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As someone who handles some applicants and recruiting of a raiding guild, it is a bit of a balancing act. One one hand, we'd love to get to know players from a low level up and introduce them to our way of raiding and conducting ourselves, but on the other hand you want higher level committed players who will stick with you for the long haul. Whats to say the first cant also be the latter? Nothing really, its just been our experience that lower level applicants tend to burn out, get bored or simply vanish more than higher level ones.

We try to balance the two out by allowing players to submit applications before they are 46 to show they are interested in being a part of us, but we don't start the formal process until 46. That way, we can know your name and be on the look out for you when we are running around not raiding. Most all level 50 raiding mains have alts who are leveling up, so we try to include those people when looking for groups in their level range.

As stated before, 46 is the magical number in which you can zone into Fear, Hate and Sky where 90% of the weekly raiding takes place.

Edit: Also, we make it a point not to recruit players from other guilds. We don't like when it happens to us, and we don't want to do it to others. However, we also understand that many players want to be in guilds before 46, and have no problem with that. Its another balancing act that is tough because every guild wants quality players, but usually the same quality players want to level within an established guild. Our process is a little stricter than most, but its worked out very well for us, so unless something drastic happens it's what we'll continue to follow.