The ongoing destruction of small guilds

Preach it reverend

Everyone has to start somewhere. You have content you can complete already. Do that until you're ready for HSR. I remember years ago banging my head against a t5 Rancor raid for months before we graduated to heroic. Someone crybabying that they can't do the hardest content as a newish player is silly, and obnoxious.

Not yet no... At a guild level of 40M... how many g12 toons can you all have at this point that you need/are ready for those rewards? You all will progress and get there just like the rest of us have. This is the lifecycle and how it's always been. HPit was TOUGH for 90% of guilds to finish when it launched. Tier 6 of AAT raid when it first launched was insane. The guild I was in at the time took (literally) a month to complete our first Tier6. And that was the only other option other than heroic. There still are no tiers below that for smaller GP guilds to cut their teeth on. I know this feels like a huge impossible obstacle right now for your guild, but guilds over 150M GP need a challenge too. I don't always love the changes in this game, but they have to play to all levels of players and guilds - they are not catering an experience to just you. It's not personal... it's building the next goal.

"JacenRoe;c-1581273" wrote:
Everyone has to start somewhere. You have content you can complete already. Do that until you're ready for HSR. I remember years ago banging my head against a t5 Rancor raid for months before we graduated to heroic. Someone crybabying that they can't do the hardest content as a newish player is silly, and obnoxious.

But they're not being punished for being a new player, they're being punished for being in a small guild.

I have CLS, RJT and all the Mythic characters and fleets. I rank high in the Arena - both of them.
But I am unlikely to get any of the Heroic Sith rewards - ever. Because I belong to a smaller - friendly, non-elite - guild. So I am going to be outclassed not by players who are better than me but by players purely because they belong to another guild.

That's unfair.

Stenum has understood my point. We are a few (about 10) seasoned, high ranking players in our guild, the rest have just recently reached level 85. 40 members. We do not want to break up the guild just because of Darth Traya shards and G12+ gear, which means these are not obtainable to us. And not because we are new at the game, as we are not.

Have patience, it's unrealistic for newish players to expect the latest raid toons

"DarthSerf;c-1581288" wrote:
Have patience, it's unrealistic for newish players to expect the latest raid toons

No, we're not talking about new or even newish players. We're talking about powerful long time players in a small guild.

We just want a DEV or Crumb or someone to explain the war on non elite guilds what is so hard about telling us why.

90 % of the player base does not want to belong to some "corporate guild with 5 sub guilds spouting trash all day acting like a Sgt Major and getting booted because your not at role call"

What is the financial benefit to CG to destroy guild after guild after guild until your forced to be part of one of these chain guilds run by a bunch kids who have a superiority complex....

Is it you want your mega whales running guilds because a mega whale running a guild even if he's toxic to the game or community is less likely to stop whaling ????

Please explain SOMEONE upstair please explain the simple "War on guilds" your performing over and over IT IS TOXIC to the community maybe not to your CEO's bottom line but toxic to the community....

That's probably NOT beneficial to the CEO's bottom line down the road

"Stenun;c-1581279" wrote:

"JacenRoe;c-1581273" wrote:
Everyone has to start somewhere. You have content you can complete already. Do that until you're ready for HSR. I remember years ago banging my head against a t5 Rancor raid for months before we graduated to heroic. Someone crybabying that they can't do the hardest content as a newish player is silly, and obnoxious.

But they're not being punished for being a new player, they're being punished for being in a small guild.

I have CLS, RJT and all the Mythic characters and fleets. I rank high in the Arena - both of them.
But I am unlikely to get any of the Heroic Sith rewards - ever. Because I belong to a smaller - friendly, non-elite - guild. So I am going to be outclassed not by players who are better than me but by players purely because they belong to another guild.

That's unfair.

Ever? Your guild won't ever improve? You can't buy these things from the store with your arena winning crystals? (the new pieces WILL hit stores eventually, they always do) Staying in your guild is your choice. CG isn't punishing you personally for staying. That's not unfair... that's player/guild progression. The new shiny raid gets the new shiny gear/toon. This isn't new or a surprise. CG def earns their lumps of coal for some issues. Putting the best gear/toons in the hardest challenges is as old as games and certainly not CG specific.

"ThwartedThrawn;c-1581287" wrote:
Stenum has understood my point. We are a few (about 10) seasoned, high ranking players in our guild, the rest have just recently reached level 85. 40 members. We do not want to break up the guild just because of Darth Traya shards and G12+ gear, which means these are not obtainable to us. And not because we are new at the game, as we are not.

Same for me. I"ve been playing for over 2 years. Have almost all the characters (missing the droid probe, the Wampa and Darth Traya), almost all of them are 7 star, a lot of zeta and G12, can solo most of the HAAT but my guild is only 50M GP and I don't want to leave this friendly guild for a competitive one.