What guild spams catch my attention? new, small, helpful, friendly are words I look for. If they're new then they prolly only have 2 or 3 core people that already know eachother prior to making the guild be it from ingame or RL. And especially when you whisper, they take the time to talk to you and not just /ginvite right away like they can't be bothered to respond. So you know they're looking for quality over quantity. Most times I'll look at Armory and make my decision after that. I love armory. It kind of feels like Im spying on peoples toons, but I love it. I miiight have it as a saved page on my phone. :-P
So after you get your inv you can get the feel of how social the people are by how much people greet you and how much chatter is in guild chat. Of course with Discord, guild chat might not be as busy but they should let you know if they're on it or not. I take notice of the "grats" after achievement pops are said. Yes granted some achieves are small and meaningless, but the big ones should be followed up with some kind of acknowledgement by your fellow guildies even if you as a player could care less.
So now onto my current guild. Oh wait, so prior to this one I was in a small guild. They were nice, but they also were an already tight knit mostly RL friends. I went along with them on some key runs and they were super nice. My first time and they were really helpful and explained stuff. But most times I was there by myself. I think with myself being a co-gm with the ex loooong time ago I really try to make sure to take notice of how much some one is trying to be a part of the guild and contribute. A good GM notices that and the result is a bump in rank. As much guilds as I've been in I have never been bumped up past the initial new recruit rank (aside from my own guild with the ex, and a RL friend's guild, but those don't count) until today....
Which brings me to my current guild. I figured I'd take one last stab at finding Deadskully new friends before calling it quits and bringing her back home. While still in the previous guild, I saw the guild spam in trade, whispered and got a nice response. Asked to hold off while I do some stuff. No one was on of course, but wrote a "Thanks... " in guild chat and then /gquit. Got my inv and got to know the two. GM is a girl and her right hand is a dude and they met on a FB wow site... awesome! So I was really the first recruit. Got to know them a bit and they seemed really cool. They both were really nice and chatty. Been with them for about a week already. I love the GM she is really sweet. Very cool chick that knows her WoW shit too and I love that. Not ashamed to admit she knows way more then me from what I gather. I might know more solo stuff, but that really won't get you far in WoW lately. Most stuff is raid this, mythic keys that, PvP this, group up for that. UGH! I don't wanna do any of it!! Anywhos! on a brighter note... I got my final guild promotion to Officer tonight I was so Happy! I might get a bit ahead of myself and I had to reel myself back in. Messed around with guild bank, but I think I'll leave it alone for a while as to not overstep my bounds. I was just so excited. I did tell her to stop me if I get too overbearing, which she said I wasn't. My opinion, I think that I was a good choice. Being on furlough right now and having absolutely no social life outside of WoW, I'm always on sadly. If not on Deadskully then on another alt. Hyjal is not her home server and she does have her main on another server and she does have a job and kid. See, who better then me?... nobody.
Anyways alright... I'll end this now.
Final thought... I'm happy with this guild... I think I'll stay a while.
