Re-activating your WoW account, or interested in "Trying Before You Buy"?Getting Control of a Guild with an Absent Guildmaster
A common question that is asked on the Guild Relations forum on the World of Warcraft official forums site is about the topic of Absent Guildmasters and how to get Guildmaster control in order to facilitate the continuation of the guild without having to disband and reform.
After One Month Of Inactivity, Petition a Game Master
Taking over a guild and being the one selected as new Guildmaster requires a few things:
1) One month or more of inactivity by the Guildmaster
2) Yourself to be one of the highest ranking members within the guild as it stands (by Rank not popularity)
3) A petition to Game Masters
The petition can be as simple as "The Guildmaster for XYZ guild has been absent for over 30 days and we wish to have one of our active members promoted to Guildmaster so we may continue building our guild".
There is no need to go into a big long story in your petition, for the reason described in the next section...
No Guarantees
Unfortunately, because there's no way to allow a guild membership to "vote" on a new leader, the one who submits the petition may not be the one promoted to Guildmaster.
An active player will be promoted, and from there you'll need to go through the regular procedures for changing the Guildmaster if the "wrong" person gets the reigns.
Don't Ninja The Guild
As a final comment about this process, I'd like to remind folks that while you may be promoted to the Guildmaster rank due to your Guildmaster's absence, if it is done without the knowledge and consent of the rest of the guild, you will likely face backlash from the membership.
Be smart - if the Guildmaster is away for a length of time that slows forward motion of your guild, you may wish to /gquit and find or start a new guild with some of your current guildmates. If, however, you are the new "de facto leader" and most of the membership turns to you as they did the Guildmaster, you may wish to bring up the topic of having the GM reigns handed over to you to see what the response is.
At any rate, it's possible to keep a guild going after the GM disappears, and since the Guildmaster does have different functions for maintaining the guild than even the highest level and highest permission Officer does, it's important to have an active GM
Good luck!
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Thank you so much! This is exactly what I've been looking for, it just never entered my mind that it would be that easy.