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It is still queueing up with few people on it.

Turning off DR, esp with HD, isn't a good idea.
It shuts off diminishing without shutting off the granted buffs.
So it winds up mostly capping every squishies damage resistance.
As icky as DR is, its sadly better to leave it on.

There isnt any huge difference between 3 round and 2 round, just really encourage people to get and use the temps and make sure the tanks are set up in time. Just go for it if that is what you want to do.

Can't really stress how important tank team is for no retreat. Would make sure and get it squared away. Even a lot of the tank team regs of late will need some practice and guidance.

Looks like the nuke may accept dmg buff, so it may do more than 55, but you get the idea.

Plumbobber, supposedly chain is fixed, or rather restored to the way it was so it isn't as big of an issue.

War, if it is going the way it should, there wont be time for a second wave of nuking; the debuff/buffs will last through the entire thing and far longer, by several fold the time it takes to kill him. This has been the case even when going bloom 0 to dead.

Once the pets and debuffs go down, It gets very chaotic. There was basically a bloom every minute until he was dead, it is a lot better for people to be focusing on staying alive, rezing the dead, pumping out damage and their normal debuffs at that point.

The nuke buffs/debuffs will last through two blooms.

As for the damage numbers on RoF, I'll have to dig it up again, pretty sure the post fell off the face of the earth a while back. But you are looking at about 40 or 60 from rof cast twice (1.1s cast) (+dmg and +containment) in the same time it takes to cast the nuke (2.0something cast), which will do about 55 total. They will both do proportionally more, with -dr o'course.

If they are full villain, you should be able to promote them, no matter what AT they are.

re excuses: The classic is not enough people. Several raids have finished with no more than 20 in under an hour and a half. You may have to ask people to switch chars or something to get more holds, but I'm pretty sure they will be willing to help out.


re. enri:
On red raids, I don't think you have to have blue raid "cred" to run them. Just be patient, advertise it, and make it known you know what you are doing by explaining what you want done and why -before- the raid, several days. Start looking for help early. People have fun doing this, ask those that have done it before for help in whatever way you need. The people who really lead -will- be more than happy to help you, no matter what may be said about them wanting a little fifedom or something.


And finally, macros are by far the *LEAST* important part of a raid. Be able to write out what you want to do in your own words. Understand why you are going to do the things you do.
Understand what to do when things go wrong. Be able to communicate how to fix it.
Understand what is important, and what is not.
"Yellows are down" repeated everytime doesnt hurt, but its not real important.
Yellow is stalled out and dying on mito 5 because the green team is light and not able to draw heals, we may wipe, I need person x to pop the blue infront of yellow 5 to get us moving again is important.

I could write a script to pop out stuff on request on a timer based on the average time a smooth raid takes to do stuff. That doesnt make it a leader. That is the level of leading and effort some people want to put in and it just isnt fair to anyone.

Did she overload your shields?

With the store down, I was unable to roll any new characters on my server of choice, effectively nullifying the head start portion of of preordering GR for me.

Thanks.

arg, got the order on my love/hate flipped.

pum smells like bad cheese and keeps catgirls in his basement

Thanks Arcana, much appreciated.

Simply replied to your 10 messages, and I'd be happy to repeat what I said there.

I don't really want to have anything to do with you because you make nice to my face while in the same minute telling others how much I suck, a pattern you've repeated with me several times over the last year or however long.

If you read what I wrote, I don't do it any more.

Hm, I never was able to get a copy of my MA to test, in two seconds (post EC) you can get storm kick off and start on CAK, when does the crit get evaluated?
i.e. Can you potentially get boosted crit on both SK and CAK? I'm assuming that is not the case, but havent seen anyone specifically say so.

Pum flames.
Choake is excited.
wb, iggy.

Most entertaining thread in a while.

Its a good idea, blues are closer to the greens than yellows though, and would be more likely to pull heals away if the greens do single target heal hamidon. Algorithm they use is supposed to be closest thing that is damaged.

1-2 (maybe 3) people is what I always saw as ideal for the blue team. Unfortunately people kept siphoning off a full 8 blasters or similar, which murdered the damage output green had and made the blue team pointless as support. At a few recent raids when the yellow team has stalled out for whatever reason, quickly throwing 1 or 2 people (almost always defenders) on a blue between the yellow and greens has worked extremely well, to the point of preventing having to retreat mid-bloom.

Raids have been more like they used to be lately.

The most important part of no-retreat is tanks picking up aggro quick, I would run that for the practice even when ignoring mitos if your goal is to get doing those again.