I think micro guilds are really fun when you're leveling with some friends or doing pvp together. Let's face it a lot of guilds that recruit at lower levels are either ghost towns or full of uberidiots who do nothing but ask for help doing easy quests or link purples. I used to get invites for such guilds over and over (sometimes without any preamble of "hey want to join my guild" just soemone send me an invite to their guild) and so a micro guild is a good way to get those kinds of people to leave you alone so you can focus on doing stuff with just your buddies.

However once you get to the endgame if you want to do non solo stuff it makes more sense to join a larger guild.

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Welcome to the World of Warcraft, Ric Romero! :)

But seriously, this has been the practice for a long time. There have ALWAYS been microguilds around. I've had alts and even mains holding down several since I started playing WoW (about a month after launch) You get to wear your own cool tabard and talk on your own /guild channel. My alt-holding microguild even has it's own forums, although mostly just for me to post notes to myself about useful WoW links for addons and helpful hints.

Unfortunately, microguilds provide no functionality other than the tabard and a guild name over your head. It would be cool if guilds provided SOME usefulness other than endgame raids and a chat channel.

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Out of curiosity, how on earth do you create a guild where only your own alts are in it? How does that work? Don't you have to send a live invite, meaning you have to be logged in to both characters at the same time? Sorry if I'm being dense about this...

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@3

I was just about to ask the same thing. I thought you had to have 10 unique sigs on a charter first? Maybe things have changed?

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To be honest my former big raiding guild... I was never actually in it. I just knew the people in it and went on all their raids. I was always in my own guild or guildless when I would raid. I supposed technically I was in their guild (being on all their raids and basically an officer (set up raid times and managed guild website/vent), but never officially.

I just liked the peace and quiet.

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I just started a micro guild for my r/l friends. We all have 70 mains in large guilds, doing regular heroic runs, and the occasional Kara invite. But I had an idea, to form an all mage PVP group. So I conviced them all to roll mage and created 'Glass Cannon' We're on our way up to 70 now and it really is a lot of fun knowing there's a purpose and a concept behind the guild relating to just our small group.

Thanks my take anyways.

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@3 & 4 - I have the exact same question. Any help from anyone? How do I get my alts in the guild I have on one of my characters?

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@3,4 & 7.

Get a friend (or loved one) or a second account to be in your guild, they invite your characters.

Signing the charter, thats what all those yellers in chat are asking for signatures. They dont have 10 friends, so they will pay 10 people to sign and quit quick

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All you have to do is get enough people to sign the charter to allow you to create the guild. Then either those people become your micro-guild...or more commonly, you've given them a gold a piece to sign the charter and then they /gquit leaving you with your own guild. In order to get your alts in, just invite someone else, give them invite power, and log onto your alts to have them join.

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I have built a few guilds for alts that just sit around and serve just as a way to keep from getting guild invites and having a cool tabard. When I first started, I got invited to a guild and then the leader quit, leaving me in much the same situation as the OP. Took me a week to find how to /gdisband. I was the laughing stock of my friends for months after. Since then I only join guilds that I actually put some thought into.
@3 All you have to do is go to a low level place, have some guys sign your charter, have them ginvite your alts and then gkick everyone else. Not the nicest thing to do but still gets the job done. In compensation, you can usually keep them happy by giving them a bit of money.

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I'm currently between guilds, and decided to make my own. My main is a Gnome Warrior, so my guild is called .

Its pretty fun, I've been fake recruiting the past 2 days. Feel free to join if you are Alliance on Thunderlord (US).

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er, guild is called

is the Gnome Pwner...

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My AH mule is part of a microguild called . Just a couple bank-ah alts from random people on the server. Its actually kinda fun talking to other high-volume AH people.

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forgot to add it is also a reference to a "bottom shelf" hard acohol company.

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er... called Banker's Club. We're also alcoholics. :-)

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I started a guild on my old server.



I was the only one in it. I was only leveling an alt for fun.

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I had a second account at one point and was rolling horde and was quite content to just play by myself, eventually by my mid 40's (still guildless) I couldn't stand the "hay u want 2 join mah guildz?" or just spamming guild invites, any longer and made my own guild called "Leave Me Alone"

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Should start a Guild called just so I can be guilded and stop getting Guild invites from random people.

I have a few high-level toons unguilded and it gets pretty annoying when it happens over and over.

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Re previous comment: I named the guild but I guess codes took it out. was called *Please Stop Inviting Me*

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I'm in a "microguild" of all real-life friends. We have mostly leveled up together, but now that some of us are hitting 70, we're at a bit of a crossroads. I'm not sure what we'll do next, but it's been a great, fun experience having our own little guild these last few months. No big-guild drama, and only members that you know you actually like as real-life people. Bliss.

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