I'm an officer in our guild and I will relate to this. I'd conducted an ally raiding guild in BC and Wrath and when Cata struck, my guild fell apart due to the guild rankings introduced in that expansion and the little guilds were gobbled up into those huge guilds that you ended up only wow gold classic becoming a number in. I since switched to Horde and it's been a struggle to find something, something great for quite a while. I found a guild that for the most part it was the GL and that I logging at night after night, running random items either together or by our selves but never really doing much recruitment due to the problems you outlined.

Flash forward to about three or four months past when Blizz redid the guild chat window and the way you could search for guilds and I could not be more happier. We've since posted that we're a societal, family friendly guild first and foremost. After some work of talking to people and interacting with them, then doing this with others and gradually, getting them to open up to each other, it's been unreal on how well we're doing now. We've got numerous husband/wife teams which have kids and what not but we're starting to now get runs scheduled on the calendar that individuals may sign up for if they want to. We try to maintain guild pressure off individuals since the last thing I want is another job away from my real one.

We've created a guild Discord channel people can chat to out of WoW and I continue to just post random crap on the board in order to help draw people in. It has been working and I'm happy with how things have been turning out. I started playing WoW because it had been fun, I remained playing due to the friends I would eventually make and eventually getting back to this has made WOW Classic fun. If anybody is interested in checking us out and like I mentioned, we're more of a social and family guild, everybody is welcome.

We are a horde guild that's on Dethecus (and 6/7 merged servers) and guild name is Hallows Eve. We're NOT a raiding guild although we do have a few that run lfr's together. This is all about getting people that work and have family's that do not feel pressured into"with" to log in to perform anything unless they want to. Guild chat is generally pretty active and it's about being on.

Its not due to the WOW players playing WOW Classic though. It is because WOW Classic right now to buy wow gold is designed to be exactly that, a somewhat convoluted selfish RPG experience with barely any MMO in it whatsoever. It is fucking annoying that blizzard forgot what MMO stands to get in their own game and they've decided to basically ditch the community element of WOW Classic. Worse is that they've started doing it back in wrath of the king. They have gone so far down the rabbit hole that they would need to literally re do the entire game to make it plausible as an mmo.