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29
May

Are You In A Guild Of One?

   Posted by: WoWGrrl Tags: , , , , , , , ,

I’m in a Guild of One, and I’m wondering how many more there are out there who are like me.

If you used to be in a Guild of One but went back into a more social guild environment, how long did you stay in your Guild of One?


About My Guild Of One

After I left the raiding guild I got into back in February, I wandered around guildless for a little while but started to notice that guilded players were, on occasion, behaving oddly towards me as I did some fishing and questing in Zangarmarsh.

I started to wonder if, perhaps, these individuals were thinking that I was a Gold Farmer, and they were attempting to grief me as I played.

What type of griefing? Well, in less than two days of playing unguilded, I saw no less than four attempts to “train” a bunch of mobs onto me.

If you’re not familiar with the term, it’s the name given to the process of gathering up the aggro of a bunch of mobs and then running out of their battle range in such a way that when they go to run back to their reset spots, they run past a target player in battle. If done correctly, the mobs running back to reset will join into the battle with the target player. If the target player isn’t paying attention or is actually a bot with very little human guidance, this strategy can be used to kill a target player, whether they’re Alliance or Horde.

So, since I was dual-boxing and dragging my low-60s healing-spec’d Priest through her Zangarmarsh quests by my 70 Hunter with a lot more firepower, I figured the least I could do to avoid being griefed while I quest on my own would be to have a guild tag.

But I have non-social goals in World of Warcraft right now - wanting to do more video recording and video editting and PUGs with strangers… all things that will result in more writing in this blog, and more regular socializing out-of-game than in-game. And I don’t want to offend anyone with my lack of conversation in-game, which means to me I shouldn’t put myself into a social guild environment.

“Silence Is Golden” is born

The decision was made, and a guild name of Silence is Golden was selected. I picked up a Guild Charter in Orgrimmar and headed to the Auction House to buy some supplies.

10 minutes later, I rode into the Valley of Trials on my Black War Kodo, and my bags full of … more bags.

I advertised on the General line in Durotar that I was looking to buy Guild Charter signatures, and I offered 1g + a 10 slot bag in return for the signatures.

It took less than an hour to get all the signatures I needed, and the guild was formed in Orgrimmar to complete the cycle of creation.


Thank You, *boot*

I then headed to the mailbox and sent messages to each of the charter signers, thanking them for signing the charter, and letting them know the guild is not meant to be a “real guild”, and therefore that I wish them luck in their adventures on this realm.

I attached another two 10 slot bags or a couple of pieces of green equipment to each thank-you letter, and sent another 5g to each of them as well.

Then, when everyone was logged out the next morning when I logged in, I removed all but my own toons.

Benefits Of My Own Guild

If you’re feeling more social in-game than I am right now, you’d probably be wondering what benefits there are, other than having a guild tag, to belonging to a guild that is shared with nobody else on the game.

  • First, there’s that Gold Farmer issue - guildless players are viewed with more suspicion than guilded ones. Even though my guild name isn’t well known, the fact that I’m able to “get into a guild” (ha ha) seems to speak something on its own. The fact that other players won’t have had a poor experience with someone in my guild already will also give me more credibility for an odd reason.

  • Second, there’s the Guild Bank. A central place to store items shared by my toons - potions, elixirs, raw materials for professions and the likes - and an easy way to track Auction House profits and repair expenses on a regular basis. Plus, since I have two WoW accounts, I can use the Guild Bank to get past the one-hour mailing delay of items, yet still don’t have to dual-box to trade.

Not a whole lot of benefits, but since my play time is not going to be social time for the most part for the next little while, this serves me well.

Expect to see a whole whack of videos coming out soon!

I’m also looking at getting a more professional WordPress theme developed for this site and I need to clean up the categories and tags, so stay tuned for updates over the next few weeks.

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20
May

Back From The Raiding Guild

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I took a bit of a hiatus from the more casual style of play in February, when I left my social levelling guild and joined a 25-man raiding guild for a while.

In that time I got to experience the joy and sorrows that are part of taking on content with that number of people, and it was interesting.

