| WoW Guild - Starting a new raiding guild |
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| WoW Guild - WoW Guild Guide |
| Written by Cybac |
| Saturday, 06 February 2010 11:11 |
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WoW Guild - So you wanna be a GM?Welcome to the first part of the WoW Guild series. In this series of articles I am going to discuss the various parts of forming and running a raiding guild in Blizzards World of Warcraft.Everyone understands the nature of the game is social. It's about who you run with, how good they are, what you have achieved and surrounding yourself with like minded people who you can build up friendships with. It's no surprise then to realise that there are hundreds of thousands of WoW Guilds. There are a few very successful guilds that get the public spotlight for world, region and some server firsts but most of the guilds you never hear about. They are either off the radar, don't achieve much or are happy plodding along in their own little way. One thing these guilds have in common is apparent every step of the way. Good or bad leadership can make or break success. So your thinking about starting a new guild, the first thing that a lot of people tend to want to do is to think of some fabulous all encompassing name that makes them sound really cool. Something either serious or funny but they spend far too much time focusing on the name of the guild and not its objectives, structure and foundations. WoW Guild - What do I want this guild to be?Only fools rush in, answer these questions first.Don't rush in, think about what you want from your new guild and how much time do you have to give to it out of RL. Be honest with yourself and make sure you know what your taking on. Running a guild is almost like a small part time job only you don't get paid (at least most don't!). So have a think about these questions, what you answer to these will depend on the kind of direction you would be best taking. What type of guild will it primarily be? Raiding, social or hardcore. What type of people do you want in it? Think personality. How much time can you devote to running it? Think how many raids and how much Admin time. What resources do you already have? Website/forums, raiders, officers, guild bank, gold for the fee's. What will your recruitment restrictions be? Think age, language and timezone. WoW Guild - Producing the guild overview.Once you have answered those questions your ready to put together your guild overview. It's nothing fancy but a short paragraph summing up the answers to the questions we asked in the previous paragraph. If this was me, although I'm not the GM (that's my RL brother) I help to make some of the decisions and this template can be used by all officers.WoW Guild - Sect of Obsidian - overview exampleSect of Obisidian on The Venture Co. Europe server is a World of Warcraft raiding guild. We have mature responsible people who enjoy playing together to complete end game raiding content. Most of our members are what we affectionately consider "older" due to our raiding times and the nature of our guild chat. We have raids going on three to four times a week and encourage our members to attend at least two raids. We do not have mandatory raids at this time but those who do not actively participate on a regular basis are unlikely to get spots very often.We have our forums which are only available to access by our guild members, three guild tabs and a decent stock of items. We currently have six full officers, two raid leaders but all officers are able to lead adhoc raids when the need arises. We are currently recruiting for our second ICC 10 team and ICC 25 Progression. Over 18's preferred, must have understanding of the English language (we don't care if its not your first language as long as you can understand on vent!) and be able to raid 20:30 – 00:30 server time. There, pretty straight forward and maybe people are asking if it's really needed, the answer is yes. Look how many questions that simple paragraph has already answered. Remember, this is the FIRST step in setting up your new guild and your role as a GM. Strong guilds require strong leadership, strong leaders require definite direction. Be organised, know what you want before you set out to get it. This guild overview will be reviewed regularly, things change, guilds adapt, so do we as Raid Leaders, Officers and so should the GM. The next part covers the next step, Guild WoW - Deciding on a guild structure. Thanks for reading, bookmark us and come back to check often or join us and come chat in our forums! Cybac. |
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