Happy New Year!
If you check Reddit from time to time you might have stumbled upon my posts about creating training groups and teaching people. I have been doing such runs since Augusts of last year and it has been really successful. For a while now we have had more than 1 group running at a time with usually being between 3 and 5.
We organise 3 raid nights per week – Tuesday and Thursday 19:00 and Saturday 18:00 (raid invites 30 minutes before start) UK time on EU servers. Raid will be around two hours in duration not including the time it will take to organise it(Duration can be increased if things are going well or we are very close to getting a boss down). Those that decide to participate, please reply to this thread with your IGN, preferred classes, any comment you might have and be online 30 minutes before raid invites on your desired day. Please make sure you meet the following requirements:
- Exotic or higher armor.
- Exotic or higher back piece.
- Ascended weapons.
- Ascended trinkets.
- Correct food and utilities for the build your are using.
- Complete elite specialization.
- Decent understanding your class mechanics and a raid metabuild. Please review Metabattle or QT. Practice your rotations on the test golem in the Aerodome! You do not need tag to enter. If you can get within 80% of the benchmark is sufficient. Chronos need to practice keeping quickness and alacrity 80% – 90% of the time (get a friend to sit afk in front of the golem). If you need help you are more than welcome to approach us!
- Eagerness to learn. Being there for the raiding itself, not the loot.
- Mental fortitude - not minding wiping for long periods of time.
- Willingness to take personal responsibility for your growth.
- Watch videos read tactics. We will of course explain every boss and role, but it’s nice if you have some idea before going in.
- Have Discord available. Works in a browser, mobile or PC app (recommend the PC app). You also need to be able to communicate in English. Here is our Discord I encourage you to join it even before the raid as there is a lot of information in there.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions or give suggestions!
At 30 minutes before raid start I will start inviting people in a 50man raid. Everyone will be split by roles in different groups. The comp used will most likely be 5-5 so for every role a random number generator will be used to select the appropriate number of people. (healer condi ps flat dps etc) I apologise in advance to anyone I will not be able to take, but there are only so many spots. Don’t give up!
If there are enough people from the various roles and I can get another commander there will be more than 1 group!
Also don’t be afraid to approach me in game no matter if you have raided with me or not.
Even though there are several groups, there will always be people that are not taken. They generally aren’t happy with me at all. Blaming me for wasting their time. While technically true there is nothing I can do. I am sorry it happens, but there is no way around that. We are getting very few healers and the same for chronos. That means that I have to find substitutes (people with experience from my guild, friends etc) That in turn means that I can take fewer trainees. Simple maths. If you want to have a higher chance to get orient yourself to the classes that are more rare. If you are the type of person that believes that I owe him something, because you signed up, please don’t.
The commanders and I are trying to expand what we are doing massively. We have set up a Discord server where we schedule all the raids give information to people, assist with what we can etc. If you like to join you our community, you can follow this invitation.
We need a few more commanders for Tuesday and Thursday. Leave me a personal message if you are interested.
The event will be streamed on Twitch if anyone is interested.
(edited by Roald.1260)
