Building a community in the guild takes time. You can't just start talking about your day when you are mostly surrounded by strangers. I've been playing from headstart and even now I'd say I can't recognize more than 30-40 names in guild chat. I play as the character Adriane, I don't know how many people would recognize me either. That's 30 out of 500... you can't just build rapport instantly. Add in the fact that parties were fucked for days after launch and everyone is going through content for the first time at their own pace, it's understandable that many aren't grouping up. Still, if you asked in guild chat whether someone in XXX zone wanted to party up with you, I think anyone would agree to join you if they were there. As you do party up with people and do dungeon runs, you'll start to recognize people and it will get better. I also suspect people will get a lot more chatty when they reach 80 and stand around in LA doing nothing
In the words of Gaben, these things, they take time.
Guild runs. Even if they do take time to organize. I did Twilight Arbor with a group of guildies a couple of days ago and it took me a good 1-1.5 hours just to get the group ready. It's understandable... some folks don't meet the level requirements. Others have done it and would rather experience new content instead of grinding out a dungeon. So it took a while to get a group but we managed it. Then we found out that all 5 of us were doing it for the first time, so we had no idea how to do it. It took a little longer than I expect it would normally as we were learning the dungeon all the way through, but it was fun. Wiped a few times but we did our best, no one got annoyed and we finally did clear it together and it was a great feeling at the end.
There's no hurry to do dungeons in this game. Take your time to find a guild run and it will be a lot more pleasant.
I completely worded (well left out by the looks of it, I was distracted mid way through my reply) the part about the guild wrong. I was meant to say that those were my hopes for the guild. For people to open up and enjoy the game a lot more in that way in the future.
And the part on dungeons, all the guild runs I've had were enjoyable and fun.
But I'm just saying that I would appreciate them a bit more if people communicated a bit more. It feels exactly like map chat where noone types anything. Some of the runs i've had, people would way point after death and run right back into the action rambo style while I'm trying to group people up and get some focus going on. Maybe they have chat turned off or something, I'm not quite sure.
