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Play a hell of a lot. It shouldn't take more than a couple weeks, iirc, to get a guild to level 2-3 solo if you're maxing out weekly XP per person(which you'll need to be higher level to do easily).

I was playing approximately 8-10 hours a day(I was capping personal weekly guild XP contribution on two characters) and it more or less worked for me, but I can't say for sure that they haven't changed personal daily XP caps. So it's possible my advice is based on out of date info. But if you're not capping your weekly contribution, then yes, my advice is to play more. I'm not so sure that dungeons or BGs give you much without being in a group of guildies, though, so quests are where I'd focus.

Focus on getting some good members, rather than worrying about how many high levels you have. The more people you have participating in questing, pvp, or dungeons as a guild group, the more xp your guild will gain. I am the gm of a social guild. 10 people is about all we ever have logged on at one time. It took a little while, but we are now a max level guild. We didn't worry about it, had fun, tried to do things as a group, and let it happen. Gaining a guild level should be something the members take pride in. You congratulate each other and see what new perk you get.

We often will go for guild achievements, like maxing out guild rewards for fishing or cooking, or other guild dungeon achievements we can do as a group. Make a fun guild that some friends want to be a part of. The guild xp will take care of itself.

Edited, May 15th 2012 9:39am by dadanox

Really, it will depend on your goals. Look at how dadanox phrased his answer: "I am the gm of a social guild." Right now, I have a clearer idea of what to expect from his guild than yours.

Go to a site that supports guild recruitment and read how other guilds present themselves. Decide where you fit in all of those things -- social, pvp, raiding, goblins only? Once you know who you want to be, tell people clearly so that they know what to expect. You'll still get a certain amount of drama and some people will just change guilds because they feel like another group is a better fit for their goals.

Don't expect to get "good" members, the description is less than useful. Players who are a good match for one guild might be a terrible match for another and there are many reasons that could happen. Know who you want to be and encourage people who fit those goals well. It may be necessary at some point to ask people who don't fit those goals to seek a better match for whatever it is they want, you're not going to please all of the people all of the time. Remember that, there are times things just won't work and it isn't always a personal failure. [With that said, be aware of patterns. If people keep quitting for similar reasons, you need to decide if it is something you should address.]

Dadanox summed it up much more handily:

Way I see it you have a few options.

1) Download a guild recruitment addon and mass recruit. You'll fill your ranks surprisingly quickly, your guild will level up fast, and you'll end up with a lot of people at various levels. The downside being that 99% of those people (and this is probably optimistic...) won't care about your guild or want to do anything with you. You're trading guild perks for them leveling the guild. They'll leave any time they feel like, and wont contribute much. If you're really lucky someone will report you for spamming and you'll get banned for a few hours.

2) Manually seek out people you know, or have come across, and invite. Try to form groups for things like raids, battlegrounds, 5-mans, etc with people on your server. Get to know people and recruit them if possible. Your guild will level much more slowly and you'll likely have to forget about any of the high level perks in the near future, however more of the people who join will be involved in the guild. Of course, a majority of the people still won't work out in the long run, but it'll still be better than addon spam

3) Just don't sweat it much until MoP hits. There will be a lot more active people at that time, and getting a guild together will be easier.

Whatever you choose just realize making a successful guild is like going to take a large amount of sustained effort on your part over a period of several months, and the more people you have the more time it requires. The recruitment of good individuals, that are actually involved in the guild, and want to do the kind of things you do is tough. You'll maybe come across a couple a month that are keepers. The rest will drain your soul through the internet cables until you are a heartless uncaring *******. On the plus side this tends to make you a better raid leader, assuming the stress doesn't send you into cardiac arrest at a young age.

Well on that note, best of luck.



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Edited, May 15th 2012 8:44am by someproteinguy

Yeah that's some good ideas, I put on some guild tabards in the bank, going to add some bags too, im just worried that one of the members may take them all lol.

You'll want to set different ranks for guild members and then organize the guild bank so that new members don't automatically have access to everything. For some levels of access you may want to require the person have an authenticator.

Guild Tabards are fun for new players that might be joining a level one guild. They don't have other tabard options.

Good points about the guild bank. I set up one tab of our guild bank for officers only.

Also, on the authenticator and guild ranks, I highly suggest that you set up guild ranks so that only authenticated users can make withdrawals. Check the "requires authenticator" checkbox in guild rank administration. The way I did it was to have

GM
Officers
Member Auth
Member No Auth
New Recruits

I set up "Member Auth" and above require an authenticator, and only those ranks have gbank withdrawal privileges. "Member No Auth" and below get no gbank withdrawal priveleges, but everyone gets free guild repairs. Note that once a particular character logs in with an authenticator, it takes 72 hours for anyone to be able to promote them into a rank requiring an authenticator (even the GM). Requiring an authenticator for guild bank withdrawals will go a long way toward preventing guild bank theft when someone's account gets hacked. Even if a hacker adds an authenticator, they would need a promotion to an authenticated rank, and you would probably find out what happened before the 72 hour waiting period had expired.

Sounds like you are making progress. You can set the number of withdrawels per day each guild rank can perform. Have fun!!

There is nothing wrong with keeping it simple. Arrange it any way you like. You can add ranks and reorganize any time you like.

Also, it's nice to have a rank set up without guild bank access in case someone gets hacked. You can demote a person to a point they can't harm the guild any further, report it to blizzard, and promote them back once they regain control of their account.

I'm curious. Why create a new username?

Make sense, I guess.