Guild Wars 2

Why do some guilds claim to WvW oriented when they clearly are not?
For example, a guild advertised in WvW borderlands claiming they were an organized WvW oriented guild with 300 people. After a few question asked to the recruitment person, I was happy to join them thinking I’d get some good groups.
At first look, I counted 100 people online. I thought this is going to be fun, but to my disappointment it anything but… checking guildies whereabouts I counted less than 10% in WvW, this hardly improved at all throughout the days. They had daily WvW events, where all people were expected to attend, but only around 20% of online people attended.
So, why advertise as WvW guild, when you are majority PvE guild?

Lots of guild leaders , say what ever they need to say to keep their numbers up all so they can run their lottery and make the gold

Make gold through guilds?

The numbers you gave are pretty decent. 300 members doesn’t mean 300 people show up every day or at the same time and 100 online doesn’t mean they all want to do WvW that day. But getting 20 (20% of 100) people out to WvW during events means the guild can make some difference. I see a lot of WvW guilds on my server getting around 20 people out every time they are on so whatever guild you joined is doing as expected really.

That’s the reality with a lot of wvw focused guilds. Fotm for ascention gear and legendary’s being achievable in only pve has cause a lot of wvw focused people to heavily reduce the amount of wvw they do. The ones that are doing wvw are the few that don’t care about those pieces of gear.

Mirage.2597:

Lots of guild leaders , say what ever they need to say to keep their numbers up all so they can run their lottery and make the gold

Hi there, Leader of EPIC here. I’m poor. Can I enter this lottery? I spend all my money on keep and tower upgrades.

Mara.5372:

Mirage.2597:

Lots of guild leaders , say what ever they need to say to keep their numbers up all so they can run their lottery and make the gold

Hi there, Leader of EPIC here. I’m poor. Can I enter this lottery? I spend all my money on keep and tower upgrades.

Dont bother spending that gold. We are going to take those towers and keeps from you anyway

On topic, ask yourself if you really want to be in a guild that invites anyone who asks for an invite. Also with 20 people online, you should be able to do some fun wvw. I dont really think wvw with 100 people would be fun tbh

Mara.5372:

Mirage.2597:

Lots of guild leaders , say what ever they need to say to keep their numbers up all so they can run their lottery and make the gold

Hi there, Leader of EPIC here. I’m poor. Can I enter this lottery? I spend all my money on keep and tower upgrades.

You don’t enter the lottery as a guild leader you run one in your guild once a week give out 1/3, guild (you) keep 2/3

PVE people help with influence.

In my MMO experience since 1999: the larger the guild the worse the experience. Members become numbers, there’s small inner groups causing drama and the quality of people is far lower because they took aboard basically anybody without screening to reach those numbers and suck at quality control which allows them to keep said numbers.

My guild has a bunch of members but it’s always the same 10-20 who play WvW. I am perfectly fine with that because it means you learn how to work together over time resulting in a better overall WvW experience.