I have been apart of the creation of a couple guilds in the past, but I have never wanted to take on the role of “the Man” before. I was helpful in these guilds with recruiting, finances, and such though. I was the co creator of a guild in Vindication called <Dread and Breakfast>, I created <Mayhem> in Cyclone for the guys in Vengeance (I just created it and handed over GM to the real GM when he arrived), and I almost created a guild called <Grumpy Old Twinks> in Cyclone last year. Not even being a major part of managing those guilds, I learned the pitfalls of running a twink guild. When I finally decided to give <Twink Info> a go, I had some good ideas of what to do. In this series of posts, I plan to outline some of the issues facing Twink guilds.
Enchanting
This is very important if you are rolling a new guild and plan to have any level of rerolls happening. I know this goes without saying, but it is often overlooked. I have joined up with a couple guilds in the past that had no in house twink enchanters and there was a lack of old school enchanters on the server. If you could ever find 30 Spell Power to weapon, the enchanter wants 50-100g tips. No big deal really, but if you are financing several twinks, that can become quite costly, not to mention the time wasted spamming trade looking for the enchant.
When creating <Twink Info>, I spent several nights on level 1 toons on various servers. I would sit in org checking out the auction house to see what the economy was like. I typed /who 19, 29, etc over and over again since I really wanted to avoid getting on a server with an existing twink guild. I spammed trade for the rarest of twink enchants. In Ruin, I found Medivh’s economy to be just right and found several rare enchants available.
What solutions are there if you are on a newer server or even an older one where all the old school chanters have quit playing or transferred off?
- Roll your own enchanter
- Invest lots of gold into scrolls and bring them over with you. This, of course, is if you xfer to a server.
Rolling your own enchanter sounds like a lot of trouble, but it might not be as bad as you think. Even though, for <Twink Info>, I found local enchanters and brought some more rare scrolls with me, I brought a level 70 with some of the rep enchants. Mainly he had hunters and rogues covered. Well, I also brought my 80 druid and decided see if I could solo AQ20 and MC. Well, the good news is that I can solo some stuff in both instances. I could put the 1st AQ20 boss on 3 day farm tbh, but with 8-9 80s in our guild now, we are going in and smashing them both. I decided to drop 450 Alchemy on my 80 Druid and learn enchanting. In 2 weeks, I now have 30 Spell Power to Weapon, Healing Power (+15 SP) to bracer, 15 and 25 AGI to weapons, 22 INT and 20 Spirit, and more. I plan to continue on until my main is the ultimate twink guild enchanter. No tips for my guys!
This will be a series of Twink Guild GM in training posts as I learn the ropes and discover the pitfalls of running a twink guild. There is much to discuss, so I plan to break it down into bite size pieces over the next couple weeks. If there is anything about running a Twink Guild that you want me to cover specifically, please let me know. Keep in mind that I am new to this too. Learning under fire. Luckily I have 3-4 Twink guild GMs in <Twink Info> too.
Thanks for reading Twinkinfo.com, I really appreciate the opportunity to share.
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12 Comments until now
Impressive is the least I can say. Being GM of a guild takes alot of effort and time…
Drayner, the effort and time you have put into the guild is greatly appreciated. Balancing a home life and still having time to dedicate to WoW is something that i know for a fact i can’t do. I’m all for getting you the chants and AQ20 was fun
When I get my laptop and IF I go back to playing retail WoW, I will probably Xfer Zuty. I can’t remember exactly what enchants he had, but I had a lot of the twink enchants for 19’s and almost all of the Vanilla chants. I wouldn’t mind grinding solo for gold to buy the formulas or the mats to get the formulas too.
Is there a waiting period for Xfering characters? If I do this, I would like to Xfer over Zuty and my gold farming Pally, Aspyn, in one fell swoop. I really have no other character of interest on Burning Blade other then my 19 Twink Priest, Yost, who will sit there until I figure out what to do with him. I’d much rather help out this guild first and twink later, but I need some money before I can think of starting up WoW again.
~Zuty
Do you ever find it hard to get your own playing time in on your main or on your twink while running a twink guild? With so many guildies making twinks and constantly asking for runs, chants, gear it must be difficult.
@Gracob – Yep:)
Gracob hows it going, I have to give Drayner credit this was very well thought out. I never planned on DoA turning out how it is today and I wish I would have been prepared as well as this.
Had a great pick up partial premade with twink info today. I enjoyed it, Twink info was up 0-2 and we managed to pull it together for a tie 2-2. Twink Info (TI)–mind if I call you guys that?– ended up with the ‘W’.
I was also in a pug game today (FCing when I could) Morrozz (one of your locks that stood out) was constantly in my face. I had to bust out the shadow resist gear and pots!
I really enjoy the competition over here.
Most games I have been in so far have been fun. The only complaint I have in Ruin so far is the lack of horde twinks in pugs. There seems to be less lowbies on the alliance side every pug I have been in. It’s frustrating, but we are getting some numbers so queuing with only our own members is looking better each day.
Yeah, having an in house enchanter is good. I got all pre tbc enchants except +16sp to gloves. Been farming all the pre tbc enchants a while now. I can solo all bosses in AQ20 except Buru and Ayamiss in AQ20.
After 3 years as GM of a certain twink guild, I am going to subscribe and read the new twink gm posts. I am sure that I can find good information and ideas. Thanks for the post and keep up the good work.
The word Winning is absent from “Start your own Twink Guild”. Would be cool to hear about the winning part of it. That is my request to be included in your series.
Savage job on your guild enchanter!
Keep up the good work. Getting those old rep enchants (like +15agil to gloves) is no mean feat, and is really a great benefit for us all.
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