I had no idea they even existed (been playing about 6 weeks or so). I belong to 5 guilds, so how am I supposed to choose which one to represent? When I played Guild Wars 2, the guild earned points for every action I performed while playing and some guild owners got real pushy about why aren't I representing. Creates issues. I just joined a trading guild and I'm real happy about that, but the others are pretty much of no benefit to me so far. Other than being able to ask for help with a difficult quest or doing dungeons (which I haven't done any yet), I would ask, what benefit is it to belong to a guild?

Morgul667 wrote: »

I use them for the nametag but they look ugly so I hide them below a costume

I do the same too. That's one thing I like about the costume - it hides tabards and armor that attempt to ruin the reputation of the wearer. I know there are others who want to wear their tabard over their costume, so perhaps this could be another option made available too.

MrGarlic wrote: »

I only use mine when My toon is wearing a costume to hide it.

I don't mind the guild name displayed in the name-tag, but I don't want to see it covering my clothes/armour.

The costume works well in the way that it hides undesirable armor and tabards. It would be great if we had the option to hide the tabard without the use of a costume, but also to equip it over a costume for those who desire to do so. That way we have more options to represent our guild in our own way.

Is it surprising to you that people don't wear them? I loved my guild (RIP) but never felt any interest in advertising that fact.

Enjoy, no judgment here. Just not my cup of tea.

SirGabenOfSteamia wrote: »

Those sort of armor-mounted banners (I don't know what to call them) that the Fighters in Dragonstar wear would make for some awesome guild-themed apparel if we could customize them and wear them ourselves.

Now that would be cool!

max_only wrote: »

They are ugly as sin tbh

Nice analogy! Hopefully some fresh designs will encourage more players to wear them.

Khenarthi wrote: »

I've been in 4 of my guilds for over 2 years, but I do not wear the tabards. One reason is I'd have to pick one guild (and I love all those 4) and the other reason, many tabard aesthetics are very unappealing (sorry guys, I got a particular sense of what colours and patterns each of my characters will wear).

I guess that's one of the downsides of our current guild system (I sense another poll coming ). Being a member of multiple guilds has its positives but also has its negatives too. One of the negatives is guild 'loyalty'. Of course loyalty in itself is not a negative, but guild mates from one guild may see wearing another guild's tabard as an act of disloyalty. I feel this is a result due to the nature of our current guild system. Loyalty is definitely a valid factor as to the reason why players may choose not to wear their tabards. Thanks for bringing this up!

Fishoscandi wrote: »

I like the system, I don't like the colors. Maybe players could customize their tabard's color but not its symbol?

This is a cool idea - being able to represent your guild as well as customising the tabard to suit your particular style.

Riddari wrote: »

I would love the ability to put our guild symbol on a shield and for our horses to have tabards.

Also if there were different places the tabards could go. Scarves, banners, painted pauldrons with guild symbols.

I'm also very fond of the toga style robes that both mages and vigilants of Stendarr wear in skyrim and wouldn't mind some of those over my armor.

We also really need transmog system. Maybe more people would wear tabards if they weren't too busy wearing costumes to hide their hideous armor

I really like the ideas you mentioned! I especially like the idea of being able to add tabards to our horses/mounts. We already see the alliance mounts have them, so surely it can't be much of a stretch to don our mounts with guild tabards.

Dubhliam wrote: »

I would simply like for incentive for poeple to wear them.

But this is closely related to guild tools and activities that should be added to the game.

F.e. Guild quests: finish X trial with all members wearing your tabard.

You make a great point! Apart from representation and aesthetics, there aren't any other reasons (that I can think of) to wear a guild tabard. Incentives would be a great way to encourage players/guild members to represent their guilds.

AlMcFly wrote: »

I love that the game gives me the option of wearing a guild tabard. I'm always a fan of more appearance options.

That being said, there are two reasons I don't like ESO tabards that ultimately leadS to me NOT wearing them:

1. The tabards are shaped like Old English (medieval knight) tabards, and are extremely dull, and unoriginal. They remind me too much of WoW's tabards. Just bland. It doesn't even look like "CLOTH" material.
2. All the guild icons suck. They are simplistic looking, lack detail, and there is not a single Icon that appeals to me so much that I'd use it to cover my highly detailed, badass looking armor.
3. P.S. I would rather have had CAPES. I would never take my cape off.

Seriously, bland, and not worth covering your highly detailed armor. In such a highly detailed game in which we can see the stitching of various clothing, the tabards do not look like cloth. They look like a sheet of paper.

WE GOT THIS:




WHEN WE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THIS:



OR THIS:

^^^ THIS! Every.word.of.this!

/thread

I'd never even heard of it before now, and now I'm having to go look it up. My guild never mentioned it so I guess we don't use it? I'anno.