The technical guide to creating a guild from the bottom up.

This guide is created to help get you started forming your own guild for whatever intentions you may have and includes decisions that should be thought about at least once during the process. If you don’t care about politics, reputation, or friendliness, you can skip a lot of the suggestions, and go about your way.

*You can also visit the Blizzard Guild Tab page for other interface descriptions & instructions.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/guildtab.html Please post any edits or additions you may have. Enjoy.

The Quick & Dirty:

I want to create my own guild, how do I do it?
You will need five things. 1) 10 <including yourself> un-guilded “accounts” in physical proximity of the charter holder 2) A faction capital city 3) 10 silver, 4) a bag slot and 5) a name for your guild.

Get the charter from the city guild master, and return it when the signatures are complete.

I want to design and wear my own tabard, what do I need?
You will need four things: 1) an established guild, 2) 10 gold, 3) A faction capital city, and 4) you need to be the official guild leader. If you don’t want to wear it, you can go to a tabard designer (usually next to the guild master) anytime and just browse though.

Purchase this from the city tabard designer (usually next to the city guild master)

How do I design my tabard?
Once you have established guild, and have 10 gold, you may purchase your guild tabard design. The guild master will let you ‘create’ a guild crest at anytime, but it will not be applicable, until purchased. Simply select the colors, icon, and borders you want, and then purchase. If you’re not sure, take screenshots of the ones you like best, and look at them later. You can also put it up to your members to design one, and then host a poll for the winner. Anytime you want to change ‘any’ element in the tabard, they will charge you 10g. Don’t forget, you will need to purchase your own tabard from a tabard vendor. 10gold does not include one. These are 90silver to 1gold depending on your reputation.


The Not So Quick & Dirty Table of Contents:

The WoW in-game logistics to starting your guild- Getting your Charter

I’m clueless, how do I do all of this?
Now that I have the charter, what do I do?
I don’t know anyone, how do I get signatures?
Some things to note before registering in your charter.
Great, but now how do I get rid of these people?

Working with the in-game Guild Interface

I want to create and add my own ranks. How do I do that?
I want to update and change my guild ranks. How do I do that?
I am having trouble with the Add (+) Delete (-) guild title feature- it is greyed out.
How do I invite, promote, demote, and kick people from the guild?
We have more than one guild leader, but can’t promote them to the position. What gives?
What other features are there?

Anything else I should know about running a guild?

How do we change leadership in the guild?
What other useful Guild Commands are there?
How does officer Chat Work?
How many guilds can I be in at once?
Where can I get more information?


This guide was last updated: 5/4/07 and does not include any changes instated after the patch “Before the Storm 2.0.1”
* addition by Anaea- Aerie Peak
** addition by Cariel-Skywall
***addition by Ethel- Skywall
**** addition by Giharn, Argent Dawn
Other contributions: Ayrial- Maelstrom

Ash’s notes. Character limit on posts ~4900

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