About Guild Structures

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Hello everyone!

I’m looking for advice in the guild structure/organization.

My guild is social, this means we do a little bit of everything. And is the moment to get some people to assume the lead roles, as the guild is growing and players are doing different activities.

Can you guys share what roles are in your guild? How you organize your guild structure?

Thanks! :slightly_smiling_face:

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All I know is I am Herbinator in my guild, they made the rank for me since I provide most of the herbs for their raiding.

FEAR ME HERBS FOR YOU SHALL BE PICKED :smiley:

On a more related note I have seen a lot use the: Leader, Co Leader, Officers, Senior member and member set up or something similar. Sometimes there’s a rank just for the Raid Leader and a rank just for Raiders.

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The first thing you need to decide is what direction you want your guild to take whether it be casual raiding, PVP, mythic plus, RP ETC.

If you stay as a ‘social’ guild for people to just hang out in and take a more laissiez faire approach to their activities (essentially let people do what they want without organization) you don’t need any special ranks. Unfortunately, this will most likely lead to players leaving as they start to specialize their skills and move towards more focused guilds as their desire for progression and like minded players will move them there.

Once you find a purpose for your guild beyond ‘social’ then you can start developing a command structure. I can tell you for raiding we have a ‘raid lead’ rank, raider rank, raider alt rank, trial, and officer rank (2-3 guys who help the raid lead and GM in and out of raid with managing the guild bank and supplies, recruitment, or during boss pulls). We also have casual rank for friends who just want to hang out or retired raiders.

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Don’t let Mythic raider wannabe’s infest your officer ranks. They will take over from the inside out. Always take attendance with everyone in the raid group and then separate 1 group out and ask them to sit. THAT is how you bench people. You don’t just not invite them and let them sit around wondering if they will be needed and if they should go to a alt, it’s rude. And always make sure the people benched get rotated in on the easy stuff so they can play. (I’m a bad player I’ve been benched a lot, I respect those who bench correctly and dislike the passive aggressive leadership that sweeps people under the rug.)

If you plan a raid, do everything possible to make that raid go. The more you cancel raids the faster people leave. Consistancy is key. If you make law’s stick to them, if you make a promise stick to it. And if you make a casual guild, make sure it stays casual.

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Thank you for the advice! I’ll do that then manage the ranking.
Thank you ! :slight_smile: