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by Mike Schramm 
Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:00PM
While it would be great if Neth was asking this to get some input on guild housing or the upcoming guild battlegrounds features, she's probably just asking to hear it -- it's definitely fun to look inside the other groups in the game and see what they do the same and different. For all of the drama that tends to attract our attention, the truth is that Blizzard's ad hoc ingame guild system has created some pretty strong ties between us. I like reading through that thread and seeing just what people have come up with just as much as Neth probably does.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Guilds, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Forums
Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
Wyred Apr 23rd 2009 5:12AM
Ah Vargoth. He's featured in so many of our kill shots, despite his dps being a little low. Also lead to the phrase "I'm gonna go Vargoth on his ass!"
Terrë Apr 23rd 2009 5:01AM
We have the orange nipple too, but we award it to anyone who does something stupid or causes a wipe.
We also have a rat run on special days like Easter, May Day, Xmas, etc. (A rat run for those who are wondering, is a lv 1 warrior race from northshire to somewhere far away and dangerous to get to - we usually go to Tanaris) The prize is usually a large amount of gold.
Terrë Apr 23rd 2009 5:04AM
oh. forgot. We also have Lurky as our mascot. If we're going for a difficult boss, then someone gets their Lurky out and we all dance with him before going in.
Our raid leader also has the tradition of yelling 'it's a wipe' if one person dies - but it's not so much a tradition, more a pessimistic raid leader. ;-)
Ruta Apr 23rd 2009 5:09AM
The guild I am is an RP guild that only recruits Gnomes and Dwarves, but all new recruits wanting to pass their trial period must undertake the guild tradition of the DeathRun:
It's a simple idea. You're just going to run through at least two zones. Wearing level 8 cloth. No mounts. No weapons. And no stopping for fighting. (Fox Only. Final Destination.)
What zones you run through is based on your level. 27-40? Searing Gorge/Burning Steppes. 40-55? Western and Eastern Plaguelands, and so on.
Of course, all the time you are purused by one of the guild officers, a Paladin, who will help you if you're in serious danger, but you want to be a Mountaineer? You have to show you can survive.
In the end, it's all purely ceremonial. Everyone who does it, gets promoted in the end. But it's always fun.
May Apr 23rd 2009 6:51AM
Singing the Indiana Jones theme over Vent before difficult boss fights puts people in the right mood in our guild. Of course, it has never been established if it is the horrible singing voice that drives everyone berserk or if the song itself is inspiring! :)
PeeDub Apr 23rd 2009 8:56AM
Any time one of our guild members gets a mount for the first time, we all ride naked into Ironforge, wearing only a hat. Prize for who gets the farthest.
Fatal Apr 23rd 2009 9:45AM
During pre-wrath raids we would often find ourselves wiping on Mother or Archi, so our raid leader would promise to sing some crazy song such as "It's Raining Men" or the likes if we downed the bastard on the next go, and nine out of ten times he wound up playing the role of the fat lady.......good times.....too bad iraq has totally jacked up Wrath for me.....
Anoira Apr 23rd 2009 9:47AM
Our guild has a event every year around our guild anniversary called "Gnome Swarm". As many guild member who are on get together and make level 1 gnomes and we go raid hogger. Some get into it pretty far this year we had a twinked out tank :) Also this year we made enough tuxedos for all of us so we had about 40 gnomes running around Moon Guard server in tuxedos. Great fun.
Typhoid Apr 23rd 2009 10:10AM
Our newest traditions:
-If you show up late for the raid, we give you the 'jew guilt'. This comes from our raid organizer who says its no big deal but has that hint of trying to guilt you over Vent. So we mimic him when someone doesn't show up on time....double if its our raid organizer.
-Before each Naxx run, someone goes out, mind controls an Ally and tosses him off the edge. 'I got us a DK this time! It's gonna be a stellar run!'
-'The Lothis' - Basically this came from a Tank named Lothis who, despite repeated hilarious objections over Vent, showed up to the raid utterly hammered a couple of times. His responses to why he lost aggro or did not pull right over a couple of times was to say 'I am really really sleepy' in the most drunken voice you can imagine. Now, if you don't perform right in a boss fight, you are deemed 'The Lothis'
Josin Apr 23rd 2009 10:25AM
We used to have a tradition in Karazhan that if you used Torment of the Worgen, you had to make growly noises over Vent whenever it procced. It was always amusing when we'd bring someone from outside the guild, and they'd hear my "gnome turned worgen" sound effects.
pete Apr 23rd 2009 12:47PM
Wasn't really tradition, but first guild I ever joined back in vanilla on a US server was this guy... Dammit wish I could remember his name, anyway him and his girl friend raided together, he and her were always giving each other shit over vent in a very comical kind of way, bouncing off each other type of thing, it in itself was funny. It seemed every time we started a raid and all joined up to vent or even when we were just about to pull he'd make a joke towards her, generally some thing sexual along the lines about her giving him a b/j or something and then scream out in a ridiculous voice with that yanky accent, BOOBIES!!!!
Guess you had to be there...
Was always very funny no matter how many times he did it, he always had so many funny sexual borderline not acceptable comments to make. =)
Drager Apr 23rd 2009 12:49PM
If we can't get a boss down by playing The Final Countdown or You're the Best (from Karate Kid) then it's just not going to happen.
Drager Apr 23rd 2009 12:59PM
Also, our shadow priest's router gets screwed up whenever someone in his house uses the microwave for some reason. It's evolved to anytime someone dc's that "Roland is cooking hot pockets"
Drager Apr 23rd 2009 1:04PM
And finally, a new one from Ulduar started off as an accident but has become tradition already. We wait for the corpse to despawn on all of our first kill screenshots of bosses. Unfortunately it doesn't work for Kologarn, but his body becoming a bridge is so badass that we let it pass.
Rolton Apr 23rd 2009 2:19PM
In my old guild, anytime we had a lot of trouble downing a boss, the GM/RL would pull out Mr. Pinchy aka Magical Crawdad as an OT- but it worked like 75% of the time. A warlock has to die on at least 6 trash pulls or it isn't a real raid, and the obligatory "I blame ******" who also happened to be warlocks. We go the shaft bad.
TheTree Apr 27th 2009 3:27PM
We sacrifice the mage at the beginning of every raid for good luck. Lacking a mage we will allow (in this order depending on availablility) warlocks, ele shaman, ret pally, enh shaman.
Also anytime anyone asks if its "pick on so and so day" someone must schedule it on the calendar and everyone must participate.
One of our raid leaders keeps Archmage Vargoth for luck... anytime they ask for everyone to get the mini pets out for luck out he comes.
Ice Princess Apr 23rd 2009 10:37PM
Our guild tradition is to group T-bag/hump the dead before resurrecting them.
LOL
Fun times ^_^
Ohhh but if it's a wipe, we can't release til our Guild Master releases and comes back... in
kity forms, he buttsecks everyone. LOL
Another thing is Frogger in Naxx... do it naked.
Zanaji Apr 28th 2009 8:55AM
All of our traditions date from Kara for us...guild is'nt that old, lol. We have the classic teabagging of the dead, in this case performed by druids in cat form (hilarious). We have the traditional sacrifice on boss fights (used to be me when I played a hunter, but now it's our DPS warr.) and we call the circle "the condom" and place it on whoever is marking where we need to stand. (the max range for Prince, the dancer for Heigan, etc.) because "the condom keeps you safe"