Leadership, Recruitment

What I always like to say is “recruitment is the lifeblood of a guild”. The single most important factor to the health of a raiding guild is the robustness of its recruiting. People will always quit your guild or the game. People will always need replacing. Your first job as the leadership of your guild is to maintain a healthy raiding roster.

There’s a lot of factors to this, but the one I’m going to discuss today is the age old guild recruitment advertisement. This is the easiest and most effective way to get applicants for the vast majority of guilds and it is often underutilized because many just don’t know how to do it right. click here to read entire article

Leadership, Recruitment

Too many guilds act like the world already knows who they are and how awesome they are, and the only reason everyone isn’t pounding on the door to get in is because they haven’t been told “hey, we’re looking for your class!”

Back in my EverQuest days, we had a guild below us in progression called Dark Conquest.  The joke in my guild was that their advertising slogan should read: “Do you breathe and play EverQuest?  Then join Dark Conquest!” click here to read entire article

Recruitment, Traits

Watching a movie made by an acquaintance’s guild today, I was struck by the utter lack of urgency most of their players showed when in a fight.  They would switch off the boss to DPS the adds, but they took their time about it.  If they were repositioning, they’d overshoot, then back up, then adjust again.  I saw keyboard turners.  I saw spell clickers.

This is the extreme version, of course, but I’ve seen it in every guild I’ve been in to one degree or another.  It’s often referred to, in DPS, as “pressing ‘2′ harder”, but that really misses the fundamental problem.

Today I was thinking a lot about our process of learning Sarth3D as Trouble and I were reviewing the notes going into his post on “How We Learned Sarth3D”, and I remembered how much that same urgency mattered when learning Sarth.  There wasn’t space to not switch targets instantly, or to pause in your DPS while moving from a wave, or to make extra movements just to spread out.

It’s not often a trait listed when you’re thinking about what qualities you value in your raiders, but I believe it’s a key one.

elitistjerks, News, Recruitment

After years of being begged, the admins of Elitistjerks.com have finally added guild recruitment listings…for a price. In order to post a recruitment ad you need to pay $25 or have a Patron account which costs about $50 a year. The recruitment post is removed after a month which makes it extremely advantageous to fork out the cash and get a Patron account rather than paying for each ad.

This level of exposure is well worth the price despite the cost. EJ is the most highly trafficked World of Warcraft forum aside from the official forums and the quality of player visiting the forum is far higher than the average player you’ll meet in game. At any given time there’s between 1500 and 3000 people browsing the forums.