How I Found My Guild

Until recently I never got into a real MMORPG guild on my own. When I started WoW I created a small guild with friends, and one of my friends made friends in a larger guild that we then merged into. I quit the game, and that first guild went away, so I joined another guild with most of the same people from the first guild. Then I quit again and that guild went away, and since then I mostly just joined leveling guilds that would invite any and every player that would accept an invite.

In WAR I of course joined casualties, but I don't really count that as getting in on my own, since I was kind of grandfathered in.

Then about a month ago I was 71 or so, trolling around Northrend and somebody asked for a Nexus group. I joined and we ended up filling up with a couple of eighties from one of the other players guilds. Some of the players had known each other (I think they used to raid together) so a lively conversation ensued. People were talking about guilds and guildies, so I took the opportunity to mention that in my awesome leveling guild people were constantly complaining that they couldn't take enough money out of the bank every day*.

Turns out one of the people in that party was a GM, and she took pity on me and invited me to her guild. The guild started raiding a few weeks later, which means I can contribute and not just be the guy that is dragged through raids to get gear.

The guild is mostly older people so they are pretty cool. I guess the secret to getting a fun guild all these years was that I needed to whine more.

* This blows my mind -- why take donations in an MMORPG? Isn't the point of a role playing game that you build up your character? What else in WoW is that much fun?