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March 07, 2005
Joining the Guild
Ready to Join?
Applying to joining the guild is fairly straightforward: you fill out the application form. We accept a certain number of applicants each week as initiates and invite them to our Friday guild meeting to be initiated. You will also receive a notice, before the following Friday, indicating if your application has been rejected. If you're accepted as an initiate, you'll undergo a trial period of a month with the guild. At the end of the trial period, a decision will be made to accept you as a full member or not. Read the following sections below for a more detailed explanation of the process.
Note: At the moment, The One only operates on the European realm server Thunderhorn. You can't join if you're not an Alliance race member on Thunderhorn.
Recruiting Process
Initiates are generally sponsored for consideration on the recommendation of an existing full member in good standing (a sponsor). You can, however, apply on your own. In either case, you'll need to fill out an application form. Accepted initiates will be given a mentor, an existing guild member who will be responsible for you. The mentor's responsibilities include:
- Ensuring you read the guild rules.
- Warning and disciplining bad behaviour.
- Helping you with questions about the guild.
- Helping you update your profile and learn to use the guild web site.
- Helping you install/configure the guild's add-ons.
- Introducing you to guild members.
- Adventuring with you at least a few times to ensure you understand how to work with a group and the group leader, and that you play in a team spirit.
- Listening to your reports of acts of kindness you've made and ensuring you understand this is an essential part of the guild.
- Generally help you fit in.
- Recommending to the guild officers whether you should be accepted for full membership at the end of your initiate period.
As an initiate, you also have some responsibilities:
- Knowing and following the guild rules.
- Keeping your guild profile page updated (ask your mentor for help).
- Installing the guild's add-ons.
- Making an effort to meet and interact with other guild members.
- Engaging in random acts of kindness.
- Spending time playing your character during your initiate period.
- Representing the guild on the server and in our allied events in a favourable and appropriate way.
Evaluation
At the end of four weeks, you will be evaluated. All full guild members can anonymously comment in a special discussion thread on whether you should be promoted to a full member, leave the guild, or be evaluated further. The final decision, however, rests with the guild officers who consider input from the members, their own interactions with you, and a report from your mentor. Their decision will be one of the following: promotion to full member, extension of your initiate period by two weeks, or reluctantly wishing you well in your future adventures outside the guild.
Evaluation is not a question of simply whether you follow the rules. It can be completely subjective. It is an evaluation on how well we feel you belong in the guild. This is our spare time. We are evaluating whether you make our spare time more or less enjoyable. If you're immature, whiny, greedy, too young, or generally bad-tempered, you're not going to fit in with our mostly mature but laid-back members.
The spirit you show is more important than experience. Inexperienced players with a good attitude are welcome. If you're a social, helpful, mature, and giving player, you will find the best home here.
While your attitude is the chief concern, following is a secondary list of preferred classes based on broadening the current makeup of the guild.
Desired Classes
Classes wanted in order of priority:
- Priest
- Warlock
- Hunter
- Rogue
- Druid
- Mage
- Warrior
- Paladin
Ready to join? Fill out the application form.
Note: This page is intended for non-members interested in the guild. See the guild version in the Wiki.
Revised: May 9, 2008
Posted by Elsheindra at March 7, 2005 02:49 PM
