Whether they were drama-laden, sorrowful, humorous, epic, or whatever genre, I'm interested in reading about your gquits or gquits that you've witnessed. Maybe with some reasons and the events leading up to the departure. I'd also be interested in publishing a few of these on the blog, so fair warning here. If you don't want it published, make sure you mention it at the beginning.

<Micro>

My first ever real guild that lasted more than several months. It was a PvP guild. I was a Paladin. Yeah, the Paladin was my first Alliance character. All we did was preforms for like 10 months.

This was before cross-realm BGs. Sadly, the furthest I made was Knight Lieutenant (Rank 9 or 10 back in the day?) before I rolled a new Priest.

Nothing special about this one. Interest waned in PvP and eventually dropped leading to the creation of my Priest.

<Angelic Advocates>

First serious raiding guild. They were on the cusp of killing Nefarion. Stoned by him 3 weeks in a row. I had just transferred in and magically, my first time in, we managed to kill him. I'm sure it was just a coincidence . This was on the tail end of BC. We stopped raiding after that as BC was slated to release. Lots of players stopped playing after the expansion debuted. I was the first to reach 70 in the guild and was impatient as I wanted to enter Karazhan as quick as possible. At this point, I was dissatisfied with the leadership and the rest of the guild. This was the timeline where I wanted to progress faster and chase that same "high" I felt after killing Nef by hitting up Karazhan. I rose up the ranks fairly quickly and within weeks became an officer.

I voiced my displeasure at the rate we were going. After a few weeks with zero results, I moved on to a different guild and this one crumbled a short time later.

<Aurora>

A fun and casual raiding guild. They just started Karazhan when I entered in and we plowed through it at a fairly brisk pace. Managed to kill Gruul too. I can't remember why I left. I know I wasn't happy about something. Different ideologies from the leadership I guess. They weren't taking it as seriously as I had liked. Again, I was left wanting even more. I was an officer at this point (again). And when you're in a leadership-type position, you have a level of expectation of others in similar positions (other officers). The GM had all but disappeared at this point and there was a lull in the hierarchy. No one knew what to do. No one wanted to assume the mantle. I knew a guild implosion was imminent. Ironically, it was my departure to free agency again that collapsed the guild.

<Carnage>

Finally! A guild where I didn't have to be an officer or anything! I could just sit back and be a guy! Little did I know that wouldn't last very long. Many healers were in need of direction and assignments. The raid leader wasn't the greatest. I volunteered my services and assumed direction of healing. I had a great run with this guild during BC. Knocked out Mag, SSC, TK, BT, Hyjal, and Sunwell. It was loads of fun. I grew disillusioned at the way loot was being distributed at the tail end of BC. I was watching players who had hoarded a lot of DKP come in, get 2 or 3 pieces, and then not show up again. Loot was being wasted. I tried to make a point of this in the guild after being promoted to an officer (yet again).

I signaled that I would be moving on from this guild the moment Wrath released. I had the option to try to join in with another guild with ideals that I believed in or create one from scratch. Looking back at everything that happened, I decided to simply form a new one because at least if I was dissatisfied with something, I could make an impact move to try to resolve it.

I'm a victim of my own ambition. It's what led me here today. Sometimes it takes a few guilds to truly realize what it is that you want to do in this game. It took me about 3 years to reach that point. Lots of mistakes, lots of successes will come together and influence you as a player and as a person. It's like being enrolled in school for life as you're always learning and screwing up.

Sometimes being dissatisfied can lead to something good. Sometimes it won't. Thats my story. Hopefully some player will benefit from this wall of text. Whats your story?

My main has only been in three guilds and two of the three /gquits were very straightforward reasons so this should be relatively easy... =P I'm always glad to help Matticus out! <3

<Heroes of Twilight>

My first guild in WoW ever; was made by my boyfriend initially as a place to gather together some of our friends under one guild banner. The name was a nod to a forum most of us hung out at. We dissolved the guild after we realized that a.) not as many of our friends were interested in showing up as we thought, b.) We were letting people into the guild that we wound up not liking, and c.) we thought the name was corny. Disbanded.

<Entelechy>

The token "big guild" I was in, this was another one made by the boyfriend after he sort of learned from the mistakes made during the first. Began as a roleplaying guild, eventually turned into an entry-level raiding guild. At our peak we had a good few hundred members, a whole system of officers/meetings/loot rules, a forum, etc. Since I was sort of the co-creator, I wound up being a co-leader of sorts; I was always a high ranking officer and class leader in this guild.

