Didnt really read the whole answers, except the first post but I just wanted to point out 2-3 things.
First of all, I ’m actually at 230ish LI so I have a bit of experiance in raiding.
I did from 0 to, more of less, 120LI litterally alone, just from lfg and may be with some friends some time to time.
How? English + whisping people are your mains weapons.
My firsts raids were ofc trainings vg and I stuggled really hard to get my 10-15 first LI, but then when I reached 40LI mainly thanks to W1, Escort and W4(b1-2-3) I began to whisp 100-150+LI groups to ask if I could get in their group to do Xera, Sloth, Sab, Deimos, Matt, … Some ofc said no but most of them were saying yes.
If you’re confident enough just say that if you fail once, kick me (Often works well). Also, the comm’ tag helps a lot when there really aren’t any groups.
I did my first full clear around 75LI and I think that it’s quite early for someone who did that only with pug, of course I sometime had some luck with my groups, made some friends along my grinding which helped me but well, that’s possible to get into the “raid game” :p
Just give a bit of yourself, train the rotations and know your job so that you’re sure that you dont do bad job.
If the group happen to fail, just add the commie in you friend list, he might do another group later or tomorrow.
Also, build a druid! It’s cheap to build, exotic build is more than enough, food is also cheaaaaap (2 silver/u, no need to get utility). Druid magi is a good way to learn raids, basics mechanics while having an important rĂ´le(Keeping the 5gotl stacks, can save raids with spirit of nature, tides on VG, has some good CC…)
Well I just gave some randoms tips like that, but I hope it’ll help some people!
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