Has anyone done this on Mothership Raid?

Has anyone ever ran a Mothership Raid where every grate on the ship gets bombed? I know there are 4 sections with 6 grates each so thats 24 grates total. Most Raids I've seen just get 3 grates to spawn the GM and then go sit in the bowl. I wonder how much of a logistical nightmare it would be to coordinate the bombing of the other 21 grates. You'd need 21 unteamed characters carring a tray of lucks but it should be possible. You would just make 9 unteamed duos and 1 unteamed trio were one tanks while the other places and then trade off. It'd be crazy if it was pulled off. I wonder how long the shields would stay down?

You don't need the unteamed characters because teams can bomb multiple times. 24=3*8 so it is probably designed for 3 teams bombing 8 times. I was on a raid where we spawned the GM twice but I think it was organised by a small group on vent and the rest of us didn't know what was going on.

There is a 30-min cooldown for teams. I've been on a raid once where we spawned the GM 3 times because someone set out to do it that way (small groups as bomb teams with times to go get them in waves). I remember that raid lasting something like an hour and ten mins too......got like 800+ merits.

Oh cooldown right. Then it would be good to see if the unteamed trick would do anything.

Protector is planning a Bombing Run on New Years Day.

Mother Ship Bombing Run

While re-spawning the GM with additional bomb runs can be fun, what is more interesting to me is that the Rikti Pylons re-spawn, and when they're all back up the Shields go back in place. If there were 2 teams in a full zone that periodically did Pylon sweeps and knocked out any Pylons that had regenerated, would the shield ever come back up? Or could the teams in the bowl simply continue killing Rikti with no end in sight, making the limit not a mere 800 merits, but many thousands in one sitting?

-- Vivian

We did the bomb run on virtue the night Issue 19 came out iirc. We were on the mother ship for a long time, at least 70 minutes. Ended up getting ~800 vanguard merits and 14 Incarnate shards. Some people got 20+ shards. It was a hell of a run.