For the longest time ive mostly jumped guild from word of mouth or friends and haven’t really filled out an application in ages.
Why do so many guilds want three different links including a raider io link that includes the other links they are asking for?
Why do they want screen shots of my ui?
It all just seems so weirdly bloated and pointless. I can get wanting logs but everything else seems rather excessive.
This is pretty funny.
I need to log my BM Hunter and replace every action bar with Kill Command and see if I can pass.
I just linked a screamer
well from the sounds of it your trying to join a mythic guild. So they are going to try verify that your not literal dookie before they bring you in. if this isn’t a mythic guild then run and don’t look back you don’t want to group with these people.
to make sure you have things like key bindings and weak auras
I’m surprised they don’t do face to face interviews over Zoom.
Not even kidding.
I remember once this dude asked me to sign his guild charter and when I agreed he sent me a 30+ question guild application which included sexual orientation. Buddy don’t even.
Guilds still make you fill out apps etc? I mean, I get the guilds who are pushing world firsts and usually sponsored, but other than those, that is funny to hear guilds still make you fill out apps.
I remember Vanilla-MoP (especially vanilla and BC) we had to fill out apps and then set up an interview etc. It literally was like applying for a job.
After MoP I had no issues finding great guilds that I didn’t need to fill out any apps as I didn’t see any guilds ever asking for them any more let alone having their own websites like they did back then too.
Have you applied to any Mythic guilds? That’s where most of this takes place. They only have 20 slots so if they take somebody, they have to know what they are doing or they could delay progression.
I guess progression heroic guilds might care early in the season, but its less important.
As a former recruiter i would like to chime in
If your join a mythic prog group and depending on what level they need that information to make sure you are a semi decent player.
The UI is to make sure you actually have a UI set up (you wont believe how many people have not even a quarter of their utility on their bars)
As well has have a understanding of addons
As for logs it to make sure you line up with the guilds goals.
At the start of every patch there is always a influx of players who have never raided before who demand to join a mythic CE guild or prog guild and its like bro you need to prove yourself first before you do the big stuff.
I’m…I’m sorry, but the Pandaren is what makes that funny… for completely unrelated reasons 
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lol imagine begging for sigs and making people answer invasive questions. That dude is dumb.
If you applied to a Mythic guild… then all of that makes sense, as others mentioned.
You have found the sweats.
The links are probably just so they don’t manually have to look up each person, especially if you have special characters. It’s more than likely a link to WoWlogs or something to see parses.
The UI thing is it see if you live in a chaotic wasteland or not and the general way you view information. My UI for example is a hot mess and I would probably be declined to a new guild if they saw what I do xD. Tons of people (that I know at least) use things like Elvui these days, mine is mostly just Blizzard UI since the UI updates.
Otherwise the questions don’t seem outlandish, at least most of the time 
People also rename, swap characters, and honestly people lie. A lot. And making people answer questions about their history often leads to them saying things that contradict the logs / reports / otherwise they’re a good thing to bring up / clarify.
All that nonsense just to play a video game 
They don’t.
Stop trying to manufacture drama.
Guilds don’t want their time wasted, it’s pretty simple concept
When I applied to a mythic guild back in BFA they wanted a UI screenshot, not sure why they want the rest they can easily find that on their own
I understand asking questions, however, for my guild, it’s either you’re a friend of a guildie, we met you doing content and liked you so we invited you, or you actually wrote something in your application in the guild finder.
We don’t accept people via guild finder that leave it blank. Tell me anything about you and you’re likely getting in. Can’t even put in that effort then I don’t want you in my guild.
I’m not sure what kinds of guilds you’re currently looking for, but I can provide some perspective from the recruiter side.
First, I need to clarify that I think applying to any guild whose goal is anything other than Cutting Edge is weird.
As for guilds that do have apps they serve a few purposes.