Anyways, this guild had kind of a long and windy downfall and looking back on it I think was largely a combination of cliques in the membership (the roleplayers vs. the raiders), various people including officers burning out and mysteriously disappearing, schedule issues (we chose to try to work around everyone's schedules rather than have "set raiding days"), relationship/friendship drama, and everyone losing morale at the fact that for some unexplainable reason, our Prince success rate was about one in four Karazhan runs.

At some point, as well, the officers got rather lax on our recruiting rules and there were a ton of people in the guild that didn't exactly meet our original standards and it was just sort of a big mess overall. Boyfriend handed the reins over to me to see if I could salvage the guild and I made a brief valiant attempt but my heart wasn't in it so I passed it off to another officer. Boyfriend and I /gquit, the guild disbanded about a month later. Big learning experience for all of us. Leaving that guild was one of the hardest things I've done in game and I still get kind of emotional about it. We put so much work into it.

<Friend Ship>

A very small and primarily social guild that was made by a group of us "survivors" from the previous guild. We all sort of leveled to 80 together and did heroics and stuff, and for a fleeting period of two months or so we did weekly Naxx10 clears and a couple other casual-ish things (OS10+1drake, etc.) Reached a point where we realized everyone sort of wanted to go in their own direction either by joining a real raiding guild or by playing other characters so most of the "mains" have left the guild, mine included. We all still have alts in there though.

I'm currently guildless and looking.

Aaaand that's that!

Hmm, this will span across two toons....

<nocturnal emmissions>

Guild my boyfriend had made right before I started the game. This was prior to guild banks, we along with a couple of real life friends were the only users. They quit playing when i was around level 15 and I stayed with the tag till around level 40ish, with maybe one or two friends struggling through hillsbrad on a horde....where I met a few people I liked playing with so I joined their guild.

<order of the ebon hand>
I stayed with this guild till level 70, and for a few months after that. I worked my way up to officer here, and the core players struggled through heroics for lack of a main tank type person. Pugs were fail most of the time so we didn't get far. I had computer issues and was gone for about 3 months not being able to play without severe computer lag, when I got my new shiney pc and came back, the guild was not the same. It got to the point where I was rarely logging in at all, I'm I guess what you call a social player, and not having a guild pretty much sours me to playing. A friend of mind transferred over one of his level 70 pallys and we, along with my first friend on wow, started a guild together. All of my alts stayed in that guild until I quit horde and went alliance.

<Champions of Death>
For a brief while my only level 70 was in a raiding guild to try that aspect of wow but I didn't enjoy it at that time. I'm a casual and I was in a more hardcore guild. After some more rl issues keeping me away from playing, I eventually just told the guild I'm sorry, but I'm taking up space you could use for someone who can be where you need. I pulled her back into my alts guild and left her there.


My current toon, is much simpler lol.

<Azure tempest>
Joined a friends guild as an alliance re roll, got her to 70 within about 3 weeks I think? Got very close to another officer, he and a friend of his turned out to be a bit dramatic, I had some more rl issues that kept me from wow for about a month and a half, I came back guild had all but dissolved due to the drama, being the social player i am, I transferred my priest over to the server of the current guy friend after letting the other friend know why I was leaving. I still have alts in that guild.

<Kings Army>
My current guild. The guild leader and I date and live together. I'm quite sure if I ever leave that guild, it will not be a happy reason =/ But one of the best guilds I've been in and felt like I belonged. The guild leader and I met after I moved to the guild.


Oh and my horde huntress? Just recently transferred her over to the server I first started alliance on, the friends there have a horde sister guild on that same server.
<Crimson Storm>

wow. That's a lot of guilds over almost 2 years LOL!! but overall my reasons for /gquit have pretty much been a dying social guild.

Looking at the fact i've only started in about FEB 2008 the amount of Guild moves i've had is sad.
<Burning Crusaders> This was in BC. This was my BF's friend's guild, which was composed of mainly people who all knew eachother some way IRL. They where attempting to get through heroics/Kara. I was just a lowly little character and to be honest, I only ever recieved help twice and they where from my BF's friends for quests i had trouble with. Alot of people where quitting game from boredom, then a bunch of players got annoyed at the level of progression and they splintered off to form another group. Can't remember it's name, my BF included. I floundered in there for a little bit in a dead guild that only really had alts in it. The other guild that splintered actually fell apart and the GL o fthat created another Guild.

