I’ve seen a number of different guilds in my time on wow. Some have been inclusive in their end-game events, others were quiet and required you express interest before they would start inviting you to events in-game.
How does your guild work? Do you like it?
What do you wish your guild would offer?
What do you love that your guild offers that feels unique?
For other officers and GMs,
How and why do you recruit for your guild or community?
What have you found has or hasn’t worked?
I’ve had a recruitment officer throw out one of three ads in trade in intervals of 45m~1h, depending on trade traffic. It’s rarely worked.
(I am not referring to the auto guild invite guilds, and I am grateful that’s not an option for communities…)
And I’ve seen people accept officer for a myriad of differing reasons as well. They love the guild or the person in charge, or they’re bored and want to sew chaos.
Thank you all for your time! And I’d love to hear all answers on the subject, even if you feel like it’s been talked about to death! ^^
My guild is pretty good like 5/10 heroic on alliance and we have all sorts of events and auto invite new players
The only thing is, and I’ve been in another guild like this, that our gm is a girl and all the weird guys try to flirt with her during raids. It’s super annoying lol
But it’s a pretty normal guild
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My guild is just me, myself and I so it’s amazing.
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My main guild, Convocation, is casual. We started out as two separate guilds: one for raiding and one for RP. Been that way since Vanilla. At the end of Wrath, people were burnt, but looking forward to Cata. So we combined both into a casual everything environment with no drama. We helped each other. We worked our way up to do the things we wanted to do.
Now, we’ve dwindled some. Only seven of us on for the couple nights we run stuff now. Sometimes we have enough to poke around in a raid. We’ve still got a bit of RP going on too.
But it’s a family. And it’s perfect.
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My guild died in BFA, so i am all alone here now. =P
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My guild is part of a gaming community that includes WoW, SWTOR, GW2, and ESO. The community has a High Elder, elected every 6 months, and an Elder Council, 4 - appointed by the HE. They have the actual Guild Leader position on all the guilds. But each game has its own Division Commander, elected by the game’s community. They choose their officers for each Department: PVE, PVP, RP, Crafting and Recruitment, and those officers choose up to 4 Assistants.
The gaming community recruits per game, usually on Reddit and the game’s official recruitment boards and Discord if there is one. Each Division runs in its own way, WoW is inclusive and brings anyone who expresses interest to a raid, and has sign ups for RBGs and show up and RP for in game story building.
Every month the community holds a meeting open to all members to cover any changes in the Divisions, as well as keep track of recruiting and banking. All in all we run incredibly smoothly and with infrequent drama. All positions in the community are voluntary and when someone is ready to step down and just be a member, or go play another game, there are processes in place to find a replacement. No one in leadership disappears in burnout, or kicks all members and robs the guild bank.
I’ve played with the community through SWTOR and now WoW and I’m trying out GW2 where I already know a bunch of people. I’ve been a member for 3 years coming up in August.
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Well… it’s just me sooooooooo it works how I want it to work. I should really clear out my guild bank some day though, getting messy in there.
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This describes about 1 of the guilds I’m in. I used to have 2, but was recruited for PvP on my mage.
As for the other ones I’m part of:
ForTheScourge-Lightbringer (GM) casual with no real emphasis on anything.
KittenBrigade-Garrosh (member) less active, but where this character is.
GetOffMySpawn-Kel’Thuzad (member) no-bs guild. Chat has few limits.
Stelle City-Medivh (GM) promo guild. Putting a name out there for future references.
Faction Assailants-IceCrown (member) self explanatory.
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For this guy my guild is dead man, been dead for 2-3 years now, maybe longer. It wasn’t even super active when I joined but I knew the gm so I joined. I keep it for guild perks, mostly because I can’t guarantee I’ll ever be available on any of my alts to help a guild out or do anything I don’t want to do, like dungeons or raids. Not the end of the world, but sometimes it is boring as hell to not have people to talk to, or do fun silly things as a group. Meh.
When it was fairly active the gm or someone would put raid events on the calendar and if you wanted to join you could, but otherwise no pressure.
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I had some weird guy try and flirt with me in a guild raid once. Then the GM put his foot down and said focus on the raid, flirt with her some other day.
In a way, I was waiting, but never got around. This was back in Wrath ofcourse.
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You’d hate my guilds. short of displaying direct interest, there’d be nobody flirting with you.
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Well, I am not the type of girl that really wants to flirt with men online. I rather get to know them in person first.
