The Kestrel Minority

Argent Dawn, my first server too... then joined Defias Brotherhood (for a long time) and then we transferred to Steamwheedle... yet just as Ceandric I fought for the right faction

For the Horde!

Wow, I started on Hellscream decided I wanted to switch to an RP Server went to Argent Dawn, was there for about a year, got fed up with the long queues logging in so took the free transfer for all ten of my toons to Steamwheedle Cartel, where my character remain, slumbering in the Internet Ether

all mine were Alliance

My most played Hordie on AD was Traguz (orc shaman) and I played Serrajin there a little bit too (troll priest). Later on Serrajin became my main (Defias Brotherhood and Steamwheedle). Played on AD from release (February 2005 if I'm not mistaken) till about half a year in.

Used to have a very small guild on AD but I quite playing pretty much the day I hit 60 on AD. Which, sadly, upset some people as I was guild leader, but things in RL cropped up and I forgot about handling things in WoW.
About a year later I convinced some of my RL mates to play WoW and we started on Defias (mostly because one of my longterm MMO friends was playing there).
There we met up with some other people who we got to know very well and we decided to join forces as the Darkwolf Exiles (a merged guild out of our two old ones). There we had a pretty successful ride doing some raids (mostly the 20 man ones) and growing to quite a decent size. TBC hit, we went on and did some Kara and Gruul's (cleared both of them) but never really progressed further as that. Then the guild started declining and I got tired of WoW after a lot of playing and quit. The guild starting falling apart more and more afterwards.

We had a small revival a few months after WotLK launched as some of the old members and myself returned to WoW for a while and we started building up the guild a bit again (after we moved to Steamwheedle) and we had some fun in WotLK, but it never really stuck with us as much and after a while we all stopped again (WotLK was a bit boring after a while). I then came back a little before Cata's release but got burnt out after a month or 3 of playing that. And haven't played since (and probably never will anymore).

And now this has turned more and more into a lifestory about my WoW "career" then about the chars I played

Damn this turned in to quite the WoW conversation :O But to get on topic.

I like the idea with mentoring. Seen it I'm many guilds before and it almost always works well. If you assign a recruit of a specific class to someone in the guild the recruits often feel more welcome, they get a faster understanding of how the guild work, get into the guild story and can get tips or tricks on their class. I can only see posetive things with implenting something like this when the game finally gets out.

I can see it being a good idea for getting new players started but we may in the future get players who might even be more experienced than ourselves. They might find forced mentoring a bit of a kick in the teeth.

I would suggest that being mentored is an 'option' for new players as opposed to a 'rule'.

Note however that I don't mean general participation in the guild. If a new player is in the guild and doesn't need a mentor they should still be 'encouraged' to get involved in guild questing, raiding, pvp'ing etc.

You do got a point when it comes to levels and gamer skills. But a mentor for such a player Can still be a good thing so they Can get into the guild story and understand how it works.
But i agree with you, it should be optional. Not a rule.