4.1 Preview -- Guild Finder
In patch 4.1 we'll be introducing the Guild Finder, a new system designed to enable easier and faster guild recruitment. Guild leaders and players who are looking for a guild to call home will use the Guild Finder to meet one another and begin communications that can lead to a prosperous membership.
The Guild Finder is intended to act as an in-game bulletin board for guilds that are actively recruiting. Previously in World of Warcraft, your options were limited. You would have to publicly post on your realm forum message board, or speak to other players directly via private messages or the chat channels. That can be a time consuming process. Guild Finder will allow your “looking for new members” message to work 24 hours a day, accessible to all of the characters in your faction, from anywhere in the game.
A new Guild Finder button will now appear on your Micro Menu if you're either a guild leader or currently unguilded.
As a guild leader, you will indicate one or more of the common guild interests (such as PvP, Raids, or Role Playing), a general time of the week availability you’re looking for (Weekdays or Weekends), and which class roles you seek from new members (Tank, Healer, Damage). The Comment field is where you can say anything you like about your guild and/or the sort of members you seek. Do you only accept female orcs? Is your guild slowly transitioning from 10-person to 25-person raiding? Perhaps you’ll only accept new members who are available to play on Thursdays at noon? This is the place to say so, and help potential recruits determine whether your guild is what they’re looking for.
From the perspective of an unguilded player, the Guild Finder allows you to browse through a list of the guilds currently looking for new members. Just launch the Guild Finder, tell it about your availability, class role, and the sorts of guild activities you’re looking for, and then click “Browse Guilds.” This will take you to the second tab, where you’ll see a list of recruiting guilds that fit your profile. Here you can read about them and, if you like what you see, submit a request to join.
Requests submitted to recruiting guilds appear in the Requests tab. From this third tab, guild leaders can examine potential recruits and proceed with the final steps toward new membership.
Whether you’re a guild leader looking to fill your ranks or a player looking for a guild that meets your strictest requirements, the Guild Finder provides an easy way to make new friends!
Comments (182)
Dragonblight
Aggramar
weekends / weekdays
hmmzzz
they should just add the days
Daggerspine
Spinebreaker
Grim Batol
I'll add this: Language. There are lot of non English guilds, a player might be look for a Swedish, Portuguese, etc., only guild.
Will it be cross-server?
And we need options for browsing guilds, like progression, etc.
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Daggerspine
but i agree that it needs more details. on the other hand, that's what the "comment" section is for :)
Thunderhorn
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Ghostlands
Grim Batol
Outland
and just add what spec, for example some guild need healers but got quite some druids and want more pally healers for example :)
and @ Darklordss, stop trying to troll every singe post here, it started as fun, but now you're just anoying.
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Executus
Bloodhoof
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Turalyon
most hardcore guilds wont even use this not enough info on players they take in.
good for social guilds or finding a leveling guild.
Sporeggar
Chamber of Aspects
Steamwheedle Cartel
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Nagrand
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Haomarush
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Ashenvale
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they raid monday wednesday and friday what do i do then. what about time blizzard morning afternoon 4:00am is there only 1 time to you that you think everyone raids at no people dont have all day everyday to play so they need to raid on a schedule when they know they have time after work after school. only noobs and players that are 2 lazy to apply to a guild on the website will use this and lvl 0 guilds with 1 member look at the picture of the guild browse the forgotten 4 members fear disposal 3 members booty bay bruiser 2 who wants to join a guild like that noobs. thanks bliz for giving entitled casuals more ways to ruin the game didnt you do enough damage to the game when you nerfed all the 5 mans and let people get raid gear from them wow is going back to wrath of the lich king its not as bad as wrath yet but it will be soon if you keep doing this blizz
Earthen Ring
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Runetotem
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Earthen Ring
And one I don't particularly agree with at that.
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Earthen Ring
I remember when the realID system came out and a few people started !@%%!ing and moaning about it. That died down after it came out.
My point is you can moan about how bad it is, but that doesn't make it bad. You don't like it, then don't use it, Just get off your soap box.
And I use realID.
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Aerie Peak
I for one think this system can work. around 70% of the player base won't go onto guild websites for recruitment. It's a lot of trouble for the majority of the player base who are not hard-core raiders or pvpers.
I love raiding myself, but I do not want to join a raiding guild. I love my social guild, and this system will help our guild get more social players into the war zone that is our guild chat.
Thumbs up Blizz, but you are excluding the hard-core players with this. They just won't use it. Everyone else, probably will.
Earthen Ring