Maintain Order in Your WoW Guild

If you are struggling with maintaining order in your guild follow these quick and simple tips and tricks to ensuring a smooth and effective guild team. These suggestions may not work for every situation so make sure you take a close look at how your guild works and which may be more beneficial for what you need from your members.

Attendance

Guild members not providing enough attendance to raids is a common problem in most guilds. There are several ways to tackle this problem depending on the severity of the situation and your guild type:

• Social Guilds – You can’t force people to sign up to raids in a social or casual raiding guild. If you are struggling for more numbers in raids try recruiting more people by advertising more heavily on the raiding aspect of your guild. You can also provide an incentive to guild members to attend raids such as “Reward Points” they can use to purchase GB items.
• Raiding Guilds – As a raiding guild, members should know that raids are your main focus. If members fail to turn up to raids on a regular basis you should enforce a punishment system that can lead to a guild /kick in some cases. You can also make sure that everyone knows what attendance your guild requires by advertising the attendance requirements and placing a prominent article on the issue on your guild website homepage or forums. To help provide an incentive to guild members you can use a system such as DKP for raids so that they can only purchase raid drops by attending raids regularly.

Irregular Sign Ups

If you are having problems with guild members not signing up to raids regularly even though they may be able to attend those raids, you should enforce a sign-up policy. You will need to put your foot down with guild members and tell them that if they fail to sign up they will be unable to attend the raid. This means passing on their place to someone else even if it is a PuG member. While pugging players is not ideal for raiding guilds it can help to drive home your point to guild members and help prevent the need for PuG members in future. You can also award extra DKP for member who sign up to raids even if it is just to say they can’t attend. This will encourage people to sign up to all raids to let you know if they can attend or not so that they can earn extra DKP each day.

Low Website Activity

If your guild members are not being as active as you would like them to be on the forums there are several ways you can encourage regular forum posting:

• Hold regular competitions on the forums such as quizzes, puzzles and picture games that members will need to post on the forums for to enter. An example of a popular and easy WoW game is “Where in the World of Warcraft” where an officer of the guild takes an in-game snapshot and members must guess where the picture was taken to win. You can even hold a competition for “Most Forum Posts Made this Month” to get people talking on the forums!
• Lead by example and post regularly on the forums about class information, upcoming guild events are news. Tell your guild officers to do the same regularly as a part of their job role.
• Award members with special points for posts they make on the forums which they can then spend to customise their forum or in-game experience. Points can be used to purchase custom avatars, signatures or member titles or they can even be collected and used to buy in-game items from the guild bank if you wish.

Other Issues

You can also arrange to have a monthly “Member Meeting” to talk to your members and discuss problems and issues you or they may have. Most guilds will have regular Officer Meetings but having an additional Member Meeting on a regular basis will help improve member morale and allow you to find out more about what is happening with your members as well as what they like and don’t like about the guild at the moment. It will also give you a chance to enforce rules and explain the reasoning behind them as well as discuss problems the guild is facing so they have the opportunity to fix them as a team. You can also ask them to put forward their own ideas for improving the guild and what competitions and rewards they would like to see in the future.

Also, you need to want people to be in a guild with you. You can do that by being a great player. And being a great player starts with Joana's Horde Guide or Zygor's Alliance Guide.