Wowdee is recruiting: an EU Horde guild on Forever's Normal ruleset that takes everyone

Wowdee, a Horde guild on WoW: Forever's EU Normal ruleset, is recruiting. Normal is the ruleset where you fight other players only when you choose to, and the guild calls itself a PvE guild. To join, the guild asks you to join its Discord and post your character's name there, and says it will send your invite in game.

The guild is run by the team behind the Wowdee add-on.

Who is in it

Blizzard's guild record shows Wowdee was created at 00:52 UTC on 5 November, the night after Forever's 4 November launch. On 12 November its roster listed 49 characters, which counts characters rather than players, and 12 of them were still level 1. The highest was level 40, six were level 30 or above, and 26 were level 20 or above. The guild's Discord had about 44 members the same day.

Shamans were the most common class, with 11 characters. Hunters and Warriors had seven each, Druids and Warlocks five, Paladins, Priests and Mages four each, and Rogues two. All four Paladins are Undead, one of the race and class pairings new in Forever.

The pitch

Wowdee's recruiting post on 1 November, three days before launch, kept it short: "No long application. We will raid A LOT. But we take everyone. Can you turn your computer on? We accept you!"

The description of the rules channel in its Discord gives the guild's code: "Be kind, be fair, keep the banter friendly."

Raids open on 9 December

Forever's first three raids unlock on 9 December for level 60 characters: the Barrow Deeps for 10 players, Hyjal Summit for 20 and Onyxia's Lair for 40. Wowdee's Discord already has sign-up, chat and log channels for all three. Its raid schedule and raid announcement channels had no posts on 12 November, so no raid nights had been announced.

Onyxia is the raid that needs numbers: 40 level 60 players on the same night, each carrying the Drakefire Amulet. The Horde chain for it takes you to Kargath, Orgrimmar, Desolace, the Western Plaguelands, Dustwallow Marsh and Blackrock Spire, and our Horde attunement guide goes through it stop by stop.

What the Discord is for until then

Since launch day the guild has posted leveling notes there: the first part of a dungeon list, 14 dungeons from Ragefire Chasm to the Scarlet Monastery Library with suggested levels and each faction's quest count, a checklist of class quests, an explainer on Legacy points and a note on Library books. Members also have channels for leveling together, finding groups, crafting, guild events, screenshots, add-ons and PvP.

How to join

1. Make a Horde character on EU's Normal ruleset.
2. Join the Wowdee guild's Discord.
3. Post your character's name there. The guild says it will send your invite in game.

If you play Horde on EU Normal with the Wowdee add-on, you may have seen this invite already: the add-on shows it on a card at login, once per account, and never to a character already in the guild. Wowdee's guild page also takes sign-ups with a Discord username and email, and lists a US guild as coming soon.