Wulfman

I'm afraid a change to Tuesday night wouldn't work for us. In fact, Wednesday may be the only weeknight we can do such things on a regular basis because we have other guild events scheduled throughout the week.

There's been enough response that we'll continue leading them a little longer and see if the turnout that we had last week continues. If it lags again, we may take your suggestion, Ruthia, and go to every other week.

That was what I had heard about the 7 minute raid, but wasn't 100% sure. Thanks for confirming it. As for the rest, congratulations. Sounds like most servers that raid Hami regularly are in the same neighborhood.

I also agree that the level shifts and incarnate slotting will certainly make the times drop. The "fastest time" is, and will always be, relative.

I use the word guild when referring to the Twilight Avengers because we actually are a guild that spans multiple online games (8 or so, at last count). Technically, of course, we are a SG and VG in this game that serves as the CoX chapter of the guild. I use the terms interchangably for our group, since both happen to be true for us. But I agree it can be confusing to those not familiar with the term, and can't speak as to why others may use it.

This.

And Philly, we've always been on Guardian and Pinnacle, and have no real interest in going elsewhere. We've run with the public in 9 minutes on multiple occasions, and our guild has shaved time off of that. My understanding is that the other servers use Warburg nukes and other temp powers to assist. We don't. So if you don't either, then by all means, well done. We actually have a 5-minute goal, which shouldn't be a problem, provided we get past the lag that has hit with a lot of folks in i20.

If you shave time off of your raids, by all means, send me a message. I'm always curious to see what other servers are doing.

You misunderstand. When we voluntarily run the public raids, we gladly welcome everyone, and run it with an efficiency that is unmatched on any server, whether you care to admit it or not. The reason we shuffle the teams is because, as leaders, we need to make sure each team has what it needs to be successful for everyone's benefit. We also need to ensure that the person leading the team actually knows what he or she is doing. We have a number of public folks who fill that role regularly, including Street Stalker, Doctor Bob, Ariel', Lady Bellicose, and a number of different people from the Empire. We don't claim to be elite in that set-up...we're just trying to ensure success by making sure the team set-ups are as good as possible for the overall strat.

What I was referring to, however, was the fact that we raid privately as a guild, and NO ONE gets invited to those, nor are they announced by anyone, whether they have "friends with alts" in the guild or otherwise. That's the way we've always operated, as we like to do such things as a guild only. That kind of thing is not for everyone, just as our guild isn't. And trust me...when we even attempt a 75% takedown of Hami, we have enough people that we don't need many bots to fill the zone. When we don't have that many, we stick to the 50% takedown, which we do regularly.

We don't allow anyone in our guild to lead the raid unless we're sure they're competent to do so, and no one has led one aside from our officers in years. And we "usually take down Hami" when we have a competent leader?!? That actually made me laugh out loud. If you saw us suddenly go to Pinnacle at around the same time this incident happened, it's interesting, since we all remain globally hidden for our guild raids. So if you could see us, we weren't raiding.

First, Sparky hasn't been in our guild--or even in the game--for a couple of years now. Second, if you hear any of the crap that you've said about our guild from people who are actually in my guild, then I need to strengthen the application process, as I don't typically allow blatant liars to become members. But by all means, send me a PM with their names, and I'll be glad to discuss their discontent with them at length. And BTW, it's SOOOO kind of you to "let'em play their own game" considering it's their account and can play however and with whomever they choose. And you call us elite and controlling?!? I will agree with you about one thing, though...if they've been telling you this BS about our guild, I don't know why they are members either.

I couldn't care less what my "rep" is with someone like you. Your only goal in this post seems to be to use it as an opportunity to air some personal greivances you seem to have with my guild, or try to lay enough innuendo to get others to share them. This is especially obvious since the incident Serv posted about was over a month ago, and the one before that is even further back. Posting when nothing else has happened since then reveals your true agenda.

Well guess what...you ain't the first, and you won't be the last. I daresay that our rep is just fine with many of the regulars at the Wednesday night raids who seem to enjoy raiding with us and whose opinions we actually value.

There are far more things I could say to further discredit you, but quite frankly, I'm bored, and doing so would be a further waste of my time. So go, enjoy your own little world. Oh, and if you'd like to participate in a public raid, they're at 9 eastern on Wednesday evenings. Have a nice day!

Honestly, even with the level shifts, there's NO way a team of 8 could pull off a triple stack. It requires not only taking both the aggro and having enough damage to take down the mitos, but enough to take Hami down through at least two levels of green mito healing. That simply CAN'T be done with the game standards as they are. As someone who has literally led 1,000 or more Hami raids, take my word for it.

Honestly, however, I don't see how this messes up anyone's party. All you have to do is spawn the second iteration of the Hive and then proceed as normal. But if it IS a result of SG testing, it IS inconsiderate of whomever did it, and hopefully they will either desist or succeed in future testing.

And Bellicose...you know we run every Wednesday night. It's not exactly impromptu, but then, a sure thing isn't all that bad where shards or merits are concerned!