Question: How Did You Find Your Core Group?

[dragonflie]

Met mine around October, when I was trying to clear Garuda HM. They liked me and my friend enough that we eventually joined them.
Since I was the most talkative and active of my buddies, I got invited to the eventual Coil group as the melee dps.
As we progressed, our leader eventually played less and less, and I sorta became de-facto leader. The leader didn't like how we progressed, and me and the others kinda hated how he ran things around, often shoving things to me to fix. So he transferred off to another server, while me and the others merged to a raider FC.
I think the one thing that helped us keep together during that rocky time was that we talked to eachother a lot, and most of us were on the same page on the whole situation.
Discussing your issues in a group can makes things better, rather then being like my former leader who just did things his way.

Today, I'm still in a group with 4 of the original members of the Coil group with a T9 clear, and I couldn't ask any better people to play with.

TLDR: Communicate a LOT. Be willing to talk to others about issues. Have a off game chatroom.

EDIT:
Anyway, to answer the main question, since I went on memory lane: Start a raider LS.

I did this a few months back. I started an LS for raiders who didn't have a group to meet up in. I saw a large amount of people in PF looking for a group, so I simply invited each of them in. I made the req to join was to have T5 exp, which imo usually indicates some seriousness in raiding.
The LS grew well enough, I even invited some FC leaders in so that they could either pool out from the LS or have some of their own members join it.

For now the LS is currently sorta dead, since the hunts made the static grouping kinda moot. It doesn't help that most of the people that joined didn't want to start a group on their own, and preferred others to pick them up. This sort of things never really work out, if you want a group, you have to make it. My LS is only there for you to seek out others like you, if you are unwilling to connect to others and interact, you won't be joining a group anytime soon.

I didn't keep track, but I know that my LS produced at least 1 raider group that managed to fly on it's own.