My friends are waiting to play with me suggests I have made plans with them for this time period. Thus I am not free to grind with my guildmates.
If it is something that needs to be done right now, I would ask the group and since they would most likely (99%) to be guildies as well, I am sure they were help as well.
If it need not be done right now, I suggest a time when I will be free that we can meet. If it is like harvesting in Vanguard, where groups get significant bonuses, I would try to post in the guild forums to try for a full group at that time. We needed ALOT of Haelfurite....
zewtastic said:The problem with all of this is that we all know, if you have ever been involved in a large guild for a good while, not all members are treated equally.
There are always favorites, people that whine more than others always needing something.
Guid leader organizing 'special' events to get their favorites a quest item.
There are endless stories that people can list I am sure where these types of 'favortism' seem to always undermine guild continuity.
One of the worst is the teenybopper kid who can play 24x7 and is always whining for guildies to help them with this quest or that crafted item. Or they need x 1000's of this resource. It gets annoying when you work a full time job and hoping to get some quality few hours of play time in, end up having to do the bidding of the squeaky wheel in the guild becasue the guildleader thinks it's a good idea.
You can't pick your family. You CAN pick your guild.
This is pretty much spot on. I was in a large raiding guild, worked full time but I was on 6-7 nights a week from 6pm til 1am. I was pretty quiet over all. did my thing, leveled fast, helped every single time that was needed.
I was a Cleric and a badass one. I was nearly always the last cleric living 99% of the time and if there were such things as Skada heal meters back in 1999, I would have been #1 on the chart.
But, I wasn't in the 'click' favorites group, so I got my VP last. I got my Epic last.
Others that also weren't in the click would be asking: :WTF is he getting his epic after these others? he's the best healer I have ever seen. " and the leader used some BS excuse that it was chosen at random, that it was never personal. but I also saw those same asskissers get anything they wanted ahead of others.
I am not here to be someone's guildbitch this time.
All jokes aside, I say play where its the most fun. If you have a group of RL friends who play, play with them. People shouldn't expect anything from guildies other than grouping for quest, raids or dungeon crawls. Guild banks are for mats and mat grinding are for the times when your friends aren't online waiting on you. We all know grinding mats is like a second job so don't ever expect people to line up for that. You're aiming for disappointment if you do.
All that said I still don't even know what grinding mats will be like in this game. Will there be mining nodes, skinning, etc like in other mmo's or are kill drops the only way to get mats?
Kilsin said:Scenario - You're in a guild that can see when you're online, they ask you to help with something boring like grinding for mats or guild finances but your friends are waiting to play with you, what do you do? #PRF #MMORPG #MMO #communitymatters
Your guild has a charter. Before joining, read it. If they are cool with being blown off for buddies, friends list, etc....no prob. If they aren't, then prob. You know what your guild is about when you join. Let that knowledge be your guide.