Blueside Hami Raid Poll

Yeh, I will participate in the occasional hami raid, depending of course on what I am doing in game.

If i end up showing up to the raid, I will show up with 1 of 2 toons only. My Invuln tank or my fire blaster. If such toons are needed to lead a team, I would be ok for that.

And of course, would depend on my RL schedule as well.

SJ

Kat got her emeralds back.

1) Yes, 55 Merits in 30-60 minutes is worth my time and its one of the few challenges in the game.

2) You know I'd help anytime necessary just send me a message @MAH/@MostAmazing, also hoping to make it slightly less challenging :P

Lol. Good old days. Call me crazy but sometimes I actually miss the old coot. He was good for never ending laughs if nothing else. I think the best memories I have of hami raids was the ones that were griefed. Putting out a call that we were getting griefed and 3 minutes later the zone was full. Was a beautiful thing.

His attempts at failing my raids were epic to say the least :-).

The ban list was only half the fun. Eventually he had me banned somehow through GP where I couldn't even visit the site. Every time I would try it would tell me I was banned and if I continued to keep trying Gp would ban my IP. To this day I can't figure out how he did that.

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Originally Posted by Marut He was also responsible for uniting the sea of daytime raiders that has long been forgotten and ignored against the greedy evening players, and swearing a solemn vow to cause any raid that he didn't schedule on their behalf to fail. And when he vowed to do something, you better believe it was going to happen. Cause if you didn't believe it, you got put on the black list, and no one wanted to risk that. Hi Kat .

I hate to say it, but LS was also responsible for one of my favorite experiences in game. After much huffing and puffing about Daytime raiders and how evening raids not on his schedule were bad for the community, he swore that he’d grief every one of them. To the point where he vowed to cause a yellow dawn at one. However, when the time came to gather for the raid, there was less than a full team with him in the Hive… Not really a real threat, as far as griefing goes.

A couple mins into gathering, though, I got a tell from one of my SG members that there were a LOT of SFers in Warburg, gathering nukes it looked like. Odd, but considering how handy those could be, it wasn’t really concerning. Until, that is, I got two tells out of the blue from SF members, or more specifically, former SF members. Apparantly, LS had called out the SG to gather nukes for the purposes of nuking Hami during the hold phase, specifically to lag the raid out and cause a yellow dawn. They’d never liked the griefing behavior, but they liked the SF group, so they’d tolerated it. Having the SG turn out like that for the purposes of sabotaging a raid that wasn’t his was too much for them – they were out of there, and just wanted to give a heads up.

This was a problem – Bud and PON had turned out in force to provide manpower for the raid, and we had a strong veteran presence as well, but it’s hard to prevent a mechanical lagging of the zone. What do you do about that? Then I got a tell from the same SG member that told me about them being in Warburg, saying that he was taking out as many as he could with his Stalker, but there were just too many of them to stop them getting keys. Light bulb! Looking at who was online, I found Ping, and asked if he could help said Stalker out. Ping replied with something akin to “We’ll see what we can do”, grabbed a few others, departed Eden, and started whacking SF in Warburg.

Unfortunately, a little later, I was informed that it was just slowing them down, not stopping them. There were a LOT of SF in Warburg, and numbers added up; they were killing em left and right, but it actually looked like all that had done was call more SF into the zone to help. So, with about 10 mins to raid time, I put up a Hail Mary, and sent another SGmate to Test. Why Test? Because that was where our at the time almost universally hated coalitionmates were spending all their time.

A few minutes later, I remember seeing “PVP?” pop into Arena chat as a team of HVND loaded into Warburg and began swatting bumblebees with extreme prejudice. And of course, when they showed up, a whole bunch of ESK and VORI dropped whatever they were doing and piled into WB as well to fight them, with more SF collateral damage . I never had the pleasure of seeing it, but I’m told that the carnage in that zone that night was epic.The raid went off without a hitch. Despite LS’s best efforts to taunt Hami (no one steals UMann’s agro), there was no yellow dawn.

Next to the first successful raid on this server, this raid was my favorite. Not because it was a particularly amazing raid, or because of anything I'd done myself, but because it demonstrated just what this server community can do as a whole when differences get put aside. Everyone may have had different reasons for participating, but the end result was the same. It reminded me of the fact that Superman’s greatest power (according to him) isn’t super strength, or invulnerability. It’s his friends. And this community has those in spades No SG, no matter how willful or angry, can beat that.

-M

I miss the Captian Atlas/Blaze - Stryker love affair at raids or on the forums.

One would try to raid, the other would grief and inevitably an incredible amount of venom, e-peen wagging and stupidity would erupt on the Champion forums.

Of course, who could forget the strat of spamming Tenebrous Tentacles on a Mito-Less Hamidon...

A Certain Leader: "Spam immobs it slows the regen rate!"

Alert Raider: "Hey *******, Hami's rooted, where's he going to go, Tahiti?"

Other Raiders: "LOL @ Certain Leader."

Wait, wait... So, my Force Field / Dark Blast Defender can prevent Hamidon from roaming around the Hive and sneaking up on defenseless and unsuspecting raiders by spamming Tenebrous Tentacles? Why hasn't anyone told me this sooner?! Woohoo, I'm not useless at Hamidon raids after all!

LS did EXTENSIVE research on Hamidon. Way more than the couple years of previous data collection. And because of all the effort put into it, it was too valuable itself to be shared with the populace, only the result of it. And thank god for that, because immobs turned out to be more important than holds, and while holding him worked occasionally, as long as he was immobilized, success was assured.

I would love to see regular raids on Saturdays and perhaps on other days of the week, so folks who can't make it on Satrudays can still get to enjoy it sometime during the week.

With regards to leading, I would be ok to lead a team, but don't feel confident enough to do the entire raid.

Hugs

Stormfront

Ps: I been going to the Monday raid classes, giggles