Guild Applications: Epic Fail!

Well, it was kind of inevitable that I was going to touch on this topic at some point - most WoW blogs cover this in varying levels of detail. My girlfriend is thinking of leaving the gradually sinking ship that is her guild, and is looking around, so I've seen a fair few of these recently. So why not cover it?

No answer? Then let's go!

WG has a pretty simple application form, far more basic than most raiding guilds that I've taken a look at. We ask some basic questions about who you are, what your main is, what raiding experience you have, what your raiding availability is, would you respec if asked to (we only ask that people turn up to raids in PvE specs, not PvP).

Oh, and to link to your Armory profile. It's really rather simple - we've even allowed direct HTML linking on guest accounts for our forum! How hard could it be?

"- Give us an overview of your equipment. You can list items here, or link to WoW Armory
cba"

So, let's get this straight. YOU want to apply to OUR guild. We ask a very basic question, and you can't be arsed? As I wrote in reply to this application, 'I now don't care about what purples you have except one - your epic fail.'

Why do people think that guilds that have an application process will quite happily accept someone who CBA to fill in the form? The amount of people we have had whose application reads 'can i join ur guild i hear u guys are really nice' (or something similar) is astonishing. It's a very nice moment when we have a proper application submitted, and generally speaking, a fully filled application counts for more than the amount of purples you have equipped.

I'll be back later to talk about what looks good on an Armory profile.