I know about LFG but there is barely anything that I can do at this point ever there. Not ever found a group that actually got 10 people there.
I know about guilds but mine is new and so far rarely enough people for raids. Never got a full 10 person group. Are there raid guilds out there that will take someone with pretty much no experience, full ascended? I have not been able to find one.
Is there any other way? I want to raid. I want to find a group that knows what they are doing and is willing to teach me. I learn VERY fast. One or two encounters usually are enough to teach me mechanics and make me comfortable with the fight. I am not a noob…I just don’t get the chance to gain experience! Help me!
Watch videos of the fights, then start your own training runs and open LFGs for them.
Look in the Looking For forum for raid guilds that do training. There are a lot of them.
Stalk the LFG while doing other content and join any training runs that pop up. I see at least a half-dozen every night on NA for an assortment of bosses.
Get as many people from your guild together who want to learn raids (even if you can’t get 10), and open a training run LFG to find others.
After any of these result in you getting enough practice and/or some kills, then just join normal runs that don’t have hard LI requirements and keep going. That’s what I did and it worked well.
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Is there any other way? I want to raid. I want to find a group that knows what they are doing and is willing to teach me. I learn VERY fast. One or two encounters usually are enough to teach me mechanics and make me comfortable with the fight. I am not a noob…I just don’t get the chance to gain experience! Help me!
Do not fear young jedi, there are always ways to raid if raid for group you do be wanting. Unfortunately there aren’t many nice groups on the lfg that are both aware of mechanics involved and willing to teach others. Usually these groups will have more than a few others like you e.g. newbies, which generally results in headache and many wipes wasted trying for a kill. My best advice to you is what I myself have done, I have paved my own path bereft of any external help such as guilds. Though I now have kills on all boss encounters in raids at least once, it’s not been an easy path for me to achieve this. The few weeks or so, I struggled to learn boss mechanics so I only got 2-3 boss kills on each of them. Now I’m confident enough to join exp wing grps and can clear most bosses in a day or two. That’s not to say I’m done, I’ve a lot to learn and need lot more practice. But here’s my approach to this
Read up on guides online about boss encounters of each wings, starting with wing 1 since every one agrees that’s easiest. Look at the wiki to help you out and watch some vids as well to get an idea of boss progression and mechanics u need to be aware of. Most of these training groups will only waste your time delivering some long winded and watered down advice whereas the guide for most boss encounters are much more clear and concise and take shorter to read thru and understand.
However never underestimate the value of hands on experience either. This is especially relevant in fights like sab, sloth (as slubbling mode), xera, and matthias. Of these list of boss encounters, I feel that sloth and xera would be easiest to successfully get a kill with a normal group without any hands on training yourself (meaning that you might have a wipe or two, but you would still get the kill with good group while also contributing about the same as other exp people).
once you read guide thoroughly (look at more then one if you want a more clear picture) and believe you understand fight, join boss encounter as exp group with no LI requirement while also making sure you have an easy role to play, I.e. ranged dps or offensive support. This will give you greater margin for error without compromising group effort.
If for some boss encohnters, you have done with exp group a couple times but have not been successful in getting kill, either attempt to be honest and forthright about exp with a group asking for killproofs, or (if you absolutely believe ur own skill is not the problem as it is with your groups’ composition or miscommunication) then fabricate whatever grps are asking for, this can be done with basically anything aside from visual proof such as with titles, this stems from the fact that all items have chat code links, understand what that means.
With the aforementioned point, it’s a controversial issue to some players as well as it might be to yourself, so try to be as truthful as you possibly can if situation allows. If you don’t have as much LI as grp is asking for, try to appeal for a middle ground. Most of these groups have some elbow room in terms of their reqs, they are not as strict as they come across they just want people that know what to do without wiping grp more than once. If it’s impossible as it is in some cases, especially if you feel you are past the point of benefiting from training runs yet did not manage kill, then feel free to follow the above point and join normal groups to try for a normal run. It won’t be as bad as you might be thinking it will be, you won’t mess up long as you know mechanics (even without hands-on exp in all except those special cases mentioned at start).
I only joined for two training runs in the whole month or so since I start raiding, one for vg which took me 3 hrs and another for matt where I left after 10min cos I got frustrated since we will still having fight explained to us and we hadn’t even got chance to do anyrhing, to be fair I knew mechanics tho. So despite that I have all boss kills in raid, and 8/10 times will have got my first kill with the first normal group I manage to pick up. Yes it take a wipe or two, but you will save a lot more time as well as waste others time less. If you don’t wanna follow my advice, that’s fine but I just put forth what helped me when I new to raiding and no one want to teach or help me out
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