Hami-O raid Sunday September 12th 6PM eastern, the abyss

Hi folks, it's me joshex LV 50 blaster as well as other characters making thier way up there.

I have read and understood a how-to on the hamidon raid, I've watched videos as well.

I'd normally leave organization upto someone else, but then it'd be on saturday (and I work on saturday nights, so I can't make it)

this message is giving you a heads up that this next up coming sunday there will be a hamidon raid at 6 pm eastern USA time.

I'll be organizing things, bare with me as this is my first hami raid (even though I know what I'm doing ahead of time)


in specific if you've got a tank or brute scrapper or stalker (or another character that tanks well) we will need your help, as you are needed as the core of the raid. additionally healers healers healers! bring'em please!

when you arrive in the abyss please call out your archetype level and strength (how you fare best) so I know what team to assign you on.

EX: tank, LV 50, single target high damage

EX2: peacebringer, LV 50, tanks well

EX3: defender, LV 48, no heals.

thanks very much hope to see you there ^^

Got an MM that can get in the abyss. He can do range & Single target Hold.

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Don't look at it as competition, T. Look at it as what you and Kid have been looking for, somebody willing to step up and start leading more raids.

This should help take the stress off.

I don't believe anyone is looking at it as any sort of competition. There's certainly no monopoly on raid leadership.

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glad to see so many people looking at this, indeed healers are needed for the hami agro team, but they should stay away from the green and blue mitos, especially since the green and blues are weak to ranged attacks and strong against melee. that means the agro teams team should keep away.

Don_dada the general assault team will be the perfect place for you we'll especially need your help on green mitos.

The way that the Hami Aggro team has done it in the past is to stack +Regen on the Taunter to counter the effects of the blasts from the Green Mitos and Hamidon. Although Empaths and Pain Domination powersets are quite useful, they are wanted more for their Regeneration buffs (Adrenaline Boost, Pain Bringer, Regeneration Aura, etc) and far less for their ability to heal. Healing just isn't as useful in Hamidon 2.0 as it was for the previous incarnation.

Your emphasis on healers may be due to your experience with the Rikti Mothership Raid. If that is the case, I caution you: that raid is very different from a Hamidon Raid.

If you want to see how it all works, I would suggest checking out our raid this coming Saturday.

I'd highly suggest the following:

Get volunteers for the key positions of Spike Team lead, Agro Team lead, Ranged Targetter, Hami Tank and support in advance. The more experienced your leads, the better chance you'll have success. I have been on raids that have been affected by the quality of the leads of the teams that are NOT listed above; the quality and experience of those listed will be crucial to your success.

Set up a couple of times during the week to farm EoEs from Monster Island. Things never go as smoothly as one expects and EoEs will help when things get rough; a shortage of EoEs will stop your raid.

I'll try to make the raid but I'm not sure if I'm available. Good Luck with the raid.

I should be able to make it and have experience on the Yellow mito team. I would be more than willing to lend a hand however I can.

glad to hear it, things are seeming to come together, though i haven't done any EoE farms yet.. sadly didn't get around to that.

anyways, I hope to see as many as can make it tomorrow, and yes I've been watching the quality of many of my tank and scrapper friends, if they show up I'll know how to assign them.

So how'd this go guys?

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not enough people showed up, and we had a surplus of corrupters and blasters and other ranged units, this overflowed the general assault team into 2 teams..

hardest part was getting a hami agro team and yellow mito agro team.

the spike team formed welly though.

still people kept showing up slowly, so slow that others were leaving or trying to jump the gun and had started attacking the DE.

the outcome was, we got hami spawned and didn't have enough EoE's or enough people or the right constitution of teams.

so it failed. I'm rescheduling for next Sunday at the same time. this time I need help farming EoE's ahead of time and would like to put out a call for leaders of each team, I'll be the general assault team leader.

I need a tank to lead the hami agro team (no one wanted to lead it and all claimed they couldn't hold agro)

I need a tank or brute or scrapper stalker who can taunt well to lead the yellow mito agro team.

as for the spike team we just need lots of melee, MM's and such will work as well.

also next time I want people to try to get there between 5:30 to 6:30, if 6:30 comes and theres not enough or we have the wrong constitution, it's called off.

remember you can email yourself enhancements folks, I know you want Hami origins on your blasters and corrupters, but if you have a tank please bring him.

I'll be straight with you. It took Kid and his crew like a year to get this raid down to a decent timetable. Hopefully you'll be able to get to that point faster 'cause you can learn from what they and others have done. It takes a lot of work to get there, and it's awesome when you do but, and I'm sorry for it, I'm just not willing to go through that again.

But set up a time and I'll come help you farm EoEs, I'll even let you have the ones that drop for me.

Here's the situation in a nutshell:

A well run, successful Hami raid is both a joy to participate in, and a boost to future raiding. An unsuccessful raid is a miserable, frustrating experience for all and tends to produce another couple people who declare "I'm not ever putting myself through that **** again!."

Josh, talk to T and Kid. See if they'd schedule a raid on a Sunday so you can attend. Watch and learn from the best we have. Get a little experience under your belt and then try this again.

I have been to nearly every raid of the new hami, and been a leader for about 1/2 of those. And... I still don't think I have enough experience to lead a raid.

Bottom line: Because a failed raid can be so miserable, there are many many people who won't even bother to come out to try if they don't have confidence in the raid leader. Get a bit of knowledge behind you, and then let's try this again!

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indeed T PMed me, I'm hoping we can work this out for later today, if not maybe next week. but we'll try today at 6, I havn't farmed any EoE's again.. and hami is still there from last time I think.

Hamidon despawned from last week, and we successfully defeated him yesterday.

There is a CoP trail scheduled for the same time today, it may be best to farm for EoEs on Monster Island today, in preparation for doing the raid next week Sunday.