I have my own guild. There is only one member: me. I haven't yet gone out recruiting, but I soon will be. Before I do recruit, I will most likely modify my cape for the 2k gold (people like joining guilds with cool capes, rather than drury ones).
I have a question to all those who know or have a successful guild: How do you go about recruiting?
By that, I mean, do you just recruit anyone who appears to have a good build and some interest? Do you get to know the guy? Do you care about the person? Do you know the person? Do you recruit the person on the grounds they play a certain class, or have that character already made?
How do you go about creating a successful team; a compitent team. Does it really take time?
I'm seeing many guilds thriving in the pro dueling arenas, and it seems like they have assembled themselves quite effeciently and in good time.
Possibly someone who has a good guild could suggest to me how to make my guild do well.
Guilds: How to recruit? who to recruit? and what to do?
Canadian
Witt78
In my opinion, there is one thing you should pay attention to, if you want to build a strong guild.
Don't let your guild grow faster than the friendships of it's members. Nothing else matters.
It does not really matter if you know the guy your inviting, or if you just shout for new members in Ascalon. As long as everybody knows everybody well enough to feel comfortable in the guild chat... You'll be okay.
Don't expect to build a powerful guild overnight. If you do, you will have alot of members, but you won't really have a "Guild" If you know what I mean.
-Witt78
PS - When I invite a new member, I will shower them with gifts... and I will do so INSIDE the guild chat. I will take the new member around and introduce them to players in the guild "IN PERSON" Instead of a couple of "Hello's" in the chat window. It's easy for a good leader to "Kick Start" Friendships. Then move on to the next new member. =)
Don't let your guild grow faster than the friendships of it's members. Nothing else matters.
It does not really matter if you know the guy your inviting, or if you just shout for new members in Ascalon. As long as everybody knows everybody well enough to feel comfortable in the guild chat... You'll be okay.
Don't expect to build a powerful guild overnight. If you do, you will have alot of members, but you won't really have a "Guild" If you know what I mean.
-Witt78
PS - When I invite a new member, I will shower them with gifts... and I will do so INSIDE the guild chat. I will take the new member around and introduce them to players in the guild "IN PERSON" Instead of a couple of "Hello's" in the chat window. It's easy for a good leader to "Kick Start" Friendships. Then move on to the next new member. =)
nechronius
Sound advice for building proper guild member relations. Two of the guys in my guild left their guild for mine. We are not a large group, barely 10 in number, but it says something about the quality of the members if people leave their guilds for ours. Growing too fast means losing the personal touch with your members and not giving them Time to grow with each other.
For the record I didn't convince these people to leave their guilds. They left on their own accord (A subtle reminder about member satisfaction) without a word of "encouragement" from me.
For the record I didn't convince these people to leave their guilds. They left on their own accord (A subtle reminder about member satisfaction) without a word of "encouragement" from me.
Alzbeta
Personality, helpfulness, and a tightly-knit group are very important to me, and that's what I looked for in a guild. Invite people you've grouped with, and don't spam "GUILD ____ RECROOTING NOW! WEEE HAV CAYPS!" in local channels. Get to know people before you just extend an invite -- it means a lot when a guild leader takes the time to travel around with you and chat for a bit. Snazzy webpages and programs like Teamspeak/Vent/etc are ok, but they're not what will make someone feel appreciated in a guild. 
The IOU
Invite slowly. Sometimes the best members you invite are the ones you finished in a mission with and had a great group.
We have about 20 members now, it started with 4 of us (RL friends). I have made a lot more since then because they have joined our guild.
Helpfulness is key. But I dreadfully hate the guilds that "require" help. When I am in a mission and they leave at the start saying "Sorry a guildy needs my help I have to go" after we spent 10 min getting a group is not cool and I don't think guilds should be like this. They should understand that we all can be helpful in a volunteer type of way.
Once a night I go around to maybe the first 10 districts of popular cities and ONCE say we are recruiting and leave. I don't spam it 10-15 times in the same district. I don't think my method of recruiting is wrong and usually I get about 2-3 responses on more information.
One guy PMed me and said that his guild wasn't helping him ascend and wondered if ours would. That was his first PM to me. None-the-less after a while I had to ignore him because I don't think that is the kind of member we want in our guild. We would've (and we do help when we can) helped, but he demanded it and that just hit me in the wrong way
We have about 20 members now, it started with 4 of us (RL friends). I have made a lot more since then because they have joined our guild.
Helpfulness is key. But I dreadfully hate the guilds that "require" help. When I am in a mission and they leave at the start saying "Sorry a guildy needs my help I have to go" after we spent 10 min getting a group is not cool and I don't think guilds should be like this. They should understand that we all can be helpful in a volunteer type of way.
Once a night I go around to maybe the first 10 districts of popular cities and ONCE say we are recruiting and leave. I don't spam it 10-15 times in the same district. I don't think my method of recruiting is wrong and usually I get about 2-3 responses on more information.
One guy PMed me and said that his guild wasn't helping him ascend and wondered if ours would. That was his first PM to me. None-the-less after a while I had to ignore him because I don't think that is the kind of member we want in our guild. We would've (and we do help when we can) helped, but he demanded it and that just hit me in the wrong way