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Looking for creative ideas for my guild.
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Post by
Briandris
Hey all!
I've been a GM for about 8 years now and I LOVE my guild and each of the PEOPLE that make it up:) We raid casually a couple times a week and we are close. I'm known for spoiling them and I enjoy doing it. In the past I used to set up events like dodgeball and costume contests and level 1 toon races etc. We used to do this a few times a year and give out awesome prizes. It was fun, built morale and relationships, inspired friendly competition and who doesn't love a great prize? The "prizes" would be things like any profession leveled to max (me and few loyal, generous guildies would farm/buy everything needed for a player to go from 0-max level or a unique pet that an average player would struggle to attain, or an expensive crafted piece of gear or mount.
Our guild anniversary is in December close to Christmas so in past years I've always made a little celebration last over about 2 weeks. I'd empty one of the guild tabs and change the settings so no-one could see what was in it and then fill it with presents, good ones, lame ones, average ones and a few super awesome ones like a certificate to turn in for a large sum of gold or a crafted mount that was too expensive for the average player to attain. Randomly throughout the 2 weeks I'd let everyone online "choose" a gift. Since they couldn't see what the tab had in it, this would mean telling me which column and row in the guild tab they wanted me to take their gift from and I'd mail it to them. This was a great way to give all players equal chance at the really good stuff.
These events were very popular and people looked forward to them and I could feel the vibe in the guild boost when I'd announce an upcoming event. My biggest turnout was 32 people for a Dodgeball game. Often times we'd have spectators that passed by and noticed us and called their friends to come watch and we'd have cheering squads as well!
Here's my problem now. With all the changes in the last few xpacs, finding super cool prizes has become a real issue. Everything in WoW is easy to get these days, you can level a profession in a day with a few hundred gold, everyone has unique mounts and pets because there are so so many and hardly any are difficult to obtain. Some do cost a LOT but it's SO much that the guild can't afford them. We usually have about 1M gold in the guild bank but when a single mount costs 500k or 2M ( a special one that not everyone can afford) they aren't feasible when I want to try and make sure that everyone gets something a little special. I considered buying wow tokens and gifting them but on my server we're up to 190k per token and Christmas is still a couple months away so that is not likely to be feasible either when it comes time.
I'm at a loss here as to how to bring back the "special" to events and celebrations. Before I recieve a bunch of "if your guildies expect awesome things, they suck", they don't. No-one has complained about the lack of prizes. They are always gracious and positive about what they recieve. This is a ME issue. I WANT to spoil them and bring back that extra special feel these events use to inspire. My guild has inspired me and carried me and brought so much to my WoW life that I just want to show them how much I appreciate and care about them.
Any creative ideas or suggestions are welcome!
Post by
Adamsm
Get them toys and pets and use those as rewards. Darkmoon Faire has both and that's a once a month thing.
Post by
jarycu
I don't have any ideas to contribute, but I'd like to say congrats on running an awesome guild! If it weren't against Wowhead's rules, I'd ask you for the server and faction and see if you'd let me join, but I can't.
Keep up the good work, though! The guild sounds amazing.(##RESPBREAK##)6152##DELIM##CalaelenDT##DELIM##If you'd simply checked out the users profile, instead of complaining about a rule that doesn't even exist, you'd have found what you were looking for.
Post by
CalaelenDT
It's hard to come up with things without knowing what budget you had in mind for a gift, but there should still be plenty of toys, pets and mounts that are affordable enough and would make a lot of people happy. Darkmoon Faire items, the newest Raiding with Leashes pets or old items that require old currency such as Argent Tournament pets or the Molten Front pet.
Post by
NipNops
A guild that I uses to be in would have competitions like this but all of the rewards were either alcholic beverages or a bit of gold for purchasing beverages. Everyone would save them up and at the end of the month there would be a game of drunken hide and seek. The members got to vote for the location. Cost nearly nothing for the guild and always had a massive turnout. Usually around 40 people.
Post by
Briandris
Hi again, sorry for the late response, it was a busy weekend.
It's hard to come up with things without knowing what budget you had in mind for a gift, but there should still be plenty of toys, pets and mounts that are affordable enough and would make a lot of people happy. Darkmoon Faire items, the newest Raiding with Leashes pets or old items that require old currency such as Argent Tournament pets or the Molten Front pet.
Old pets and no-one wants to go after might be a neat idea. Budget-wise...about 1M gold for 20 or so ppl.
A guild that I uses to be in would have competitions like this but all of the rewards were either alcholic beverages or a bit of gold for purchasing beverages. Everyone would save them up and at the end of the month there would be a game of drunken hide and seek. The members got to vote for the location. Cost nearly nothing for the guild and always had a massive turnout. Usually around 40 people.
Drunken Hide and Seek sounds fun as well, lol. I'll have to think about that one a little more.
I don't have any ideas to contribute, but I'd like to say congrats on running an awesome guild! If it weren't against Wowhead's rules, I'd ask you for the server and faction and see if you'd let me join, but I can't.
Keep up the good work, though! The guild sounds amazing.
We always welcome new members but I feel I should say that the guild is a lot slower than it once was. I don't have as much time to be online anymore and WoD was tough on us. A lot of people seemed to quit shortly after it was released and have not returned. Mostly it's core members left and we're close enough and comfortable enough to hang out and quietly do our own thing, cept for raid days when we all get together to kill things and hang out:)
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