Dear Vanguard,

Recently we have found ourselves spending a lot of time considering the future direction of the guild. After much thought, we feel that as warm and friendly as it is, the guild cannot offer the full range of game experience that we desire.

The Vanguard has been going for over a year now. Apart from the original four of us, the core group of players has changed over time, with people dropping in and out due to perfectly understandable real life considerations. Despite the 10 level 60 characters in the guild, we only have four regular players online at the same time. For all the end game content, we need to field parties of five or more, and in a guild of our size, this is difficult to arrange.

Even though the Vanguard does have up and coming characters for whom level 60 is not too far away, we have realised that this still won't allow us the breadth of gameplay and roleplay that having a variety of high level characters should offer. Even in the Vanguard's distant future, there is no prospect of all these characters experiencing all the high level instances, raids and other end game content.

And so we feel that, sad as it is for us near the Vanguard's first anniversary, the guild has reached the end of its shelf life. It's been great fun, but if we're going to keep playing Warcraft, we want more out of the game.

So this Wednesday (12th July) we'll be dissolving the guild. Goffgob, Getitka and Mormanik have approached a larger guild, Unspeakable Villiany, who seem like a good bunch of people.

What you'd like to do now is up to you. You might want to form your own guild(s), or look at some of the other guilds that are out there. If you do want to put your own guild together, we'd be more than happy to help you fill the guild charter with signatures from our alts. When and if we've joined the Villiany, which we're hoping could be by the end of the week, we'll be in a position to let people know who to whisper in the Villiany if you're also interested in joining them. The Villiany seem open to this idea, as they are interested in good people.

Whatever happens, we'll be keeping the DraenorVanguard chat channel open, which you can join with "/join DraenorVanguard". We'll be chatting on there in and out of character and still very much open to talking, making stuff for people and generally helping out.

We would like to wish all of you all the best, and hope to see you around beating up demons, Alliance, and anything else that needs a good Vanguard-style kicking. And with luck we'll see you in the bar.

Yours,

Goff, Get and Morm.