<Shinobi Knights> I was finally "good" enough to be asked to come, my BF had been in there for several months. (Wrath had hit and i was finally on a simaler leveling ground to everyone else and got to go in runs and stuff.). I never really liked the GL, not when she first came into Burning Crusaders, not when she left and the burning trail of friendships, drama and basic need to be alpha bitch she left behind her. But i joined because my BF really wanted me to. I wasnt really happy in here, didn't find i was making friends, i only really got a luke warm response and only was really spoken to when they needed me for something. The guild basically disbanded when the GL blew up at some new people she recruited again. Alot of drama ensued, my BF who has a sad tendancy to think the best of people ALL the time, and stood by the harpy queen even though she called him a second rate tank (which he isn't) and had gotten in the other tank so she could raid Naxx, anyway hewas gkicked, as was I (i didn't care). Problem was she can't seperate her responsiblity to the guild and her private life. She was forever getting mixed up with guys in wow, which is fine, but she'd be forever having something happen and my BF or other unforunately guildie would have to pick her up from it.

BF and I transferred server because he felt that it was going to be too hard for a tank to get in a guild (I actually had 3 offers for him but he didn't want to because his cousin and he had already ninja transferred with out telling me. He still owes me $40 for transfer fee...thanks for reminding me!). I was really annoyed because i essentially had pugged myself from 70-80 made some great friends in the process, finally feeling like the realm was home and he ditched me for his cousin.

<God of Discord> We had thought this would get us into some entry level raiding, in the end there ended up being no one on at all. My BF and i helped to get the lower characters to get to 80 thinking that we would raid eventually. One day the GL had disappeared, with all there alts, alot of other 80's had also left. We left because we where the only 80's in the guild.

<Determination> This is my bank alts guild, brought it on the cheap when i arrived in Nagrand. We float in here if something happens. Basically we pugged some stuff, I made some good contacts and got us into a Naxx 25 run with some pretty good guilds. I got offered an invite into a guild and after some discussion (can my BF come) we left.

<TheFluffyBunnyGang> My first raiding guild, the first place that felt like a home. I had joined when the GL was actually not on and those first 3 weeks where just great. We raided, we had fun, ran heroics, helped people on quests. Made good friendships with people. Then the GL came back and everything changed. The atmosphere changed. The cohesiveness just sort of dissipated and there was this fawning over the GL. We still raided, had fun, but the Guild chat was discernibly different. I felt it, BF didn't really know what i was talking about (he's too nice). A few guildies where leaving due to clashes with raid times, that was all good. One of our friends who had rejoined was suddenly all quiet, not going on raids and generally hiding. Found out that he had actually had a major blow out with the GL and found out some back story on the guild from him and a few other people. (Unwittingly walked into Harpy Queen II terrortory.) One week they ran Naxx and alot of people in the upper escehlons had decided to take alts (not adequately geared.... had not even farmed heroic purples/blues) and they struggled alot. The Raid leader put a post about it in the forums, the post was fair, it basically stated if you want to bring any character into naxx they have to be geared for it. A few people QQ'ed to the GL, and basically she posted in the forum, No you don't, we will never tell you who you can and can't bring in a run. RL and GL had a big blowout and RL left guild. Which is straight contradiction of the post in the Raid forum stating the minimum gear/stat requirements.

Things went a little pear shaped, more people left including our hiding friend, people who had never came on when i was around came, there was a wierd mix of favouritism and cliqueness. We had been running 25 man Naxx with another guild. Once ulduar had come out they had wanted to focus on the 10 man, we barely had enough to fill our 10. Things came at a head when myself and a few guildies pugged Ulduar with four members of another guild (includes hidey friend) that consists mainly of ex-bunnies. We pugged because our scheduled raid of nax was cancled because of low turnout. We rocked it out and one shotted razor first time as group. All of us feeling pretty good to be getting to new content and go to bed. I log on to a FLOOD of whispers asking me what i'm going to do. I'm like what? Find out that guildies had left, the main raid core is in tatters now because so many have left. BF and I have long discussions with officer and other guildies trying to work out what happened. Then the guild message changes. "If you want to pug with Bom Chicka Wah Wah then leave the guild", basically. Found out why the ex bunnies had left and that things like this are a common occurance. Big blow outs with alot of people with the GL about raiding (she actually hadn't raided with us once at all). then an offer to merge with the guild we do Naxx with pops up. Guild is now going to die anyway to a merge. BF and I decide to join the ex bunnies group. We know we enjoy there company, we had a two hour conversation with them on vent and chat about everything and they treated us like people. The GL could of at any time wanted to open up discussions with us, but in the end she sent her lackey Officer and that Guild message. We had now heard and had confirmed too much abut the GL to ignore that this was the first time and i' blow over.
P.S There is now only 4 members of the bunnies in the other guild anymore. They where treated poorly, would be pushed out of raids, be put in alt raid groups and generally treated like second class citizens. Only GL, her lackey and another Member that was made officer that no one really liked remain.

