Running a Large Guild

[Sam DeathWalker]

I just bought yet another guild, for 90K.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/guild/ne...ort=rank&dir=a

This one has a lot of higher ilevel members in it. I guess they do hard mode heriocs and pvp as they havn't got much for raid achivments but they have a lot of guys with high ilevel gear.

Its like 500 members with like 300 level 85's, I think they have membership requiremnts unlike the other which anyone could join.

I have no idea what I am going to do with this guild but 90K is nothing to me .... The price was so resonable that I just couldn't walk away, I wasnt even looking to buy.

Between the two guilds I have like 800 level 85's "under" me .....

The negotations on this one was way harder, he never heard of me so he wanted me to pay in advance, I never heard of him so I didnt want to pay in advance, I paid him 1/2 up front and the rest after he made me GM.

They only have 5 tabs in bank lol ... But the bank was full of items.

Now do I ask members from one guild to help the other? Do I schdual raids with both for the same times? Maybe the 2nd guild no one raids on purpose they are pvping.

[MiRai]

In the first guild you obtained, you were thrown into the position of GM without having been in any real
guild prior to that for any real length of time and you have no idea what this game expects from people end
game. You asked for advice and people gave it. However, a position of leadership is not something you can
just jump into after reading an 8 page instruction booklet on it and be "good to go".


(Perhaps I was wrong)

Now, you've acquired yet another guild and are in over your head since the people in this new guild
actually do things at level 85. I think your best bet might be to create some sort of guild council in order to
hold things together because if I was in a guild where the GM sold the rest of us to some random person
who didn't know anything about end game (and now I'm expected to listen to this guy?) ... I would just go
find another guild.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya on the 2nd guild I dont really plan to do much, they seem to be doing fine without my input. Iv kept everything the same except I took away everyones ability to kick others.

Why would I give advise on something I don't know about? Im getting an idea of the raid progession though but as to the actual battles I just defer to the "raid leader". In the first guild we have like 13 or 15 people who can lead raids I just tell people go talk to them if someone has a progression question.

Basically in the first guild I just recruit and offer gold to anyone who does a FL raid (10K for our first one). We had 440 level 85 when I took over the first guild and there are 487 as of today. A bunch quit cause I wouldnt kick some guy telling everyone how bad they play in chat (he made a big deal about a frost DK who wanted to dual weild instead of 2H as tank), then he quits and turns out he is in the new guild lol, but he not say much in the new guild chat though.

I only kick people if they are inactive, if people are playing who cares what they do or say.

Im not really a "active" GM, I dont raid (no level 85 toons), I just make sure everything is going ok. Pay for the Caulderons and keep some gold in the bank for repairs (1K a week or so).

Ya the 2nd guild seems hard core players whereas the first is casuals. And yet neither seem to raid FL lol ...

There seems no simple way to merge the two guilds as they are dissimilar.


Now thats not to say I am never going to know raiding but it takes a lot of time, as you know, reading EJ to max everything and watiching videos of fight stratagies and reading about the fights. I have to get all my guys to 85 before I even attempt that. The good thing about boxing a lot of characters is that I dont have to be doing 100percent with each; even if I am doing 70 percent with each I am still doiing great.

Its not I am completely unknowledgable:

http://www.thesteelwarrior.org/forum...ad.php?t=16755

[RobinGBrown]

Why would I give advise on something I don't know about?

Never stopped you in the past, but maybe you've turned over a new leaf

[Zub]

Never stopped you in the past, but maybe you've turned over a new leaf

Definitely. no more 'biggest mass boxer' (too hard)...
'Biggest Guild master' instead! Woohoo 800 under me ;-)


btw i'm coining the terms Mass Master and Guild Masster

[daanji]

Sam, get to level 85 already with all your toons.

Or is this expansion going to end and you'll barely be level 85. Just like last expansion.

What is the point of having 36 accounts that are not even close to max level?

I say this because I love you and want to see Level 85 pwnage videos

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya the first guild was for the goal of getting my guys to 85, with level 25 perks thats gonna help a lot.

Ill be the 2nd biggest mass boxer .... well I kinda am but my guys aren't high enough to really count.

[zenga]

One day, ... when blizzard decides to stop releasing new expansions, sam d will catch up with the player base at the max level cap.

[Tonuss]

I have no idea what I am going to do with this guild but 90K is nothing to me ....

You're like those rich guys that keep buying expensive cars.

[dancook]

Sam, how did you make all this gold without lvl 85s?

Have you been sitting on the AH for months?