World of Warcraft™

Seriously. The requirement to not be in any guild to browse the listings renders this new feature almost completely useless. Almost all people looking for guilds are currently in another guild or are in a placeholder guild. The functionality of this feature really makes me wonder if the developers are still in touch with how people play WoW.

Please fix this feature and allow players currently in a guild to browse the guild listings.

The other thing is that I can't extend invites to anyone if they aren't online, and there's no functionality to even send the candidate a mail message saying "Please PST me when you're on..." -- I can't even shift-click a candidate to add them to the "To" field if I'm at a mailbox!

Can we at least fix that piece?

It reminds me of other features such as voice chat that bliz has wasted cash and resources on. Bad product design is bad.

Thanks for fixing my horse mount animation though!

The other thing is that I can't extend invites to anyone if they aren't online, and there's no functionality to even send the candidate a mail message saying "Please PST me when you're on..." -- I can't even shift-click a candidate to add them to the "To" field if I'm at a mailbox!

Can we at least fix that piece?

Having to manually enter the name of the person in a mail is annoying, but it's not a deal breaker. Not being able to browse the guild listings is making this feature almost completely useless.

If you don't want to be in the guild you are in, why are you in it?

05/05/2011 01:59 PMPosted by Rallty

If you don't want to be in the guild you are in, why are you in it?

That's what I was thinking. Such guild loyalty in this game...

I just wish we would get a notification when someone applied D:

05/05/2011 01:59 PMPosted by Rallty

If you don't want to be in the guild you are in, why are you in it?

guild perks?

05/05/2011 01:44 PMPosted by Delinger

Not being able to browse the guild listings is making this feature almost completely useless.

Just man up and quit your guild.

if you want to browse other guilds that's what the server forums are for.

A button would be terribly useful then, I didn't have any idea one could access it while still in a guild, good info...but this should be somewhere someone can find outside of browsing forums

Seriously. The requirement to not be in any guild to browse the listings renders this new feature almost completely useless. Almost all people looking for guilds are currently in another guild or are in a placeholder guild. The functionality of this feature really makes me wonder if the developers are still in touch with how people play WoW.

Please fix this feature and allow players currently in a guild to browse the guild listings.

There is no such requirement on the player. The requirement is on the button. Any player, currently guilded or not, can do /gf in-game and use the guild finder.

Seriously.

/owned


also, you're abandoning your current guild and you want convenience? personally I don't think you should have access to the guild finder at all

Here's my issues with the Guild Finder

1) As a guild leader there just isn't enough room to describe what we're about and what kind of person we're looking for. I'd love to have a few paragraphs of space to work with.
2) There's not enough room for the applicant to write anything reasonable to the guild that they apply to. (Again a paragraph or two would be nice). Also as a guild leader I can only see the first 3 or so lines that they do write before the text is cut off without a scroll bar to read the rest.
3) I was REALLY hoping that guild leaders would have been able to create an in game application with questions that the applicant would be able to answer.
4) The applicants are never online and we don't know when they are. As a guild leader I'm forced to put every applicant's name into my friends list to see when they log into the game. What I'd like to see is an icon that lights up on my bars when a person that filled out an application logs into the game.

I like the idea of the guild finder but I'm really hoping that they expand on it and work out the bugs.

The guild finder is ok for finding guilds for alts. But you can forget about finding a good established guild with the finder.

The system isn't sophisticated enough. The mass recruiting guilds log their guild under every possible selection, so no matter what you pick in the settings screen, you'll get 50-60 crappy guilds cluttering the list.

The best way to find a guild is still either on the forums or through direct communication.

05/05/2011 02:03 PMPosted by Deathriot

If you don't want to be in the guild you are in, why are you in it?

guild perks?

My money is on this.

There is no such requirement on the player. The requirement is on the button. Any player, currently guilded or not, can do /gf in-game and use the guild finder.

Seriously.

wow yea a button would be great i had no idea you could browse guilds while in a guild. Not that i'm planning on leaving. Officer and we just got g-lvl 25 woot!

You know, there are a few things I find missing from the guild finder. Such as, Leveling Guild.

Although honestly, your 'scrub' guilds don't get better because you ignore them. They get better because you recruit and play with each other and learn how each other think. Any guild can become a good guild with a little organization and team play. It's not even all that hard.

05/05/2011 01:59 PMPosted by Rallty

If you don't want to be in the guild you are in, why are you in it?

Because, no matter what Blizzard says, guild perks are not optional or minor, especially when it comes to soloing, leveling, daily questing, and general grinding (something a person who does not have a guild that can supply him with a dungeon-run team or a raid team will be doing a lot of).

People who can't find good guilds are literally forming guilds dedicated to being "people who can't/don't want to find a guild". Why? Because of perks.