RWZ Ship Raid 7:30 PM EST April 9th

Greetings everyone!

First thanks to all of those who joined in on my impromptu ship raid this evening. It was a success and now I know I can lead these suckers!

Second, I am scheduling a ship raid for April 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM EST. I'm planning on doing these regularly but my work schedule won't allow a consistent schedule.

The raid will somewhat follow the Nightshift model for raids as described here. Basically we will need at least four teams, and will follow the pylons exactly as how Nighshift did their's. Please, only bring a toon that is level 35 or higher. This raid was originally designed with level 35-50 players in mind, and the higher you are the more you can contribute. If you do not have a level 35 toon or higher, contact me at @Chant and I will see about an exception. Level 50 toons are preferred.

I am recruiting leaders for the raid. If you are interested in leading a bomb team PST to @Chant. I'm not good about checking the forum messages. I would love to have 6 teams.

More instructions will be given on site. Please have a tab ready for the request channel. If you have a comment or question, send tell to @Chant. I will probably be leading the raid on my toon Apparitioness.

Thank you all!

Yeah, try to get/bring as many 50s or +45s that you can. Even if you have enough 50s to have one per team, it is much, much harder if there are a lot of lowbies. Even 39-40 is pretty low, if you think about how many more powers and slots you're going to be getting. Fighting +4s with EBs and Magi running around is no picnic.

That was more for everybody, Chantress... sorry to break out the soapbox. Just ran into too many of the above issues, and noticed how much of a difference it makes when I bring a higher level character.

I wish I could join in on Friday, but that's never a good night for me. Good luck!

I appreciate it actually Grey Pilgrim. I was hoping I did not appear to be a jerk about the level thing, but it is much easier to have 45+ teams instead of 50s with a bunch of lowbies. Having people back up that claim helps! I mean how effective is a level 21 blaster against a lvl 54 boss even if sked?

I know Fridays are not good for some unfortunately and I hate that. I will try to switch up the days that they are on in the future. I know my GF usually works on Sundays (Snowy Bltiz)

I might be able to show. Ive got either a 50 ice/ice dom, a 50 stone/elec brute, or a 40 dark/kin corr. I figure the FS, SB, and other goodies are really why everyone would want me on the team in the first place , I am heavily slotted and set for AOE destruction with extensive -tohit in my powers, so that I add more survivability. However, I do not have much damage unless FS is up... making that character almost entirely a support character. Id prefer to play the corr. Does anyone object to that?

I'd think the corr would be a good choice, or if we are lacking on tanks and brutes then maybe the brute. The raid I did Monday had a huge showing of tanks though, so if it's going to be anything like that then your corr would prove very beneficial. I personally felt my team could have used more AoE.

Thank you for running these! I am excited and will be there with my lvl 50 range blaster (with recall friend to help pull from the hospital while striking from above with 3 AOE attacks)

I need those raid badges, so I will try to be there. Thanks for starting these again, I have hope of getting the badges now.

We completed a run of bombs, plus defeated GM. Unlike my impromptu one on Monday this one ran into problems. A lot of people bailed out towards the end, and we kept having problems with "Team 3" splitting up. I only myself racked in about 129 merits from the whole ordeal. So by some defintions a success, but a frustrating success.

I may just do these impromptu from now on. Most people in my SG have complicated work schedules and I had very little involvement in it from my own SG despite scheduling in advance. I dunno, I will post something if I decided to announce another one. Congrats to all who got badges they needed from this last raid, etc.

I've had hit or miss raids, and the miss ones usually are out of your control. Too many lowbies show up, people don't try to work together nicely, avoid taking out Magi, stay comatose on the ship rather than going ot the hospital, etc. Silly, but not much you can do except try to nudge them along.

I appreciate it, I'm my own worst critic!

Yeah, it ticks me off when people do it. I do hang around for about 20 seconds to see if anyone revives me (as people do run around doing that), but anything more is just a waste of time. I'm sure such people keep hoping they will be revived as well, or don't want to miss out on tickets, but the ticket rate goes down extremely fast if there are too many people dead.

Even before SKK and the zone opening up, too many people tried to use ship raids as MADXPLOL opportunities. It's both better and worse now, as GP has pointed up, due to sub-level 35 people now taking apart.

Another big factor; no. of bubblers AND no. of bubblers w/ teammates smart enough to keep mez protection for the sleeps on them.

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Yeah, bubbles make a big difference, I've noticed. With one ship raid I was on with my Shield Tank, I noticed my teammates did much better when I was hanging around them, so helpful auras like that do go a long way.

Hell, the big thing about bubbles isn't necessary the def/res, it's the mez protection. That way you only have to worry about the aoe sleeps.

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When Aramina did his raids, he used a Bots/FF. People originally made fun of a Bots/FF toon, but for the raids it was the best thing ever. He could hold his own against pylons and protect the teams on the ship.

I tried to make sure no one under 35 was allowed to participate. I would tell leaders to kick such players off their team and tell them to get another toon.... Im sure some slipped by me though.

yeah i hope i can lvl up in time for the next raid if not well.... (T.T)