In terms of the general tone of their guilds, players tended to describe them as being more on the casual side. Overall 52% rated their guild as being casual, 6% as being serious, and 42% as being somewhere in-between. There was no gender difference, but older players were a little more likely to describe their guilds as being casual.

To get a sense of how raid-oriented their guilds were, I asked respondents to categorize their guilds in one of four tiers. About half of respondents were in guilds that are too casual to raid or just started to learn how to raid. The other half considered themselves to belong to mid-tier or high-end raiding guilds. There were no age or gender differences in this distribution.