For those who don't know, the Hami raids have been started again. We had a successful Villain raid on Tuesday, and a successful Hero raid on Wednesday.
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I've come to the conclusion that the tougher the raid, the odds of getting a centriole go up 
so blue-side Wednesday and red-side Tuesday ... what times? any thought to returning to the Sat/Sun raids too?
Just a note ... 3 tanks is NOT enough ... Yes it can be done .. as we did make it through the first Mito phase. But there were a few times when all the tanks were dead. So IMO we need 5 "tanks", 2 Empaths and 1 Kin. Also on the last 2 phases tanks moved to the safe rock and the RAs they got there were AWSOME. We should send tanks in from there as they last longer when they have more buffs.
*Note they do not all need to be tanks. PBers and WSs work just as well. As do tanks without tanunt *glares at Dayn*
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so blue-side Wednesday and red-side Tuesday ... what times? any thought to returning to the Sat/Sun raids too?
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Villain Raid 8 pm EST Tuesdays
Hero Raid 8 pm EST Wednesdays
Hero Raid 6 pm EST Saturdays
As for Sundays, we were leaving that day open for a possible second villain raid night. However, before we can do that, the Tuesday raids need to be solid and a consistent number of people are required. As soon as we get to that point, we'll post again. So basically, come play and bring your friends. 
Andra 
(Miss Honey Dew when I'm evil)
Devoted, heart and soul, to Angry Angels and Jaded Angels
To add to Andras' post:
Some other people need to consider stepping up and organizing the Hami raids. The current "leaders" should not be a requirement for a raid to occur. In fact, some of those that now lead raids would like nothing better than to sit back and relax while someone else herds the cats...
Just thought I'd put it out there for those that would like more or different timing on the raid scene. The guides are all up here for everyone to use.
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Just a note ... 3 tanks is NOT enough ... Yes it can be done .. as we did make it through the first Mito phase. But there were a few times when all the tanks were dead. So IMO we need 5 "tanks", 2 Empaths and 1 Kin. Also on the last 2 phases tanks moved to the safe rock and the RAs they got there were AWSOME. We should send tanks in from there as they last longer when they have more buffs.
*Note they do not all need to be tanks. PBers and WSs work just as well. As do tanks without tanunt *glares at Dayn*
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Hey, I didn't even know what I was doing! I told everyone I wasn't a tank, but you all sent me in there anyways! 
Most likely, to punish you for not taking your toggles. Nuff said.
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Just wanted to drop in and congratulate everyone at last night's hero raid. It was probably the best one since our practice sessions.
We had about 30 in the Hive before 8 pm, started monster clearing just shortly after 8 pm, and had Hami down before 10 pm. At least one mito phase saw all yellows drop within the time limit of RAs. AND we had amazingly short resets between blooms. One was less than 3 minutes! That means we had fewer deaths.
Sandy might correct me on some of those numbers. She has some table with best times, but we all know I don't do math.
Nevertheless, awesome job everyone! Let's do it again next time!
Andra
(who made this raid appearance as a scrapper, Glory Anna)
Devoted, heart and soul, to Angry Angels and Jaded Angels
*hugs Andra
Yes, of the ones I have been in, this one was super quick.
Everyone was really on the ball, even those fighting off sickness. Sorry DB.
I would like to note, there could have been more swimsuits....
Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything. ~ Donald Hall
The Yellow Mitos didn't stand a -chance-. It was glorious.
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I solo yellow mitos while afk and auto Block Of Ice.
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Pics or it didn't happen
Ohhhhhh.
Well look at you callin me out an all that!
Youre good.
Going to have to make my way out to one of these soon. Haven't been to a Hami raid since i8.
"Ooo! A little fight in you! I like that..."
"Then you're going to love me."
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The current schedule is every Wednesday @ 8PM EST and every Saturday @ 6PM EST in the Hive.
Anyone can organize a raid at any time, speaking up on the VirtueUnited global channel is a good way to reach many poeple and one of the mods will be happy to put the announcement in the motd. It is best to give as much prior notice to any impromptu raids as possible.
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Going to have to make my way out to one of these soon. Haven't been to a Hami raid since i8.
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The current schedule is every Wednesday @ 8PM EST and every Saturday @ 6PM EST in the Hive.
Anyone can organize a raid at any time, speaking up on the VirtueUnited global channel is a good way to reach many poeple and one of the mods will be happy to put the announcement in the motd. It is best to give as much prior notice to any impromptu raids as possible.
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I'd also strongly advise having gone to several raids before running your own, spending time with the leaders to understand how the groups get thier tasks done, and so forth.
If we've got one weakness, heroside, is that I'm not sure we've got enough people learning the leadership tasks. When neither Nucess nor Minicore made it into the raid, there was unnecessary confusion. If any regular raiders would be willing to do so, talk to the team leaders about learning what's necessary to act as team leaders.
My arcs are constantly shifting, just search for GadgetDon for the latest.
