Who we are and what we’re about

ZeGuild is an alliance guild on the Sentinels (US) server created especially for casual players and cool people. We think that:

• You can ask questions without being called a noob.
• It’s ok to AFK from a raid because the baby got up for her 1 AM bottle.
• It’s possible to have mature conversations that don’t revolve around genitalia.

Guild Rules

Communication

• ZeGuild is a family-friendly guild. As such, we ask that all public guildchat remain PG-13 Rated. This means, no excessive swearing or foul language. If something is questionable, err on the side of caution out of respect for your guildmates.
• If you see someone using excessive inappropriate language/humor in a public channel that you find offensive, please remember that while we are asking them to be considerate to you, we also ask that you be considerate to them. People will slip up and get carried away. Do not jump down their throats. Politely ask them to scale back the conversation. If they ignore a polite request, or become confrontational, stop, take a screenshot, and approach an officer. Put them on ignore if you must. But ultimately, allow us to handle it. We feel that if members attempt to police each other, it only leads to conflict, “choosing sides” and ultimately the type of drama that we’re all seeking to avoid.
• We have created a special Ventrilo channel called “Adult Chat”. This channel is protected by the password “adult” to avoid people accidentally joining the channel. The “Adult Chat” channel allows adult language and humor as long as everything remains respectful and civil on a personal level. However, hate speech will not be tolerated regardless of where it is.
• Drama, trolling, insulting other people or just being a jerk in general will get you booted out. We’re all trying to enjoy the game, and the last thing we want to do is log on and deal with squabbling and drama. If you can’t be a part of our guild without causing problems, you can’t be a part of our guild.

Raiding

• Raids are never mandatory and you are not required to participate to any of them. If you do sign up, we will except you to show up on time. Please avoid signing up if you are not committed to attending. We understand that real-life happens, and sometimes you won’t be able to show up for a raid you wanted to go to. That’s fine. If at all possible, please send an in-game mail to the raid leader alerting them that you won’t be able to make it.
• If you are not online within 15 minutes before the scheduled raid start time, you may lose your spot.
• You’re free to PuG raids if you so choose. However we do ask that you check to make sure that doing so will not lock you out of a scheduled guild event if it is at all possible that you could attend.
• Often we may have more people signed up for an event than the raid instance permits. In that event, players will be chosen in the following order:
  • Signed up members that are online.
  • Class role, and what the raid needs.
  • Player class
  • Sign up time
  • Online members who did not sign up for the raid, but are interested in going

  Example: If we have to pick between two DPS, we’ll pick the one who signed up to the raid earlier. It’s possible that signed up players will be left out and others who did not sign up will be allowed in. Sometimes a certain selection of classes is required for the success of the run. We’d have a hard time running Icecrown Citadel with no healers, for instance.

• Loot in raids will be awarded to Mainspec (the spec you are in the raid as) before Offspec, with armor proficiency priority (cloth users get to roll on cloth before leather and mail users). Ultimately specific loot rules and final decisions fall to the current raid leader.

Raid Teams

For our 10-man raid progression, ZeGuild uses a team system. A raid team is a group of people that run together on a regular basis, led by a Raid Team Leader. We feel that running with the same people week to week forms a stronger bond between guild members, and allows every raider to learn the strengths and weaknesses of his or her raid team, which makes progressing through content a far smoother and enjoyable process than learning fights anew each week with a different group of people.

At any given time there are a handful of 10-man raid teams in the guild, some with closed, set rosters, and some recruiting members or backup raiders. Many raid teams fill up, and there are always new people looking to participate in end-game raiding. Anyone in the guild is welcome to try and start up their own raid team. It is recommended that you post on our forums about your proposed raid team (starting level of difficulty, schedule, etc), as well as ask an officer to schedule a raid for you on the calendar. Once you’ve successfully lead 3-4 raids, your team will be officially recognized, the leader promoted and a team vent channel awarded.

For ZeGuild’s weekly 25-man runs, we operate on a more flexible sign-up system. There is no set roster for our 25-man raids, however veteran/experienced raiders, and raiders that show up every week, are given priority.

Guild Bank

• Money and items can be deposited in the last bank tab at any time to help the guild and its members with expenses. We offer bags and equipment to lower level player and gems, enchantments and raid supplies to our raiders. During attempts to learn new encounters, where wipes may be more frequent, we may also choose to allow our raiders to repair from the guild bank funds.
• Only the member rank and up are allowed to access the bank. You must have an authenticator to be promoted above the initiate rank.
• All guild ranks are allowed to deposit items into the sixth bank tab (Guild Donations). We ask that only useful items are deposited. Here is a list of items we are always looking for:
  • Full stacks of crafting material (Ore, Cloths, Leather, Gems)
  • Patterns, Formulas, Schematics, etc
  • High end gems (cut or not), flasks, potions, fish feasts, +stats food
  • Level 80-85 BoE greens and blues for disenchanting
  • Bags (10 slots and up. We are no longer accepting 6 and 8 slots bags)
  • Level 76+ blue and purple gear
• Items you deposit will either be stored in the appropriate guild bank tab for guild member use, disenchanted or auctioned off. Any profit made from auctioned items is deposited into the guild bank.
• The bank withdrawal procedure is as follows:
  • Every guild member has a 3 withdrawal limit for the first three tabs. You *must* be able to use the item you take immediately (appropriate level and/or class/profession). If you take an item you cannot use, we will ask you to return it immediately. Any member we find auctioning guild bank items without expressed permission from the guild leader and/or officers, will be removed from the guild.
  • To request an expensive/high level item from a restricted tab, simple send an in-game mail to a guild officer or the guild bank officer.
  • Only the guild leader, guild officers and raid leaders may make withdrawals from the fifth tab (raid materials) for the sake of guild raids and events.

Attendance

• In order to make sure we have enough room for those who want to join, we ask that everyone log in at least once a month. Players who have been inactive for over a month without notifying a guild leader/officer will be removed from the guild.
• If you know you will be away from the game for a determined period of time, please send an in-game mail to an officer to get a note added to your characters and avoid getting kicked. We understand some of our members are in the military or have other jobs that requires them to be away for longer periods of time and we fully respect that.

Role Playing

• The server we play on, Sentinels, is a Role Playing realm. While ZeGuild is not a role playing guild, we ask that you respect the other players that do role play.

Alts

We understand that people enjoy playing alts, however we must balance that against a desire to avoid flooding our guild with low level characters. It makes it harder to remember who’s who when people are jumping around between ten different characters.

• For each character over level 60, you may have one alt in the guild. So for example, once your main hits level 60, you may have an alt in the guild. Once your alt hits level 60, you may have a second alt in the guild (and so on and so forth)
• Your alt’s public guild note must list your main character’s name, to help other members keep track of who’s who.
• All alts are subject to the recruitment rules listed below, including level and class restrictions.

Recruitment is currently: Open

This section will be periodically updated to reflect the guild’s needs.

• You must be level 10 to join ZeGuild.

Joining ZeGuild

Interested in joining ZeGuild? Have any questions? Feel free to speak to one of our officers, or swing by the Visitors section of our forums and make a post. We do not require guild applications to join ZeGuild. We evaluate each member based on their conduct and participation in the guild. If you’d like to join, we’ll be happy to invite you as an initiate (basic member, no bank access). If, after a month we feel you’re a good fit for ZeGuild (and you have an authenticator) we will promote you to full-fledged member (or raider, if you’ve joined a raid team by then).