The Leftovers group introduction

I've posted a public event run called "Leftovers", it's an appropriate name for the particular one, and ties into the WoW raiding organization a few of us are from.

http://rift.gaiscioch.com/calendar/577/

The core idea is to start a "seriously casual" weekly raid. What I mean by this is getting a group of skilled, enthusiastic players who are interested in excellent endgame play in RIFT who just don't have the time for 3 nights per week dedicated to raiding.

I'd like to see if we can start building a 20 man core group. I'm convinced there are enough folks interested that we'll be able to do it.

I've had some exploratory pugging into the 10 man shard and to Greenscale Blight. The first fight in GSB in particular would be easy stuff if we had a core of skilled Lefties and friends. We'll have to see about the rest. :)

While building up the group, I figured we might try a raid rift or 2. I'll have the mats for 1 raid rift. Probably buy the raid-rift-of the day that morning.

Background info on me and "Leftovers":

Leftovers is a still very active WoW raiding group on the WoW RP Server Silver Hand. This organization is fairly large and continues to be quite successful, recently celebrating it's 6th anniversary. I personally am a raid leader for the "Night Watch" raiding charter in that group and the guild leader of "Nu Tir", one of the larger guild on that server. (which also explains my personal time limitations, as 2 nights per week I'm raiding in Azeroth). I'm known as "Daphyd" there if you check out the site, which is here: http://leftoversraiding.org/index.php

The values and "feel" of Leftovers is a very good fit with the values of Gaiscioch, hence the participation of many of the LO group in this guild.

I envision the "LO" or "Leftovers" regular activity in Gaischioch in many ways as being what we'd call in LO a "charter" within the Gaischioch family: A "regular" subgroup of friends who meet regularly to play, but who also enjoy being a part of the larger family, and who are always open to new "regulars".

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Where do I sign up?

If it's open to all tuatha alliance members, I think we'll have a few members from the Knights of the Vigil who would definitely be interested, myself included.

I remember you guys from WOW. Good to see ya again

It is open to Tuatha, and the signup is here : http://rift.gaiscioch.com/calendar/577/

I love the idea, Tor. Plus, I'm also available on those times. At least for a couple of hours.

I think my wife and I might be interested. Will this be consistently Saturday mornings at 10? Any gear considerations for signing up? My wife and I usually want to do as much of the content as we can, but we usually plod through at a much slower pace than others.

As we are getting started and gearing up, there'll be no gear requirements. We do intend to keep this going each Sat AM at 10, yep!

This is right up my alley. I work 3:30pm to midnight Sun-Thurs and am not avail to raid 3 times a week. But I am free all day Friday and Saturday so I can easily raid once a week on one of those nights and I am geared up from enough T2 runs and have my hit over 220. Great idea and sign me up please :)

The event for this next Saturday is currently posted on the event calendar. Feel free to sign up there, and we will ask around for more people to fill in if we are not full. Also, if interest is extremely high we may look into forming a second raid, and organize both groups together for any crafting rifts we are going to do. BTW, I will be helping Tor as a co-host and general assistant for these Saturday gatherings. I'm slightly unofficial atm as far as I know (newer to the Tuatha and still gaining ranks so I'm not at a small group leadership level). That being said, I have a lot of leadership experience. To give you an idea of my qualifications for this: I am part of the Leftovers organization on World of Warcraft, where I have been a regular of several charters, and a charter lead. I've also been a guild officer in several guilds, one of which was based around one of the charters I was active with (unfortunately, it's hard to keep guilds together when GM's just stop caring). I also have been in leadership roles in other games, as well as during my time in the Navy. If you have any questions about the Leftovers, or these events, feel free to contact myself or Tor! Hope to see a lot of people out there having a blast with us!

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