But, it took too much time commitment and was causing stress in the rest of my life because really, I’ve got other things to do with my committed time, and I quite enjoy being a casual player of World of Warcraft. There’s enough content to keep me amused that I don’t need to raid 2-4 times a week.

So now I’m out of that raiding guild, and I actually created a guild just for my own characters and even bought and set up a couple of tabs in the guild bank for the organization and maintenance of shared resources. Yay for another way to keep my playing toons’ inventories as clear as possible for collecting more LOOT to make more money with!

Benefits Of My Own Guild

When some people think about the benefits of a guild and being in one, they probably think quite differently than me right now.

My benefits are this:

  • Silent guild line. In this case, Silence Is Golden

  • Shared bank space in the form of a Guild Bank

  • A Guild Tag under my name - look less like a gold farmer

The main reason I created my own guild instead of joining someone else’s should be clear from the name of the guild itself: “Silence Is Golden”. The raiding guild had a lot of members, which translated to a lot of spammy conversation that was hard to sift through on the guild line. I’m happy to have a silent guild line.

A second reason I created my own guild is that I already have a handful of friends on the realm with whom I hang out with nightly on Vent (voice chat), and another handful from my brief raiding guild experience as well, so I’m not looking for new buddies to play with. Plus, I’m very comfortable with joining Pick-Up Groups for my dungeon and gearing needs, nevermind using the Trade channel to find a crafter who can take my materials and my tip and craft me whatever it is I require.

The Guild Bank is probably what’s going to keep me in this “guild of one”, too - how nice it is to slap all of the commonly-used elements into a bank tab and save up space for my playing toons! Right now I’m using Tab #1 as my “sell this junk please” tab, and Tab #2 is shared stuff between my toons - cooking quest mats, potions and elixirs, cloth, buff foods and the likes.

Back To Levelling

One of my goals to reach before the Expansion comes out is to have three or even four level 70 characters to head into the new lands with in order to join the new PUGs.

I’ve already got my 70 Hunter and 70 Mage, so now I’m working on my 63 Priest for the most part, with my 62 Rogue getting attention on occasion as well. The Priest is a healer, and I’ve already got 2 DPS at 70 so I’m pushing her through more quickly than the Rogue by sheer attention.

I’ve also got a wee Druid back in Azeroth that I might spend some time burning off rest bonus on now that I don’t have my evenings scheduled for me when I *do* get a chance to play.

So, in conclusion, Raiding is a fun part of the game, but I’m glad to be out of it and its expectation of loyalty and commitment, and glad to be back in putzing around in the game and feeling freer to write about my experiences because those I write about will likely never read my blog or at least never know it’s me or who I’m really talking about.

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20
Jan

Exploring Old Azeroth Areas - Darkwhisper Gorge

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As a level 70, one day I decided to go and explore areas I had never visited before, and I started with Winterspring.

Figuring everything was going to be frost-resistant in that frosty area, I brought my Hunter instead of my Frost Mage, and I ventured south from Everlook as it was the only direction I hadn’t fully explored in that zone yet.

What’s In Darkwhisper Gorge?

Darkwhisper Gorge, just south of where the elite 60 big fel demons roam around, there’s a series of tunnels and a series of open areas all connected to one another and sparsely populated by demons of various types (succubi, fel hunters, etc), and with a few spawns of Rich Thorium.

Earthcaller Franzahi in Darkwhisper Gorge

But, other than that, there doesn’t seem to be a lot going on down there. I certainly didn’t see anyone on my journey once I left Everlook, which was itself very sparsely populated, being a 50-60 zone (a zone popular at being sparsely populated as everyone tries to get into Outland and leave Azeroth behind)…

There were TWO things that I found down there in my journey - other than the Rich Thorium veins which could in themselves be lucrative (but not really worth it for the length of the journey, except that those pop spots haven’t been touched for ages and thus should reset rather quickly afterwards for another harvesting).

I found a friendly NPC by the name of Earthcaller Franzahi who doesn’t offer much entertainment, and I found a portal door, blocked by a locked door that didn’t give me any clue as to what key it may need, if any, to open.

So, I ask for all those who might know - What’s in Darkwhisper Gorge?

What’s In Darkwhisper Gorge

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