How to find a Good Guild

Guilds are everywhere but really good guilds are hard to find. This guide will help you find it.
First off you must ask yourself a few questions and be honest because your answers will decide how good of a match the guild is for you. You are trying to find guilds who share your ideals and have stuff in common with you.

A guild application is like a job application so the same way you'd approach a job ap do it here.
Did i mention avoid the trade chat LFM guilds? good guilds dont' advertise

Research: most the info can be found online read your server's general forum alot of guilds post their recruitment and guild info there and really state exactly what they're looking for so that should be your first step.

PUG groups and pay attention to your members if they seem especially skilled friends list them and add a note saying so and so are good healers.

Questions to ask YOURSELF

1. What do you want to do in wow? rp, pvp, pve, raid, or just hang out
   
2. What do you want to do in wow that requires a guild?
3. Why do you want to be in a guild?
4. What skills do you bring to the guild
5. Who do you know that's in guilds?
6. What is your personality like?
7. How to you talk? cuss, swear lots, sexy talk .. whatever
8. What is your age / maturity level

Questions to ask of GUILDS
You want to talk to people from guilds that you're interested in so here's a list of questions to ask them.

1. What does your guild do? pvp, rp, pve, raid .. or nothing we're just that casual
2. What is your website?
3. Tell me about your guild
   
4. How is raid drafting done
5. What kinda guild activaties is availble
6. What's the loot policy
7. What times does the guild usually raid or play

ACTIONS
once you've IDed your target guilds you want to get to know some of these people to get a better feel for thier guild culture. This is a chance for you to impress them while seeing if you like thier guild. Form a group for a heroic instance, then do a /who and whisper people from the guild you want to be in to see if they'd like to come. I'd take 2-3 people from that guild and fill the other 2 with random pug or one person from another guild or 2 that you're considering. And if you're really daring go take all 4 members from one guild so you get to see that this is how they run thier runs.

So in essence you're interviewing your potential guilds so if everything goes well you go in for your application

The SErver transfer
Same thing Research and talk to people. As a low level you wont' have the option of running heroics with your potential guildy so make a level 1 toon run it to the nearest city and start whispering people from the guilds you want to join and ask them the same questions.


NEXT Entry: Guild Application 101


Watch how your group members deal with a wipe, mistakes, gear I'd say run the heroic to the best of your abilities then somewhere make a mistake or two and see what thier response is or shoot do a auto run and wipe the group. This is a calculated mistake where you make no mistakes on other than purposely wipe them to see what and how they respond. Pay attention to what they say and how they say it.

If you liked these people put them on your friends list and ask them out to more heroics after you've done 3+ heroics with the same group of people you can ask them about thier guild and by that point they will feel like you're a friend of sorts and would endorse your invite.

Elite guilds and other very good hardcore/casual guilds are also hard to get into so unless you have some connections or another. Even having good gear isn't enough to get you an invite so friends are it.