Cead Mile Failte!This month was quite historical if I may say so. Most of us have spent April indoors. One of the wonderful things about a community like ours is we can speak to one another from the far reaches of the world. We've got wonderful people who have given us their first hand experiences from 6 of the 7 continents. Sorry Antarctica crew, I haven't met you yet! One thing is for certain. This moment in our lives will go down in history. Along with Coronavirus came several repercussions, some of which were loss of employment, economic instability, and I've even heard from a few that have battled this disease and won. But not all is bad. This month we saw a resurgence of familiar faces reappearing in the community. People have time on their hands and are taking a moment to reconnect with old friends. Whatever your story is, be sure to write down your memories and experiences as they are a moment in history. Let's dive into some news. DirectoryGet InvolvedGaiscioch Family NewsGaiscioch Community Summit - May 2nd, 2020Join us for our Spring 2020 Gaiscioch Community Summit as we take a look at our past 3 months and look forward to the months ahead. The Livestream kicks off at 3PM Pacific / 6PM Eastern on Twitch.tv. We encourage all members to attend live on Twitch.tv or check out the replay on YouTube. We will be Gathering in Discord for the AMA portion of the event so be sure to tune in! If you have a question you'd like answered post it in the AMA section of Discord under Public Events. Inside the FamilyGaiscioch Family Patreons:Want to give a special shout-out to those members who are helping enable our community to do great things. Their financial support has allowed us to expand the tools at our disposal and maintain the community without burning a hole in my personal savings. While a still do pay a bit out of pocket their contributions have prevented me from having to work side gigs to keep us afloat and for that, I am eternally grateful. It's at a manageable level I am comfortable with. Without these Patreons, you'd be seeing a lot less of me. Thank you for keeping me in-game and focused on growing our community. Avohaiel
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Gaiscioch Family Promotions:I wanted to take a moment to say congratulations to a few members this month for accepting their next credo and stepping into a new role in our family. Veteran Members (Curadh)Veteran Members have proven their devotion to the family by participating in events and contributing to the family's success. They have been active more than 90 days and have continued to be contributing members to the family. » HousecarlKarl » KaySlays » LockeCole » Pfredde Official Members (Lorgaire)Official Members have earned the rank of Lorgaire and have accepted the Mark of the Kindred credo. They have officially decided to become members of the family and start their journey to ascend the roles of the Gaiscioch Family. » BlackBacon » Kiobio » Kwylos » Martlyn » Midnight » Ricesim » Rome » Scrippy » Wraith Please Welcome Our Newest MembersGaiscioch By The Numbers
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Over the past month we've seen a surge of new activity and new players joining the community. Sir Henry has posted a schedule of events on our site and in discord for easy access. Be sure to get involved and prepare for the next big chapter arriving in June. Once the new chapter drops you can look forward to joining many of your favorite Gaiscioch in exploring Greymoor and hunting vampires.
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Within the jungles of Stranglethorn Vale, distant drums beat in an ancient ritual calling forth the Blood God, Hakkar, to the ancient troll city of Zul’Gurub. Beyond the jungle, ancient emerald dragons rise, the insidious Silithid begin to swarm, and perhaps the most dangerous sport of all gets underway: the Stranglethorn Vale Fishing Extravaganza.
Be sure to check out the details at: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23391283/wow-classic-zul-gurub-and-more-now-available
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Season 3 launched on April 21st with a world and house reset. Our three houses are all off to the races and we're making a hard push for rank 4 where we can secure Nordtal. Once we have regained our territories we will begin forging alliances with those who call themselves neighbors.
This season we welcome all members to move your camp to Hunting Lodges. The new location of Hunting Lodges makes it an optimal home base for us. This will prevent massive repair bills in the event our cities fall. As an added bonus it has a Trading Post where you can easily sell excess supplies for some quick silver. With the new resource delivery system people will no longer have to travel to places to pick up their resources. This will make selling at hunting lodges that much easier. It also has a smuggler where you can buy crafting resources.
As an added bonus. People won't have to move their camps every time they switch houses.
With the change in what level houses can take which fiefs, this season looks to get a little crazy. It might be difficult for us to justify holding onto 3 of the 25 available fiefs for level 1 houses. With Borderlands initially closed it will be even more difficult for us to secure and hold onto them. Once houses level up and the borderlands opens it will make it a bit easier for us to secure a foothold. In the meantime we will setup a 2 phase plan.