<Bom CHicka Wah Wah> New home, love it. Don't want to leave ever.

My first guild was a live version of a friend's guild from the beta, <Knights That Say Ni>. I eventually became an officer, but that was shortly before the GL and her husband started having marriage problems. The other officers and I tried to hold things together, but when the two central people go MIA for months, the guild more or less falls apart. Membership ebbed and flowed after that, but it finally dwindled down to less than ten regular players and only one or two online at any given time. It was over a year after the GL disappeared that I finally decided to move on and /gquit.

I can always find another guild (and I did, on another server and for the opposite faction no less, <DiceHouse> represent!), but the other officers and the GL and I all played D&D together every other Sunday. Our group fared as well as the guild did after the separation of two of our members.

Every now and again another ex-officer and I get all misty-eyed and nostalgic. Long live the KTSNi!

*Note: short-stay guilds (I rip bandaids off fast too) are ignored for brevity. Anything less than 2 weeks or 10 members is omitted for the sake of relevancy. Assume a scheduling conflict, a fundamental difference of opinion, or expected vs experienced atmosphere etc.

<The Renegades>
Social/leveling guild that my husband was in when he got me started playing, good people but as we leveled higher it seemed less and less people were on in our timezone/playtimes. I made some friends leveling through outlands who played at the same time we did so we respectfully left for:

<Outcast INC>
Casual leveling/raiding guild. In two months of Kara with that guild I swear we must have gotten 200-300 people keyed who would then promptly quit for a more progressed guild. When we did actually have the peeps to get in we would laboriously struggle to get to Morose and then half the raid would start with the "We can't down him, what's the point of wiping when we won't get him down." Two months. Staring at Morose. Eventually I joined <Like WoW> on what was supposed to be a temporary basis until I could bring a better knowledge of the fights in Kara back to the old guild (we were all noobs, we didn't know of such things as worldofraids or any strat sites or EJ for that matter.) There was some minor drama which resulted in some folks leaving, I never did really understand what all was happening there it literally didn't make sense to me. Suffice it to say the majority of the raiding corps of Outcast followed me to <Like WoW> within a matter of weeks, including the GM on one of his toons, and most of us were very happy there for a very long time.

<Like WoW>
Some of the best people I've had the privilege of knowing in the game either were or still are in this guild. Casual raiding guild with a heart o' gold, I still regret leaving on many levels. We fell victim to the "separate but equal 10-man teams" in early Wrath with early and late night fixed teams. Us-vs-them mentality developed and quickly morphed from friendly competition to both sides feeling undervalued. Eventually the late-night team of which I was part wound up leaving en masse due largely (in retrospect) to the instigating and covert needling of a couple of drama-loving troublemakers. I am glad indeed that my nature is to try my best to part on tactful if not wonderful terms. I would be sad indeed if I had burned my bridges there and couldn't pop over to say Hi from time to time.

<Malevolency>
With a name like that I should have known better. The refugees of the late night team banded together under a rather immature but charismatic GM. Within 2 weeks he had renamed his rank to "Troxed" and summarily demoted everyone else while holding simultaneous conversation in the guild's vent and private Skype mocking other guild members etc ad nauseum. I was done the favor of an offline gkick when my husband stood up to him. I have no words to describe the improvements in my overall mood and state of mind since being freed of the influence of that GM. I can wish him the best only in a generalized all-of-humanity kind of way at this point. To be fair, at that point in time nearly every member of that guild was an officer of some flavor. Too many chefs not enough soup and all that. And I had effectively checked out and wasn't playing or was on an alt at the end because I couldn't stomach open hostility between people I considered friends. All in all an unpleasant time that I'm glad is done.

__Cue Big Dramatic Server Transfer__
To a much higher pop and overall progression server. That's in hubby and I's timezone. Woot! Also, somehow, this supposedly older server seems to play much more smoothly overall. Go figure.

