We currently have GSCH and Teaghlach (means family in Irish) as very active guilds that look forward to PvP Node Wars (no date set yet for game inclusion) as much as they want to enjoy all the PvE content of the game. PvP is open world at level 45, but we only end up with sporadic things happening due to people who rather PK then invite a stranger to a group. There is nothing real to fight over yet.
Due to being a sandbox we have people who are ultimate gatherers, horse breeders, fishers and cooks, while still managing to level and explore the world. Everyone can play in the sandbox how they want, when they want. Everyone seems to be having fun and we figured out this diverse sandbox also leads to “Squirrel Moments”, where you wind up doing several other things before you get to what you planned to do in the first place. Plenty of help can be found in guild chat and on Discord. We try to be on Discord a lot in order to cross communicate between the guilds as there is no in game mechanic for that. Alliance mechanics may come with Node Wars, but nothing definitive yet.
Our current activity is staying at 90+ members in GSCH with at least 85 of them signing on most days. The inactivity time has been increased to 14 days and seems best with how this impacts the guild with in-game mechanics and for having a rather stable member rate. Teaghlach is at about 38 and pushing 40. Now that we are nearly through month two, the new and shiny is starting to wear off, and the true excitement of this game is keeping us here at a stable attendance.
GSCH and Teaghlach have been starting subjugation missions and doing boss scrolls for a little while now. We are hoping to get more people up to 50 in order to take place in these events, but we completely understand that the nature of the game makes you just take your time and have fun.
If interested, don’t hesitate to jump in Discord. We have a great crew of people who are all willing to work together and do the things needed even if the family had to buy a second house to fit us all.
Black Desert Expands
Over the past month we've seen 2 free expansions to Black Desert. The first was a huge addition opening up Mediah a new region of the game filled with over 1,000 new quests, a new boss, new guild missions, a 40v40 battlefield, new items and craftable goods. All in all it expanded the world by 30%. The second, released on April 20th added two new classes the Musa and the Maehwa. Be sure to login and check out the latest updates. Be sure to join discord if you need an invite to any of our guilds.
Warhammer Online
It's been a fun few weeks in Warhammer Online, but with the Social Adventures being put on hold our events will move from Thursday nights. We will instead be running them as part of our Siege War livestream on Tuesday the 24th at 6PM.
The Tuesday Night Siege War livestream will rotate between Guild Wars 2, ESO and Warhammer Online for the month of May as a trial. If things go well, we may continue our adventures. Be sure to keep an eye on the calendar for the new event lineup. If this works out as a better day for everyone we will continue this moving forward.
We currently have about 48 active people in the guild, however i'm only seeing about 5 on our event nights. I'm hoping a move to Tuesday can help bolster our numbers, if not I'll have to move this event out of Warhammer Online into something that draws a bigger crowd. There's a lot of active people atm, but i think were just too spread apart level and playtime wise.
Coming Soon to Social Adventures
Riders of Icarus
You guys know me, I'm not one for PvE, but this game has something about it that draws me to it. I have had the opportunity to test it with a few of you and plan to get a GSCH open when it goes open beta. This game has some real nice features in it and is breathtakingly beautiful. I plan to host a few events in here and see if it's something we'd like to play. Unfortunately I can't say much about it as i'm under NDA, but once it's lifted I'll be streaming it quite a bit.
World of Warcraft
Just a note to say that I know most of you have played WoW and always asked why there was no Gaiscioch in WoW. Well Twilah has taken it on herself to fix that by opening a GSCH on the Alliance Faction on the Kirin Tor (RP) server. If you interested in joining the GSCH Social Adventure in World of Warcraft be sure to connect with Twilah. If we generate enough interest it will become an official part of our Social Adventure lineup.
Bless Online
This month we finally saw the publisher for Bless Online. It is Aeria Games, who may have a long history of making Pay-2-Win games, however their direction has changed recently with the launch of Echo of Soul and a few others that are bringing it more in line with how ArenaNet, ZeniMax, Trion, NEXON, and DAUM are doing their transaction. Things like bag/storage space, cosmetic items, special mounts, etc are the focus of their newer games cash shops. They have publicly said that they are aiming to remove Pay-2-Win from all of their newer titles.
So things are looking scary but good for Bless. The even better news is that our family built a huge connection to Aeria when we delivered on the promise to help test Echo of Soul. We're now on the A list for testing Bless thanks to all of your hard work. This goes to show that sometimes testing a game you aren't interested can help get you into one that you are. As soon as we're able to get our hands on this one it will become a Social Adventure. There are a few items that are standing in it's way from becoming a full chapter and only time will tell if it could be chapter eligible.
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