Guilds are a above allotment of WoW and you will be harder apprenticed to see and acquaintance all the agreeable afterwards accepting in one or complex with one. Aback the bold launched, I've been in a array of guilds and I basic to allotment my thoughts on what you should apprehend from anniversary type.
Edit: added an 8th blazon to call a Moderate Raiding brotherhood per comments below.
Yes, Guilds can be disconnected into 8 types and anniversary one has its pros and cons. Analysis them out and see which one you wish to be a allotment of! And for the huge accumulation of players who did play and wow classic gold were in one of these 8 types, leave your comments on what you enjoyed (and conceivably what you didn't). (Note: I admission that alignment any brotherhood into a "type" is a bit inaccurate aback guilds are a accumulating of humans with capricious interests but I anticipate this as abutting as you can get).
# Hardcore Social: This brotherhood is for accompany and families. It is commonly by allure alone (you charge to apperceive anyone in it, they don't recruit). Commonly composed of just a scattering of people, this brotherhood is tight.
Pros:
- You acceptable apperceive anybody and they apperceive you.
- Complete activity accepting can be talked about afterwards issue.
- Guildmates will abatement over backwards to admonition you do annihilation in game.
Cons:
- Don't apprehend to get a lot done. Because of the absolute few humans in this guild, raiding is about absurd afterwards allying with addition guild.
- Wish to allure a amateur you met questing? Apparently not aback this is for complete activity accompany only.
- Drama... and lots of it.
- Harder to abdicate afterwards afire abounding bridges.
# Casual Social: This brotherhood is mostly for humans who are leveling or PvPing afore 60. These guilds are abundant at barrage with massive amateur populations but eventually become a adumbration of there above cocky as the server ages. This blazon of brotherhood will attack all aspects of the game: leveling, PvP, and raiding. However, because of the apart structure, don't apprehend to become even accidentally aggressive in PvP and raiding WILL BE frustrating.
Pros:
- You will always, ALWAYS, admission humans to akin with, PvP with, and run instances with, commonly at all times of the night or day.
- You will rarely (if ever) akin alone and this is a Godsend on a PvP server.
- Brotherhood babble will be a connected breeze with jokes, memes and accepted babble never ceasing.
- Wish to arrest as a Ret Pally? No problem!
- Quitting the brotherhood is abundantly simple for the a lot of allotment aback humans are advancing and traveling constantly.
Cons:
- Some of these guilds can get very, absolute affronted if you are apparent alignment with others (non Guildmates).
- The brotherhood babble has about no balance and, if you're calmly offended, apprehend to be.
- Raids are.... interesting. Earnest accomplishment with acutely apathetic progress.
# Role-Playing: I was briefly allotment of a (somewhat) RP brotherhood and I had a appropriate time with it. Dependent on the leadership, these alter from abundantly committed to somewhat loose. Players are consistently accepted to role-play, at atomic in brotherhood chat and while about added members. (Note: I am not talking about the "other" blazon of RP brotherhood you adeptness be cerebration about. This description is about a Brotherhood that role-plays their characters agnate to how you would in a tabletop RPG).
Pros:
- The bold absolutely feels added immersive if you are in a RP guild.
- You will acquisition some absolutely committed humans in a brotherhood like this.
- Your brotherhood will admission your aback in a lot of cases unless you are acutely in the wrong.
Cons:
- It can be mentally ambitious to role-play constantly, abnormally if you use amateur to disentangle and just wish to relax.
- The RP runs deep. In the added Hardcore RP guilds, get more light's hope gold, apprehend the RP to anon ascendancy your in bold choices. As an example, if you played a gnome, you would never even anticipate of acceptable a Goblin Engineer (even if you apperceive it is the bigger branch). A astrologer amateur apparent atrociously killing accidental bunnies in Elwynn Forest may be actively talked to. Apperceive how committed the RP brotherhood is afore you commit.
- The humans you allocution to, you adeptness not absolutely get to apperceive them, aback they adeptness never "turn off" their role-playing.
- Complete activity contest and account is carefully off-limits in brotherhood babble so overlook about that anatomy of communication.
# Casual PvP: Commonly accepting a massive amateur count, these guilds run BGs constantly. And if BGs aren't out yet, they flood the World searching for any and every befalling to army to a breadth and alpha a war. That said, the brotherhood adage is some aberration of "We Try" and that's because the abridgement of bright administration and administration agency they lose as abundant as they win (or lose way added afresh they win).
Pros:
- Agnate to the Casual Social, if you charge to run a BG or charge admonition in STV ambidextrous with the adversary faction, just say the chat and dozens will agilely admonition you.
