Re-activating your WoW account, or interested in "Trying Before You Buy"?Why YOU Need A Personal Guild
I've got a personal guild, which I've also heard labeled as a "Vanity" guild.
That is, it's a guild that isn't a real "guild" as you'd think about it normally on the game - I'm the only member of my guild, or if there's someone else in it for a time, they're only there to help me accomplish something, like inviting my alts into the guild.
This guild I have isn't used for regular guildly things, either.
In fact, it was set up for one primary reason: Guildmasters can set up their Guild Bank, and when items or World of Warcraft gold are deposited or withdrawn, that action is logged.
Incoming and Outgoing Money
In this day and age of hacks and spyware and trojans slipping onto our computers through malicious websites and the likes, lots of people get their World of Warcraft accounts hacked.
People log in to find their primary character has been transferred to another server and stripped down, all their World of Warcraft gold is gone, and most of their characters and banks are bare, too.
When they get restored by Blizzard, I've heard that many got a likeness of their gear back (maybe not exact, but kinda close), have had their professions restored and characters transferred back to correct realms, and bank objects restored as well, but one thing I've consistently heard... the WoW Gold never was restored.
Considering saving up for an epic mount means you could have 5-6k on your plethora of characters at any time, and I have three toons with epic flyers, that "losing your world of warcraft gold to a hacker" thing always made me nervous.
The moment Guild Banks were on the PTR's I went and played with them, and the moment they released to the live realms, I had a Vanity Guild set up already to take advantage of the new technology.
My Guild Bank is where I store the majority of my money now, where I can see a record of the deposits and withdrawls, and hopefully Blizzard can, too, for restoring things to the way they originally were.
Setting Up Family With Their Own Vanity Guilds
I've helped both my Father and my Brother set up Vanity Guilds in-game now, after having explained my primary reason for setting one up myself. Dad's eyes got wide when I told him about it, thinking about losing the 2k he had carefully saved up on his way to 70, and it wasn't a hard sell on my brother, either.
After helping Dad through the process, I wrote up a document about the steps we took and the keys that made the process quick and easy and not annoying to everyone involved. When helping my Brother get his going, the document was refined further, in order to make it easy to a new player.
If you're interested, you can check it out here:
World of Warcraft - How To Set Up Your Own Guild by WoWGrrl
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lol. Interesting reasons why I should be setting up my own guild, even if there's just one of me.
I just started WoW (Lvl 7 - Horde, Shaman, Warsong server!) so I'll definitely be taking this into consideration.
I have one, my bank character has a guild called "Wall Street" he is the toon who plays the auction house.
If you are worried about your account getting hacked I would definitely invest in one of the wow RSA keys. If it is bound to your account it is virtually impossible for any hacker to get in even if they have a keylogger (unless they can use that information in the next 2 minutes or however long it takes the key to refresh). I was lucky enough to get one from my friend for free, but not after my account got hacked so I just started a new one and attached the key. Also, if you do get one, save the ID code on the back somewhere in case you lose it, it will probably make it easier for Blizzard to fix.