<Knight Fish>
Is home now. Most of us push ourselves to be our best and we aren't afraid to help those who we see making mistakes we've made and/or take help from those who know more. But we have fun. Too much fun sometimes. This has lead to me having to explain to my sweet innocent stepmother what teabagging is in reference to WoW. (Which led to my father introducing her to John Waters, whose work she apparently actually loves.) And, as a Mom with young twins I love that they don't get pissed with me needing to take a night or a week off from time to time to defrag my brain and household. We also play Oxhorn's "Anti-Elf Anthem" for our NE male prot-warrior GM/RL before Ulduar runs sometimes.

Um, since March 05, my only guilds I"ve actually quit were either dead guilds when no one was around ever, or in the form of "/t GM I'm not actually playing <unplayed alt> much, so I'm gonna swap it to my banker guild just so you know what's going on when you see <name> leaves the guild."

Either I have super good luck or I'm just exceptionally picky in the onset.

I've been in two guilds

<Renegade Beliefs>
When we (my DH and I) started playing we were taken in by this lovely group of people. I was with this guild for about 1 and 1/2 years. GM vanished without saying anything for a long period of time and when he returned it was pretty spotty. Other folks stepped up and tried to make the guild work without a lot of success. Attempted to get raids going without much luck. DH started getting pressure from his friends to leave and make their own guild. He did and created his (notice no friends here) own guild. I didn't join him there until about 5 months after creation. Sense of loyalty I guess. My decision to leave was heartwrenching. I wanted to stay with the friends I had made but I wasn't getting in much playing time with DH. DH trumps friends so I made the move.

<Escape from Reality>
Just celebrated the 2 year anniversary. A lot of the folks that we played with in Renegade's have now joined us along with a whole host of other wonderful people.

DH?

"Damn Husband"?

<The Ghosts of War>
This was the first guild I ever joined. My friend was raiding with them at one point. I spent my huntard days there and never really interacted with them too much. I gquit when I found some friends to start our own guild.

<Hell's Angels>
Ah the guild that never was. We only ever had about 7 members so whenever we wanted to raid we had to team up with our sister guild

<Cresent Moon>
After months of not being able to recruit anyone, me and the co-founder of HA moved here and at this point we did the kara grind. Spent many months chillin, bullshittin, and having a good time. After months of being stuck in Kara unable to move on, our GM began to become quite irritated and began taking his frustrations out on lowbies and people who didnt know any better. It got so bad to the point where I chose to gquit because i didnt want to be associated with that kind of behavior.

<Legend>
My first true raiding guild. I was guildless for about 10 minutes before i was recruited by one of the officers because us CM'ers had been pugged into one of their raids and essentially Bitchsmacked the tanks threat, and me and my former co-founder pwnd the dmg meters. So, we were in SSC and TK progressing very slowly. We had Hunters galore and I was top DPS yet only curiously invited when people backed out of invites. We raided a lot, like 6 hours a night, for weeks straight. After a few weeks of wiping to "Farm Status" bosses, the GM took his football and left, leaving the guild with one of his alts that he never played. Effectively killing the guild.

<Eternal Nightstalkers>
A guild of friends. All my friends made a guild and we were freakin awesome at 10 mans... essentially kara and za :*( Eventually reformed into another guild and i chose not to join due to leadership differences.

<Outcast Faction>
My fav guild of all. Cool peeps, awesome GM, loot council, talent. Ive had a ton of fun raiding with them through MH, BT and into Naxx and Uld. A recent exodus of core raiders due to loot distribution killed the guild. So, now i just made a guild for bank tabs which leads to...

<Eternal Nightstalkers> teh Bank Version. It may have some promise should i choose to expand.

Not too shabby for only 130 days played

DH = Damn Husband, Darling Husband....any number of other appellations.

Ah, ok!

Is it bad that I don't remember my first guild's name? Probably, but they were asshats.

<Something Awful>
My roommates guild when I started in Vanilla. Kinda weird, a few nice folks, GM was a little too into RP and also happened to be a phenomenal douchenozzle. On a random urge he booted a few officers who I had known and refused to tell anyone why. "It's something that doesn't concern non-officers." I have issues with authority period, not mention lack of transparency. I was gone.

<Insomnia>
After bouncing around a bit and just being an all around pug healer (still leveling) I ran into these folks, very friendly, fun to talk to, but about as active as a three-toed sloth after a dose of methadone. I believe I stayed with them through 60 and mostly pugged into raids. I was well connected on the server due to extensive pugging and it went fine. After BC hit I leveled with a group of four including my roommate and my, now, fiancee. I jumped ship at 68 or so to join a guild with them.

