Most actually friendly casual guilds don't have a problem if you don't have teamspeak.
It's only when you get into the hardcore raiding and pvp guilds that people will demand teamspeak.

So as long as you don't play a bow dps hybrid, most friendly guilds will be happy to have you.

It really depends on what you do.. if you want to run hardcore vet trails and PvP voice is needed to communicate especially for vet trails since you need to time things but if you go the more casual way I'm certain people will understand and if your in a trading guild you don't need to communicate at all

Just speak with any guilds before joining and see how they are with it, some might turn away some might work hard to accommodate.

It's really down to the players and their feelings on it, but generally there are enough guilds out there that there will be one which is a good fit.

Highly variable, I'd say 50/50 but I don't have anything to back that up and think it's more like 70(don't require)/30(do require) or maybe even further in favor of not requiring it. If the guild is out there doing vet trials on hardmode, they probably require it. No reason to not try and ask even if it's in the guild rules though, sure there's plenty of trial leaders that would happily accommodate.

normal trial and vet dungeon just text communication is fine.

veteran trial, i've seen one guild that did it with text. it's more common that voice is required

In the guild that this one she is in yes then almost no one they use voice chat.

At least on none of the dungeon runs that this one she has been one. This one she wonders if it is because of that time once that she sang at a guild meeting yes?

Khajiit herself has significant issues with her paws - mercifully they mostly do not affect normal travel in Tamriel but things like long raids and intense arena combat they are out of the question.

We mostly though are a trading guild with freindly chat and dungeon mischief and fishing on the side.

The guild house kitchen is also well stocked with fish.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

The poll was a bit confusing so I'm not entierly sure what I voted.
Either way, I have done tons of group dungeons, both normal and veteran, and I always use text chat. In the few instances where other members have used team speak, they had no issue with me sticking to the chat. This might be more common on PC EU though, as we have a much larger non-english speaking audience

Hey OP,

Why not just join a relaxed social guild in NA?

I am sure there are a few ?

I will give you an example of our guild:


The majority of the guild DO NOT USE voice chat.

Even though I would like more ppl to do so, we are relaxed ( I understand why as well i.e. most of them are embarrassed about their accent, which I find silly as it's their second language and many people from Europe can speak English very well, it's only the Brits that make jokes about the accent and after a while they grow use to it)

So we have regular guild chatters, the quiet ones, the regulars on voice chat who come on every night.

I am certain you will be able to find something similar and if not, why not make one?

I count 4 guys, that's enough for a daily dungeon ( just saying)


I re-rolled way back in 2014 (3 months after launch) and to this day it was a huge setback.

Sure I have surpassed myself in any way imaginable and could probably never catch up to this level, but it still put me back to square one. Which is not ideal. Therefor I would recommend against it, unless none of you are High CP yet.

Because of the +100%exp Pie you could probably all reach CP160 on EU if you REALLY wanted to re-roll, but like I said I wouldn't advise it OP.


I would like to mention one thing, apart from my guild's website, we do tend to not explain CP, skills and complicated LOOOONG things over text anymore as you can imagine having had a guild for over a year you've had to retype a lot of the same answers over and over and it just gets to a point where you're still willing to tell people it ( so that you can still play) but not necessarily type wall of texts explaining things. That does not mean some people ( myself included ) do not from time to time make exceptions to this "new rule". But it does get tedious sometimes, hence why we made a website.


Sorry about the wall of text.

Guilds are usually a group of people with similar interests and play times or goals.

You'll either want to keep looking or start a guild yourselves as it's pretty common to use voice chat if you plan on doing group encounters.

Just let a guild leader or officer know you/or your buddies have special needs. Most folks in the game are pretty accommodating towards folks with special needs.

So if you join a group in Cyro and they ask for team speak, just quietly whisper the crown and say, Hey my buddy has special needs, do you think you can type your commands in /group chat?

Let me tell you something, I joined a guild last week, and one of the officers has studdering speech. Sometimes it takes him a little longer to finish a word. But you know what? He's been organizing groups and leading them in PvP for AD and through his actions he has helped us secure the map. Just because he speaks a little differently, that sure as heck does not hold him back at all. Learn from his example OP.

Entegre wrote: »

But we have a guy who does not have any headset, he can't hear us or talk to us yet he plays real good and in conjunction with us. If you play with a certain friendly guild for a short amount of time you will adapt to their tactics and learn to play with them successfully.

As part of my training, I often take my headset off and listen to music to simulate what this post is talking about. Taking out the obvious voice chatter and paying attention to actions. Then figuring out what the crown is thinking, enemy movement, etc. Helps to really train my spacial awareness in pvp.

Turelus wrote: »

Just speak with any guilds before joining and see how they are with it, some might turn away some might work hard to accommodate.

That is the reason for the poll, as all but our trade guilds, have told us (some more polite than others) that we're either too high maintanence or they just don't want to be bothered with people who can't do voice chats.

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

Guilds are usually a group of people with similar interests and play times or goals.

You'll either want to keep looking or start a guild yourselves as it's pretty common to use voice chat if you plan on doing group encounters.

Honestly, none of us want to run a guild. We respect people who do, but it's not something we're interested in. Having said that, we have the same goals as any other people interested in group content - we just (for one reason or another) lack the ability to use a feature that 99% of people require and are often turned away for it.

our guild doesn't REQUIRE it, but if you're going to do PvP/ or high end PvE then it is required, we've had way to many failures with people not using VoIP, that for most things it's required. It's just not technically required to be in the guild

Autolycus wrote: »

I've never run into a guild that requires VOIP just to be a member. VOIP in ESO is only really required for vet trials, and it helps to use it for the DLC dungeons too in most groups. That's only a small portion of ESO, though.

You'll find it very difficult to do something like vMoL without being able to hear the rest of the group or communicate with them. I take it you aren't looking for a progression guild, though, and are probably more in the market for a social guild? Last time I checked, social guilds don't require VOIP so long as you still socialize.

We, like everyone else who enjoys competative end game content, strive to be a part of progression. As stated earlier, we came from other games where competative raiding was how we met. It isn't so much that WE can't communicate, it's that MOST PvP and PvE guilds in this game don't want to take the time to type things out.

I'm actually looking for a SMALL guild that is okay with me being mute. I can't speak and so far in ESO i've just been treated like the most unimportant player. It sucks feeling isolated because of a disability in a game of all things. I am only as of this message level 45 and new to the game but mostly it was the voice issue. I actually play games better with music on to pace myself. I can't speak so it's unimportant to me and has been my entire life before mmos or any "must voice chat" games existed. Texting would be the most ideal. I type faster than people talk since I use an iPad in the real world to communicate with people in conversations.

I also just do better in very small guilds where people matter and aren't just another name on a huge list. I've been searching on reddit and other forums for a month now for some people to play with or person even. I've been searching for years outside of ESO for other games I end up quitting. I usually play every night but I have a job and stuff so I'm not always on. I saw this message but I am a few months late. I love ESO but without finding 1 or 2 others to play with it might be another I give up on.

So if anyone reading this looking for something similar please message me @ShimmerDoll