NEW YORK RAID - Friday 01/25/2013

[Jennet]

RAID ROSTER - FRIDAY, JAN 25, 2013 - 9:00pm (EASTERN)

Tank 1: Esthyr
Tank 2: Samcon
Main Heals: Illandir
Healtank: Mooncide
Pods/DPS: Jennet

DPS 1: Firearc
DPS 2: Torvus
DPS 3: Gethsemane
DPS 4: Wahoozerman
DPS 5: Minariel

Alternates:
DPS 1: [This Spot For Rent]

[Edit: Sub Geth in for Volen, pulled Rocket from alts)

We need alternates for this one, please reply here if you'd like to be on the alternate list! Blapoo will not be making the raid this time, so I've put Minariel on, since he was on the alt list recently and hasn't gotten to run one yet. Min, please let me know if you can make it!


ROSTERING NOTES FOR THIS TEAM
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This is our team raid roster for one team that has been working on the raid. We're beating it now, but don't quite have it on easy farm yet. We know other cabal-mates want to experience the raid, but it's also not fair to have a team work on it so hard and then start forcing people out before they get a chance to get some of the rewards.

This team was put together to run on Fridays based on availability for that time, gear/experience level to get through it, and a desire to get a core team up and running with raid experience and raid-level gear to help others get through it. We've had one win. We are not 'ringers' yet. Give us a few weeks, and we will probably start cycling people in more regularly.

We're a big cabal, and there should probably be more than one team trying this. I especially suggest a team try to get together for the European time zones. Believe me, I'm sensitive to cabal population and time zone issues. I just ask that those who are not part of this team regularly understand that at the gear/experience level we have currently, success in this raid is very much a matter of precision teamwork. If we are short a single dps by the last phase of the raid, we cannot make the dps check. Once we have more experience and are better geared, I know we will all be more available to let new people alternate into the team, because we will be able to better compensate for the time it takes to get used to our routine.

TO BE ADDED AS AN ALTERNATE
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Please, -please-, if you want to be an alternate, look for our raid rosters and reply to them with your desire to be an alternate and the slot(s) you could fill. (Success currently suggests a team with at least an average of 10.2 gear.) Telling Firearc or Jennet or someone else in the raid that you really want to go is great, but our minds are filled with many things and leak like sieves =) If you reply on the forum, we can get you on the alternate list, and we can prioritize that list based on when people ask and what their gear/preparedness level is.

If you are on the roster as an alternate, please be in game at raid start time. We will let you know as soon as possible if we have a slot for you or not, so you don't have to sit around and wonder. It may take as long as 15 minutes past start time for us to decide someone's not going to make it (though be aware if you're not there by then, regulars, you may get replaced!). If you're on the alternate list and get a lockout timer, please let Firearc or Jennet know so we can pull you from the alternate roster and adjust before raid time. Thanks!

LOOT RULES FOR THIS TEAM
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This team will be using the standard 9 Swords loot policy. Everyone who has not gotten an upgrade drop yet from raiding may roll need on the upgrades. If you have gotten one, you are asked to pass until the entire group has gotten one drop. At that point, we will begin again with everyone needing. (This is another reason alternates on the team at this stage, before everyone has gotten a loot drop, become difficult to manage. I would really like to see everyone have a chance at loot, and if we bring a new person or two every week and they get the drops, then drop off the roster, we may end up with regulars who never get a drop.) (Since there is no /roll in game, research is now underway to figure out whether we need to use Ajax for rolls on Master Looting or other ways to make sure the drops get evenly distributed.)

While the suggestion that we need dps geared better, so only dps should roll on drops, was put forward at the first win, we've decided it's not really fair... especially considering that we all can and probably will play different roles during the course of raiding. It's not fair to ask someone to put in two hours or more every Friday and not roll on the upgrades.

If you've gotten drops from pug raiding as well, passing is up to your personal discretion. With most peoples' time constraints, I don't expect this to be a huge issue.

We will be tracking who has gotten loot drops, so we can let everyone know when it's okay to roll again. The current list is:

Illandir
Wahoozerman
Geth
Esthyr
Firearc
Volen

(Also, please note that, per Claretta, the 10.4 item drops can have their glyphs upgraded. This may make them much more useable for people long-term.)

Thanks, guys! And thanks to this great team who have put in so much time and effort and patience!

[Jennet]

Shameless bump to get this back up the news list. We need people to sign up as alternates!

[Darquegryn]

I will probably be online. Slap me in there as an Alt.

Geth

[rocketpants]

I would like to be an alt if possible.

[Firearc]

bump

[Volen]

I'm going to need a sub!

Friday after work my daughter want to head to Petite Jean park for a weekend of hiking and eagle watching (inspiration? Thanks Jen!)

Anyway, let the melee begin on the DPS spot....thanks for holding back the tide of evil~

- Volen

[Jennet]

Woot, Eagle Watching!!! I may go again this weekend too, but to a closer spot, we shall see. Have a wonderful time, Volen I'll go ahead and sub Geth in, thanks!

[rocketpants]

looks like i am going to have company tomorrow, so I probably wont be available to alt... sorry...

[Jennet]

No worries, Rocket! Enjoy your company!

Anyone else want to sign on as an alt?

[Ravrohan]

Think we could get pics of the weapon skins?