As a GM of the biggest Dutch wow community i am searching for information about the coming new guild system.
The stats we have as a guild is atm:
20 guilds across EU.
3200+ character members ingame
4 Raid teams. Social, Normal, Heroic, Mythic
1400+ discord members.
Next to this we also have a massive guild in SOD with 3 raid teams.
So basicly we are the pre-version guild of how a guild in future can look like. We already managing this guild linking with ingame cross guild community chat servers to stay in contact and find eachother cross servers. There we now use 3 community chats for.
As we have a look at coming guild system our questions wil be:
- Will blizzard increase the 1k cap?
- Will blizzard get more tools for officers to manage guildies? Guild rooster manager is a tool now to use to give alts a link to mains
- Current communties system is missing tools to track offline time. will this be upgraded?
- Will community cap be upgraded aswell?
- Amount of ranks in guild will be increase? Looking at we have 4 raid teams en you need 2 ranks for each team and you gonne have trial ranks 2 you basicly dont have enough rank space with the current 10.
So looking at all above there will be needed a increase on all posibilities and caps to get big guild orginized.
What would i do.
- Use a Btag system were you can asign what character is in what guild.
So if you log a hunter in that guild you online with the btag with the hunter his name as Nickname. Will be a sort of BTag community. (Only online and offline will be visible then with the right character nickname) Then alts will be auto detected and linked to notes or mains.
This above solution will also be easy to link cross servers with tags and where characters will be located.
It will take less organizing for guildofficers and GMs if this is auto detected tru Btag.
- Increase the Rank amount because like use with 4 raid teams we need atleast 12 ranks for lead. raiders and trials. Then GM, Officers. Alts and normal ranks.
If this aint increasing you cant manage pvp, pve, social, raiding or m+ content in big guilds really.
A nice system would be to have a total new rank system. OR get the old one upgraded in cap.
As a big guild have a look and communicate with guild like us as blizzard and see if your new tools will be working for a guild like us. We running this guild for 3 years now with a big community behind it with cross server for 2 years. We needed to be creative to link all the 20 guilds across EU. and yes we found workaround ways to connect it all with the current tools blizard gives. Now its up to blizzard to look and give the right tools to make guilds like us work.
We are already on the amount and numbers of a cross server guild all over EU.
Let me know your thoughts and thinking about the upcoming system? I would love to debate on the tools and system and see what tools will be a upgrade and were the system will have a mailfunction or needs a upgrade.