Why and How to select a Guild to join?
Going Solo or going in Team better?A quote from PlaneShift main website - "
Guilds are a critical part of gameplay in PlaneShift. You cannot miss to be part of one!
Guild: An association of persons of the same trade or pursuits, formed to protect mutual interests and maintain standards.
Guilds allow you to know more people, to team up for completion of larger and more complex tasks, to choose your side and outline better the identity of your character."
So the Big Question -- Going Solo or going in Team better? The following summerizes some of the points of why going in a team is better :-
1> Items sharing - It often happens, that either you don't know where to get a specific item, especially the crafted ones. In guild, there may be other members of the guild who can craft those for you. And not only that, you get those exotic crafted items absolutely Free among the guild members.
2> Need for Huge quantity of a specific item from fishing, mining or harvesting - In a guild you get more than 1 pair of hands to get items from those just mentioned gathering skill, when the guild members work in a team to achieve that quantity of materials. Imagine 10 people gathering a specific item and each gathers 10 x 65 stack of that material, so it will be 10 x10 = 100 x stack of 65 of that material. Won't it will be awesome to start carafting/ working with those materials rather than worrying about getting them.
3> Combat help - For combat, help is always welcome!! imagine if you are a new to the world of Yliakum and have very low combat skills, you wud definitely love more hands during your combat mission/expenditure/adventure. And sharing the loot or collecting all the loots for your own purpose, which the other members of the guild/team will share with you all for Free, Free, Free!! doesn't it sound awesome??!!
4> Guild House - All experienced and reputed guilds normally have a guild House of there Own, which is just not the case when you go solo. Going Solo, you don't have any house and hall which you can personally use. You have to be in guild to have the advantage of using a Guild House. Guild House are best to store extra Items which you NPC storage doesnot have space for. and maybe share the other items with other guild members even when you are not logged in at the same time as your Guild member. Doesn't this feature/point sound awesome to join a guild rather than going solo??
5> Free goodies - you are normally entiteled to get some huge bunch of Free Goodies from experienced guild members or players on the guild. Have a look at the previous posts about "What You Get as a Iron Claw?", and you get an idea of Free goodies you can get.
Now decide for yourself... going solo or join a guild?
Now the most important part -- Why and How to select a Guild to join?to know why to select a guild is because, you should have decided what kind of character you want to be? There are guildes which has a reputation of being a good guild aiding the government, also there are guilds which are a kind of evil guild, their guild members has a reputaion of being evil using dark way or whatever evil ways. Then you should check, how active is the guild you selected? Does the guild leader login often? do you get to see your guild leader often and get help as and when needed? As an Iron Claw acting guild leader, by now you must have seen, i login almost everyday. i'm almost available 24 x 7, Compared to other Guilds wouldn't it be a good idea to join Iron Claw Guild and be a good guild helping the Government? Have a look at this website page from the PlaneShift main website, -->
https://www.planeshift.it/guilds you will see Iron Claw is normally the No.1 active guild. And it also has a good reputaion and experience members.
After saying all these, i guess, there is no doubt that Joining Iron Claw Guild wud be the best choice you have made in Yliakum. experiened Guild members, Skilled guild members, Reputed guild and the guild leader is almost always available. To join Iron Claw guild Contact Captain Mohonin in Iron Claw Guild, and even if you don't wanna join now, take a information booklet titled "Introduction to Iron Claw" from Mohonin or almost anybody in the Iron Claw guild. And take your time to make the major decision.
All the best wishes for your endevour in Yliakum. Hope to see you as Iron Claw One day. Thank you,