Saturday Morning Event Idea to Coincide with Social Hour

Hey Everyone,

So as many of you know I'm trying to create a weekly SOR Social Mixer which is accessible to the majority of the people on our server. I am thinking of breaking this 3 hour event into 3 portions and would like the help of every available commander for the last hour of the event.

Situation: 
Gaiscioch is having some pretty alarming growth right now (almost capped again) and most of the people joining us have never played before and picked up Guild Wars 2 on the sale. (Another 50% off sale starts Tomorrow and runs through the 5th.). With this much new blood a lot of players are lost and could use a bit of direction. So what I would like to do is break the event into 3 parts.

Part 1: Guild Wars 2 101 - 9:30-10:30AM PST

This segment would walk players through some key features and work on unlocking waypoints so the new players can join us for some of the Social Hour Activities.

Part 2: Sanctum of Rall Social Hour - 10:30 - 11:30AM PST

During this hour we will do jumping puzzles, epic boss fights, mini-dungeons, living story, or other fun large group friendly activities. 

Part 3: Meet the Commanders In WvW - 11:30AM - 12:30PM PST

I would like to have as many commanders as possible. What I would like to do is have every commander take up to 5 people under their wing and spread out across all 4 wvw maps. This would be a low level friendly event to help introduce the new people to WvW and our SOR commanders. I would like to keep groups small so questions can be asked and they don't feel drowned out.  We would all have different WvW Channels in Teamspeak and can answer questions over voice and in chat as needed. I would suggest focusing on towers and supply camps explaining why each one is important and also on defensive tactics. Each commander would bring some new perspective to the table. Then each week have people rotate commanders. This way it's a good social mingling event that helps players get comfortable running with each commander.

So my question to you guys is who would like to see this become our Saturday event?

I think it would be a really good starting ground and can help segway new players into WvW with the least amount of information overload. 

You mean I need to get up before noon? On a Saturday?! The inhumanity of it all *faints dramatically*

Heck of a good idea Fog. Should be able to be there for most of it I think...provided I remember to set an alarm clock :)

~Soren

The good news is I won't keep ya up till 6 am Saturdays anymore haha. 

I like the scheduling for this, I may be able to join.  It could even get me to turn on my Commander tag in wvw (which I have never done.)

Peace,

Rev

Sounds like a fun event. And the last part is a great idea - it can be very intimidating to ask questions in those big zerg events with so many people on, plus you don't want to interrupt the commander in the middle of battle/strategy. Smalls groups would be much easier for learning about WvW.