Is your server active, or dying? Because if its declining, if not already dead, don't start a new guild. You wont get anywhere. The existing guilds will be fighting tooth and claw over any decent players, and they have something you don't. Guild levels. Yep, you cant compete without them, that extra mount speed, extra profession bonus, bonus mats, pets, mounts, experience, JP, Honor, mass ress, travel spell.....all of that is what you, as a lowly level 1 guild has to compete with nowadays. At a time of poor raiding content, and neverbeforeseen competition for wow in the MMO market, its doubtful whether a new guild has much chance of sucess on any server, let alone one not in tip top conditon.

My main server is down to 3 raiding guilds on my faction, and ours is the longest running, most sucessful and can barely scrap raids together nowadays, and has to bring in pugs from our friends list to make raids sometimes. There is literally no one to recruit. All decent players have left the server or the game, and the applicants, those very rare ones we get, are of such poor quality its just not worth it. (un-gemmed, unenchanted, no class knowledge, and with a massively entitled attitude).

Be careful of counting on MOP to create an upsurge. Yes it will, but those people are likely to be gone in 2-3months too. And there are some great games comming out soon. ToR had an impact yes, but not too much. GW2, TSW and others are likely to make ToR look insignificant in terms on impact on WoW.

Just my opinion. I'm enjoying WoW right now, but then again, I've spent time in Rift and ToR and others...there is viable competition out there, and when GW2 comes out, I dont know if I'll stick it with WoW, its mainly the people that keep me here, and they are gradually leaving one by one.

I dont want to go all negative, but you really need to sit down and think about starting a guild in the current wow climate, you will have to work exceptionally hard to make it work. And the chances of success are low. If you can hack that reality, then best of luck to you. But I'd suggest it may be better to join a guild you like for now, esp as you've only recently come back, and see if you really want to make that kind of committment.

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