I’ve been giving a lot of thought as to what I want to be doing guild-wise when Star Wars: the Old Republic comes out. There are so many options — join a guild that’s forming now, play with one of my World of Warcraft guilds that’s planning to start a SWTOR guild, or even start my own guild.
I’ve given them all a serious amount of thought since I put up the guild poll here a while back. And I think that alt creation capabilities willing, I’ll be doing a little of each of those.
In a perfect world where I had unlimited free time, I would have gone with starting up my own guild. But this year has been anything but that. So although I do have plans to create a little alt guild with some of my favorite gaming people, I am not going to try to do that as a serious full-time endeavor. I simply do not have the time I would want to allot to it (which I think is also the case for most of my buddies, truth be told.)
Instead, keeping in mind my favorite WoW guild of all time, I decided to look for a nice big, boisterous guild that would hopefully be teaming with folks who want to be out and about and raising hell for the launch. I also wanted to think about doing something a little different from my usual PvE raiding focused recent past. And thus, I sought out Coconut Monkeys, the PC Gamer SWTOR guild.
We’ll see how I do in a PvP environment. It’s a big change, but PvP, and specifically world PvP, was a key part of what I really enjoyed about my favorite WoW guild. I’ve already raised my hand to help out with whatever needs doing in building the guild for launch. As a bonus, something about having an active guild forum to go and chat in has gotten me just that much more revved up about the game.
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My best times in WoW were when I was in the guild of my husband’s real life friends. We had a blast, and I’m looking forward to doing something similar with our friends in SWTOR.
I wish that more of my RL friends were MMORPG gamers. Unfortunately, too many of them are worried it would become too much of a time sink for them, and thus stick to console games…
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Every type of guild has its own little pros and cons. I’m also going to be aiming to hit various guilds with SWTOR. I’m going to be on multiple servers anyway since I don’t like having opposing factions on the same server and I’m definitely going to roll with both factions to get a feel for each (at least to start with), so I might as well diversify my guild experiences as well.
It’s hard to say where I’ll really settle in at when it’s all said and done. Small guilds are great when the people are actually online and playing often, while they tend to really suck once players start to leave or have life get in the way of their play time. Medium guilds are good because they can have that same closeness between members without quite so much of the drawback from players cutting back or leaving the game. Large guilds always have something to do and people to do it with, but you do tend to lose that closeness with other members beyond the cliques that naturally form within them.
I definitely want to be involved with a guild that’s not focused solely on one aspect of the game (save, possibly, certain situations like twink guilds if twink pvp becomes a SWTOR possibility). A guild that only raids isn’t going to appeal to me, while a raiding guild with an active PvP team would. Add members who enjoy leveling/alting, and I’m sold. The more the guild does, the more appealing it is to me.
This response (and POV) is just one of the reasons we get along so well.
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If you have your hands in a number of cookie jars there will always be a tasty cookie at hand, yes? (I have cookies on the brain; best be baking soon.)
And we’d best put our heads together to plot soon on the alt guild too. I am half tempted to start a list of fun guild names now…
Looking forward to a large, active guild on a PVP server and all that comes along with it. Some of my fondest wow memories involve spontaneous guild battles while waiting for the raid to start…