Guild requirements....Follow

Unfortunately, this is a catch 22 that there is really no way around. I have played EQ since 1999 and when my guild of 4 years disbanded, I took a 1 year break. When I came back, most of them were no longer playing and it was like starting over as far as finding a guild is concerned.

The best advice I could give you is to try to meet and befriend other players that are members of one of these guilds and hang out with them as much as you can. Eventually one of them will undoubtedly ask you to recruit and/or invite you to their guild.

Tolerable

First, for the guilds that you want to apply to, have you only read their websites or have you talked with people in the guild? My guild still has all the PoP flags listed as a requirement; however, they haven't hit a PoP target in over three months. The PoP flag requirement is waved, but we haven't taken off the website.

Second, are you applying to realistic guild considering your level, AA, and equipment. Guilds want a productive member, not someone that they have to gear. Look for guilds similar to your "production" level.

First, check to see if your server has some sort of pickup raid channel. If it doesn't start one! Don't just wait on someone else to get a raid going. Ask around and I bet you'd be surprised how many people are interested in flagging.

My guild is a family guild and they Raid almost every sunday with two sister guilds between the three they get 5-6 groupds all the time

EP really isn;t that hard to get now days..............many people are using raiding channels..and getting it from that..........but if you are looking for a guild I suggest looking for a Vex Thal or Lower planes guild......any VT or LP guild should take you in you have the lvl reqs(any non qvic+ guild that requires lvl 70 isn't worth joining...............) shoot now days Time guiilds are looking for 67+ apps......Finding a guild isn't hard........apping to them might be but IT NEVER HURTS TO TRY!!!!!!!!!!unless you are a complete ***..........that's a good way to get black listed =/(so don't be an ***)

too many guilds now :p

It doesn't hurt to apply to a guild. My guild had lvl 65 and 100+aa's to join, with a 30 day probation period where you are a trial, allowed to raid with the guild, and earn dkp at half the rate of the full members. Trials are allowed to bid on loot if none of the full members want or need it. During my probation period, I went from level 63 with 50 something aa's to 65 with 95 aa's, which was close enough as far as they are concerned. I'm still not flagged for EP or KT, where my guild raids quite a bit, but there is the 85/15 rule, so I can get into the zones, although that is a PIA. Open raids are held by several guilds for backflagging purposes, where we look for prospective recruits and generally fun players to refer to our recruiters. I've picked up several flags doing the open raids. It is a route you could probably take, also.

Best thing you could do is work on your aa's tho. Most guild are always looking for good monks to pull.

I would ask, same as someone else recomended, most higher end guilds could care less about killin Fenin Ro or some such and the lowest area/oldest content that you will probably ever be required to attend would be a time raid and its easy as hell for them to 85% you in and let you loot a key to that in p3. Even if they do require you to go Elemental, it probably won't be more then fire and it is probably the easiest of the "elemental planes" to get 85% in and a key for as Fenin easier then say Xegony. (fire is really only needed as a exp zone for like soloing and grouping, earth has a very small chance of that too the rest really arent worth the hassle unless you want to do all the flags.)

The ones that could suck are the ikky, uqua trials they may not want to fart around with those and not sure what workaround is as we are just now into those, havin failed ikky 4 2x and uqua once. If you havent done so DO TIPT... biggest stumbling block to gettin at this is that a lot of people who desire to get in raiding type guilds havent done the simplier pre stuff. Tipt is the only trial now needed for KT access which is where the ikkanz and uqua trials start. Tipt is a one group mission that starts in Barindu.

I havent seen any DoN raid that requires anyone but 1 person to have the tiers for it so that shouldn't be an issue (obviously you will want to get your tiers movin up too, for the perks but you wont have to be like on Tier 3 to go try and kill Volcana, you can be on Tier 0 and still go).

Anguish access will probably suck too but, but heh I only have like one signet in my bank towards that and am not in that big a hurry dont think we will be there for quite a while yet.

Only other place that a higher guild might want you to have access to is Vex Thal I would prolly start the shard hunt asap just in case, it doesnt take all that long and with a few potions you should be able to solo darn near all of em.

Really though if you look at the gear that drops in GoD, OoW, Time, DoN you really would be hard pressed to find a high end guild nowdays feelin the urge to go kill Corinav and get a couple GRWs.

So, start some. Take the initiative to run your own. There are plenty other people in your situation on your server, and they'll be more than happy to join in.

Thanks for the info everybody, I will look into alot of the idea's given. I have been working my AA's best I can, but I can't really solo so I always depend on a group. I am going to try and find a lower end guild maybe to start out in, I guess I will just have to take my time and stop joining the junk guilds that shout for members in POK.

I think the biggest thing that has hurt me is where i quit for so long to play eq2. I think it really left me behind alot of other players :/

The Raid Guild Code
Them that falls behind, are left behind.
70 plus people are not going to keep going back to content they have done over and over already getting flag/keys just for latecomers or anyone who doesn't raid often enought to keep up.

alot of the raiding guilds have baby guild to get you to thier lvl then they bring you into thier "mother guild" and some will even bend thier rules to get you in if your a decent player and talk to thier officers. Or if your sick of all that find a few buddies around lvl 60 plus do some research about raid mobs and form your own guild an hope your in the right place at the right time to make it fly =) or offer to be a back flaggging guild for a bigger guild and mabe they will send you memebers who r apping them there is a few ways around your problem ..but not many

My guild, Old World Travelers on Maelin Starpyre, is a guild that DOESN'T focus on progression but on grouping and hosting fun events. We're not against progression but we don't want it to be the focus of our activities. We do a lot of smaller raids like epic hits. We also try to hold fun events like tradeskill hunts, fishing trips, language exchanges, trivia challenges, etc. It's a nice relaxing environment for people who like grouping and the occassional raid. So far the response for this type of guild has been huge and we've had to restrict our recruitment by having the officer staff vote on prospective members. The best guild on Maelin!

You can also do what I did. I have noticed a decent amount of guilds using Guildportal as a site to host their information. Go there and in the search field put your server and then look through the guilds.

I am a total newbie in EQ and I wanted to make sure that whatever guild i joined had a lot of players on during my timezone. So, while I was learning the game in the tutorial every time I ran through PoK I did a /who. I was looking at the guild tags, then i would do a /who "Guild name" Very simplistic, and yet it worked for me.

That is just another look at your issue.