Here's
a good article I saw on Everlore that has some good tips and points on
Running and Participating
in a Raid and IMHO can be applied to most any raid situation.
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I went to Perma for a big raid on vox yesterday, as scheduled on Everlore.
There were 58 people in the zone waiting to kill her - crazy!
The attack was a bust, not due to lack of offense (we sure had enough of
it!) but due to lack of leadership, coordination, and listening skills.
The
problem was so bad last night that I wanted to post a few tips on how to
be
successful on a raid, especially if it's your first time. This should be
useful to a lot of people, since many many people have high level characters
now but not all of them have gone on raids, and even fewer have gone on
GOOD
raids.
QUIT ASKING QUESTIONS AND LISTEN TO THE RAID LEADER!
We lost 30 people last night because ONE person didn't want to listen to
the
raid leader and sat too close to vox while we were organizing buffing
stations. Boom he pulled her while all the groups were disbanded.
What I've learned about pick-up raids (raids where no one majority guild
is
leading it) is that there has to be some organization and EVERYBODY has
to
follow orders to the letter. Sorta like the military. You know, don't think
- do and don't ask questions.
Lessons learned:
1) Everybody was begging for buffs in the king room and the buffers were
giving them out. This is senseless since buffs are prepared carefully just
before you go kill the mob. LET YOUR BUFFS DECAY!! It'll speed up the raid
process (and you'll find out how when you get there if it's your first
time)
2) Use 3 people to organize the raid, not one. One person is the master
coordinator and organizes the groups. The other 2 do the talking, one to
represent tanks and one to represent buffers. The tank coordinator is in
charge of making sure all groups have enough (and the right mix of class)
people and that the best groups are formed first.
3) Number the groups. The group leader is the only one that talks to the
coordinators. The group members ONLY talk in group say to the group leader,
who in turn speaks for them.
4) DO NOT SPEAK IN SHOUT! This channel is reserved for the coordinator(s).
Keep this channel clean.
5) If you have something VERY important to say, speak in ooc, which is
an
"emergency" channel when going through normal lines of communication won't
work (ie. pulling mobs, etc.). This channel is NOT for getting information!!
Too much /ooc chat desensitizes people to it and somebody will miss
something very important that will lead to their (or your) untimely death.
6) If you're confused because it's your first time, be a follower, watch
carefully, and learn. Quit spamming the communication channels with stupid
questions.
7) DO NOT COMPLAIN! With 30+ people on a raid, it's hard enough to keep
the
majority of the people happy, let alone you. Don't complain just because
your group doesn't have a bard, chanter, cleric, or .
Coordinators: Be experienced. Don't try to organize something if you
can't type fast, can't think fast, and can't stick to your guns and keep
everybody organized. Take several hours the day before preparing canned
/shouts for the zone to keep the crowds calm while you organize the groups.
Spam them every now and then so everybody knows you're working for them.
Be
a leader. If you can't don't do it.
9) Everybody else: Be a follower. Nobody cares that you've been on 12,000
dragon raids. If you don't have faith in the coordinator as evidenced by
their actions LEAVE!! Let the coordinator do their job and for gods sake
BE
A FOLLOWER FOR ONCE! A little humility and quietness will speed up the
raid
and improve your trust in leaders other than yourself. You'll benefit from
it.
10) If there's a big crowd of people huddling together, they're doing it
for
a reason. Don't go out in the open just because your framerate has dipped
slightly. You'll make the whole zone pay for it in their deaths when you
accidentally aggro something and delay the raid.
11) Do the following things to help your framerate: Turn off PC and NPC
names. Turn off particle effects. Turn your clip plane all the way in.
Turn
off corpses. Turn off other peoples hits, misses. Turn off PC spell casting.
Turn off Damage Shield damage. Turn off bard song. Turn on server filtering.
There's macros for all of these. Put it into a single macro and name it
RAID. Now keep it in a safe place and use it.
Here's a list of slash commands that you can put into a macro. You can
put
semicolons between them to get more on one line in your macro:
/dynamiclights off /hidecorpses all /inspect off /serverfilter on
/showspelleffects off
The rest you'll have to do manually via the options menu.
Good luck on your raids. Rembember, fighting an epic mob is so so so much
different than what you've become used to through the last 50 levels. Keep
that in mind and be prepared to learn all over again.
-Yappie-
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