE  3 stars
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Registered: 2002-8-6 09:16:33
My guild is a mixture of wowplayer's type 2 and 3. I'm actually kinda excited about this feature. Should be interesting to see how it affects the way guilds handle recruiting.

 

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wowplayer321 posted:

Type 3: The Friend and Family guild. They have little focus and get little done. I do not see them ever amounting to much in WoW terms.



And that will diminish their enjoyment of the game how exactly?

 

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kyrv  2 stars
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wowplayer321 posted:

There are 3 kinds of guilds these days.


Type 1: The mega guild that will pretty much take anyone just to pad their numbers and are shooting for rank 25 ASAP. I am in a couple of these. At this time they are not that much interested in anything like PvP or raiding but this will probably change as the type 2 guilds eventually reach rank 25 and offer more of what some people are looking for.


Type 2: The raiding/PvP guild. It is a LOT smaller than the Type 1 guild, quite often 20 or even 10 people. They act as a tight knit group and are focused on their specialty. As they are so small they will take a LONG time to hit rank 25 (I am taking years).


Type 3: The Friend and Family guild. They have little focus and get little done. I do not see them ever amounting to much in WoW terms.


I was a solo player before Cata as being in a guild just did not offer me anything. Now I am a solo player in giant guild(s) who has a large number of members on ignore (cuz they are morons). You would think with 900+ members these guilds would have more then a handful that are worth associating with.


I see Blizzard trying to evolve Guilds in WoW but I don't see how this coming change will make them more useful overall.



At the risk of stating the obvious, there are more than 3 guild types in WoW (and probably every other game out there that has guilds).


Great feature, other games have this, it's very nice. I think eq2 did it the best that I've seen.

 

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wowplayer321 posted:

Type 3: The Friend and Family guild. They have little focus and get little done. I do not see them ever amounting to much in WoW terms.



We get something fundamentally important done... we play the game together (socially), and we have fun.

Our friends and family guild is level 20 now with little effort. Is it a tough grind from 20-25 or something?

 

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