Day One

Hey this is the first time ever that I have done a blog so please bear with me if it seems a bit weird at first. Please feel free to leave any comments good or bad, but please leave constuctive comments so that I can learn from them.

Ok so lets get started. I thought that for this first post I would give you a little bit of history behind the guild. (ommiting guild names as this is not an advert for it ect.)This is purly to hopefully help people understand the reasons for some of the decisions that have been made etc.

The guild that I run has been through three different names and under each name it has been and still is, I feel, a happy guild. In its first incarnation the guild was a purly social leveling guild and I joined quite a while after its formation.

For those that are looking at that last sentence and wondering what the hell a social leveling guild is, here is a very brief key. Guilds in wow have many different labels they tag themselves with, and this can get very confusing even for old hacks. Broadly speaking guilds can be split into four different groups with slight differences within each category. These are: Social guilds, Social raiding guilds, Semi-hardcore raiding guilds and Hardcore raiding guilds. Social and social raiding guilds are guilds for those that play the game more for, yep you guessed it, social reasons than for the raiding side of things. Semi-hardcore and hardcore guilds still have a social aspect to their play, but they concentrait more on the raiding side of things than any other.

Phew now that bit of jargon busting diversion is out of the way, we can now pick up where I left off. Once I joined the guild I then made quite a few in-game freinds. The guild then decided to become a raiding guild and as such became a semi-hardcore raiding guild under a new name. However due to various real life pressures the guild leaders and officers made the hard decision to disband the guild untill a oppertunity presented itself to re-open and rebuild, in the process everyone went their own ways to other guilds, some to hardcore raiding guild and others like myself to social and social raiding guilds.

We then come to the latest chapter of the guild, when the founding members of the guild decided that it was time to re-start. In the early days of the re-birth it must have been hard going for those that decided to get things going again. At this point I myself was approached and offered a slot within the reborn guild but at the time I was happy in the guild i was in. However after a while I made the decision to transfer to be with old freinds again. Happily my partner and fellow guild leader decided that she would transfer across with me. (Point to note, if your partner do's play the same game it is much easyer to run a guild etc, as they will understand certain problems that can arise when trying to balance gaming and real life.)

I wont go into the details too much but one thing lead to another and due to previous raid-leading experiance i became one of the raid leaders within the guild. We were looking to become a social raiding guild at the time and things went well. However as usual real life pressures raised their head, something all gamers will know about, meaning that our guild leaders had to take more and more time out from the game. Realising that they could not spend the time in-game that they needed to our guild leaders made the decision to pass the torch on and thereby keep the guild alive and running, this being, (as far as I am aware,) one of the main things that was regretted from the disbanding of the guild formerly. That all the time and effort spent setting up and running the guild wasnt wasted, but not kept in use so to speak. Step up yours truly and the next chapter of the guild was begun.

Now I know I have waffled on a bit in this first post but I want people to know that it was only through the hard work and effort of others before me that I had the chance to be running a guild of the size and success that I am. One of the main reasons we are so successful is due to those officers building up and maintaining a high reputation for the guild, so that our name is synonomous with a warm atmosphere and a fair and polite manner to all that either join or play alongside our guild.
In tomorrows post I aim to show the changes that started and bring you all up to date with what is going on within the guild. Stay tuned and I hope you enjoy reading about our experiances.