WoW Guilds, The Changes That Cataclysm Will Bring To Warcraft.
by Paul Rone-Clarke on Jan.30, 2010, under Warcraft, WoW Leveling
At a recent press conference, Blizzard unveiled the positive changes that we can expect to see with Warcraft Guilds. Introducing new ideas and features.
WoW progression in other areas such as levelling and instance runs has had a lot of love from the developers over the years. It’s about time the social aspect of guilds was overhauled.
These changes affect the whole way guilds operate, and for that matter co-operate. And frankly it’s fantastic news.
On logging in after patch 4.0, the first thing you might notice is the new guild GUI. The old style guild communication is gone; this is a whole new system. A screen showing your guild achievements through the various instances is displayed, along with the new achievement point total. Yes guilds now have guild achievement points.
If you are in a big well known guild such as WoW Defiance or WoW Relentless, you will see the legendaries you have acquired displayed prominently. Guild “realm firsts” etc. There will be a CSS style news feed ticker running that will give all the latest news from your recent instance runs. Right down to prominent loots and level ups.
One contentious issue has always been the paying of a tariff or tax into the guild bank. This may well end with a guild talent that increases the loot for all members while in an instance – and pays it directly into the guild bank. In other words you loot the gold you would normally loot, but an extra percentage ends up being deposited invisibly into your guild bank.
The way guilds deal with professions is also due to change. Every member will have a permanent link to their profession in the guild tab for all other members to see (and link to if needed). No more shouts and whispers “Can someone link me …” It will all be there.
Guilds will even get achievements for progressing through professions including a grand achievement for having all professions maxxed out within the guild. Blizzard are taking social gaming and professions seriously. This has to be good news if WoW’s ascent is to continue. These issues were top of my list of things that needed careful thought, and it’s great to see that Blizzard are taking some real steps here.
So love all round for guilds here.
We have the Blizzcon 2009 video on this topic at The Warcraft Blog. For the best gold guide currently available visit The Warcraft Advanced Gold Guide
