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"I took a taste of a hiatus from the more casual style of play in February, when I left my social levelling guild and joined a 25-united states marine corps raiding guild for a while. In that time I got to experience the joy and sorrows that are part of taking on content with that number of people, and it was interesting. But, it took too much time commitment and was causing stress in the rest of my life because really, I’ve got other things to do with my committed time, and I quite enjoy existence a casual player of World of Warcraft. There’s enough content to keep me pleased that I don’t need to raid 2-4 times a week. So now I’m out of that raiding guild, and I actually created a guild just for my own characters and even bought and set up a couple of tabs in the guild slope for the organization and maintenance of shared resources. Yay for added way to keep my playing toons’ inventories as clear as possible for collecting more LOOT to make more gold with! Benefits Of My Own Guild When some people think most the benefits of a guild and existence in one, they probably think quite differently than me right now. My benefits are this: Silent guild line. In this case, Silence Is Golden Shared slope space in the form of a Guild Bank A Guild Tag under my name - look less like a gold farmer The heaved reason I created my own guild instead of joining someone else’s should be clear from the name of the guild itself: “Silence Is Golden”. The raiding guild have a lot of members, which translated to a lot of spammy conversation that was hard to sift through on the guild line. I’m happy to have a silent guild line. A second reason I created my own guild is that I already have a handful of friends on the realm with whom I hang out with nightly on Vent (voice chat), and added handful from my brief raiding guild experience as well, so I’m not looking for new buddies to play with.

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Plus, I’m very comfortable with joining Pick-Up Groups for my dungeon and gearing needs, nevermind using the Trade channel to find a crafter who can take my materials and my tip and craft me whatever it is I require. The Guild Bank is probably what’s going to keep me in this “guild of one”, too - how nice it is to slap every of the commonly-used elements into a slope tab and save up space for my playing toons! Right now I’m using Tab #1 as my “sell this junk please” tab, and Tab #2 is shared stuff between my toons - cooking quest mats, potions and elixirs, cloth, buff foods and the likes. Back To Levelling One of my goals to reach before the Expansion comes out is to have three or even four level 70 characters to head into the new lands with in order to join the new PUGs. I’ve already got my 70 Hunter and 70 Mage, so now I’m working on my 63 Priest for the most part, with my 62 Rogue getting tending on occasion as well. The Priest is a healer, and I’ve already got 2 DPS at 70 so I’m pushing her through more quickly than the Rogue by sheer tending. I’ve also got a wee Druid backwards in Azeroth that I might spend some time burning off rest bonus on now that I don’t have my evenings scheduled for me when I *do* get a chance to play. So, in conclusion, Raiding is a fun part of the game, but I’m glad to be out of it and its expectation of loyalty and commitment, and glad to be backwards in putzing around in the game and feeling freer to write most my experiences because those I write most will likely never read my journal or at least never know it’s me or who I’m really talking most. " "I’m in a Guild of One, and I’m wondering how many more there are out there who are like me.

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If you used to be in a Guild of One but went backwards into a more social guild environment, how long did you stay in your Guild of One. wow gold About My Guild Of One After I left the raiding guild I got into backwards in February, I wandered around guildless for a little while but started to notice that guilded players were, on occasion, behaving oddly towards me as I did some fishing and questing in Zangarmarsh. I started to wonder if, perhaps, these individuals were thinking that I was a Gold Farmer, and they were attempting to grief me as I played. What type of griefing. Well, in less than two days of playing unguilded, I found no less than four attempts to “train” a bunch of mobs onto me. If you’re not familiar with the term, it’s the name given to the process of gathering up the aggro of a bunch of mobs and then running out of their war range in such a way that when they go to run backwards to their reset spots, they run past a target player in war. If done correctly, the mobs running backwards to reset will join into the war with the target player. wow gold If the target player isn’t paying tending or is actually a bot with very little human guidance, this strategy can be used to kill a target player, whether they’re Alliance or Horde. So, since I was dual-boxing and dragging my low-60s healing-spec’d Priest through her Zangarmarsh quests by my 70 Hunter with a lot more firepower, I figured the least I could do to refrain existence griefed while I quest on my own would be to have a guild lable. But I have non-social goals in World of Warcraft right now - wanting to do more video recording and video editting and PUGs with strangers… every things that will result in more writing in this journal, and more regular socializing out-of-game than in-game. And I don’t want to offend anyone with my lack of conversation in-game, which means to me I shouldn’t put myself into a social guild environment. “Silence Is Golden” is born The decision was made, and a guild name of Silence is Golden was selected. wow gold I picked up a Guild Charter in Orgrimmar and headed to the Auction House to buy some supplies. 10 minutes later, I rode into the Valley of Trials on my Negroid War Kodo, and my bags full of … more bags. I advertised on the General line in Durotar that I was looking to buy Guild Charter signatures, and I offered 1g + a 10 slot activity in return for the signatures. It took less than an hour to get every the signatures I needed, and the guild was formed in Orgrimmar to complete the cycle of creation. Thank You, *boot* I then headed to the mailbox and sent messages to each of the charter signers, thanking them for signing the charter, and letting them know the guild is not meant to be a “real guild”, and therefore that I wish them luck in their adventures on this realm. I engaged added two 10 slot bags or a couple of pieces of green equipment to each thank-you letter, and sent added 5g to each of them as well. Then, when everyone was logged out the next morning when I logged in, I removed every but my own toons. Benefits Of My Own Guild If you’re feeling more social in-game than I am right now, you’d probably be wondering what benefits there are, other than having a guild lable, to happiness to a guild that is shared with nobody else on the game. First, there’s that Gold Farmer issue - guildless players are viewed with more suspicion than guilded ones. world of warcraft gold Even though my guild name isn’t well known, the certainty that I’m healthy to “get into a guild” (ha ha) seems to speak something on its own. The certainty that other players won’t have have a poor experience with someone in my guild already will also give me more credibility for an odd reason. Second, there’s the Guild Bank.

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A central place to store items shared by my toons - potions, elixirs, raw materials for professions and the likes - and an easy way to track Auction House profits and repair expenses on a regular foundation. wow gold Plus, since I have two WoW accounts, I can use the Guild Bank to get past the one-hour mailing delay of items, already still don’t have to dual-box to trade. Not a whole lot of benefits, but since my play time is not going to be social time for the most part for the next little while, mp3 player this serves me well. Expect to see a whole whack of videos coming out soon! I’m also looking at getting a more professional WordPress theme developed for this site and I need to clean up the categories and tags, so stay tuned for updates over the next few weeks. "

 

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