<Imperium>
A mix of loud-mouthed spammers and somewhat competent raiders with craptastic gear. Eventually this imploded and the raiders created:

<Two Nonsense Words That I Don't Remember>
Man, my memory sucks. These guys were alright, some of them were jerks. Mostly we just sucked out loud "AHMEGAD CURATOR WUT TEH EF" As I recall the guild just sort of fell apart. Fiancee and I split ways here for some reason, she went hardcore and I was stuck with ultracasuals

<Divine Wrath>
The aforementioned officers from the first guild I was in finally formed a guild and wanted me to join. I liked them, so I said sure. Better gear, crappier raiders. I was routinely left out of runs in favor of the officers' girlfriends and some paladin who didn't completely fail. The two girls played female NE priests and both sucked out loud. As in they ran a 3 healer comp and they had to bring in me to get anything past Maiden down in Kara. To kill Prince I hadto request a soulstone so that when I ran myself OOM covering most of the raid I could suicide in the infernals Deathform heal and return with more mana. After the girlfirends got pissed that I got a few pieces of gear they had wanted they instituted a loot system that pretty much could have been titled the "Fuck Vid Out of Loot" system. Somehow I never had the DKP for anything I has wanted, but I stuck with it for a while. Other guilds seemed to either be full up on priests or think that healing priests were a plague beset upon azeroth to wipe raids. I talked a lot with my fiancee over vent and an emo-tastic friend of hers. After one crappy night of being left out of another raid and then being ganked herbing in the hinterlands I set up a server transfer and was gone the next day.

<The Dark Knights>
A buddy of mine at school had a guild, pretty much Kara only and considering that I would actually get to go, I was OK with that. Cool people, I got along with and enjoyed talking to a bunch of them. They were ultra casual, which was fine but eventually I got really bored. My fiancee transferred over after suffering much abuse at the hands of hardcore guild, which I would listen about and get supremely pissed off. We fucked off in Kara a while longer, but some friends of others in the guild came back to the game and started

<Stuffy Guys>
After leaving with no hard feelings, SG was a welcome change; we stomped through SSC, cleared Vashj in one night and one-shot her after the reset. Got all the way to Kael in TK and then the leadership just fell apart, they told everyone they had two weeks to leave or be booted. The guild tag was theirs to do with what they felt like.

<Emberstorm>
Picking up the pieces, we fell into Emberstorm, which was essentially SG left overs with a healthy dose of nepotism. It was stable for a while, could never get the steam for 25s and too many members still wanted to raid hardcore, so it fell apart.

<The Dark Knights>
Back to my friends' guild, no hard feelings, and back to Kara it was until the end of BC. Then 10-man Naxx became the new Kara and beyond Sarth +0 and some obscenely abortive attempts at 10-man Maly they went nowhere. We were okay with this to some extent, but apparently some members took serious offense to being told to get out of the fire. Between that and the prima-donna pally tank who after two nights said he was never going to OT again, we were not having fun. One of the members of the guild told my fiancee that explaining strats and trying to warn people about standing in fires was being, and I quote, "A bitchy micromanager" and if she would just sit back and be quiet, they could handle the raids all by themselves without her. Poor tact on his part, but the message was all the same, we weren't wanted. His description I find funny, since I've never heard anyone be so cordial about getting out of fires as she is. It's a damned sight better than my usual, "I'm going to take your head off and place it on a pike if you do that again." So she gquit and we server transferred effective immediately. We already had a Hunter and Priest elsewhere, so we sent all the other toons there as well.

<Convicted>
These folks were alright, although they talked about oversight and responsibility the same four people that wiped us in 25s were never dealt with or called out. Eventually people stopped showing up, and we downgraded to 10-Uld, which was fine except that moving on Hodir was waaaaay too hard for some people. Between that and freely handing mp5 gear over to DPS'ers as well as other loot mismanagement we decided it was time to look for a better fit. We eventually shopped around on alts (technically our old Mains) and found a group of nicer people who said they were definitely on the proactive side of raid management.

<Aegis>
A mix of the casual and hardcore that sometimes gelled and sometimes didn't. The people themselves were fun to be around and actually got the jokes we made (forgot to mention the folks in convicted barely talked and were incapable of laughter most of the time). It was great, even if we took a step back into 25 Naxx, we were still having fun, and that was important. We led an Uld-10 with some of their raidleaders and high-performers one night and and cleared 5/14 in one session came back and nearly got down Hodir the next off-night. This sparked something with the two raidleaders and little did we know, we came back two days later to a good chunk of aegis gone. We finally figured out that they had reformed under a new tag and wanted us along ASAP.

