Guild Leadership

Leading a pick-up group (PUG) raid is a different type of challenge than leading a guild-only raid.

For a guild alliance to work, the guilds have to be compatible.

What should a guild do when no one wants to be an officer?

When we rebooted Officers' Quarters here at Blizzard Watch thanks to all of you fantastic supporters out there, I immediately had a huge backlog of questions.

In this week's Officer's Quarters, we've got recruits that refuse to raid Heroic difficulty, a returning guild leader who's worried about the pressure to rebuild, and an officer who wants to know how to maintain morale in the face of key departures.

At BlizzCon 2009, Blizzard announced sweeping changes to guild systems in Cataclysm, like guild talents and guild achievements.

One question has come up over and over again this year in one form or another.

This week in OQ: a raider asks about revealing their disability to future guilds, a guildless player wonders if other guilds have broken up the same way theirs did, and an officer wants to know if visiting other realms is a good recruiting strategy.

This week on OQ, an officer faces a crisis after key members leave the guild, and another wants to know how to get raid members to show up on time.

This week we have two questions about guild leaders who aren't exactly paragons of the position: one who gkicks members for a strange reason and one who quits on raids when they don't start off well.