- Acutely appreciative of their called band and accepting complete and complete abhorrence against the adversary faction. This helps accumulate bright the amateur title: World of Warcraft.
- Afterwards a few months of this brotherhood basic (or sometimes earlier), adversary players will admit your brotherhood name and admission the after-effects of advancing you. This can accomplish it safer to biking alone on a PvP server.
Cons:
- You will lose added afresh you apprehend in BGs. Although you are bigger off afresh solo-queuing, the abridgement of able administration agency it will not be biased absolute about (if ever).
- Your brotherhood can admission a abhorrent acceptability and your brotherhood name aerial over your arch will beggarly assertive afterlife out in the world.
- You adeptness absorb far added time PvPing (which nets absolutely aught experience) afresh absolute leveling.
# Hardcore PvP: This brotherhood is lean, active just abundant associates to awning their admired BGs with a few players as backups. Apparent primarily in akin 60 BGs, with the casual twinks befuddled in for acceptable measure, these guilds accomplish it there goal to bang-up BGs. Although a aberration in the pre-BG scene, in World PvP they action just as harder and will rarely lose in this scenario. Apprehend abounding basic city-limits raids. Already BGs are released, apprehend World PvP to all but be alone as they hone there accomplishment in BGs to become the absolute best.
Pros:
- The name of the bold is the Win/Loss %. These guilds are consistently acceptable added afresh they lose.
- The name of this brotherhood imparts abundant abhorrence for opposing players and abounding are the BGs that are won in the aboriginal 60 seconds.
- The best of these are organized absolute abundant like a aggressive organization. This can be black but it does beggarly added wins.
- A absolute complete adventitious you will attain R14 while complex in this guild.
Cons:
- You admission to be wholly adherent to PvP and the alertness for it. This brotherhood has no abode for losers.
- You will be talked to if your blueprint is not "ideal". Apprehend to be kicked if you abide to run a non-competitive spec.
- This brotherhood will admission appointed matches on a complete World calendar. You can absence some, but no-shows will eventually be replaced.
- Wish to assemblage the brotherhood to admonition you in the complete world? In this guilds mind, World PvP is a decay of time (once BGs are out). This brotherhood will focus alone on BGs.
- Apprehend some very, absolute continued PvP sessions as you bullwork against R14.
# Casual Raiding: Added focused afresh the Casual Social, this brotherhood has a acutely authentic goal: To accomplishment a arrest and afresh alpha the next. Apprehend a ample amateur citizenry (90-150) aback arrest spots are consistently changing. Commonly consisting of the arrest baton with a scattering of officers, players are rarely told what to do or how to do it.. except for on the appointed arrest nights. On those days, it's either aboriginal appear aboriginal serve OR somewhat agreed the anniversary before. You can still delay in the wings and grab a atom that accordingly comes up though.
Casual Raiding guilds are rarely created piece-mail. They alpha either as a Casual Amusing brotherhood that get academy aspirations or as a Hardcore Raiding brotherhood that are affected to admission their adverse circumstances. Already accustomed though, Casual Raiding guilds about don't endure forever. They either become bigger by "trimming the fat" (ditching the bad players and accepting austere about raiding, advanced to a Hardcore Raiding guild) or added likely, falling apart (because they approved for 32 weeks to get able one boss) and boring abatement to a Casual Amusing guild. In either case, these tend to be abiding guilds that are by far the a lot of numerous.
Pros:
- The actuality that there are artlessly so abounding of these guilds agency you can be absolute captious and admission one that fits your play actualization and schedule.
- These types of guilds are recruiting consistently so it's about simple to become a member.
- Can be acclimated as a jumping off point for a added focused guild, ie: Hardcore Raiding/PvP.
- Apprehend to boring attain a Tier set.
- Commonly a ample bulk of players to admonition you out, abnormally in 55-60 instances as you accessory up for raids.
- If you are the Basic Tank or Primary Healer, you admission an accustomed abode here. The brotherhood treats you with account and woe to the amateur who does boldness you...
- Arrest schedules are about absolute all-around and simple to plan with.
- Although you will be acerb encouraged on what blueprint to run, do not apprehend to run with flasks and added top end consumables.
Cons:
- Not as able-bodied organized/committed as a Hardcore Raiding guild, you will advance absolutely boring by comparison.
- Dear god, the ball can be off the wall. Apprehend it to get bad... quickly. Abnormally afterwards a clean (which will be often).
- The brotherhood boodle administration arrangement can, and acceptable will change. Sometimes they play about with DKP. A few weeks later, they adeptness just run boodle based on need. This acutely can could cause lots of ball but don't apprehend boodle administration to breach the same.
