Originally Posted by
DeadmanWalking
If anything I have seen my guild's membership sky rocket with the introduction of 5.4. I joined it in 5.1 (when I was sick of my friends guild not raiding), and we had a sudden dump off of members in ToT but they and guys who stopped playing in Cataclysm came back all at once lately. That and we have an unofficial merging of guilds with another guild that was looking for flex members at the same time we were, both of us had 1 tank and 2 healers so we merged and now have 2 tanks, 4 healers and ample dps. Worked out awesome for us.