Yes, I cut off, “say” at the very end. Sorry, I am on the road!
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Quitting your guild for alot of people is like quitting a job. Maybe you see yourself going beyond what your guild is currently or might ever be capable of, you don’t like your supervisors/leadership, or even you aren’t liking the direction that the guild is heading toward (ie: casual, massive recruiting, a team b team status, elitism, etc).
I believe my most memorable moment in terms of quitting a guild, was when I quit the guild Iconoclast of Dawnbringer over a year ago. Iconoclast had a lot of great people, great leadership, and also great drama mommas, but for me at that time all of the good things about the guild were outweighed by the bad things of the guild.
I wanted to push progression, the guild wanted to remain casual. I wanted to change to dps from healing, the guild wanted me to remain a healer. I wanted to play a whole new level, the guild while trying to push the skill envelope was held back through some cliques and bad attitudes. I also wanted to get rid of people who I thought were nothing but baggage, as my back gets sore very quickly. So, I silently posted my numbers on a couple of guild sites that I thought were within my skill range, all at least top 100 guild, but no one near the front page of wowprogress. The response I got was far from what I expected. I had posted as a healer and instead it was my dps numbers in relation to my gear that got me picked up by a top 40 US guild. I talked with them at length and established a good sight picture of what I would be doing and reaching to obtain. I then did something that I most people wouldn’t, I went to the officers of my guild and told them that this was a once in a life time oppurtunity at least for world of warcraft and asked to keep in touch.
Not only was this a great thing for me, but I was wished the best by my officers and transferred with only a few mumblings, mostly by those people I didn’t like and was more than happy to get far away from them. I’ve kept in touch with these people and still play any number of games with them from FPS to RTS staying in our tight niche of fun people to play with. Even moreso though, the new guild gave me the right stepping stone to being in a top 20 US guild and playing at a level I never thought I would. I don’t regret leaving, especially given the environment the guild has turned into through mergers and the like, but I do like staying in touch with all of the old friends I made even though my epeeness now stomps them into the ground
The support I got and continue to get from them is the exact type of community that you should expect from a gaming community and I am proud to be a member of their family.
I quit a guild Iconoclast because my mistress Krieg left to join the “real world” or something like that.
Lets see… I quit my 1st guild at level 20 to create my own, to which I left a year later to join Blackmoon Clan and do some actually raiding. I then left that guild after an invitation to Epitome was presented to me. I finally left Epitome just under a year later to join Mors Non Separabit in favor of being a raid leader for a progression guild; needless to say it didn’t quite take off as planned and I ended up quitting WoW altogether.
As for my Rogue, Xardus. I left Epitome in April whereas I transferred to Thrall to join Nightshift’s 2nd 25man group where upon arrival I found the lag was horrendous and I was put on trial for 6 weeks; combined with MNS’s fail, I quit.
I quit Epitome a few months after the Agony/Icono merge. Sucked because every other guild on Shandris is like the special olympics of progression, but I couldn’t deal with the direction they were going anymore and the treatment of veteran members really turned shitty. P.S. gtfo Terry =o0
In my early days of raiding I was an obvious greenhorn to the MMO scene. Shortly after getting into my first raiding guild it collapsed due to a merger with a much more advanced guild at the time. I was one of the few chosen to go into the high end guild and to my dismay, it was lead by a very loud and verbally abusive raid leader.
The combination of my eager-to-please youthful persona and this demanding but capable raiding environment eventually lead to a somewhat fear mongering concoction. I was constantly anxious that I would make a mistake or be AFK for too long during our breaks, resulting in being publicly degraded over Vent.
Long story short this continued for several months and I actually became incredibly nervous when I was about to gquit. I was not sure what to expect from this abrasive, aggressive guild leader. After typing out my message and having butterflies the entire time, I received a response of, “np dude take care, it’s just a game.”
It IS just a game, isn’t it?
Spicy weiner… where? LOL… gold right there… nicely woven in.
Quitting guilds is alot like ending a relationship.
It’s you standing up and saying out loud, “I’m too drunk to taste this chicken.”… followed shortly by typing /gquit.
Danger can we talk about our Glorydays ??
I was in and I was the only shadowpriest and I was actually pretty good now that I think about it. I was very young at the time and did’nt think anyone really cared if you would leave during the middle of a raid after wining the best in slot staff. I would fake getting disconnected and stuff like that. They kinda liked me. I don’t know why I felt so secure and connected with this group of people. but, anyways, I logged on and I opended my charector sheet and the tab for “guild” was in gray. I did’nt know that they did’nt want me anymore. I remember for 3 days after I was kicked from the guild I spent hours and hours and hours crying! Crying! Crying for a game! It was a virtual world! I know this sounds kinda odd, but I just wanted to hear are guild leaders voice again. I dont know what happend to Holyshield but I got alot better in WOTLK and joined a better guild and started having better raid attendance…but sadly that would end in the other guild too.
I was one of the first levels 80’s. I new I could have any guild I wanted at that time and so I only applied for the best . It was the beginnig of WOTLK when Dalaran did’nt have anyone in it. My application was accepted (I think because I was 80 before anyone else in that guild). I was doing amazing dps at that time for a shadow priest. Then, somthing made me change to heals and it all seemed to go down the drain for there. We had this druid healer name Aluranna and we new she was good and she was. I remember how funny she was and how much fun we had in that guild. So, there was debate or the world epic hammer and we had healers from the beginning in Vanilla and then me who was alo newer then she was. However, she got the fragment for the mace. We were all pretty crazy about this and I think this is what started the fire. we were running Nax and it was very funny cause we wanted to finish up some achievments. one of are healers was rolling on offspec stuff and we had a mage who had terrible raiding attendancey. The healer never missed a raid and was elemental half the time. She needed some stuff and so we were giving it to her and then the mage needs the tier 5 or 6 or somthing and the healer got furious. I got angry too, the healer was my friend and the mage sucked and was kinda a douche lord. I thought it was stupid so the healer left then joined again. So, then on top of all this are gm stopped showing up for raids because his alt had to do raids with another guild and so we were left alone. The officer was really bad and annoying. I will say that the GM was one of the best I have ever seen and I really hope he dosent read this. He broke up fights and would say “Dps dosent matter aslong as we get it done and we aren’t slacking and we can progress.” So back to the healer who got the fragments we found out she was like webcaming the gm or somthing like that and they would have sex in vent for gear. when I found this out on top of all this I quit and I was happy to and I made them all eat shit by joining a even better guild. The guild was kinda like a ghost town when I left we had stopped raiding because of no shows and stuff which makes me understand why they kicked me in . I’m sorry for the mispells.