<Reverence>
This is our current guild, we have been progressing well; things have gone okay with the exception of some leadership problems. I hope we stay, but for more on that, check the leadership forums >.<

Goddamn, I've hopped around alot. I'm such a guild whore =/

<ASBESTOS> kilrogg
i'm the raid leader (and defacto GM at the time) in MC, and garr's binding drops. 5% of the raid knows wtf the binding does, and are behind me when i was opening it up to bids for rogues and warriors. the entire paladin core (which did not include anyone that was in that 5%), were all up in arms about it, because the paly loot has been on a dry spell, and they're all sitting on massive DKP. The binding obviously says "Paladin" on it, and it's orange.. /sigh.

long story short, i ML it to the tanking warrior who was also friends with a "real" raiding guild that could have provided the rest of the mats.

i get massive hate tells, which includes ones from other officers. out of frustration and anger, i gquit and logged out.

the officers later apologized to me at a RL party at my house, after they finally looked up what the binding does.. -_-

there's been others, but none quite as memorable as that one..

I've been playing since Dec 04 with breaks here and there~ Buf or the most part, other than guilds I might have been in for a few days, these are some of my memorable ones and why i left them.

<ALE>
~ First guild I was ever really in on Azgalor. at the time, they were the top guild and talked about a lot of level 60 things in there. even at that stage of the game (early 05) they were very serious about the game and elitist. I joined because it was my bf's coworker/friend's guild so I was just content at first. But the members weren't very helpful for us as we were just learning the game and still trying to level, I eventually got really frustrated and /gquit the guild and refused to join back. I felt bad because the GM was a nice guy, just his members were assholes, but it just wasnt the right guild for me at that time. I remember just trying to ask simple questions and either being completely ignored or getting sarcastic comments. I'm pretty sure I had asked something and after not getting an answer (its not like they weren't reading or inactive, they would be theory crafting with each other all day) I just hit the /gquit

<The Elders> (Actually that might not be the correct name, but there was Elder something in the name)
~ Very casual leveling guild, I joined this guild on my second character which I actually got to 60 (my undead priest.) My goals on the character were to get into raiding, and we were allied with some other casual guilds for a Molten Core group - which I never saw run once. Only like 20 people max were online at one time between all guild for the raid so :( Eventually got frustrated and left as my goals weren't being met there. (Plus some members were just a bit too... goody goody? for me. I don't mean to offend people if I type out curse words, but dont give me lectures about them plz.)

I remember also getting very aggravated after I left; I remember someone gquitting in the guild and then the GM made a comment about how if youre going to leave, at least say Why or leave a message on the forums or something. So I remembered that very specifically, and I also thought that it was the right thing to do. So I remember when I was planning on leaving, I made a whole post on the forums as to why I'm leaving, saying goodbye, wishing them well etc. I also remembered making suggestions in my post - but overall I felt i had a friendly/helpful attitude about it. Either way, the GM contacted me later about how he didnt appreciate it or it upset him or something - and I just didnt push it or anything. Just gave up and moved on with my goals.

<Sacrifice>
~ My first real raiding guild, and probably the one I was in for the longest time. I even transferred servers when the guild did, and we only lost very few people from the transfer. (lol @ 40 people transferring jeez!) Very good guild, good times, Went from Onyxia/MC all the way through the first bosses in 40m Naxx. Unfortunately there was friction between one of my good guildie friends and the rest of the leadership, plus we were VERY unhappy with the GM and the officer loot decisions once we started getting into Naxx. The GM was in charge of DKP, Raids, and Guild ~ and although he did his best, he was also able to do whatever he wanted since all the officers were either IRL friends or longtime online friends. Things weren't consistent (getting dkp for donating flask mats for example which i tried to do consistently but only got extra dkp a few times) and eventually they wanted to kick my friend, so we jumped ship with him. My friend actually logged on, and said "I wont even give you the benefit of kicking me" and /gquit right then lol. I dont remember if I said anything before I left, but the whole situation was leading up to either a guit or gkick for a long time. We really tried to make it work, and talked to him about our issues, but it just felt like he didnt care, as long as his friends were happy, he was.

For our own amusement, we joined the guild of asshats on the server and our old GM was like "i knew they would!" and all that. =p we just messed around there for like a day before we server transferred.

