Guilds...

Unfortunately I don't have time to dedicate to "guild activities", probably about an hour or two a night past 10PM MST, usually 1 hour. A lot of guilds I've tried to join do literally nothing past 9PM my time so.

I've had a lot of bad experiences with all the guilds I've been in throughout my WoW career since '07 and it's hard to jump back into that "scene" again, where everyone already knows each other and you're the outsider based on my WoW experience so far in life.

I recently tried again and just asked if anyone out of the ~25 people who were on wanted to run mythics as soon as I popped in (when the advertisement was WE RUN MYTHICS A LOT ALL THE TIME) and got shit. I could have waited but with an advertisement like that you'd think people would be running keystones all the time or something.

I'm really tired of being ignored all the time and feeling like I'm a pity case for higher geared people to "help" or generally being "used", so it's just better for me to dream about having a group of friends versus feeling like that all the time in a guild, substantially better anyway. Just waiting for the Zandalari race to drop and then I'm outta the game for a while again anyway, so.

Might sound like I'm throwing myself a pity party but when you deal with the same thing over and over again for 10+ years playing this game, it's an indicator that you're definitely not important to anyone you come across, no matter if you're in a guild or not. It's just fuckin' annoying. I sound like a fucking 13 year old on discord too which doesn't help my case much (26, coming on 27) and makes people not want to interact with me. I keep to myself and I'm pretty sure I'm not inherently annoying since I have groups online I hang out with in discord chats and streams, so I'm not really sure what it is.

it's just a whole big ball of unkempt bad luck and being a "background character personality", and I'm happy dreaming of the friends I might have had in a different life versus going through the shit I've gone through playing WoW since the end of vanilla.

tldr; cliques in guilds using newbies for their raiding materials, background character personality, sounding like a young kid to people on discord, and general unable being to merge with people in guilds doesn't work for me, I prefer to dream instead of do, in this game. "Try joining a guild" advice hasn't work since LFR and as the playerbase drops and gets more fractured, it's going to be even harder.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/akgrme/found_an_old_relic_in_my_bank_from_before/ef5euyy/?context=3