Hi guys! Just wanted to post a couple things about midnight raids so hopefully things can go a bit smoother.
1. It would help if by the time that we're done fighting the GM's (the last couple nights it's taken 20 minutes or so just to spawn Hami) that we have the teams pretty much formed up and ready, or almost completely formed. (Also, the start time is 12am est...it would help if we had more than 10-15 in the hive by then)
2. Everyone needs to follow the leader of their respective teams. Greens follow green leader, yellows follow yellow leader.
3. When fighting the green mitos, I HIGHLY recommend putting a single target hold on auto, and then spamming one or two attacks in addition to that. Remember, you can't really hurt the green mitos until you've held them!
4. Communication! If your team needs something, or if something happens that will affect the raid, let me know! I've had a couple times where I've started calling for buffs and someone will be like WAIT! We've got dead/afk people! I know I also need to work on my communication skills here to, and I'm trying to get them improved!
5. When I ask for a team check, and everyone tells me they're ok and ready, I'm going to proceed as if we're ok and ready.
One more example here...tonight I had a couple people complain to me because it took so long to get started. (We were waiting on yellow aggro, they had some disconnects and afk's and whatnot) But by the same token, I've also sent the raid in when we had a couple tanks afk, and the results really weren't pretty. IIRC I had to call a regroup with the bloom not finished yet. People appropriately complained then too. So...I WILL NOT start a wave without all the yellow aggro tanks ready. It's just asking for trouble IMO.
I raid for a few reasons. Because I love too, because I love this server, and because I know you guys like raiding too. The response to my midnight raids has been tremendous!
All I can do is the best I can do, and it's sometimes hard to notice everything with the amount of tells I get and making sure to read team chat/broadcast/etc. Let's just see if we can't all work together a bit more and get these things going a bit more smoothly, ok?
Hi guys! Just wanted to post a couple things about midnight raids so hopefully things can go a bit smoother.
1. It would help if by the time that we're done fighting the GM's (the last couple nights it's taken 20 minutes or so just to spawn Hami) that we have the teams pretty much formed up and ready, or almost completely formed. (Also, the start time is 12am est...it would help if we had more than 10-15 in the hive by then)
2. Everyone needs to follow the leader of their respective teams. Greens follow green leader, yellows follow yellow leader.
3. When fighting the green mitos, I HIGHLY recommend putting a single target hold on auto, and then spamming one or two attacks in addition to that. Remember, you can't really hurt the green mitos until you've held them!
4. Communication! If your team needs something, or if something happens that will affect the raid, let me know! I've had a couple times where I've started calling for buffs and someone will be like WAIT! We've got dead/afk people! I know I also need to work on my communication skills here to, and I'm trying to get them improved!
5. When I ask for a team check, and everyone tells me they're ok and ready, I'm going to proceed as if we're ok and ready.
One more example here...tonight I had a couple people complain to me because it took so long to get started. (We were waiting on yellow aggro, they had some disconnects and afk's and whatnot) But by the same token, I've also sent the raid in when we had a couple tanks afk, and the results really weren't pretty. IIRC I had to call a regroup with the bloom not finished yet. People appropriately complained then too. So...I WILL NOT start a wave without all the yellow aggro tanks ready. It's just asking for trouble IMO.
I raid for a few reasons. Because I love too, because I love this server, and because I know you guys like raiding too. The response to my midnight raids has been tremendous!
All I can do is the best I can do, and it's sometimes hard to notice everything with the amount of tells I get and making sure to read team chat/broadcast/etc. Let's just see if we can't all work together a bit more and get these things going a bit more smoothly, ok?