We will aim to secure Fallenberg for Gaiscioch and Mainstadt for ArachDubh. If we can secure Nordtal we will however we may allow our ally Heavenly Kingdom to sit on it until they can move to Ellbogen or Huegelstadt. We will however focus on Fief Questing on Mainstadt, Nordtal, Fallenberg, and Kupferbach. We want to prep them for our long term takeover.
In phase two, we will stretch our legs a little and secure Kupferbach and Nordtal. By this time the houses who fight in the borderlands will migrate out of our region and we will be able to stretch our legs a little.
Now in order to secure Nordtal Gaiscioch must reach House Rank 3 by May 4th. If you are registered at Gaiscioch.com please contact Foghladha for instructions on joining House Gaiscioch for the start of season 3. We want to fill the house with our most active players to meet our goal of rank 3. We will have 13 days to raise 150,000 house exp.
We will be speed upgrading Fallenberg and Mainstadt to rank 7. If you are Gaiscioch, focus your Fief quests on Mainstadt for highest honour rewards. If you are in ArachDubh focus on Fallenberg. If you are in Tuatha and are reading this Contact Foghladha to migrate to ArachDubh. You pass the test.
Our goal is to have Fallenberg & Mainstadt at rank 7 and Nordtal at least at rank 6. The higher the level the more rewards we will be able to pass out on a weekly basis.
Crafting Kits and Siege Weapons can only be done at select Fiefs. This will make selling kits and siege weapons a very lucrative business on the silver front. Be sure to take advantage of our home base being Hunting Lodges this season and stick kits and materials on the Trading Post. This will be an excellent way to earn silver and a good way to get the funds to buy your starting purple gear, skill pages and keys.
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Like most other games in development that were set to release this summer, New World is taking a bit of time to polish things up and get things set for their release.
Gaiscioch will have a presence in New World and it's important that you sign up in our Adventure section to give me an idea of how many to expect. There are small guild size limitations in effect, so I will be rotating our rosters in the traditional whoever has been away the longest, for whoever is playing now fashion. I'm hoping we can make it work and keep all of us on the front line.
We will be focusing on the Syndicate faction as we will be fighting against the power-hungry, muscle-bound, Meatheads known as Marauders, and the fanatical doctrine following, heretic burning, zealots known as the Covenant. Our quest is one of forbidden knowledge and enlightenment but with three other factions wanting to prevent the masses from being enlightened, we must do so with cunning and guile.
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https://www.gaiscioch.com/adventures/new_world/
A few of our members got the itch to play some ARPGs. This past month I've streamed Wolcen on my Sunday streams with Burialsoup, DocRestless, Gary and Trithian. Now the merry band of ARPG warriors is growing and has spread to Path of Exile.
For the Month of May I will be streaming the latest season of Path of Exile with up to 7 additional players. Path of Exile is free to play and has 8 player coop. Tune in or download it to give it a try. I have a Gaiscioch guild already created in there from a Streams of Epic Adventure episode with Smitty and Soren.
Get involved in Path of Exile at:
https://www.gaiscioch.com/adventures/path_of_exile/
In what appears to be our next great chapter, Ashes of Creation has revealed it's progress in an hour-long Livestream along with the announcement of Alpha One beginning in May. While I won't be able to play till the Betas unless I get lucky, I will be watching it closely and keep you updated on developments.
In the meantime, check out their recent 1-hour preview Livestreams. There's some really neat stuff in there including a world boss that attacks your village/city.
Get involved in what might become our next chapter at:
https://www.gaiscioch.com/adventures/ashes_of_creation/
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These past couples of months have been crazy and chaotic. But they did give me a bit of time to reflect and think about all the things we could become moving forward. I have been thinking really hard about creating a wiki-lite system inside our Gaiscioch Magazine so we can develop game guides over time. Where we can outline features and add screenshots and build our very own Wiki-style site.
I have tried wiki in the past and my biggest problem is that every submission I've ever made has been denied. I spent a lot of time and effort and it just gets denied and thrown away.
I want to build our very own interpretation of it. There are so many games out there like Conqueror's Blade and World of Warcraft Classic that has little to no helpful guides out there. No current information to help players out. What I'm thinking of doing is expanding on our game hubs turning each of them into sections. This allows us to put together a structured format of game guides we can easily edit and update on a regular basis.
I also want to look into being able to import other popular game guides and videos directly into the site as direct links as well to provide a one-stop resource for the games we love.
That said, this is gonna take some time to create. But I think moving forward it might be a nice thing we can do for the game communities we are a part of.
With articles slowing down and availability of new content becoming scarce this will provide us a road forward that we can still write articles about, but aren't confined to just articles.
Be sure to check out our latest stories and gaming news at: https://www.gaisciochmagazine.com/
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