Comments on Kaliope's WoW Crafting Blog: Reader Mail: Building a Trade Guild

We would certainly love to hear about any crafting...

2010-04-27T11:17:04.543-07:00

We would certainly love to hear about any crafting guilds that start up and show signs of success. I think I've proposed some ideas here that could work for some players, but ideally Blizzard needs to improve guild functionality for the best chance of success.

Nevertheless, it seems like I have to start to rea...

2010-04-27T01:54:17.035-07:00

Nevertheless, it seems like I have to start to really lvl up my chars to lvl 80 until I can start an alt-based profession guild. Your ideas were at least thought out, instead of keeping it to yourself as many WoW-focused sites do. And, maybe in the future I might be able to provide with a guild on how to make it work. As it is now, those things are harder to come by. For starters, you are limited

So, a trade focused guild will never, ever happen?...

2010-04-27T01:44:12.953-07:00

So, a trade focused guild will never, ever happen? So, what's the point of being a complentist then?

That can work if some of the recipes weren't "raid...

2010-03-23T06:12:44.181-07:00

That can work if some of the recipes weren't "raid" only. Example, only worthwile crafted items requires primordial Saronite only to buy the recipes. Those are raid only drops.

To make a crafting profession worthwile, Blizz needs to rethink. In Lotro for example, Crafted gear, and drops were mostly the same (although raid drops wre a tiny bit better which was ok to me)

Good theory especially for the more social guilds....

2010-03-19T22:49:41.396-07:00

Good theory especially for the more social guilds. I know in EQ2 crafting is a huge part of the game, and very enjoyable.

BTW love your site - great resource!

I'm not convinced this would work either, but I wa...

2010-03-18T09:29:23.503-07:00

I'm not convinced this would work either, but I wanted to take a stab at the idea since someone took the time to email me with the proposal. For true viability, I think additional guild features are needed. Whether Cataclysm will deliver on that level remains to be seen...

I think we agree on many points. Some years ago, ...

2010-03-18T00:00:49.457-07:00

I think we agree on many points.

Some years ago, I tried to launch a trade guild for Ragnarök Online on a private server. It worked, but very few people used the guild storage. In fact, most of them were in the guild for fun. This might not apply for EVE Online where trading is a game in itself, but I think most of the best crafters are selfish and non-social goblins (hi Gevlon!).