Guild leader

Did you mean Guild Master, an NPC who assists in the forming of a guild?

A Guild Leader is a player character who is the head of a guild. They have administrative control of the guild's operations (via "Guild Control" button on the Guild list window), including giving ranks, privileges, setting permissions to the guild bank, adding/removing guild members, etc.

Characters who are Guild Leaders cannot be deleted or transferred to another server, leadership must be transferred to another character within the guild (see below), or the guild disbanded first.

Guild Leaders are also referred to as Guild Masters or GMs for short, which sometimes gets confused with Blizzard's Game Masters.

Assigning another Guild Leader or Co-Leaders

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While there can only be one Guild Leader ranked character within a guild, a Guild Leader can transfer leadership to another character for their guild: the in-game command to do this is /gleader <character name>. Contrary to signing the guild charter, it is possible to change leadership to an Alt belonging to the same account as the Guild Leader.

Inactive Guild Leader replacement

This section concerns content exclusive to Cataclysm.

Main article: Guild Dethrone

An absent Guild Leader can be replaced by an active guild member via a game mechanism, if they are absent for too long.

Defining ranks

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Promoting and demoting

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Managing members

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See also

• Guild
• Guild Dethrone
• Guild Finder
• Guild Services
• Guild window

External links

WoW Official Game Site (US) Guilds section of Game Guide > Beginner’s Guide > Chapter III: Playing Together

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Guilds section of Game Guide > Beginner’s Guide > Chapter III: Playing Together

Leadership

WoW Insider Officers' Quarters series of guild leadership related blog articles usually by Scott Andrews

Official Raid and Guild Leadership forum Sam's Guild Management Guide by Samsquirtz (Kilrogg EU) 08/06/2011

Leading A Guild blog A detailed guide on how to create, manage and ultimately lead a guild successfully by Pierre Goldbloom (last post 2 January 2010)

Support

Battle.net Support (US) Guild Dethrone by Blizzard Entertainment, Updated: Apr 18, 2012, Article ID: 300910

Battle.net Support (EU) Guild Dethrone by Blizzard Entertainment, Updated: 18-Apr-2012, Article ID: 300910

News

WoW Insider Officers' Quarters: Revisiting my Mists wish list by Scott Andrews Aug 19th 2013 2:00PM

MMO-Champion New in 4.3: Inactive Guild Leader Replacement by Boubouille 2011-09-30 07:32 PM

WoW Insider Officers' Quarters series of guild leadership related blog articles usually by Scott Andrews

WoW Insider Officers' Quarters: Raiding without characters by Scott Andrews Aug 1st 2011 at 2:00PM

WoW Insider Officers' Quarters: Suffocating in a leadership vacuum by Scott Andrews Jul 11th 2011 at 1:00PM

WoW Insider Officers' Quarters: The three biggest mistakes new guild leaders make by Scott Andrews Jun 20th 2011 at 4:00PM

WoW Insider Officers' Quarters: Making the most of the guild finder by Scott Andrews May 2nd 2011 at 2:00PM

WoW Insider Officers' Quarters: How to replace an absentee guild leader by Scott Andrews Apr 11th 2011 at 2:00PM

WoW Insider Officers' Quarters: 5 tips for guild recruiting in a post-Cataclysm world by Scott Andrews Mar 28th 2011 at 2:00PM

MMOLeader.com Website dedicated to leadership in WoW and other MMOs, with articles and forums.