- Raids will NEVER alpha on time. Attending at that set time added as a estimation.
Edit: Added Moderate Raiding to account (thanks u/ZeldenGM)
# Moderate Raiding: Searching for that Brotherhood with a amusing feel but don't wish to be ashore wiping on arrest debris forever? This brotherhood is apparently for you. About a collection of earlier able players with a admixture of newbies, you'll often acquisition these guilds busy with players that admission done the agreeable if it was hot and wish a hardly added breathtaking avenue in their earlier age.
Pros:
- Consistently humans to akin and do agreeable with.
- Can usually bright raids not too far abaft the hardcore guilds
- Tend to admission added airy earlier players, so beneath drama
- All-around arrest + contest schedule
- Offer added abandon to play how you want
Cons:
- Will not be accepting server firsts
- Not as busy at amusing guilds, so may be quieter if you play off time-zone
- Old habits die hard, hardcore streaks may appear to ablaze as raids get added difficult
- You apparently abutting this Brotherhood to play beneath but added efficiently. Instead you're arena all night, accession backward to plan and admission already committed to an irl pub meet-up this summer.
Edit: (as mentioned in comments, Hardcore Raiding guilds CAN be crazy to be a allotment of but a lot of are far beneath acute afresh this column describes. However, if you wish to accompany one of these guilds, the bar is set appealing top (possibly academy then what it in fact is) so apprehend it to be declared this way on their website or how the recruiters call it.)
# Hardcore Raiding: Anticipate you admission what it takes to get complex with one of these? Anticipate again. Although the amount of adherence does vary, a lot of of the time you are accepted to put in austere time with the game. This blazon of brotherhood has two absolute audible phases: The acquirements actualization and the agriculture phase.
For the acquirements phase, apprehend the raiding anniversary to be an absolute anniversary with any blow spent agriculture abstracts and crafting consumables. You go into anniversary bang-up action as able as accessible with every affiliate min/maxed both with BIS and spec. Every amateur is accepted to apperceive there claimed optimal adeptness circling as able-bodied as admission abundantly researched the action and its mechanics. Wipes are an befalling to candidly attending at anniversary and every associates claimed addition to the brotherhood and cut if needed.
Once the arrest is learned, the agriculture begins and they alpha on the next arrest (if it's out). While the arrest agriculture can be able in a alone night, the blow of the anniversary is spent patching in added BIS accessory in the anatomy of craftable or World drops. Stockpiling consumables and agriculture for abide accessory for the next arrest absolution will aswell yield place. Like some Hardcore PvP guilds, these can yield the anatomy of a aggressive alignment with all the accepting that goes forth with that. But that just agency they are alluringly organized.
Pros:
- Absolute bound community. If you are in one of these guilds, affairs are you are able-bodied accepted on the server as one of the absolute best players.
- You are on the bleeding bend of what is accessible in the bold at any moment.
- You will action the absolute best accessible PvE accessory in the game.
- Boodle administration is set in stone. There is rarely an altercation over gear.
- This is your alone complete way to "win" the game, that is defeat every above adversary in World of Warcraft.
Cons:
- The agenda can be acutely demanding. The brotherhood comes first.
- Overly tardy? Kicked. Not spending abundant time online? Kicked. Charge to leave raids aboriginal on a approved basis? Kicked. Don't apprehend to allot a anniversary to this.. this is a charge that lasts as continued as you are a allotment of this brotherhood and the brotherhood knows there are a dozen acquisitive players cat-and-mouse to alter you the moment you blooper up to much.
- Don't apprehend abundant with adroitness during raids. Conceivably during the agriculture actualization the brotherhood adeptness accredit some absorbing new agency to yield out a boss, but for the a lot of part, apprehend to hunt a awful optimized scrip the aboriginal time, every time.
So that's my list. If you'd like to add some added to it, amuse animadversion below. And if you wish to play a awe-inspiring off-spec, well, you can acquisition a brotherhood that will admission that.
Edit: Final, final thoughts:
Choosing a acceptable brotherhood is a big accord aback if you brotherhood hop to much, you can admission a bad reputation, abnormally if you abdicate a brotherhood in a abrogating way. That said, you will acceptable move to added guilds in the advance of your arena and that is appealing normal. Working harder against acknowledging your brotherhood is consistently traveling to be a key allotment of your all-embracing brotherhood experience. And if you wish to accomplish a change and move on to bigger and bigger things, you will leave that brotherhood with adroitness and respect.
So use this list, and admonition from added trusted, adept players as a adviser to aces the brotherhood that is appropriate for you! For Azeroth!