20 man hamid raid blue side, we won!

So yesterday, i told my sg, here are the things we should do in the few next weeks...
etc etc etc

in the list we had:
Do a 16 man hamid raid...

Interest was so high we decided to start one right away, and try to drag other ppl from channels, like Vu2010.

I really had no expectation, I was not even sure will be able to drag 16 in the zone, i had doubt about our strategy, but was down to try and learn, so we redo later, with better planning... Seriously yesterday was just a test.

In the end we dragged over 20 ppl in zone, 1 or 2 left, 1 or 2 joined late, 1 or 2 where on hide.

Took us about 3 hours, but since the start we knew we would complete since we had no real issues.

The strategy we used:
- have 1 tank hamid with plenty of EoE and support to buff his regen. At some point we had a 2nd tank, as backup tank for hamid. Actualy think the backup tank shoul had helped taunting the active yellow, but hek, things were going well anyways.

- have a scrapper team, spiking 1 yellow, they focus burst damage on that yellow, then either evac or move to next. no tanks or scrapper where covering other yellows.

-have 1 assault team, that distract the blue or blues next to the active yellow (the 1 beeing spiked). They just do enough damage so the green heal the blue and not the yellow.

That said, we tried only 1 yellow at first, then evac'd. then 2, then 3, then well til we died... Hehey
Ppl were having fun, we had no issue trying til we all died, or needed evac.

Once all the yellows are down, we moved to green, and do what we normaly do on a regular raid. Then blues... then hamid.

75%, 50%, 25%. 0%... if you have done an Hamid raid, you know what i mean.

That was a pretty fun experience, my first time leading a raid, was pretty much improvising doh, i had no macro at all, but it was clear we all had fun. We did evac'd for each bloom and 1 ,2 or even 3 times per yellow phase. each time at safe rock, buffing and stuff.

We managed to save our EoE, so we dont lack any, but we knew we could just go to base get more if any. zone was not full, so we could had exited at any time and come back.

Things that could be improved :
- Raid leader not as the tank... cant see much what is going on, when you at that position.
- have macros, lol
- have specific targetters for each phase ( at first it was a bit chaotic, til we dedigned 1)
- have more ppl understanding what to do and the mecanics of hamid raid. No complain doh, everyone that joined did an awesome job.

This strategy work, but surely could be improved. I am not sure if we could pull it out with fewer ppl, we had 20ppl ish. Ive been told another server did it with 16. I think its doable with 16, but you prolly need the right amount of AT's for each job. Say enough scrapper with high survability and dmage burst for the yellow phase. few emps for the buffs and regen, enouhgt trollers for the green phases. Yesterday they got stalled on greens, i bet 1 or 2 more trollers could had helped. I am not sure about blaster doh, they useful for the blues, but since we do blues last, other AT's can use there 1++ ranged attack.

If i had to pick the team setup, i would prolly go for 1tank, trolers and scrapper only, at least 3 emps. plant/emp being real nice cause of the spirit tree, :P. Well im no guru, so other setup prolly work.

I'm just saying cause we had fun, even doh it was 3 hours... so we might do again.. :P

That's intense! Do you think it'd be doable villain side?

Saw you posting for this. Grats on finishing. a 20 people hami raid is quite an achievement.

Yeah, I was there and leading the scrapper team for most of it, doing the targetting etc. After the intial yellow attempt, it was decided to just go for the yellows till either the tank died or we started dropping. The typical scrapper mentatily you know.

For a on-the-spot pick up raid, it went way better than I expected.

Thanks again for running it, xeaon. I had a blast.