So you've decided that you want to start a guild? Guilds are an integral part of the game, allowing like-minded players to join together to achieve goals, not to mention getting to wear a really cool tabard. In explaining guilds, I'll cover the formation of a guild and its upkeep.

Time to get new players started with a few general tips. We'll get in BG-specfic tips as well, but the ideas here are useful almost anywhere.

A general theme of PVP is the sense of proper conduct that runs through its most respected players. There are many people who are going to break into an "us vs. them" mentality, and those are the types that are often a lot more difficult to work with. If you want to play on consistent, mature, and skilled teams, it usually means learning the rules of conduct and finding a good guild.

You might wonder what is fair and what is unfair on the field of war. By the terms of the game, almost everything is cool in the Battlegrounds; using /spit and /rude, slaughtering people two seconds after the Rez, and being a general jerk to friend and enemy alike is not going to get you kicked off the server (unless you use language that violates the TOS, obviously).

What those actions may do, however, is get you blacklisted from the best PVP groups available. That is a very bad thing, because the rate of Honor for PUG's isn't even close to what a skilled group can rake in. And in higher ranked battlegrounds this means PVP rewards more quickly.

Thus, whether you believe in being nasty to the enemies or not, it's very much to your advantage to learn how to behave in the way that your server or guild deems appropriate. The specifics of that may vary a fair bit, but I'm still going to discuss some of the usual problems that come up in PVP; that way, you'll at least know the sides before you have to choose which one to take.

*Also take note. With players almost evenly split on the subject of twinks. Responsible in game action may help preserve twinking's favorable image with Blizzard.