Tonight's insanity sponsored by Hamidon & Co.

Yeah, that just happened.

Call it an experiment in strategy.

Was an idea we had to skip blues and yellows, go straight for greens...

I apoligize

I thought it was awesome.. at least now I know I can take 4 yellows till the raid wipes and everything shoots me lol

A quick explanation of what happened:

We decided to try something new based on what we saw happen a couple raids back. The Scrapper team kept dying and couldn't keep up while the ranged teams took out all the mitos. We thought that maybe we could get away with just taking out the greens and heading straight to Hami. I figured worst case scenario if it wasn't working out, we could always revert back to the old strategy, since all the team make-ups and jobs were virtually the same. It actually worked out pretty well until we had 2 sets of yellows and blues spawn on top of the original spawn, which was a problem that I wasn't anticipating at the time, and also made it near impossible to go back to the old strategy.

Ultimately, I should have investigated this further before testing it out, so I apologize to anyone that was put off by tonight's raid. We have been raiding successfully on a weekly basis for a year straight now, and most of the feedback I have received is that people would like to try new things, or faster ways of doings things to lessen the repetition of the raids, which was part of my motivation to give another method a go. Jobs like Emping for Hami taunt or Tanking/taunting in general seem to be less popular, which has led to less people bringing these ATs for some raids or at least vocalizing their frustration. However, it's difficult to accomplish a less formulaic or repetitive strategy given the confines of Hami itself. I'm well aware that there are other servers who do raids without TPing out, etc. I'm reluctant to adopt that kind of a strategy because we still have a lot of new raiders that show up and sometimes it takes a while for them to become accustomed to their roles. Especially when they're involved in aggro control, this can be problematic.

Anyways, this raid was more food for thought than anything else. Once again I apologize for not taking the double spawn into account ahead of time. We'll resume next week with our regularly scheduled Hami strat.

Amy I will follow you into battle any day any time..

Except for the people that are driven by hardcore ph4t l00tz, just about everyone else had fun tryin' it out. I think that's pretty win, in and of itself.

Yup was fun! Was worth it just to have cool screenies in my book!

Don't feel bad Amy, I don't think anyone could of anticipated that.
Regardless, it was crazy fun, even though I only got to tank Hami once before I DC'd.
Thx for givin' up your spot for me Cam, how were those Hot Wings?

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I picked a good day to go play hockey =)

Anyways, the skipping Mito strat only works for nuke raids. We've seen the stacked spawns before.. its pretty brutal, especially we you are arent covered in Bio Nuke level regen. The no port out strategy requires really good Emps to keep the taunters going and a few more EoEs.

As I recall from the early days of i9+ raiding, the range of the yellows does not reach all the way to Hami. Which means you dont have kill them if you can hug Hami or hover above him. Which, IMHO, is the viable skip strat. Hover over hami and take the greens that way. The focus fire on Hami. Still requires a Hami taunter tho.

net

I wish I had known. Could have got the Doctor badge on my Dark with a mass rez. Was fun to try something new.