QUARX is here, we can start the RAID!!!
The raids have been awesome! Great Work as always Leo!
TAXEE-Freedom's Original "fun ride"!
QUARX-45 to Fiddy Hami-Only XP! 993 hours!
"If yah want we can take this to the arena. No insps, max end, no travel powers, no temp powers, no accolades, no observers, unrated just one on one."
Hey i am sorry for that one time for the long monster phase, I transferred my tank over to help u out and hami is just afraid of him. :P, but I should have my grave/kin to lvl 45 by this weekend( or maybe higher.)
hami hami hami 
sorry but i didnt know where to exactly post this. but i am interested in trying a hami raid a couple of times. never been on one before, but ive done the small version at end of lady grey tf once or twice. i got a lvl 50 def-emp/arch available. i have no idea when the raids happen normally, but if the times work out that i could join, i would love the experience of trying one. free from 5pm to 11pm central. tyvm.
I sent you a PM, Dreammy.
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Hello everybody, I'm here with Freedom's progress report on the Devouring Earth menace, Hamidon. In case you've not heard, heroes have been raiding The Hive and defeating Hamidon on a regular basis, with 13 raids this month organized by the ULTRA channel, and a few others (I don't have the number) by other parties. Since I am ULTRA's official cheerleader (I have the Carnie Ring Mistress costume to prove it!), I'm here to show everybody the amount of time that has been spent on every ULTRA raid this month, as some people still seem to think Hamidon raids take over three hours and are full of teamwipes and failure.
In the following graph, the time goes from -30 minutes to +1hr 30min from the "scheduled time". That time varies per raid; sometimes we start at 8pm EST, sometimes at 9pm EST, sometimes at 10pm EST. In the graph, the scheduled time is 0:00. If people show up early, we usually start killing monsters before the scheduled time, and that's why there's a "buffer" of 30 minutes before the scheduled time. We set ourselves a goal that no raid should take more than an hour and 30 minutes to complete from the scheduled time, and save one time (in which we went over for one minute), we've stayed in that zone.
In the following graph, the red bar is how long it takes to kill the monsters until Hamidon spawns; this is not considered part of the "raid time", but it's part of the "total time". Then, we have four alternating bars: green, blue, green, blue. Those are the attack waves to clear mitos around Hamidon and attack it. In case something goes wrong and we have to restart a wave, the color repeats: two green bars in a row means that we had to leave the goo before all the mitos were cleared, regroup, buff again, and restart the attack wave.
After the graph, I'll give a bit of a commentary on the raids that didn't go quite as planned.
January 18: during this raid, Hamidon moved noticeable to the west, making it harder for the teams to avoid the splash damage. The green team wiped during the fourth wave, and we had to reset it. Fortunately, it didn't take long.
January 23: we had two raids that night, one that went well, the other that didn't. We caught some griefers that kept drawing aggro into the green team, and we had to reset the last two attack waves. At 74 minutes, this was the longest Hamidon phase we've had, but fortunately monster phase was brief and we didn't go over the hour and a half.
January 27: the only day we went over an hour and a half from scheduled time (but only by one minute). During this raid, both the main Hamidon aggro tank and three of the mito aggro tanks disconnected before the last wave. There's a noticeable gap before the last wave, while the tank teams were reformed and given instructions.
January 30: Again, we had one good raid and one long as heck raid in the same nght. The monster phase took a ridiculous 38 minutes, and it felt like Hamidon would never spawn. The Hamidon phase itself took longer than usual, as everybody was tired after two raids in a row and almost an hour (combined) killing monsters.
January 31: When we arrived to The Hive at the scheduled time, there were no monsters, and Hamidon was already spawned. While we suffered from an unusual amount of leechers, we still managed to finish, though the going was slightly tough due to the yellow damage leader (me) disconnecting.
Now, for some stats:
Shortest Monster Phase: January 17th, we just spent 5 minutes killing monsters.
Longest Monster Phase: January 30th, at (ugh) 38 minutes.
Shortest Hamidon Phase: January 25th, at 36 minutes.
Longest Mito Phase: January 23rd, at 74 minutes. Thanks, griefers!
Shortest Total Time: January 24th, at 61 minutes.
Longest Total Time: January 30th, at 97 minutes, due to a ridiculously long monster phase.
Here's hoping to see a lot of new faces during our February raids, and due to the large amount of people trying to get in The Hive during the raids, we are going to try to organize dual raids in Hive 1 and Hive 2 during the weekends, so everybody can join the fun. No promises (yet) though!
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This is what 3700 heroes in a single zone looks like.
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