44 Resources for the New Guild Leader
April 29, 2008 by Matticus
Filed under Guild Topics
I just wanted to highlight some links for any up and coming Guildmasters who aren’t sure where to start looking for the various services they will need to set up and organize their guild..
Guild Webhosting
Guildomatic – Free, Offers forums, item mouseovers, roster, news management, Ad-Supported (Demo, upgradable)
MMO Guildsites – Forums, character profiles, image gallery, events calendar, guild bank interface, polls, and the ability to show on google map the location of the guildie’s ass you have to kick when they screw up on the Teron Gorefiend fight (Free trial, $8.99 /month)
Guild Launch – Free, Forums, calendar, guild progression, RapidRaid loot management system, guild bank interface, armory interface, 10 MB file storage, Ad-Supported (demo, upgradable)
Guildcafe – Free, Forums, event coordination, achievement showcase
WoW Guilds – DKP system, bank management, raid progression module, WoW MP3 player, event management, over 70 templates to choose from, guild stats, armory interface (Demo – $9.88 /month)
Guild Universe – Forums, calendar, event management, guild application, roster, news management, polls (Demo, upgradable)
Guild Portal – Forums, polls, mail, content management system, bank management, roster management, (Demo, equals to $5.00 /month)
Webhosting
Dreamhost – Sponsored Link: Dreamhost powers World of Matticus (500 GB Disk storage, 5 TB monthly bandwidth, $5.95 /month depending on prepayment).
Forums
Make Forum – Free, runs phpBB3
Forumer – Free, choice of Invision or phpBB2
Free Forums – Free, runs phpBB2
Invision Plus – Free, runs Invision
Raid Calendars
Raid Calendar – Free, ad-supported
DKP
Free DKP Host – Offers RaidPlanner, Itemstats, CT_Raidtracker (1 time payment of 5€ required)
DKP Hosting – CT_Raidtracker, Itemstats, Raid Planner, Raid progression ($14.99 setup + $5.99 /month). I’ve used these guys before for several months. I had no problems with their service and they served me well.
DKP 4 Guilds – Inhouse DKP management, raid attendance logs, raid bank, item mouseovers,
Ventrilo Voice Servers
Nationvoice – Sponsored Link: My personal vent provider of choice. I’ve been with them for over 5 years since my early days in Counter-strike (50 users for $14.99).
Typefrag – An alternative to Nationvoice. A number of Guilds I know use them (50 users for $9.99 and they have a special where if you order for a year, you get 50% off).
Articles
Healer LFG: 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Raid – Carnage tested, Matticus approved. Shave off as much as 30% off your raid time (of course, 65% of percentages are always made up).
Teeth and Claws: Building a Casual Raiding Guild – Building a Raiding Guild.
4 Haelz: Speech 101 – How to properly communicate with the players around you
Teeth and Claws: 4 Types of Raiding Addons – In order to maximize raid performance, I suggest consulting the list and downloading the appropriate tools you feel you might need.
Dwarf Priest: 3 Links in Guild Relations – I found the first 3 links insightful. The rest were just downright funny.
General
Warcraft Realms – Online WoW census. Tracks a player’s guild history.
WoW Jutsu – Ranks guilds based on their progression. Filterable by battlegroup, server, and faction.
Be Imba – Online tool for figure out what gear to get next on your character
WoW Lemmings – WoW forums aggregator. Sorts the latest posts on the Guild Recruiting forums on the official WoW site by faction and class.
WoW Web Stats – Think of it as a really indepth damage meter. Takes your combat log and outputs it into something meaningful.
WoW Wiki – The encyclopedia of WoW. Useful for learning about raid instances and the trash therein as well as boss strategy.
Boss Killers – Various strategies for killing bosses.
I'm Matticus and I play a Dwarf Priest. My home is in Conquest, a raiding Guild that I have founded. Every week, I log 12 hours raiding on Ner'Zhul.
Wynthea is the Troll Priest with the best Mohawk on Nazjatar. Currently, I raid 5 nights a week, and PvP occasionally. I started playing WoW in May 2005, and raiding end-game in May 2007. My guild is currently working through 25-man WotLK content. I've tried playing other classes, but Priests are my passion. I am extremely fond of Dwarves.... especially with Ketchup. 
My name is Sydera and I like to heal things--think Florence Nightingale with foliage. I play a night elf druid on Ner'Zhul, and I raid 12 hours a week. As a guild officer for Conquest, I coordinate healing and recruit new raiders. I started playing WoW in Fall 2005, and it was love at first click. Before I discovered the joys of Broccoli-stalk healing, I raided as a holy paladin, and I now have alts in all healing classes. I have to say, though, bark beats poofy dresses and heavy plate in my book.
I have another one for guild webhosting:
WoWStead – http://wowstead.com
TRI uses proboards:
http://www.proboards.com/index.html
it’s just a forum (not a webhost), but it’s been good for us!
I always heard it was 87% of statistics.
I’ve found that DKPSystem http://www.dkpsystem.com/ offers a nice turnkey solution for making good looking and reliable guild sites.
Nice stuff. I use guildlaunch and it works great for what we do. I’m going to check out some of those blogs you listed from home. . .
Thank you for this. I just helped form up a brand new guild two weeks ago that broke off from another one and took all the best members with it. I am the designated “guild manager” and have been entrusted to take care of most of the aspects of the guild for our guild leader.
I already made a guild website at guildomatic, which is excellent. I’m looking forward to checking out all of the other sites when I get home.
I know some those resources but will make use of the relevant other ones you have listed.
Afterall started my own new guild a week ago. Slow going but its all good. Not in any hurry either.