3.5. Promote Your Friends and Guildmates:
Now that your ranks are all created, you need to spend some time promoting or demoting
(depending on if you needed to add in ranks and reorder the names in the list, as a result)
your guildmates to the correct rank. Not everyone is a chief and too many chiefs will ruin

any guild. So odds are you will have some brand new members, some members who
have been around awhile, some long time veterans or good friends and some trusted
officers. You need to get them assigned to the correct ranks.
To do this press O and click on the guilds tab. If needed, select the little arrow in the
lower right of the light to change the view so you can see the member’s name and current
rank. As you will recall, there are 2 views. The last view you used will be what is
displayed when you press O so if needed, change the view.
Now that you see a list of all members and their current rank, to promote or demote
anyone, do the following:
●Single left click on their name
●Click once on the red promote or demote button
●Wait for the yellow message to appear indicating that char has been promoted or
demoted (going too fast will result in an error occuring)
●Repeat the button press as needed to reach the desired rank
3.6. Invite/Guild the Rest of Your Members:
If you guild is larger than the original 10 people then you will need to invite the rest of
them to join. You will also likely have secondary chars that need adding and you will likely
recruit new members over time. Every time that occurs you will need to guild the new
character. Fortunately in World of Warcraft, you can guild a player from anywhere in the
world. You do not have to see them or target them or even be in the same zone. You
are, however, limited to only guilding the people from the races of the faction of the
guildmaster character.
Horde Faction Guildable Races:
●Orc
●Tauren
●Troll
●Undead

Alliance Faction Guildable Races:
●Human
●Dwarf
●Gnome
●Nightelf
The steps to guild a new character are as follows:
●Ensure you know the person you are adding really is your guildmate
●Type /GINVITE charname
●They will get a prompt on their window saying that you are inviting them to join.
●When they accept the prompt a message will be displaying, in yellow text, in your
guildsay area indicating their char was added
●Wait a few seconds (5 to 10) since the game usually lags behind in updating the
rosters and then Press O and click on the Guild tab to reach the guild interface
●Sort the list by rank and scroll so you can see those people by the lowest rank.
●You should see the new character you added listed there as whatever your lowest
rank is
●Single click on their name and promote them to whatever rank they should be at
3.7. Removing One of Your Members
Over the lifetime of a guild, it is common to have to remove a character or member at
some point. Perhaps the person sold their account on eBay and you don’t want the new
owner in your guild. Perhaps the person broke a guild rule and needs to be removed.
Perhaps they shut down the account and aren’t playing anymore. Whatever the reason,
there will come a time you are likely to need to remove a char. Fortunately it a very
simple process AND the character does not need to be online, like it does in some
MMORPGs. To remove a character, perform the following steps:
●Press O and click on the Guild tab to get to the guild interface
●Check the box, in the upper right, to see Offline Members
●Sort the list by name
●Locate the char name of the char that you wish to remove
●Single left click on it

●Press the red REMOVE button at the bottom of the guild interface
Please note that anyone online will see a yellow message in guildsay indicating that you
removed the char. It will read something like “XXXXXXXX was removed by
YYYYYYYYYY”.
3.8. Consider Saving For and Purchasing a Guild Tabard
Every character has a spot on their character sheet for a Tabard. Tabards do not drop
from any monsters. They do not have AC or stats. Their sole purpose is to be a
representation of the guild you are in. They are purchased from special Tabard vendors.
The guildmaster designs one (which costs 10 gold) and then every guild member that
buys one, gets an exact copy of the one the GM designed (which costs 1 gold).
The first step in the process of getting a tabard is to save up for one. Early in the game,
10 gold is a huge sum. But by the time you members levels are in the 30s, 10 gold is a
fairly easy sum for a guild to accumulate. So before you begin the process, collect 10
gold and ensure the guildmaster character has it.
Once the GM has the gold, you need to design the tabard. To do that you need to locate
the Tabard Designer NPC. This is not consistent across cities, as of the writing of this
guide.
On the Alliance side, the easiest way to handle this is to fly to Stormwind and go to where
the guildmaster NPC is and there is a tabard designer right there.
On the Horde side here are your options:
Thunderbluff: There is no way to make a tabard there so don’t waste your time looking
Orgimmar: Go to where the guildmaster NPC is (inside the main gate, to the left, and into
the building labelled the Embassy). Talk to the guildmaster NPC. He will have an option
for “Design Tabard”
Undercity: Go to where the guildmaster NPC (around the main inner circle area) and next
to the guildmaster is an NPC that is labelled Tabard Designer. Talk to that NPC.

Regardless of whether you are horde or alliance, the final tabards all look the same and
both sides have the exact same options. So find the tabard designer NPC and select the
Design Tabard menu option.
Upon selecting that option, a tabard design window will launch. That window will display a
picture of your character on the left, wearing your current tabard design. On the right side
will be the various options you can chose to customize the tabard.
With the tabard design up the likely first thing you will want to do is pick an icon. That icon
will display on the front middle of the tabard. Use the left and right arrows in the icon area
and scroll through the list of choices until you find one you like. There are 100 or so
choices you can pick from. Supposedly more will be added as time goes on.
Now, below the icon are a number of color customisation options. You can set the color
for:
●Tabard main color
●Tabard border/fringe color
●Icon color
●And another minor color or two.
People will notice your tabard. So unless you want to be known as the colorblind kiddies
put some thought into your color choices. Once your design is as you like it and feel that
it will represent your guild in the manner in which you desire, click the accept button. 10
gold will be deducted from your characters backpack but the window will not close. You
may think nothing happened and wonder what is going on. If you notice, you are 10 gold
lighter so it did accept your changes. Just close the design window as you have
completed the tabard creation process.
At this point the guildmaster and all members can go to the NPC (located in the same spot
as the Guildmaster NPC, in all cities) that is named the Tabard Vendor. That NPC sells
one item, a tabard, for 1 gold (90 silver if you have "honoured" faction to the city).
Purchase the tabard and it looks like a plain grey one in your backpack. Drag it into your
character sheet and it will turn into the same color and design the guildmaster created at
the tabard design vendor.

If a member buys a tabard before the guild tabard is designed, they can still wear it. It
simply shows up as a plain grey tabard over their clothes. Once the tabard is designed
they can take off the plain one and put it back on and it will update with the guild’s design.