TLDR: A 31 day punishment while looking for a good guild feels disproportionately excessive.
Hello, I’m a new player.
I was prompted by the game very early on to join a guild, and naively joined the first one that accepted me on the guild finder. I found I didn’t mesh well with these strangers, who I couldn’t even whisper before being accepted, so I /gquit and received a few minute suspension from joining another guild.
My suspension was lifted and I was back on the guild finder. The next three occasions I discovered that joining automatic-invite guilds didn’t provide any meaningful interactions as everyone was just joining because the prompt told them to, not because they were looking for community or questing buddies.
These three /gquits netted me (if I remember correctly) a 30 minute suspension, an hour suspension, then a 24 hour suspension.
During this 24 hour period I assumed my next suspension would be 48 hours, but that I didn’t want to keep bouncing from one place to another looking for a home, so I went to the official discord to find a proper guild.
I found one that was advertising that they were a social and active guild looking for like minded people to socialize with and have a good time. So I sent my request, got my invite, and discovered… that across about 18 hours of play time over a couple days, with 4-6 concurrent guildmates on, and many attempts to strike conversation in the group- I got a response from a single player on two occasions.
This guild had clearly falsely advertised, so I /gquit.
Strike 5, 31 days I have to wait before I can join another guild. This is silly.
So I want to mention a couple things about this that are very frustrating:
I’ve put considerable time into WoW, SWTOR, and ESO. I’ve never been punished for trying to find a right fit for me with a guild (and I’ve always eventually found a right fit and gone on to do great things with them).
There’s some sort of guild mission system that I don’t really understand that maybe the game is trying to protect from exploitation here, but I don’t think anybody new knows what that is and isn’t concerned about doing anything other than checking the box the game is very insistent gets checked as they’re starting off.
The first 50 levels felt overwhelming with systems, and upon reaching level 50, it felt like about a half ton more were dropped on me. Specifically I was trying to find people who could either be mentors or learn the game along with me, but what I found was mostly people keeping to themselves (most likely because they too felt overwhelmed by all the systems).
Basically what this comes down to is that if there is a practical reason for limiting how often you can change a guild, I can understand that. A day suspension really didn’t feel terrible, despite being mildly annoying. But all I want is to find a guild where I fit in and get along and… if you can believe this, interact with my guild mates in a meaningful way. And now I have to wait a month to try to do that.
Every other MMO I’ve played couldn’t have cared less if I came or went while searching for a group that fit. I don’t understand why I’m being punished so severely, jumping from 24 hours to 31 days, just for leaving guilds that might as well have been dead.
just look for guild ads or look here in the forums. Its a justified punishment for guild bouncing.