Guild Wars 2

Im in a very friendly guild, we do guild missions on weekends and usually the chat have around 5-8 active members at peak days. It has around 100 members of which maybe 30 log at most. My problem comes from people (in chat and forums) which are constantly talking about these guilds that have loyal people, who have nicely knit communities, who help each others with even money and effort and time when they need something, that have active voice channels and do events together. Does this actually exist? Or is this only a small thing for some guilds? To be perfectly honest, the reason why i picked this game besides the normal farming escape (which unfortunately im still doing even in this game) was because i thought i could find a guild in a game called Guild wars, but im kinda disappointed and sad, i dont want to quit my guild since i like to be loyal, but am i doing something wrong and there is an actual american pie version for guilds, or am i believing an american pie lie?

EDIT: a lot of people seem to be picking on the american pie reference, my apologies, let me explain myself; in that movie a “reality” of college is shown, when in reality its nothing like that, so people expect that when they go to college only to live in constant disappointment thinking that they are not living the “real” college experience. Its a vague reference but its what im starting to feel myself.

In my experience those guilds do exist and I’ve been member of some of them, but they’re either small guilds created by groups of friends that already knew each other (on or offline), or very big multi-gaming guilds where people can know each other from previous games or from guild forums.

I don’t know what the hell you mean with the whole american pie thing (the movie?), but try finding a larger guild maybe. Odds are that there will be more active players at a time who will be chatting it up and things. For the whole loyal and helping eachother out kind of stuff, idk what to tell you there.

I have seen a few of these guilds you speak of. In fact, I was in one shortly after the game first came out. But that guild died down and I sought out another guild. (Being the only active member in a guild is extremely lonely.) And now the guild I’m in is often inactive on weekends, (though members speak of doing guild events on weekends? I’ve never seen them, and that’s when I play most) so lately, I’ve been looking for a secondary guild I can join to feel like part of a community on the weekends.
The problem I’ve had though is nowadays people want 100% representation to their guild. I don’t want to leave my friends, but want some people to talk and interact with when my friends are offline. I don’t have a problem switching which guild I’m representing if the other guild needs me for something. But I also don’t want to completely drop my main guild for a different one….

There are many guilds like that.

The problem with your so-called “loyalty” is that it locks you inside a single community with less opportunities to meet other people. Try out some other guilds, and don’t feel bad about “betraying” an antiquated loyalty system, you don’t owe anyone anything.

PS. I also fail to see the connection to american pie. Maybe you mean the “cake is a lie” instead?

Sorry, i added an edit to explain the american pie reference

My guild is like that. It probably is only like that due to the massive amount of members it has. More people = better chance to meet people that are friendly.

We also do weekly guild-missions but I must day interest for guild-missions seem to be getting a bid less lately. And there is a core of people that are always talking with each other (and lending money, leveling, doing dingeons and so on). To be part of that core usually required going on TeamSpeak because thats how you really become friends.

But we are on a EU server (Have some US people but playtimes are a bid off then). Still if you are interested you can always give me a whisper or send me a mail. We are on Piken Square.

There are many good guilds out there with active members that do all aspects of the game. From my experience the guilds that are spamming /map every 5 minutes with something like this usually do not fit in that category:

“Guild Of The Day (XHSC) is actively recruiting! It’s your lucky day! We are the best most active great guild ever on GW2. Tons of great players every day all day 24/7. We are pretty cool and the guild is cool too! Did I mention how great our really cool awesome guild is? It’s pretty cool. Send me a whisper and you will automatically be made a really cool officer in our most active really great guild with really awesome members. It’s pretty cool.”

There are some great guilds that do advertise from time to time (not every 5 minutes) worth looking into. Also ask around when you see people with the same guild tags in some open world activity.

Edit: Oh and I forgot to add you can be in more than one guild at a time. You just decide which one you want to represent at any given time. This allows to sample more guilds without leaving the one you are in.