It's like any guild, perhaps, where some people are just assholes to anyone not in their guild. We have people like that and I'm not a big proponent of "fuck everyone but us", but that's the way it goes sometimes. Glad our members still leveling are decent folks. The thing about BoWar is a lot of the issues have been with actual offficers. Several of them attempting to train, trying to take camps, trying to claim camps they're not at, and the weird part is they don't give off the Elitist vibe. They give off the clueless vibe. They're either master level trolls or just completely stupid.
For instance: we were in a single pick of Live side king two or three days ago. Pulling from the safe hall area, clearing everything as we were lvl 45+ so we were just trying to get any exp that was OOT goblins (the hole wasn't open at this point). We're keeping literally everything dead with downtime. Our puller says "uh, there's people here now, move up." So we show up to kings room and Cathbad and Snodvik are there. He first accuses us of SEQ because our puller literally walked up to them (lol) and said he's reported. THEN he claims we weren't there so we weren't camping the spawn (even though every mob is dead and while this is happening there's like 15 minutes left on repop for King room). He ALSO says that we're pick hopping (literally 2.5 hours in the same pick only hopped at the beginning to find an open camp) and that's AGAINST THE RULES (???). We explain that everything is dead because we're pulling it and we've been here. He doesn't believe us. He says we're pick hopping. I tell him that not only is that incorrect TWO OF US IN OUR GROUP HAVE BEEN STREAMING THE WHOLE TIME IF HE WANTS TO CHECK. Then his lil buddy Snodvik goes "Oh cool story. Twitch streamer. So cool. Douche." a billion times. He kept saying "are you done yet" after any sentence. Cathbad then says "WELL I NEVER AUTHORIZED YOU TO BROADCAST MY PERSONAL SELF ON STREAM AND THAT'S A VIOLATION I AM GOING TO REPORT YOU". I'm HOPING that was a weak troll attempt. Hoping. So then these two dicksticks decide to try and KS any rares that pop. They're currently a druid and SK, both not 50. So good fucking luck. First rares spawn, they go all out, fail. We say thanks for the help. They say "Yes, thanks for the help." What? I don't know if they're euro or 12 or 67 years old or what is going on. So then they pull in some enchanter and fight us for 2 more full King spawns. They never win. Not one mob. Major waste of time on their part. Meanwhile we've still been pulling everything to us and this isn't even a dent in our efficiency. So then I /guildstatus Cathbad and he's a SENIOR OFFICER. I just laugh. At one point he says, "You know we told your officers and guild leader (lul we don't have one) that we wouldn't help with your joint dragon raid. Good luck without us." (Of course that night we joint raid with M&M and kill the dragons. We had 70+ and M&M had 30ish. BoWar? They're fucking nowhere.) So I tell him, "Sir, I know you're an officer and you're speaking to a M E S S officer. I know you guys didn't want to help us because you wanted as much loot as you could get. And we'll do it without your help and open The Hole and the Planes for this server and your own guild. You're welcome." This is true, they wanted to literally random everyone for every item or some stupid shit rather than the biggest force gets first pick, then the next two highest rolls get to pick items, which is what we did. M&M got a CoF and we got a CoF. It worked out.
So we raid that night, kill dragons, open hole/planes. Guess who is the first group in OW hate? It's Born of War. What are they doing? They have 1-2 box groups farming and SELLING ARMOR DROPS. That's right. They're not gearing their players they're selling it. It's entirely possible they didn't have any 46+'s eligible for gear, but I'm pretty sure they did. They've been up there since basically farming Hate and selling loot rights. We've also gotten several tells from people in their guild looking to join us (unfortunately we're beyond full atm plz halp other guilds) because they "aren't raiding for 2 weeks".
This was my first hand experience. Several other guild groups have had run ins when them attempting to steal camps or training or claiming camps they're not even at. One of my friends from leveling join M&M and he went up to OW hate. First thing that happened? BoWar monk trained them at zone in. The only reason they probably didn't do it to us when we did OW hate is because we brought 60 fucking people.
Look if they're good to you and there's good people, that's cool. But when their officers are as retarded and rotten as some of these people, it's going to hurt your guild. The problem is besides M&M I literally don't know of any other decent guilds right now to join and we're full. So if it works for you, it works for you. But you guys are definitely going to hit a lot of problems if that's your leadership.