How do you know when you're starting to take this MMO thing that you're doing seriously? When you join a guild. It takes a whole other level of dedication to try and lead one. To help guide those new to running their own guild, WoW.com columnist Scott F. Andrews has penned a new book.
Published on O'Reilly's No Starch imprint, The Guild Leader's Handbook promises to guide players through guild operations, with details on how to determine what kind of guild you want to run, how to organize raids and how to deal with the sticky situation of loot distribution.
Running a guild is something I could probably never do. It's hard enough to get me to commit to a game longer than a week or two already, so I can't imagine being responsible in any way for the enjoyment of others within a game for months or years at a time. Still, I'm sure this would make for an interesting and even helpful guide for someone looking to build a strong guild in an MMO.
The Guild Leader's Handbook will be available this April.
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Sucks even more when you're the damn site admin, too.
But even if you're a good guild leader, bend over backwards to help others and meet needs to strengthen the group, you'll still be painted as some monster because there's ALWAYS someone that wants something for nothing and gets angry at people who have things they don't want to put in the effort to get.
I was just about to ask if the author of this book was Vork.
The only well run guild leader in a relationship I've met co-lead with his wife.
Thats why raiding guilds suck. Honestly in my experience guild leaders in relaxed guilds can be brilliant people, all they ask for is respect. But as soon as you start getting end raid stuff going on, you get all more dots crap.
Haha. I'll let you get the next The Guild reference.
I understand that. I was just making reference to a series.