Guild Wars 2

Some of the guilds here in GW2 are really huge to the point to where you can be in a guild for a while and still not know people. Im not saying that all guilds are like that but most of them are. With a 150+ member guild is really easy to be over looked, and neglected. It sucks to see someone log on into a guild and say “Hi” and no one responds. Im sure everybody has seen that thousands of times. So that’s why I suggest having squads inside of a guild. That way you can get to know some of the people more personal. But not have it as a mandatory thing. That way you can meet friends and people who’s more similar to your play style and become a close knit friends inside of a ever growing guild/family. So what do you guys think? Just a suggestion.

I think this is a really good idea especially since there are so many big guilds out there.

Hn, like within the Guild Ranks, you can use color on the rank emblem to distinguish factions of the guild.

This is actually a really neat concept.

There could even be a ‘tree view’ for the rooster, displaying members by squad, and the node of each branch would be the leader of that squad.

It is a Guild management issue.
But I have to add that I have been pushing for DE raid groups for several months now and it is the guilds that have the best chance of organizing this.

The first guild I see on my server that states they make such groups I will apply to that guild.

It just mostly sounds like you don’t like large guilds. Maybe a smaller guild where everyone knows everyone is a better option for you? It’s just not feasible to expect everyone to know you and vice versa in 200+ guilds.

Fay.2735:

It just mostly sounds like you don’t like large guilds. Maybe a smaller guild where everyone knows everyone is a better option for you? It’s just not feasible to expect everyone to know you and vice versa in 200+ guilds.

I really understand what you mean, and true its not feasible at all to expect to know everyone. Im actually in a pretty large guild. I love the influence of being in one of the most successful guilds on my server. Im actually quite popular in my guild also. But my concern if for the people who are new to the whole Guild Wars 2 experience. I started playing GW2 on the release date so when I started and finally joined a guild it was basically made from the ground up. It started with a handful of people and during that time you really got to know people. and before I knew it it was over 200+. But for the people who are just starting they are really missing out on the whole close knit feeling of a guild in my opinion. I mean yes they can look for or join a small guild, but we all know they really don’t last very long in the GW2 world. (Not saying all. I know forums people get offended very easily lol) But most. And again it’ll really help people who really enjoy playing with people with the same play style. I really think if done right it could really help out a lot of people.

AeroBlaze.6581:

Fay.2735:

It just mostly sounds like you don’t like large guilds. Maybe a smaller guild where everyone knows everyone is a better option for you? It’s just not feasible to expect everyone to know you and vice versa in 200+ guilds.

I really understand what you mean, and true its not feasible at all to expect to know everyone. Im actually in a pretty large guild. I love the influence of being in one of the most successful guilds on my server. Im actually quite popular in my guild also. But my concern if for the people who are new to the whole Guild Wars 2 experience. I started playing GW2 on the release date so when I started and finally joined a guild it was basically made from the ground up. It started with a handful of people and during that time you really got to know people. and before I knew it it was over 200+. But for the people who are just starting they are really missing out on the whole close knit feeling of a guild in my opinion. I mean yes they can look for or join a small guild, but we all know they really don’t last very long in the GW2 world. (Not saying all. I know forums people get offended very easily lol) But most. And again it’ll really help people who really enjoy playing with people with the same play style. I really think if done right it could really help out a lot of people.

I think it is always hard to join an already established guild where everyone knows each other already and you don’t really fit in yet. I think effort needs to be made on both the newcomer and existing members to work towards establishing friendships. It’s not always easy but it’s kind of what you need to do if you want to fit in or get to know people.

As for smaller guilds I think it depends, some small guilds do fine because they all know each other but there’s also the option of a medium sized guild like my own (100 members) we keep the number around there to make sure we don’t grow too big to cause that problem but not too small so you don’t have anyone to do anything with.

We have about 20ish people online in the evenings, some days more than others and it’s a mix of people who play all the time like myself and those who can’t come on as often. People who all like to play the game in varying ways so there’s always someone you can get to know and play with that enjoys the same playstyle or amount of time you can play. Without the trouble of being in a crowd of strangers, you eventually get to know everyone pretty well from active guild chat/grouping up.