For solo players — main reason for joining 1 or more player guilds?

ADarklore · February 2023

For the guild traders and free ports.

SeaGtGruff · February 2023

I don't need to use a guild roster to port to members who are in a zone I want to go to, and I never do that unless I'm traveling to them to help them kill a boss or something, so that would probably be my least important reason for joining a guild.

I tried to get into selling stuff a few years ago, but I'm just not into price checking (or asking for price checks), and I have too much of a hoarder streak to want to sell my valuable stuff anyway, so for me that would also be way down there as a reason.

The guild house amenities are what I tend to use guilds for the most-- specifically, the set crafting stations-- but I can easily just travel to the set crafting stations in the game, and I'm in several guilds that don't even have amenities like that, so I can't honestly say that it's my main reason for joining a guild. It's a consideration, but definitely not a major one for me.

I'd have to say that the people are the main reason I join a guild. I'm primarily a solo player, but I do enjoy helping other players with something if I'm not otherwise engaged and it's something I feel I can be at least somewhat helpful with. I've never gone looking for specific guilds to join; I've joined because I was invited.

phaneub17_ESO · February 2023

Syldras wrote: »

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

I have around 6.5 million gold only because I have no use for gold right now, otherwise I generate around a modest 700k a week on average without having access to guild traders to sell anything. Most items are either sold to vendor, deconstructed, or just destroyed.

That's quite something. How many hours do you play each week? I can't imagine coming even close to 100k a day without any guild sales (trade guild is my main income, with at least 250k a week, and I spend almost everything on housing).

So I'm a lazy person which means I try to optimize my gains the quickest and simplest way possible. With all 18 characters that's easy with 7 daily crafting writs each. I do what I call "soft breaks" from the game where I stop actively playing and go play something else for a while, but still login at least once a day to do my collections. So I bulk craft everything in advance with stacks of 100 food, drinks, potions, and poisons for provisioning and alchemy, then 5-5-5 for everything else. That means there's 20 rings, 15 necklaces, 10 bows, 10 resto staves, 10 shields, and 5 of everything else per character. If I want to play a character, I stash all their crafted stuff in the bank, do whatever, then withdraw it back when I'm done for the day.

Login, grab all 7 daily writ quests, turn them in, logout; every character is in and out of the game in under 60 seconds. Including the loading times, I spend at most 30 minutes for the entire day. On the 7th or 8th day, I collect the bags to make room and check my collection progress. the most notable gain is I get enough for 2-3 Chromium Plating a week. If I'm on ESO+ I'll increase the change to 6-5-5 and collect hireling mail on the 12th and 18th character. I vendor the Glyphs, Ornate, Normal, and Intricate items from the bags, keeping everything else.

Its 90k per character so at the end of two weeks its around 1.6 million gold. I have a lot of empty Soul Gems from the enchanting and jewelry bags, give them to my Templars who have Soul Splitting Trap, those are another 6k per stack. I'm sitting on 90k Ruby Ingots and Wood, 50k Cloth and Leather, 40k Platinum ounces. 1800+ Rosin, 1200+ Tempered Alloy, 500+ Dreugh Wax, and 23 Chromium Plating. With no guilds to be able to sell anything, I either use it or hoard it.

pelle412 · February 2023

All of the above.

FantasticFreddie · February 2023

I'm in a pvp guild, a trading guild, a fake guild I made for a guild bank, a social guild that is mostly defunct but I still stay, and a trial guild that is also mostly defunct but again I still stay.

Melivar · February 2023

When I was still just a solo player joining a guild was for the trader but all of those reason could fit depending on the person. The 2nd reason abck then would be guild house access and its perks.

Now it's more for the people and access to group content, though 4-5 days a week I am likely just doing my own thing and using the dungeon finder.

NettleCarrier · February 2023

I'm biased since I don't join guilds for the guild house, since my house IS the guild house lol. However, even while leading a trading guild I am still in a few other trading guilds because I recognize that some things sell better in different places and the slots come in handy

. I group with the people in my guild and rarely look outside of it for anything else. Two of my other trade guilds are muted because of some of the personalities in them.

Vevvev · February 2023

All of the above. It's just all perks even if you don't interact with the people and manage to keep off their kick list.

Kirawolfe · February 2023

The first guild I joined was actually right after beta and it was a guild of werewolves. Entire reason for joining was rather uncomplicated: werewolves.

I was frustrated by the content and left after a while and returned a little after Greymoor because: vampires. Was solo for a fair amount of time, wasn't really interested in being chatty.

And the first guild I joined after that was for trading

Making regular gold, supporting a great bunch of people, and the guild house has everything.

I've since joined a guild dedicated to training folks that I very much love. Another really good group of people.

cyclonus11 · February 2023

need to hawk my wares

Amottica · February 2023

Danikat wrote: »

Amottica wrote: »

For a truly solo player, it would only be for the guild trader or free ports. However, many of the people voting are likely not true solo players. Many players may be mostly solo but group some, so they are not pure solo players. Where the line is drawn will vary from one to another just as a casual player definition changes depending on who is making that definition.

I think there will be a lot of grey area, rather than a clear distinction between true solo players and everyone else.

I normally play solo, I don't join a group unless I have to (basically only dungeons and battlegrounds) and only do that occasionally. But it's not because I want to avoid people, it's because I can never tell how long I'll be able to stay online and I don't want to annoy people by having to leave a group in the middle of what we were doing. Also when I'm doing PvE I like to play slowly, deliberately going the wrong way in delves so I can see all of it before getting to the boss, reading notes and books (and I read slowly), stopping to look at the scenery etc. and I think it would annoy a lot of people if I was doing that while in a group.

But that doesn't mean I want to be completely anti-social while I'm online. I like being in a guild because it gives me a regular group of like-minded people to chat to, and because the guild channel is available everywhere we can keep the conversation going even when we're all doing our own thing in different places.

For me playing solo or with other people and being sociable is two seperate things
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Which is what I was saying. I assume you were agreeing. It is not a term that is cut and dry.

Kiralyn2000 · February 2023

As a "not very social, solo player"... I don't join guilds.

MrGarlic wrote: »

It's nigh-on impossible to sell anything without a guild. (Without spamming zone chat.)

Yep. Which is why I've only ever sold things to NPC vendors in the 7 years I've played.

kaushad · February 2023

I wonder what proportion of crafting motif pages are being sold for 13 gold each to nobody who can ever use them.

robwolf666 · February 2023

I was in a guild a few years ago, a few months between 2015/16, but I haven't been in guild now since around mid-2016, and have no intention of joining another one, I much prefer the solo experience, and the quiet, play the way you want, that comes with it.

FeedbackOnly · February 2023

...cause it had a cool name.

Dragon Talon

Incurable insanity

Night Owls

Elvenheart · February 2023

All of those reasons pretty equally, and to chat sometimes while I am playing. Like a lot of people have mentioned, my playtime can be sporadic and easily interrupted so I’m forced to limit my group activity because I hate being “that person” that has to leave a group partway through a run. Sometimes when I see a guildie doing a normal random I’ll join just because it will usually be fast. Someday when I have some uninterrupted time I’d like to try my first trial, but I’ve been saying that for eight years, so….! 😂

Syldras · February 2023

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

With all 18 characters that's easy with 7 daily crafting writs each.

Ah, okay. I have 10 characters or so, not all on max level, and if I bother to do daily writs on all of them, I get around 45k a day. I'm normally too lazy, though, as loading times are awful here (loading a character takes several minutes, logging off the same).