All people are different. Oh really? We present to you 10 types of people who are represented in every larger MMORPG guild.
Anyone who spends their leisure time mainly in MMORPGs has surely joined one guild or another. When it’s more than just an association of three or four friends, you experience many different types of players. We have listed ten of these prime examples for you and are already sure that you will recognize a large part of them immediately.
Note: The article originally dates back to 2018. We updated it in December 2024.
1. The Confused One
Every guild has that one player who always seems a bit off and you’re not quite sure what he actually does with the rest of his free time. At least the last question gets answered when he needs to “quickly build one” before the raid and then returns with a significantly boosted mood. The world is chill, the raid is chill, the loot is chill, and the fact that he has been standing in the fire for 10 seconds is also pretty chill.
2. The Pro-Gamer
Even the coziest guild group has that one player who takes the game very seriously and does everything possible to get the best out of his class. He contributes a lot in the raid and is definitely a cornerstone of the group, the reason why bosses are defeated at all.
Now and then, however, he takes the game a bit too seriously and gets frustrated when the other players do not go along with his will and prefer to “take it a bit easier”.
But one should be careful here, because at some point the Pro-Gamer’s patience will run out. If he doesn’t see enough progress, he will eventually turn his back on the guild.
3. The Sun-Account Guy
In every game, there are rare rewards that have little to do with skill or the wallet of a person, but mainly with luck. There is a mount that drops from an end boss with only a 1% chance or a special weapon that requires 10 very rare ores, which “normal” players have to farm for 18 months.
But not so for the one guy with the sun account. He has every single mount, and when he really has to “farm long”, it’s done by the end of the weekend at the latest.
4. The Drama Queen
The name is “Drama Queen”, but that certainly does not mean that only women can fill this role. Sooner or later, social problems arise in every guild. For example, there are discussions about participation in the raid and sorting by performance.
The Drama Queen takes such an incident as an opportunity to plunge the entire raid into a big eye-roll.
- “If I can’t go, then X won’t come either, we only play together!”
- “If you don’t take X, then I will leave the guild and I will take Player A and Player B with me!”
Especially bad in roleplay guilds. There, it is common to dictate to someone with whom they should play, and the jealousy club is brought out when one cannot provide minute-by-minute proof of what they have done where and with whom.
5. The Inactive One
In every guild, there are probably some dead weight players that are sorted out after a while of inactivity. But where there are players who disappear forever, there are also a few people who check in every few weeks, have a short conversation with others, and then “sadly have to go offline for today”.
But every time he promises that things will look “very different for him soon” and that he will “have much more time for the game”. Usually, this is the last thing you hear before he disappears without a trace for another three months.
6. The Many-twinker
The guild actually only has 20 active members. That would mean there should also be about 20 characters in the guild. But wrong thought! The Many-twinker loves to level a different character every day and to have as many classes at a high level as possible. This usually becomes so excessive that many people in the guild actually don’t know exactly who they are dealing with.
The only problem: None of his characters are really “top” equipped. All languish at a “solid” level. But because he simply doesn’t want to pick a main character, he will never deliver the performance of the other players and often lives a life on the bench. However, he is always ready to jump in with any role for dungeon runs.
7. The Fake Friend
Alongside the really friendly fellow players, there are of course those who only feign friendliness. This “fake friend” enjoys volunteering for a dungeon run, actively participates in guild chat, and is happy to join any group activity.
But sooner or later, there will be a fallout. Unusual quarrels break out between players who are actually friends in the guild. Only after many hours of clarification is it usually discovered that the fake friend is stirring up tensions between players behind their backs. The main tank has supposedly criticized the second tank very harshly, or there’s something wrong with one DD, who must be regularly consuming drugs in real life, which is why he is so strange.
Unfortunately, fake friends often excel at manipulating individual influential guild members. If the problem is not uncovered quickly, one or another guild may well go under.
8. The Lore Fanatic
If you have a question about the story of the game world in the guild chat, you usually get a quick reply from your guildmates. But woe to the information that is not 100% correct, because then the lore fanatic jumps in. He knows absolutely every source regarding the background story of the game world and can explain to you exactly why trolls only have three fingers or why the glow in the eyes of night elves is decidedly silver and not white.
If there is a question, the lore fanatic can also answer it. But just be careful not to ask a question that can lead to differing opinions – because then the discussion about a supposed triviality can go on until the early morning hours or until the server maintenance saves everyone involved.
9. The Constant Player
When you go online, he is already there, and when you go offline, he is still present. He is probably also around the entire time you are sleeping, working, going to university, or on vacation. Every guild has that one player who seemingly spends their whole life in the respective game.
While it is somewhat sad on one hand, it can be a blessing for the guild and the individual members. Because the constant player is usually quite accommodating and can listen well, making him a popular contact person when something is not going well in the game – or even in real life. Better than any helpline.
10. The Emotionally Challenged Guild Leader
Rarely is a guild leadership composed of a single person, especially in larger guilds. But somehow, there always seems to be one particular person who gets promoted to leadership, who, after a few months, just becomes annoying. Actually, she (in my mind, unfortunately, it is always a woman) is a nice person and an incredible organizational talent.
But when you defy her and something doesn’t work according to her will for a while, the outcry in Discord gets loud. It is often threatened to “throw everything in” and that others can “see how to get their stuff done themselves”, because she invests “extremely much of her free time and expects a bit of accommodation”. But the subtext usually conveys: “Do things the way I say, or find another guild.”
Such announcements usually work. For two weeks. And then it repeats itself. After the third time, such a loud monologue or forum post loses its effect…
Do you know all these types? And what type of cliché would you assign yourself? Let us know in the comments!
