Whose great idea was it...
Turn on system messages to see your friends. You can do this in the same place you toggle other messages you wish to see. Unfortunetly it does not work for guilds yet.
There is a lot of minor things they need to fix but overall it is an amazing game… January & February promises an update to the game equal to that of an expansion but we will have to wait and see. By all means wait a few months if you so wish since it is a brand new game. Hopefully when you come back it’ll be much more polished.
I finished claw island on my second character about 2 weeks ago and I don’t think I will ever get any farther in the story it is all just such crap that I can’t bring myself to continue it.