About 9 months ago, I was a bad slightly over average player looking for an LD guild. Then a person from Brick Squad came. Everyone was kind and helped me improve. They made me the lockdown player I am today. I love Brick Squad and always will. I will never leave. Thank you Brick squad, and remember I love you.

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Here's what I would look for in a guild.

1) Large and active - Since guilds are primarliy groups for talking and playing together, you'll want one with very active members, probably the more the merrier.

2) A nice guild hall - It just makes for a fun place to hang out together, and having a nice one adds prestige to your guild and aids in recruitment.

3) Well-Organized - This includes clear guidelines for promotion and behavior. A good Wiki site helps a lot here, and a website is even better.

4) Playing together - Here is where people will have strong preferences. If they like guild vs. guild Lockdown, then that might be a priority when looking for a guild. If they don't want to play with newer less capable players, then they'll want an elite-type guild. If they find over-powered parties boring and like helping newer players, then they'll want a guild that focuses on that. Or maybe they'll just want to keep it to a small amount of close friends.

5) Good Guild Master(s) - If the leadership is strong, mature, and seems to always have a good amount of in-game wealth, the guild will almost certainly prosper.

6) Personality of the guild - While they are probably some guilds you know you wouldn't enjoy being a part of, you won't really know how well a guild fits you until you've been in it.

7) Where you are as a player - After you've been around for awhile and depending on your personality, you may reach a place where you just want to be the founder and guild master of your own guild. Be warned - it's a lot tougher than it looks! But there is probably no greater reward in the game when you succeed at it.

Random people to go on runs with and potentially free to cheap shadow lair runs.

A non_serious guild that is small and easy to hang with.

Being in a small guild means I don't get over 50 random invites in a single week.

Being in a bigger guild means big headaches.

A little off topic but...
Your name seems quite familiar to me... Weren't you in a larger guild just a bit ago? I also believe we've played LD together before :P

If you're talking about me, no, I have never been in your guild before O_o.
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我只知道“我的guild的名叫Brick Squad” xP

I live under a rock.

A guild means to me as a place to have fun with other people, make new friends and come up with crazy things for the guild to do. :3 I've always preferred smaller guilds, though I did try a larger one once and found pretty fast that it didn't suit me. The environment difference between small and large is vastly different.

Smaller guilds tend to be tight-knit overall and you generally know most people by name. It's easier to welcome and get to know new members pretty easily. One of the downsides is the guild can easily change over a decision, good or bad, or by the changing of the GM, as there is generally one or two. Generally, there's a small handful of officers, usually close friends of the GM or voted in by the guild, that help manage guild problems, enforce rules and maybe some other things.

From what I've seen, I could be wrong, larger guilds tend to have small groups of friends all over the place and new members might feel kind of lost unless you already have some friends in that guild. I've found larger guilds to generally have multiple GMs and many officers to handle all the duties and generally manage the guild. Big decisions can affect the guild as a whole but small changes in officer or GM ranking and the like generally don't affect the guild as a whole.

...Were you doubting of my skills? D:
/cry
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/sigh
There's another reason why I need a new name... (That CE price kills me everyday, I'm working on it. >_>)

I'm not a guy.

I am guildless so I don't feel anything.

And it's the second guild I've ever been in. It's a great guild to be in, and we have active and friendly members who are ready to help each other out.

And that, I think, is what my guild means to me. It's not just a group of random people who I'm "in a guild with". They're more friends, a list of people who will help each other out, not because we have to help, but because we want to help.

Despite have a large guild (300 or a little less) we all know each other and really enjoy hanging out. And of course, you can always count on them to show up when you're surrounded by a pack of Greavers.

So, that's what I think about my guild, and I'll answer the OP's 3 questions:

What are you looking for in a guild?
I'm looking for teammates who can help me out when I need a hand, and a group of friends who will be fun to hang out with.
What should the guild provide for you?
An awesome guild hall, and a helping hand in missions/boss runs.
But also, what can you add to the guild?
I can help my guildmates, and give them the help and support they need to become strong, active Vanguards :D

Owsla is something from the book Watership Down(good read) and they were kinda like the military.For rabbits... Yeah talking rabbits and stuff. Pretty cool .

I left my guild because it was so inactive. :P