<Fancy Lads>
~ After a break between Classic and BC, when i started up again and was making a Draenei priest i joined Fancy Lads of Dark Iron. Not a bad guild, but people didnt really... chat or get along too well there. Just seemed like any reason for anybody to talk was to stir drama or debate about something. I decided to leave for another PAA guild (another guild in the same alliance) because I was bored in there. :x

<Disciples of Divx>
~ I had a good friend in this guild, who would rave about it all the time so I decided to app. Very funny and awesome group of people! I never really found my own niche in the guild, but I really enjoyed being there. The only reason I left was to join my raiding guild, and i left on good terms explaining why I was gquitting and saying a long goodbye before i left.


A few others I was simply inactive and kicked from/dont remember.

I'm impressed you all remember all these names...I can't remember the name of the guild I'm in now without checking...

I treat gquits like break ups:

"Hey baby, it's not you it's me.....I hate you."

Heh, real story might be posted when I actually have sometime.

Disclaimer - I am not proud of my last G/quit but was needed and my age is 28/F

<SytaX>
A guild I joined for leveling and the guys were really kind and we played together as a group of 4 people. Only left to join my BF's guild because when I hit 70 I could play with him

<The Scary Dungeoneers aka TSD>
A guild's who's motto was Understand that real life > World of Warcraft. The guild was made mainly by friends from UNI and was very friendly however lack any desire other then to grind Kara week in week out. Officers and GL was never about and me and a couple of more 'hardcore' people pushed into ZA but when Wrath was due to come out my BF said he thought we could do better but wanted me as GL as I was nicer so we g/quit and started our own Guild

<Last Chance>
Called this because it was shorter then saying (last chance to raid 25 man before I quit wow for good) I threw myself into making this guild work and took some of the guys from TSD that wanted to come with . We had lots of fun leveling to 80 and finding people that we'd have a good time playing with. When everyone hit 80 I started sorting out main roles and we grinded togther HC to make a 10 man Naxx group which was great and lots of fun. My biggest goal was to do 25 man as TSD so it was hard to manage and was just boring. Long story short we managed to get 25 man naxx clear, Malygos and OS +2. When Uld came out it started falling apart for me. I was spending far to much time sorting out people problems, whining, loot, recruitment etc to know that I only logged on to do what I call admin work and raid (and RL as no one wanted to do it or would voluateer for the job) and not really play for fun. The crunch point came when 2 of my officers were whining at me due to a druid giving it some mouth in a raid. My BF wanted to kick him and I said the other officers should man up and do it. Long story short me and my BF had a RL fight about who we should kick?!?!? and at that point I thought the game was becoming to much like a job and not a lot of fun and not worth my Relationship. So I phoned my RL friends in the game and told my bro. Logged back on Promote someone that I thought would be a good replacement for me and g/quit without speaking to anyone else or posting why I left.

The guild still going with my bro in charge as GL and they are doing well 12/14 in ULD. I just think I hit rock bottom because running a guild is like work if you do it right and it does burn you out if your officers don't help or don't back your choices. Not that I blame them because it a game and who want responsibility for 24 people fun

No longer playing
Kilanna

(The Red Knights)

I had belonged to RK since 2003. I originally joined as a member of their Planetside Division, then progressed with them thru FPS ladders on RvS and GR. Great times with a small group of players (around 10-15 at the core). The Guild Leader was in the WoW Beta, and let me play a bit in the week before the game was released. I was hooked. Throughout the first part of Vanilla WoW, we were a small PvP focused group, with no real chance at raiding. At around the time ZG came out, we decided to start raiding because the PvP gear was being outclassed by PvE stuff. At about the same time, the Guild Leader transferred to the top raiding guild on the server and left me in charge of the WoW Division while he ran the clan as a whole.

We grew the WoW divison to over 70 people, and it began to swallow the clan. The GM and other older members stopped playing WoW and cracks definitely appeared. The night we killed Onyxia for the first time, it came to a head when a newer member challenged the GL as "having nothing to do with us or having a say in what was done." A lot of angry words went back and forth and we had to do something.

The other WoW officers and I debated for a week, and eventually decided that the only real answer was to split oursleves off from the clan as a separate entity. We created a new guild, and I Gquit from RK. Dropping the Guild Tag that had been part of my identity for years (all of my forum names were ]RK[Caveat, for example) was one of the toughest things I've done. My relationship with the old GL is cordial, but no where near what it used to be. Still, I think it was for the best, as the successor guild is still going strong many years later, with many members who have been with us since that divide.

Did nobody else catch this? Apparently, the role of Guild Destroyer is long entrenched in our host's gaming career!

Sorry Matt, couldn't resist