Guild asking for a weekly tax.

[Dinousek]

This is a scam. You are being conned straight up. Get a real guild. Also, can you post the rules and name of the guild in case someone is interested in deciding whether or not to join them? May need to be in a different forum category, but it is important information.

[Donald Hellscream]

The only time I've encountered guild taxes was when my now dead retail guild ( not because of classic) was preparing to raid at the start of BFA. Those contributions went solely to buying mats for feasts and cauldrons, which in my book is fine because it meant that raiders wouldn't need to bring any flasks or food buffs and only had to show up with potions and gems/enchants.

If you as a player is being asked to pay a certain amount of gold a week just to be a member and not actually benefiting from it then I'd probably find a new guild that isn't taxing their players for just being a member of the guild.

[Roxyfoxy]

can you post a screenshot of your guild bank

its a little hard to believe you are collecting stuff for a raid that will not come out for 2 years far after the next WoW Retail expansion that will most likely end up breaking apart most classic guilds

I'm not the gbank so i cannot provide that, but how is that hard to believe? we did this on private servers (which were much much more likely to die than classic servers) now again on Classic, it's a much better way than letting your guildmembers take care of it themselves, because suddently naxx is here and half the people seems to have slept for the last year and dont have the required stuff.

I guess you are the kind of guy who does not save money in real life because we might all be dead tomorrow?

[Snackpack]

Considering the current raids don't require min/maxing or consumables (maybe tanks need them?) with 40 people, I'd say it's a waste. I guess depends on if you only raid with 15-20 people. Either way, you could use that gold to prepare yourself. At least you'll know where the money is going to.

[zlygork]

I don't understand why some people put up with so much shit from some guilds. I much prefer my friendly guild where we may not be #1 on the realm to clear the raid, but we have fun on every step of the way there.

[Spl4sh3r]

My guild won't need a tax. We got a casino play on the Onyxia Bag. Pay 10g to be allowed to roll for it. That is taking in a lot of currency. If they ever started taking tax, then I'd probably leave. I don't have time to play enough to earn both money for all consumables required and needed as well as pay a tax.

[XDurionX]

Administrating this "tax" for sure is more work than farming the few hundred gold a week you would get from this. The officers are clearly retards. Leave.

Edit: Overlooked this is about classic.

[Dacien]

Can't they just take all the raid mats that drop and call it a day?

[Zyky]

Is this even necessary, with all the boe's and crafting mats, this should be enough to supply consumables and enchants to the raiding members?
They plan this for future raids like aq,naxx for some resistance gear and on top of that i don't think we get anything,i still have to bring my own elixirs and buy my own mats for enchanting.

Edit:

Forgot to add, its 25g per week.

If you're guild is doing this, they aren't going to make it to AQ or Naxx because the roster is going to leave, especially when they aren't providing anything now when the mats are cheap.

[Unholyground]

You can literally farm BRD for a few hours and make hundreds of gold. I asked my guildies to only donate if they feel like it or have spare stuff they don't need. There is no requirement lol.

[Ragu4]

Our guild does bid wars on the Onyxia bag for funds one kill, then /random rolls on the next, and so on. This is a good way to get some gold in the bank, and the ppl who REALLY want the bag and can splurge on the bid kill to get it.

[Alvito]

My guild did something like this in BC, but they also covered food and flasks for everyone. Each raid day all the stuff you would need for the night was mailed to you in the morning. Once guild perks came around and guilds passively made gold this stopped. Now if the guild is using the gold for the good of the group it is a useful way to make sure people have what they need to raid. If they aren't giving anything g back it is a shit system.

[Flexs]

I'm not the gbank so i cannot provide that, but how is that hard to believe? we did this on private servers (which were much much more likely to die than classic servers) now again on Classic, it's a much better way than letting your guildmembers take care of it themselves, because suddently naxx is here and half the people seems to have slept for the last year and dont have the required stuff.

I guess you are the kind of guy who does not save money in real life because we might all be dead tomorrow?

I too just think you’re lying. 100 black lotuses?

[oplawlz]

Ludicrous. Find a guild that isn't run by monkeys.

[Mirishka]

Is this even necessary, with all the boe's and crafting mats, this should be enough to supply consumables and enchants to the raiding members?
They plan this for future raids like aq,naxx for some resistance gear and on top of that i don't think we get anything,i still have to bring my own elixirs and buy my own mats for enchanting.

Edit:

Forgot to add, its 25g per week.

No. Hell no, in fact.

[anon5123]

My guild wants to do the same thing, but just 2g per week. The raid leader claimed that it was so that they can build up a stockpile of gold to get things like nightfalls and annihilators, and they're only going to do it until they have enough gold for a few of those.

[Gasparde]

It's fucking ridiculous what guilds in Classic get away with.

Like, Blizzard changed the whole looting system in BFA because some poor souls were trapped in some weird abusive loot council guilds and because sometimes trials don't get any items for a month!

Meanwhile in Classic about every single fucking guild is going completely mental. No loot if you failed once, no loot if you don't use like 5 pots for every boss, guild tax, fucking DKP systems in 2019 and god knows what else. Because after seeing how piss easy MC truly is, it's absolutely necessary to punish single mistakes on bosses that would still die with 500 mistakes and 10 players. Because the place would be unbeatable without everyone using 5 pots and all DM buffs. Because you need a guild tax to prepare for raids that are still like 2 years away and which are going to be 100% as piss easy as MC. And because managing a DKP system for 50 people for 3 hours of raiding every week is totally reasonable and doesn't mean that every new person will pretty much not get anything they want for about 6 months.

It's ridiculous how guilds in Classic act like fucking Method when they're dealing with LFR content. If your Classic guilds asks for anything more than you having somewhat proper pre-raid gear and being there when raids are planned... then they're either fucking clowns or trying to fuck with you.

[Machismo]

I dont support a tax on guild members, but grabbing a few resist items does not prepare you for naxx.

Right now, my guild bank got mats for around 100 flasks, some will be used in bwl and AQ, but we aim to have around 500 for naxx release, so we're good until a possible tbc release.

I'm well aware of what is required for pushing Naxx hard. I'm also aware of how easily those things disappear, or guilds fall apart.

Eff that.

[toffmcsoft]

What we do as a guild is we host a weekly raffle.
It's 10g to enter the raffle. A random guildie wins the raffle giving them 50% of the proceeds and the other 50% goes into the gbank.

[Rotted]

14 years of playing, never ever heard or read about the bull shit before. Don't pay it.

If they do supply flasks etc, then they should be selling them to the team at a reduced rate compared to the ah