02-02-2006, 02:33 PM
Alram,Feb 1 2006, 11:05 PM Wrote:I just spoke with Diesirae; he is the guild master's brother. He was fine with doing something together on Feb. 10, Friday. He said that ZG requires 20 solid players. He said that perhaps we can shoot for ZG with UBRS as a fall back. Many of their players are on the East Coast; they would prefer a start time of 7 or 7:30 PM. We agreed on a get-together time of 7:30 with the first pull being at 8 PM. If we do UBRS and a couple of people need to arrive later it's not a problem for him. If we do ZG then it would probably be OK if one person arrives late but not more.[right][snapback]100819[/snapback][/right]
ZG does not require 20, but 20 really helps a lot, especially if you don't have massively geared-up folks.
Alram,Feb 1 2006, 11:05 PM Wrote:Synergy's main goal is to be a raiding guild. He asked me what direction our guild is heading in. It is their feeling based on past experience, that success in large raids like MC depends on a cohesive group of people who regularly play together. Therefore, their primary goal is to grow the size of their guild and they would prefer a merger rather than an alliance. I explained to him that we are not interested in a merger, but agreed to pass along his thoughts and feelings on the matter. He is willing to explore an alliance for the purpose of raiding on Friday nights, and see how it goes.
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Absolutely not on the merger. Thanks for letting him know we are not interested in that.
About MC and people who regularly play together. It helps, but more importantly, being able to focus and do your job in there properly matters more. The healers (unless you set up strict healing rotations) do need to play together in there frequently. Different people heal differently. Some like to wait, some like to spam heals as soon as possible, some heal only the group they are in, others ninja-heal the entire raid. There will be much mana wasted (and therefore more deaths) and a lot of aggravation for the healers if you have a constantly rotating healing corps. As long as your warriors have similar gear (and don't completely suck at holding aggro against one critter at a time), it doesn't really matter who tanks as long as they all understand where to position the critters they are tanking.
How often are they looking to raid once they get 40 people? MC only resets once a week and you can do a full clear in 4 hours once you get the gear and you don't have to spam strategies/tactics before every pull. Ony resets every what, three days now? What happens when you get that down to the 15 minutes from first pull? How many days of raiding are they going to try to squeeze in and how would that affect the folks in Lurkers who may not be able to raid however many nights a week? You want to talk about getting a "left behind" or "tagalong" feeling, that's a big cause of it right there. Those who can't or don't want to raid more than once or twice a week are going to be left behind. They won't be geared as well, they won't be as experienced with the encounters, they'll always be playing catch-up and failing. I know it's a little early to get definitive answers on this, but it's something to think about.
Intolerant monkey.