* PvE Trash // Forging A Guild Identity // PvP Socialite *
Wait...
First, GM is also the acronym for game master, who is not the head of a guild at all, but rather a representative of the game developer who assists players with problems. It has always seemed ineffiecient and confusing to me to use the same acronym for two entirely different things in the same specific context.
Second, the term master implies that everyone in a guild who isn't the GM is a slave. Unfortunately, too many of us act that way, and it's never a healthy way to behave. Players should not be treated as disposable objects, nor should they be subject to the whim of their "master" without any say in the direction of their guild.
That is why I prefer the term guild leader, or GL, and why I have tried to convince people to ditch the other term and use this one. It isn't the role of a guild's most powerful officer to master his members, but to lead them. True leadership isn't telling people what to do. It's inspiring your members to follow you, to believe in and support your goals, and to feel supported in turn.
Anyways...
Forging A Guild Identity: An excerpt from “The Sacred Holy Blessed Priest’s Handbook: Strategies and Guidance from Our Lady of Lordaeron St. Virgin Healsonheels™” Page 82-
You created a guild. You say it is semi-hardcore PvE/PvP. You are so young.
The success of your stupid guild depends greatly on its identity. Decisions that you make at the very beginning can have a ripple effect throughout the lifetime of your little community. The aim of this thread is to help you make the right decisions, to help you lead the type of guild that appeals to you as a young player and complements your individual leadership style.
You need to think about your goals, the desired size of the guild, and the kind of people you will try to recruit. More importantly, you must define your guild's "product". This "product" is what the stupid guild has to offer its member, whether it is a shot at the PvE trash bosses in the game or something like my world famous "1 PvP Bloody Week of the Month" all-female private PvP extravaganza live-stream event. In other words, the product you offer is the defining purpose of your stupid guild.
To figure out this purpose, young Warrior, ask yourself what you want out of a guild. The only way to commit to this project is to create a guild that, first and foremost, meets your needs. If you want to fight other players with a battalion of fellow Warriors or tackle dungeons with a small gang of Rogues, you should create your guild with that purpose in mind. Unless you have got some very bizarre tastes like myself, odds are that other PvE trash players are already out there looking for the same stupid experience.
Too many teenagers create a guild without really knowing what they want out of it or where they want it to go. Trust me on this, I was one of them. When my friends and I started Wrath Of The Lich Twinks, we just wanted a common chat channel so we could all talk to each other, we were so young. And honestly, that is okay. We are living proof that it can all work out anyway, but we were very lucky. Even so, we could have saved ourselves quite a bit of grief over the years had set out with a defined purpose from the beginning, if you know what I mean...
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-Healsonheels, The Lich Queen. Guild Master of Wrath Of The Lich Twinks, Slayers of Masculinity.
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