Guild Mergers as complicated as real life.

First I would just like to thank Blizzard for reinstating the old size of my Tauren's weapons while sheathed. I do enjoy my weapons staying the same size whether i'm using them or not.

Now on to the good stuff.

The Rabid Kittens of Camelot, the guild I'm the leader of and helped create with some of my friends, has come quite a ways in the last few weeks i think. We've been adding more people (and not just our many alts) and we are up to 76 members. Of that i would say there are probably 20 distinct players and about 8-10 regular players that have been on in the last week. There are about 4 70s that are on regularly and we have a couple alts that are coming up to the 60-70 range. One of my co-founders and i have been talking heavily about getting more people recruited to the guild since we are both geared out for Heroic Dungeons or Karazhan which is a 10 man raid. But often times in dungeons and raids like this it's very hard to get PUGS together due to the fact that when you don't run something regularly with a group of people you have to explain more or you don't know things like the enhancement shaman is going to pull some serious aggro with the DPS he's outputting. (If you don't understand the last sentence just keep reading and don't worry about it). Tanks in particular for some reason don't like to PUG probably because they don't like to die/wipe. Although truthfully it's the tanks job to try and die by getting everything possible to attack him instead of everyone else. It's the healer's job to keep the tank alive which in turn is easier if the tank's doing his best at keeping the mobs focus on him/her.

So anyways, Minion, a mutual WOW friend of myself and mikey, proposed that we merge our guild with that of DIABLO which is his old guild. He's not currently in it but would come back to it if we merged. He's been talking it over wiht that group and they are ok with it and wondered if I would be cool with the merger.

When presented with this option I really only had 3 concerns.
What would the new name be?
Who would be the leaders/officers?
How would the rest of my guild be with this decision?

Now while i do worry about our name being Hello Kitty Online or leadership going solely to that of current leaders in standing in DIABLO i worry the most about bad blood between guildies. Believe me, I've seen guilds go crazy over little issues and completely disband and cause all sorts of craziness by spreading rumors and such. So that's the reason why I want things to be kosher between everyone if the merger happens(which it's going to happen sooner or later). I take this leadership thing seriously as i look at everything that affects the guild as a whole something that the whole guild should be ok with. If it's going to cause problems then I'll nix it.

Of course i've got a little advantage in the situation as the majority of the people that have been adding in recently are people i used to work with , so i know them in real life and can talk to them face to face. And they are all cool with it. I'm more worried about the people that bring a lot to the guild but i can't meet face to face, although i'm pretty sure they would be cool with it as well, but i just want to make sure first.

But talks are in progress and i took the time to send out letters in the in game mail to every guild member that has been on at least in the last month for support and to feel free to ask questions about what this will mean. I still don't have all the specifics down but some possibilities are co-leadership from myself and the other guild leader with a hidden figurehead guild master controlled by someone trustworthy enough not to loot the guild bank and disband the guild.
Also some possibilities on names have come up like "Rabid Diablo kittens" or "Diablo Kittens of Camelot" or "Diablos Rabid Kittens" and "Troggdor"(gotta love a little variety). But I will keep this updated with the progress that is being made in the negotiations.

Who would have thought something as trivial as a guild merger in a fictional world would have so many aspects as something in real life. I wonder if any company mergers get fed up over a trivial thing like loot or when to raid etc....