Guild Wars 2

I believe I am posting in the right section because this is not a thread about looking for a guild merger. This is more along the lines of asking the community some questions and getting some feedback on an idea I have had in my mind for awhile.

Obviously, I am a guild leader with ~100 members under me. We are fully unlocked, have a website, teamspeak3, and a Kik chat room. We do guild missions every week and for the most part we seem to be a very causal happy family.

But, I have noticed some issues within the guild that I am not sure on how to address by myself and my officers are just as clueless as I am. Those revolve around communication. Our TS3 is rarely used for anything but our missions and the guild chat can go quiet for hours at a time.

I became a guild leader so I can make long lasting friends and provide for them the best that I can. I miss the days in other games where guild chat would be non-stop banter between guildies and participation would never be an issue. I play an MMORPG for the people, If I wanted to be by myself I would just play Skyrim.

Now that you have some of the basics to my problem I will bring in the “idea”. With only ~100 members, we have space to take in more and expand. Being fully set up with all the tools a guild could need including a paid website and TS. Would a guild merger with another guild solve the problem?

• It would bring in more people, encouraging (hopefully) a more social atmosphere.
• Those people would (hopefully) participate and show an example to the others.
• We would increase our family and get to know more people on a level much higher then just recruiting.
• I would be happy to share leadership with a new clan.

So here comes the community questions. Would this be a healthy turn for the guild? Has a guild merger ever happened to anyone’s knowledge? What was the outcome? Does anyone think there would even be another struggling guild out there that would want to merge? [I mean who would want to give up what they had to becoming part of something bigger?]

I’m just curious because I want to fix the growing problem of silence… I could take the easy route and join a guild that had that talkative community already, but I cant give up on my family…

Any advice/input is appreciated…
Thank you for reading.

Seems unlikely that it would have the result you want. More people might even result in less chatting. It’ll be map chat that follows you around from map to map.

Probably won’t work. People who are leading a guild won’t want to step down to become an officer or a member of your guild. If it’s a small guild, that might be what they like, not a bigger, impersonal guild full of strangers.

What might be a better idea is Alliances, like the Guild Wars 1 setup. Several guild could ally with each other and then there was an alliance chat available as well as guild chat. Allowed multi guilds to talk together as well as an easy channel for guild leaders to discuss plans of how to do things together.

Thank you both! Yes, I agree more strangers would make things a bit more difficult. It already seems a bit “impersonal” but then how would I motivate my current member to be more vocal in guild chat or even TS?

Maybe it’s a strangers together situation where no one knows anyone in the guild, not really. No one has anything to say to a bunch of strangers who they don’t know and who mean little to them. So they are focusing on what they are doing.

Depending on what your guildies like to do, doing things together might make them talk to each other. Maybe organize jumping puzzles. There are bound to be people who need those for achievements. Do WvW as a group. Role play sessions. Map exploration as a group. Events, everyone parties up, goes to a map and does events. Party up and work on personal story achieves. Fashion parties where people show off their chars, ping their gear. Stuff like that. Encourage everyone to be in team speak, if only to listen. Have get togethers where each person tells one thing about themselves. The main thing is to get them to see each other as part of a group and to learn information about each other so the others aren’t anonymous guildies.