The world beware! I've started a blog
GadgetMania Under Attack: The Digg Lockout
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Going to have to make my way out to one of these soon. Haven't been to a Hami raid since i8.
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The current schedule is every Wednesday @ 8PM EST and every Saturday @ 6PM EST in the Hive.
Anyone can organize a raid at any time, speaking up on the VirtueUnited global channel is a good way to reach many poeple and one of the mods will be happy to put the announcement in the motd. It is best to give as much prior notice to any impromptu raids as possible.
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I'd also strongly advise having gone to several raids before running your own, spending time with the leaders to understand how the groups get thier tasks done, and so forth.
If we've got one weakness, heroside, is that I'm not sure we've got enough people learning the leadership tasks. When neither Nucess nor Manticore made it into the raid, there was unnecessary confusion. If any regular raiders would be willing to do so, talk to the team leaders about learning what's necessary to act as team leaders.
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Manticore leads raids? 
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I solo yellow mitos while afk and auto Block Of Ice.
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I'm reasonably sure it didn't happen. I suspect the VeRT_MaN's post was just part of an attempt to "own" the first page (perhaps more?) of the forum, by having the last post of every thread on the page. I remember seeing someone try that on the EQ boards back when I still played.
Forum Game: Lower the Rep
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Going to have to make my way out to one of these soon. Haven't been to a Hami raid since i8.
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The current schedule is every Wednesday @ 8PM EST and every Saturday @ 6PM EST in the Hive.
Anyone can organize a raid at any time, speaking up on the VirtueUnited global channel is a good way to reach many poeple and one of the mods will be happy to put the announcement in the motd. It is best to give as much prior notice to any impromptu raids as possible.
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I'd also strongly advise having gone to several raids before running your own, spending time with the leaders to understand how the groups get thier tasks done, and so forth.
If we've got one weakness, heroside, is that I'm not sure we've got enough people learning the leadership tasks. When neither Nucess nor Manticore made it into the raid, there was unnecessary confusion. If any regular raiders would be willing to do so, talk to the team leaders about learning what's necessary to act as team leaders.
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Manticore leads raids?
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My error, I meant Minicore. (Thought I'd corrected that.)
My arcs are constantly shifting, just search for GadgetDon for the latest.
The world beware! I've started a blog
GadgetMania Under Attack: The Digg Lockout
A few notes and musings after tonights raid.
There is a significant new strategy that the targetter for the assault team has developed, that I'm not sure has been documented. Instead of trying to hold and attack green mitos (focusing the heals of the other greens onto the green attacked instead of yellows), they attack blues. The strategy part is that they keep shifting targets, so that they are attacking the mito near the first scrapper team's "strike" team. You don't need holds for that, and it lets the yellow team quickly go through the mitos. That means the targetter has to be aware of what's happening with the yellow teams.
This is HIGHLY effective. For a variety of reasons, I thought this was going to be a failed raid, breaking our streak heroside, when I saw the mix we had. But the raid ran very smoothly.
It definitely changes some of the expectations of the two scrapper teams. Under the old strategy, each scrapper team are expected to take down their own mitos, and whichever team finishes first will help the other. With the new strategy, the expectation will be for the front team to finish and move around, the back team will be holding aggro while the mitos they attack are quickly healed.
Tonight, we were short on scrappers. (This is unusual.) However, there was an Invulnerable/Electric Melee tanker who arrived too late for the tanker team, I invited him, and he proved very effective. So, if there are shortages on scrappers (or even if there are extra scrappers for a separate "strike" team) and there are more tanks than the tank team needs, extra tanks can act as scrappers.
The "traditional" scrapper team is five scrappers, three buffers. That way, there's a buffer at each mito, keeping the mez protection up for the scrappers at that mito.
But in practice, I've found a team of six scrappers, two buffers for the front team very effective. I split the scrappers 4-1-1, so the first mito has four scrappers whaling on it, popping it quickly so we can cycle around. The group of four mitos gets a buffer, and the scrapper on the far mito gets the other buffer. Once the first mito is popped, we're 5-1, with one buffer for the 5 and one buffer for the one.
I have group fly, so have tried to put non-fliers in the strike group. But more DPS is also desired.
My arcs are constantly shifting, just search for GadgetDon for the latest.
The world beware! I've started a blog
GadgetMania Under Attack: The Digg Lockout
About last nights raid:
We had sufficient control/holds in the assault team to hold the greens very quickly. It *appears* that a green taking damage draws more of the other green mitos attention than blues or yellows (proximity?). So it seems that if we have enough control we can go straight after greens, however, lacking control we can follow the yellow mito spikers and target the nearest blue as Don mentioned.
Last night the scrapper team obliterated the yellows very fast. Total raid time was 1 hour 15 minutes.
*Wishes villian raids went like this*
Ohhhhh Hami page!!!!! ~just discovered it!~
oh by the way are we still doing regular red side raids and if so what date and time ?
Hehe, I was quietly having a good chuckle at our persistant little griefer when his attempts to drawn mito blasts on the group were failing. Looks like we've beaten him for now.