I’m fairly new to Warcraft.. so my patterns are still in flux. I currently have toons in two guilds, Alliance-side and Horde-side. The guilds are made up of the same people but they have a different feel. They’re both uber-casual guilds.

The Alliance side is made up of level 70s and their alts. On the Alliance side I’m mostly not even in the game since I don’t have a 70 to help with the upper-end stuff. Lately a couple of guildie’s have been playing an alt to help me to level but it’s not official guild activities.

The Horde side is all level 20-ish toons.. and I’m the Guild Mistress.

I also have some alts that I’ve purposefully left out of the guilds. This allows me some anonymity. I haven’t taken the step to join outside guilds though.. I don’t think there’s enough time in the week to support even more gaming.

Every good and caperable leader was once a follower of someone else’s lead or leadership. Some great leaders at onetime served lesser men or woman of history many others serve greater men or woman they respected and thus bid their time in servitude to become even greater followers but in time bid themself to become great leaders in the end when it was now their time in the spotlight. A great leader can submit him or herself to follow someone else. However its usually someone else they respect in some capacity or for something about that person, group or cause even when they can disagree on things.

Not every follower is caperable of been a leader however, some just want to follow someone, something, group or guild they can believe in, its a feeling of belonging or comfort for them. Yet one can learn to lead from been a follower and been trusted in following. Most good leader knows their place and can be humble about it if they need to. So you should be free to leave your toon where ever you wish to put your toon to your liking. You can be ok with putting you toon in a guild you either respect for some reason and be ok with your toon been there and not have to worry or express your self in a leadership role. Not every leader have to always expose them self in a group, however people that know you over time may and will notice you nevertheless. Yet you can still relax and be free to have fun playing the game and not be bothered if you not want to.

Its ok to see other groups from a different perspective, either by taking a active role or by been a follower in that group or guild. As long as your ok with it. It should be ok to not have all you toons in one guild, it gives you variety of experience with other people, groups,guilds or just to plain relax unknown among everyone else around.

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I find there are usually 2 types of leaders when I’m playing WoW. They both know what they are doing, but one will YELL at everyone and basically micromanage to the point where you just shut up and hope the PUG will be over soon and get your reward only to never group with them again… 50 DKP MINUS anyone?

The other type is helpful and if something bad happens, or there’s a wipe, or whatever, they tend to sit back and go ‘okay, now what have we learned’? And the hope is that in the future they will group with the same people again and be able to mesh well.

As for guild leadership, yes, you want to delegate more to officers, where the leader kind of has the vision and stuff, where the officers take that ‘ball and run with it’ so to speak… of course if they don’t have the same goals there tends to be /gquits… I’ve been in guilds where the leader was NEVER there, and there was no support from officers. And other guilds that had a good core of regular officers that were on at varying times so there was always someone on that you could talk to for help, etc. Even if you weren’t playing at the same time as the leader.

Oh and all my alts are either in the same guild, or guildless… the guildless ones tend to be my ‘alone time’ characters which usually sit at full xp bonus and run as my AH mule/etc……. :)