I left this guild for various reasons, but mainly because I couldn't agree with Ermean specifically in a variety of situations.
One other big reason was that the class leader of Paladins, who was leading the pvp premade after I was done (Kengar), decided to log on another premade members account(Pikkuhousut), walk to Orgrimmar and kill Civilians with the intention of deranking Pikku to the point at which Pikku's rank progress was just slightly below Kengar's own ranking points.
This happened because Kengar wasn't happy with the fact that somebody else was going to get a higher standing than him despite the fact that he was leading the premade.
He was the only suspect in the case. I was pushing the guild leadership to kick Kengar out of the guild, which didn't happen (immediately).
It took some time, long after I already quit the guild, for vg to kick Kengar. This same Kengar is now playing a Horde Shaman with an identical name on Kronos.
I also want to mention that when he joined the guild, I already knew that the guy was bad news, so I did reach out to one influential person specifically and advised not invite Kengar to the guild. Kengar was invited anyway, which lead to the situation I described above.
VG didn't kick Kengar for the deranking, with the excuse that not enough evidence had been gathered and that the leadership had to wait for GMs to confirm who it was that actually logged into Pikku's account to derank him. Everyone knew that there was only 1 person who had Pikku's account information, yet the responsible party
wasn't punished.
I strongly disagreed with that approach.
As a result I left the guild partly because of that.
As mentioned, this was the second major reason why I left. Nedstark will be able confirm that this is the truth if you do not trust my word.
I also would like to mention that
during the time when the harassment around silithus was at it's peak, I was considering to quit the game, and I certainly would've done so if it wasn't for Hagson reaching out to me on Skype to reconsider.
I explained to Hagson that I would not ask the guild for help in this matter, and that a server where that kind of harassment was fair play isn't a place where I would want to stay. I was majorly disappointed with the stance that the Kronos staff took in the matter (linked above).
As I said, Hagson was the person who made me reconsider. It wasn't that I came to him begging for help because I couldn't do it alone, I stayed because (and this is no exaggeration) I was was moved by his words of support. Hagson caught me on skype as I was literally about to uninstall my game client. We started talking on Teamspeak. He told me that the people at Vanguard would help me at the time simply because they wanted to help, without me even asking for that.
I felt that not responding to all these people's honest desire to help would be ungrateful, so I stayed. I will never forget that I was the one who received tons of help from Vanguard and CORAL at that time.
Some tangential information:
There were two guilds working on farming sands for 8+ hours on that day, it was Vanguard and Coral. These two guilds made sure that Timecop and me gained enough Honor to have a higher standing than Mcdaggers at the time. The combined efforts of two guilds were the reason why Mcdaggers quit at the time.
Regardless of the help I received, I could not stand staying in Vanguard for reasons which have already been stated above.
If I had to put a scale to why I left VG, it would be 50% Ermean, 40% the Pikku incident, 10% minor details.