Some interesting World of Warcraft forum discussions, and as with anything involving the WoW forums, there’s a lot of chaff to separate from the wheat.

A post-Burning Crusade take on a perennial topic: Alliance vs Horde, maturity level, EZ-mode, moronic public convos. “How to tell which BE’s are ally rerollers” I’ve never really bought into the theory that Alliance has more immature players than Horde, although I’ll freely admit I haven’t spent much time playing Horde. Certainly public chat is equally stupid on both sides.

On my own server, guild vs guild shit-talking mostly originates with Horde. However, the larger Alliance raiding guilds are rather prompt about booting ill-behaved players; we have the population numbers in our favor, after all. Seems to me that Horde probably doesn’t have that luxury.

As far as PVE EZ-mode, fear ward is a powerful thing. Although, when it comes to racial abilities, the racials you don’t have are always more attractive than the ones you do. Unless you’re human like my rogue, then the other racials actually ARE better.

Over on the Guild Relations forums, this convo pops up occasionally, “Website Critique” — guilds post their link for others to evaluate the usability and design. Several players offer detailed suggestions and Do’s/Dont’s for guild sites, which is rather useful — designing a guildsite to satisfy both recruiting and membership needs is a challenge.

I’m not a fan of splash pages, but I had run across this guildsite while researching my own guild’s redesign and rather liked it: Pirate Ninjas. They’ve integrated their pirate theme superbly throughout the site — corny, but well done.

Finally, an older thread that still has some life in it: “Worst reason/excuse you’ve seen for a /gquit”. Some people are actually thinking of original material for a /gquit, which is encouraging.

Also encouraging, that my guild has somehow missed guilding these quitters — narrowly missed, probably.