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Create a guild on any server and be successful.
In order to be successful at creating a guild you must have a theme
for your guild or goals. Role-playing, PVP, instancing,
endgame or any of the combination will work for now. You can
fine tune your guild when you become more comfortable.
1) Think of a guild name of which will attract people.
Capitalize the letters and spell them correctly.
2) You will have to have 9 people sign a charter in order to
get this started. You can head to the starting areas or major
cities and ask people to sign your charter. You should also
offer a tip for people that do sign, this will give them incentive
to sign your charter. 3)
Next step once you have a formed guild is to create ranks and name
them. With ranks you can allow access to the guild vault, and
let people invite others. I would create ten ranks with
differences in ranks such as inviting people to guild, accessing the
vault, and becoming officers. 4)
Create a tabard. You can go to the major cities and design a tabard
your members can wear that represent your colors. It cost 10
gold to do so. 5)
Purchase a bank slot for the guild bank and put some items in it you
believe people will need. Bags are always good to put in the
vault. High end items should always but limited to
officers. Put withdrawal limits on your vault, and only allow
a certain amount be taken out for repairs. You can even sell
items to guildies at 50 percent of Auction House buyout for items in
the vault so you can save more gold for more tabs. 6)
Set up goals for the guild such as leveling, contributing, working
on their professions. You can reward them with instance runs,
quest help, items form the vault, or certain levels of vault
access. You can even reimburse a certain percentage to help
them with mounts. You can run them through instances to help
them get gear once they hit certain levels - such as Scarlet
Monastery if they reach level 33 and have a mount. Let them
pick up all the loot.
7) Set up the rules. If it is important to you put it in
the guild information tab - such as no cussing, stealing from the
vault, begging for instance runs or gold. You can also put in
the guild website and back ground of the guild in there. 8)
Recruit Recruit Recruit. Always be recruiting. World of
Warcraft has a guild channel where you can create an emote to
advertise your guild, guild goals, and levels you are
recruiting. You can also use the general channels of the major
cities to let others know you are recruiting. Your
message should be clear and promoting the ideas behind the guild. 9)
Once you have 10-15 people work with five to help them level or get
loot. You want to create an atmosphere of growth and
development. If they need quest help let them know of sites
like Thottbot.com and WoW
Wiki. Those sights have tons of information about the
game. 10)
When you are first establishing the vault you want to fill it with useful
items and gold as quickly as you can in order to purchase the next
tabs. Let them know if the guild is halfway to purchasing tab
two. 10)
Encourage working together. If you have to big of difference
in levels you will have some doing all the helping and some not
getting any help. 11)
If you see people contributing let them know. Promote
them and tell them why. 12)
Officers are important. You will want these people to help
maintain the guild when you are not on. These people should
instill the same values you have and be your top contributors.
You should have one officer for every ten people. Not everyone
will be logged in at once so do not worry about having to many
officers. 13)
As a guild master you will have to balance playing the game and
helping others in the guild grow. At first you set a day or
two aside to help others in the guild but do not lose sight of
recruiting more people. Make a list and keep good on your
word. If you have to log and you promised someone that you
would help them out - contact them and let them know you will be
available and a later time to help them. 14)
Schedule runs and instances by using the guild calendar. 15)
Use the guild message of the day. It is important to pass
information to one another. This a great way to thank members
for their dedication and achievements. 16)
Greet people who log on and make them feel welcome. You should
always ask how everyone is doing and if they need
anything. 17)
Sometimes quests can be tough - have them gather up 3-4 group quests
and then help them so you are not helping the same person over and
over with group quests. 18)
Encourage others in the guild to ask the guild first if they need a
group for something. Others in the guild might need the same
instance or group too. 19)
It is important that you too get your gear and loot. It shows
that you are accomplishing and leveling also which is leading by
example. 20)
Let people go if they want to leave the guild. It happens,
encourage them to talk to you first before they leave so that you
can still maintain that bridge. You might find later on that
they rejoin the guild and bring some new people with
them. 21)
If you have players that have not logged in in a while you might
want to demote them to a safe rank to wear they can re earn back
their rank. 22)
Finally once your guild gets going you can change the level
requirement for joining, and age limit if your guild theme permits
it. I do find that some of the older players in World of
Warcraft are better contributors. I notice a trend with
young people that they create to many characters and do not level
them as much. They also tend to leave and come back to
guild. Either way if you look for the good in people and set
goals and achievements for the guild you will be successful.
Most of all have fun.
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