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in 2009 i started out in a guild that had its core members of an extended family living in New Zealand. we typically ran classic dungeons like stockades, dire maul and zul farrak. that guild was disbanded when they rerolled onto a more populated realm in 2010. with cataclysm’s guild system i moved all my stray alts to this former bank alt guild and leveled it up
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My guild is strictly a roleplay guild. People interested look at the website I made for it, and we track plotlines and chat on discord. I require it nowadays simply because most of us are on there to chat and discuss matters.
Some rp guilds require uniforms or character forms for entry. Mine doesn’t, and I also don’t require people to attend events. I realize irl is a thing. Generally I’m the plot runner for my guild but anyone IC (in character) can get clearance to run rp events and plots.
I have my own battle system but it is very simplistic. I try to post plot summaries or roleplay logs on my site.
Finally, we thematically are a “city of monsters and outcasts”. Monsters with morals if you will.
I doubt you’ll get many roleplay guild leaders here, most don’t think of rp when looking at guilds. But i figured why not post anyway.
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My main guild is one of those “mass invite” guilds, but taken to a completely different level. The biggest thing is that it’s a multi-game community with well maintained rules for both their in-game and Discord sides.
Because of its large size, it has about a dozen raid teams (mostly Heroic progression) running with various levels of seriousness from the team I’m on (which is a “Heroic” progression team with 6/9 Mythic progress on a Heroic 2 night schedule… we were requested to change our status to Mythic progression for the next tier) to 1 night per week Normal teams.
Outside of raid teams and their alts, general turnover is fairly high, with mass invites going out daily or weekly as slots open up in the various guilds.
On the out-of-game side of things, their Discord community is well-curated and fairly active. There are always people around to chat, post memes, talk hardware or games, or just hang out. Rules are well defined and well enforced (violators both in and out of game are removed and sometimes blacklisted, depending on the severity of their violation). For a community of gamers, there is shockingly little salt, and what salt there is is generally not delivered with any real force behind it. It’s a community that supports all kinds of play, from casual to hardcore.
Outside of WoW, they also have official guilds in D3, Rust, FFXIV, and Runescape, with casual groups in another dozen games beyond that.
tl;dr: I’m in a mass invite guild that administrates well, encourages a positive community, and gives every kind of player a space to play the way they want. I like it a lot, and I’m glad I came across them.
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My guild is pretty crazy. We have RPers and raiders and a small number of PvPers mixed in. Sometimes theres the usual guild drama, but its pretty fun.
Its a casual guild I guess. We usually end up doing some mythic before people get sick of the raid.
Our raid leader pretty much does everything. Organizes PvP events, raid, and usually all of the M+. Poor guy. One of our guildies supplies all the cauldrons and extra pots, random people provide feasts, guildies help out with gems/enchants/scrolls if needed. It all works out.
Oh and I used to help recruit for my old guild. Best things I found were to make an ad over in the specific forum section for my server, place an ad over on WoW Progress (if youre doing organized content like raid), and if someone says LF guild in trade then have someone send them a friendly whisper just to see what theyre interested in. Not a spam message like an ad that would go in trade, mind you.
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I loved my old guild that I was in for BC and Wrath, they were great people. It was the first guild I was in where I actually felt like I belonged. On off nights we’d do wpvp, have transmog costume contests etc. I had to quit because of irl stuff at the end of Wrath, I ended up being gone 6 years and the guild was long gone by the time I came back. I’ve basically been guildless since.
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The guild that is listed for this character still exists but I’m not in it anymore.
Now the guild my Horde Warlock is in:
It has 2 raiding teams but lately its been sparse in getting people to raid due to content drought before 8.2 dropped. Plus being summer time many people go on vacation.
It has wpvp and rated bg’s as much as possible,
It has Role playing also though it participates in other guilds big Role playing events here on Wrymrest Accord.
I think it offers plenty of choices of what you want to do in the game. I can say from what I have seen its a pretty solid group of people who want the best for each other. I have noticed on discord how friendly and funny most of the people are. So far I have only been with them a few months and I feel at home with them.
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We have 10+ raid teams. Most mythic some heroic. I’m not sure how many teams are on our horde side. You apply for a raid team when joining the guild or get sponsored as a social player. Friday night and Saturday opening are open fun runs. There’s something for everyone here. It’s pretty awesome.
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Yep, same here.
My guild is me, all me and just me. I like it fine, everyone else leaves me alone and I don’t get any guild invite spam so I’m good.
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