Another week, another EV run.

We cleared SOA last weekend, so now it's for the loot, discovery for some people, and just because we can!

Here goes:

• - The raid will run from 8pm GMT to around midnight GMT at the latest
• - Please be there 5 to 10 minutes BEFORE 8pm GMT so that we can group up and be in the instance, ready to pull at 8pm GMT.

In this run, we'll need:

• - 1 tank
• - 1 offtank/DPS
• - 2 healers
• - 4 DPS (2 melee & 2 ranged if possible, but not crucial)

There are still some requirements, pretty much copy paste of the usual:You will need to sign up here, with your character name, class, role (dps/tank/healer) AND your crew skill if you have one.

• - You will need to have at least full blue level 49 (crafted)/50 gear. This is unavoidable since there ARE some DPS requirements and there is a part where you will need to stand tall, alone, against an elite. Buy stuff from GTN, do dailies, ask guildies for crafts.
• - You will need to check the various bosses tactics and abilities before Saturday evening. Where you check if up to you, but if you do not take the 5 minutes required to at least learn about the various encounters, it's disrespectful for everyone else involved. Any quick search on any search engine for "Eternity Vault boss guide" or the like will provide more than enough information. No need to go overdrive here either, just see the basics.
• - Buy at least 5-10 medpacks each. I will bring various "120 minute/stay on death" stims for all classes if I can.

For this run, everyone can sign up so please all post if interested.

We still don't have set rules for this (working on it for the future), nor do we have lists and the like. Here is a quick rundown of things I'll take into account. Nothing set in stone here:

• - If it's your first run, you'll have priority if you meet the gear requirement. Once again, I want to use normal modes like this to have people discover raiding whenever possible.
• - I will try to keep a balance between melee & ranged DPS if possible.
• - I will try to avoid too many of the same classes if possible.
• - I will try to bring the most crew skills possible, to avoid wasting anything.
• - I will try to grab people who need more gear.
• - Above all, I will try to make a fair and balanced raid setup that will hopefully allow progress and fun.

Side note if you want to main tank

I believe there are only two semi official main tanks as of now. Myself (as Kax, shadow tank) and Jimmy (Vanguard, uber gear, though he's not on lately I think). Couple more wouldn't hurt.

Therefore, if interested:

• - Unless you have experience in raid tanking and are confident about that, you will NEED to know all the encounters and the various required positioning & abilities by memory. Glue yourself on various videos if you need to. It's almost impossible to explain tanking in raid if you don't know what's going to happen and don't know the layout and we are not a progression guild so the goal is NOT to hit our heads for 6 hours on one boss because of tanking issues.
• - Maximize your gear, HP and defenses the best you can. While it's important for all classes, tanks NEED to have above suitable gear for given encounters as it gives a greater margin of error to everyone else, be it DPS or healer.
• - No need to stress! If you want to raid main tank in the guild, affirm yourself here and now, especially in these normal modes! The more you'll do, the more confident you'll become.
• - If you have doubts but want to try in the future, signup as "offtank", mention it in your raid signup. That's one of the best learning experience you'll get, without too much responsibilities.

Everyone interested please signup, we'll sort through to see who's in and as usual I'll post a the final roster on Saturday around noon.

Hmm, might be tight for me due to IRL stuff.

Reserve (for now): Valkyrja (tank/offtank), Guardian, Artifice 400, the guilds resident elitist failtank. ;)

Bench spot for me :) (usual healer/ranged dps)

Not sure if I can come etc, so np if you take anyone else above me. Would love to kill last boss doh for the chest :).

Mordenkainan, melee dps, Artifice

I only want to kill Soa so stick me as reserve as i'm already well geared up 

Quickai, TANK

Xiralius, melee dps or offtank (need to respec to do that).

Quickai said:

Quickai, TANK

Sign me up as Offtank. I really need the experience.

So it's Quickai, offtank, armormech

I'll pass for tonight, seems there's plenty of people and tanks. And I think it would be good for others to get some experience and gear first :)

Post edited 8:31 pm – February 25, 2012 by Mitsuhashi

Final roster:
Tanks: Quickai, BlackChaos

Healers: Glorl, Almarion

DPS:

melee: Bas'celik, Mordenkainan, Jarex

ranged: Erlora