[Zotics]

Quick Overview

General Information

• Shadow Consortium is a PvP oriented guild. We work as a small group to achieve our goals. With Shadow Consortium, you will often find yourself going up against large groups of enemy players. The saying goes, "If they're not Shadow Consortium, then they're fair game."

• Our enemies include our own faction if we are playing a faction-based game. If we want to take over an experience spot or raid boss occupied by our own faction and game mechanics allow us to kill our own faction, we will do it if necessary.

• We are serious about succeeding in all games and expect all members to have ambitions of grandeur and aim high. Of course, we also expect everyone to have fun playing as well. It's much more fun to be on the winning team.

• We do not play games to boost our reputation and we do not look for anyone's respect. We play to crush, and we hope all applicants do as well.

Guild Structure

• Shadow Consortium is a dictatorship guild that revolves around PvP. This means that all orders come from one sole source - the Guild Leader - and they must be obeyed. Leadership qualities may also be delegated to the Guild Officers in the Guild Leader's absence.

• Everyone is expected to follow the orders of the Guild Leader like clockwork, especially in PvP situations. If a member does not follow orders adequately or satisfactorily, that member will be kicked out of the guild, no questions asked. We will typically give a member a few strikes before they are kicked out of the guild, depending on the severity of their ignorance or suckage.

• If you join and play with Shadow Consortium, then you're working towards the betterment of the guild as a whole. That means: helping out other guild members when needed, helping out in PvP situations, helping with farming for materials, and whatnot, even if the arising situation does not benefit your character.

Communication

• Everyone who joins Shadow Consortium is required to have Mumble and a microphone to communicate back. If you don't have Mumble please download it. You will be given information on how to connect to our Mumble server if your application is accepted.

• A board account is required to post an application. You can visit our boards at http://www.shadowconsortium.com/. If your guild application is approved you will be granted guild member status and have access to the private boards once your recruit period is over.

Loot System

• Shadow Consortium does not use a DKP (dragon kill points) system. Instead, everyone who participated in a raid will have a fair chance of getting item(s) that were dropped by the raid boss. The item(s) will go to the member who needs them the most. If everyone who participated in the raid has no use for the item(s) that were dropped, the item(s) will be given to guild members that did not participate in the raid, put in the guild bank, or put up on the auction house.

• If a loot item replaces a guild member's item, then the guild member will surrender the replaced item and give it to another guild member that can benefit from it, unless the item being replaced is soulbound.

• We will continue raiding until everyone in the guild has what they want. Guild members may not get what they want all the time, but we work as a guild to retrofit everyone with what they want.

• A non-DKP system benefits our guild as a whole since we keep the amount of guild members low. This makes it far easier to equip everyone with the best gear possible.

Weak Races or Classes

• If we deem a class or race weak, we generally ask members who are currently playing those classes or races to reroll to a better one, unless the said member proves his or her ability with that particular class or race.

• If you are posting an application and your character is a class or race that we deem weak, then your application will most likely be rejected unless you prove to be truly exceptional and beat all odds with that particular class or race.

Ready to Apply?

• If you have read all of the above and you feel that Shadow Consortium is definitely the guild for you, then post an application using the provided application template.

Member Levels

• You can see which group a member is currently in when you look at the information pane at the side which contains the person's name and avatar. For example, I have an image of Guild Leader near my name, indicating I am the current guild leader. If there is no image, then the forum member is not a member of Shadow Consortium.
  
  
• Current membership levels:
  GUILD LEADER: There can be only one.
  GUILD OFFICER: A few folks who have been long time members of the guild can attain this title.
  GUILD MEMBER: Ranging from veterans to new folks, our members are the majority of our guild.
  
  
• Images for membership levels are as follows. They appear under your forum name and avatar when you post.
  - Zotics
  - bcs, Halfyellow, NoNo, Richthofen