Tell me how it was grandpa...

Ahh the good old days when there was more than 4 people on an EU server in one place.....

There are only 2 things i really kind of miss about the old raids.

The first is the feeling of epicness. The few i went to years ago had... hundreds of people. As you fought, bodies were on the ground, being rezed, you had people flying above you, run around you, it felt more like a desprit fight for survivle then it does now.

The second is, it was one of the only encounters in the game where the controller was univerisally wanted for CONTROL and not our secondarys with control as a bonus. At the time i was a gravity/kin, and it was nice to be wanted BECAUSE i was a gravity guy, and not because of my Kin powers.

Things i DON'T miss are the massive MASSIVE lag spikes, and greifing.

Of the two, i think this newest one is the better one. (our current one) It still isn't perfect, but it's smoother and slightly more complex. It does lose a bit of it epic feel IMO, but not so much that it isn't fun.

My understanding is that was one per hero and pet. I don't know if I saw proof of that, but it's possible I did and just don't remember.

I remember doing plenty of raids before the change, and now I haven't been to a single one since. I don't even know if there has been a successful one on Victory since the changes were implemented.

Yellow Dawn, an epic sight. Once the wiki comes back up, I'm sure they have a picture of it. And Hami and all his kids would just sit there for days, until the servers were reset.

I remember the old Hami Raids. I remember making sure I had a costume with no aura effects (still had a cape though). I remember getting a chance to meet people and form some friendships.

I also remember the massive lag, the feeling like I didn't /have/ to do much, although I would definitely try my best to stay engaged and fighting instead of auto everything.

I helped out on Virtue when the new raid went live. I helped out hero side and did enjoy it for a while. Then I just found that I was not around as much when Raids were happening, so I haven't been on them for years, and I have never been on the red side ones.

I seriously want to get back into doing them, not for merits, but for Hami-Os. For the fun of it, and to see what sort of people I meet. See some old friends who I don't see around much, and to meet some new people. I just need to get some time on the days they are run on Virtue.

Like with anything else, it is what you make of it.

I really hated the old raid. It was no one thing, it was just boring. I hated it so much, I am yet to try the new one.

Yeah, Justice does those as well. In fact, we usually have to clarify at the beginning of each raid which version we'll be using. The choice of which version will be used is primarily determined how many reliable Tankers are on hand. Having fewer than normal, so one Tanker is managing multiple mitos, or having Tankers on deck we either aren't familiar with or that we don't know how on the ball they are usually means the leaders go with the regular fall back between blooms. Number of EoEs or buffers is a factor too, but the initial judgment is usually based on the Tanker staff.

Holy carp thats alot of mitos.

Very interesting reading. I wish I could have seen the old style Hami raid just for the sake of seeing it.

I've done the new one a few times though I'm not a regular raider. I was part of an evacless raid on Virtue this week, which I found to be an exciting twist. We had to pull out of the goo when our buffs/debuffs started to wear off.

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Originally Posted by Grae Knight I miss the old Hami Raids. It was alot easier to have a Hamidon Raid for your super group since you do not need as many specific power sets. You could have one tanker, a few empaths and a team of Illusion controllers and you were good to go.

Of all the comments so far, this one stuck out a bit. So you don't need specific power sets, yet these are the ones needed? It seems like the new raid is more open to variation.