How to recruit for Guilds?

I started playing the game just before Halloween. I was lucky in that I had a friend from a previous game who was in a really great guild and they invited me. Since then I haven't much paid attention to most things that are in the general chat area.

We have a few members/officers who are on a lot but want to liven up the guild a bit and have talked about doing some recruiting. I am finding it difficult to do in game.

I have tried taking a character back to some low level missions and offering to help people out to kind of see what they are like as a player. But that is often times kind of tough. I have tried the normal messages saying that I was recruiting and have had a person talk to me and I invited him and he hasn't hardly been on.

I don't usually like to randomly ask people in a mission if they want to join the guild unless they don't have a cape on. This can be problematic since depending on what character I play I have my cape hidden. And it seems like everyone from early on has a cape on.

I have tried setting up characters to leave in pre searing and offering to help people out to kind of judge what kind of person they are but find myself incredibly bored there after a while and can't stand the "frat party" in Ascalon.

How do you guys go about getting good recruits for your guild? Is there a guild recruiting forum on the boards (I didn't see one)?

Also, asking someone to pay for their own guild invite fee is ludicrous. I hate it when I see people say that.

There's been some comments before on this kind of topic. Try searching.

Putting cynicism aside, you need to look at the goals for the guild and that will dictate the kind of recruits you want, thus driving the recruitment methods:

1. Need low level recruits that are fresh to the game? Hang out in pre-searing and be a tour guide (not a runner) or help people with the bonus in the ascalon missions. Pretty soon you can make friends and influence people, especially if you're nice and not the "Uber leet god bow down and worship me" standard.

2. Need Casual PvP? Hang out in CA/TA and run with the people you find there.

3. Need serious late gamers? Take your monk and hang out in the Fire Islands. Look for the unguilded and help them through the missions. If they're decent, pop the question.

4. Gotta have rank? Tombs is your place - but I have limited experience there, so I defer those suggestions to the elite.

IMHO, I think that a passive, cherry-picking attitude is the best way to build a guild that will function well together. When you start spamming or indiscriminately adding, you'll get too many too quickly and that leads to problems when you can't provide a cohesive group goal.

In the guild forums : http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/f...splay.php?f=41

There's a sticky with people looking to join guilds. You can privately contact those people through pm or in-game and they'll consider your proposition.

My guild has since september grown from 4 members to about 20 members, the thing is: You shouldn't just invite anyone you meet.

If you keep your eyes open, people who want to join a guild are everywhere around you. And if you have one recruited, sometimes they bring friends too.

Also, recruiting doesn't work like: Guild X recruiting, we got cape and hall!
Some people may join you, but if you don't do anything together with them, they will never really be part of your guild. And they may even leave the guild.

Thank you very much! Just the resource I was looking for!