Grunts
Submitted by Joo on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 12:31.
Overview
- Faction: Horde
- Website: http://drunkengrunts.com
History
The Grunts were formed on the second day of server release by Dreadbeard and Wyldfire. Excellent initial marketing of the guild, promising a fun atmosphere for casual and more hardcore players who were interested in PvP combat, particularly on the world stage, lead to a successfull round of initial recruitment.
Capping out after several months at well over a hundred players, recruitment to the guild was closed to allow the existing member-base to form into a more tight-knit, cohesive group. Eventually, guild recruitment was re-opened and remained open until shortly after The Burning Crusade was released when a significant amount of Blood Elves, mainly alts of the existing members, were allowed in and it was decided that it was again time to work on forming the guild into a more tight-knit community.
The history of the guild, like many other large guilds, is very complex and is subject to much in the way of opinion and personal insight when it comes to specific events. Some members, including the founders of Grunts, have left the guild over time to either join raiding guilds, transfer servers, or leave the game entirely, but others remain from the beginning of the server.
<Grunts> has been called, among other things, a "zerg recruitment" guild by numerous people within the server. Although <Grunts> has a fairly liberal recruitment policy, <Grunts> members are strictly policed with regard to treating each other and members of the Alliance with appropriate respect. This philosophy differs greatly from the pre-concieved stereotype of a "zerg recruitment" guild, as those guilds will generally allow anyone into the guild regardless of behavior. Grunts has, in the past, kicked members for behavior deemed unfit for a Grunt.
<Grunts> has a very clear no spitting policy, where use of the /spit emote is strictly prohibited by guild members. Also, with the exception of certain circumstances (Such as world PvP or as "eye for an eye" treatment) <Grunts> has a no camping policy.